Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Left-wing climate hysteria is nothing more than political posturing

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I've just got such a doozy of a story for you. Obviously, it's from

00:00:05.700 the CBC. No, from a CBC expert, I should say. And what is an expert? Well, that's what today's

00:00:14.800 show is about. I think you're going to get a chuckle out of this one. Before I go, though,

00:00:19.240 let me invite you to get a subscription to Rebel News Plus. It's the video version

00:00:24.280 on this podcast, so you can see what we're talking about, not just hear it. I want to show

00:00:30.160 you also later on in the program what the police were like out there in Alberta during the carbon

00:00:37.140 tax protest. And for this, I really think you need to see it, not just hear it. Please go to

00:00:42.500 rebelnewsplus.com. Eight bucks a month for the subscription. You get our content every week

00:00:47.900 night and the satisfaction of helping Rebel News. We need the help because Trudeau doesn't give us

00:00:53.380 a dime. And even if he would, we wouldn't take it. All right, here's today's show.

00:01:12.540 Tonight, the CBC gives a platform to a bizarre anti-farm activist. You're watching the Ezra LeVant

00:01:19.320 show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:34.480 I saw this great comment by Mark Andreessen the other day. He's the high-tech startup investor.

00:01:41.320 He said, everything you read makes sense if you simply translate experts as crazy people.

00:01:47.900 I really think that works, though. I mean, try it. On global warming, on COVID stuff, on mass

00:01:54.300 immigration, on whatever. Just swap in crazy people where it reads experts. By the way, Andreessen

00:02:00.080 himself actually is an expert in so many things. He was the inventor of the first graphical internet

00:02:07.000 web browser called Mosaic. For those of you my age or older, you might remember that. But you see,

00:02:12.200 the point he's making is that there's a difference between being a real expert at something,

00:02:16.760 like a technical expertise, like designing a web browser like he did, or maybe being a carpenter

00:02:22.700 who specializes in a particular kind of woodworking. Those are experts. And the way the phrase expert

00:02:29.740 is used by the media and by politicians is a raw appeal to authority, not an appeal to actual

00:02:35.580 expertise. As in, listen to this person in the white lab coat with the clipboard because you should

00:02:42.940 obey this person and you should distrust your own instincts because they're an expert and you're not.

00:02:49.320 An expert about things in which there are no real experts. It's all a matter of political opinions.

00:02:54.500 Anyways, I thought about that line by Mark Andreessen because of this story by the government

00:03:00.760 journalist at Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster over the weekend. The headline, experts say SASC-RM's vote

00:03:11.440 against climate change policies not rooted in fact. You see my point? What possible experts could there

00:03:20.360 be about such a question? Climate change policies? That's another word for politics. There's no expert

00:03:27.400 opinion about politics. We each get our own opinion about politics. We're each experts about our own

00:03:32.660 lives. But the CBC doesn't like that. They like to tell you what to think. No one would listen. And

00:03:38.740 if they said, we think you're wrong, so they fake it and say, we found some experts who think you're

00:03:44.540 wrong. But check out this guy who they call an expert in their story. Let me read a bit, okay? So here's the

00:03:50.960 headline again. Experts say Saskatchewan regional municipalities vote against climate change policies not

00:03:57.020 rooted in fact. Ag and climate change expert says farmers should be supported in climate change

00:04:05.600 transition. Okay, so he's an agriculture and climate change expert. Wow, that's pretty good. That's a

00:04:12.960 double expert. Okay, let's hear it. Representatives of Saskatchewan's rural municipalities, sorry, I called

00:04:21.300 the regional municipalities, rural municipalities, voted overwhelmingly at a recent convention in favor of a

00:04:28.260 resolution saying carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant and calling on the province to step away from climate

00:04:34.020 change initiatives. I'm so glad to hear that, aren't you? I mean, carbon dioxide or CO2, it's naturally

00:04:42.460 occurring. All life on earth would die without it. We exhale it, as do all mammals. Plants use it for photosynthesis.

00:04:48.300 Sunlight plus water plus CO2 equals energy for plants, which is how everything green grows.

