Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Maybe CSIS can put aside its important global warming work to focus on Chinese spies for a bit？

00:00:00.360 Hello, my rebels. I have sort of a double-barreled monologue today. First, I'm going to talk about

00:00:05.480 this meme, you've probably seen it, of a little naval fort in Sydney, Harper, Australia. A

00:00:12.340 photo taken 130 years ago and a photo taken now and showing the same sea level. That is

00:00:18.300 the most hated photo on the internet in the eyes of fact checkers. I'll show you why they

00:00:24.020 hate that photo so much and what they're trying to do to cover it up. It's so weird. And then

00:00:28.440 I'm going to pivot somehow from that to the latest China revelations. I do make a

00:00:32.520 connection. You'll bear with me as I show it to you. I think it's a good show today. We

00:00:35.960 also have a great guest. Let me invite you to see the video version. I want you to see

00:00:40.220 this fort, this naval fort. It's called Fort Denison. The photo is so powerful you can see

00:00:46.380 why the fact checkers hate it. To see it, go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe, eight

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00:00:59.780 All right, here's today's show.

00:01:07.260 Tonight, maybe CSIS can put aside its important global warming work to focus on Chinese spies for 0.82

00:01:22.100 a bit. It's March 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:28.700 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:40.500 Hey, I want to talk to you about China's dictatorship undermining our democracy, just so many different 0.92

00:01:46.360 parts of the democratic establishment. But look at this first. I wonder if you've ever seen this

00:01:53.540 meme on Facebook or Twitter. That's Fort Denison, which is in Sydney Harbor in Australia.

00:02:03.780 There are three pictures over 130 years suggesting just a few inches of sea level rise in more than 100

00:02:13.280 years. Here's another one. There's a lot of versions of this meme. Here's another shot.

00:02:22.600 It's pretty clear, and I find it convincing. It's surprisingly hard to find this meme if you search

00:02:29.680 for it, actually. I went to Google, which was probably my first mistake, and the first 10 items

00:02:37.300 are actually rebuttals to the meme. You can't find the meme, but the first 10 things you see are,

00:02:44.480 it's false, it's false. Well, let me read what's supposedly false before you tell me it's false.

00:02:49.020 Can I make up my own mind? Let me click on some of the links. This is from the Australian Associated

00:02:55.700 Press. AAP fact check, trusted, accurate, and impartial. Yeah, if you have to tell me that,

00:03:02.940 I'm pretty sure it's not true. Here's what they wrote in there. Fact check. Fort Denison picks

00:03:09.840 no indicator of sea level rise. Hey, guys, don't believe your lying eyes. Sea level is no indication 0.94

00:03:16.420 of sea level. You have to understand that. Surely you believe in science, right?

00:03:23.620 Here's the independent, which doesn't really live up to its name, does it? Sydney sea level image spread

00:03:29.980 by climate change deniers debunked. It is not possible to gauge sea level rise simply by comparing

00:03:37.100 two images of a location side by side, experts said. Oh, is that what the experts said? Okay,

00:03:42.620 well, I better stop doing that then. Here's the Associated Press. Photos of water at Sydney Harbor

00:03:48.420 Fort do not refute sea level rise. Now, refute is sort of a matter of opinion, actually. But AP is doing

00:03:55.800 a fact check saying, do not believe in that, people. That is wrong to believe. Now, here's

00:03:59.920 Reuters. They're the worst. It is not possible to gauge sea level rise simply by comparing two images

00:04:05.880 of a location side by side, experts told Reuters, despite claims being made online. And here's Snopes,

00:04:12.780 the original left-wing fact checkers. As we have previously reported, these types of oversimplified

00:04:18.340 memes are meant to discredit science. They're meant for that? Are you a mind reader? Can you tell me

00:04:25.280 what was in the mind of the people and what they're meant to do? And isn't science a process?

00:04:30.240 It's not a point of view or an ideology or a person, doesn't it? Isn't science meant to be challenged all

00:04:35.600 the time and it's always improving? Here's politi-fact. You get my point here. No, two photos don't reveal

00:04:45.020 sea levels. Don't prove climate change is a hoax. And then they say, if your time is short,

00:04:52.240 water's edge photographs don't show changes in sea level over time. Global sea levels are rising and

00:04:57.340 climate change is the primary reason. They don't show what you think they show, but just trust us,

00:05:05.120 okay? Just trust us because we're called politi-fact. And this is what is a little bit dark

00:05:11.020 about this. The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and

00:05:16.200 information on its news feed. Read more about our partnership with Facebook. They'll tell you how

00:05:22.300 to think and they'll tell you what to think. Here's USA Today. Like, boy, are they concerned about this

00:05:28.360 photo. I mean, I think this photo must be quite powerful if they're so terrified of it.

00:05:33.820 But the claim is false. The pictures of the meme don't demonstrate a lack of sea level rise

00:05:38.520 over the claimed period of time. The water line at the harbor fluctuates daily due to changing tides

00:05:43.740 and the photos don't include any information about the tidal stage at the time the photos were captured.

00:05:49.760 So you don't know that they're false is what you're saying. Your theory is that the first photo

00:05:54.880 might have been misleading because of tides or whatever, or that there were different tide phases,

00:06:01.020 but they don't know that. They're the ones cooking up conspiracies. They're the ones with the

00:06:05.880 unproven theories. Really weird. But this is what is served up also positively, if you Google that.

00:06:15.560 It's on kids' news. Digital pictures of warmer worlds show water reaching landmarks. That's right

00:06:24.640 winger Rupert Murdoch and his news corp propagandizing fear to children. So this is kosher.

00:06:30.740 This will be in the first 10 results. Oh my God, the Sydney Harbor is going to be completely flooded.

00:06:38.740 Coasts everywhere will be flooded. That is scientifically valid for sure.

00:06:46.700 And that won't be fact-checked. We've learned that fact-checkers are funded by the Pentagon,

00:06:51.740 which I think is really creepy, and the Secretary of State, basically America's foreign ministry.

00:06:55.560 That's really weird that the Pentagon, which is supposed to be fighting bad guys in other

00:07:00.560 countries, is fighting ideas in American and Canadian elections. It's really weird. In Canada,

00:07:06.800 here are two recent Twitter files written by Matt Taibbi demonstrate this. We know that at Rebel News,

00:07:12.820 we were fact-checked by the U.S. Department of Navy, by military contractors at the University of

00:07:17.800 Arkansas at Little Rock. It's so weird. And the only way I can explain that, I don't think anyone from

00:07:23.720 Rebel News has ever even been to Arkansas, is it was probably just a quid pro quo done for Canada.

00:07:28.740 Trudeau probably didn't want to be seen getting Canadian spies to spy on us. So he probably said

00:07:35.440 to America, can you spy on Rebel News? And we'll spy on some Americans, and we'll do each other a favor

00:07:40.120 and not break our own laws that way. Oh, and here's, speaking of spies, here's CSIS,

00:07:47.920 Canada's Security and Intelligence Service. Story in the CBC, of course, climate change is posing

00:07:53.140 a serious threat to Canada, and B.C. in particular, Intelligence Service says.

00:08:00.620 Significant parts of the province could be lost to rising sea levels, according to CSIS.

00:08:06.180 Okay, so you sent out your spies, and this is what they spied. You got some secret sources,

00:08:13.220 some secret documents. Canada's spy agency says climate change is threatening the nation's

00:08:19.140 prosperity and security, and has identified British Columbia as a region of particular concern.

00:08:24.300 A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, that was prepared in

00:08:29.620 April 2021 and only recently disclosed to the Canadian press, spells out several concerns presented

00:08:34.680 by global warming. They include looming threats to water and food security, Arctic sovereignty,

00:08:40.520 and coastal security, the latter of which could greatly impact British Columbians. According to

00:08:45.360 the report, rising sea levels could cause irretrievable loss of infrastructure and even entire communities

00:08:51.040 with the potential to destroy significant parts of the westernmost province.

00:08:56.360 So that photo of the fort in port, in the Sydney port, that was disinformation. But this insane

00:09:04.940 fear-mongering, that entire communities will be swallowed up. That's just good spy craft.

00:09:12.020 And by the way, I don't think food is at risk because of global warming. The warmer the temperature,

00:09:17.040 the better crops grow. I think that it's because of carbon taxes or Trudeau's new scheme of nitrogen

00:09:22.880 taxes on farmers. And in Canada, the price of food is, I don't know, double than in the United States

00:09:30.000 when you're talking about milk and butter and cheese and poultry and eggs because of our cartels.

00:09:33.800 If you actually cared about food security, you would get rid of these marketing boards and cut the price

00:09:39.020 of those staples in half. And I will believe any of this is a threat when celebrities and politicians

00:09:44.440 stop buying homes on the scene, like Barack Obama's gorgeous Pat in Hawaii, in Al Gore.

00:09:52.320 Or when Trudeau stops being Canada's single largest CO2 emitter from all his private jetting.

00:09:57.160 That same CSIS that was terrified of the truckers is telling us they're terrified of global warming.

00:10:04.760 So we know what they've been busy doing instead of countering Chinese spies. They're worried about

00:10:09.360 the truckers. They're worried about global warming. And by the way, of all the places in the world that

00:10:15.000 would benefit from global warming, Canada is the best. Even the UN itself says that. I mean,

00:10:19.740 it is cold here. And I don't know if you've been to the North. I've been to Inovic. I've been to

00:10:23.440 Yellowknife, Whitehorse. I've been to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. 90% of our country is hard to

00:10:29.640 live in. It's so cold. There is no agriculture in the North because the permafrost, the soil

00:10:34.340 literally never unfreezes. It was so warm a thousand years ago that there were grapes grown

00:10:41.040 in Newfoundland. The Vikings came over. They called it Vinland. If you're ever in Newfoundland,

00:10:46.460 I encourage you to visit Lanzo Meadows where the Viking community was founded. It was like the

00:10:51.920 Caribbean back then. Imagine how nice that was. As Patrick Moore reminds us, all life loves warmth.

00:11:02.760 Most of the huge cities in the world are in the tropics for a reason. Most plant and animal life

00:11:08.680 is in the tropics for a reason. It's the most abundant, the most diverse there too. More people

00:11:14.000 die from cold than die from heat. There's a reason why, other than Moscow and Edmonton, you don't have

00:11:19.820 million person cities in the far North. People don't do well when it's cold year round and there's

00:11:26.340 no food to eat and it's just hard. Yeah, Canada could do well under global warming. I wish it was

00:11:32.860 happening more than, what, a degree, a century or whatever the pace is. So yeah, CESIS, pretty useless. 0.93

00:11:41.160 Now, I'm not quite done because I just wanted to tell you those stories,

00:11:44.520 but apparently CESIS has changed direction and they know which way the wind is blowing. The greatest

00:11:51.400 threat to Canada is no longer global warming or truckers. It's actually China again and I'm glad. 1.00

00:11:57.760 I'm glad they've decided to pay attention to actually spy threats. I believe China is a threat, 0.97

00:12:04.620 but I think it's so obvious. But for some reason, CESIS has kept pretty quiet as mice about it ever

00:12:11.160 since Trudeau was elected. Think of CESIS like you think of the RCMP. Utterly compromised and

00:12:17.480 undermined by Justin Trudeau. Trudeau installed Brenda Luckey at the RCMP to protect him, not to

00:12:24.340 enforce the law, but to protect him from having the law enforced against him. David Vigno at the CESIS,

00:12:31.740 same thing, was installed by Trudeau to protect him. This photo shows you everything you need to know.

00:12:38.180 A photo on the state broadcaster. Look, he's Trudeau's man, the head of CESIS. But the good

00:12:45.340 news appears to be that there are still some individual spies, as he says, who are worried

00:12:49.260 about, you know, hostile countries, not truckers of global warming. Imagine a spy agency taking

00:12:56.420 people and resources off the China beat and putting them on saying, hey, read the Greenpeace website

00:13:03.240 and come back with a listicle of the top 10 scary things about global warming. It's so embarrassing

00:13:09.660 that grown-ups would do that. Hey, maybe they should hire Greta as a CESIS agent. Let me read the story.

00:13:17.960 Foreign interference is the greatest strategic threat facing Canada's national security, 0.99

00:13:22.440 CESIS says. This is a story in the CBC, so you know it's true. The Canadian Security Intelligence

00:13:28.840 Service is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the, quote, greatest

00:13:33.360 strategic threat to national security. In the statement provided in French to CBC Radio Canada

00:13:38.200 on Friday, a CESIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the Chinese population,

00:13:44.020 but from the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, which is deploying a strategy aimed at geopolitical gains

00:13:49.320 on economic, technological, political, and military fronts. Quote, to do so, it uses all the state

00:13:55.000 powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and

00:13:58.980 sovereignty of the country, said the unnamed spokesperson. Yeah, well, no one said and no one

00:14:05.080 thought that the threat to Canada was from ordinary Chinese citizens. It's obviously the basic 1.00

00:14:09.300 dictatorship that's the threat, and the basic dictatorship is actually the only part that Trudeau

00:14:14.200 says he deeply admires. There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic

00:14:24.640 dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to

00:14:30.400 go green as fast as we need to start, you know, investing in solar. I mean, there is a flexibility that

00:14:35.900 I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.

00:14:40.100 So yeah, thanks Officer Obvious of CSIS, but I guess he's afraid of being called racist.

00:14:45.540 Now, CSIS is not the only spy agency that is worried about China infiltrating Canada. The US

00:14:54.140 deep state has its problems too, but not enough to bury their concerns about China. Look at this

00:14:58.880 story also in the CBC. It's almost like they're paying attention now. US ran secret probe into China's

00:15:04.600 operations in Canada, new book alleges. The United States ran a secret probe into national security

00:15:11.240 threats posed by Chinese overseas operations. The two alarming conclusions about Canada alleges a new 0.77

00:15:16.500 book co-authored by a former RCMP and military intelligence official. The book says the project

00:15:22.000 codenamed Operation Dragon Lord led to an unnerving takeaway that Beijing's activities in Canada

00:15:27.060 represented a security threat to the United States. Wow. And did you see this just a few days ago? Did you

00:15:33.160 read about this? Did you see this in the Globe and Mail or the CBC? The AUKUS Alliance, AU, K, US,

00:15:42.540 Australia, UK, and United States. There used to be something called CANZUC, and there was all these

00:15:51.740 different acronyms. Have you heard of the five I's? That's Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand,

00:15:56.760 and Britain. Those were like the super friends. There's NATO, which had a ton of countries, but the

00:16:01.560 inside circle was the five I's. Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. That's 0.89

00:16:07.620 gone. It's not gone. But the cool kids have set up their own club. They call it AUKUS. It's only got

00:16:14.340 three countries. Australia, US, and UK. Here's Rishi Sunak, the new prime minister of the UK, tweeting

00:16:20.580 about it. Protecting our people, defending our values, guaranteeing our long-term security.

00:16:28.100 AUKUS. Canada's not in there. Neither is New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau have

00:16:34.180 taken both countries out of their American orbit and put us in a Chinese orbit. You know, I'm a

00:16:39.660 little bit tired of the racism card being played by Trudeau. It's all he has. He's into the feminism

00:16:44.320 card and the transphobia card. But the liberals aren't tired of it yet. Here's Gerald Butts. He keeps

00:16:49.920 making the same Chinese food tweet. Here he is two years ago. He said, we're getting close to the

00:16:57.860 point where Bob Fyfe or Steve Chase at the Globe and Mail could see someone having dim sum and turn

00:17:03.040 it into a Globe and Mail front page. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Here he is just trying that line out again this

00:17:09.980 year. Pretty soon, the press will be auditing Uber Eats records for excessive Chinese food orders.

00:17:16.400 How much Golden Palace is too much Golden Palace? Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Gerald Butts keeps making

00:17:24.040 Chinese food jokes, but you're the racist one. But of course, the greatest victims of Chinese 0.98

00:17:31.380 dictators and their infiltration in Canada are Chinese Canadians. And the greatest victims of 1.00

00:17:37.240 Chinese dictators in the world are Chinese people themselves. Mao murdered more Chinese people than

00:17:42.180 Hitler killed. Estimates are up to 85 million people killed by Mao. They're Chinese people. 1.00

00:17:50.340 Look at this story in the CBC. Alleged meddling by China's government goes deeper than elections.

00:17:56.500 Hong Kong pro-democracy group in Canada. And here's the point. The people in Canada being bullied and

00:18:02.740 victimized are Chinese Canadians. Sorry, Gerald Butts. Sorry, your racism card doesn't work.

00:18:07.860 Sherry Wong says Chinese poor Canadians deal with surveillance intimidation from Chinese government.

00:18:14.020 And here's the story. Quoting Sherry Wong, executive director of the Alliance of Canada-Hong Kong. Let me

00:18:18.940 read what she says. Wong, whose organization describes itself as a pro-democracy group that seeks to empower

00:18:26.340 Chinese Hong Kong community groups to take political action, says foreign interference extends outside of

00:18:31.940 elections. Quote, we have seen a lot of different types of interference into Canadian society, Wong said.

00:18:36.280 I think the most obvious one would be surveillance and intimidation of dissidents and diaspora members.

00:18:41.460 We often live in a culture of fear, worrying that if we anger Beijing, then our families back home would be threatened.

00:18:47.300 She added diaspora members are worried that if they voice their concerns and their job promotions,

00:18:53.700 their businesses, their social relationships would be at risk as well.

00:18:57.680 Wong says those concerns are also common for Chinese people born in Canada.

00:19:01.000 Trudeau. It's getting bad, isn't it? But you know what? I'm still betting on Trudeau.

00:19:06.600 I mean, why would he change?

00:19:09.700 Why would he confess? Why would he admit doing anything?

00:19:12.160 Well, who's going to make them? The Supreme Court?

00:19:15.020 They haven't even heard a single lockdown case yet. They're too busy.

00:19:18.900 Is the justice minister going to hold them to account?

00:19:21.180 He already got rid of Jody Wilson-Raybould because she said no.

00:19:24.420 Now he's got a yes man named David Lomatti. Who's going to stop him?

00:19:27.140 Brenda Luckey of the RCMP? David Vigno of CSIS? He's more worried about global warming?

00:19:32.100 Who's the media going to stop him?

00:19:33.660 I admire what Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase are doing these days.

00:19:37.640 But how many, as Stalin said, how many divisions does the Pope have?

00:19:44.080 I mean, the media has influence, but no power.

00:19:48.780 Trudeau has already told you that is all he respects.

00:19:51.040 Raw power. The basic dictatorship of China.

00:19:54.420 I am impressed with some of the reporting on this issue, but so what?

00:20:00.020 It sells newspapers.

00:20:02.220 I don't know, maybe it scares some liberal backbenchers,

00:20:04.520 but Jagmeet Singh is fully committed to propping up Trudeau.

00:20:09.360 And congrats to that one CSIS agent who's becoming a real whistleblower.

00:20:13.560 I bet he will be ferreted out and punished.

00:20:17.080 Not by the CSIS or the RCMP, but by Chinese intelligence.

00:20:20.700 They're probably better.

00:20:21.440 Show me where in eight years Trudeau has ever been held to account.

00:20:25.780 He'll brazen this out like he always does.

00:20:29.240 Do you doubt it?

00:20:31.660 Stay with us for more.

00:20:32.780 Well, if you know anything about hockey, amateur hockey in Canada, many parents do,

00:20:51.580 you know that in Canada there are girls who play on boys' teams.

00:20:55.960 But that only lasts for a certain period of time until the players get to a certain age,

00:21:02.520 after which point in time the physical differences of these athletes after puberty become too pronounced,

00:21:09.440 and the girls have their own league. 0.92

00:21:11.400 There's nothing wrong about it.

00:21:13.220 It's in fact right to keep the sportsmanship alive.

00:21:16.300 And I think that same sexual difference, the difference between the sexes, is pronounced,

00:21:22.220 especially in certain sports.

00:21:24.900 In some sports, I'm not sure how big the difference is, but I remember a few months ago

00:21:30.000 when the British singer, commentator, pundit, and amateur athlete declared that for one day

00:21:39.860 he identified as a woman, and then he went ahead and broke every British weightlifting record for women,

00:21:48.640 and then he said, I'm not a woman anymore, I'm a bloke again,

00:21:51.840 making the point that although he wouldn't be a top competitor amongst men,

00:21:57.800 he could be the strongest woman in the UK just by declaring him to be that. 0.75

00:22:03.480 I think that powerlifting is one of the sports where the sex difference is probably the most pronounced,

00:22:10.840 at least at the elite level, and so it is the least sportsmanlike to have transgender male-to-female athletes 1.00

00:22:20.860 competing against biological female competitors. 0.77

00:22:26.260 That's my point of view, but let's talk to someone who is actually a competitive powerlifter.

00:22:32.100 We're joined now via Skype from London, Ontario, by April Hutchinson,

00:22:36.640 who is with the Canadian Powerlifting Union.

00:22:39.260 What a pleasure to meet you, April.

00:22:40.580 Thanks for taking the time to come on the show.

00:22:43.100 Thank you very much, Ezra.

00:22:44.520 Tell me a little bit about powerlifting.

00:22:46.960 Is there any difference between powerlifting and weightlifting?

00:22:50.320 Is it the same thing?

00:22:51.460 What would a powerlifting contest be like?

00:22:54.880 So, the difference between weightlifting, which is actually in the Olympics, powerlifting consists of three lifts,

00:23:04.360 the bench press, the squat, and the deadlift.

00:23:08.740 Basically, you have three attempts at each lift during a competition,

00:23:13.580 and whatever your best lift in all those three lifts gets totaled together for an overall sum,

00:23:20.040 and that's basically which will give you a first place, second, or your placing within the competition.

00:23:26.520 Now, I can imagine that performance-enhancing drugs are screened,

00:23:33.740 because that, especially in powerlifting and weightlifting, there is a culture of people who are juiced,

00:23:39.180 and then there's the natty, the natural culture.

00:23:41.900 And I suppose both of them, if everyone's on the same, you know, terms,

00:23:46.320 they can both be competitive, but you have to have a level playing field.

00:23:50.280 Is the Canadian Powerlifting Union, do they screen for performance-enhancing drugs?

00:23:57.760 Yeah, so my federation is a tested federation.

00:24:00.760 There are federations that you can enter, for example, the Canadian Powerlifting League,

00:24:06.200 which they have non-tested leagues, but specifically the Canadian Powerlifting Union is a tested federation.

00:24:13.700 So that means when I go to compete, like I went to Worlds last year,

00:24:17.220 and I got drug tested after my competition, and there's also out-of-meat testing, so very random.

00:24:24.680 You're put into an athletic pool in which they can show up at your workplace, your gym,

00:24:28.680 kind of like surprise element of getting tested, right?

00:24:32.460 And I think that makes sense because, again, if someone was taking performance-enhancing drugs

00:24:37.960 and someone was not, it would ruin the sportsmanship of it.

00:24:40.680 Like you say, there are leagues where people can do what they like, and everyone knows that.

00:24:45.020 I would imagine that the natural athletes would be in the same league because it would just be too unfair.

00:24:51.940 I'm just guessing this. I'm not a power lifter myself.

00:24:55.540 And the reason I ask about this is because it seems to me the whole idea of having a natural league

00:25:01.440 without, you know, performance enhancements is you're trying to keep it fair.

00:25:07.560 And when a man says, I identify as a woman, and a man has a different muscle structure, bone structure, weight,

00:25:15.880 every single thing about him is different and has been his whole life,

00:25:19.700 maybe he decided to identify as a woman a few weeks or months ago,

00:25:23.400 I would imagine that that degree of physical unfairness would dwarf anything

00:25:29.060 that someone on a performance-enhancing drug would have.

00:25:32.640 It just strikes me as the exact same unfairness that you're changing the terms.

00:25:38.600 Everyone else is a natural athlete on the same footing,

00:25:42.700 and then you have a man saying, oh, I'm a girl for today,

00:25:45.960 and there's no way he's not going to dominate.

00:25:49.720 Yeah, exactly. It's hypocritical. 0.98

00:25:52.320 It's, yeah, so that's the thing.

00:25:55.420 With my union, the Canadian Powerlifting Union, right now,

00:25:58.480 I'm not sure if you read up on it, but there's basically no transgender policy.

00:26:02.820 Like, there is, but the only thing they have to do to compete is to show up at a competition

00:26:09.180 with their passport that says what sex they are, either male or female.

00:26:14.920 So, you know, so this transgender athlete in my category basically has a passport

00:26:21.040 that states that she is a female. 1.00

00:26:23.160 So, I mean, and we all know how easily that can be obtained to switch over your passport.

00:26:29.120 It's a couple of doctor's notes and psychological assessments.

00:26:33.740 And that's about it.

00:26:35.160 So that's the policy today.

00:26:37.220 Now, I did have a phone call with the International Powerlifting Federation.

00:26:41.780 They do have a more extensive transgender policy,

00:26:45.140 which is basically monitoring of testosterone levels.

00:26:48.720 Now, the monitoring, I believe, would have to be over a matter of a four-year period.

00:26:54.960 It does, it is a little bit more difficult for a trans-identifying athlete to compete.

00:27:00.340 But again, like I asked the doctors today, the chief medical doctor, I said,

00:27:04.600 well, what about the muscle mass, the lung capacity, even just the grip strength, right?

00:27:11.220 The hands, like, the list goes on and on.

00:27:14.500 So, specifically, the powerlifter who I competed against or was going to compete against transitioned at 22 years old.

00:27:23.700 So, full-blown puberty, a full-grown biological male.

00:27:28.060 Yeah.

00:27:28.800 I mean, I'm just trying to think of Mike Tyson or some enormous man who had a certain size and a bone and muscle.

00:27:38.740 Well, sure, okay, he could transition, but there's no way that's not going to be an inherent genetic advantage over a natural woman. 0.98

00:27:46.720 You know, we were talking to Linda Blade, Coach Blade, about this a few weeks ago.

00:27:50.120 And what brought it to our attention was a court case where the judge said,

00:27:54.780 oh, well, there are disadvantages to being a male-to-female trans athlete as well,

00:27:59.300 including none of his reasons made sense to me other than for politics.

00:28:05.380 Well, there's the risk of suicide and depression and the inability to find a gym that can accommodate you.

00:28:11.620 And I thought, those may well all be things, by the way, but they have nothing to do with the essential competition,

00:28:18.360 which is on the sport itself.

00:28:22.120 All of those were political accoutrements, not the fairness of the sport.

00:28:27.600 So, let me ask you, you said you started talking about a competitor.

00:28:33.060 You said you were going to compete against, you're using the pronoun her.

00:28:39.060 Did that happen?

00:28:40.240 And if not, why not?

00:28:41.400 What happened?

00:28:42.180 You said you were going to compete against someone.

00:28:44.300 How did that end?

00:28:46.480 So, at nationals, the nationals were held in February this year,

00:28:50.520 this past year, in British Columbia.

00:28:53.340 So, I competed in my category between 40 and 50.

00:28:57.440 So, there's another category.

00:28:58.820 We do have categories for people called master's categories.

00:29:02.560 I'm turning 47, so I lifted between 40 and 50-year-olds.

00:29:07.580 I also signed up for the open category, which is ages 20 up to age 39,

00:29:14.200 in which the trans-identifying athlete was competing in.

00:29:18.380 I did not show up for that competition.

00:29:21.580 I simply did not give them any warning.

00:29:24.020 I didn't show up as my way to protest and to boycott.

00:29:28.660 I do know that Linda Blade and ICFS were there to protest.

00:29:32.800 20 protesters did show up to silently protest.

00:29:36.780 But, yeah, that's all I could think about doing, right, at that time,

00:29:40.900 is to not show up, just to show that I definitely did not agree with that.

00:29:44.300 And how did the trans-athlete do in that competition?

00:29:49.360 The athlete placed a third, so bronze medal.

00:29:53.500 This athlete also is number two in Canada for the open class,

00:29:58.880 also takes the Alberta bench record and deadlift record.

00:30:04.000 You know what?

00:30:04.880 I mean, I started by mentioning Zuby, who as a joke said, 0.76

00:30:08.080 I'm now going to break every record.

00:30:09.540 And I think it's only a matter of time before men who are uncompetitive against men

00:30:16.420 just say, well, I can get attention and kudos and I can win.

00:30:20.980 And this is so politically acceptable and normalized now.

00:30:24.520 And so it's not just coming in third or second.

00:30:27.360 Like, how long would it be before first, second, and third are all trans athletes?

00:30:34.020 Like, as the case of Zuby shows, you could be ranked, you know, 1,000 on the men's list.

00:30:41.320 You could be ranked 10,000, but you would be, and this is not a disparagement of women.

00:30:46.940 It's just the difference between the sexes. 1.00

00:30:48.900 You could be competitive amongst the women. 0.99

00:30:51.360 How long before there are no women left in women powerlifting? 1.00

00:30:55.800 Because you've got a dozen former blokes just seeing who is the, you know, that old joke,

00:31:03.600 the tallest short guy, who's the strongest of the weak men who've moved over to the women's league.

00:31:10.560 Like, it can't be long before other grifters say, well, this is how I'm going to come in

00:31:14.820 for second or third also.

00:31:16.420 I think we're watching the sunset of women's sports.

00:31:20.960 It's very true.

00:31:21.800 And that's, this is the thing that's very disheartening is I actually had a conference

00:31:26.580 call with the IPF, the Powerlifting Federation president this morning with three chief medical

00:31:31.940 doctors.

00:31:32.980 And he actually said to me, well, you know, there's only one transgender in your, in your

00:31:39.280 union, April.

00:31:40.320 It's not like there's a team of eight.

00:31:42.260 So it was almost like this, let's just brush it off until like, there's a whole team.

00:31:46.440 And I said to him like, well, is that what we need?

00:31:50.460 Like, are we going to like, are we going to wait for that to happen?

00:31:53.900 Because if we don't set precedence now, if we don't do something now in 20 years or maybe

00:31:58.260 even 10 years, there will not, there will be no female sports. 1.00

00:32:01.840 And I thought that was a very weak, weak approach.

00:32:05.880 And, and just going back on that note that you said about the judge and they ruled about,

00:32:10.420 you know, the high risk suicide with transgenders. 1.00

00:32:13.300 Um, I actually wrote a letter to my union expressing to them, you know, I'm a recovering

00:32:19.260 alcoholic as well.

00:32:21.040 Um, I got sober before COVID as powerlifting literally helped save my life and helped me

00:32:26.060 with my sobriety.

00:32:27.520 Alcoholism is actually a medical, medical condition.

00:32:30.820 Um, so I feel like they're putting away, like putting aside, say my mental health issues,

00:32:35.960 all the other women's mental health issues, because we all lift for a reason. 1.00

00:32:40.100 Um, there actually is high suicide rates in general with athletes because we are overachievers.

00:32:46.340 You know, if we don't make podium, who knows if someone might feel suicidal, right?

00:32:51.160 We all have our personal reasons.

00:32:52.820 And I just feel like we've just like told us all to be quiet.

00:32:56.520 Like women's rights don't matter. 1.00

00:32:57.980 We've just been told to be quiet.

00:32:59.420 I've been reprimanded for speaking out against this.

00:33:02.280 I've been silenced.

00:33:03.060 I've been actually warned by my federation, be quiet, stop posting stuff on social media.

00:33:08.600 Um, you know, and that judge's rationale is basically forcing you and the other female 1.00

00:33:15.760 competitors to be part of this athlete's therapy.

00:33:19.960 And, and of course we don't know why this trans, so, so you are not there. 0.98

00:33:24.240 You're not a person in your own right.

00:33:26.400 You, you have a bit part.

00:33:28.340 You're a supporting actress in the transgender athlete show, a reality show about his life

00:33:35.080 that you have, your part is to be therapy for him.

00:33:37.560 I think this whole thing is, is a kind of therapy.

00:33:42.040 Now you say your protest has been social media and other media.

00:33:46.380 And, and at the moment you declined to compete.

00:33:50.720 I, I wonder why more women athletes don't do that. 1.00

00:33:54.560 Is it because they're not thinking politically?

00:33:57.800 They're not used to conflict.

00:33:59.340 They've been working so hard for this.

00:34:01.560 They don't want to give up on the big day.

00:34:03.780 Like, why is it that so many women are going along with this? 1.00

00:34:08.060 Even in the case of Leah Thomas, the swimming transgender athlete, changing in a changing 1.00

00:34:14.980 room when he's buck naked.

00:34:16.900 I'm saying he, cause he's still got his twig and berries.

00:34:19.200 He's standing naked in the change room, observing the women in the change room.

00:34:23.720 They're still going along with this.

00:34:25.100 There are athletic clubs on campuses where the athletes are, you know, two to a room

00:34:31.340 and they're assigning women to travel with male transgender to male to female transgender

00:34:35.900 athletes.

00:34:36.780 I can't believe what female athletes are putting up with. 1.00

00:34:40.800 And I, is it out of fear?

00:34:42.300 Is it out of conformity?

00:34:43.940 Is it out of, are they afraid of being called bigots?

00:34:47.220 Why are so few females? 1.00

00:34:48.780 Cause I would imagine you could shut this down if you had a general strike at a, at a

00:34:54.460 tournament.

00:34:54.780 If every woman simply stood there and folded their arms and said, we're not going to compete 1.00

00:34:59.480 against this unfairness, you would break the back of it, but you need a union.

00:35:03.560 Like it's called the power lifting union, but you need a union of members in the union.

00:35:08.940 Yeah.

00:35:09.540 Well, that's the thing.

00:35:10.660 It's a, so power lifting is an individual sport.

00:35:13.580 So it's not like we're a team, like a rugby team where we can all just not show up.

00:35:18.180 It's obviously to everyone's, you know, personal choice, but there's a bunch of different

00:35:22.680 underlying things here.

00:35:23.780 There's the fact that some people, it doesn't affect them.

00:35:28.660 So they're like, well, if it doesn't affect me and my lifting, why should I even get involved?

00:35:33.080 We also have, I mean, there are a fair amount of power lifters in the union that are LGBTQ 1.00

00:35:38.160 or supporters, which is fine.

00:35:41.160 And I think that's great.

00:35:42.600 And I'm all for inclusiveness, but when it comes down to sports, I think they're getting

00:35:46.020 it mixed up.

00:35:46.800 I think they're, because obviously they want to be included.

00:35:50.100 Right.

00:35:50.380 But I mean, we're talking about science here.

00:35:52.640 We're talking about male and female.

00:35:54.640 We're talking about bodies together.

00:35:58.560 Biology.

00:35:59.180 We're not talking about, I don't think gender should even have been brought into this in 1.00

00:36:02.660 the first place.

00:36:03.580 But, and I think that's, again, for me, like I told you, I posted some stuff on my social

00:36:09.180 media, I literally tweeted, save women's sports, those three words. 0.99

00:36:15.360 My federation took a screenshot of that and said basically that that is hate speech.

00:36:20.780 Jeez.

00:36:21.420 Hate speech.

00:36:22.400 Now, standing up for women is hate speech. 1.00

00:36:25.040 I would never have thunk it.

00:36:26.520 Now, I hear that you were, made an appearance on the largest cable news talk show in America.

00:36:33.680 Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News.

00:36:35.120 I've had the pleasure of appearing on it.

00:36:36.320 Whenever I go on that show, my phone blows up afterwards because so many people see it.

00:36:40.180 I mean, when you, when three, four, five million people watch a show, you can really tell, here's

00:36:45.000 a, here's a clip of your appearance on that show.

00:36:47.980 Take a look.

00:36:48.660 April, thank you.

00:36:49.300 And I'm sorry to laugh.

00:36:50.160 This is actually a very sad story.

00:36:51.660 And I'm just wondering how you feel about it.

00:36:54.920 Well, thank you for having me, Tucker.

00:36:58.200 How are we feeling?

00:36:59.140 The women of powerlifting are, we're outraged. 1.00

00:37:01.760 We're angry, we're hurt, we're offended.

00:37:04.980 We're basically every emotion except for happy.

00:37:09.380 I just don't, I know you're not supposed to criticize trans anybody, but here's a guy

00:37:14.140 who's horning into your sport and wrecking it.

00:37:17.060 Like, I don't know why he has to be a hero.

00:37:19.040 That's appalling.

00:37:19.800 Who would do something like that?

00:37:20.800 What's this guy's problem, do you think?

00:37:22.720 Um, you know what?

00:37:25.280 I don't even know if it's so much, uh, the person, right?

00:37:28.540 It's, it's the policy.

00:37:30.240 So at the end of the day, the policy is allowing him to compete.

00:37:35.140 April, what was it like being on that show?

00:37:37.460 Did other athletes reach out to you with their stories?

00:37:40.420 Did you have offers of help?

00:37:42.340 And here's a question for you.

00:37:44.100 Have you been interviewed by CBC, CTV, Global News, or other Canadian media?

00:37:49.020 So, yeah, it's true.

00:37:52.020 My, my phone basically blew up after Tucker.

00:37:54.960 And honestly, I, I think I did a little video.

00:37:58.160 I took a screenshot of all the people like that messaged me.

00:38:01.440 I mean, from all around, like, especially America, but, um, just like a crazy amount of 0.99

00:38:07.780 support.

00:38:08.180 I've had lifters from around the world.

00:38:10.880 I've had actually people, I had a trans identifying, uh, male actually reach out to me and say,

00:38:16.280 I am so sorry for what is happening to your sport.

00:38:20.020 Um, people of the LGBTQ community.

00:38:22.480 I mean, just everyone I've actually never had maybe one negative message, um, about

00:38:29.340 since I've started this kind of platform, uh, fighting for fairness and women's sports. 0.98

00:38:33.280 It's all been very, very positive.

00:38:36.060 Um, and again, going back to the other thing, um, I mean, I think the people, I've had a lot

00:38:42.040 of inboxes, right.

00:38:42.980 But I know a lot of people feel the same way as myself, but they just, they're too afraid

00:38:46.820 to speak up basically.

00:38:47.700 Right.

00:38:48.060 But no, it's been very supportive.

00:38:49.880 Very, very much so.

00:38:52.000 And how about on the media side?

00:38:53.540 I think that Tucker takes a real interest in Canada, which I think is good because sometimes,

00:38:58.360 uh, it takes a foreigner to care about something before Canadians do. 0.99

00:39:04.060 It's sort of funny that way.

00:39:05.200 Have you been interviewed by CBC, CTV, Global, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, any of the

00:39:11.360 mainstream media, have they talked to you?

00:39:14.920 Well, I, I don't see CBC interviewing me, um, probably cause they know we're right.

00:39:22.280 But have they, but you know, in, in fairness to them, have, have they, uh, have, have, because

00:39:28.180 it's, it's a very newsy subject.

00:39:30.420 You have a lot of credibility and standing.

00:39:32.600 You are an athlete, um, you're, you're taking a tolerant view towards the other side.

00:39:38.220 You've said you are tolerant of LGBTQ and, and, and you're not hostile.

00:39:43.800 You just standing up for women's sports. 1.00

00:39:45.480 You would seem to be a perfect CBC interviewee.

00:39:50.380 And you're saying they've, they've just never reached out.

00:39:52.360 They've never talked to you, even though you've gone on the biggest American show, they're

00:39:55.980 just not talking to you.

00:39:57.760 Yeah, I, I have not had any requests.

00:40:00.120 I have done a true North, um, which was great.

00:40:03.580 Um, but no, I, I actually said that I'm more than willing to go on any media platform to,

00:40:10.080 to share my, to share my side and to stand up for women's rights. 1.00

00:40:13.840 I am, I'm all for it.

00:40:15.160 I'm again, I'm, I'm very respectful.

00:40:18.280 I'm a very compassionate person.

00:40:19.880 I just want our message to be heard and, you know, yeah, I mean, I'm more than willing

00:40:25.200 to speak to any other, any other media.

00:40:27.520 Yes.

00:40:27.960 I'm sure you are, but they don't want to hear your point of view.

00:40:30.660 Uh, is there a place where people can get in touch with you or follow you or, or, or,

00:40:35.480 or what, hear your thoughts on things?

00:40:37.500 Do you have a website or even a Facebook page?

00:40:40.440 Yeah, I have, um, I mean, my, my Twitter, I just started a couple months ago since I actually

00:40:45.240 started this whole, um, working with save women sports.

00:40:48.660 Uh, so it's literally, um, I think it's under Lee underscore, underscore Christina.

00:40:54.240 And then I also have my Instagram, which is basically just my name, April Hutchinson.

00:40:58.760 Great.

00:40:58.900 Well, we'll put links to those underneath this video so folks can follow along because it

00:41:03.340 sounds like you're doing, uh, competing, which is very exciting, but you're also standing

00:41:08.940 up for, for women's rights and first the whole idea of sport itself.

00:41:12.700 Well, listen, what a pleasure to talk with you.

00:41:14.620 And I'm glad to hear true North interviewed you.

00:41:17.040 They're good people too, but like us, they're independent.

00:41:20.220 They're small compared to the big guys.

00:41:22.040 And so I, I'm not surprised they talked with you.

00:41:24.440 I'm glad they did.

00:41:25.220 They're great people over there, but you know, um, it, I find it disappointing that the big

00:41:30.800 media have not talked to you and I don't think they will because I don't think they are truly

00:41:35.060 open-minded.

00:41:35.720 I don't think, I don't think they care about women's sports.

00:41:39.260 I think in the pecking order, um, they would care about women's sports against white, straight 1.00

00:41:46.120 men.

00:41:47.540 But when it comes to the hierarchy of political correctness, I'm afraid you're not in top

00:41:53.780 spot anymore.

00:41:54.560 And what a shame.

00:41:55.920 April, I've enjoyed talking with you and congratulations on going on Tucker.

00:41:59.000 And if more news happens, if you spot things or something good or bad happens, don't be shy

00:42:04.480 about reaching out.

00:42:05.080 We'd love to have you on again.

00:42:07.060 Yeah, for sure.

00:42:07.800 Thank you very much.

00:42:08.740 All right.

00:42:08.980 Nice to meet you.

00:42:09.520 There she is.

00:42:10.140 April Hutchinson, a competitor in the Canadian powerlifting union.

00:42:14.520 Stay with us.

00:42:15.120 More ahead.

00:42:27.540 Hey, welcome back.

00:42:28.660 Your letters to me.

00:42:29.480 Lynn says, I, like many others, thought you promised to help the Cooch protesters with their

00:42:33.860 justice problem.

00:42:34.580 What is happening to these four in jail shouldn't be happening in Canada, and especially in Alberta.

00:42:39.220 The rebel needs to be putting pressure on Smith and Shandro to get this taken care of

00:42:43.320 because they are in the remand system and they are not even receiving the rights they

00:42:46.620 would get in jail.

00:42:48.000 One of them had to cut out the toes of his shoes because they didn't give him shoes to

00:42:52.180 fit his size 15 feet.

00:42:53.680 They're having trouble with getting lawyers.

00:42:55.520 I think the rebel could put on pressure by just reporting on the situation.

00:42:59.820 I'm glad you raised that with me.

00:43:01.340 Rebel News and also the Democracy Fund, between the two entities, are defending approximately

00:43:07.940 30 truckers.

00:43:09.740 The most prominent case are three truckers in Lethbridge, including a town councillor in

00:43:18.080 one of the nearby towns there.

00:43:19.800 And I've had the pleasure of meeting all three men that attended at court in Lethbridge.

00:43:25.500 Just today, literally today, the Democracy Fund is defending another trucker protester who

00:43:33.580 was accused of swerving his car dangerously towards a policeman.

00:43:38.520 I'm pretty sure that's a lie.

00:43:41.120 I think it was a lie propagated by Jason Kenney to try and demonize the truckers as violent.

00:43:46.160 So he's being represented by the Democracy Fund.

00:43:49.300 There's a number of others who are being represented either by Rebel or the Democracy Fund.

00:43:54.460 You are referring to four truckers who have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

00:44:01.420 And the question is, is that something contemplated by Rebel's offer to help people in court?

00:44:08.960 We were offering to help people who were civilly disobedient.

00:44:12.500 But the charges of conspiracy to commit murder feel outside that scope.

00:44:19.260 Now, I have, through a middle person, middleman, offered to meet with the families to talk,

00:44:24.820 to learn more about the case and to review disclosure, because if it is just a pack of lies

00:44:31.440 designed to demonize the men, and if it's so obviously just a bunch of lies,

00:44:36.780 then that, I think, would change the calculus.

00:44:39.560 But I remember when I personally got on the phone to the men in that saloon on the phone,

00:44:44.800 I said, we will defend you against charges for your protest.

00:44:48.920 But that did not include conspiracy to commit murder.

00:44:53.320 There's just no way I would have, that my agreement to help the men charged with the

00:44:58.080 peaceful protest would cover conspiracy to commit murder.

00:45:01.200 I'm just sorry.

00:45:01.660 I'm just not going to.

00:45:04.100 Unless, the one asterisk being, if it's such a clear, fake frame up just designed to demonize

00:45:11.840 these men.

00:45:12.500 And I've asked for more information in that regard.

00:45:15.540 I have not received it.

00:45:16.520 But if I receive information that convinces me that this conspiracy to commit murder is

00:45:24.420 just fake, the charges are fake, it's all trumped up, then I certainly would consider defending

00:45:31.700 them.

00:45:32.080 But let me close as I open, which is between Rebel News and the Democracy Fund, the two

00:45:37.680 entities are defending over 30 truckers.

00:45:40.780 And in fact, we are in court today.

00:45:43.720 And Rebel News is there to report it.

00:45:46.760 So I'm open to more information.

00:45:48.740 But I think I might have told you we also turned down a biker gang that asked for financial 0.99

00:45:55.000 help.

00:45:55.320 Sorry, we are not providing financial help to hire a lawyer for a biker gang. 1.00

00:46:00.100 I'm just not going to do it.

00:46:01.320 That's not what our donors had in mind.

00:46:04.040 It's certainly not what I had in mind.

00:46:05.800 I'm not demonizing these men.

00:46:07.140 But I'm saying I need more information before I can confirm in my mind that it is something

00:46:12.220 that we promised to defend.

00:46:14.160 God forbid, may it never happen, and it didn't happen.

00:46:16.780 But if someone was shot and killed, I'm not going to defend a guy for murder.

00:46:20.640 That's just outside the scope.

00:46:21.900 And I'm not equating the two, but I'm giving you an extreme example of something that would

00:46:26.860 never have been contemplated and would never have been done.

00:46:30.260 Richard says, I would like you to ask a question of Pierre Polyev, a question of the MSM 0.59

00:46:34.860 chooses not to ask.

00:46:35.960 It can be a deciding factor for some.

00:46:37.800 Here's my question.

00:46:38.500 Mr. Polyev, if you win the next election, are you going to conscript Canadians to help

00:46:42.140 Ukrainians fight the war against the Russians?

00:46:44.120 This is a very important question.

00:46:45.900 Maxime Bernier doesn't favor it.

00:46:47.600 What is Pierre's opinion?

00:46:50.660 I don't know his opinion on that, but I would be shocked.

00:46:54.620 I would say that is less than a one in a thousand chance he would say yes.

00:46:59.040 To bring in conscription.

00:47:04.500 Now, maybe some Canadian soldiers would be deployed to train Ukrainian soldiers in the

00:47:12.060 use of, say, the leopard tank.

00:47:13.280 But that's different from conscription.

00:47:16.320 You use the word conscript, which is to use the force of law to compel people to join the

00:47:22.240 military, to go and fight and possibly die in Ukraine.

00:47:26.020 That would never happen.

00:47:28.540 Trudeau himself would never do that.

00:47:29.940 So I, I'm, and believe me, if I had a sit down interview with Pierre Polyev, which I don't

00:47:37.100 know if I will, will get, I would not make that one of my top 10 questions.

00:47:40.800 I just would, I might ask him about Ukraine in general, but I'm not going to ask about

00:47:43.720 conscription because it's so unlikely to happen.

00:47:46.980 Stephen says, hey, Ezra, why do you not have a journalist in the maritime provinces?

00:47:50.780 All we have is the MSN, which I obviously don't trust.

00:47:53.400 Keep up the good work.

00:47:54.780 It's a good question.

00:47:55.860 And I have a good answer.

00:47:56.980 Budget reasons.

00:47:57.700 If I had my way, I'd have someone in the Atlantic.

00:48:00.080 If I had my way, I'd have someone in the North. 0.83

00:48:01.800 I'd have someone in the prairies, not just Alberta, but Manitoba's a skyscraper.

00:48:05.200 We did have someone, but she had to withdraw for personal reasons. 1.00

00:48:10.220 Having Drea in Vancouver and having Alexa in Montreal has been a real benefit to our company,

00:48:14.880 but it's a matter of budget.

00:48:17.720 We simply do not receive ad money from Facebook, or sorry, pardon me, from YouTube.

00:48:23.180 We do not receive government money from Trudeau.

00:48:25.460 We don't want it.

00:48:26.220 There are many sources of income that are banned because of political correctness, so we have

00:48:31.900 to live off crowdfunding.

00:48:33.320 And it's a miracle we're able to maintain a company of over 40 people.

00:48:37.060 I think we have 47 staff.

00:48:38.780 To be able to do that without ads, without government money is, frankly, unique in Canada.

00:48:43.860 I just don't think we have the budget to roll out a person in the Atlantic.

00:48:49.320 We have been out there to cover stories before.

00:48:51.980 And the Democracy Fund has helped a church in the lockdown.

00:48:55.220 So we have been out there.

00:48:56.960 But you're right.

00:48:58.060 We don't have a full-timer, and I just don't think we can afford it.

00:49:02.080 Well, my friends, that's our show for today.

00:49:03.640 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:49:07.800 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:49:09.940 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - March 20, 2023

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