Rebel News Podcast - September 26, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Politician calls out the media party, two subsidized CTV journalists take the fall


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A politician finally calls the media party s bluff. Ezra Levant explains how Bell Canada uses CTV as an in-house lobby group to get their way and get their message across to voters. And how they do it in a clever way.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Boy, you know, I've been thinking about this Pierre Polly of quarrel with
00:00:04.700 Bell Canada's CTV News channel. And the more I think about it, the more I love it.
00:00:10.440 It's about time the conservative fought back against the regime media. And the word regime
00:00:15.520 media applies perfectly to Bell. It really is the corporate deep state. I'll show you the
00:00:20.200 connections and how Bell Canada really just uses CTV as their in-house lobby group. I'll prove it
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00:00:57.100 Tonight, finally, a politician calls the media party's bluff. It's September 26 and this is the
00:01:03.580 Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:05.300 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:10.780 Hey, the other day, CTV ran a clip that was Pierre Polyev saying a certain sentence about why he was
00:01:27.100 voting non-confidence in Trudeau. Here's the clip.
00:01:30.740 That's why we need to put forward a motion.
00:01:34.460 Yeah, except for that, that's not actually what he said. Although it sure sounded like it,
00:01:37.660 didn't it? Cause it actually was his voice and he actually did say those words, but he didn't say
00:01:43.560 them in that sentence. It was spliced together, literally taking a word here, a word there and a
00:01:50.700 word from here and putting them all together and making a new video that was handcrafted by CTV.
00:01:58.180 He didn't say that. That's why it's time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.
00:02:08.220 Now that's not an accident. I know a little bit about video editing. It's the business I've been
00:02:12.540 in for 10 years. That is very laborious work. It must have taken at least an hour, maybe more.
00:02:20.080 And the thing is about taking a word here and a word there from different moments in a conversation
00:02:24.980 is that if you were to put it together as a video and time it just right. So it sounded natural,
00:02:30.620 you would see visually that, that it was out of order. So they hid those little splices by covering
00:02:38.440 up his mouth or putting him out of the, out of the shot so that the audio and video, uh, wouldn't
00:02:45.380 be out of sync. That was a deceptive tactic, very carefully done. It's impossible to do that except
00:02:54.180 on purpose. It was a deep fake, but it wasn't created by AI, artificial intelligence. It was
00:03:02.380 created by CTV and their low intelligence pro-liberal point of view. The purpose was obvious.
00:03:09.580 It was to paint Pierre Polyev as hostile to the liberal dental care program. I don't know,
00:03:15.400 to make him look heartless or something, but it's not what he said. It was made up. Imagine going to
00:03:22.140 that effort to take a word here, a word there, a word there, put it all together, time it just
00:03:26.560 right. So it seems natural. And then to hide the splicings by having visual elements in the way.
00:03:32.000 And then like, who does that? Well, CTV was caught red handed and they gave a dishonest apology
00:03:40.180 that in China would be called an ironic apology. I'm sorry if you were offended. You can see it
00:03:47.580 tweeted here in tiny text. That's so much smaller than normal Twitter text. And because it's an image
00:03:55.360 that they tweeted, the words are not searchable because it's a picture. They tweeted it not on
00:04:02.180 the main CTV Twitter feed. They put it on their CTV national news, which is their smallest channel,
00:04:09.180 just 141,000 followers instead of 430,000 followers on the main CTV account or the 2.2 million
00:04:17.920 followers on the CTV news account. They put it on the smallest place they could. And they claimed,
00:04:24.560 oh, it's just a misunderstanding. It was just out of context. That's all. Then they had their anchor
00:04:33.660 read that word for word on TV that night. I guess he'll literally read anything put in front of him.
00:04:40.280 I suppose that is his job description. Take a look. Last night in a report on this broadcast,
00:04:44.540 we presented a comment by the official opposition leader, Pierre Polyev, that was taken out of
00:04:49.320 context. It left viewers with the impression that conservative non-confidence motion was to defeat
00:04:54.820 the liberals dental care program. In fact, the conservatives have made it clear the motion is based on a long
00:04:59.860 list of issues with the liberal government, including the carbon tax. A misunderstanding during
00:05:04.320 the editing process resulted in this misrepresentation. We unreservedly apologized to Mr. Polyev and the
00:05:10.840 Conservative Party of Canada. We regret this report went to air in the manner it did.
00:05:16.740 How would how would that have happened on CTV's flagship news broadcast program? I mean, it's not a tiny
00:05:25.380 show. They have a lot of staff, unlike independent journalists. That must have been ordered by a
00:05:30.760 boss because it's so unusual. No journalist would do that as a matter of course. That's just a strange
00:05:36.840 thing to do. It must have been ordered by a boss, supervised by a boss. And there must have been many
00:05:43.200 hands and eyes on it to get the different footage, to make the edits. Oh, I'm sure that half a dozen
00:05:49.140 people were involved. There was no misunderstanding here. In fact, they understood the assignment
00:05:53.460 perfectly. No possible way this could have come about other than deliberately. I'd like to know,
00:06:00.560 either from Omar Satchadina or anyone else at CTV, what is the alleged misunderstanding? What was
00:06:06.240 misunderstood? What were the instructions and who misunderstood whom? I'd like to know, is there
00:06:11.600 any proof of this misunderstanding or is that just a lie that CTV's press department came up with,
00:06:16.700 their PR department? And by the way, are there any consequences to this lie? That's CTV. But CBC,
00:06:25.600 Tweedledee and Tweedledum, CBC comes to the aid of their CTV cousins. Take a look at this video.