00:04:56.500 Imagine the insanity of declaring that carbon, a basic element in the periodic table of the elements,

00:05:02.040 is somehow dangerous. I'm so glad to hear these local politicians are showing more backbone than 99%

00:05:08.320 of politicians, even conservative politicians, who go along with the claim that carbon is somehow pollution.

00:05:13.580 Anyways, back to the CBC story. Some experts who study agriculture and climate change say the

00:05:20.580 resolution isn't rooted in fact and missed out on why farmers should want to address climate change.

00:05:27.320 Okay, can I clarify? Is this expert an expert in climate change and agriculture, which is what they

00:05:33.860 said? Or is he an expert in why farmers are thinking the wrong thoughts and should support Justin Trudeau?

00:05:41.020 So they're two different things, aren't they? Okay, back to the story. The resolution on CO2 made at the

00:05:48.260 annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, SARM for short, in mid-March,

00:05:56.320 says, quote, policies that vilify CO2 are illogical and unpredictable and will undoubtedly create an

00:06:02.260 uncertain amount of negative impact for our existing crop production systems and economy.

00:06:06.480 Be it resolved that SARM will ensure that any policies that unduly target naturally occurring CO2

00:06:11.840 will be deemed as illogical and dangerous, we move that Saskatchewan remove itself from any national

00:06:17.260 or international agreements that reference net zero. Oh, I love these guys. Now, first of all,

00:06:22.540 that's obviously true. It doesn't even mention the fact that Canada has just a sliver of the world's CO2

00:06:29.680 emissions to begin with. China emits pretty much as much as the rest of the world combined.

00:06:33.880 And that's if you even care about carbon dioxide, i.e. plant food. I'm more worried about actual real

00:06:40.400 pollution, of course. Does the CBC have an expert in that perhaps? But here's where they introduce the

00:06:46.240 expert and his expertise. Quote, the resolution is written with misleading, confused language about

00:06:55.300 climate change and policy, said Darren Qualman, director of climate crisis policy and action with

00:07:03.280 the National Farmers Union. What's that? He's a director of climate crisis policy and action?

00:07:10.260 Stop it right there, mate. The word crisis is an opinion, a baseless opinion in my books, but it's an

00:07:17.000 opinion. It's a political decision. It's a choice. It's not a scientifically measurable thing. Are we in a

00:07:21.660 crisis? Or do we just have a problem? Or is it just a challenge? Or is it actually none of these

00:07:27.460 things at all? The fact that his title is Climate Crisis Advisor tells you all you need to know. And

00:07:33.740 he's in charge of action, which means he's made up his mind here. You know what you need to know about

00:07:39.140 this guy. Well, actually, you don't need, you don't know all you need to know. He's with the Socialist

00:07:43.180 National Farmers Union. Of course, farmers don't really have unions. That's mainly a city thing.

00:07:49.600 It's a socialist thing. It's a government thing. As in, the National Farmers Union are literally

00:07:56.400 paid by Trudeau. I don't know if you know this, but there's this government website that's searchable

00:08:01.840 for the grants they give out. You can search by recipient name. So here's the result for the

00:08:07.720 National Farmers Union. Just type it right in. You can do it yourself. Go to open.canada.ca.

00:08:14.220 There's 17 results for the National Farmers Union. Now, the first hit is for the National

00:08:19.020 Farmers Union in Mozambique. That's in Africa. Bizarrely, Trudeau gave them $17.5 million tax

00:08:27.180 dollars. Why are Canadian taxpayers giving $17.5 million to farmers in Mozambique?

00:08:32.020 But the next hit is for That's My Farmer, stories from sustainable farms across Canada

00:08:40.060 from the National Farmers Union. So Trudeau is paying for global warming stories from farmers,

00:08:46.820 paying for propaganda. Global warming commentary paid for by the Liberal Party. These guys

00:08:52.200 are bought and paid for lobbyists. Scroll down. More and more and more and more and more grants from

00:08:59.620 Trudeau to this same group. Here's one for $83,000. Bringing young farmers together to take

00:09:06.060 action on climate change. Oh, I got it. I'm pretty sure if you pay a farmer $83,000 to talk about global

00:09:13.680 warming, he will because he's not stupid. He'll take your money. But it won't be a real story.

