Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel journalists arrive in Switzerland! I’ll show you what they’re doing already

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I want to show you what we're up to in Switzerland. I'm sort of jealous

00:00:04.740 because I myself am forbidden from getting on an airplane or a train. I'm one of the millions of

00:00:09.260 Canadians that is discriminated against our civil liberties being suspended by Justin Trudeau. The

00:00:14.660 establishment seems fine with that. But nonetheless, we were able to send six people to Switzerland

00:00:20.200 from our other friendly countries, the UK, Australia, and the US, to cover the World Economic

00:00:26.060 Forum and the World Health Assembly. I think we're going to do some outstanding journalism. I know

00:00:31.600 we are because we already are. Before I get there, I got to say, look, if you're listening to this on

00:00:38.380 a podcast, thank you. But you've got to see the video that Avi Amini recorded in Davos this morning.

00:00:46.140 I just, you've got to see it with your eyes because you've got to see the police and the soldiers and

00:00:52.080 you've got to see the fake storefronts and you've got to see the logos of the media companies.

00:00:57.200 It really is a visual moment. So you can do that by getting the video version of this podcast.

00:01:03.020 We call it Rebel News Plus. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. Eight bucks a month. That's half the price of

00:01:09.140 Netflix. And just click subscribe, rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. Eight bucks a month. You get my

00:01:16.100 show every day. And then four weekly shows. So 36 shows a month. And it's not even how many there

00:01:24.140 are. It's stuff you just can't find elsewhere. No one else is doing in Davos what we're doing.

00:01:32.100 All right. Without further ado, here's today's podcast.

00:01:46.100 Tonight, rebel journalists arrive in Switzerland. I'll show you what they're doing already. It's

00:01:55.660 May 20th and this is the Esther Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest

00:02:02.080 carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only

00:02:07.820 thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing is because it's my bloody right

00:02:12.620 to do so. You know, I used to travel a lot, not just for work, but there was a year and a half

00:02:22.320 when I worked at Sun News in Toronto. My family was in Calgary. I flew back twice a week. I did 200

00:02:28.220 flights in a year. I haven't flown at all since the flight ban was imposed, the no-fly list on the

00:02:35.580 unvaccinated. And I haven't left the country since before the emergency was declared. I don't know.

00:02:42.460 I think if I didn't have the social connection here at the office where I didn't have a family,

00:02:48.080 I think I'd go mad. I mean, you can find a lot to do in a city, but even then, Toronto was one of

00:02:53.820 the most locked down cities in the country. If I were a single person and if I didn't have a company

00:02:58.980 that people felt comfortable coming to work at, I think I might have gone mad. I think a lot of

00:03:04.160 people did. I think we won't know for years the mental health damage done. Politicians like to talk

00:03:11.460 about mental health. I don't think they believe it. What they did, not just to regular people,

00:03:16.920 not just to the single person without a family, lonely and distressed the last two years, but what

00:03:21.460 they did to children and teenagers is unacceptable. And I'll never forgive them for that, frankly.

00:03:30.160 Canada remains the only country in the world that does not allow people to fly or take a train.

00:03:35.400 That might work in a tiny town like, I don't know, Monaco or Vatican City, but it doesn't work in the

00:03:40.980 second largest country in the world. It's shocking to me that the establishment does not care. I hear a

00:03:47.800 lot of debate about Bill 21 in Quebec. You might remember that was the bill that imposed a secular

00:03:53.440 nature on the public service, and you can agree with it or not, but that is regarded as the greatest

00:03:58.460 sin in civil liberties in this country. You can see it brought up in the Conservative Party debate.

00:04:03.100 How dare you allow this violation of civil liberties, namely that Quebecers don't want 1.00

00:04:07.460 any religious symbols on government employees at work. I can frankly see both sides of that, but

00:04:12.820 to compare that to the fact that six, seven million Canadians are banned from traveling because of a

00:04:22.940 government edict that makes no sense scientifically or epidemiologically, and the establishment is fine

00:04:28.560 with that is atrocious. I'm pleased to say that in recent weeks, namely since the overthrow of the

00:04:34.720 Liberal Erin O'Toole as the party leader, the Conservative Party of Canada is making up for a year of silence on

00:04:40.200 the matter, sort of. Melissa Landsman, the transport critic for the party, has raised this no-fly list

00:04:47.520 many times in Parliament. I think she's doing a good job on it. Take a look.

00:04:51.640 The Honourable Member for Thornhill.

00:04:54.360 50,000 fans watch the Jays play live. No masks, no mandates. Over 20,000 with standing room only

00:05:01.760 to see the Leafs in the playoffs. No masks, no mandates. And thank goodness this government's not

00:05:07.460 in charge of sports. The secret public health advice that they are getting seems exclusively focused

00:05:13.520 on punishing Canadians who want to fly and see their families or get back to work. So I'll ask again,

00:05:18.900 which day will this government end the vindictive mandates? 0.83

00:05:27.820 The Honourable Minister of Health.

00:05:30.100 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm very glad to answer this question. There's no secret, Mr. Speaker,

00:05:35.960 no secret evidence. Everyone knows that vaccination saves lives. 163,000 lives would have been saved in the

00:05:45.100 United States just with Omicron if they had had a higher vaccination rate. In Canada, Mr. Speaker,

00:05:51.340 we have been vaccinated to a large number, to a large extent. And that's why we have been successful

00:05:56.420 at having one of the lowest rates of death in the world with COVID-19.

00:06:05.300 I think it's smart for the Conservatives to lean into this issue. I think it's good for the Conservatives

00:06:10.300 to build up bona fides on civil liberties. Someone has to and the left isn't. I think it expands the

00:06:16.440 party's base to include people who used to call themselves liberals or even the Democrats or even

00:06:21.300 Greens. Anyone who's not jabbed can see a champion now in the Conservative Party. Speaking in a pragmatic

00:06:29.680 way, it will help them regain the trust of people who broke off to support Maxime Bernier and the

00:06:35.140 People's Party. And I guess most obviously, the Conservative Party can be conservative again.

00:06:41.740 That's one of the institutions that has failed us so badly, opposition parties in this country.

00:06:47.180 I think it's a disgrace that Canada's courts have not done a thing. You know, Brian Peckford,

00:06:54.680 the former premier, in fact, the last surviving premier to sign the Charter of Rights,

00:06:58.300 he is a plaintiff amongst many in a lawsuit to challenge the no-fly list. The courts won't hear

00:07:05.980 it for months. Why? In the United States, their Supreme Court has issued a half dozen important

00:07:11.720 rulings on lockdown laws. Why have our courts failed us? Here at Rebel News, we used to fly a lot.

00:07:19.420 We haven't done a lot of flying. I mean, there was no reason to fly. I suppose there were very few

00:07:24.560 events. Luckily, we had rebel reporters across the country. And we traveled by truck. It's true.

00:07:30.420 During the convoy, we embedded people in the trucker convoy going across the country, Mocha

00:07:35.020 Bazirgan and Celine Galas. And also we had reporters from different cities. But events are back in Canada

00:07:42.420 now. And most of our staff are still prisoners, really. We're under house arrest. Which brings me to

00:07:49.700 the topic of the day. In a resort town called Davos in Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is meeting.