00:06:33.200 This guy's name is David Cochran. He's famous for taking a free poutine from Justin Trudeau during a
00:06:38.920 campaign a few years ago. I mean, if a politician gives you a gift, you say thank you and you put it
00:06:45.900 down and you don't take it. You don't take it and eat it like David Cochran. What a weirdo. Here,
00:06:51.800 take a look at this clip. They've admitted the mistake. It was basically human error and incompetence
00:06:56.320 or like, you know, that happens in this business, right? I'm not saying CTV News is incompetent,
00:07:00.640 but we all make mistakes in this business and we apologize for it. And they published it and their
00:07:04.800 chief anchor said it on the show. But to have them, to demand that they apologize for the malicious
00:07:09.960 nature of the editing, to admit to a malicious intent here, that's a demand that's difficult for a news
00:07:15.460 agency to accept. I'm not sure that we should wave it away as just a mistake because this is not a
00:07:21.440 misattribution. It's not even taking part of the same sentence and applying it in a different context.
00:07:27.140 This is taking a full paragraph, a variety of sentences that Pierre Polyev said, taking bits
00:07:32.920 and pieces from each sentence to craft a new sentence. That is journalistic malpractice.
00:07:37.940 Okay. So, so just, and I'm not defending this, I'm explaining this. The sentence that Pierre Polyev said is
00:07:43.920 that's why it's time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election. For whatever reason,
00:07:50.620 they spliced together different things he said in that scrum to create the sentence. That's why we
00:07:55.900 need to put forward a motion. Now, it's not like it was changed to him saying something outrageous.
00:08:00.920 It's not a sentence he uttered. It does not say it's about a carbon tax election. And in the way it was
00:08:05.880 presented to the story, it makes it sound like he wants an election to stop dental care. Correct.
00:08:09.520 So, I get why they feel they're taken out of context and CTV admitted to that and apologized
00:08:14.760 for it. But the suggestion from Mr. Polyev's tweets that the Bell Canada corporate suite is somehow
00:08:20.820 weaponizing its news agency to get favorable treatment by the Trudeau government is a lot to say.
00:08:25.640 I don't think that they're feeling that they've been taken out of context. They were taken out of
00:08:29.820 context. Absolutely. I agree. And when you are the fifth estate, you are in the accountability game,
00:08:35.060 just the same as politicians are. And a quick apology the same day for something that is so
00:08:40.740 egregious that action to be taken is not going to be enough when we're talking about the table stakes
00:08:46.440 of not favorable coverage, fair and balanced coverage. And that's all conservatives are asking
00:08:51.060 for. They're asking for fair coverage. They're not asking for glowing reviews. They just want to be
00:08:55.100 the facts to be reported as they are. So, I don't think that it is, you know, delving into conspiracy
00:09:00.040 theory. We had three separate sentences. A Frankenstein sentence emerges as a result.
00:09:04.720 That deserves to be called out. And I think that should be called out regardless of who says it in
00:09:08.480 the House of Commons or which journalistic entity makes such a bad decision. Human error?
00:09:14.380 Mistake? Is it a mistake? Kate Harrison, the conservative pundit, explained it pretty well.
00:09:19.720 But there he was, David Cochran, a government journalist and the CBC state broadcaster,
00:09:24.560 doing the heavy lifting for fake news. The conservatives feel like they were taken out
00:09:30.980 of context. No, brother, they actually were taken out of context. And CTV actually admits that. You're
00:09:36.800 defending CTV even more than they're defending themselves. They say it was out of context. And
00:09:41.240 here's CBC saying, well, maybe they feel like they were. It's funny, though, CTV, they do these sorts
00:09:47.420 of things. A lot just a few weeks ago, CTV forgot. Whoopsies, misunderstanding. They forgot to show the
00:09:53.560 conservative candidate in the recent Montreal by-election. Oh, well, you know, it's so easy
00:09:58.760 to forget these things. This was first exposed by the press secretary for Pierre Polyev, Sebastian
00:10:06.880 Skamsky, who showed that the words were cut and pasted together, meticulously showing where they
00:10:14.580 actually came from. And then he did something which I think is sort of amazing. Instead of just
00:10:19.140 whining about it, Skamsky announced a boycott. From now on, every single part of the conservative
00:10:27.460 party will simply boycott not just CTV, but also its owner, Bell Canada, and very importantly,
00:10:36.160 Bell Canada lobbyists. He specifically talks about the executives of Bell Canada.
00:10:43.380 Now, I have had the opportunity on several occasions to read the annual report of Bell Canada,
00:10:51.020 which owns CTV. Bell Canada is called BCE, Bell Canada Enterprises, and it really is one of Canada's
00:10:56.720 largest companies. It's almost like a public utility because it's so regulated and gets so many favors
00:11:03.100 from the Trudeau government. It is owned by private shareholders, but it is sort of like a bank or an
00:11:08.980 airline in the way that it is. There's really no seeing where the company ends and the government
00:11:14.360 begins. Now, I read the entire document, and you can find it very quickly online. Just google
00:11:19.200 BCE Canada annual report. And you can see their annual report, which I just read again today.
00:11:27.080 There is a single mention of CTV News in the entire document. I'll read it to you. It's only one
00:11:33.200 sentence long. CTV News is a member of the Trust Project, a global network of news organizations
00:11:38.820 that affirms a strong commitment to transparency, accuracy, inclusion, and fairness. Of course,
00:11:45.180 every word of that is a lie. Of course, we just showed that they do the opposite of all those
00:11:49.060 things. But that's the only mention of CTV News in the entire report. And the reason for that
00:11:54.440 is because it is a tiny part of the business. Bell Canada, their main business is internet and cell
00:12:01.600 phones, which are extremely regulated. They depend on favorable rulings from the federal government's
00:12:09.000 regulator, which is hand-picked appointees chosen by Justin Trudeau. So your BCE, your Bell Canada
00:12:16.260 enterprises, you've got satellites, you've got cell phones, you've got cable, all hyper-regulated.
