Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau has announced plans to seize bank accounts of customers without any due process

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today's podcast, I go through the banking rules issued by Justin Trudeau.

00:00:07.700 And I think the most important thing about them, besides the fact that he's stealing money

00:00:11.680 from his political opponents like Fidel Castro would, is that he's applying these laws to

00:00:17.800 all the American banks who do business in Canada too, all the Canadian banks who do business in

00:00:23.460 America and many American citizens who are customers of either. Does he really think that

00:00:31.960 America and Americans and American politicians will accept the seizure of their citizens' bank

00:00:39.500 accounts? This is about to get interesting because I don't think they thought this through.

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00:01:23.460 Tonight, Justin Trudeau has announced plans to seize bank accounts of customers without any due

00:01:30.880 process. How will that work with American banks doing business here? It's February 16th and this

00:01:36.480 is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:40.280 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:43.960 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:48.020 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:52.920 right to do so.

00:01:53.900 You know, I haven't thought a lot about banks in my whole life. I mean, it is a Canadian tradition

00:02:04.320 to hate the banks. They have poor service, generally poor hours, high fees. We don't

00:02:09.400 have the same banking competition that they have in the United States. And you heard my

00:02:13.460 own story a couple months ago when the Royal Bank of Canada refused to grant Rebel News a

00:02:17.860 commercial mortgage because of our politics. We were financially strong, but they are bigoted

00:02:22.240 against conservatives. But generally, I don't think we think about banks that often. And part of the

00:02:28.580 reason why is because we avoided the banking crisis of 2008. I don't know if you remember that, but

00:02:37.660 Wall Street collapsed. Huge, mighty institutions a century old. Lehman Brothers. The House of Cards fell

00:02:46.680 down. And taxpayers bailed them out. It was when the Occupy Wall Street movement was born. We had

00:02:54.220 sort of a copycat Occupy Toronto movement, but it never really caught on because our banks didn't fail.

00:03:01.100 They were steadied by the government. But in the end, taxpayers were not out tens or hundreds of billions

00:03:08.940 of dollars. We weren't wobbled. And under Harper, who was an economist by training, if you recall,

00:03:15.180 our banks were considered amongst the strongest in the world. And again, I say that's the reason why

00:03:22.500 Canadians really don't think about our banks as much. But in the past few days, Justin Trudeau has

00:03:29.700 made banks political playthings. He's weaponized banks against a vague list of his own personal

00:03:39.880 political enemies. This is an unprecedented political risk to the most stable banks in the

00:03:48.200 world. The world of finance is interconnected. Many Canadian banks operate in the United States,

00:03:57.500 have customers there, are also regulated there. Does Trudeau think that he can order the Royal Bank

00:04:04.260 Bank of Canada to seize a customer's bank account in Florida? The RBC Bank has customers in Florida,

00:04:11.580 including American citizens. Maybe an American citizen at that bank gave $20 to the truckers.

00:04:17.640 Trudeau's Emergencies Act order says that an American citizen in Florida who happens to bank with RBC Bank

00:04:25.900 must have her account seized, frozen, and must have the full assistance of the Royal Bank.

00:04:33.220 That's what it says. But it's not just Canadian banks with customers in the U.S.

00:04:39.260 It's U.S. banks operating in Canada. Look at Trudeau's Emergency Economic Measures Order.

00:04:45.520 It covers foreign banks and insurance companies operating in Canada. So mainly American banks in

00:04:54.540 terms of seizing their assets. If you are a U.S. bank doing business in Canada, Wells Fargo,

00:05:00.160 Citibank, whatever, even credit card companies are a kind of bank. You've always known that Canada was

00:05:06.980 a liberal democracy with the rule of law, including very strong free trade agreements going back and

00:05:12.960 forth between our two countries. You know that the free flow of funds and financial services

00:05:19.920 and money and banks and stock markets between Vancouver and San Francisco, between Winnipeg and

00:05:29.440 Chicago, between Toronto and New York, Halifax and Boston, centuries of commerce, trust. We're really

00:05:37.300 the same when it comes to trusting each other in banks. That is gone now. Now we got a little mini

00:05:44.460 Fidel, a Hugo Chavez-style political expropriation of opponents' bank accounts. And the reason I

00:05:51.500 mention that is because it's one thing for Canadian banks to have to do it. But you saw the order. It

00:05:56.780 specifically says foreign banks. Should U.S. banks comply with Trudeau's suspension of civil

00:06:05.320 liberties? Here's a list of foreign banks in Canada. There are dozens of them. Like I say,

00:06:12.340 they're specifically covered in Trudeau's expropriation order. If you were the CEO, if you

00:06:18.120 were the general counsel, if you were the vice president in charge of privacy or legal compliance

00:06:24.960 or political affairs or even just keeping your customers happy, would you go along with Trudeau?

