Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau responds to China corruption claims with China-style censorship

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Great to be back in the chair today. Today's monologue and show

00:00:03.720 is about Justin Trudeau and China. And instead of investigating himself, he wants to investigate

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00:00:58.220 Tonight, more damning proof of China corrupting Justin Trudeau. And he responds with China-style 0.98

00:01:07.740 censorship. It's March 9th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:11.100 You're ready for freedom.

00:01:14.340 Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.94

00:01:17.480 You know what? I have to say it feels unnatural for me to praise the mainstream media. Mainstream 0.85

00:01:33.380 media that gets a lot of its funding from Justin Trudeau. But I got to call it like I see it. Take

00:01:38.840 a look at this latest video report from Global News. Located in the same building as Justin

00:01:45.400 Trudeau's office, the Privy Council is tasked with providing advice to the government. And in

00:01:50.000 January 2022, they issued a bombshell special report alleging the Chinese consulate in Toronto

00:01:55.840 facilitated a large clandestine transfer of funds earmarked for the 2019 federal election.

00:02:02.000 Global News reviewed the Privy Council documents, which says the cash from the Chinese consulate

00:02:06.540 allegedly went to an elected provincial government official via a staff member of a 2019 federal

00:02:12.580 candidate. Intelligence sources say the provincial official is a current member of the Ontario

00:02:18.160 legislature. The memo was labelled finalised, suggesting it was meant for senior officials.

00:02:22.800 But when asked, the Prime Minister's office would not say if Trudeau read it or even knew about the

00:02:27.220 report. Oral questions.

00:02:29.100 In question period, the Prime Minister was under fire from the opposition.

00:02:32.020 He's not interested in protecting the safety of the people serving this country. He's interested

00:02:36.900 in protecting the Liberal Party of Canada. In response, Trudeau turned to an old talking

00:02:42.180 point. As both myself and the NSIA stated last fall, we have no information on any federal

00:02:48.440 candidates receiving money from China, and that continues to remain the case.

00:02:53.080 But Global News did not report the Prime Minister knew who received money from Beijing,

00:02:56.900 or even that money made it to the candidates themselves. In November 2022, Global News first

00:03:01.720 reported the Prime Minister was warned China had allegedly targeted 11 candidates in the 2019 election.

00:03:06.580 through a clandestine network to fund their campaigns. Trudeau's former National Security

00:03:11.060 Advisor believes the Prime Minister should have read or been briefed on the contents of the Privy

00:03:15.140 Council document.

00:03:15.920 Given the subject matter, and the seriousness of the allegations, and the fact that we were either

00:03:21.300 just before or in an election, he should have been made aware.

00:03:25.540 But one document the Prime Minister is aware of, a report published just two months before the 2019

00:03:30.440 election, from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians,

00:03:34.620 which warned foreign states would target preferred candidates during the nomination process.

00:03:39.100 The NSIA COP report doesn't give examples of interference in the 2019 vote,

00:03:43.180 but it did for the 2015 and 2018 elections, alleging a group associated with the Chinese embassy

00:03:49.100 attempted to handpick candidates. And certain Chinese businesses were urged to make political

00:03:53.980 contributions through Canadian subsidiaries.

00:03:56.140 You know, I think that maybe, just maybe, after eight years, the media party's getting a little

00:04:03.820 bit tired of Justin Trudeau. Maybe, I think this is a long shot, but maybe there's even a drop of

00:04:09.580 morality, of right and wrong, of national patriotism and pride. Maybe they think there's something wrong

00:04:15.180 about China corrupting Canada's democracy. I don't know what it is, but it's a pleasure to see 1.00

00:04:19.740 journalists acting like journalists, not just stenographers. I tell you, they keep this up

00:04:25.260 for long, there won't be any need for rebel news, although there is some need. I have right on my

00:04:29.580 desk here a copy of a book I wrote called China Virus, How Justin Trudeau's Pro-Communist Ideology

00:04:35.820 is Putting Canadians in Danger. If you have this book, you know I start off by talking about 0.97

00:04:41.020 the coronavirus. I wrote this very quickly after the pandemic, but most of this book is about what I

00:04:47.020 call the real virus, which is Chinese political influence. And if I wrote this book three years ago,

00:04:53.660 you can't overpraise the media party for finally talking about the same things today.

00:04:58.300 Anyways, there are real questions that need to be asked, and Trudeau is good at duck speaking,

00:05:04.540 as Orwell would say, saying very little, very loudly, and in a pleasing, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:05:09.900 murmur patter kind of way. I think, though, there's a chance that Pierre Polyev is breaking through

00:05:15.980 that. Look at this back and forth in question period. I like when he just drops to yes or no.