00:09:20.360 It's propaganda. Scroll down. Grant after grant after grant. There's actually more in one page.

00:09:25.940 Nothing to do with actual farming, to be clear. Everything to do with anti-farm propaganda. In

00:09:33.000 fact, why didn't the CBC mention that? Why did they call the National Farmers Union experts when

00:09:39.660 they're paid spokesmen for Trudeau's global warming disinformation? Let me read a little bit more from

00:09:44.340 the CBC story quoting this expert. It talks about vilifying natural CO2. And of course, no one is

00:09:50.800 vilifying that. And indeed, the whole focus on natural CO2 is a red herring. The CO2 that's causing

00:09:57.220 the crisis problem isn't natural CO2. It's CO2 from human sources, Qualman said in an interview on

00:10:05.280 CBC Saskatchewan's Blue Sky Radio show. Huh? So there's natural CO2? And that's the good stuff? The problem

00:10:15.860 was CO2 from farmers? What on earth is he saying? This is an expert? He's paid by Trudeau to promote

00:10:24.000 global warming hysteria. His very job title is hysterical. Okay. But even someone who is hysterical

00:10:30.140 could say something true. I mean, it's possible. But what did he say? What was his expertise that

00:10:36.780 caused the CBC to call him an expert? He says there's good carbon dioxide and there's bad carbon

00:10:43.100 dioxide. The good kind is naturally occurring. The bad kind is from evil conservative farmers.

00:10:49.660 I'm sorry. That is cuckoo. That is crazy. That is nuttier than a Snickers bar. That is a fraud.

00:10:57.940 It's not an expert. That's a fibber. That's a maker upper. CO2 is carbon dioxide. It's the same

00:11:04.760 wherever it comes from. There is no farm expertise or climate expertise that says differently. This guy's

00:11:10.520 lying. He's not an expert. And the CBC are lying for calling him an expert. Here's an actual expert

00:11:18.120 in food production at Dalhousie University, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois. He's from the Agri-Food

00:11:23.720 Analytics Lab at Dalhousie. And he wrote, in recent weeks, was made aware many federally funded NGOs in

00:11:33.460 Canada focused on food have received a letter from Environment and Climate Change Canada, led by

00:11:39.080 Minister Gilboa, asking the group to publicly endorse the carbon tax and rebates. Really?

00:11:45.720 He says the government is pressuring people to come out in favor of the carbon tax. That is politics,

00:11:51.460 not science, not expertise. Here's another comment from this actual expert. You see this chart that

00:11:57.420 he published just the other day? It shows the cost of a healthy diet in Canada and that it's going up and

00:12:05.160 up and up. That's inflation, right? You all know that. But look at the amount of money spent by the

00:12:09.300 average Canadian on food. It's actually declining. That's that light green line. So the cost of food

00:12:16.480 is going up. And on July 21st, that was the moment the average Canadian could not afford healthy food.

00:12:26.300 Their income fell, their budget fell below what was needed for a healthy diet. Canadians are getting

00:12:30.660 poorer. So much so that the average Canadian is not buying enough healthy food. It is not that

00:12:36.760 they're not hungry anymore. It's that they're poor now. And Trudeau is jacking up the carbon tax on the

00:12:44.520 farmers who drive the tractors to make the food and the trucks that bring that food to your supermarket.

00:12:50.300 And you don't have to be an expert to see that. Stay with us for more.