00:06:32.120 Are you more afraid of Trudeau? Or, and I'm not going to say your own customers, how about the

00:06:38.700 U.S. Congress? And here's why I say that. Because opinion polls suggest that it is quite likely that

00:06:45.320 the U.S. Congress will turn Republican this November. I mean, the polls are incredible. You saw the recent

00:06:52.020 victory of the Republicans in Virginia. I think it's going to be a blowout. And what that will do is it

00:06:57.160 will change which party runs the House Banking Committee, a very powerful committee. What kind of

00:07:04.560 investigations, subpoenas, hearings will a pro-trucker, anti-Trudeau, anti-cancel culture

00:07:15.100 Republican House Banking Committee, what kind of investigations will they do to a U.S. bank that

00:07:22.620 willingly serves up their U.S. citizens for Trudeau's delectation? Or for that matter, if those U.S. banks

00:07:32.260 serve up their Canadian customers to Trudeau? That's just as offensive for an American bank to do,

00:07:39.460 don't you think? If you were in charge of compliance and risk management at an American bank,

00:07:43.020 what would you do? If this were Venezuela, you would probably close up shop. 0.91

00:07:50.700 Venezuela is a wonderful country, I hear, but it's not that large. And really, the atrocious

00:07:56.420 things you're required to do to do business there, you would just have to close up. And it would be

00:08:00.720 too bad. You know, China's that way. There's a lot of tech companies, for example, Facebook, that would 0.73

00:08:06.700 love to do business in China, but just can't because the requirements of China would be to give

00:08:12.180 every single piece of data about every single customer to the communist government. And although

00:08:17.800 you know Mark Zuckerberg would want to do that, it would just be illegal and it would devastate the

00:08:23.220 trust his company has. Mark Zuckerberg forgoes business in China for Facebook. Do you think that

00:08:32.040 American banks would shut down in Canada if they were forced to do Trudeau's work? I don't know.

00:08:40.060 I hope not. Canada's a huge market. It's as big as California. But if Trudeau is forcing U.S. banks

00:08:48.560 or Canadian banks that are also regulated in the U.S., if Trudeau is forcing them to break the law,

00:08:54.560 maybe those American banks just shut down and say we cannot comply because it puts us at legal

00:09:02.500 jeopardy in America. What do you do? Do you comply? Do you just try and rag the puck till this is over?

00:09:11.040 We know for a fact that a number of American congressmen and senators were supportive of

00:09:16.640 the truckers. We know that. They tweeted about it. I'll bet some of those American congressmen or their

00:09:20.380 staff or families or friends made donations. So if you're a U.S. bank that's covered in this law,

00:09:28.780 do you turn your U.S. congressmen over to Trudeau, actually seize their property? Woo! Bold move if you

00:09:38.200 do that. You know, here's a timely reminder about Chrystia Freeland, the World Economic Forum executive

00:09:45.960 who serves as Trudeau's finance minister. You know, I'm not making fun because not everyone

00:09:52.840 is wealthy, but at age 45, when she returned to Canada from her long stay in the United States,

00:09:59.480 at age 45, when she comes back to Canada to run for parliament, she needed her parents

00:10:04.520 to co-sign her mortgage. Her parents had to lend her money or guarantee her mortgage.

00:10:10.920 And she is going to tell banks how to operate and what to do. Now, I'm not making fun of someone

00:10:19.400 who needs parents to buy them a house at 45. I'm making fun of such a person claiming to be an

00:10:26.680 authority on finances and banking and how the world works. She has the reverse Midas touch.

