EZRA LEVANT | Leftist fossils mad CBC is not 'left-wing enough' on climate alarmism
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David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, and other leftist fossils are mad at the CBC for not being left-wing enough. Here s why: David Suzuki is a prominent ex-Broadcaster, but he s much more than that. He runs a lobby group that bears his name, the David Suzuki Foundation, that lobbies for extremist, environmentalist and socialist policies. They proudly take donations from foreign donors to attack Canadian jobs.
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David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, and other leftist fossils are mad at the CBC for not being left-wing enough.
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It's October 8th, and this is The Ezra LeVenture.
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I saw this story the other day in the Red Star, excuse me, the Toronto Star.
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David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, and other prominent ex-broadcasters are calling out CBC.
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Here's what David Suzuki says needs to be done to address an escalating crisis that affects us all.
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Well, yes, I think he is, but he's much more than that, too, isn't he?
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He runs a lobby group that bears his name, the David Suzuki Foundation,
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that lobbies for extremist, environmentalist, and socialist policies.
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They proudly take donations from foreign donors to attack Canadian jobs.
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I've never seen Suzuki attack an OPEC country or China or Russia,
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by far the biggest sources of oil in the world.
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So, yeah, he is a prominent ex-broadcaster, it's true,
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but he's also a foreign-funded political activist.
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Weirdly, when he retired as a broadcaster on the CBC,
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Does anyone think for a second that if she didn't have his last name,
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personal property to grant to his children as he sees fit?
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I mean, the CBC is rife with that kind of nepotism,
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Anyways, let's read a bit from the Toronto Star story.
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Five eminent CBC alumni are urging the public broadcaster
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in the face of an escalating civilizational threat.
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we ask that the CBC treat the climate breakdown
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as an existential crisis and civilizational threat that it is,
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reads a copy of the letter obtained by the star.
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Oh, they must have done a lot of digging for this.
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the call to action was delivered to Brody Fenlon,
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for the broadcaster's flagship news and current affairs shows.
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It's weird that they sent the letter a year and a half ago,
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And the five ex-journalists here are just lobbying the government broadcaster.
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Why should their opinion count any more than the rest of us?
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He set up an outside organization to ring out donors,
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Do you have anything to say to Mr. Punk's family?
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But why are you allowing him to use the Human Rights Tribunal,
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which is meant to protect people from being kicked out
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of an apartment or protect people from being fired for racism?
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Why are you letting him use that to silence journalists?
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The bar to be having a complaint accepted and moving forward
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to screen it in, it really needs to allege a violation
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This Human Rights Tribunal is targeting our news reports
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about a transgender bully named Jonathan Yaniv,
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and threatening us with huge fines and a publication ban.
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I also phoned up the Human Rights Tribunal investigator
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who sent me the complaint, and I recorded that conversation.
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I'll play some of that recording for you in a moment
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and listen to my full conversation with that investigator
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at a special website I've set up called repealsection7.com.
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That's because Section 7 is the part of the Human Rights Code
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that gives them the power to censor journalists.
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I hope you agree we've got to repeal Section 7.
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I was prosecuted by another Human Rights Commission
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for republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed
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by more than a dozen government bureaucrats and lawyers
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that were the center of the international news story.
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Back then I brought a video camera into my interrogation
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if I told them the government was interrogating me
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Now, I was in my 30s back then and much more handsome.
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It is my position that the government has no legal
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or moral authority to interrogate me or anyone else
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That is a violation of my ancient and inalienable freedoms,
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It is especially perverted that a bureaucracy calling itself
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would be the government agency violating my human rights.
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So I will now call those bureaucrats the Commission, or the HRC,
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since to call the Commission a Human Rights Commission
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Well, I'm in my 50s now and it's happening to me all over again.
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Now it's for publishing news reports about Jonathan Yaniv,
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a predator, a convicted criminal who targets children.
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Yaniv claims to be a woman and goes by the name Jessica Simpson now.
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He first came to public attention when he would book appointments
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He pretended to be a woman when he booked those appointments.
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But then he'd show up and demand that those women wax his balls.
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And if any of those women refused, Yaniv took them to the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
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He demanded they touch his junk or he'd sue them in front of the kangaroo court.
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Actually, it's the Human Rights Tribunal that's worse.
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They agreed to go after those women for him and to do so under a veil of secrecy.
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Those are some of the things we reported about him doing.
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For example, he pretended to be disabled so he could get free stuff, including free taxis around Vancouver.
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That's one of the things he's trying to force us to stop reporting about him.
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So that's the guy who's now taking me to the Human Rights Tribunal.
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By the way, this sort of shakedown is going to happen a lot more in Canada
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when Justin Trudeau passes the national censorship bill called Bill C-63.
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Right now, the censorship provision is only in a few provinces in Canada.
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But Trudeau wants to make it national, and his Bill C-63 will launch a flood of these complaints
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because it pays up to $20,000 to any crank, any bully, any left-wing activist for making complaints like this.
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It's going to target anyone who dares to criticize things like out-of-control immigration or transgender madness or really anything.
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It's a giant cancel culture machine that rewards nuisance complaints.
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So to be precise, I'm being prosecuted under Section 7 of the B.C. Human Rights Code, which says it's illegal to publish anything that's, quote,
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likely to expose a person to hatred or contempt.
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It's hard to believe that law is even on the books.
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If anything you say might cause someone to feel the emotion of hate or contempt, you lose the case.
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And just showing Jonathan Yaniv's vicious conduct is going to make a lot of people feel contempt for him.
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Here he is just a few weeks ago using the most atrocious racist epithets to attack our reporter Drea in Vancouver, who happens to be black.
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Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger.
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I have a picture of your kid on here, by the way.