00:12:56.080 Well, what are the odds that they chose April Fool's Day for the day they were going to jack

00:13:12.420 up the carbon tax by 23 percent? I mean, I don't know, maybe April Fool's Day isn't a big thing for

00:13:18.920 grown up people. Maybe it's sort of a kid's fake holiday. But I always think of April 1st as April

00:13:24.980 Fool's Day. What are they to choose for a tax hike? But I think they must have it in their mind

00:13:30.880 because only someone engaged in tomfoolery would also on the same day give themselves a pay raise

00:13:39.440 at taxpayers' expense. And that is exactly what Justin Trudeau and the rest of the MPs did on that

00:13:45.600 same day. A double whammy. A tax increase on you, a pay increase for them. Well, Pierre Polyev,

00:13:53.080 I think has wisely cottoned on to the tax increase as an important issue, not just for tax relief,

00:14:01.200 but because I think the mood of the country has changed. And I know this because even liberal

00:14:07.360 premiers from Atlantic Canada say enough is enough. Our people cannot bear this tax hike. Justin Trudeau,

00:14:14.820 though, perhaps the most stubborn man in Canada, you know, his stubbornness has served him well.

00:14:21.360 Never explain, never apologize. That works a lot of the time, but not when you've lost the people.

00:14:27.840 And between Pierre Polyev on the partisan side, between provincial premiers speaking out,

00:14:36.120 between groups like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and I think the newly activated

00:14:41.660 conservative populist grassroots who had a tremendous success with the trucker convoy,

00:14:48.100 I think that you had a perfect storm. And so it was on Monday, you might recall, I hosted a live

00:14:54.700 stream where we checked in across the country, city by city, on the grassroots protests against

00:15:01.300 the tax hike. It was a lot of fun for me because it brought back great memories of peaceful protests

00:15:07.740 from the lockdown era. And it was a pleasure to see our journalists, some of whom we recruited during

00:15:14.720 the trucker convoy, deploying themselves to this as well. And today I want to zero in on perhaps the

00:15:20.900 most interesting place for these peaceful protests on Monday. Protests that are actually continuing on.

00:15:28.640 They were there yesterday and again today. I'm talking about one particular area just west of the city of

00:15:36.760 Calgary. For those of you who know Calgary and who have ever driven out to the mountains,

00:15:40.940 out to Canmore and then to Banff and Lake Louise and onwards, when you get out of the city, sort of

00:15:47.000 the last stop where there's gas and, you know, place to pull over and whatnot before you really start

00:15:53.380 getting into the country, that is where the people gathered with signs, with trucks, with farm

00:15:59.520 equipment. Let me show a little bit of what it was like on Monday. But boy, it's got more exciting

00:16:06.440 since then. Here's a flashback to Monday.

00:16:36.440 Well, that looks good, doesn't it? And as you can see, protesters narrowed the lanes and you could

00:16:46.560 see that the truckers didn't mind. People were honking support. And when an ambulance had to come

00:16:51.580 by, they widened the lane and then they narrowed it again. And it was all done with the approval

00:16:58.240 and supervision of police. And I thought that's how it ought to be here. Take a look at the narrowing

00:17:05.040 and then the widening and then the narrowing when that ambulance went by. This was great. Take a

00:17:10.920 look.

00:17:15.200 Well, I guess those images made some folks in Ottawa angry. And by some folks,

00:17:34.420 I'm talking about the usual suspects, Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland. I can't even remember who the

00:17:42.300 public safety minister is these days. I mean, the justice minister who invoked the Emergencies Act,

00:17:49.700 David Lamedi, he resigned in disgrace. So I suppose it's Arif Varani, the justice minister.

00:17:54.800 They saw this and I'm sure they blew their stack. They thought, oh my God, the police are actually

00:18:01.980 accommodating these protesters. And so it seems the order went out to the federal RCMP. Because

00:18:10.120 remember in Alberta, they don't have a provincial police force. There's the Calgary police. There's

00:18:14.780 the Edmonton police. There's Lethbridge police. There's city police. But in the countryside,

00:18:19.740 it's Trudeau's police. The provincial government has a contract. They pay Trudeau for the pleasure and

00:18:27.080 privilege of being ruled over by Trudeau's partisan cops. And joining me now to talk about what that

00:18:34.060 has morphed into some ugliness is our friend Angelica Toy, who was on the scene and has been

00:18:40.640 out there for several days. She's back in the city now. Angelica, great to see you again.

00:18:46.560 Hi, Ezra. Thank you.