00:10:31.400 Everything she handles turned pear-shaped. You know, she ran a company for Reuters, ran it into the

00:10:37.240 ground, a digital company. She burned through tens of millions of dollars. She is a disaster. 0.98

00:10:44.520 And I think she could destroy trust in Canada's banks. 0.99

00:10:50.760 Trudeau also orders insurance companies to cancel insurance on any truck he says is a mean, honking 0.70

00:10:56.920 kind of truck. Seriously though, how are insurance companies to know the difference between a good truck

00:11:02.360 and a bad truck, a truck that Trudeau hates, a good horn honk and a bad horn honk? As with Trudeau's

00:11:09.720 seizure bank accounts, his insurance edict applies to a huge number of U.S. insurance companies. Here

00:11:15.160 is a massive list of U.S. insurers that operate in Canada. Are you actually going to cancel? Let's

00:11:24.120 say you're a CEO or a risk manager of the U.S. insurance company. Are you actually going to

00:11:28.840 cancel insurance on a customer because a politician says so? Is that legal under U.S. law to rip up a

00:11:38.360 contract because some politician told you to? So let's say you're a U.S. insurance company

00:11:43.800 insuring a U.S. citizen driving a U.S. truck between Detroit and Windsor. I mean, going back and

00:11:50.200 forth, there's a lot of those guys, right? And let's say he honks his horn or says F Trudeau,

00:11:55.640 you're going to cancel his insurance because he exercised what in America they call the First

00:12:02.520 Amendment, speaking his mind, because some Banana Republic politician told you to?

00:12:08.840 Hmm. You see, in Canada, Trudeau says that his victims of his vendetta are banned from suing banks

00:12:18.200 or insurance companies for following his rules, which tells you that he knows it's bad. Now, that might be

00:12:23.800 true in Canada where civil liberties have been suspended. But it's not true in the United States.

00:12:31.800 Would a U.S. company violate a U.S. contract with a U.S. citizen because little Fidel said so? Little Fidel

00:12:37.720 might stop you from suing in Canada, but like I say, U.S. citizen in the United States suing over a U.S. contract,

00:12:45.320 a U.S. court is going to crucify you if you say, well, that little tin pot dictator up north told me I had to rip up 0.84

00:12:52.200 the contract. That ain't the law. That ain't the law. Trudeau said that a reason he was bringing in

00:12:59.640 the Emergencies Act is that the truckers are hurting Canada's economy. I think that's a bit of a laugh.

00:13:04.600 Trudeau's two-year lockdown has done far more damage to the economy, but destabilizing banking

00:13:10.440 and insurance and casting doubt on the whole Canada-U.S. trade agreement is something only a

00:13:17.160 no-nothing wokest could do. Maybe Christian Freeland's parents can help out their grown

00:13:22.680 daughter again, figure things out. Just, I don't know, I have to tell you, I don't think the

00:13:28.680 liberals thought this through other than vengeance. This sounded pretty good, pretty tough when they

00:13:35.080 were bouncing around the liberal war room. Gerald Butz was being an arms chair general. I'm sure he was on TV

00:13:41.560 calling in the Air Force if we had one. But when you actually get down to it, violating civil liberties

00:13:48.600 isn't just a penalty to your enemy. It destroys the rule of law in the whole country. It undermines

00:13:56.920 respect for the rule of law. And in terms of our international reputation, the truckers didn't hurt our

00:14:03.720 international reputation. Everyone knew that was a grassroots rebellion. And yet, I'm sure it did have

00:14:08.600 some costs. It shut down the Windsor-Detroit bridge for a few days. Yes, granted. But actually seeing

00:14:15.880 the prime minister and the finance minister and the justice minister say they are going to seize

00:14:21.800 private bank accounts with impunity and telling foreign bankers they have to follow the same rules,

00:14:29.560 I don't think you can calculate the value of that damage. Can you? Stay with us for more.

00:14:35.480 We're going to talk to Andrew Law, who's looked through these emergency orders even more than I have.

00:14:53.800 Well, I remember once upon a time when I was a child in the 70s and 80s, I really equated journalists

00:15:00.760 with civil libertarians. I don't know why I thought that way. I think it's because that's how they were.

00:15:05.960 The people who were most concerned about expressive freedom certainly seemed to be in the expressive

00:15:11.720 industry of journalism and its cousins, film and arts, you know, visual arts. They used to fight for

00:15:21.240 freedom of speech, even for things that some of us wouldn't particularly like. There was cases of

00:15:28.040 pornography being kept by border agents and there were big constitutional battles over whether or not

00:15:35.160 obscenity was free speech. In the end, the political and legal answer was yes, it is.

00:15:40.920 Well, fast forward to where we are now and I don't see that many civil libertarians left in journalism.