00:05:23.100 I want to play a few minutes of this because it's the cumulative effect here that's so powerful. Take

00:05:28.220 a look. This is a few days ago, Pierre Polyev asking all the questions of Justin Trudeau on this

00:05:33.900 matter. Take a look.

00:05:34.620 He refuses to answer about whether his party or any other received money directed by the communist

00:05:40.860 dictatorship in Beijing. We can assume that the answer, therefore, is yes. How much did his party

00:05:47.820 and other parts of his party get from the communist dictatorship?

00:05:51.740 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.

00:05:54.060 Mr. Speaker, on matters of national security, it's extremely important that we continue to give

00:06:02.540 Canadians confidence that our experts and our officials are doing their job. But it's also important to

00:06:08.540 protect the women and men who serve in our security agencies doing extremely dangerous work to keep

00:06:15.980 Canadians safe. That's why we've created a committee where all parliamentarians from different parties

00:06:23.180 can get top-secret clearance and look into these matters deeply without compromising the safety of

00:06:31.500 people who serve this country.

00:06:32.780 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.

00:06:34.380 Mr. He's not interested in protecting the safety of the people serving this country. He's interested in

00:06:39.820 protecting the Liberal Party of Canada. The question was how much his party got in illegal donations

00:06:49.420 funneled from Beijing. I've asked the question twice now. He refuses to answer it. He distracts and now claims

00:06:57.180 that he can't tell it because it would harm national security. Give me a break. It would harm his political career.

00:07:03.180 Why doesn't he tell us how much the Liberal Party or its various arms received in money from Beijing? How much?

00:07:08.780 The Honourable Prime Minister.

00:07:15.820 Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate and despicable that any member in this House would question the loyalty to

00:07:24.300 Canada of any other member in this House. I understand the very real concerns that Canadians feel about

00:07:33.020 foreign interference and that's why we've created mechanisms to keep Canadians safe. But to suggest that 0.85

00:07:38.860 anyone in this House isn't devoted to serving Canadians and keeping those who serve Canada in dangerous 1.00

00:07:45.500 positions safe, safe is quite disgusting.

00:07:51.100 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.

00:07:53.100 Mr. Speaker, no drama lesson will distract from the question that I asked.

00:07:56.780 The question was very clear. How much did the Liberal Party get in donations directed from Beijing?

00:08:04.220 I've asked it multiple times. I find it incredible that he can't stand up and answer with a zero.

00:08:11.180 I mean, if he knows for sure it didn't happen, he's not been briefed to the contrary, he would say so

00:08:16.540 right now. But he's dodging the question. He's trying to engage in a dramatic distraction. So I will give

00:08:22.700 him one more chance. Answer the question. How much money did his party get from the dictatorship in Beijing?

00:08:28.860 The Honourable Prime Minister. Speaker, I see the Leader of the Opposition trying to backtrack from his

00:08:38.220 heinous and disgusting accusations of disloyalty to Canada of anyone in this House. And I'm pleased to

00:08:44.540 see him back off from what was an absolutely despicable partisan approach. I find it quite

00:08:50.700 interesting. There's, you know, the question period itself. There's pressure from Global News,

00:08:55.260 the Globe and Mail, obviously the Sun chain of newspapers. So Trudeau has resisted so far. I got

00:09:02.540 an interesting message from a senior journalist who said, well, how is this going to end? And

00:09:07.980 I was pessimistic. I said, how would it end other than how it always ends? No liberal backbencher or

00:09:15.180 cabinet minister is going to break ranks and tell Trudeau to step down. That would never happen. The one

00:09:19.420 thing the liberals have is discipline. No one is going to call a police inquiry. Trudeau is lucky

00:09:25.820 that way, a pun based on Brenda Luckey, the RCMP commissioner, who would never call for an

00:09:30.940 investigation of her boss. There will be no parliamentary inquiry because Jagmeet Singh is a

00:09:38.460 paper tiger. So as long as Justin Trudeau can keep coming up with blather, which is his expertise,

00:09:45.100 I think the media will just tire themselves out. It's Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope tactic.

00:09:51.420 In fact, Trudeau will use the opportunity to blame his enemies, call them racist,

00:09:57.380 and call for Chinese-style censorship of them. Trudeau has been pressed to have a formal police

00:10:05.500 inquiry or judicial inquiry into his corruption at the hands of communist China. But instead,

00:10:12.060 he's announced money to go after his critics, including $5.5 million to smoke out social media.