00:08:00.480 They, too, haven't met in person for a couple of years. And the same exact days, elsewhere in Sweden,

00:08:07.620 in the city of Geneva, the World Health Organization is having its assembly. So, you know, that's the

00:08:14.220 UN committee in charge of our health. You know Davos. It's where Justin Trudeau goes to talk about

00:08:21.660 what a feminist he is before people laughed at that. Remember this? 0.79

00:08:25.740 I'm incredibly proud to have a partner in my wife, Sophie, who is extremely committed to women and

00:08:31.820 girls' issues. But she took me aside a few months ago and said, okay, it's great that you're engaged and

00:08:38.460 modeling to your daughter that you want her in power and everything. But you need to take as much effort

00:08:44.060 to talk to your sons, my eight-year-old boy and my two-year-old so little young still, about how he

00:08:49.660 treats women and how he is going to be grown up to be a feminist just like dad. And by the way,

00:08:55.500 we shouldn't be afraid of the word feminist. Men and women should use it to describe themselves 0.99

00:09:00.700 anytime they want.

00:09:01.740 Davos has some drama because it really is the titans of the world. I mean, Trudeau was sort of

00:09:07.900 there for a bit of humorous effect. He was showing everyone his socks and talking about how feminist he

00:09:12.860 was. But there are some masters of the universe who go there. A couple of years ago, George Soros gave a

00:09:18.860 keynote address at the World Economic Forum. And I was very interested to see that he saw China as his great

00:09:25.660 enemy. And he denounced them in a keynote speech. The social credit system is not yet fully operational,

00:09:35.580 but it's clear where it's heading. It will subordinate the fate of the individual to the interests

00:09:45.580 of the one-party state in ways unprecedented in history.

00:09:54.300 I find the social credit system frightening and abhorrent. Unfortunately, some Chinese find it rather

00:10:05.340 attractive because it provides information and services that aren't currently available

00:10:13.180 and can also protect law-abiding citizens against enemies of the state.

00:10:25.180 China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world, but it's undoubtedly the wealthiest,

00:10:35.260 strongest and most developed in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This makes Xi Jinping the

00:10:46.220 most dangerous opponent of those who believe in the concept of open society. But Xi isn't alone.

00:10:56.780 Well, George Soros is a very powerful man. He's the man who broke the Bank of England. He's a billionaire,

00:11:14.380 one of the richest men in the world, and certainly one of the most politically active with his money. But

00:11:19.180 he's not bigger and tougher and stronger and richer than Xi Jinping. And it comes down to money. It is called

00:11:24.380 the World Economic Forum, not the World's Civil Rights Forum. And in fact, it was that Soros lost that

00:11:31.660 battle and Xi Jinping became the honored guest of the World Economic Forum. Look at this speech where he was

00:11:38.460 their hero. He's the new boss of the World Economic Forum. At least he's their emotional hero. Klaus Schwab remains

00:11:46.140 their executive director. But look at this from Xi Jinping.

00:11:49.740 The right way forward for humanity is peaceful development and win-win cooperation.

00:11:58.300 Different countries and civilizations may prosper together on the basis of respect for each other,

00:12:05.180 and seek common ground and win-win outcomes by setting aside differences.

00:12:09.580 We should follow the trend of history, work for a stable international order, advocate common values

00:12:18.620 of humanity, and build a community with a shared future for mankind. We should choose dialogue over

00:12:25.500 confrontation, inclusiveness over exclusion, and stand against all forms of unilateralism, protectionism,

00:12:34.380 hegemony, or power politics. China will faithfully fulfill its obligations

00:12:42.300 and deepen economic and trade ties with other RCEP parties. China will also continue to work for the

00:12:50.380 joining of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Digital

00:12:56.220 Economy Partnership Agreement with a view to further integrating into the regional and global economy

00:13:03.740 and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results. Well they're meeting again and I want to be there

00:13:08.860 and it's the worst people in the world. Here is the president of Pfizer talking about something that

00:13:16.140 until this moment if you were to say it people would say you're a nut, you're a conspiracy theorist,

00:13:21.100 you're paranoid, namely that there will be a chip implanted in your vaccine. If you were to say that 0.79

00:13:28.300 that's actually literally one of the things described on the YouTube list of things you can't say.

00:13:35.180 They specifically say that if you make a video claiming there's a microchip in a vaccine you will

00:13:41.900 have your channel shut down. Well here's the president of Pfizer saying he's going to do that.

00:13:48.620 It is a basically biological chip that it is in the tablet and once you take the tablet and dissolves

00:13:57.820 into your stomach sends a signal that you took the tablet. So imagine the applications of that

00:14:03.660 compliance the insurance companies to know that the medicines that patients should take they do take

00:14:10.060 them. It is fascinating what happens in in this field. I don't know does that YouTube video get taken

00:14:17.420 down. There's scary people who work for the World Economic Forum year-round obviously Xi Jinping and

00:14:23.980 George Soros and Boerlove Pfizer don't but here's someone named Yuval Noah Harari and he's sort of the

00:14:31.500 deep thinker of the World Economic Forum and he talks a lot about hacking people, transhumanism, 0.99

00:14:40.620 where you basically plug into someone's brain and body and can manipulate them. He calls it hacking

00:14:49.180 people listen to this guy for a bit.

00:14:50.860 ...regimes but also by democratic governments. The U.S. for example is building a global surveillance system

00:15:00.700 while my home country of Israel is trying to build a total surveillance regime in the West Bank.

00:15:11.660 But control of data might enable human elites

00:15:16.460 to do something even more radical than just build digital dictatorships.

00:15:22.220 ...by hacking organisms elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself because

00:15:31.740 once you can hack something you can usually also engineer it.

00:15:35.660 He really is like the mini me to Klaus Schwab. Who's Klaus Schwab? Well here's a little trailer we made for

00:15:44.460 a docu-series that we're rolling out tonight. Watch a little bit about this. Klaus Schwab is the star of this.

00:15:51.500 The effect will be much similar to World War and actually all countries in the world are affected.

00:16:01.100 We can reshape the world in ways we couldn't before.

00:16:03.980 Ways that better address so many of the challenges we face.

00:16:07.580 And that's why so many are calling for a great reset.

00:16:12.620 Millions of Americans staying at home are relying on Amazon.

00:16:15.740 Millions of Americans staying at home are relying on Amazon.

00:16:19.500 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. It's a phrase you've probably heard over the last couple of years.

00:16:26.300 But what exactly does it mean?

00:16:39.500 He really does come across as a Bond supervillain. Like it really is too much, isn't it?

00:16:53.660 But these are the people who say you will own nothing and be happy.

00:16:59.420 They're the ones who say eat the bugs. Eat meat made by a machine. They really do say this.

00:17:08.220 So that's a World Economic Forum going on in Davos. A train ride away is the World Health Assembly. That's the

00:17:14.380 World Health Organization of the United Nations. It's one of their major agencies.

00:17:18.380 They've got a treaty that they're debating.

00:17:24.380 Have you read about that treaty in the Global Mail, the Toronto Star, in your local daily newspaper on the CBCC TV?