00:15:45.880 In fact, what has been so striking is how the only demographic, the only industry, the only group of

00:15:54.680 people who are cheering for the suspension of liberty, civil liberties in Canada under the

00:16:00.360 Emergencies Act, are the journalists. The journalists are the most active, most vocal

00:16:08.280 pressure group demanding the government do what they did and even more. I'm so glad that our next guest is

00:16:15.400 not like that. He, like us at Rebel News, is one of the few independent journalists left in this country who

00:16:21.880 does not take money from Justin Trudeau or any other government. His name is Andrew Lawton and

00:16:26.040 joins us now. Vice guy, Andrew, my good friend, you are rare. I'm excited that you're going to Ottawa.

00:16:33.160 Before we talk about that, I know our viewers will be excited. We got a couple of guys there,

00:16:38.200 but you and a colleague from True North are going. You have looked through carefully the Emergencies Act

00:16:44.120 order. Why don't you tell me what you find most interesting about it?

00:16:48.120 Well, I think there were two, and the first was what Chrystia Freeland announced when the government

00:16:54.280 was unveiling this order, which was just the length through which the government is going to go to go

00:16:59.560 after private citizens' money and allow the banks to do the same without recourse. And you know,

00:17:05.800 you and I have talked on the show, on your show and my show, about free speech and the government's

00:17:10.120 attempt to bring back Section 13. And one of the challenges in how the government wanted to do that

00:17:15.320 was to empower big tech to become the state's censors. That's the exact same thing they're

00:17:21.080 doing here with finance. They're empowering banks to, on their own, based on the mere suspicion,

00:17:27.720 as the order says, that it might be in some way connected to the convoy, to freeze accounts,

00:17:32.840 and not only to do that, but to be exempt from civil liability. So when TD Bank says to Gladys that

00:17:39.160 $10 that you sent to the convoy was illegal and they freeze her account, she has no recourse

00:17:44.680 whatsoever. So that's the first point. The second is the complete suspension of mobility rights.

00:17:51.080 Now, remember, Justin Trudeau said this is going to be charter compliant and it's not going after

00:17:55.880 civil liberties. But very explicitly in the emergency order is that traveling to a protest that the

00:18:02.200 government has deemed to be an illegal protest, traveling to Ottawa, what the Ottawa police says,

00:18:07.800 is now illegal. So if the government decides that I don't count as a journalist in their view,

00:18:13.160 I could find myself running afoul of the law tomorrow when I leave to Ottawa, just given how

00:18:17.960 broadly this emergency order is worded. You know, it's very interesting that you phrase it that way,

00:18:23.080 because, of course, the definition of who is or isn't a journalist is a ridiculous but live 0.64

00:18:28.680 question. And Ken, of course, a journalist is not like a medical doctor that is a closed profession,

00:18:35.240 you know, subject to some professional body. A journalist is someone who does journalism. It's

00:18:40.600 it's like, you know, a painter. You paint. If you paint, you're a painter. And it's absurd to claim that

00:18:48.520 you want a journalist. It's what you do all the time. It's your full time job. You you meet every

00:18:52.840 check every box of it, except for Justin Trudeau doesn't like the cut of your jib. I remember you and I

00:18:58.440 were in court together in 2019 when they kicked both True North and Rebel News out of the leaders

00:19:03.640 debates. Justin Trudeau put it on the record that he doesn't like your kind or mine. So perhaps the

00:19:10.840 the cops will take that approach. You're not a real journalist. By the way, everyone, anyone has the

00:19:16.440 right to be a citizen journalist. But it's but but I think it is a real possibility that they try and

00:19:22.200 eliminate the journalists they don't like. That's the whole point of removing civil liberties. You get to

00:19:27.080 do things that you wouldn't. It's like when the the real teachers away and the substitute teachers

00:19:33.320 there. And then it's like a class where that where there's no teacher at all. The kids go wild.

00:19:39.240 There's literally no grown up oversight on this government now. It's immune from judicial procedures.

00:19:45.160 So they're going wild like grade four kids without a teacher in the room. They're going to do terrible

00:19:49.880 things, Andrew. I'm I'm I'm worried. I just hope that the cops on the ground aren't as abusive as

00:19:56.920 Christy Freeland, Justin Trudeau, David Labene, etc. Well, yeah. And you raise, I think, two important

00:20:03.000 points there. The first is the subjectivity at play. But also, if the government hasn't made public

00:20:09.160 how they actually want this to go down, have they made that clear to police? I saw a video this morning,

00:20:15.480 and it's just, again, one incident. But it, I think, speaks to the problem here of police going

00:20:19.960 around handing out notices to people which are from the Ottawa police. And they say, you got to get out

00:20:25.240 of town or you could be arrested. And on one video, they handed them to who was clearly a journalist.