00:10:20.300 That's mean to him. Take a look at this. And finally today, I can announce that we're investing

00:10:24.860 $5.5 million to build capacity of civil society organizations to combat disinformation. Because

00:10:33.660 we know disinformation, often generated abroad, can be a real threat to our elections, and it's a threat

00:10:39.900 that the federal government cannot combat alone. Foreign interference is a complex landscape that

00:10:48.140 should not be boiled down to sound bites and binary choices. And it should certainly not be about

00:10:55.500 partisan politics. You know, in the past, the liberal movies call people racist, sexist, anti-gay, 0.92

00:11:03.100 transphobic. And they still do play all those cards all the time. But I think some of it doesn't work, 0.52

00:11:08.860 especially when many of the critics of Justin Trudeau these days are Chinese-Canadian. They're just 0.99

00:11:13.980 freedom-oriented Chinese-Canadians. Maybe they are against the communist regime in Beijing. Maybe they're

00:11:19.340 from Hong Kong originally. Or maybe they're just proud Canadians who love liberty and don't want

00:11:24.380 communist China to have its fingers in our country. So calling people like that racist doesn't quite work.

00:11:31.020 You know, I think what works for the liberals, or at least they think it works, is calling people

00:11:37.980 misinformation or agents. Like when the CBC said that the truckers weren't just racist and hateful,

00:11:44.940 but they were actually agents of Vladimir Putin. Remember that? I do ask that because, you know,

00:11:51.340 given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to

00:11:58.620 ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows,

00:12:07.340 but perhaps even instigating it from the outset. So they talk about misinformation and disinformation.

00:12:14.220 And I saw a new one today. Mal-information. That's the new thing. Have you ever heard that word before?

00:12:21.100 I love words, but I had never heard of mal-information before. Misinformation is when you're wrong.

00:12:29.100 You're misinformed. Oh, you've been misinformed. Disinformation is when someone tells you something

00:12:36.380 wrong on purpose. I first heard that word in the Cold War when the military would leak disinformation

00:12:45.100 to the Soviets so it would confuse them. It would put them on the wrong track. Mal-information, which 0.83

00:12:53.180 I have only now heard of, is information that is completely correct, but it's just inconvenient

00:13:01.020 for the powerful people. I saw that word today. Matt Taibbi, who's going through Twitter's files,

00:13:09.180 found this. Let me quote. In one remarkable email, the Virality Project recommends that multiple

00:13:15.900 platforms take action even against stories of true vaccine side effects and true posts which could fuel

00:13:23.580 hesitancy. None of the leaders of this effort to police COVID speech had health expertise. So he's

00:13:30.860 talking about the internal censorship at Twitter and how Pfizer and the FBI and others managed to just

00:13:37.500 censor not just misinformation and disinformation, but true information that was inconvenient. Let me

00:13:43.420 quote from his tweet. True content which might promote vaccine hesitancy. Stories of true vaccine side

00:13:51.100 effects. True posts could fuel hesitancy, such as individual countries banning certain vaccines. So the

00:13:57.820 call was to censor, to throttle true news about vaccines because people, listen, that second Pfizer yacht is

00:14:05.980 not going to pay for itself. It's not just inside Twitter. There's these external groups, an entire fake

00:14:15.180 fact-checking industry like NewsGuard. Who are these fact-checking reporters? Aren't all reporters fact-checkers?

00:14:23.260 Well, as Matt Taibbi pointed out today, a lot of these fact-checkers are actually on the payroll

00:14:31.420 of the Department of Defense. Here, let me read from Matt Taibbi again today.

00:14:35.900 Some NGOs like the GEC, Global Engagement Center of the State Department, the Global Disinformation Index,

00:14:44.060 or the Department of Defense-funded NewsGuard, not only seek content moderation, but apply subjective

00:14:50.860 risk or reliability scores to media outlets, which can result in reduction in revenue.

00:14:56.460 Do we want government in this role? So these fact-checkers, they get grants from the government to

00:15:04.460 check the facts, which generally means to criticize the opinions of anyone who disagrees with their

00:15:09.260 regime. And as you've just learned, they don't just criticize false facts. They criticize true

00:15:13.740 facts that are malinformation. It's happening in America, of course, and it's happening in Canada,

00:15:19.580 too. And it's going to happen even more as the government continues to regulate the media through

00:15:23.740 C-11, C-18, and other laws. I'm scared of this. I read this to you the other day. I don't think I've

00:15:30.780 seen this reported anywhere else in the Trucker Commission of Inquiry. It wasn't just the oral testimony,

00:15:36.460 but senior officials, including cabinet ministers, were interviewed by commission lawyers who

00:15:42.140 summarized them. I read this to you the other day. Here's David Lemendi, the justice minister,

00:15:48.060 saying it should be easier to declare an emergency. I'll read the notes of the commission.

00:15:52.620 Minister Lemendi identified two areas in which the legislative and policy reform was required.