00:17:32.460 It really is a treaty. Here, you can see it here. This is from the World Health Organization's website.

00:17:38.620 Why aren't they talking about it? Who's going to cover that?

00:17:42.220 Do you think the media I've just listed are going to cover that? Why?

00:17:45.660 They're all on the take for Justin Trudeau. They're not going to do anything that will embarrass him.

00:17:51.580 We will cover it like we have covered the United Nations in the past.

00:17:57.340 What's so interesting is the media who like to say they speak truth to power,

00:18:04.300 like to envisage themselves as some sort of official opposition, they have ceased taking that role.

00:18:09.580 They stopped when the pandemic began. They don't hold the government to account.

00:18:14.940 We do, even when we're banned from going to events. Like I say, the World Health Organization

00:18:19.740 is part of the UN. I want to show you how our own Sheila Gunn-Reed did journalism from UN events,

00:18:25.340 talking about things that you're not supposed to talk about. Here she is at Marrakech. Just take a

00:18:30.780 look at this. The COP22 UN Climate Conference is underway and myself and the rest of the rebel team

00:18:37.820 are just settling in here to Marrakech, Morocco to bring you a week full of coverage that you know

00:18:43.900 you won't see or hear anywhere else in the mainstream media. And even though we aren't even

00:18:50.140 inside the conference center yet, we are already hard at work. Now everywhere in this

00:18:55.260 city are these massive signs and banners proclaiming the presence of COP22. And these signs,

00:19:02.300 well, they're obviously headed for the trash after this conference wraps up in just a week. It's just a

00:19:07.980 big fancy disposable show for the world that goes in the garbage can when all the rich elites go back to

00:19:14.780 wherever they came from. And all day there were rich people in nice cars, SUVs actually, coming and going

00:19:22.780 from the conference center site. And the conference center site itself is, well, it's completely

00:19:27.660 astroturfed. In the middle of this old world city with North African architecture is this big fake 1.00

00:19:36.060 plastic tarped complex manned by UN guards. And completely unironically, the conference center

00:19:42.300 itself is directly under the flight path to the airport. The globalist elites, well, they're going to have a

00:19:47.980 hard time ignoring that fossil fuels are the reason that they got here and fossil fuels will be the

00:19:53.580 reason that they get home with that constant reminder overhead. But rest assured, we know these

00:19:59.820 elites well. These climate conferences are generally held in warm climates or luxurious places that you'd

00:20:07.340 want to travel to. Last year it was Paris. They've been held recently in Lima, Peru, Durban, South Africa,

00:20:13.180 and even Cancun, Mexico. They never hold these fancy shindigs in places like Red Deer, Alberta or

00:20:19.980 Timmins, Ontario or Hay River, Northwest Territories. Those are the places where real people will pay the 0.98

00:20:25.660 price for the policies being written here by people they didn't elect this week. We've only been here a

00:20:32.300 few hours, but something just seems so fake about all of this. The fake parking lot for the SUVs, the fake

00:20:38.220 signs all over town, the fake buildings behind a big fake wall. It feels as fake as the real motivations for this

00:20:45.100 conference. Fake as in these elites will tell you that they care about climate change, but what they

00:20:51.420 really care about is control over you. Now we're going to show you the fossil-fueled hypocrisy of this

00:20:59.100 conference and the deep pockets behind all the delegates and all the activists here on the ground. And we want to

00:21:07.580 show you the real Marrakesh, the regular everyday people who are living in the shadow of this opulent

00:21:14.780 conference of globalist overlords that's taking over their city for the next week. Now we fought hard at

00:21:21.820 the rebel against UN censorship to get our team here. And one of our team members, our producer, Megan McSween,

00:21:28.860 well she's still not accredited for the conference. But that isn't going to stop us, it won't stop us.

00:21:35.100 We've figured out a way here on the ground to work together, but still be apart. We're going to show

00:21:41.020 you what really happens at these UN climate conferences, not what they want you to see.

00:21:48.460 For the rebel.media, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed. Oh I love that. Here's Sheila at another UN convention

00:21:54.620 on global warming also pointing out the diesel fire generators. Remember this? Here on the ground in

00:22:01.020 Katowice, Poland at the United Nations UN climate change conference. And for the second year in a

00:22:07.020 row, the diesel powered frost fighters have made another appearance. Now these little tarp structures

00:22:12.860 behind us, it's, I think they are an emergency services temporary sort of little setup here,

00:22:20.460 but they're being heated by diesel or kerosene powered frost fighters because it's cold in Poland.

00:22:28.300 And I think even the UN acknowledges that. For the rebel.media, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:22:33.980 Well that's our style. And like I say, we can travel again. Well not we, because we implies

00:22:40.540 I'm part of the we. No, I can't travel again. And actually a lot of our staff in Canada can't travel.

00:22:45.260 But our staff from around the world can because they don't have no fly zones in Australia or the

00:22:52.780 United Kingdom or the United States. And so some of our best rebels, not from Canada but from elsewhere

00:22:58.700 in the world, have gone to Davos and are going to Geneva. And I want to show you a wonderful video

00:23:06.540 from the first of our team to land. Abiyamini, our chief Australia correspondent and the two-time

00:23:13.340 winner of the Viewers Choice Award. Let me show you a great video he made with another independent

00:23:19.420 journalist we flew in from Australia named Rakshan Fernando, who's been another critic, a citizen

00:23:26.540 journalist of the lockdowns. I'm going to play this in full for you. It's about four minutes.

00:23:30.060 G'day ladies and gentlemen from the Swiss capital of Zurich. We're here now on our way into Davos.

00:23:38.220 Yes, we're doing that in an election week. Yeah, I mean I was actually torn about coming here

00:23:43.500 while the election is happening. But we had a chat and we thought, you know what, this is where the

00:23:49.260 people who actually set the agenda, despite whoever wins the election in Australia, the agenda for what

00:23:54.940 happens in Australia and many of the countries around the world is set here. So we're going to let the

00:23:59.100 mainstream media focus on the election results. We're going to let the other great alternative

00:24:04.380 media in Australia do the live streams. We're here to bring you the other side of the story

00:24:10.220 from the World Economic Forum and the WHO meeting. But none of this is possible without your help. So

00:24:17.740 wefreports.com. We're doing it budget, but it still costs a lot of money. So anything you can chip in

00:24:25.740 to help make this possible, we are forever grateful. We'll just get one way, one way, one way.

00:24:31.980 One way. So you don't return? We hopefully never come back. No, I'm joking.

00:24:37.900 Okay. How many persons? Two. But he's a child, so it's maybe cheaper.

00:24:45.020 No, I'm not helping. You travel first or second class? The lowest class you have. What's the difference

00:24:55.260 in price? I check. You have any reductions? What do you mean? Reduction cards in Switzerland or no?

00:25:02.860 First time here. First time here. But if you give me a reduction, maybe I'll come back.

00:25:10.380 Unlike those who are coming here to preach climate responsibility

00:25:16.620 in their jets and private limos, this is how we're getting around.

00:25:27.340 I can't believe $106 each to get there. Yeah. That's just one of them.

00:25:34.860 That's a very expensive franchise. It's just mental because that's economy.