00:20:30.600 She had her camera set up on a tripod. She was had a microphone in her hand. She was working and police

00:20:35.800 said, we're giving you this. And they carried on walking. So in a way, police are already putting

00:20:41.800 intentionally or unintentionally journalists who are doing their job. And the way the order is

00:20:46.760 worded are not supposed to be covered by it. They're already putting them on notice. So even

00:20:52.200 if the intent is not to do that, if you have confusion because of how vague the government

00:20:57.400 has crafted these, you're definitely going to have situations of that. And again, I don't know

00:21:02.760 where the police are going to stand on this. I don't know in the chain of discussion from Justin Trudeau

00:21:07.800 to the public safety minister, to the chief of police, right down to the officers. I don't know

00:21:13.480 what's happening in that pipeline of communication. But what I do know is that the government has very

00:21:18.440 deliberately not given information about this, which is why you have so many questions, especially

00:21:23.320 on the finances. If you hand like a roll up the rim tab to a trucker that says you've won a

00:21:28.200 coffee, has that been in the government's eyes material support that gets you thrown in the slammer?

00:21:33.080 No one knows. Yeah. By the way, I want to make it clear that I think that any journalist has the

00:21:37.400 right to be there, but so does any other citizen. I've never been one to say that journalists have a

00:21:42.520 special higher freedom of speech than ordinary people. In fact, these days, ordinary people,

00:21:49.720 citizen journalists are, I think the most important journalists. But you raise a good point. I have read

00:21:55.960 the Emergencies Act orders. And earlier today, I talked about the financial aspects, which are very

00:22:00.680 troubling. But simply saying, you can't go to Ottawa. Sorry, that is not a lawful order. The

00:22:06.680 the Emergencies Act, the CSIS Act that defines national threats. In fact, the order itself says

00:22:13.400 that peaceful protests are exempt. The whole thing must be charter compliant. Simply saying,

00:22:19.240 you may not go to your capital city, a city of a million people. And by the way, let's say you're

00:22:23.960 delivering something in a truck. Are you are you going to be profiled because you're a truck driver?

00:22:29.720 Let's say you're from Toronto visiting a friend in Ottawa. Does the government get to grill you on

00:22:34.360 who your friend is? Like Ottawa is a major city. It's about a million people all in. It's it's along

00:22:40.440 the big highway stretch between Toronto and Montreal. It's a very high, high population,

00:22:46.840 high traffic corridor. If you're coming from Montreal to Ottawa, if you're coming from Toronto to Ottawa,

00:22:52.600 you've just nailed but a quarter of the national population right there. Are you saying you can't

00:22:58.440 go to Ottawa? And who and who gets to judge? And is there any appeal? And is it the the personal

00:23:05.000 bigotry of a particular cop at a particular moment? This is so clearly a suspension of civil liberties

00:23:11.080 for its own sake. There is no national crisis here. And that's that we've got to keep that in mind.

00:23:16.440 If you know, I said this yesterday, Andrew, I got in my car, drove to work. I thought,

00:23:21.640 gee, the world doesn't feel any different today, even though we had civil liberties lifted. And the

00:23:25.320 reason for that is because there was no cataclysmic crisis that the government was trying to fix. So

00:23:30.200 we didn't notice any problem that need needed fixing. The whole thing is a pretext to grab power.

00:23:36.760 Yeah. And I just want to talk about how broad this is, because the order specifically talks about

00:23:44.680 the critical infrastructure. And with that, they're talking about border crossings and the like,

00:23:49.480 but also locations where COVID-19 vaccines are administered. Now, part of the whole point here

00:23:56.200 is that vaccines are now being administered everywhere. They're being administered at

00:24:00.120 grocery store pharmacies, at walk-in drug stores. They have clinics all over the place. So anywhere that

00:24:06.280 happens to be a vaccine distribution site is now critical infrastructure and thus connected to the

00:24:13.160 protest. Now, why that's particularly important is because the law also says, I shouldn't say law,

00:24:18.280 it's not a real law. The order says that it is illegal to bring a child. And by that,

00:24:23.560 they mean anyone under 19 within 500 meters of any protest of critical infrastructure or any other