00:15:58.140 The first was legislative amendments to the Emergencies Act itself to make it more responsive

00:16:02.220 to pandemics and health emergencies, that is to make it easier to declare. There is also a need

00:16:08.620 to modernize the language of the act to address online harm, such as violent online rhetoric and

00:16:15.340 financing. I'm not sure how rhetoric can be violent. If it's just words, it's not violent. So I read that

00:16:21.820 to you before, but here's another excerpt from the same enormous 2,000-page commission report. This is

00:16:27.580 Janice Charette, who is the Privy Council clerk and deputy clerk, and the two of them were having an

00:16:35.660 interview, if I understand this correctly. Let me quote from the commission. So this is the senior,

00:16:40.140 senior bureaucrat in charge of the entire civil service. The job of the Privy Council clerk is to

00:16:46.700 take the Prime Minister's political goals and get the civil servants, get the bureaucrats of the country

00:16:52.620 to make it happen. What she really says is that foreign interference in elections isn't really a

00:16:57.980 problem. What she wants to tackle is domestic social media. That's what needs to be monitored 1.00

00:17:03.820 and regulated. Here, let me quote. I'll put this in her own words. It's on page 12 of the document here.

00:17:07.580 Ms. Charette, that's the head of the Privy Council, recalled that social media played a significant role

00:17:12.540 in mobilizing protesters. Misinformation and disinformation were feeding the phenomenon and

00:17:18.700 being amplified, not just on the domestic side, but also internationally, including by high-profile

00:17:24.380 US politicians. Ms. Charette tasked the NSIA, that's the National Security and Intelligence Advisor,

00:17:31.340 and her staff to develop informal tools for social media monitoring. She recalled that the

00:17:36.860 Intelligence Assessment Secretariat developed OSINT briefs for this purpose, even though it was not

00:17:43.740 the type of product normally prepared by IS. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence, refers to

00:17:50.460 data gathered from publicly available sources. OSINT is the term in intelligence circles.

00:17:58.460 Ms. Charette noted that Privy Council previously recognized the need to address this issue during the

00:18:05.100 2021 federal election, during which the PM and candidates from all parties received a heightened amount of

00:18:11.020 violent threats, including online. Ms. Drouanne remarked that although Canada is well-equipped to

00:18:15.980 respond to online foreign interference in the electoral context, this is not the case for monitoring of

00:18:21.660 domestic media. She noted this was an especially difficult area for policy and regulation, and then on page 14

00:18:30.460 called for more regulation. The panel identified two areas that, in their view, could be considered for

00:18:37.420 legislative reform. The first is policing jurisdiction over the parliamentary precinct and the national

00:18:42.860 capital region generally, as well as jurisdiction and ports of entry. There must be consideration of

00:18:49.420 the definition and adequacy of the ability to protect critical infrastructure from threats. So they want to

00:18:55.820 surveil people around the country, but here's the part that scares me.

00:18:59.660 The second is the adequacy of social media monitoring and the regulation of misinformation,

00:19:07.100 disinformation, and online violent rhetoric, as well as strengthening Canada's toolkit around foreign

00:19:13.100 interference. So their big takeaway from the trucker convoy, the peaceful trucker convoy, was

00:19:20.940 it's not the foreigners we've got to watch out for, it's those pesky Canadians and their free speech. We need to 1.00

00:19:26.620 regulate that more. That's what they're saying. And that's not a nobody. That's the head of the civil

00:19:32.700 service saying that. I think we live in dangerous times, my friend, and I think they're going to get

00:19:38.540 more dangerous. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:19:40.860 You know, some of my favorite books and movies, when they come out there, they predict the future so

00:20:00.060 uncannily that years or decades later, when their prophecy comes true, you read the book and you say,

00:20:08.220 what was all the fuss about it? Because when it was published, it was radical, but it

00:20:13.660 came true. I think about that book, Thank You for Smoking, which was a comedy about everything being

00:20:19.900 banned. Well, it sort of came true. And even, for example, in the science fiction, sci-fi dystopian

00:20:25.980 future movie called Ex Machina, which was about artificial intelligence and robotics and things like

00:20:32.300 that. Well, my gosh, it's come true. And I tell you that because I want to show you

00:20:38.300 a two minute clip from South Park, the absurd comedy cartoon, adult comedy, adult cartoons.

00:20:47.820 I'm going to play you a clip. I think there's some swearing in it. So be forewarned. When this aired in

00:20:53.420 2019, it was absurd, it was crazy. After all, it's a it's a humorous cartoon. But it's not funny anymore.