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Yeah, can you believe that racist, bigoted bully actually complained to the Human Rights Commission about us?
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But the truly incredible part is that the Human Rights Tribunal took his complaint, a kooky, nutty complaint written in all capital letters and said,
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yes, this really is something we should spend public resources on.
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I've posted the whole thing at that website, repealsection7.com.
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Yaniv filed this complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal back in March of 2021, three and a half years ago.
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That's how efficiently they work at the Human Rights Tribunal.
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I phoned up the human rights bureaucrat who sent this complaint to me.
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And I asked him about the delay and I asked him if they knew that Yaniv was a nuisance litigant who just abused the legal system to harass people.
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I mentioned that he had filed a nuisance lawsuit against us in a real court.
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And that court threw it out as a junk lawsuit that it was.
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We're very familiar with this complainant because he's a serial, vexatious litigant.
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Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation.
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We went to the court and the court threw out the case saying that the complainant was just doing it to be abusive and vexatious.
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I'm aware of some of the background of this individual, but I'm not, no, I'm not aware of that specific.
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Okay, because it's pretty clear to me that this is just another nuisance suit.
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And since this was filed three and a half years ago, when I was a young man still, several courts have weighed in on the complainant.
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Not just the anti-SLAPP litigation that we won, but just a few weeks ago, we went to court to remove a false publication ban that this plaintiff had managed to convince a judge to put over some, he was harassing some guy and managed to convince a court to put a publication ban on it.
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We went to court and had the judge lift the publication ban, and the court thanked us for it because this complaint is such a serial nuisance litigant.
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So the reason I'm calling you is not just to say your complaint is very stale, but it's to point out that you were dealing with British Columbia's worst vexatious litigant.
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He's using the BC human rights tribunal as a weapon in a vendetta.
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Various courts have slapped him down for abusing the system.
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And I want to make sure you are aware of that because he's doing the same here.
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The TRIPO is aware of some of what you're referencing.
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Nonetheless, the complaint was reviewed and accepted for processing, and it was served, and you've received that service.
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Can I ask who made the decision to go ahead with it? Do you know?
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They review it, and they determine, okay, is this set forth enough that the complaint can move forward?
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I can't give you the name of that individual, but it was screened and determined that it should move forward.
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And if you read the complaints, what Jonathan Munee was complaining about are news reports and editorial opinions expressed by our journalists.
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We're not like a landlord who kicked him out or a restaurant who refused to serve him.
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Like, we didn't have any interaction with him that he would have a right to, like, rent a room or something.
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He's using the system to complain against our freedom of speech.
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You realize that, like, I have it in front of me here.
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I think we were just giving our genuine opinion.
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But why are you allowing him to use the Human Rights Tribunal, which is meant to protect people from being kicked out of an apartment or protect people from being fired for racism?
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Why are you letting him use that to silence journalists?
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The bar to be having a complaint accepted and moving forward to screen it in, it merely needs to allege a violation of the Human Rights Code.
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This person has alleged a violation of the Human Rights Code.
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The file has been reviewed and determined that at least it alleges that.
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Obviously, we have to hire lawyers, which is part of the abuse here.
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He just typed out his crazy manifesto in all capital letters, gave it to the government.
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And three and a half years later, they decided to prosecute us with government lawyers.
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We, on the other hand, have to hire lawyers by ourselves.
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And even if we win, we don't get our legal fees back.
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This is the template that Trudeau is going to roll out nationally.
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And he's going to make it worse by actually paying people up to $20,000 per complaint.
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Yaniv is a kook, a total nut, a criminal, a predator, a racist, all of that.
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But he somehow managed to convince the B.C. government's Human Rights Tribunal to go after his enemies again and again.
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Those poor estheticians, mainly immigrant women, were crushed by Yaniv.
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Please go to repealsection7.com and read the complaint for yourself.
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And listen to the recording of my conversation with the Human Rights Officer,
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who casually says, oh yeah, he knows the complainant is a nut, but he doesn't care.
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Listen to him say he could fine us or even ban us from publishing things he doesn't like.
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So what you're doing is you are putting Rebel News on trial because Jonathan Yaniv says our editorials violate the law.
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So you're not claiming that we denied him a service or accommodation or anything.
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You just pull out saying we're not allowed to say what we said.
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It says that it is accepted the process under the area of publication.
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Well, there can be, you know, there can be monetary compensation could be awarded to a complainant.
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You know, some kind of order not to continue to cease the discriminatory actions.
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So you could order us not to talk about him anymore?
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Well, not to discriminate, to cease the discrimination, you know.
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And share those shocking facts with your friends and family.
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Secondly, while you're at that website, please sign our petition to repeal Section 7 of the law.
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There's a provincial election on right now in BC, you know.
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And I think we could make this an election issue.
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But the Conservative Party challenger named John Rustad, he seems like a freedom-oriented guy.
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And I think most Canadians are getting a little bit tired of all this censorship and political correctness.
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And this could be a real winning issue for Rustad.
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Point three, and this is a personal favor to me.
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Look, the last time I was prosecuted by the Human Rights Commission over the cartoons,
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it was a three-year battle that cost me around $100,000 in legal fees to fight back.
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I hope this one won't be as costly, but there's no way it'll be less than $30,000.
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The government does all the prosecutions for them for free with government lawyers.
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If you want to help, you can chip in right there at repealsection7.com.
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But if it's a wake-up call to Canadians, if we listen to this alarm, then maybe there's a silver lining to it.
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This is happening to me today at the hands of the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
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But if we don't fight back now, this could soon happen to everyone as Trudeau expands this censorship across the country.
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A transgender extremist is taking Rebel News to a Human Rights Tribunal to ban us from reporting about how he bullies women.