00:25:37.740 I think it's worth it. Remember the last straw, I reckon, and I think that makes this whole thing

00:25:44.780 worth it above just the World Economic Forum is a fact that at the same time here, the WHO is

00:25:53.020 essentially meeting to take control of even Australia. Yeah. I mean, how hard has it been

00:26:00.620 for us over the last two years dealing with our state governments and our federal governments

00:26:05.660 and to think now that we have a worldwide body, these organizations, you know, these NGOs,

00:26:13.260 in an essence, running our lives, calling the shots. They want to consolidate power. That's what

00:26:19.340 this is about. And that's why I think it is so worth us being here. And if you agree, check out all the

00:26:25.660 reports at wefreports.com and consider chucking a few bucks. This is just one trip, $106 Australian each.

00:26:36.060 One way. So none of this is possible without your generosity. We're traveling economy. We're not

00:26:43.100 taking limos, flying jets. We are doing it ghetto. We're staying in little rooms or an Airbnb together

00:26:50.780 with the other guys. But all of that is just, it wouldn't be possible without your support.

00:26:57.100 WF reports.com. Chuck in a few bucks and we'll bring you the other side of the story

00:27:04.380 from Switzerland. Rukshan, Rebel News. This is exciting stuff. Thanks for your support.

00:27:12.540 I mean, my main feeling is, boy, I wish I was there. But my immediate second feeling is I'm so proud

00:27:19.020 of what Rebel News is doing. And I'm so delighted that Avi, with his trademark sense of humor

00:27:23.500 and his energy, is there in Davos today. Take a look at this. Avi got there a little early because

00:27:30.060 him and Rukshan wanted to get over the jet lag because coming all the way from Australia, you

00:27:33.180 could imagine. So they got there a little earlier than they were supposed to get there

00:27:38.060 because they were still setting up this fake town of Davos. It's like a movie set they were building.

00:27:44.140 Take a look. So here we are, Avi. This is it. In Davos. What is it taking us? What day is it today?

00:27:51.180 It's the third day, I think. So it's taking us three whole days.

00:27:57.260 If you're ever in doubt as to whether the mainstream media is going to

00:28:01.820 actually ask the tough questions, I think that gives you the answer. They're part of it.

00:28:08.380 Yeah. They're literally a part of it. Oh, the purveyors of misinformation there.

00:28:13.660 As you can see, the security is really ramping up behind us. In the lead up

00:28:21.260 to the annual meeting here in Davos. Military everywhere. Police,

00:28:26.860 as you can see, converging on this small town in Switzerland.

00:28:36.220 So we've got IBM here, virtue signaling. Let's create a better world with a smaller carbon footprint.

00:28:43.500 Let's create something that changes everything.

00:28:46.620 I wonder what their carbon footprint was just to set this up for a week. 1.00

00:28:50.860 Such hypocrites. I wonder what their carbon footprint was for the executives to fly into Davos 0.98

00:29:00.060 on their private jets and their limos and everything they're going to come here with.

00:29:04.460 It's all for show. Look at the building. And then look, they've kind of built this fake wall in front

00:29:09.900 of it. It's everything here is fake. And I think it's fitting. It's fitting that all their buildings are

00:29:16.300 fake because everything about this and them and everything to do with this World Economic Forum is

00:29:22.860 fake. Not even the India Lounge? Is the India Lounge fake? 100%. We only believe in the Sri Lanka Lounge.

00:29:30.220 Just think about the waste of money and resources going into self-promotion here. But they,

00:29:38.300 they justify this though. There's justification for this from that side saying this is necessary to do.

00:29:44.780 Now do you reckon Zelensky will make an appearance? He'd be silly not to. 0.95

00:29:52.060 Come on. How else is he going to win the war against Russia if he doesn't show up to the WEF? 0.91

00:29:57.740 Isn't that great? Avi is, I tell you, he's punching above his weight. He's doing such good journalism there.

00:30:04.700 In addition to Avi and Rukshan, we have Jeremy Lafredo and you've seen him a few times.

00:30:11.100 He's the newest rebel. He joined us to cover the U.S. Convoy. So he's coming in from New York City.

00:30:19.420 Excuse me. Louis Brackbool, our Brit, who's going to be the host of our docuseries on The Great Reset.

00:30:29.420 He's coming in from London. And like I say, we've teamed up with some other journalists who were sort of

00:30:34.860 allies of ours in different places because we rented an Airbnb outside of Davos and it had some extra

00:30:42.060 rooms. So I said to Sophie Corcoran, a young independent citizen journalist from the UK,

00:30:49.660 I said, look, come on over. We'll crowdfund your flight from the UK. You can stay with the

00:30:54.700 Airbnb and run with our guys. She's very young. She agreed. And Savannah Hernandez, who's just amazing,

00:31:01.500 she was with the Blaze. She now works for Truth Social. She's coming to from Texas. So we've got

00:31:09.180 six people all together, half of whom are rebels working for a company and half are sort of friends

00:31:15.820 of rebels. And I want to tell you what they're doing. They're not there to chase down conspiracy theories

00:31:24.780 because there's a difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts. They're there to

00:31:30.860 get the facts. And the thing about a lot of these facts is Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari,

00:31:37.740 they say them to you. They say them out loud. Like this insane statement by Klaus Schwab.

00:31:46.620 And I have to say, when I mention our names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on,

00:31:56.780 they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of

00:32:04.940 now is the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on,

00:32:14.380 that we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau,

00:32:22.780 and I know that half of this cabinet or even more half of this cabinet are actually

00:32:34.940 young global leaders of the World Economic Forum. Right. And that's true in Argentina too. Wow.

00:32:39.500 Yeah. Sorry. That's true in Argentina as well. It's true in Argentina and it's true in France now,

00:32:46.140 I mean with the President, who is a young global leader, but... They talk about infiltrating and

00:32:52.700 penetrating the world's cabinets. They talk about the Great Reset. It's not a conspiracy theory. It is

00:33:00.460 a conspiracy. Listen to them say it. I don't know how it will play out in November, but what we know

00:33:09.180 is that we will end up with many more unemployed and particularly also people in the grey economy, 0.98

00:33:17.100 which are not counted for, who lose their jobs. So we will see definitely a lot of anger

00:33:24.140 already now, but probably increase by the end of the year because this crisis will be with us until we

00:33:33.580 really have found a remedy. So we have to prepare for a more angry world. And how to prepare? It means to

00:33:44.380 take the necessary action to create the fairer world, to see that we provide everybody with decent access to

00:33:55.180 the health system, that we make sure that those people who are really left behind, and I'm not

00:34:04.300 speaking only on national levels, I'm speaking also internationally. If I see now the tragedy in some of the

00:34:11.740 emerging countries like South Africa, like some countries in East Asia, I think it's all, I don't 0.96

00:34:19.580 have too many remedies. The remedies have to be discussed through dialogue by the stakeholders of

00:34:26.940 our global system. But I just see the need for such a dialogue, and I see the need for action. I see the

00:34:35.980 need for a great reset. And that creepy phrase, build back better. It's like they're all reading from a

00:34:42.220 script. Because they are. Take a look. It's a very pertinent question to ask, how do we build back

00:34:48.860 better? To build back better or whatever. We have a chance to reset the clock and build back better than

00:34:55.420 before. To build back better than before. Remember the terrible damage of COVID as we try to build back

00:35:02.940 from this global pandemic. Joe Biden calls it build back better. Build back better. Building back

00:35:11.100 better. To do things differently. To build back better. We're going to build it back better. And

00:35:19.420 build it back better. My plan to build back better. Start taking all the problems that have been created

00:35:28.060 in education and mental health and start to build back in a positive way. I have launched a booklet

00:35:35.900 called Build Back Better. Britain After Coronavirus. It's about building this country back better.

00:35:45.420 Growing conspiracy following it. It is called The Great Reset. An unprecedented opportunity

00:35:51.980 to rethink and reset the ways in which we live. The great opportunity for reset. The theory even calls

00:36:00.940 Mr. Biden's campaign slogan, Build Back Better, a front for the conspiracy. Build back better. Building

00:36:09.180 back better our economy. Build back better. All elements of the Great Reset are fundamental to building the

00:36:19.180 future we need. The future we need. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.

00:36:26.780 It's a big effort to some would say to build back better. We would say to really have a great reset.

00:36:35.740 Conspiracy. Conspiracy. Conspiracy. That's World Economic Forum. But the World Health Organization,

00:36:43.660 World A, they're both globalists. I bet there's a lot of cross-pollination. I bet there's helicopters,

00:36:48.860 speeding back and forth all the time between these two massive conventions. On the one hand,

00:36:54.140 in Geneva, you have the United Nations. So you've got the global government types, the bureaucrats,

00:36:59.500 the diplomats. And at the World Economic Forum side in Davos, you've got the oligarchs, the billionaires,

00:37:05.100 the celebrities, the mooches and the money guys. Back and forth and back and forth.

00:37:10.380 We're going to separate the conspiracy theories from the conspiracies. We're going to do actual reporting for you.

00:37:19.420 I'm very proud of the work we've done, even in the first hours, Avi and Rukshan. And our team is making their way now.

00:37:26.300 I see our people getting on planes in the different cities. They're all going to meet there.

00:37:30.860 I'm very excited about this journalism. I'm just excited that our people are flying again.

00:37:35.420 After two years being locked down, I look forward to one day, I hope,

00:37:38.860 when I too might be able to join them and the rest of our unvaxxed crew here can fly. But for now,

00:37:44.060 let me invite you to go to WEF, World Economic Forum, WEFreports.com. I think it's going to be

00:37:53.100 some of the best journalism ever done on the subject. All right, stay with us. Up next,

00:38:00.300 Conrad Black talking about the state of conservative politics here in Canada.

00:38:15.900 Well, my guest today needs no introduction. Conrad Black, he's been following conservative

00:38:20.380 politics and practicing conservative politics and journalism for more than 50 years on both

00:38:26.140 sides of the Atlantic. We're lucky to have him in the studio today for a quick catch up.

00:38:31.180 Great to see you again. This is an exciting conservative leadership race. I think I can

00:38:35.500 say that, especially in the contrast to the two previous ones. I'm talking about the Canadian

00:38:40.140 Conservative Party. What do you think? I think it's quite a good group of candidates.

00:38:45.180 I think we were all, including some non-conservatives, disappointed that some of the prominent

00:38:52.300 possible contenders didn't appear in the last two leadership conventions. They just didn't run.

00:38:58.940 And so you've got the impression they weren't necessarily, with no disrespect to the people who

00:39:04.060 did run, putting their best people forward. I mean, many people wanted John Charest to run earlier.

00:39:09.900 Many wanted John Baird to run. You know, many wanted Jason Kenney, though it was kind of impractical,

00:39:18.540 given how recently he'd gone back to Alberta. But I think that all of these candidates are quite

00:39:26.220 articulate. And I think there's a bit of variation between all of them. They're not just echoing each

00:39:30.940 other. And I think it's been reasonably civil. Not, excuse me, not a lot of mudslinging or that kind

00:39:38.700 of thing. It's been a bit of a, not much. And different, different approaches. I mean, Patrick

00:39:43.420 Brown, as anyone who follows it knows, is extremely adept at signing up huge numbers of people

00:39:50.220 among certain ethnic groups. And he's really making a drive to get his people in as members capable of

00:39:56.220 voting. And I wouldn't underestimate what he can do. Jean Charest is a remarkably experienced man,

00:40:01.100 a former leader of the federal party, a three-term premier of Quebec with the Liberal Party of Quebec,

00:40:06.940 which in, in Quebec, as in British Columbia, as you know, is really a coalition of liberals and

00:40:11.980 conservatives. There isn't a conservative party provincially in that province. And so he, you know,

00:40:18.620 he's a, he's a well-traveled man without being a worn out old spavined wheel horse, you know. And,

00:40:23.820 uh, and of course, Pierre Polyev is an exceptionally fine candidate. He's very articulate. I think he is

00:40:30.700 clearly, uh, presenting a genuine conservative viewpoint. They try to, uh, misrepresent him as

00:40:38.220 an extremist, which he isn't. And he replies that he's only advocating the liberty of everyone

00:40:44.300 to do as much as they can without infringing on the liberty of others. And it's very hard to fight

00:40:48.940 that as it should be. And I thought it was a terrible thing when Andrew Scheer, who was a good

00:40:53.580 man, but was not a strong campaigner, um, ran unabashedly as a genuine social conservative,

00:41:01.580 and they smeared him as someone who would ban abortion and things like this. And, and he wasn't

00:41:05.820 really able to stand up to that. But I find Pierre is, uh, I don't know disrespect to Andrew Scheer,

00:41:11.740 but he's made of firmer stuff in this way. And he, he does, uh, he does respond very forcefully to his

00:41:18.540 critics. And I, I, I, I think it's working. Yeah. I, I heard him, uh, just the other night,

00:41:23.580 uh, Pierre Polyev, and I would call it a working class conservatism. And there is such a thing,

00:41:28.940 uh, especially when you look at the new democratic party led by Jagmeet Singh, a clothes horse who drives

00:41:35.980 a BMW and who's exquisite and cares more about elite, you know, university. An exotic Maharaja. 0.87

00:41:44.060 You know, I, I mean, there's no working class leader in, in Ottawa. And certainly it isn't Justin,

00:41:52.220 no. And, and you're, and it's working class and middle class, I would say manages both,

00:41:57.100 but you're, you're right. He's not a kind of aristocratic conservative. And, and so I see the,

00:42:01.260 the elite establishment just smashing him. I, but I think that's working for him when

00:42:06.060 the global mail editorial page denounces him as dangerous. I think a lot of people say,

00:42:11.100 Oh good. I, I want to be a bit of a danger to the global mail editorial page.

00:42:14.540 It's a better description of the global mail. Yeah. I agree. Um,

00:42:19.660 you mentioned there's not too much, uh, brutal, uh, you know, smears or,

00:42:25.260 there is some, but it's not as bad as it is sometimes. I don't think it's bad at all because I

00:42:28.780 think, I think it's real. I think if there was a false agreeableness, I like the clash of ideas.