00:21:02.860 I tell you, it's come true. Watching this video in 2023 is very different than watching it in 2019

00:21:10.460 when it was a hysterical, absurd joke. Take a look at this excerpt from the South Park strong woman

00:21:18.540 competition. Take a look. Now, this is the first year that a trans woman is in the competition. 0.98

00:21:23.020 How do you feel about that? Amazing. I feel honored to be a part of history. I have a lot of incredible

00:21:28.300 trans friends who are athletes. And so we're all inspired. This woman's competing. Uh huh. And

00:21:33.660 uh, have you actually ever met Heather Swanson? Uh, no, I've never competed against her before. No.

00:21:39.100 She's not exactly your average trans athlete. Well, what is an average trans athlete? Honestly,

00:21:45.020 I find that kind of bigoted, David. Okay. Heather Swanson is actually joining us now. 0.61

00:21:50.060 Ms. Swanson, how does it feel to be competing today? I can't tell you how free I feel now that

00:21:57.100 I've started identifying as a woman. Now that I can compete as female, I'm ready to smash the other 0.99

00:22:04.060 girls. And is it correct you just started identifying as female two weeks ago? I'm not here to talk about 0.97

00:22:11.340 my transition. I'm here to kick some fucking ass. Let me tell you something, Dingleberry. David Perry. 1.00

00:22:18.460 I'm going to rule up the other women here and I'm going to smoke them. I am the strongest woman 1.00

00:22:25.020 this state has ever seen. Any words for the challenger and Miss Woman? Uh, good luck, Heather. 0.96

00:22:32.060 Luck is for dudes. Well, with that, let's get right to the action.

00:22:45.180 We'll catch you to the edge. Give it all you got. Barely break a sweat. Strong woman! Strong woman! 0.99

00:22:50.220 Strong woman! Strong!

00:22:52.300 Whoa-ho! Yeah, she's got speed. She's got the move. She's got the muscle and a whole lot to prove. 1.00

00:22:57.900 Strong woman! Strong woman! Strong woman! Strong!

00:23:02.300 Whoa-ho! Hey, yo! Go strong woman, yo! Hey, you! 1.00

00:23:08.300 Your time is now! What you gonna do? Go head to the middle, find another gear,

00:23:16.220 she takes what she wants, nothing left to be a strong woman! Strong woman! 0.99

00:23:23.340 Now, hey, girl! You're the best in the world! And hey, hon! Don't look out, but you just won!

00:23:33.260 And now you are fun! I'm a strong woman!

00:23:38.300 I'm a strong woman! That's a character, Randy the Macho Man Savage, for people of my vintage and older

00:23:45.100 who might remember him from professional wrestling. He was, I mean, the Macho Man. That's his nickname.

00:23:51.260 That's sort of the giveaway. How long has it been since you've been transitioning? Oh, two weeks ago,

00:23:56.140 but let's not talk about that. It was just, you know, when that aired almost four years ago,

00:24:01.900 people thought, well, that's absurd. That's a joke. There's South Park again. I ask you,

00:24:07.020 what single word or image there has not come to pass? And joining us now via Skype to talk about it

00:24:15.500 is our friend Coach Linda Blade, co-author of Unsporting, a book about transgenderism in sports.

00:24:21.020 Linda, great to see you again. Thank you, Ezra. Nice to be here.

00:24:26.060 You know, don't mind me. I mean, the South Park's a little crude. There was a swear in there,

00:24:30.380 but I'm sure we've all heard that word before. That's part of Randy Macho Man Savage style,

00:24:35.180 just extremely, extreme toxic masculinity. I'm here to crush the girls. That's the problem. I mean, 0.99

00:24:43.980 it's, I think in almost any sport that involves physicality, there's an unfairness and essential

00:24:52.780 unfairness. I don't think it's unfair for male and female chess players or male and female

00:24:59.180 competitors in on TV's Jeopardy. But when it's physical smashing and crushing and punching and

00:25:08.140 lifting, it's not sport anymore. It's not sport. It's not even fun. It's, it's some sick thing. And,

00:25:15.180 and smashing women is actually what a lot of this transgender sports is about. 1.00

00:25:19.660 Yeah. I mean, it seems like that they just want to come in and identify for some sort of weird kind 0.62

00:25:29.660 of power play. And I can read their minds, but you know, the biggest issue is that our sports

00:25:37.180 governing bodies are just stepping aside, opening the door and inviting them in and allowing them

00:25:43.100 to compete as women. Um, this has been my concern from the beginning. You know,

00:25:48.140 we should have rules and regulations about this. Yeah. It's not even fun. I mean, uh,

00:25:54.220 there's this, uh, commentator musician and bodybuilder in the UK named Zuby,

00:25:59.900 who just as a lark said, I identify as woman for the next few minutes. And then he did all sorts of

00:26:05.020 weightlifting, uh, you know, uh, bench pressing this leg pressing that. And he said, I just smashed

00:26:11.340 every single women's record in history. Now I'm going to stop identifying as a woman. I'm a man 0.91

00:26:16.300 again. And it was, I mean, obviously it was a joke. It was absurd, but, uh, it's not fun anymore. It's,

00:26:22.940 it's a way, frankly, for losers who can't compete against other men to go and have an easy win.