00:12:24.440 And you have tens of billions of dollars at stake there. And then you have this little teeny tiny
00:12:31.040 rounding error called CTV News. CTV News is very important to you and me as news consumers,
00:12:36.320 but it is not important to Bell Canada as a source of revenue. It's a money loser, of course.
00:12:43.120 But why? Why is CTV so important to Bell? And why is Pierre Polyev singling out Bell and their
00:12:52.120 executives? In fact, this isn't the first occasion. I mean, I mentioned before the annual report,
00:12:58.660 just give me this, I went through today, racial wokeism, climate wokeism, ESG, DEI. You have to
00:13:10.400 get through more than a dozen pages of their Marxist claptrap, their UN terminology, their World Economic
00:13:18.120 Forum BS before you even get to their annual report. And if that's not a warning about what
00:13:24.100 Bell Canada is, well, you should be warned. There's dozens of pages of this. If you actually get
00:13:29.900 through all their political crap, they're not doing that great. I mean, they did make money. It's pretty
00:13:35.320 tough to lose money when you're essentially a regulated public utility like they are, but earnings
00:13:41.080 are weak. They're down over the past year from $2.9 billion to $2.3 billion. That's still a lot of money.
00:13:48.180 Their earnings per share are falling as well. How do you lose money when you basically have a public
00:13:55.740 utility monopoly and when the government is blocking any foreign competition? And that is how to understand
00:14:02.580 CTV. Here's my point. Bell Canada Enterprises cares so little about CTV as a business or as an editorial
00:14:11.280 product. It has one sentence in an entire annual report. It is not a news company. It is a lobby firm. It's not a
00:14:22.360 real business, not a moneymaker. Its purpose is to appease the politicians and to give things that politicians
00:14:30.880 value so that when the politicians regulate Bell, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
00:14:40.180 Pierre Polyev knows what's up. Here, take a look at this.
00:14:44.760 Wow. One of Canada's biggest and oldest companies, Bell, downgraded to one level above junk bond status.
00:14:52.900 No wonder their network CTV pushes such pro-liberal news. They need lots of federal regulatory assistance.
00:14:58.820 My prediction? Bell will need a bailout from the liberals one day. That's it. He's got it. He's
00:15:04.640 cracked the code. It's exactly what it's about. It's the only reason that Bell even keeps CTV news
00:15:11.240 around, even though it's such a money loser, is precisely because it pleases Trudeau. Trudeau,
00:15:17.840 sure, he takes money, but he can get money from the Chinese government or someone else.
00:15:22.000 What CTV can give Justin Trudeau that no one else can is headlines. They are still the largest TV
00:15:28.660 broadcast in the country. So when CTV gives something to Trudeau that he feels good about,
00:15:33.760 Trudeau can return the favor with regulatory favors. Here's another quote from Pierre Polyev.
00:15:40.120 It has an image of Trudeau claiming he's pissed off at Bell for laying off hundreds of journalists.
00:15:45.780 Polyev says, if you're so pissed off at Bell for the layoffs, why don't you demand Bell give back
00:15:49.820 the government handout you gave them to save media jobs? Isn't that the truth? He's mocking Trudeau
00:15:56.440 as Trudeau deserves to be mocked. In this case, he's referring to the CEO of Bell getting $13 million.
00:16:04.440 Let me read that. How does the CEO of Bell get $13 million the year before the company gets downgraded
00:16:09.820 to one level above junk bond status? This is the crony capitalism of the Trudeau state-run economy.
00:16:15.660 Politicians protect big oligopolies against competition. Those oligopolies use their media
00:16:21.820 arms to give politicians glowing coverage. That is exactly how to think about it. This is a much
00:16:27.400 bigger battle than just some unethical journalists. Don't think for a second that some video editor 1.00
00:16:33.400 misunderstood something, or even that Omar Satchadina, the talking puppet, misunderstood.
00:16:38.860 They weren't even involved in this decision. This was a Bell corporate instruction to their PR
00:16:45.980 department called CTV to do a favor for Trudeau, and it backfired on them. And now look at Pierre
00:16:52.780 Polyev. He's taking on the corporate deep state. In Canada, big businesses like banks and airlines and
00:17:01.760 media are hyper-regulated to the point where they're effectively government departments.
00:17:06.360 Big business plus big government plus big tech. They're all friends with each other. In Japan,
00:17:12.980 they would call that a kuritsu. They're all invested in each other, but they're friends with each other,
00:17:18.000 but not friends with you. If you're wondering what I mean by that, take away the regulatory bribery
00:17:24.440 and corruption. We have the highest cell phone prices in the world. Did you know that? By far the highest
00:17:29.440 cell phone prices in the world and terrible customer service. And if you think it's bad now,
00:17:34.600 if you think it's bad with Trudeau in power, wait for when Mark Carney runs for the liberal
00:17:40.320 leadership. He is from this world, but add an extra zero to the billions he's used to dealing with.
00:17:46.860 But I'm excited about Pierre Polyev punching back and saying to his entire team, no one talks to CTV,
00:17:52.380 not to their reporters and not to the puppet masters at Bell Canada. I don't think CTV is used to
00:17:58.040 fighting like this or certainly not used to playing defense. They're just used to throwing darts at
00:18:02.320 conservatives. And I know Bell Canada sure isn't used to the scrutiny here. I'm here for it. I'm
00:18:07.160 loving every second of it. By the way, while Pierre Polyev is at it, taking on the corporate deep state,
00:18:15.000 maybe he can take on Loblaws for their bread price fixing. They got away scot-free for that.