00:24:30.920 illegal protest. So if you have a bunch of people on Parliament Hill and the government has decided

00:24:35.480 that's illegal. If you bring a minor within 500 meters of that, that's half a kilometer. That's 0.61

00:24:41.160 crazy. Even accidentally within 500 meters, you are running afoul of the emergency order the way it is

00:24:47.000 written. You know, what's so gross is the NDP is so excited about this. Imagine the party of labor unions

00:24:54.120 being against peaceful protests. It's so upside down. Now, let me ask you this. I mean, you've done some

00:24:59.880 stuff. By the way, I'm excited that you're going there and I want you to hold firm and I don't want

00:25:04.440 you to bend the knee to any, to any cop making you leave. I mean, I have to tell you, this is

00:25:09.560 your moment. This is your time to shine, Andrew. And I know you will. I've seen you in action. I've

00:25:14.120 seen you in stressful situations rise to the occasion. I know you dress warm, but I think

00:25:18.760 you're going to do, I think you're going to do great this week. I'm very excited that you're going

00:25:21.880 down. We're going to have a couple of rebels down there too. We could have like a Spider-Man,

00:25:25.880 Batman, Superman meetup or something. We got Lincoln Jay and Alexa Lavoie there. Who's your colleague?

00:25:31.720 You got a new colleague from True North. He's going to be down there. Yes.

00:25:34.360 Eli Cantin Nantel, who's been doing some tremendous work with us. He's bilingual. And one of the things

00:25:39.400 he's been able to do is cover the really significant Quebec contingent that's joining this protest.

00:25:44.840 Yeah. Well, I'm delighted that you guys are growing. And like I say, you're one of the few

00:25:48.920 freedom oriented folks left. Last question, because I know you've got to run things for your time.

00:25:54.680 I'm in a bubble. I talk to people who are alarmed and upset by things and I read emails from rebels.

00:26:01.960 So sometimes I think I'm oversampling people who agree with me, even though I follow on Twitter

00:26:06.680 people who hate me. It's hard to know what reality actually looks like. Do you think that in Canada,

00:26:13.400 in general, outside of the media party and outside of our sort of rebel headquarters, how do you think

00:26:19.800 the ordinary person thinks about what Trudeau is doing? Do they even think about it at all? Or is

00:26:23.560 it just more blah, blah, blah, because it hasn't hit them yet? What do Canadians think about the

00:26:28.920 civil liberties violation?

00:26:31.000 To be honest, it really depends, Ezra, because there are a lot of people that are especially on

00:26:35.480 independent media platforms and on social media sites bypassing Trudeau and bypassing the mainstream

00:26:41.240 media. They're logging on and they're seeing the bouncy castle, the hot tub. Today, there was a pig

00:26:46.040 roast, believe it or not. Not kosher, but still delicious. And lots of great things that people

00:26:51.320 are going on and completely peaceful. But then you turn on the mainstream media and you hear and

00:26:57.400 the government was is very clear about this illegal blockade, illegal blockade, illegal blockade.

00:27:02.600 Earlier, I think it was Bill Blair accidentally said blockade. And midway through, he corrected it to

00:27:08.200 illegal blockade, because that's the message they're trying to share. And ultimately,

00:27:12.360 it becomes an air war. Are people going to see more of the direct raw footage from people

00:27:16.520 on the ground? Or are they going to be susceptible to the government narrative about this, which is

00:27:21.720 very much targeting political opponents?

00:27:23.720 Yeah, well, I think this weekend things might break. I said on Twitter, I saw that document

00:27:28.840 being handed out to people. I said the Ottawa police didn't scare away the truckers.

00:27:34.040 Doug Ford announced an emergency act. That didn't cause the truckers to leave.

00:27:38.680 Trudeau announced the emergency act federally. That didn't cause the truckers to leave.

00:27:43.960 Maybe this brochure will cause the truckers to leave. I don't know.

00:27:48.040 I don't think ordinary beat cops are willing to get brutal with moms and dads and kids 0.62

00:27:53.560 having sort of a festival type atmosphere. I just don't think they're going to do it. But

00:27:58.600 who knows? I will know by watching what our reporters, Lincoln and Alexa do, and what you

00:28:06.200 and your colleague, whose name I cannot pronounce, are doing. So we look forward to you. And that's

00:28:11.320 at tnc.news. That's where we'll see your work. Am I right?

00:28:15.640 Yes, that's correct.

00:28:16.760 And of course, you're on Twitter. I like to follow you on Twitter. You're just Andrew Lawton

00:28:21.240 on Twitter. Am I right?

00:28:23.000 Yeah. And that's also the name of the Substack. I try to keep it simple.

00:28:25.960 Fair enough. Substack, of course, is your email newsletter, which is a must read.

00:28:29.720 Well, listen, I'm excited for you that you're going to Ottawa, because that is where there's

00:28:34.280 going to be a lot of action. And bring an extra battery pack for your phone, because I know you're

00:28:40.200 going to want to have it on all day. Great to see you, my friend. Good luck.

00:28:43.240 Thank you. There you have it. One of the good guys, Andrew Lawton from tnc.news. Stay with us more ahead.

00:29:02.520 Hey, welcome back. Let's read your letters. Gord Orr says, Arthur Pawlowski has serious political clout.

00:29:08.760 That is why he is a political prisoner. Watch him work a crowd of thousands in the

00:29:13.000 love he receives. He's a threat to the corrupt class in Alberta. You know, I used to be pretty

00:29:18.440 close with Jason Kenney. I can't can't believe my eyes. I feel like he has been inhabited by like

00:29:26.600 an alien being or something. He is opposite of the Jason Kenney I once knew quite well.

00:29:34.520 For those who are my vintage or older, you might recall that in the 1990s, we had this little group

00:29:39.960 we called the snack pack. It was a knockoff of the liberal rat pack. And it was myself,

00:29:45.240 Jason Kenney, Raheem Jaffer, the young, slightly tubby guys who all single guys who were just in 0.99

00:29:52.600 Ottawa together. And he was the most principled conservative MP, Jason Kenney. He was one of

00:29:57.720 the most principled conservative cabinet ministers. And he ran for the leadership of Alberta, merged the

00:30:04.120 two parties on a conservative platform. But my God, has he been transformed by the pandemic into

00:30:12.120 one of the most abusive premiers in the country. And I know he would argue our lockdown has been the

00:30:16.440 shortest. He has thrown Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky in solitary confinement indefinitely. He jailed Pastor

00:30:25.880 James Coates from Edmonton for 35 days, which is shocking. But they just put Arthur, Pastor Arthur

00:30:33.240 Pavlovsky, in solitary indefinitely. How do you show your face? And to think that, I remember Jason

00:30:42.200 Kenney when he used to take it upon himself to be a champion for religious freedom around the world,

00:30:48.680 like China. I can tell you that China has not arrested or jailed as many Christian pastors for

00:30:54.840 breaking the lockdown as Jason Kenney has. Percy's 09 says, I'm confused with Doug Ford. He's telling

00:31:04.040 us that we need to end this insanity and that the mandate rules did not work. He stresses that we

00:31:09.160 don't need to wear masks. But as soon as he walks away, he puts on his mask. Furthermore, if we're done

00:31:14.600 with it, why not cancel everything right now? Why wait to wean people off these rules? What messages

00:31:19.640 he's sending? The message he's sending is you can't believe a word he says, and he'll say the opposite

00:31:24.760 thing. He's like a seat cushion that has the impression of whoever last sat upon him. But I

00:31:30.120 have to say that that little speech he gave was the most authentic he sounded as opposed to a hostage

00:31:35.720 reading some, you know, a message from this hostage taker. It made me chuckle because literally one day

00:31:45.080 earlier he had said he supports Justin Trudeau's suspension of civil liberties and massive crackdown.

00:31:50.920 And then 24 hours later, he says, no, I think we've got to end all this. And I'm done with masks.

00:31:55.640 He has a mask and the two people behind him have a mask. I think the short answer is never trust a 1.00

00:31:59.800 thing a politician ever says ever. I know that's a pretty totalistic thing to take away from it. But

00:32:05.320 you tell me there's a single politician in this country you trust.

00:32:09.480 Salad and Chops, I think that's a nickname, says Trudeau's weaponizing the banks. Everyone should pull

00:32:15.640 some cash out. Unintended consequences is the way to fight back just as the truckers did with their

00:32:21.240 convoy. Keep moving the game on the tyrants. Yeah. I mean, seriously, when you have done as little in

00:32:28.040 life as Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland and what little Chrystia Freeland has done has been a

00:32:33.320 total disaster. If you look at her experience with Reuters, just destroying a company, destroying a

00:32:38.920 company. You're putting those people in charge of the banking industry, one of the most important

00:32:43.880 industries in the country, one of the most integrated industries in New York and Boston

00:32:47.880 and San Francisco. You're touching that. You're letting those buffoons touch it and politicize it.