00:26:29.740 It's like Kramer in Seinfeld doing Taekwondo in a children's class. It's the only way he could win,

00:26:36.460 but that's a comedy in South Park is a comedy, but these people are really doing it in real life.

00:26:40.780 And it's one thing to do weightlifting. You're not going to hurt anyone, but in, in rugby, in

00:26:46.220 mixed martial arts, they literally hurt, seriously injured the women competitors, don't they? 1.00

00:26:52.860 Yeah. In fact, uh, world rugby had to do a study on this in 2020 and they determined that it,

00:27:00.620 if you even have one male born person, male body on the pitch with the women, uh, the chances of

00:27:07.180 head, neck and back injury for all the women there who are playing rugby will go up at least 30%.

00:27:14.460 So we're talking about safe sport. We're talking about the concussion protocol.

00:27:17.980 I mean, it's everything that we've been preaching against and in sport governing bodies for the last

00:27:24.620 20 years. And all of a sudden, somehow this is supposed to be okay now.

00:27:30.060 You know, there's no common sense here, but, um, there's some crazy woke ideology,

00:27:35.100 even in the courts. I want to read you a story, uh, from CBS news and the headline just a couple of days

00:27:41.420 ago. Trans women can compete in USA powerlifting ruling says, I'll read a little bit of the article.

00:27:50.300 Transgender women can now compete in USA powerlifting after a court ruled in favor of athlete 0.82

00:27:55.100 JC Cooper, who filed a discrimination case against the Federation after she was banned from competing

00:28:01.260 in women's events. It's very confusing how journalists put she there. And, and in your mind's

00:28:07.180 eye, you're thinking, Oh, she, what does she look like? But, uh, the, the less clever, uh, 0.78

00:28:13.820 news actually show photos of these, of these fellas. Let me read an excerpt in CBS from the judge,

00:28:21.180 and this will just get you going. The judge wrote that while the USA powerlifting focused on the notion

00:28:27.980 of fairness in its decision to bar trans women from competition, citing an unfair advantage, quote,

00:28:37.020 the USA powerlifting's evidence of competitive advantage does not take into account any competitive

00:28:43.500 disadvantage a transgender athlete might face from, for example, increased risk of depression

00:28:51.340 and suicide, lack of access to coaching and practice facilities or other, uh, performance.

00:28:59.100 Those have got nothing to do with strength and powerlifting. That's a judge trying to daydream.

00:29:04.140 Well, sure. This guy is two, three times stronger than these women, but he might be depressed.

00:29:09.020 Did you think of that? He might be suicidal. Did you think like that's not science? That's not law.

00:29:14.860 That's extremist politics. And the judges who's looking to make a headline for himself,

00:29:20.380 it's not going to be fun anymore. It's not sport anymore.

00:29:23.820 Well, it's just outright insulting as if women's sports are supposed to be the somehow the template or 1.00

00:29:29.340 mechanism for social therapy, somebody who is so suicidal. What in the world are we using women's 1.00

00:29:36.300 sports really as a therapy session now for some male born person who just decides that,

00:29:42.620 you know, they're going to claim that somehow if they're not allowed to unfairly win against female 0.93

00:29:47.580 athletes, that somehow we're, we're all responsible for what they might do to themselves. It seems like a

00:29:53.660 very childish demand. Yeah. Well, I mean, all of this is some sort of therapy. I mean,

00:30:01.420 I think a convincing theory about the Kayla Lemieux teacher who goes into shop class with these absurd

00:30:09.580 prosthetic breasts is that doing that, being that is some sort of a sexual, 0.98

00:30:15.180 sexual, uh, sexually soothing or exciting for him to do to, to parade around and have people look at 0.99

00:30:22.220 him like that. Like it's all a form of narcissistic therapy, all of this. And in the past, it would 0.65

00:30:28.780 be unacceptable. Now it's unacceptable if you speak out against it. In Calgary last week,

00:30:33.980 a Christian pastor was jailed for objecting to a drag queen story hour. But our, our prime minister had

00:30:40.380 something to say about this and I think it was on international women's day. Let me quote, uh,

00:30:46.540 Justin Trudeau's tweet. With the disturbing rise in anti-transgender hate here in Canada and around

00:30:54.380 the world recently, I want to be very clear about one more thing. Trans women are women. We will always

00:31:02.300 stand up to this hate whenever and wherever it occurs. Um, so if you, if you think that someone

00:31:10.540 born a man is not a woman, if you, if you think two plus two is four and not five, you are full of 0.94

00:31:18.940 hate. You heard it from the prime minister himself. You either support this radical relabeling of words,

00:31:26.220 just destruction in the meaning, or you're a hater. Which one are you? Are you, are you, uh,

00:31:32.140 for this or are you transphobe? Trudeau wants to know, what do you make of that?

00:31:37.260 Well, I can tell you this, Ezra, for the prime minister to say that on international women's day 0.70

00:31:44.860 is absolutely disrespectful and hateful towards female born persons in Canada. There is

00:31:54.300 a sex based distinction between males and females. And for the prime minister to pretend like that

00:32:01.180 doesn't exist is a denial of things that would entice people in his government and other organizations

00:32:08.940 across the country to establish laws and policies that literally discriminate against biological women

00:32:16.540 on the basis of sex. So shame on the prime minister. This should never have been said, especially

00:32:21.500 on international women's day. Yeah. You know, and I've talked to Barbara Kay about this before. 0.96

00:32:28.140 At the end of that South Park episode, you saw Randy, the Macho Man Savage standing in first place

00:32:33.660 and natural women in second and third. And, and you, in fact, even the cover of your book on sporting,

00:32:39.660 there's a trans athlete in first place and then dejected women in second and third. But how long will it 0.94

00:32:46.460 be really before first, second and third are all trans athletes? Like, why not? And how long will it be

00:32:56.540 before all the competitors in powerlifting are men? And the reason I say that is no matter how hard a

00:33:06.220 female athlete trains, just in terms of genetics and testosterone and muscle mass and things like that, 1.00

00:33:13.980 you have to go through a lot of male athletes before you get to the strongest female athlete. And that's 1.00

00:33:20.620 not a knock. That's just an observation. And why would there just be one Leah Thomas swimmer? Why would

00:33:31.100 there just be one JC powerlifter? And, and I think what you're going to see very shortly is the total

00:33:37.980 extinction of women in sports, at least those sports, which is many of them where strength 1.00

00:33:45.820 and muscle mass and power and force are determinative. Um, if you allow trans athletes 1.00

00:33:53.500 into a sport, it is only a matter of time before there are no women left. We're just in the very

00:34:00.220 early days of this. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, absolutely. And, uh, the thing is that I wanted to say something

00:34:05.180 about that. If you allow male born athletes, people to self identify into women's sports here,

00:34:11.740 it's actually anti-trans. And I'll tell you why there are a lot of young women these days who

00:34:16.860 identify as non-binary and basically men. So they're female born and they're identifying as trans and they

00:34:24.700 seek to stay in women's sports because they know that's the only place that they're really going to 1.00

00:34:28.540 have a chance of winning and they, and we don't mind though because they're female athletes. We 1.00

00:34:33.180 don't care how they identify. So if you're going to put a male born person into the female category, 0.51

00:34:38.940 it's actually one type of trans discriminating against another type of trans. So it's not even

00:34:44.700 about transphobia or anything. It's about delineating categories based on the binary sex

00:34:52.060 type of person that you are. You're either born male or you're born female. And, and we know this, 0.68

00:34:57.740 we've known this from the beginning of time. So, you know, to go along and pretend like that doesn't

00:35:02.780 exist, then why are you having a separate women category in the first place? Yeah, it really is sad.

00:35:08.540 I mean, I, it, it, it is within our living memory that women only entered certain sports. I mean,

00:35:14.300 we've all probably seen the image of a woman sneaking into the Boston marathon and, and, uh, 0.98

00:35:20.460 officials trying to stop her. That's a male only event. There's a lot of sports clubs where women 1.00

00:35:25.500 were not allowed. The Olympics itself was originally all male. So, and, and of course in the United 0.90

00:35:32.060 States, especially, um, funding of women's sports and treating women's sports equally, giving girls a 1.00

00:35:38.300 chance to be athletic is, is very new. And I'm talking only in the last generation. So the golden age of

00:35:45.020 young women and women in sports is coming to an end. And it just is, is so bizarre. It's a reminder

00:35:51.740 that progress is not permanent. And I find this is a new form of barbarism. You know, you could say that

00:36:00.220 barbarism versus civilization, part of it is, do you protect the weak? And I'm not saying women are weak, 1.00

00:36:06.940 but I'm saying that physically speaking, women are not as strong as men. And if you just simply say,

00:36:11.580 so what macho man, savage here, I'm the strong one. Like if you just simply allow bullies to

00:36:17.900 physically smash their way in, that's a form of barbarism. It really is. And here we are.