00:18:22.340 I think they need a public prosecution. Just before we were going to go to air tonight,
00:18:26.720 breaking news. CTV came out with a second, more groveling apology, where they say they sincerely
00:18:33.480 and unreservedly apologize and actually use words like altering a video clip, manipulating it for a
00:18:41.760 particular story. Actions that violate our editorial standards are unacceptable. They claim
00:18:48.060 two people were fired from CTV News, but they don't say who. Take it or leave it if you like. This is their
00:18:55.200 second attempt at an excuse. Yesterday's was full of lies. Whether or not they're telling the truth
00:19:00.440 now is uncertain. But what is certain is that Pierre Polyev has cracked their code. CTV doesn't answer for
00:19:07.440 itself. It answers for Bell Media. And when Bell Media was threatened to be cut off, they panicked.
00:19:14.000 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here from Rebel News. I'm in Times Square, New York City. I'm here because
00:19:25.460 Justin Trudeau is in town. He went to the United Nations to give a speech, but hundreds of seats
00:19:31.220 were empty. I think there were only about a dozen people there. Take a look. Then he went on the
00:19:35.720 Colbert Show, and it was a snooze fest. It just wasn't funny at all. And so I thought I would ask
00:19:42.000 actual people in New York City, New Yorkers, Americans from other places, and even foreigners
00:19:48.420 who will talk to me, do you know who Justin Trudeau even is? I'm going to show them this
00:19:53.820 picture and say, if you can tell me who this is, I'll give you a dollar. And if they really need a
00:19:59.840 hint, I'll show them this, and I'll see if that jogs their memory. So what do New Yorkers say when I
00:20:05.940 say name this man? Let's find out. Tell me who this is, and I'll give you a buck.
00:20:09.540 That's a politician. You bet. Does he look familiar?
00:20:14.280 He looks like an a**hole. I think you're right. I think you're right.
00:20:17.280 Oh yeah, that is William Tate Smith. You don't know who this is?
00:20:23.900 Macron. Macron? No, good guess though. Do you know who it is?
00:20:28.220 Trudeau. Good for you, yeah. Do you know who that is?
00:20:32.780 I have no idea.
00:20:34.820 It's Justin Trudeau. Yeah, good for you. Here's the hand. Here's your dollar.
00:20:39.540 I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me who this is. Do you know who it is?
00:20:45.140 For a dollar? Who is this? I don't understand.
00:20:47.160 Okay. I know. Okay. One dollar. Who is this? One dollar.
00:20:52.300 It's for one dollar? Paolo Inglés.
00:20:54.120 Paolo Inglés? Spaniel.
00:20:55.640 Hi guys. I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me who this is.
00:20:58.200 I don't know who this is.
00:20:59.280 You do? I hear it's your dollar. You got it right.
00:21:03.640 You don't know who that is? No.
00:21:05.320 Do you know who that is?
00:21:08.620 Who is this guy, first of all?
00:21:10.320 An awful, sad excuse for a leader for Canada. Do you know who he is?
00:21:16.240 Prime Minister of Canada.
00:21:18.020 Come and get your dollar.
00:21:19.260 Oh, thank you. No, I have no idea.
00:21:20.700 For one dollar, who's this?
00:21:22.840 Oh, yeah. What's his name?
00:21:27.120 It's a French last name. Justin Trudeau.
00:21:30.800 Good for you. There's your dollar. Do you know who that is?
00:21:34.660 No? All right.
00:21:35.880 How do you know who he is?
00:21:37.660 He's our prime minister.
00:21:39.400 Oh, you're from Canada?
00:21:40.380 Yeah.
00:21:40.940 Okay, well, are you just tourists down here? That's how you know him?
00:21:43.360 Yes, yes.
00:21:44.200 I'm offering people one dollar if they can identify who this person is.
00:21:48.800 You don't know who that is?
00:21:50.520 Who's this? Who's your dollar?
00:21:52.000 Who is it?
00:21:53.920 For one dollar, who's this guy? One dollar.
00:21:57.540 Do you know who this is for a dollar?
00:21:58.900 The president of Canada.
00:22:02.400 What's his name?
00:22:03.900 Trudeau.
00:22:04.700 Here's your dollar.
00:22:05.600 If you can tell me who this is, I'll give you a buck.
00:22:07.980 I don't know. Sorry.
00:22:10.740 Justin Trudeau.
00:22:11.740 For one dollar, who's this?
00:22:13.280 No?
00:22:14.020 For one dollar, who's this?
00:22:15.620 How do you know?
00:22:17.180 I'm Canadian.
00:22:18.000 Here you go. One dollar, tell me who this is.
00:22:20.860 Oh, I can't tell you, mate, Larry.
00:22:22.580 For one dollar, can you tell me who this is?
00:22:26.940 I'll give you a hint. He's a politician.
00:22:29.200 I don't know who it is.
00:22:30.300 Who's this guy for one dollar? Who's this?
00:22:32.760 I don't know.
00:22:34.020 Fair enough.
00:22:35.100 I'll give you a hint. You've got good intuition.
00:22:37.520 Yeah, I can tell he's a day old.
00:22:38.940 I'll give you a hint.
00:22:40.720 This is what he looks like when he's dressed up.
00:22:42.660 Here's what he looks like when he's going out.
00:22:44.360 Does that ring a bell at all?
00:22:45.980 I forgot his name.
00:22:47.040 Do you ever hear about Trudeau or follow him at all?
00:22:49.020 He seems to do a good job.
00:22:49.980 Do you know anything about Trudeau?
00:22:51.360 Nice-looking fellow.
00:22:52.640 Here he is in blackface. What do you think of that? 0.85
00:22:54.600 I remember he did that, yes.
00:22:56.480 Yeah, what do you think of that?
00:22:58.180 A bit daft.
00:22:59.020 I'll agree with all of his policies.
00:23:00.940 What's that? What have you done that you disagree with?
00:23:04.220 Well, first thing.
00:23:06.160 So, I'm a lawyer.
00:23:07.900 So, I know the overreach that happened with the truck.
00:23:11.620 At least in the West, we're getting over-regulated.
00:23:14.620 Severing a bell now?
00:23:15.460 That's Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:23:21.040 What do you think of that?