00:18:47.660 Well, thank you for rushing out there because I didn't think it would turn that exciting.

00:18:52.560 Tell me a little bit about what it's like out there. First of all, I want to ask you in a minute

00:18:57.300 what the police were like. But first, tell me about the protesters. Who are they demographically,

00:19:03.220 age-wise? Are they people who protest all the time downtown? Are they the usual freedom-oriented

00:19:09.760 suspects? Are these different people? Was it families? Who was there at the side of the road?

00:19:16.280 So to my surprise, there are actually very few of those regular

00:19:19.280 protesters that you would see in the city of Calgary. There were a lot of new faces. But I

00:19:23.840 think that's because a lot of people did convoy from Edmonton and Red Deer and other places

00:19:27.700 to be at this protest. And there was also a lot of little kids. I think the youngest one was

00:19:32.960 probably around two months old, was in a stroller. And then there were some elderly people. There was

00:19:38.800 also veterans. So there was a variety of people.

00:19:42.260 Now, what I saw look great. I saw our colleague Adam Sose with some fellas who had a helicopter and

00:19:50.520 they had some messages, acts, attacks. And I thought that is so much fun. That brings back

00:19:54.700 memories of the trucker protest. Can you confirm for me that the conduct of the protesters was

00:20:02.880 generally peaceful and I'm not going to say 100% law-abiding because they moved the cones out

00:20:09.620 into one lane of traffic. But they did so with the approval and cooperation of the RCMP.

00:20:16.180 So other than narrowing the lane there for a while, was everything else on the up and up,

00:20:22.620 would you say?

00:20:24.280 So at one point, I was watching them advance the lane. They were trying to take more of the lane

00:20:30.540 there lengthwise. So they were kind of student on their own accord. But other than that, yes,

00:20:38.560 they were 100% peaceful. I didn't see any altercations between them and the people driving

00:20:44.600 by. In fact, it was just a lot of love and support. Obviously, you have the few folks there that

00:20:50.200 might be yelling at those who might be giving the middle fingers back. But there's also a lot of

00:20:55.800 people telling them that they love them back. So it was just a mix of the both.

00:20:59.260 I saw you posted a tweet of someone driving back the one form of antipathy that I saw. There was a lot

00:21:07.520 of sympathetic horn talking. But one person drove by with an axe, I think. Here, let's take a look at

00:21:13.420 the video. And you can tell us what happened. Here, here's what you caught.

00:21:16.180 Look at that guy, man. That's psycho.

00:21:35.580 So I'm guessing that person didn't support them. I think it's hard to understand the meaning there.

00:21:49.020 Is that what you took from that? That someone didn't like the protesters, so they sort of

00:21:53.100 wielded an axe or something? Oh, yeah. I was on the other side of the

00:21:58.260 ditch there during the protest. And I just heard this swearing and screaming going on. And I look,

00:22:04.960 and I'm like running towards it to try to catch on camera. And I see a guy with what looks like to

00:22:09.860 be like an ice pick, just banishing it outside of his window, like swearing at these protesters.

00:22:15.160 And the people were in shock. Like, that is a laxing you'd expect. It looked like this guy

00:22:19.960 there came prepared. He was going out to the mountains to go mountain climbing. But that was

00:22:24.760 surely scary. You know what? It reminds me of the trucker convoy itself. The truckers themselves

00:22:31.780 were very peaceful. It was the response to the truckers that was violent. Okay, now let me ask

00:22:37.360 you, because I think that that first day, and I remember when I interviewed you on the live stream,

00:22:42.100 and I talked to your colleagues, Dre and Sheila and others around the country, I felt pretty positive

00:22:48.280 about things. And the police, I'm going to use the word helpful. Like, I remember Alexa said that the

00:22:55.500 police were clearing lanes on Wellington, which is right there next to Parliament Hill. And the police

00:23:01.080 in Calgary looked pretty easy peasy too. But yesterday, and I think even again today, I feel

00:23:07.480 like things changed. And you maybe heard my opening remarks that the RCMP, this wasn't Calgary police,

00:23:13.240 I don't think. They showed up in riot gear. Here, let me show you some footage. I'm not sure if this is

00:23:20.060 your footage. It's of the riot police assembling. So were you there for this change of tone?