00:42:35.580 Let the party have a stark choice. Let the party have a real choice and let it choose a flavor,

00:42:41.180 not a blend, you know? No, I agree. Look, the, the conservatives historically since 1917,

00:42:48.060 more than a century. And I cite that year because it was that year that effectively the conservative

00:42:53.820 government imposed conscription on the French Canadians. And, uh, they, they, so they could 0.99

00:43:00.140 kiss Quebec goodbye for a long time after that, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier said would happen. But from, 0.70

00:43:05.580 from then on, the conservatives only have won either because after three or four, even five liberal

00:43:14.780 victories, the electorate of this country traditionally thinks we simply have to give the

00:43:19.020 other side of chance or in the alternative where they can present a conservative viewpoint and defend

00:43:26.540 it from the inevitable avalanche of media and academic opinion, reinforcing partisan opinion,

00:43:33.100 that this is harsh and extreme and un-Canadian. And, and, uh, you know, you had, you, you had the,

00:43:39.660 uh, the liberals for almost all of the, uh, all of the twenties and one term with Bennett,

00:43:45.180 the liberals 22 years, pardon me. And then, uh, six years with Mr. Diefenbaker, the liberals,

00:43:51.580 except for a few months with Joe Clark, another, uh, 20, 21 years. And then, then Brian Mulroney came,

00:43:58.060 but that if we're going to have a two party system, we, we, we, we've got to change that.

00:44:04.540 You've got to start out most elections with the idea that either side can come to bat as they

00:44:09.740 do in the United States and Britain. Yeah. Uh, I guess we're almost

00:44:15.500 seven years into Trudeau with that passage of time. What are your thoughts from a distance

00:44:23.420 of Stephen Harper's term as prime minister? Do you think it looks better now that time has passed?

00:44:28.540 Yes. I, and I thought he was a good prime minister. I had me too. I had serious personal differences

00:44:34.140 with them and our own relations are don't exist and they're, and they wouldn't be cordial if they

00:44:39.100 did exist, but that's for other reasons. I always have said and wrote my history of Canada.

00:44:43.900 I never will allow these personal things to get in the light of a judgment of that kind,

00:44:47.660 that he was a very good prime minister. And, and by the way, I, I, I had extremely, uh,

00:44:54.700 profound disagreement and a rather assiduous one with, uh, Jean Chrétien, but I think he was, uh,

00:45:01.420 adequately competent prime minister. I don't think he was exceptionally good. It's always easy.

00:45:05.580 He's a manager. He put out fires. He didn't start them. This is right. And, and, and, and it's not

00:45:09.820 hard when you, when the official opposition is divided into three parties, but, uh, but, um,

00:45:14.460 with that said, he, uh, it was a competent government other than that they almost lost

00:45:18.700 as the second referendum. But, uh, but as I say, I, I, whatever I might think of the individual

00:45:25.180 prime minister, uh, is completely separate from my historical examination of how they performed.

00:45:31.980 And I think Stephen Harper was, uh, in, in that second group, just behind our very best prime

00:45:37.420 ministers in the same group with Brian Mulroney, Mr. Saint Laurent and, and Mr. Pearson, very distinguished

00:45:43.420 people. So I, I, I agree with you. I think Stephen was, I think he was a very good prime minister.

00:45:47.900 I remember when Trudeau was ascending, I remember reading your comments about him and they seemed,

00:45:54.380 I'm not going to say that you were endorsing him, but that you were hoping or putting the

00:45:58.300 best foot forward or giving him the benefit of the doubt. I was slightly surprised by how friendly

00:46:04.060 your assessment of him was in the early days. Justin, Justin Trudeau. And now that with the passage of

00:46:10.380 time, how do you feel about him, his team, his philosophy, if he even has one?

00:46:18.700 Uh, well, uh, you're, you're right. And how I treated him as he, as he came up,

00:46:24.140 that was partly because I've known him since he was very little and I've always liked him. I still

00:46:29.260 like him. I think he is actually a very nice man. And that cannot be said to everyone who's ever held

00:46:34.780 that position and they're not there necessarily to be nice. And the fact that he is a nice man doesn't

00:46:39.660 mean that he's a particularly good prime minister, but I did take that into account. Also, I, I, I was,

00:46:47.020 for a variety of reasons, I thought maybe it was a time for change from Harper. He'd become very

00:46:51.500 inflexible. And I had the impression that after he cut the sales tax and did a few other things,

00:46:57.260 he just had no more ideas. And we had a very long campaign. I assumed because he didn't want

00:47:03.340 parliament sitting when, when Mike Duffy testified in that spurious case that was inflicted on him.

00:47:09.980 And, and, and, and the, his basic argument was that he wouldn't allow in the, you know, there's

00:47:14.860 a tremendous humanitarian crisis in the Middle East at that time. And Stephen said he wouldn't allow in

00:47:19.980 half a million Syrians. Well, this was, I thought it was just nonsense. How were half a million Syrians 1.00

00:47:24.620 going to get here? They'd have to be pretty skilled yachtsmen. And so I, you know, that was my,

00:47:30.940 that was my reasoning. And also I thought it was very important that the liberal party come back

00:47:36.140 ahead of the NDP. I didn't like the NDP being as, as large as it was. So that was why I was relatively

00:47:42.940 favorable to Justin. I think he's, and I, I don't, I don't like to say this, but I don't think he's been a

00:47:47.900 good prime minister. I think he's sort of ineffectual. And I think all he has to show for seven years

00:47:53.260 is an excessive attention from a mistaken perspective on native issues. He hasn't

00:47:58.380 actually improved their condition. He's just aggravated the, the blood libels on English

00:48:03.340 and French Canadians for 400 years for supposedly having attempted some form of genocide on them.

00:48:08.940 Secondly, he's completely clamped his lips around the gas pipe, not to make a terrible pun on, on,

00:48:15.020 on climate matters. He's bought a line that is nonsense and he's declared war on, on, on Alberta and

00:48:21.580 Saskatchewan, which is not what prime ministers are to do. They want to conciliate the regions.

00:48:27.180 He's been absolutely useless as the official opposition and the NDP have, by the way, on, uh,

00:48:33.420 standing up for minority official cultural rights, especially in Quebec, which is now effectively 0.59

00:48:38.700 exterminating the English language. I mean, they won't, you can't exterminate the English language,

00:48:42.940 but that's what we're trying to do. And I, I think, uh, uh, he also got terribly preoccupied with

00:48:49.100 gender issues in a way that was not justified. I mean, look in there are two sexes and people can

00:48:55.100 work out their own sexuality for themselves. And as long as they don't resort to coercion or outrage

00:49:02.060 reasonable standards of public decency, everyone should do what they like.