00:23:22.020 Oh, wow. Wow.
00:23:25.260 He's having evil rules.
00:23:27.320 I think that's a tool that the Levine uses to sort of enforce compliance with glasses.
00:23:34.240 White champagne, tortures, and themselves.
00:23:36.980 He dresses up like that. What do you think of that?
00:23:39.080 Probably because he's the three kings.
00:23:44.280 He's dressed for that.
00:23:46.200 Oh, my God.
00:23:47.240 He did a pretty good job, I mean.
00:23:48.720 Of what? Good job of what?
00:23:49.980 Well, he's the Prime Minister from last 10 years.
00:23:52.740 Yeah, so that's one thing.
00:23:54.420 So, he must be good because he's in office.
00:23:57.160 Surely, he's done something good.
00:23:58.440 He's done something recently.
00:23:59.720 He has done some dental, free for all.
00:24:04.080 Are you worried about civil liberties back home in the UK?
00:24:08.000 Broadly, yes.
00:24:09.080 I think the passengers really looked at us really, really, really carefully in that
00:24:14.920 one of the biggest people who want to give a position or in a plan to use the hospital.
00:24:22.840 If that doesn't happen, then I'll be fair for the society.
00:24:25.700 I don't know.
00:24:27.100 Does that help?
00:24:28.960 No.
00:24:30.160 No, it does not.
00:24:31.360 The canadische president is right.
00:24:33.960 Was that Castro, was his last name?
00:24:37.700 Same guy, he's wearing blackface here. 0.99
00:24:41.100 Did that ring a bell?
00:24:43.540 Oh, yeah, that's the guy that, you know, making fun of black people.
00:24:47.620 It is relaxed.
00:24:48.680 I'm remembering him.
00:24:50.280 I'm remembering this guy.
00:24:51.380 Are you a fan or not really a critic?
00:24:54.280 Like, if you can't say something nice, don't say it at all.
00:24:57.720 Good for you.
00:24:58.340 You're very polite.
00:24:59.100 That's a very Canadian thing to do.
00:25:00.340 Very Canadian.
00:25:01.220 He's not even an American. 0.96
00:25:02.640 Don't worry about me.
00:25:03.460 All right.
00:25:04.220 I'll bless you, man.
00:25:05.240 Nice to meet you.
00:25:06.420 That's huge.
00:25:07.100 I'm sorry I lost the dog.
00:25:09.060 Don't want to hear.
00:25:09.720 I'll be kidding.
00:25:10.220 Thank you, man.
00:25:11.620 The dog is good, man.
00:25:13.120 Right on.
00:25:13.540 That's what he looks like when he's dressed up.
00:25:15.540 Oh, dear.
00:25:16.580 There you go.
00:25:17.220 Tight-dye.
00:25:17.840 Sorry.
00:25:18.400 That's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
00:25:20.760 Hey, guys.
00:25:21.960 All right.
00:25:22.600 Cheers, guys.
00:25:23.300 I'm going to grab with you.
00:25:23.880 I have a flat.
00:25:24.560 Are you serious?
00:25:25.460 I have a flat.
00:25:26.340 Oh, what the hell?
00:25:27.320 I'm coming in here.
00:25:28.220 That's great.
00:25:28.740 Are you Canadian or American?
00:25:29.960 American.
00:25:30.640 And I've heard him speak.
00:25:31.700 It's awful.
00:25:32.400 And why are you so passionate about this?
00:25:34.860 Because he doesn't give a shit about his own country.
00:25:37.560 It's sad.
00:25:38.320 He's in New York today.
00:25:39.320 What do you think of that?
00:25:40.400 There's awful people in New York every day.
00:25:42.620 I think independent outfits like yourself have a very unique and some would say constitutional
00:25:51.440 or even sacred right to exist.
00:25:56.220 We need other voices.
00:25:58.180 If you had to describe him in one word, do you have an adjunct?
00:26:02.860 Handsome.
00:26:03.620 Wow.
00:26:04.520 That's Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:26:07.160 Oh, yeah.
00:26:07.960 What do you think of that?
00:26:09.480 That's not good.
00:26:10.900 Well, there you have it.
00:26:11.760 The vast majority of people have no clue who Justin Trudeau is.
00:26:15.980 When I showed the blackface that did ring a bell for some people, I'd say it was sort 1.00
00:26:22.700 of lukewarm reception.
00:26:23.980 Some foreigners thought he looked dreamy.
00:26:26.760 But I encountered some Canadians down here in New York who don't have a lot of time for
00:26:31.940 Trudeau and a very passionate man from the Caribbean and now the UK who has a lot to say about Trudeau's
00:26:38.780 violation of civil liberties.
00:26:40.420 It was a really fun day.
00:26:41.560 To learn more about our trip to New York and the other things we've done, go to rebelfieldreports.com.
00:26:51.720 Tell me a little bit about Code Pink and what are you here to say?
00:26:55.160 Well, hi, I'm Jody.
00:26:57.540 I'm from Code Pink.
00:26:58.320 I'm one of the co-founders.
00:26:59.940 And we're here, you know, smack in the middle of where UN visitors are walking because there's
00:27:06.000 not really a conversation about Gaza.
00:27:08.160 And this is UN week, you know, UN climate week.
00:27:12.180 But war is the greatest contributor to climate change.
00:27:16.340 And we're not hearing it on any of the stages.
00:27:19.600 So we're here to bring the message, to disrupt in certain audiences, to be out in front of
00:27:24.860 the UN saying war is not great.
00:27:27.400 Where's that conversation happening here?
00:27:29.220 All you hear about are like capitalist solutions to climate change, which is so hypocritical
00:27:34.660 because it's capitalism and it's violence and it's greed that is driving this destruction
00:27:41.320 of the planet.
00:27:43.080 I mean, I have no doubt that war is environmentally disastrous.
00:27:47.580 I remember during the Gulf War when a bunch of oil derricks were set on fire.
00:27:52.740 It was a catastrophe.
00:27:54.640 But, you know, I think some people would say, well, the human life costs on all sides is probably
00:28:01.660 the more acute problem in a war.
00:28:03.900 What do you think of that?
00:28:06.340 Well, everyone knows that part and they talk about that part.
00:28:10.140 Not enough.
00:28:10.960 Nobody talks about the fact that the lies that drove us to war, including Canada and all those 0.54
00:28:18.520 people in Canada that went to war and the money that they spent from their tax dollars.
00:28:22.760 Which war are you referring to?
00:28:25.380 Well, the war on terror that Canada joined the United States in that cost almost six million lives.
00:28:34.160 So we're watching Palestine right now.
00:28:35.940 We're watching Gaza and we're horrified every day by the loss of life and the violence of 1.00
00:28:42.440 war and the destruction of everything, including the planet.
00:28:45.680 Of course, that's a destruction of the planet that's quite obvious.
00:28:48.940 But, and we don't talk enough about the cost of life, but right here, right now, in this week,
00:28:56.500 they're talking about the climate, but they're not talking about war.
00:29:01.240 War is the greatest contributor to climate change.
00:29:04.620 The numbers show that it contributes more than like 60 countries. War. 0.81
00:29:10.500 War.
00:29:11.500 You seem very charming, but I want to ask you some tough questions.
00:29:15.060 Is that okay?
00:29:16.060 I love tough questions.
00:29:17.060 Are you sure?
00:29:18.060 I'm sure.
00:29:19.060 Okay.
00:29:20.060 I remember when Code Pink was very strong, when you had an enormous turnout all the time,
00:29:27.060 a lot of media coverage.
00:29:28.540 And that was when George W. Bush was president.
00:29:31.540 That's the global war on terror you're talking about.
00:29:34.000 But as soon as Barack Obama and the Democrats took over and increased the number of drone
00:29:38.820 strikes and basically let loose all of Libya regime change there, I couldn't help but observe 0.97
00:29:47.560 the Code Pink, well, you certainly weren't as vigorous with the Democrats.
00:29:53.860 You didn't have the same number.
00:29:55.060 You weren't paying attention.
00:29:56.060 You weren't paying pretty close attention.
00:29:57.060 We disrupted Obama so much.
00:29:58.220 We were all that was left of the anti-war movement.
00:30:01.880 We disrupted Obama constantly.
00:30:04.280 We had the only drone program was out of Code Pink.
00:30:07.780 We had drone conferences.
00:30:09.180 We called him out on his Kill Tuesdays.
00:30:11.340 We went to Yemen.
00:30:12.280 We went to Afghanistan.
00:30:13.840 We brought drone victims to Congress to testify.
00:30:17.320 He was droning people like 3,000 a month.
00:30:20.640 We got it down to under 1,000 because of our pressure.
00:30:24.620 So yes, when Obama got in, you watched everybody go silent but not Code Pink.
00:30:30.500 Right after he won, that November, we went to Afghanistan.
00:30:33.980 I collected 4,000 signatures from women in Afghanistan that said, please don't escalate.
00:30:39.500 I hand-delivered it to him.
00:30:41.380 And he tried to get rid of me.
00:30:42.540 I already called him out for the no good war part. 0.72
00:30:46.360 And then he patted me on the shoulder, as patronizingly as he does, and said, oh, we're
00:30:51.920 not going to fix Afghanistan anytime soon. 0.83
00:30:54.500 I said, you are never going to fix Afghanistan. 1.00
00:30:57.900 Only the Afghan people can do that. 1.00
00:30:59.860 I think you're right.
00:31:00.860 What do you think of Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris?
00:31:03.680 Well, I think it shows who Kamala Harris is.
00:31:06.740 She's the warmongering president. 0.97
00:31:08.480 You know, it's horrible.
00:31:12.240 To see her embrace war and then watch women flock to her is very hard to watch as a feminist.
00:31:18.860 Very hard to watch as a feminist. 1.00
00:31:21.280 And not only that, the fact that she's the vice president and hasn't done anything about
00:31:24.800 a genocide isn't even speaking out, isn't speaking against Biden around a genocide.
00:31:29.780 She doesn't understand that that would galvanize people to her instead of she just looks, well, 0.80
00:31:35.660 she's, you know, the Manchurian candidate.
00:31:38.000 I want to ask you one more skeptical question, and thanks for answering them.
00:31:42.540 Those are not hard questions.
00:31:43.680 Those are my faves.
00:31:44.960 Okay, good.
00:31:45.540 I mean, I think answering challenging questions is the way to get the most interesting information.
00:31:51.780 So, you've mentioned genocide, and by that, I presume you mean...
00:31:55.240 Gaza.
00:31:55.940 Yes, I mean Gaza, the genocide on the people of Palestine. 0.77
00:31:59.160 It has now moved to Lebanon.
00:32:02.180 Now, a skeptic...
00:32:03.320 Which exposes the colonizing, imperialistic manner of this war that has more to do with
00:32:09.500 racism and colonialism and apartheid than religions, which people get lost in.
00:32:15.400 So, again, let me ask you the devil's advocate question.
00:32:18.600 A skeptic would say, for example, the pager attack.
00:32:23.960 Those were pagers held by Hezbollah terrorists.
00:32:27.360 It was a...
00:32:27.900 Who said they were Hezbollah terrorists?
00:32:30.220 Well, I think...
00:32:30.940 I think it's the government of a country.
00:32:32.560 I think Hezbollah had a funeral, and they said, these are our people, and we're going
00:32:36.860 to strike back.
00:32:37.360 Yeah, Hezbollah is a government of a country.
00:32:40.500 Hamas is a government of Gaza.
00:32:43.120 I don't think Hezbollah... 0.90
00:32:43.580 The fact that the United States and Canada get to name them terrorists is called violence.
00:32:48.880 That's called imperialism, and it's called racism.
00:32:51.660 I don't think...
00:32:52.460 Who kills more people than this country?
00:32:54.600 We are terrorists.
00:32:55.720 I think Martin Luther King said this is the most terrorist country in the world, and it
00:32:58.940 remains so.
00:32:59.700 Wow.
00:33:01.540 Well, those are some powerful thoughts.
00:33:02.820 I have one last one for you.
00:33:03.920 Powerful thoughts.
00:33:04.780 Yeah.
00:33:05.260 That's...
00:33:05.660 It's like...
00:33:06.700 It's not a thought.
00:33:07.920 It's an observation.
00:33:09.140 I'm complimenting you.
00:33:09.800 About what's happening.
00:33:10.760 I'm complimenting you for your enthusiasm.
00:33:12.560 We have too many people...
00:33:13.700 And you look like you're alternative media.
00:33:16.080 Sure, though.
00:33:16.400 Too many people look at mainstream media and the lies they are fed, which we know are lies.
00:33:22.980 We watch it happen.
00:33:23.960 We watch the lies be exposed over and over and over again, and still people ingest it
00:33:29.320 and parrot it.
00:33:30.420 Can you believe being these people in Canada and America and Israel that think what we are
00:33:38.180 watching in the media, alternative media, is okay?
00:33:43.540 That that is okay human behavior?
00:33:46.260 That we have just watched state-sponsored terrorism, which is the blowing up of those pagers, indiscriminately
00:33:55.260 killing people. 0.87
00:33:56.040 Those pagers were in the pockets of doctors, and, you know...
00:34:00.180 Are you sure?
00:34:00.620 Yes, I'm very sure.
00:34:02.260 Yes.
00:34:03.000 Well, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, who's not the head of Lebanon, I don't think,
00:34:08.960 he, like, he really said that this was a...
00:34:10.840 He's the government of Lebanon.
00:34:12.540 I'd have to Google it, but I don't think it's Nasrallah.
00:34:16.120 Okay, well...
00:34:17.120 I typed in leader of Lebanon in Google, and it says, Michelle Aoun, and he's with the free
00:34:23.140 patriotic movements.
00:34:24.180 I'm just going from Google, the president of Lebanon, Michelle Aoun, it doesn't look like
00:34:31.060 he's with Hezbollah.
00:34:33.500 A governing structure of Lebanon is Hezbollah, like, who's delivering services to the people? 0.97
00:34:39.560 Check it out.
00:34:40.460 I have one last question for you, and you've been very generous with your time.
00:34:43.740 A skeptic would say, even if you look at the worst case for the numbers of civilian casualties
00:34:55.620 in Gaza, that although tragic, every civilian life loss is tragic, just in sheer numbers,
00:35:04.640 it's smaller than other wars going on in the world right now, and that wars that have gone
00:35:10.680 on for years.
00:35:12.100 And yet, where has Code Pink been on that?
00:35:14.480 For example, Turkey versus the Kurds. 0.92
00:35:17.100 You've been there?
00:35:18.100 And I just feel like...
00:35:19.700 You're not paying attention.
00:35:20.360 But where's your signs about that?
00:35:24.240 And the Turks are here, but here's what we do.
00:35:27.420 I think you focus on the Jews.
00:35:29.120 No, no, oh my God.
00:35:30.200 Well, you're not focusing on the Turks, you're not focusing on the Libyans, you're not focusing
00:35:33.640 on the Iranians, you're not focusing on the Saudis or the Yemenites.
00:35:37.240 We focus on our government.
00:35:39.460 So where is our government funding something is where we can affect...
00:35:43.520 We can't affect Turkey, but we can only affect... 1.00
00:35:47.340 We are U.S. citizens.
00:35:48.400 We can only affect our own government.
00:35:50.340 And by the way, on Yemen, I've been in the streets for 10 years on Yemen.
00:35:54.060 But I don't see any reference to Yemen here.
00:35:56.700 I see that you're focusing on the Jews.
00:35:59.260 The Jews? 0.81
00:35:59.960 Yeah, the Jews. 0.99
00:36:00.960 You're not talking...
00:36:01.700 I'm in the streets with Jews.
00:36:02.900 And by the way, I'm married to one, so I mean...
00:36:05.280 But you're taking on the Jews, you're calling the Jews genociders, you're using that language
00:36:10.780 of, frankly, the Nazis against the Jews.
00:36:13.540 But I don't see any language here about Yemen, Turkey, or any of the other countries I just
00:36:17.220 mentioned.
00:36:17.620 We're around Gaza right now.
00:36:18.880 And I'm saying, isn't that a coincidence that you...
00:36:23.140 No, because that's what our country is funding right now.
00:36:26.160 A very public genocide.
00:36:27.520 Turkey's a NATO ally of the United States.
00:36:29.920 There's an American base in Turkey.
00:36:31.540 What's the situation do you see around NATO?
00:36:33.560 Trump!
00:36:33.760 We were just in the streets in D.C.
00:36:37.320 It's like you can't take it all on at once if you want to be effective in your messaging.
00:36:41.500 You need to speak to one thing at a time.
00:36:43.920 How do you engage people in learning without focusing?
00:36:46.580 And by the way, it's not Jews. 0.94
00:36:48.200 It's Zionists. 1.00
00:36:49.680 And what's it if it's between a Jew and a Zionist? 0.60
00:36:51.540 A lot.
00:36:53.020 I don't know the difference.
00:36:54.280 Zion is... 0.70
00:36:54.940 There's Mount Zion.
00:36:55.840 It's basically saying not all Italians are for Italy.
00:36:59.380 I think pretty much all of them are.
00:37:02.800 All what?
00:37:03.180 Like, what Jew wouldn't be for... 1.00
00:37:04.680 What did you just say?
00:37:05.560 Pretty much all Italians are for Italy. 0.99
00:37:08.380 If there was an Italian who said, no, I'm Italian, but I don't believe in Italy, you'd say, that doesn't make any sense.
00:37:13.540 I'm telling you that Zionism is the core of Judaism. 0.95
00:37:16.480 So you need to get some education.
00:37:19.020 I went to Jewish school until I was in grade...
00:37:21.660 Okay, so Zionism was a creation of imperialism. 0.76
00:37:25.000 Which is actually mentioned in the Bible.
00:37:26.360 That's where the word comes from.
00:37:27.560 Not the Zionism being practiced right now.
00:37:30.060 Zionism believes in the Jewish homeland in the land of the Bible.
00:37:36.660 The Zionism that is being practiced right now as an imperialist project in Israel is not...
00:37:43.800 If that is your religion, I'm sorry for you. 1.00
00:37:46.140 Well, thanks for your pity, but how can it...
00:37:49.460 I actually have... I've actually studied... I was in a relationship with a rabbi.
00:37:54.320 That is, Zionism has nothing to do with the values of being Jewish.
00:37:59.380 Well, it's the Jewish home. 0.70
00:38:00.880 You need to go back and study your...
00:38:02.600 So whose land is it? Who predates the Jews there?
00:38:05.440 The land belongs... All the land belongs to the people.
00:38:08.140 The fact that we separate it and pretend to own it is its own crime and disease.
00:38:12.440 But just in terms of first in right...
00:38:15.140 The land is given to the people.
00:38:18.700 Which people?
00:38:18.860 We are all the people.
00:38:19.900 What are we, separating ourselves from each other?
00:38:21.560 That doesn't work.
00:38:22.600 That's it for...
00:38:23.520 I'm a peace activist.
00:38:24.720 The Jews were there for millennia before Islam was even created.
00:38:30.420 So how can Jews be imperialists in their own country? 0.70
00:38:33.600 You know, Native Americans were here for millennia too.
00:38:36.000 Does it... We're going to give this to the...
00:38:37.820 I'd love to give this to the Native Americans if you're for that.
00:38:40.880 I don't believe you would because you haven't done anything in that regard.
00:38:43.620 Well, I have done that.
00:38:44.440 What have you done?
00:38:45.040 I've given my land to the Native Americans.
00:38:47.180 I think you're making things up now.
00:38:48.780 I didn't... No, you want to go check it out?
00:38:50.280 No, really.
00:38:50.940 Okay.
00:38:51.300 What do you think about some of the mottos I've heard chanted at Columbia and in Canada?
00:38:57.660 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:39:00.480 What do you think of that chant?
00:39:02.960 I think that is the dream that the Israelis will become Jewish and practice their religion
00:39:10.820 and that everyone in the land of Palestine will be free.
00:39:15.120 I don't think that's what it means.
00:39:16.440 I think it means to remove the Jews from Israel. 1.00
00:39:19.440 I don't think that's what it means.
00:39:20.800 And how about there is only one solution, Intifada revolution? 0.72
00:39:25.960 What do you think that means?
00:39:27.860 I don't know what...
00:39:28.880 You don't know what Intifada means?
00:39:30.340 You're a peace activist.
00:39:31.440 You don't know what...
00:39:32.020 You're here protesting against Israel.
00:39:33.740 I know what Intifada means in the sense in Islam.
00:39:38.120 And what does it mean?
00:39:38.920 It's an internal practice.
00:39:40.620 I don't think it is.
00:39:41.940 I think you're confusing that with jihad.
00:39:44.080 I'm not a Muslim here, no.
00:39:45.180 I don't think I really feel like I'm a Muslim.
00:39:49.040 Okay.
00:39:49.620 I'm more schooled in being Jewish than being Muslim, so I can't really talk about it.
00:39:56.000 No worries.
00:39:56.680 Listen, I really appreciate you being generous with your time.
00:39:59.340 And I disagree with pretty much everything you said.
00:40:02.720 But you said it with passion and belief.
00:40:05.160 And you said it non-violently.
00:40:07.100 And so I guess points for that.
00:40:09.020 Thank you.
00:40:09.820 Nice to meet you.
00:40:10.500 Nice to meet you.
00:40:23.100 I went down to New York just for the day.
00:40:25.180 I went there in the morning, came back in the afternoon, had a great plane ticket, so it wasn't expensive.
00:40:30.080 It's always exciting to go down there, which is why Justin Trudeau prefers it to pretty much any Canadian city other than Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal.
00:40:37.260 He goes to those three cities more than he goes to New York.
00:40:39.800 But he goes to New York much more than he goes to, say, boring, conservative places like Calgary or Edmonton.
00:40:46.740 I don't think New York thinks about Canada a lot, even though there's probably a quarter million Canadians there.
00:40:52.620 I was in Times Square, which is a lot of tourists, I grant you, but I don't think ordinary Americans really think about Canada that much.
00:41:02.280 I don't know if American leaders think about Canada that much.
00:41:06.400 I mean, they used to, but Canada's not a serious player in anything anymore, from economics to military to diplomatic matters.
00:41:12.680 We're just not at the front line.
00:41:14.100 We've had a guy who shows his fancy socks as a party joke, and people sort of chuckle and say, yeah, there, there, go sit at the kids' table.
00:41:21.680 I think that was the idea behind my streeters, going out to people and saying, do you know who this is?
00:41:26.300 Just to show that Trudeau thinks he's a big shot, and his traveling gaggle of Canadian media fawn over him wherever he is.
00:41:33.480 But I think he could walk down the street in New York City, and most people wouldn't even know who he was.
00:41:39.680 That's our show for today.
00:41:41.040 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:41:51.680 We'll see you next time.