00:23:29.580 Did it feel like the police had a new mission? Did they say anything? Did you, were you there

00:23:34.960 from when any of that went down? So I'm going to actually take you back to the night before real

00:23:40.820 quick. Around 7pm on Mountain Time, somebody was driving their brother to Cochran. And as they were

00:23:49.540 driving them there, they noticed that there was a huge line of what looked like to be Calgary police

00:23:55.760 vans, around 20 of them just lined up on a back road. So they immediately phoned the protesters back

00:24:02.220 at the location on the highway and told them the situation. Somebody did have a pair of binoculars

00:24:07.620 that they took a picture of these, these police vehicles. I will be posting on my Twitter today.

00:24:13.820 Um, and then I ended up taking a drive down that road. They did end up leaving, but there was one

00:24:20.180 vehicle that was left and it was an undercover vehicle and their back trunk was open and it

00:24:25.700 looked like they had a bunch of tactical gear in there. I'm not sure what it was for, but they also

00:24:31.620 had a table set up and there was a walkie talkie on it. So it may have been them just really trying to

00:24:37.360 listen in on the protesters and gather as much information as possible. They were also kind of

00:24:41.220 hiding behind like some trees. So they didn't want to be seen, that's for sure. Um, so the next day

00:24:47.500 around 8am, uh, and I wasn't here for that. I came around just around noon, but same thing was

00:24:53.340 happening. About a hundred RCMP officers, tactical gear, uh, crowd control weapons, helmets, all that

00:25:00.080 stuff rolled in and they put themselves in between the highway and the protesters. This was to prevent

00:25:05.720 the protesters from getting back on the highway and blocking it as I did the day previously. Um,

00:25:10.280 so every 45 minutes they would do a switch out of the police and it was very, uh, formal, uh, like

00:25:17.300 military style. So it was very intense and I could see that the protesters are feeling very, uh,

00:25:23.820 intimidated by that. And actually, uh, one of the, uh, the, uh, the protesters ended up speaking to an

00:25:29.680 RCMP officer after the fact, and she really voiced her concerns about the situation. And, uh,

00:25:36.280 the officer didn't end up, one officer did end up apologizing. Um, and another thing I do want to

00:25:42.200 note is when the RCMP officers left the scene, the tactical ones, uh, it got way better. I could

00:25:51.100 just see the atmosphere change because the protesters had finally let their guard down and it was even

00:25:56.740 more peaceful. So I think them being there actually made the situation worse.

00:26:00.660 Well, you know, um, I learned a lot from Dr. James Lindsay. He studies communism, Maoism,

00:26:09.020 wokeism, and he has this saying that it's not the other guy's action that that's newsworthy. It's them,

00:26:17.300 their attempt to promote, provoke a reaction on our part. So if he were looking at this, he'd say

00:26:23.580 it wasn't what the peaceful protesters were doing. It wasn't what the police were doing. It was what

00:26:30.300 the police were trying to goad or trick or provoke the protesters to do, to take the bait, to do

00:26:36.560 something crazy. And luckily, I think Canada's peaceful protesters for freedom are more disciplined

00:26:42.880 than that. Anyway, that's how James Lindsay might analyze it. But you managed to capture on film

00:26:47.800 something that made me laugh when these riot geared cops were marching away. Someone took a boombox and

00:26:55.820 started playing a series of tunes that were so funny that included a marching song from Star Wars

00:27:03.520 and really naughty contained one of, I think, Hitler's speeches in Germany. Let me just play it because 0.97

00:27:11.460 this is, in a way, it's silly and absurd. In a way, it's sort of sad because that is what those cops

00:27:19.720 were like. Anyhow, I'll let the viewers decide. Take a look at this video, which I'll admit it cracked me up.