00:49:05.340 Yeah. I I'd add one more list, uh, one more item to your list, uh, for the, of the family that helped

00:49:11.740 to bring back the chart of rights and freedoms. I think Trudeau has been very cavalier with, uh,

00:49:16.700 infringing on civil liberties. Look, his father would, if necessary, uh, have, as he did in 1970,

00:49:24.620 called out the army to prevent the implementation of Quebec's present bill 96. He would not have

00:49:31.180 stood for it. It's an outrage. Well, I'm, I'm thinking more in terms of the lockdowns and,

00:49:36.140 and the demonization of unvaccinated people and the flight bans. I quite agree. And there's six 0.99

00:49:42.460 million Canadians who, for their own reasons, declined to be vaccinated. Can't leave the country. 0.70

00:49:47.660 I mean, they can't fly in the country. Can't fly within it. You're right. Can't move around within

00:49:52.700 it. Yeah. By, by plane. That's right. If they want to go from Vancouver to Montreal, I have to

00:49:56.780 drive or take a train. Oh, you can't take a train. I got one last question for you. I appreciate your

00:50:02.220 survey of the scene in Canadian politics. I'm riveted by what's going on in the United States. Joe Biden,

00:50:09.340 I think is underperforming what even his, uh, critics thought he would do. Yes. Whether it's

00:50:15.260 inflation, foreign affairs, open borders, immigration. I, I really think it's a disaster. 1.00

00:50:21.500 Even the polls show it. Um, Donald Trump is waiting in the wings. Will he run again? Will he not?

00:50:26.620 Will Ron DeSantis of Florida throw his hat in the ring? I know you follow American politics too. You

00:50:31.020 wrote a book about Trump. If you had to make a prediction for the next couple of years in America,

00:50:36.780 who's going to be the standard bearer on the right? Uh, can Joe Biden pull it back? Or is he

00:50:42.700 himself going to be thrown out by the Democrats? I don't think they'll throw him out. I, I think,

00:50:48.620 I think the party elders may suggest to him that it is time for him to invoke a medical reason and say

00:50:55.260 that this doctor said it's really not that it has been since inauguration day, but that the, the, the,

00:51:01.820 really, he, he's, he's, it's becoming too challenging for him. And anyone can identify with that. I think

00:51:07.740 you'd all get some sympathy for that, including for me, you know, I mean, it's a, it's a, we all know

00:51:12.780 people who become elderly and start to slip in their, in their faculties and, and, uh, you just have to, uh,

00:51:18.780 sympathize with it. But, um, I, there's no, there's no chance in the world that he's going to be

00:51:24.780 re-nominated and I don't, I can hardly imagine he would seek to be re-nominated, but, uh, um,

00:51:31.100 I, I, I think there might then be an effort because the progressive agenda, so-called,

00:51:36.540 has been such an unmitigated disaster to get a moderate Democrat back, man, like say Sherrod Brown

00:51:42.300 and Ohio or a number of, I mean, I don't know all the Democratic governors. They must have some

00:51:48.780 capable people in that party. And I think that's, I think they'll try and put such a person as that

00:51:53.180 ahead of the present Vice President Harris, who's also a disappointment. But I, I, in my opinion,

00:51:59.420 uh, Trump is demonstrating that he, he is first in the hearts of the Republican Party and he can have

00:52:06.140 the nomination if he wants it. And, and it is almost inconceivable to me after such a disastrous

00:52:13.340 administration that, that, uh, the Democrats would be re-elected no matter who their candidate is. So I,

00:52:19.420 I think Trump is the likely favorite to be the next president and only the second president

00:52:24.700 after Grover Cleveland to have non-consecutive terms.

00:52:28.620 Well, interesting times. That's for sure. It's great to catch up with you.

00:52:31.180 I thank you, Ezra. Always glad to be with you.

00:52:33.100 All right. There you have it. Conrad Black, stay with us. Your Letters to Me next.

00:52:36.540 Hey, welcome back. Your Letters to Me, someone with the initials T-C-Z says the conservatives had

00:52:54.460 no hope of being re-elected with him as leader. He had no credibility amongst any group at this point

00:53:00.300 and had to go. Hopefully with a young, vibrant leading, there is a hope that

00:53:04.220 conservatives can now get re-elected. You know, I know you're writing about Jason Kenney because

00:53:09.900 that was our long talk the other day, but I was just thinking that could probably apply

00:53:14.620 to Aaron O'Toole as well. Except for Aaron O'Toole was in opposition. It's easier to be principled

00:53:20.060 when you're in opposition. I mean, you don't actually have to implement anything. You just have

00:53:23.980 to really be a good thinker and talker. Aaron O'Toole was a coward in opposition. Jason Kenney 0.98

00:53:29.020 was atrocious in government and he used the power of the state to enforce a vicious lockdown. 0.96

00:53:36.940 And whereas Aaron O'Toole just, you know, was a bit of a coward, let's be honest. Jason Kenney was 0.91

00:53:42.900 worse. He was a coward and a tyrant. I can't believe it because he was so good. He was the hope 1.00

00:53:47.480 for conservatives for so long. Someone with the nickname Ducky says, I don't understand when people

00:53:54.520 call rebel news hard right, when they always criticize conservatives like Kenney and Ford.

00:54:00.640 Meanwhile, I'm tired of seeing MSM propping up Trudeau after several disasters he has caused. 0.98

00:54:07.320 We need some damn accountability. You know, I used to be pretty good friends with Jason Kenney and it 0.90

00:54:14.880 was hard for me to put that personal friendship aside and talk about him candidly, but I felt like

00:54:21.940 I had to or not talk about him at all. And there's no way that a Canadian news organization

00:54:25.920 simply can't talk about Jason Kenney, the premier of the province and a serious actor on the stage.

00:54:31.020 And there was no way that I was going to lie about what he was doing. And I think it was our duty

00:54:36.040 to call it like we see it, just like it's our duty with Doug Ford. And I say this as a guy

00:54:41.180 who sat right here. I mean, Doug Ford was right in our building here.

00:54:46.200 We had Doug Ford speak at a rebel conference before. We were chummy. I'm not going to say we

00:54:52.980 were close, but if you do not criticize your friends when they violate their principles,

00:54:57.680 then you yourself are violating your principles, I think. And as I just said about Aaron O'Toole,

00:55:02.980 at least when you're in opposition, all you have to do is show a little bit of moral courage.

00:55:07.600 You don't have to do anything. I think that's our role here too. We don't actually implement any laws

00:55:12.960 here at Rebel News. We actually don't have any real power. If all we are being asked to do is to

00:55:20.100 give our honest conservative criticism of the world, then surely we can do that.

00:55:25.580 M. Shecky says, Project Veritas is doing something. Top-notch journalism and has a perfect record of

00:55:32.040 never being found guilty in the multitude of cases brought against them. Rebel needs some undercover

00:55:37.120 work. The libs shouldn't be hard to expose. They're not too bright to say the least.

00:55:41.740 Stop. I've had the pleasure of meeting James O'Keefe a few times. He really is excellent.

00:55:48.580 I think the chief characteristic for a job like his

00:55:51.760 is patience.

00:55:55.160 Because you're so excited. You get a little nibble. It's like when you're fishing,

00:55:57.860 you get a little nibble on that hook where you got to reel it in. You got to really,

00:56:00.940 and you can't panic and you can't break, you know, character.

00:56:05.440 I just find it remarkable that these undercover reporters keep a stone face when they are where

00:56:12.800 they are. No, they're outstanding. I think undercover journalism is a little bit harder

00:56:17.420 to do than it looks. And it sort of does look hard, too. I have nothing but admiration for Project

00:56:23.720 Veritas. And who knows? Maybe one day we'll be able to do some of that, too. But it's a special skill.

00:56:30.260 Well, that's our show for the week. We will have a show on Monday, holiday Monday. So we'll see you

00:56:37.020 then. Until then, let me say goodbye to you. And you keep fighting for freedom over the weekend. But

00:56:41.420 let me leave you with this video of the day from Drea Humphrey. It's an update on a case that we

00:56:47.220 crowdfunded fighting vaccine passports in British Columbia Court. I'm very proud of this case.

00:56:53.840 All right. Good night, everybody. Bye-bye.

00:56:56.440 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News. And I just got out of day one of what is supposed to be a three-day

00:57:02.140 hearing brought forward by the Canadian Society for the Advancements of Science in Public Policy.

00:57:09.000 We're going to speak to the Council, Polina Fortula, for the Society and the Plaintiff,

00:57:14.780 Kip Warner, in just a few minutes. But I wanted to give you a rundown on what happened in this court.

00:57:20.340 If you haven't been up to date with my reports, I've been covering quite closely all four of the

00:57:26.540 cases. The first case that was brought forward was brought forward by the Canadian Foundation

00:57:31.480 Constitution. Then it was followed by our special dear and near to our hearts case, the Democracy Funds

00:57:38.800 case, which Rebel News supporters like yourself generously chipped in to help make happen. And then

00:57:45.640 a self-represented man from Victoria, B.C. named Jeremy Maddock took a shot at going at the vaccine

00:57:52.160 passports. And now here we are with this challenge. The Honourable Chief Justice Hinkson is presiding over

00:57:58.840 all four matters. He's heard a lot of arguments, some of which overlapped, like Chief Medical Health

00:58:06.040 Officer Patty Daly from Vancouver Coastal Health basically acknowledging this.

00:58:11.640 The vaccine passport requires people to be vaccinated to do certain discretionary activities,

00:58:18.660 such as go to restaurants, movies, gyms. Not because these places are high risk. We're not

00:58:25.180 actually seeing COVID transmission in these settings. It's really to create an incentive to

00:58:29.260 improve our vaccination coverage. Or letters written to UBC by Chief Medical Health Officers,

00:58:35.740 as well as their science board at the school, saying that at this time, when it comes to the

00:58:40.460 Omicron variant, there really is no scientific reason for discriminating between unvaccinated

00:58:47.160 and vaccinated individuals when it comes to restrictions. Now, despite that evidence being

00:58:53.920 available, as was brought up into court today, Dr. Bonnie Henry did not drop the vaccine passport

00:59:01.060 until April 8th. In fact, British Columbia was the last province to drop their mandate.

00:59:06.800 And it's not been too long since their public health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, promised we'd never

00:59:13.840 be in this situation in the first place.

00:59:15.940 This virus has shown us that there are inequities in our society that have been exacerbated by this

00:59:22.400 pandemic. And there is no way that we will recommend inequities be increased by use of things like

00:59:29.380 vaccine passports for services for public access here in British Columbia. And that's my advice. And I've

00:59:37.380 got support from the Premier and I have talked about this, Minister Dix and others.

00:59:42.260 Now, Justice Hingston has waited and will be reserving judgment until he's heard all of these cases. And like I said,

00:59:49.060 this one is possibly a three-day hearing. So lots going to go down. At first, it did seem as though the

00:59:56.100 Council was a little bit arguing on the premise of science, which Chief Justice Hingston didn't seem

01:00:02.580 to be too fond of. But she quickly switched gears and started to use those examples that I said, 0.83

01:00:09.860 like from Chief Medical Health Officer and even a quote from Dr. Bonnie Henry, who admitted that when it

01:00:17.860 came to hospitalizations for COVID-19, around 60% of them weren't actually there because of the issue

01:00:25.620 of COVID-19, but rather for other issues, maybe an injury or maybe a pregnancy for such. So if that's

01:00:32.420 the case, were these restrictions, these orders reasonable? And of course, the argument from the

01:00:38.340 society is that no, they are not. They are unconstitutional.

01:00:42.260 Now, with Omicron, the unvaccinated are a smaller proportion. And partly that's because

01:00:50.660 some of the people, a good proportion of people in hospital, and I'll have that data to show you,

01:00:55.540 are people who are admitted for other reasons and have a positive COVID test.

01:00:59.780 So it's not COVID that's driving them into hospital.

01:01:02.980 Unique to this case is that the society had an expert report from the former Public Health Officer

01:01:08.100 of Manitoba, Dr. Joel Kettner. Dr. Bonnie Henry's lawyer spent quite a bit of time

01:01:14.420 trying to get this report dismissed as expert evidence. Now, it appeared as though the judge

01:01:20.020 wasn't having it. He questioned why that should be the case. You'll find more of that out in my tweets,

01:01:25.860 and we'll have to wait to see if this report stands for this fight.

01:01:30.900 So we're going to have a quick recap with the lawyer to see why this case matters. And if you want

01:01:37.220 to catch up on actually words and quotes from both the justice and the councils and the government's

01:01:43.140 lawyers on what happened, you can click on my link to my live tweets from the courthouse that are linked

01:01:49.460 in the description below. And then you'll have a really good look of what went down for day one in

01:01:55.380 court. This is Counsel Polina Fortula. You just stepped out of day one of the case. Why don't you let 0.96

01:02:02.180 some of the people watching know why this case should matter to Canadians? This case is important

01:02:08.180 because what we're challenging is the orders that mandate vaccination passports in order to attend

01:02:17.140 public gatherings and events as well as restaurants. And although the mandates have been lifted,

01:02:23.860 we do expect there to be further mandates in the fall. So it's important for the court to consider our

01:02:29.300 arguments and determine whether the orders are reasonable in the circumstances and whether the

01:02:36.500 exemptions that the CSAP society, which brought this proceedings forward, are reasonable.

01:02:46.980 And are you guys also addressing some of the health care specific orders as well?

01:02:51.300 The health care orders are being addressed in a separate petition.

01:02:54.180 This is this one only relates to the vaccination passports for restaurants and events.

01:03:02.260 Well, I know just from my coverage on things like this, there wasn't a whole lot of counsel that

01:03:07.300 came forward to take on these types of cases. How did this come to be that you took on this case?

01:03:12.420 Who's responsible for that and anything else you want to add on that?

01:03:15.700 Well, it's really the society CSAP that fundraised the funds necessary to bring these challenges forward.

01:03:26.180 It is very expensive to challenge a law or an order by a government official in court. It takes many

01:03:33.860 months and it costs thousands of dollars. So most British Columbians, especially with the COVID restrictions,

01:03:41.620 can't really afford that. So the public fundraising campaign has been fundamental in ensuring that

01:03:49.860 we can challenge these orders. And so we hope that the public continues to be engaged with the society,

01:03:56.260 with CSAP, and continue to provide funding just so we can continue to challenge the orders and

01:04:05.620 work on behalf of British Columbians' rights.

01:04:07.940 Absolutely. Well, we'll have more on this important court case coming up. This was just day one and

01:04:13.860 it might stretch to day three. So we'll keep you posted. Thank you so much.

01:04:17.860 Thank you.

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