00:32:53.080 I mean, it would be bad enough if Canadian banks, but you have the chutzpah to commandeer American 0.97

00:33:00.440 banks and tell them that they have to violate American law. You think that's a good idea? Even if Joe Biden

00:33:07.640 gives you a legal pass on it, I don't expect the Republican House will for long. And just to trust

00:33:15.560 that you've just shattered a century of trust because you hate some truckers because they were

00:33:20.840 embarrassing you. Unbelievable. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here

00:33:26.920 at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave

00:33:30.840 you with our video of the day. Our friend Sheila doing a story on Trudeau donating to Black Lives Matter.

00:33:37.480 While seizing the bank accounts of peaceful protesters. Here's a good one.

00:33:41.480 I have attended protests and rallies in the past when I agreed with the goals, when I supported the

00:33:49.320 people expressing their concerns and their issues. Black Lives Matter is an excellent example of that.

00:33:55.320 But I have also chosen to not go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric,

00:34:02.840 violence towards fellow citizens. Remember that clip? That's Justin Trudeau swearing allegiance to BLM,

00:34:09.320 the group behind large-scale protests that shut down major cities in Canada. And in the United States,

00:34:14.760 BLM caused looting, rioting, arsons and violence. Yet Trudeau calls the peaceful convoy street party with 1.00

00:34:20.760 bouncy castles, music, free food and anthem singing, a fringe minority. Remember this?

00:34:26.520 The small, fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable

00:34:38.280 views. But Justin Trudeau didn't just swear his allegiance publicly to Black Lives Matter,

00:34:43.000 as I showed you in that clip off the top of this video. He sealed his loyalty to BLM with your money in

00:34:48.600 the form of a grant. But he didn't just give money to BLM, he gave it to a group that he weaponized to

00:34:54.200 surveil and paint his political enemies as racist, which they're doing right now. And he also gave it

00:34:59.560 to an organization that was supposed to stand up for civil liberties, which explains why they didn't

00:35:04.920 stand up when Justin Trudeau just stomped all over them. Today's information comes to us by way of an

00:35:10.120 order paper response from the government to a question asked by Quebec Conservative MP Pierre Paul

00:35:15.320 Hoos, who wanted to know about the advance payments being made to organizations by the 0.94

00:35:21.000 federal government. And buried way down in the response was the reply from the Canadian Race

00:35:25.880 Relations Foundation. Did you know that such a government agency existed? Now we should pay

00:35:31.320 attention to them because they are loudly saber rattling for online censorship. And the government

00:35:36.680 is going to do it with their new harmful online content law. And as you know, harmful means anything

00:35:42.520 that liberals don't like hearing. Okay, let's take a look. June 11, 2021, BLM Canada received

00:35:48.840 $8,250 from Trudeau. So he's not just a supporter, but he's also forcing Canadians to support his

00:35:55.880 favorite causes now too, as he did with the WE organization. Next one, May 14, 2021, the Canadian

00:36:02.280 Anti-Hate Network, already a recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants to

00:36:07.260 identify and vilify critics of the liberal government and masquerade as experts on the CBC,

00:36:12.420 and other media outlets about how bad the convoy is and to also spread hate hoaxes. Anyway, they

00:36:17.860 received an additional $6,000 from the Race Relations Foundation. Last one. And this one, once I saw it,

00:36:24.820 it explains so much to me because I have wondered where the heck the BC Civil Liberties Association

00:36:30.340 has been for the last two years. While churches were closed by the state, protesters were harassed by

00:36:35.380 cops, families were prevented from gathering, and businesses were forced closed. These are all

00:36:41.060 serious civil liberties violations. And why hasn't the BCCLA said anything about the coming internet

00:36:47.300 censorship by the Liberals? Why did the BCCLA not fire their director when she said to burn down

00:36:53.540 Catholic churches during a summer when dozens were set ablaze across Canada? Well, this grant here 1.00

00:36:59.860 explains it all. $10,000, March 25, 2021, from the Race Relations Foundation. If you have been paying

00:37:07.620 attention, this all just explains so much. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

Rebel News Podcast - February 17, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau has announced plans to seize bank accounts of customers without any due process

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