00:27:41.460 I mean, look, it's a tough one. Police have a tough job, but I think police have been politicized,

00:28:04.060 and I don't want to make their political jobs any easier than necessary. I don't like it when police

00:28:10.040 intimidate people. And I absolutely believe you when you say when the cops left, things became

00:28:15.580 easier, freer, and more peaceful. I simply don't believe Albertans are violent people.

00:28:21.440 I think this was Trudeau picking a fight. What do you think?

00:28:24.860 I don't think it was so unnecessary. It was so unnecessary. There were about maybe 60 protesters left,

00:28:31.580 and to have 100 police officers nearby, to show up and act like they were, you know, it was some kind

00:28:39.920 of like serious military operation going on, like they were about to do something violent, like when

00:28:43.820 the officers actually had what may have been a tear gas gun. So it was such an overreaction.

00:28:53.320 Yeah. You know, I saw online some lady going cop to cop asking, will you say hello? Will you say 0.99

00:29:00.000 anything? What's your name and badge number? They were all so stony-faced. I've been to London,

00:29:03.980 and right in front of, you know, there's those bee feeders with the big tall hats, and there's a lot

00:29:11.420 of ceremonial guards in London, and part of their thing is they don't react at all. They don't say

00:29:17.020 anything. They don't laugh at jokes. I mean, you wouldn't want to tickle them to see if you can make

00:29:22.060 them laugh or anything, but they are stone-faced. But that's part of their ceremonial guards.

00:29:26.400 They don't say a word. But when these cops are interacting with the public, and they're wearing

00:29:32.620 the most terrifying gear they have, they have enormous weapons. Sometimes they're wearing masks

00:29:37.980 or sunglasses, and they won't say a word. They won't say who they are. They won't say what they're

00:29:42.740 doing. It's not the same thing. Those ceremonial guards at Buckingham Palace are silent, and we know

00:29:48.740 what they're doing. They're just guarding the queen or the king. They're not to attack anybody. But

00:29:53.640 these police, who do they think they are? Buckingham Palace guards? Who do they think

00:29:58.440 they are? Let me show you this video I saw online of a woman going cop to cop and saying,

00:30:03.140 what's your name? Do you have anything to say? What's your badge number? And just the contempt

00:30:07.860 of these Trudeau cops was dripping off the camera. Take a look.

00:30:11.260 We don't like that. That just seems like this girl's intention to sit on the floor because 1.00

00:30:16.660 she said she said the法 must be reaching 18 people at a time I can't work every perp hour

00:30:23.660 and it's not or not. So it's like, that's usa's for our safety. How

00:30:28.820 am I supposed to do this? Something's changed. What's all I want is people on the highway.

00:30:35.960 Rachel, why didn't make this phrase go alone? Ramadan got recognized.

00:30:40.680 Well, let me ask you, have you heard, are the protests still going today?

00:30:49.660 Because that would be astonishing to me.

00:30:51.720 I mean, I thought this would be a one-day thing, but we're on day three already.

00:30:56.060 Are they still out there protesting?

00:30:59.060 Yeah, you bet. They're still out there.

00:31:01.780 I think they're planning on staying there until something changes.

00:31:05.860 I know many of them are very dedicated to the situation because they know that if they stop now,

00:31:10.680 then they're not going to have any results.

00:31:12.720 And I think a lot of the people there are very fed up.

00:31:15.940 Some of them can't afford food, so they've got nothing to lose.

00:31:20.540 Well, that's very interesting.

00:31:22.240 And with the weather getting warmer, it'll be easier to protest.

00:31:24.620 I remember two years ago in Ottawa, it was minus 20.

00:31:27.600 It was very challenging.

00:31:28.840 So it's lovely springtime weather.

00:31:30.940 Angelica, great to see you.

00:31:31.920 Thanks for taking the time and thanks for going out there and capturing such interesting footage.

00:31:37.060 Of course. Thank you, Ezra.

00:31:37.920 All right.

00:31:38.600 There you have it.

00:31:40.140 The latest from Calgary.

00:31:42.740 Stay tuned. More ahead.

00:31:55.320 Hey, welcome back.

00:31:56.380 Your letters to me.