00:36:26.140 Yep. And you know what? It doesn't stop on the playing field. They're allowed to come into the

00:36:30.060 locker rooms with the female athletes and everything. So, uh, you know, the, as a women's

00:36:35.500 swimmers found out with Leah Thomas, they all go, had to go hide and change in the cubicle,

00:36:39.980 like in the toilet, little cubicle, because there was a male person standing out, exposing himself

00:36:45.500 out in the main, in the main locker room. So it's, it's just, it's, it's terrible.

00:36:51.260 And that's the crazy thing is a lot of these trans athletes, they still have their twig and berries. 1.00

00:36:56.140 They're still dating women. Um, and they just get a real kick out of being able to stand in a women's 1.00

00:37:01.980 locker room naked and amongst other naked people. It's super gross. Well, listen, I'm, 0.94

00:37:08.220 I'm glad to talk to you about it and I'm excited to learn that you are teaming up with the McDonnell

00:37:12.220 Laurier Institute to start a gender policy program there. In fact, you've got a crowd fund 0.99

00:37:19.900 and we'll put the website on the screen here and I'll read a little bit from it. Help Coach Blade

00:37:24.620 and the McDonnell Laurier Institute stand up to gender policy that erodes sex based rights.

00:37:30.540 And your crowd funding, you say for every $5 raised in this campaign,

00:37:33.900 Coach Blade and a private donor will each donate an additional $1 to a maximum of $5,000 each.

00:37:40.620 Um, help us turn 25 grand into 35 grand and support a fair, thoughtful gender policy

00:37:45.900 that protects the interests of all vulnerable groups. So congratulations. Give us a word on the

00:37:51.500 kind of work you'll be doing with that. Well, the truth is that very few media organizations,

00:37:57.900 as you well know, Ezra would, you know, care to talk about this transit gender issue.

00:38:03.900 And whenever McDonnell Laurier Institute publishes and they have to their credit published things like

00:38:09.260 on the issue of men and males and female, uh, prisons in Canada, uh, men and identifying into women's

00:38:17.260 sports, um, they don't get a penny. And we have really appreciated as a group of women across the

00:38:24.140 country, the work that the MLI has done in publishing material and telling people the story,

00:38:31.340 the honest truth about what's going on. And so I thought, I felt like I take some of the proceeds

00:38:36.540 from our book from unsporting and put it up and to amplify the message and, and help the, you know,

00:38:42.860 media organization get the message out. And that's really what this is about.

00:38:46.380 Well, that's incredible. Congratulations to you and the McDonnell Laurier Institute.

00:38:50.940 Very courageous these days to take that stand. Great to catch up with you. The book again,

00:38:56.140 is called Unsporting. You can get it at unsporting.com. Keep up the fight, Coach Blade.

00:39:03.180 We're trying. Right on. There you have it. Well, good to catch up there. That's Coach Linda Blade. 1.00

00:39:07.900 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:39:09.100 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Gordon McMichael says, I respect and appreciate the

00:39:24.220 work of your frequent guest hosts, Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, and hope that we will continue

00:39:28.380 to see them in this role in the days ahead. At the same time, I just wanted to say that Tamera

00:39:32.460 Ugolini made a very positive impression as a guest host tonight, March 7th. Soft-spoken,

00:39:37.340 but very pointed in her remarks. She's a welcome addition to your stable, a very able guest host.

00:39:42.060 Still like seeing the boss man in the chair though, whenever your no doubt busy schedule

00:39:46.060 permits. Well, thanks for your kind words. I'll pass them on to Tamera. And I did watch part of

00:39:50.860 that show and I think she did great. So thanks for your kudos. I try my best to be here as much as

00:39:56.220 possible. And if I know I'm going to be away, I try and pre-tape a long form interview with someone,

00:40:01.020 but there are some days I simply must travel. And some days the travel takes up the most of the

00:40:06.620 day anyways. For example, I think I'm going to be going back to Lethbridge, Alberta for the verdict

00:40:11.660 in Pastor Arthur Pawlowski's case. As you know, he was prosecuted for two days for giving a sermon

00:40:18.140 to the truckers. So I'll be out there for that. But I do try and be here as much as I can.

00:40:22.780 On David Menzies' monologue about the trans takeover of International Women's Day,

00:40:28.940 Walkie Talkin' says, I identify as 70 years. I want my pension, please. Yeah, that's right.

00:40:35.020 And on Menzies and Randy Hillier, Don Mann says, it's nice to finally see Randy Hillier again.

00:40:41.020 The poor guy kind of fell off the map for the last while. Why can't Trudeau be forced to cooperate

00:40:45.900 like they made Randy? Well, that's sort of the thing. The word cooperate and force don't really go

00:40:51.820 together. I mean, cooperation is something done voluntarily. That's our show for today.

00:40:57.740 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:41:00.940 to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 09, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau responds to China corruption claims with China-style censorship

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