Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ My thoughts on the media party and their misconduct over the last two weeks

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through my thoughts on the media party

00:00:03.740 and why an already untrustworthy media party absolutely blew it in their coverage of the

00:00:12.480 trucker convoy, and they don't even realize it yet. So that's today's show. Plus, we go live to

00:00:17.860 Coots, Alberta, to one of our reporters embedded in the blockade there. I think that's

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00:00:56.780 Tonight, I've got some thoughts on the media party's misconduct and the problem with Canadian 0.92

00:01:10.760 media in general. It's February 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:14.400 Hey, Rebel's just on fire these days. I was on Tucker Carlson's show last night, huge audience,

00:01:42.160 and then right after me, our friend Lincoln Jay was on Hannity's show. It wasn't a very long hit,

00:01:48.320 but it was on the ground, trustworthy reporting. It's tough to find that in Canada these days if

00:01:54.500 you go with the mainstream media. It looks like Rebel News has become the go-to for Americans and

00:02:00.900 others who actually want to know what's going on, not just what Trudeau says was going on.

00:02:05.160 Mm-hmm. I'll show you my little clip a little later, but let me show off Lincoln Jay on his big

00:02:11.300 U.S. network debut. Here's Lincoln Jay on The Hannity Show.

00:02:18.680 For the Canadian truckers, as they stand up for human dignity, liberty, freedom, medical privacy,

00:02:24.360 but to the left, anybody that stands against one-size-fits-all medicine with no exceptions

00:02:30.140 whatsoever, and for prosperity, they immediately become, you know, enemy number one. Get this,

00:02:36.400 an Ottawa judge is actually granted an injunction to stop honking your horn in downtown Ottawa as

00:02:44.220 momentum for this convoy continues to grow and grow and grow. Now the truckers, from what we can tell,

00:02:51.120 they have been peaceful. We've not heard of any incidents of violence. Honking is part of how they 1.00

00:02:56.800 are making their voices heard. Ask yourself this, you know, where's Trudeau and his left-wing

00:03:02.680 minions? Are they really outraged over honking a horn and, of course, failed far-left excuse for

00:03:08.220 a leader Trudeau? He remains cowering in fear, nowhere to be found, calling the truckers every

00:03:13.720 name he can in the book, still refusing to hear them out, address their valid concerns.

00:03:20.060 Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is, and Trudeau is just a gutless, spineless child.

00:03:25.500 He's in way over his head. Instead, he claims truckers are racist and transphobic. Despite 0.96

00:03:31.020 no evidence that we could find of any of that, I've yet to see anything. And here with the very

00:03:36.020 latest live on the ground in Ottawa, we have Rebel News reporter Lincoln Jay. Lincoln,

00:03:40.960 from what I can see here in the States, this is staying strong, rock solid. They're not caving,

00:03:47.140 and they're not going anywhere. Yeah, I've been on the ground here since the 28th of January, and

00:03:55.300 it's become quite clear at this point that the truckers are not going anywhere. We've seen pretty

00:04:02.860 much exactly the same amount of trucks on the ground here in Ottawa. None have left, considering

00:04:08.480 there's a state of emergency now in the city. And like I said, it's become quite clear that they're

00:04:14.580 not going anywhere anytime soon. Well, and the support they're getting from the people seems

00:04:19.740 fairly universal, almost seems like a street, a block party, what we call in New York.

00:04:26.900 Yeah, it's the best way to describe it is it's like it's like a Canada Day festival every day here.

00:04:33.600 It's it's nothing but positivity on the streets. I would honestly describe it as a family environment.

00:04:39.520 And that's why it makes it it's really hard to wrap your head around the way that the the legacy

00:04:46.000 media here in Canada is trying to spin the narrative and really turn this into something it's not you when

00:04:51.360 you're on the ground here, you really see people from all walks of life that just want their freedoms

00:04:56.720 back. It's been really hard to be a Canadian for the past almost two years, you know, and people just

00:05:02.800 want these mandates lifted. And that's why the truckers are here. And the truckers have brought

00:05:06.960 a lot of hope to Canadians that we might actually see these mandates lifted. So here we are.

00:05:13.600 All right, Lincoln, Jay, appreciate the report. Thank you.

00:05:16.000 That's Lincoln telling it like it is. Follow the facts wherever they lead. You know,

00:05:19.520 I hear he's been invited back on again tonight. That's wonderful. So I had this great night last

00:05:25.200 night just marveling at all the international coverage that Rebel News is providing. And of course,

00:05:31.600 that wasn't our purpose. Our purpose was to tell Canadians what's happening in their own country to

00:05:36.000 fight against the government government narrative. But we have really become the reliable folks for

00:05:40.880 media outside of Canada. Let me show you this cover of the Daily Mail, this this story.

00:05:47.120 Absolutely savaging Justin Trudeau for abusing the word Nazi. It's outrageous that Trudeau implies that

00:05:54.720 his critics are Nazis. I know that you know that we all know that. But the media party,

00:05:58.960 not only don't they know it, they cheer him on. It takes a foreign newspaper like the Daily Mail 0.99

00:06:04.000 to say what Canadians should be reading in our daily newspapers, but we're not.

00:06:08.480 So that was me when I went to bed last night feeling pretty good about how our little company

00:06:12.880 is reporting the news. I think we're rising to the occasion, if I may say so. And I say that not

00:06:17.440 so much out of personal pride, but pride in our team. You know, there's 52 souls working at Rebel

00:06:21.920 News right now, and we're firing on all pistons. I told you that on the weekend, we were in nine

00:06:26.880 cities at once. That's pretty cool. So I woke up this morning, and I was feeling good about

00:06:31.120 Rebel News, what we were doing, but I was thinking about how other media are. Because last night,

00:06:36.240 I saw that a CBC government journalist from Trudeau State Broadcaster was actually live tweeting

00:06:43.280 Lincoln on the Hannity show. So let me just speak clearly. A CBC reporter paid an enormous sum of

00:06:52.320 money, was sitting watching Fox News, and rage tweeting about it, including Rebel News being on

00:07:02.400 Fox News. So you had CBC watching Fox News, talking to Rebel News, and tweeting about it.

00:07:09.840 I didn't know that's why we were paying a billion and a half dollars here to save the CBC. So I just,

00:07:14.160 it was rattling around in my head, and I woke up and I wrote sort of like a 30-tweet

00:07:18.960 rant about him. And I thought, you know what, I want to add to this. I want to expand on this in

00:07:28.560 the show. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to read to you what I wrote when I woke up this

00:07:31.840 morning, and I'm going to give you some more thoughts. And I hope you don't mind me repurposing

00:07:35.360 those tweets. I just want to make sure you didn't miss them. So here's what I said. I said,

00:07:39.760 the first thing to know about the media is that they're lazy. They'd rather rewrite a government

00:07:46.080 press release than get up from their desk and report from the field, especially when it's minus

00:07:50.560 20 degrees up. I hate to say that it's true. You can't be lazy if you're a journalist. You need to

00:07:55.840 have a sense of curiosity and a sense of skepticism. That sounds trite, but I just don't think it's true

00:08:02.320 about a lot of government-style journalists. I'll keep reading. So they repeat Trudeau's lie

00:08:11.040 that the truckers are racist and sexist, because if you just hold up in your office and you get a

00:08:15.760 press release and you're watching Trudeau, they're racist and sexist, well, you tend to believe that

00:08:20.000 because you're a liberal journalist, and you don't dare go and mix with the unwatched, so you're just

00:08:23.920 repeating the government line. The second tweet I said was, the second thing to know is that in Canada,

00:08:30.560 more than 99% of journalists receive a payment from Justin Trudeau. Here's the list of the journalists

00:08:37.120 who took Trudeau's $61 million pre-election payoff. It's more than 99% of working journalists.

00:08:43.520 We broke that story with you, for you, a few months ago, the same time that Jonathan Bradley

00:08:50.240 broke it on the same day, independently broke it. 99%, like over 1,500 Canadian journalistic companies.

00:08:58.560 I didn't know there were that many. We've told you that at length. So when you take money from anyone,

00:09:03.680 whether it's a lobbyist or a company or a government, how can you possibly report on them independently?

00:09:10.160 You cannot. I'll keep reading. Three, there is an illusion of media competition in Canada,

00:09:18.320 but it's an oligopoly. Post Media, the largest recipient of Trudeau's media bailout, owns every

00:09:25.360 English language daily newspaper in Canada, except two. And even they just run the same wire copy as

00:09:31.360 their competitors. You know what I mean by wire copy? I see this a lot in the National Post and it makes me

00:09:35.680 sad. They just print stuff from the Washington Post or I think it's Associated Press. You know what

00:09:40.560 those are? Those are news wires. So some reporter somewhere writes a story. They send it out and

00:09:45.040 you're a subscriber and you just take that stuff and you have the legal right to take what they put,

00:09:49.280 pop it in your newspaper, fill up your newspaper. And the advantage to it is it's super cheap.

00:09:54.160 So there's really only one company that does English. It's Post Media. It has the Calgary Herald,

00:10:00.240 Edmonton, Journal of Vancouver, Sun, Montreal Gazette, National Post. They don't own the Toronto

00:10:07.840 Star. That's a different company. And they don't own the Winnipeg Free Press, but pretty much they've

00:10:13.280 got every other newspaper. And it's just one company. So it feels like there's competition. That would never

00:10:18.480 be allowed in the United States. By the way, they have antitrust laws. I'll keep reading.

00:10:22.640 And Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster is larger than all other news media combined.

00:10:27.920 Every non-CBC journalist tailors their work so that if they're laid off, they can get hired at the CBC

00:10:33.840 since it's too big to fail. It's the last resort. What I mean by that is more news journalists work

00:10:41.920 for the CBC than every, not just any, but than every other news company. So automatically they

00:10:48.800 dominate. We see this, for example, at the debates, the leadership election debates where they tried

00:10:55.440 to keep Rebel News out twice. You have 20, 30, 40, whatever CBC journalists. They just crowd everyone

00:11:01.840 else out. It's not just that, but everyone knows they're going to be the last media company to die

00:11:06.800 because Trudeau will bail them out. So they're always thinking, okay, I better not say anything to put

00:11:10.640 me off on the wrong foot with them. Number five, there used to be some conservative media in

00:11:17.520 Canada, for example, the National Post, but for years they hired woke leftist underminers.

00:11:23.840 Personnel is policy. A majority of their newsrooms signed a letter to fire their star columnist.

00:11:29.600 They're no better than the CBC. And you know, that's the story of Rex Murphy. And when you hire

00:11:35.920 people over time, more and more and more, and they hate you, and they're just coming for a job 0.96

00:11:41.600 and to bring their wokeness from the latest journalism school fad into the National Post,

00:11:46.480 and you don't hire for ideology, what did you think would happen? They literally had a majority of their

00:11:52.240 newsroom sign a document denouncing their star writer, Rex Murphy, and they didn't fire them.

00:11:58.000 You're literally going to fire the majority of your newsroom. They were taken over.

00:12:04.720 Besides Rex Murphy and Conrad Black, and there is a new journalist named Rupa over there who's been

00:12:10.560 great. I think I've just listed all the people who are fit to read at the National Post. Terry

00:12:15.440 Corcoran still writes once in a while, but I think, I think I just listed them all.

00:12:20.480 Number six, TV is the worst. Of course, they are highly regulated by the CRTC,

00:12:24.400 which has the power to kill any TV or radio station. They cancel the license of any company

00:12:30.000 that airs conservative views that offend the regime. Here's an example. That's the story of

00:12:34.960 Chois FM, Radio X, in Quebec City, which is the most liberty-oriented and funniest radio station in

00:12:41.680 the country. They said some offensive things. Well, of course they did. Everything's offensive to the

00:12:45.840 offended. And the CRTC was going to kill them. There was a massive march on Parliament Hill. I think it 0.99

00:12:51.680 was like 50,000 people. And it scared the government. And actually, Andre Arthur, who was a journalist

00:12:58.960 there, he rode this wave into Parliament as an independent MP. He later joined the Conservatives.

00:13:04.240 When was the last time you heard an independent MP get elected? Well, they came to kill Radio X,

00:13:09.520 and people fought back. But it was close. When I worked at Sun News, I learned that the TV part of

00:13:16.480 TV companies was economically unimportant compared to the cell phone and cable side of the business.

00:13:21.760 That's how the CRTC pressures TV companies. News shows are a rounding error compared to regulatory

00:13:27.680 givings and takings. I was at Sun News. I thought it was the most important thing. Of course, it was

00:13:32.240 about a $20 million a year operation. But that was part of Quebecor. And Quebecor has huge

00:13:38.080 cell phone and cable and online services. This $20 million appendage was just a bargaining chip,

00:13:46.400 a bauble. Sun News used to be on, I think, Channel 15 or something, or Channel 6, or some really low

00:13:52.160 channel in Toronto, so everyone could find it. That was just something to be bargained away,

00:13:57.840 like some poker chip. Suddenly we lost that because Sun News was not important compared to billions of

00:14:04.960 dollars at stake in other things. I just learned that the hard way. I mean, I loved Sun News,

00:14:09.360 and I love Quebecor. But never pretend that news stations are owned to make money. They're political

00:14:15.600 tools. I'll talk more about that later. Point A, these are all structural issues, but an obvious

00:14:21.200 point is the lack of diversity in the news media. I don't mean race or sex. I mean intellectual and

00:14:26.720 class diversity. The media party, as I call it, is politically and culturally homogeneous, urban,

00:14:32.880 woke think-alikes. Well, you know exactly what I'm talking about there. In fact, the other networks

00:14:38.400 brag about it. The CBC positively says they will not have any skeptics about the theory of man-made

00:14:43.760 global warming. They say, well, we don't have any skeptics about the theory of gravity either.

00:14:49.280 Yeah, mate, it's not settled, global warming. And even if you think it is, a large mass of Canadians

00:14:56.560 don't think so. So you're basically saying we don't want diversity of opinion. And where do those

00:15:01.840 people go who want a diversity of opinion? Even believers who say, well, we should at least have

00:15:05.760 a debate about it. So the mainstream media literally turned those people away and told them to go

00:15:10.320 elsewhere. Point nine, they don't know any truckers or farmers or anyone who works outside who wears a

00:15:16.560 hard hat or a uniform. My favorite tweet from the Globe and Mail was this masterpiece. The reporter

00:15:22.080 covering the working classes thought this was a wrecking ball and got scared. If you see that picture

00:15:25.920 from the Globe and Mail, you know, when you've seen cranes all the time, you know, construction

00:15:31.040 cranes, and you have this long cable and there's a little weight at the end, just so it doesn't whip

00:15:35.040 around in the wind. That's all. It's just a weight. It's as big as a, you know, like a cantaloupe or

00:15:41.520 something. It's not a wrecking ball, which is as big as a car or something. You've seen wrecking

00:15:46.640 balls, right? This Globe and Mail journalist, who was the expert on what to think of working people,

00:15:51.920 thought that little weight on the end of a crane was a wrecking ball, and they were going to smash

00:15:56.320 parliament. Yeah, just admit it. You've never met anyone who works in a factory. You've never been

00:16:03.360 in a truck. You just simply don't know how the other half lives, but you're an expert for the 1.00

00:16:08.700 whole world. Got it. Point 10, how can this rotting industry, monopolistic, corrupted by government

00:16:14.600 money, regulated by government censors, a political monoculture, infected by woke cancel culture,

00:16:19.200 possibly cover a populist workers' rebellion? They are intellectually and structurally incapable

00:16:25.200 of it. Yeah, it's just, they just don't know how to process it. Psychologically, these middle-class

00:16:33.600 narcissists, every journalist must be a narcissist to believe the world needs to hear what they have

00:16:38.360 to say, cannot believe that the working classes reject them. They always posed as saviors of the 1.00

00:16:44.340 working man. It made them feel better. Do you think the writers at the Toronto Star have anything

00:16:51.620 in common with working people other than their gardeners, their cooks, their nannies, their food

00:16:57.920 delivery boys and gals? Do you think they have any dealings with working people? You know, I've told you

00:17:04.420 before about this amazing quiz. You can find it online. Charles Murray developed it called How Thick

00:17:13.560 Is Your Bubble? And he asked you questions. We've talked about this before. Have you ever been on a

00:17:19.000 factory floor? Just yes or no. Have you ever been in a parade other than a gay pride parade or a political

00:17:28.780 parade? Have you been in a parade? Have you ever lived in a small town other than a college? I'm

00:17:36.000 going from memory here. There's wonderful questions. Have you ever bought discount beer, like economy

00:17:42.580 beer? And then they have tests on what movies and TV shows you watch. And by the way, there's no right

00:17:49.540 answer or wrong answer. It just, there's one question on the quiz that asks you, can you identify these

00:17:56.060 military badges, like ranks? You don't have a person if you say no. It's just a sign that you really don't

00:18:03.040 know how the other person lives. Do you know, how many smokers do you know? Do you know any evangelical

00:18:09.420 Christians? Now, again, it's not a wrong answer to say, no, I don't. But this wonderful test by Charles 1.00

00:18:15.340 Murray was just, do you know how other people live? And I always think of that, one of his questions is, did you

00:18:21.240 ever have a job that when you come home, part of your body aches? That's a great question, isn't it?

00:18:30.800 And you're not a bad person if the answer is no. It's just, don't pretend that you know how the world

00:18:35.740 is, because you just know how you're part of the world is. So you have the Zoom class, the MacBook at

00:18:41.160 the Cottage class, saying they understand the truck driving class. No, you don't, actually, even though it

00:18:49.780 makes you feel better to say you do. So the Toronto Star, with its Marxist Atkinson principles, calls for

00:18:56.780 martial law against working men. They're for the mass firing of unvaccinated union members, a violation of

00:19:02.780 collective agreements. They're in bed with Big Pharma. They don't use the phrase pro-choice anymore. I mean, where's

00:19:09.600 the NDP? Jagmeet Singh was the most vicious person in the country towards the truckers. By the way, a lot of those

00:19:16.900 truckers happen to be Sikh, like him. Here's Jagmeet Singh, just insane demonization. This is the champion of the

00:19:23.420 working man. Today, we're calling for an emergency debate in Parliament to respond to the convoy and to the escalating

00:19:30.520 tensions that we're seeing. We need to see some leadership, and there hasn't been that leadership at the federal

00:19:35.420 level. And so we're calling for that. There's four things that we want to see happen. And I'm hoping to be able to use the

00:19:41.560 emergency debate as a platform to talk about these four things. First of all, we have a crisis on our hands, and we need to

00:19:48.420 immediately have the Prime Minister, representing the federal level, the federal government, meet with the effective

00:19:54.340 municipalities to offer any help that we can to solve this problem. And there is serious concerns going on. Obviously, in Ottawa,

00:20:02.360 people are going through a really horrible situation where it's clear that the stated intent of this

00:20:09.820 convoy is to overthrow the government. It's in their memorandum of understanding. It's clear they're not

00:20:16.440 hiding away from it. And they are harassing citizens. They are threatening people, assaulting people.

00:20:22.800 And recent examples of setting fire to a building because they're fed up with the noise is clear this is a

00:20:29.000 violent and dangerous action that is causing a really severe consequence to people.

00:20:35.960 My point is for the media to report what's really happening out there, 100,000 plus truckers across

00:20:41.240 country, one million people or more who cheer them on along the way, would destroy not only the media's

00:20:47.780 worldview, but their self-image. They just cannot believe their eyes. They can't. They can't. They won't.

00:20:54.680 It's as if you woke up in the morning and the sky was green.

00:21:00.640 You wouldn't be able to process it. You would go crazy.

00:21:04.360 Or your mind would say, no, I'm just not going to see green.

00:21:09.140 I'm going to pretend that's blue because I would just, you know, my mind would be blown.

00:21:14.960 I cannot process a green sky. My world would fall apart if the sky were green. I wouldn't understand

00:21:21.880 what was happening. I would go mad. So I'm just going to say the sky is blue. That's how

00:21:26.260 destructive to their worldview and self-image it is to see working people rebel against the Toronto 0.95

00:21:32.160 Star and the CBC and the NDP. The pro-Trudeau pollster abacus shows that 32% of Canadians see

00:21:38.820 themselves in the trucker convoy. If the truckers were a political party, they would immediately

00:21:42.640 be in first place. This is enormous cognitive dissonance to the media party who keep calling

00:21:47.880 it a radical fringe. I've seen new polling numbers that show the numbers even higher,

00:21:52.020 about 44% now. A reason why the media party narrative is failing is that a million people

00:21:59.260 have had firsthand contact with the truckers. The revolution is being televised, just not on CBC.

00:22:05.080 It's a live on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. These aren't racist. So people see

00:22:10.720 the truth enough to know that what the media party is telling them is a lie.

00:22:13.760 So many institutions have failed during the pandemic. Parliament, the opposition conservatives,

00:22:20.560 the courts, colleges of physicians and surgeons, police, etc. But the media has failed the most

00:22:25.600 because they are immune to most consequences. They haven't noticed it yet.

00:22:31.120 Erin O'Toole noticed it. I think Jason Kenney's about to notice it. But where's the comeuppance for

00:22:36.820 the media party? They don't understand why people don't trust them. Here's CTV, mad that the only

00:22:43.620 convoy they've been defaming, that the convoy they've been defaming for two weeks won't invite

00:22:48.680 them into a press conference as an honored guest. And as you can see, that's a tweet from Glenn

00:22:52.780 McGregor, really mad that they were kept out. The icing on the cake is that CTV is part of the

00:22:58.440 government press gallery that excludes conservative media like Rebel News from the parliament. They

00:23:04.660 voted to protect Trudeau from our questions, but they're accepting applications from Xinhua.

00:23:11.320 CTV is huge. They're owned by Bell, the cell phone and cable company that also owns two NHL teams,

00:23:17.660 which helps explain why they like the lockdown so much, but lobbied for special

00:23:21.820 exemptions for them, but not for your kids' hockey teams.

00:23:25.040 CTV seems large to you, but it's unimportant as a business to Bell. It's a rounding error. It's

00:23:31.120 value to Bell. It's the same reason Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post or Carlos Slim bought the

00:23:36.260 New York Times. It's a way to influence government. It's a lobby group. Your mind is the product.

00:23:42.540 I mean, do you think for a second that Canada's richest family, the Thompsons, who own the Globe and

00:23:47.860 Mail, do you not think that that is their tool to influence public policy, to shape public

00:23:54.520 perceptions? Do you think that the Globe and Mail would ever criticize that family? Of course not.

00:24:00.100 It's their insurance policy against public opinion going the wrong way.

00:24:05.440 Even if there were an independent journalist at CTV, they would not be able to contradict the

00:24:09.540 corporate objectives of Bell. The Globe is owned by the Woodbridge Company. Post Media is owned by New

00:24:14.020 Jersey's Chatham Asset Management. They're all political toys of billionaires. That's just a fact,

00:24:19.160 people. And then I said, I was writing this in the morning. I said, I have to go to work now. I'm not

00:24:24.580 some government journalist like those at Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster or the 99 percent of Canadian

00:24:29.200 reporters whose paycheck is directly subsidized by Trudeau. But let me leave you with this delicious

00:24:33.220 moment. And this is what I was talking about about CBC. We had reporters at nine different trucker

00:24:38.520 convoys on the weekend. We're embedded at the border in Coutts. We got half a dozen people in Ottawa on the

00:24:44.040 street, not safely tucked away in offices. So people choose our news over the media party's

00:24:48.560 punditry. The whole world is riveted by what's happening in Canada, but who could they talk to

00:24:54.400 about what's really happening? They could call the CBC, and I'm sure CNN does, but that's just Trudeau's

00:24:59.720 point of view. It's not really telling you what's happening. So they call us. And then I'm just having

00:25:06.300 some bragging. I say, yesterday alone, our team must have done 10 foreign interviews. I was on Tucker

00:25:11.520 Carlson. Our young reporter, Lincoln Jay, was on Hannity. I'll have to find that clip. Those two

00:25:16.540 shows are, what, 8 million views? So what's a government journalist to do? Here's the CBC

00:25:21.760 reduced to tweeting about our reporter appearing on Fox. She's rage tweeting at people with 10 times

00:25:29.300 the viewership she has, even though or because she has a $1.5 billion a year subsidy.

00:25:33.980 Is this tweet the work of a reporter or something different? A Trudeau war room staffer trying to

00:25:41.660 rebut opinions and messages that aren't approved by the liberal party. I mean, just stop there for a

00:25:45.260 second. So you got this highly paid CBC reporter who could actually be doing reporting. You know,

00:25:50.780 what's happening? Let me tell you what I saw on the street in this place. She's instead glued to Fox

00:25:57.520 News. I don't blame her. It's good TV. And she's tweeting what she sees on Fox, including Rebel being

00:26:03.400 on there. Do we really need to pay CBC government journalists tax dollars to watch Fox News for us,

00:26:10.040 to tweet about it? I don't know. And then I said, I really have to go to work now. Unlike the CBC,

00:26:15.900 Woodbridge, Bell, or Chatham Asset Management, we have to win the support of our viewers every day.

00:26:20.860 Do you know what our motto is? You probably know. Telling the other side of the story. I don't think

00:26:26.220 the media party believes in that. Do you? I just don't think they do. Now, there were some great

00:26:32.020 responses. The first was from Breitbart, our friend, Joel Pollack. He did a news. He thought

00:26:36.500 my little rant was easy. The story on, he said, Ezra Levant explains Canadian media bias against

00:26:41.540 truckers, an epic threat. Well, thanks, Joel. I'm glad you thought it was epic. Here's a professor

00:26:47.580 from Quebec named Marc-Francois Bernier, a university professor. And he said,

00:26:55.700 we could, this is in French, there's a translation. He said, we could probably refute each of the

00:26:59.740 arguments below, but the important thing is to read them to better understand the reasons for anger

00:27:05.320 against the media journalists in the sociological sense, and to be able to answer in such a convincing

00:27:11.180 way as possible. Yeah. By the way, I wrote back to that friendly gentleman twice. Here's what I said.

00:27:19.460 I said, cher professeur, please accept my invitation to come on my show to refute chacune des arguments

00:27:26.600 s'absi ba, to refute all my arguments below. I promise I'll give you 50% of the talk time, plus the last 0.75

00:27:32.600 word. I would like to hear your rebuttal. I think it could be a productive discussion. I'm at Ezra

00:27:37.220 at rebelnews.com. I have not heard back from him. I wrote to him again when he says, wow, I could

00:27:43.060 probably, I could probably refute all those points. Well, come on. Like I pray, God is my witness. I'll

00:27:50.480 give him 50% of the talk time. I won't over talk him. And I'll give him the last word, which is the

00:27:55.760 favorite part of it to me. I don't, I think when he says, well, you know, I could refute, anyone could

00:28:01.240 refuse. I just, I'm busy. Sure. You're busy, professor. Our friend Candace Malcolm at True

00:28:08.580 North chimed in pretty friendly. She said, I've been working in and around the legacy media for 12

00:28:13.240 years now. This thread is a hundred percent. And look at that. Maxine Bernier said, thread from Ezra

00:28:19.120 Levant about mainstream media corruption. I think it's true. Well, so that's what I ranted this morning.

00:28:24.720 And I just thought I was going to repurpose that, not because I wasn't looking to do another monologue.

00:28:28.560 I just thought, you know, I had some thoughts this morning that just came together when I was

00:28:34.000 looking at how the CBC was watching Rebel on Fox and a few things clicked into place for me.

00:28:40.140 We've been going full tilt and that's all because of your support. So I appreciate that.

00:28:44.340 After the break, we'll come back with Sidney Fazzard, who is on the ground in Coots, Alberta,

00:28:48.920 and then I'll read your letters to me. Stay with us more ahead.

00:28:58.560 Well, let's go to, I think, one of the most interesting hotspots. Ottawa has most of the

00:29:04.200 attention. It's the capital city. It has the most trucks. It's the closest to the heart of darkness

00:29:10.460 in the Liberal Party. The Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor is enormous. A quarter of

00:29:15.620 Canadian trade goes on that bridge. To shut that down is going to get the attention of Ontario

00:29:20.780 manufacturers, PDQ. But I think one of the most important and interesting convoys is the one in

00:29:26.900 Coots, Alberta. That's at the border between Alberta and Montana. And it has such enormous

00:29:32.560 local support from the farmers, from the townspeople, that Coots is in a total lockdown by the

00:29:38.880 truckers. But RCMP have made a large siege wall around Coots. So to stop others from going to it,

00:29:47.400 to aid it, to help it. And at the siege wall in Milk River, another enormous, even larger rally has

00:29:55.000 gathered. And I say rally, it looks like, as they say about the Stampede, the greatest outdoor show

00:29:59.900 on earth. There's cowboys. There's bonfires. There's barbecues. It's a festive atmosphere.

00:30:07.280 This is not a group of criminals. And the police have no chance, unless they're going to go full

00:30:13.120 police state. When you have lost the consent of the people, you cannot effectively police.

00:30:18.760 Are you, what are you going to do when you have thousands of ordinary law-abiding citizens,

00:30:22.880 including women and children? What can you do? Well, I'm recording this before three o'clock

00:30:29.740 Eastern time. Jason Kenney, the premier, is scheduled to have a press conference at 7 p.m.

00:30:34.180 Eastern time, where he's expected to make some modest loosening of his restrictions. But he's not

00:30:42.600 going to go the full Premier Mo, as you know, Premier Mo in Saskatchewan today announced the end of the

00:30:49.460 restrictions. Jason Kenney is resisting. So I tell you that because that will happen after the video

00:30:56.680 we are recording now goes to air. But I want to go straight to one of our two guys on the ground in

00:31:02.340 Coutts, Sidney Fazzard, who, along with Kian Simone, has brought you exclusive, world-exclusive

00:31:08.600 coverage. He joins us now via Skype. Sidney, first of all, congratulations. You and Kian have done

00:31:15.140 work that has been viewed around the world. I don't know if you know that. I think you can

00:31:20.280 probably detect it on social media. But the work that you and Kian have done has been broadcast to

00:31:25.260 literally millions of people around the world. Congratulations.

00:31:28.760 Oh, well, thank you very much. And it's good to be here, especially because we just want to tell the

00:31:32.720 story like it is. And that's not something that you see too often on the mainstream media, as we call

00:31:37.780 it. Well, and that's the thing. Your videos tell the truth. And it's amazing to me the exclusive

00:31:43.680 access you have had to the men who have formed a sort of democratic council on things. I mean,

00:31:50.060 obviously, there are certain things that you can't show because they're, you know, the truckers want

00:31:55.600 privacy for certain negotiations, etc. But you really are, as they say, a fly on the wall watching history

00:32:01.980 being made. And I think that's because you've earned the trust of all parties involved. You just

00:32:07.780 tell the truth. You tell the other side of the stories. Now, the cops don't like that, because they

00:32:11.660 want to do their moves in darkness. But no one can say that you and Kian have not told the honest

00:32:16.700 truth about what's going on at Coots. No, that's absolutely right. And authorities as well, they've been

00:32:23.680 a little shy as well. But they have been quite cordial with us. And they have been letting media through

00:32:29.880 as well. That includes us, where normally you would see us get stopped at the gate, so to speak.

00:32:34.940 Oh, Rebel News, we don't know who Rebel News is, this and that. They've actually recognized us. And

00:32:39.960 they've been like, yep, go on straight through the border or the barriers, I should say, that the police

00:32:43.580 have set up. So they're not restricting us like they have in other scenarios. Yeah, I think they know

00:32:49.100 that if they held Rebel News reporters back, that would cause a negative reaction. I mean, I saw some

00:32:55.840 footage that you and Kian, we call Kian K2, you and K2 and even some others have of Rebel News

00:33:03.660 homemade ads that one fellow put on his combine, another one in Tabor that's like a billboard.

00:33:12.540 So this grassroots solidarity with Rebel News, it's really interesting, because all we're doing

00:33:17.560 is what any journalist should do. You know, one of our things we say all the time, Sid,

00:33:21.640 follow the facts wherever they lead. That means we tell the story, even if it doesn't meet our

00:33:26.620 preconceptions. We follow the facts wherever they lead. That should be the motto of any journalist.

00:33:31.420 The fact that it's so rare means that Rebel News is treated like some hero. And I think you are doing

00:33:37.160 heroic work, but it shouldn't be rare. Like every journalist, people should say, he tells the truth.

00:33:43.920 Like you should say that about every journalist. And the fact that it's not the case, you guys have been

00:33:48.000 embedded with the truckers. I think it was so symbolic that one of those CBC government journalists

00:33:54.460 actually tweeted, boasting about the fact that he was embedded with the cops. He was embedded with the

00:34:02.580 cops hunting the truckers. Gee, why doesn't anyone trust the CBC? Am I right? No, exactly. And what

00:34:10.460 they're doing is they're taking a shot of the scene and they're taking that from not miles away,

00:34:17.420 but a very far distance away from where things were actually happening. They, in some senses,

00:34:23.180 refuse to come close. And in some senses, there's a shyness for people here to talk to them because

00:34:29.300 they know that what they're going to say is probably going to get misconstrued. And that's one of the

00:34:33.720 reasons why we've been able to get so close is because exactly what you're saying, they know we're here

00:34:37.880 to tell the truth and we're here to tell the other side of the story, what mainstream media won't and

00:34:42.220 right now what they're not able to. Well, let me just check one detail there. So you said that the

00:34:48.980 cops who have this perimeter, the cops have, I'm calling it a siege wall because they're, they're

00:34:53.440 really cutting, I mean, the truckers sometimes do and sometimes don't block the border, but the cops

00:34:58.660 have their own blockade, by the way. So you're saying media is allowed to go through and I know

00:35:03.520 lawyers are because the lawyer we crowdfunded for the truckers, Chad Williamson, I just saw him

00:35:07.860 do a video down there. So you're saying the CBC is allowed to come in, but are you saying there are

00:35:13.960 no CBCers at Coots itself? Is that what you're saying? Not that I've seen. They come by every

00:35:20.160 once in a while in their van. They'll park, you know, way off in the distance. We can see them,

00:35:24.520 they can see us, but they won't really get too close. And in terms of that police barrier, that's

00:35:29.840 not just the one in Milk River, which most people would be familiar with, but it is literally wrapped

00:35:34.620 around Coots. The entire area has police barriers set up. And just now the negotiators were here just

00:35:41.040 checking out the scene and giving a heads up just to see how the day was going to go.

00:35:45.220 So you mean the police negotiators?

00:35:47.620 Yes. Yes. Sorry, that's correct.

00:35:49.180 So how do they do that? So the RCMP comes in and some big boss hog character says, now hear this, 0.98

00:35:54.880 or something. So how does that go when the RCMP negotiators, and who knows who they're speaking

00:36:00.480 on behalf of? Because the RCMP is a federal police force whose commissioner was appointed

00:36:05.660 by Trudeau, but it's contracted by the Alberta government to police in the rural parts. So you've

00:36:11.400 got the Calgary Police Service and the Edmonton Police Service, which are local forces. But in the

00:36:16.660 country parts, it's Trudeau's cops hired by Kenney. So I don't even know who would be running that

00:36:23.320 operation. So a Trudeau-Kenney cop shows up. And how does that go? Does he come out?

00:36:28.380 Does he come out super friendly? Or does he come out growly? Is it the same guy every time? What's

00:36:33.820 that like when a Trudeau-Kenney negotiator comes?

00:36:37.880 Usually it's the same guys. And they try and be as respectful as they can. They try and be very

00:36:42.820 polite. Of course, both sides, the blockaders, the truckers and the farmers here, and the authorities

00:36:49.220 that come, they both try and remain a, they keep a civil discourse. They're very polite. They laugh

00:36:54.020 amongst each other, right? They joke. So they do try and keep a positive relationship going. That way,

00:36:59.120 there is a good amount of communication. That way, both sides kind of have an understanding of the

00:37:03.400 situation. But if I could just add one thing, when they were here right now, there was actually a local

00:37:09.000 who was present while the negotiators were here. And Chad was talking with them as well. And he was very

00:37:14.440 upset that on Saturday, I believe it was, he was trying to leave town to get some medical things that

00:37:19.860 he needed. And on the way back, he was being stopped at the Milk River police barrier that

00:37:24.840 was set up. And they were giving him a tough time. They weren't being rude per se, but they were giving

00:37:29.140 him a tough time getting through. And he had to go and find alternate roads to get in. And this is an

00:37:33.380 older fellow, right? So it's better to have these guys just go straight on their way. And he just

00:37:37.380 wanted to go home. But at times, it seems even the people who live in coots are being restricted from

00:37:43.480 entry. And that's not because of the truckers. He was actually very thankful to the truckers,

00:37:46.820 because as soon as the truckers found out that he needed to go out there and get some stuff done,

00:37:50.920 they moved right away. But the authorities and their barrier that they have set up,

00:37:55.480 well, that was unfortunately a different story. But they are trying to keep that

00:37:59.220 transit going for locals so that they still have access. But it has been tough over the last few

00:38:04.300 days with those police barriers literally wrapped around coots. Very interesting. Well,

00:38:08.620 I've seen some of the footage that you and K2 have published. And I see that the farmers have arrived,

00:38:13.640 big farm equipment. So that's a different move. And the truckers, I mean, the thing about truckers

00:38:19.300 that are long haul, they may be from dozens or hundreds, theoretically, even thousands of miles

00:38:24.260 away. But that farm equipment is not meant to go on thousand mile journeys. I mean, I suppose it does

00:38:31.880 a thousand miles over time on a certain farmer's field. But if you're rolling in with some of those

00:38:36.400 tractors, and I don't even know how you would describe some of the equipment, that's coming from

00:38:41.200 maybe 10 miles away, maybe 20 miles away. I'd be shocked if much of it came from more than 50 miles

00:38:46.680 away. So those are local people. That's very interesting to me, because that suggests that

00:38:52.380 this protest is in friendly territory. It's not, as the Ottawa politicians say, an occupation

00:38:59.800 of Parliament Hill. It sounds to me like the folks in, I mean, obviously, there's going to be a

00:39:05.780 difference of opinion. But it sounds to me like there is a fair bit of organic, domestic support

00:39:12.680 for the truckers. Am I wrong?

00:39:15.260 No, absolutely. You're correct there. And the first time that we saw a big wave of farmers and

00:39:20.740 other local supporters come in was the moment that RCMP decided to end negotiations. This happened

00:39:27.100 much earlier in this whole situation. And at that point, there was the blockade on the highway with the

00:39:33.360 semi-trucks and whatnot. But as those negotiations were told it was over, these truckers and farmers,

00:39:40.680 they came in and they formed a second barrier, basically going across the highway, not just along.

00:39:48.240 And now we're seeing that second response that we saw last night, where roughly 10 tractors came in

00:39:54.880 to support these guys, and they blocked off the highway for a good amount of time last night.

00:39:59.380 And that was a response to, well, basically Jason Kenney's lack of announcement, as everyone was

00:40:04.860 expecting him to make some kind of announcement yesterday. But that did not come to pass.

00:40:09.980 Yeah, it sounds like Jason Kenney is really playing some slippery games here, because I know in the very

00:40:15.360 early days, the rural MLAs, and by the way, the local MLA there, I can't find hide nor hair of him.

00:40:20.540 I think he's hiding. Have you heard anything? I mean, if I was the MLA, that's the provincial

00:40:28.300 politician in charge of, I think it's called Tabor Warner, the riding, it's a fairly large riding,

00:40:34.420 because it's a rural riding, so it's fairly sparse. And I'm from southern Alberta, not that far south,

00:40:41.280 but I know those places. I've been to Tabor, I've been to Lethbridge, I've been to Cardstead,

00:40:45.420 I know those people, Aboriginal folks, I've been to the reserve in Cardstead. There's some good

00:40:52.920 people there, and they're not afraid to tell their politicians what's what. Have you detected

00:40:59.300 that MLA, the Jason Kenney MLA, or for that matter, the federal MP, I think his name is Glenn Motts,

00:41:05.840 going from memory, have you detected them anywhere?

00:41:07.600 Not exactly. Certainly not within the action. What it seems like is these guys try and keep

00:41:15.280 themselves on the perimeter of the situation, kind of one foot in, one foot out, and there's like

00:41:19.900 whispers and murmurs of what they're trying to do and how they're trying to support. But

00:41:24.220 at the end of the day, they mostly remain behind closed doors in their approach. So it's unfortunate,

00:41:30.460 but that seems to be how they play ball.

00:41:32.540 You know, it's funny, I know you're so busy there in Coots, Alberta, in the center of the action,

00:41:36.980 but today in Parliament Hill, a liberal MP, and not just some nobody, I think he was the head of

00:41:41.880 their Quebec caucus or something, pretty important position. He said today, time to end the mandates

00:41:48.000 and time to end the language of division. Just a stunning thing to hear. And I'm not even going to call

00:41:53.820 him a liberal backbencher because he had some, I mean, he's immediately going to be fired by Trudeau,

00:41:58.780 of course. But wouldn't it be something if a Quebec liberal MP showed more guts and more

00:42:06.500 care for freedom than the rural Southern Alberta, United Conservative Party, MLA from probably the

00:42:16.100 most right-wing place in Canada? Like, seriously. And the UCP, that's the United Conservative Party,

00:42:23.120 it's Jason Kenney's party, are cowardly mice, and you've got a liberal MP from Quebec going public. 0.94

00:42:30.060 Like, I'm deeply disappointed. And frankly, my view, and I'm not there, is that if these rural MPs 0.80

00:42:35.800 don't take care of Jason Kenney, then they're all going to go down together. That's how it looks

00:42:39.860 like for me. Now, tell me, what's going on? Because we don't know what's going to happen

00:42:44.900 tonight at 5 p.m. Mountain Time when Kenney makes, I think it's going to be a half announcement,

00:42:49.920 I think.

00:42:50.320 Yeah, it's probably going to end up being something like a half announcement. Hopefully it'll bear

00:43:00.440 fruit, and hopefully these guys will receive the message that they're hoping to receive. But

00:43:04.160 realistically, at a moment's notice, they could shut this border down again if that doesn't happen.

00:43:09.440 And one thing to note is there's some people wondering out there why they don't just keep

00:43:13.740 it shut. Well, realistically, they don't need to, because at a moment's notice, they can shut it down

00:43:19.000 again when they decide to. And that's what we saw with these tractors last night, where they decided

00:43:23.580 to close it down for a bit. Now, in the morning time, when we got back, they had opened it up again,

00:43:28.920 just so some people could flow through. And they made their point. And they're just going to keep

00:43:34.020 holding the line here to see what Jason Kenney says. And that'll set the stage for how these guys

00:43:39.240 move forward in the minutes, hours, and days ahead.

00:43:42.500 I'm not sure if I mentioned it. There's so many things happening, and I'm involved in different

00:43:46.500 conversations, so I can't remember if I just said it. She said,

00:43:49.000 But besides the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit-Windsor, I think it's the ATU, I think that's the

00:43:56.660 Amalgamated Transit Union, if I'm not mistaken, bus drivers now say they're going to join,

00:44:03.960 at least in resisting the mandates. I'm not sure what that form that will take. I just saw the

00:44:08.920 headline flash by. So I think that first you had the truckers, then you had the farmers. And if I'm

00:44:16.080 reading that headline right, you got the bus drivers. All the working class people, by the way,

00:44:20.920 where are the socialist parties right now who claim to stand with the working man? They're denouncing.

00:44:25.320 Jagmeet Singh couldn't be more vicious in his language towards the working man. He's no working

00:44:29.540 man. I've never seen a guy dressed fancier in my life than him. You mess with the people who make

00:44:36.220 things go. You mess with people who work outside. You mess with people who know how to do stuff, make

00:44:41.480 things. Hard hats, uniforms. I mean, the fancy folks who are on their MacBooks at their country

00:44:49.900 cottage loving the lockdown. Yeah, I suppose they make things. I mean, you could put us in that

00:44:55.300 category. We're in the news business. What is that really? But a lot of things stop working pretty

00:45:00.900 quick. If you don't get your groceries, you don't get your deliveries, the buses grind to a halt,

00:45:05.580 the borders grind to a halt. It's very interesting to see a true workers rebellion, a rebellion of

00:45:10.600 true workers. I mean, I mean, I grew up very free enterprise oriented. And if I had to answer which

00:45:16.840 side are you on, labor or capital, I wouldn't have said labor. Not that I was against working people.

00:45:21.560 I just would have said, oh, I'm against Marxism. I'm for free enterprise. But to see a true blue

00:45:27.720 collar workers rebellion against these lockdown laws that are so punitive, it makes me feel like a bit

00:45:34.940 of a revolutionary. And I'm just so proud that our team has covered it from coast to coast. I really

00:45:40.360 think it's realigned politics. I mean, I was considered, quote, right wing for my entire life.

00:45:46.180 And I think in many ways I was, and in some ways I still am. But the pride I feel in the working men

00:45:52.060 and women of this country standing up for our basic freedoms that the fancy class has allowed to be 0.98

00:45:59.340 eroded for two years, that's a great feeling. And it makes me feel better about Canada.

00:46:03.940 Maybe than I've ever felt in my whole life. I'm just saying.

00:46:08.280 No, that's exactly it. And between the convoy and the blockades here, it's really sparked something

00:46:14.940 amongst not just the labor class, but especially them, but all Canadians. And we're kind of reminded

00:46:20.760 of what it is to be Canadian. And that is the unifying factor here. It's not about who you voted

00:46:26.960 for. It's not about if you have a vaccine or not. It's about being Canadian and getting those rights

00:46:31.960 back that for generations we've fought so far, so hard to have. And it's unfortunate that for the

00:46:38.100 last two years are the political class, the upper echelon, they've sort of taken to this divisive

00:46:44.000 rhetoric and been actively trying to divide Canadians over things that should be mundane.

00:46:50.060 But it does seem like with these truckers standing up, everyone's sort of realizing, yeah,

00:46:55.320 we're Canadian, we have rights, and the power's in our hands. And the only reason why this has gone,

00:47:00.980 I think, so stellar is because the power that we have as Canadians is the power to peacefully fight

00:47:06.420 back. And that's something that we're seeing more and more by the day.

00:47:09.580 Well, and it's being peaceful. That's what's amazing. You know what? I don't know my Canadian history as well

00:47:13.700 as I should. But I do know there was something called the General Strike of Winnipeg. And I think

00:47:18.040 if my memory is right, that was in 1919, more than a hundred years ago, there was a general strike.

00:47:25.200 Now, that was fomented by real communists, actual communists inspired by the Russian Revolution.

00:47:31.920 What we have here is a workers' rebellion, almost like a general strike when you think about it. It's

00:47:37.040 not this company or that company. It's entire classes of people. But it's not for communism.

00:47:43.240 In an interesting twist, it's against the sort of communism, or maybe you call it fascism,

00:47:49.420 the unity between big pharma, big tech, big government, locking us all down, taking away

00:47:54.460 our freedoms, unlimited, for an interminable length of time. It's a general strike for freedom,

00:48:02.140 which may be the first time that's happened. I don't know. I suppose you could call it a fall

00:48:05.860 of the Berlin Wall. This is very exciting to me, Sid. I think you're really in the center of the

00:48:10.160 action. I want to close by talking about our lawyer. As you know, Rebel News, not the Democracy

00:48:16.700 Fund, but Rebel News itself, has crowdfunded Chad Williamson. And he has two colleagues,

00:48:22.840 Marty and Yaron, if I got the name right. So we've got three lawyers who are helping out. I know Chad's

00:48:28.820 back down there. I think things are about to hit the fan. By the time this goes to air, we'll know

00:48:34.820 what's what. But I think Jason Kenney is going to announce that he has gone to court ex parte. That

00:48:40.800 means in secret to get an injunction against these truckers. I think he's going to announce that. Now,

00:48:45.960 he doesn't need that. There's enough laws on the books for the police to enforce as it is. But I think

00:48:50.200 he's going to try and smash the truckers while giving in a little bit because he's got too much

00:48:56.140 pride. So he doesn't want to look like he's dancing to the truckers tune. So he's going to give

00:49:02.560 him a few tiny things, not much. And at the same time, he's going to smash him with an injunction.

00:49:08.140 That's why Chad William is so important. He's going to be there on the ground.

00:49:12.220 I don't want you to give away any legal confidence. It's not that you would even be included in the

00:49:16.520 solicitor-client privilege. But tell me what's the spirit of the men down there. They're chatting

00:49:21.560 with Chad fairly often. They're getting advice from him, aren't they? Yeah, that's absolutely right.

00:49:27.020 And spirits are high. And he's been great talking with everybody. And it's a weird position for him to be in

00:49:32.420 because he's representing clients, but he's also representing a larger group of people here

00:49:37.080 who are involved in the blockade. So he's just been trying to help out everyone everywhere he can.

00:49:43.040 And I think it has been a really good help for them, especially considering before he got here,

00:49:48.340 there was talks that it looked like enforcement was on its way, so to speak. And Chad got here and

00:49:53.200 they talked and they were the negotiators between the enforcement side and the truckers here. So

00:49:58.860 things have remained steady and we have seen the attempts of enforcement here. But every time it's

00:50:07.480 either Chad or the positioning of the truckers here that kind of pushed them back a little further

00:50:14.160 away, the authorities. So I think Chad has definitely been a really great help here, a really great

00:50:19.520 intermediary because these guys, you know, the assaults of the earth, they're laymen. They're not

00:50:24.120 politicians. They don't know that slick talk that negotiators and lawyers would normally use.

00:50:29.760 Not to say that they wouldn't understand it, but it might not be an immediate awareness for them.

00:50:35.060 So I think it's been great that Chad's been here and he's been able to help with those negotiations.

00:50:39.000 Well, you know, I like to say about him, he's a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. He

00:50:42.080 does have a country sensibility to him. So I think he's a perfect fit. He is what they call an

00:50:46.740 officer of the court. When you're a lawyer, you have certain obligations to the courts, not just your

00:50:51.480 clients. You have a professional ethical obligations to the profession. So Chad has to be sort of well

00:50:57.740 behaved. He can never counsel people to do something illegal. So I'm very happy to hear your report that

00:51:03.640 he's really brought out the best of the situation, de-escalated the situation, being a go-between

00:51:09.800 intermediary, I think you said. So that's exactly what we were hoping he would do to lower the risk

00:51:15.040 temperature there. And I think these truckers might, in the end, they might need some legal help. We have

00:51:20.420 committed to crowdfund Chad's fees to defend any legal ramifications of the truckers. Folks probably

00:51:27.900 know our URL. It's truckerlawyer.ca. So Chad and his two colleagues, I don't know how the story is

00:51:35.400 going to end, but however it ends, we'll be there to help. Sid, thanks for your work on the ground.

00:51:40.680 Appreciate you. I mean, you've been down there. It's going on, it's more than a week now, am I right?

00:51:45.200 Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right. It's a couple of days from two weeks now, but these guys are

00:51:50.500 holding the line strong and there's no, there's no end in sight until there's an end in sight for

00:51:55.900 the mandates. Yeah. Well, I think you really are a part of history being made. And the thing about

00:52:00.680 history is it's told by the winners, right? I mean, we don't know, you know, we, we, we know the story of

00:52:08.120 David and Goliath, um, because David won and it's important that the story be told honestly,

00:52:15.360 no matter how it goes. I don't know who's going to quote win. I think in many ways,

00:52:19.680 the truckers have already won. They've given hope to people. They've reminded us we care about freedom.

00:52:24.540 They've shown that you can make the tyrant blink. Uh, they've conducted themselves peacefully.

00:52:29.940 They've inspired people, let them know they're not alone. I think the truckers actually have already

00:52:34.280 won how this final thing washes out. We don't know, but I think, sorry, go ahead. Oh, sorry.

00:52:42.480 If I could just say one thing there, uh, there was a little, uh, cardboard kind of note, uh, that was

00:52:48.120 made inside and it said, it's not the size of the man in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the

00:52:53.840 man. And as you mentioned, David versus Goliath. Well, they were even talking about that too. And it

00:52:58.220 really does feel like there's a bunch of Davids in there. Um, and there's only one Goliath.

00:53:02.460 Yeah. Well, we've got to document what happens. So that's what, why I, one of the things, I mean,

00:53:07.880 rebel news fights a lot of fights and I'll tell you the truth. We probably lose more than we win

00:53:13.040 because we take long shots and I don't care. I mean, I, I wish we'd won them all, but you have

00:53:19.240 to fight them. And sometimes you fight a long shot and you'll win. And that's on the fighting side.

00:53:25.060 We crowdfund lawyers, but, but even if putting aside the fighting, we have to document,

00:53:29.660 we have to tell the truth about what happened. We can't let the liars at the CBC

00:53:33.640 write the story on the battle of coots. And so that's why you and K2 and Adam Sose. And I think

00:53:40.540 Mocha was down there the other day. That's why what you're doing is important. I'm going to let

00:53:44.000 you go, Sid, because you've got a lot of things to do. Appreciate you joining the call today

00:53:46.880 and, um, stay safe, stay warm. Sounds like you're in the middle of the action, having the time of your

00:53:51.580 life. Absolutely. It sounds great. It's a nice chat guys. And I hope, uh, hope for the best on all

00:53:57.040 fronts. Yeah, me too. There you have it. Sidney Fouzard, one of our great citizen journalists

00:54:01.340 on the scene at the border between Coots and Sweetgrass, Montana. Stay with us more ahead.

00:54:16.020 Hey, welcome back. I mentioned Lincoln Jay's appearance on Hannity and we showed it to you.

00:54:20.140 I was on Tucker too. I wasn't on very long, about three minutes, but huge audience. Let me just start by

00:54:26.540 playing for you in case you missed it last night. Here's my brief appearance on Tucker Carlson's

00:54:31.280 show. Take a look. The people in charge aren't really thinking this through. Most of the time

00:54:35.820 trends started in the United States and they moved north to Canada, but this time the opposite could

00:54:40.880 happen. Ezra Levant is the founder of Rebel News, one of the very few brave and independent media

00:54:48.160 organizations in the nation of Canada. We're honored to have him on tonight. Ezra, thanks so much

00:54:52.440 for coming on. So it seems like the Trudeau government has so completely overreacted to

00:54:59.420 what appears to be a thoroughly peaceful protest that my read as an outsider, a non-Canadian,

00:55:05.720 is that they're very weak. If they're terrified of the truckers, you know, this is not a strong

00:55:10.760 government. Yeah, I mean, Trudeau calls them violent. His MPs say they're terrorists. But today in court,

00:55:18.600 the most a judge would give them is that they're enthusiastic horn honkers and they've asked the

00:55:25.020 truckers to stop honking at night. That's it. There was an opinion poll that showed 32 percent of

00:55:31.740 Canadians see themselves reflected in the truckers. In our multi-party system, that would make them the

00:55:39.260 leading party if the truckers formed a political movement. I think Justin Trudeau is more scared

00:55:44.300 that he lets on because these are supposed to be his people. They're young. They're ethnically

00:55:49.100 diverse. They're working class people. But they're not following the script that they normally do for 0.99

00:55:54.320 him. Can can he stop this protest? I mean, do you think he can successfully shut it down from

00:56:01.500 wherever he's in hiding right now? Well, I mean, taking away the diesel fuel is a low blow. It's very

00:56:07.520 cold in Ottawa. And most of these truckers are living in the little cab in their truck. So they need diesel

00:56:13.280 fuel for heat. So by taking away their diesel fuel, as you showed, he's really freezing them

00:56:18.440 out. And by the way, there's some families. There's even some kids. I don't know what legal

00:56:22.980 justification they have. The diesel fuel is not illegal. Selling it, owning it, having it is not

00:56:30.180 illegal. I think he's just sort of thinking, well, what are they going to do to me? You know,

00:56:34.900 these police go in heavily armed, brandishing their arms, taking the diesel fuel. And so many of

00:56:40.460 Canada's checks and balances have failed. There hasn't been a significant court ruling against

00:56:45.980 the lockdowns. And Trudeau started hoping that they'll be able to starve or freeze these truckers

00:56:50.740 out. I don't think it's going to work, though. It's not just in Ottawa. There are trucker convoys

00:56:55.680 in many other parts of the country, including hundreds that have blocked the Montana-Alberta border

00:57:02.060 for over a week now. It's in the middle of the prairie, hundreds of huge trucks and agricultural

00:57:08.320 equipment that can't be towed away. The Mounties tried to move that blockade. The burly truckers

00:57:16.580 stood them down. So I think this problem's bigger than Trudeau knows how to solve unless he goes full

00:57:21.320 Castro on them. Well, he's already going there. As far as I can tell, it's tyranny. And I hope they

00:57:27.120 continue to resist. And Ezra, thank you for covering this fairly and honestly. You've really

00:57:32.140 almost been unique in the entire country. So we appreciate it as Americans. Thank you. Thanks.

00:57:37.300 Well, I was excited to be invited back on. In a moment, I'll show you the video of the day that

00:57:41.180 we have. But let me read a few chats and comments. Someone with a nickname 1984 Today says,

00:57:47.360 hey, Trudeau, you need to denounce your hateful supporters. Yeah, I take that that's in response to

00:57:52.240 the jeep driver who plowed into some trucker protesters in Winnipeg. Payne74 Law Guy says,

00:58:01.640 every citizen detained without charges arbitrarily detained, any trucker detained needs to lock into

00:58:07.040 class action suits for violating their charter rights. You don't really need a class action suit

00:58:11.720 for violating charter rights, especially if you're arrested. I should tell you that the Democracy

00:58:15.420 Fund has lawyers on the ground in Ottawa, and they've been making the rounds, giving tips and advice

00:58:22.020 to truckers. I feel really good about that. Rindberg says, this government will try everything.

00:58:28.280 We have to be prepared for anything. Tyrannical government never negotiate. Trudeau was one of

00:58:32.820 them. He was a student of Klaus Schwab. Yeah, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum brags about

00:58:38.440 Trudeau. But I should tell you that today, a liberal MP essentially quit. He denounced Trudeau's policy,

00:58:46.380 denounced Trudeau's language, and said we should end the mandates. A Quebec MP,

00:58:50.080 a serious guy, like not a perpetual troublemaker or anything.

00:58:55.660 I think that Trudeau is weaker than he looks. Anyways, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow,

00:59:04.200 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:59:07.960 Keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with Kian's latest on the coverage of the farmer

00:59:12.960 blockade at Kootz. Take a look.

00:59:17.960 Kian K2 Simone here for Rebel News. And earlier, Sidney Fazzard and I reported that farmers with

00:59:24.440 their tractors circumvented their way through the RCMP checkpoint at Milk River. They stayed

00:59:30.820 back there for about 20 minutes, got their coffees, and we just witnessed they blocked the border.

00:59:37.300 The tractors and farmers have blocked the border to Sweetgrass, Montana, here in Kootz, Alberta.

00:59:44.040 It is absolutely freezing out here, and you can see the semis are already lining up to get into Montana.

00:59:54.820 You can see behind me here, these are the tractors that are blocking the border. There is no way

01:00:00.320 logistically for the RCMP to move them. They want to speak with Jason Kenney. They want these mandates

01:00:05.420 lifted, and it doesn't seem like they're going to be moving until they get an answer.

01:00:08.760 If you want to help our independent journalism, please go to convoyreports.com. Sidney Fazzard

01:00:14.540 and I will be keeping you guys updated all night with live updates until this thing resolves.

01:00:19.340 If you want to help the truckers in their legal defense, go to truckerlawyer.ca.

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Rebel News Podcast - February 09, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ My thoughts on the media party and their misconduct over the last two weeks

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