00:31:57.200 Black Gold says,

00:31:58.960 Well, geez, I think you've taken a very negative view of them.

00:32:17.500 I think these were men driven to desperation by a government that was burning a bonfire of our civil liberties.

00:32:25.320 And the truckers were the final straw.

00:32:27.120 Truckers, as I always say, are amongst the most solitary people.

00:32:31.040 They're in their cab driving for hours.

00:32:33.480 They don't interact with anyone.

00:32:34.740 They sleep in their cab, many of them.

00:32:37.600 And for them to be tagged with a requirement to get jabbed to continue to work was insane.

00:32:43.020 And I think that the protests were peaceful.

00:32:45.740 It was what we call civil disobedience.

00:32:47.920 I wouldn't call that extreme at all.

00:32:49.320 I don't know all the men who protested across the country.

00:32:52.980 There were many thousands.

00:32:56.160 I wasn't down there at the saloon in Cooch, but we did have two reporters embedded there, and we did a whole documentary about it.

00:33:02.280 But I've gotten to know a little bit the three men that are called the Cooch Three.

00:33:07.980 We did a sort of biographical documentary on them.

00:33:11.640 I wouldn't call them extremists at all.

00:33:13.560 They're family men.

00:33:14.680 They're rooted in the community.

00:33:16.200 They're about as normal as they get.

00:33:18.860 They're the kind of guys that, you know, 80 years ago would have signed up to save the world in World War II, the greatest generation.

00:33:28.380 They have that feeling to them.

00:33:30.180 So I'm going to disagree with you.

00:33:33.180 Frida Spider says, 1.00

00:33:35.520 Turies are different in Alberta.

00:33:38.240 If they draw your number, and if you don't give a reason why you can't serve, you're a juror.

00:33:43.340 And, of course, you can give your reasons in advance.

00:33:46.040 I had a reason the second time, but the selection wasn't called.

00:33:48.840 That's my experience.

00:33:50.040 They didn't ask any other questions.

00:33:51.980 And it was as serious as this.

00:33:53.860 We ended up sequestered for a few nights.

00:33:55.840 Of course, this one will go on for months.

00:33:58.660 Appreciate your sharing your experience.

00:34:00.260 I don't think this is going to go on for months.

00:34:02.700 I think it's a mischief trial.

00:34:04.920 It's not like a murder trial.

00:34:06.720 I really can't see it going on for more than a few weeks now.

00:34:10.520 I know they've made Tamara Leach's trial a months-long extravaganza. 1.00

00:34:14.980 I just don't think that's going to happen here.

00:34:17.540 I could be wrong.

00:34:19.380 I should tell you from sitting in the court that there was some preliminary vetting of

00:34:24.860 the jurors, but I was there when, one after the other, they were called and asked questions.

00:34:30.100 And the reason for that is the answer to the questions was listened to by the defense lawyers

00:34:36.340 and the prosecutor, and either side had a chance to make an objection based on it.

00:34:42.060 So it was very interesting.

00:34:43.140 And there were a few who had been cleared up to that point, but said something that one side

00:34:49.420 or the other didn't like, and then the judge had to make a decision.

00:34:53.580 So they probably went through 30 to choose 14, 12 plus two spares, I guess.

00:35:03.760 And I heard today that one person recused themselves because they didn't mention they had a relative

00:35:10.020 who was a border guard and thought that would be relevant.

00:35:12.360 Anyway, it's very interesting to see a jury selection.

00:35:15.980 I actually have not seen that before in Canada.

00:35:19.860 We'll have more reports for you at coots3.com.

00:35:24.340 As you know, we're crowdfunding the legal defense of the three men, as well as we're crowdfunding

00:35:29.520 the costs of our reporter on the scene, Robert Krejcik, who's been down there since the beginning,

00:35:36.640 and he's going to cover the end.

00:35:38.920 All right.

00:35:39.320 Well, there's the show for today.

00:35:41.100 Thanks for joining us.

00:35:42.000 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:35:45.920 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:48.120 I'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - April 03, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Left-wing climate hysteria is nothing more than political posturing

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript