EZRA LEVANT | Reuters just admitted something about Rebel News they REALLY didn’t want to
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Rebel News Plus is the number 5 news company in Canada, ahead of Global News. I don't like Reuters much, but boy, they must have hated saying this about us. I'll take you through their study, and explain why you can't trust them.
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Hello, my friends. I'm back in Toronto after visiting the ostrich farm. I'll
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give you an update from there. But first, I want to tell you about an interesting story from
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Reuters. The Reuters Institute did a study about the biggest journalistic brands in Canada,
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and they said Rebel News was in the top five ahead of Global News. I'll take you through
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their study. I don't like Reuters much, but boy, they must have hated saying this about us. I'll
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take you through it. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
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It's the video version of this podcast. You absolutely need that to watch the ostrich part
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Tonight, Reuters and Oxford University say Rebel News is the number five news company in Canada,
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ahead of Global News. What do you think about that? It's November 10th, and this is the Ezra
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LeVant Show. You've heard of Reuters, right? It's one of the world's largest news agencies
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started more than 150 years ago. They have about 2,500 reporters all around the world,
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and newspapers everywhere pay for the right to republish Reuters stories. It's a great idea.
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It allows small newspapers around the world to publish news stories from anywhere in the world
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without having to deploy their own journalists there. You can imagine some of the problems,
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though, too. Thousands of different newspapers and radio stations and TV stations all regurgitating
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literally the same words written by someone that none of us know. It's a huge factor in the
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ideological conformity of the news media. It was particularly apparent during the COVID lockdowns
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when Reuters took an extremist line supporting forced vaccinations, lockdowns, vaccine passports,
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no-fly lists, the whole thing. Not only did Reuters spread that government propaganda
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across the world, but they set themselves up as fact-checkers trying to destroy any non-Reuters
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journalists who disagreed with them. I don't know if you remember this. We showed it at the time.
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A Pfizer director, you know Pfizer, one of the big vaccine makers. Their director, Jim Smith,
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was literally the chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Imagine having a vaccine executive
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in charge of fact-checking critical stories about vaccines. Do you see my point about Reuters
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actually being a global force for propaganda and censorship? Reuters has always leaned left. I don't
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know if you know this, but its founder, Paul Reuter, was actually a communist. My point is you can't
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trust Reuters. Today it's owned by Canada's richest man. Did you know that? David Thompson is his name.
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He also owns the Globe and Mail. Now, I'm not against someone being Canada's richest man. I mean,
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statistically, someone has to be the richest man, and it's not going to be me, but I find it really
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gross that Thompson still rings out taxpayers for millions of dollars every year in government
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subsidies for the Globe and Mail. Seriously, what a mooch. Thompson is worth an estimated $54 billion,
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not quite Elon Musk level, but he's in that zone, and he still snorts up taxpayers' handouts for the
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Globe and Mail. I mean, when you think about it, he really is the perfect owner of Reuters, isn't he?
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Well, the Thompson family needs the money. You see, check out this amazing story. Just a crazy story.
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Let me read the headline. Thompson family heiress sues ex-friend after crypto investment recommended
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by a psychic loses millions. Thompson claims in her lawsuit that she lost $80 million in backing the
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doomed crypto coin. What a story. I guess if you're worth $54 billion, blowing $80 million on some
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crypto scheme recommended by a psychic, I don't know, it would be like a regular person losing $100
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on lottery tickets. It's not something to be proud of, but not going to put you in the poorhouse.
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Especially, like I say, given the taxpayer subsidies will cover the Thompson shortfall pretty quickly.
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Anyways, that's Reuters. Pretty gross. Next time you read a newspaper or a news website and you see the word
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Reuters at the top, just be aware that you're reading propaganda. It still might be interesting, and sometimes
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it might actually be accurate, but always know who's secretly spinning the news at you. I tell you all this
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because the Reuters Foundation, same one that that Pfizer guy runs, just published a study about journalism
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in Canada. And of course, they are obsessed with rebel news. So this is their country study on Canada. Let me read it to you.
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U.S. commentators dominate the Canadian lists alongside a small number of homegrown personalities,
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such as Jordan Peterson, mostly from the political right. The top 15 list is made up exclusively of men.
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So they're ranking how important different journalists are. Let me stop for a second, though.
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I mean, this is completely based on who Canadians choose to watch. I don't agree with their methodology,
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but this wasn't some top-down list here. No one hired this list or curated this list. It's literally
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asking Canadians, who do you like? Who do you follow? Who are you interested in?
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And just listening to what people say. So men and women answered.
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Reuters doesn't like the fact that men and women in Canada have named
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men as the people they listen to. I mean, could have been women, could have been men.
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Reuters is mad about that. It's a weird comment, especially since Reuters is owned
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I mean, if you're into politics, the liberal and NDP leaders in Canada are men also.
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It's just a weird, passive-aggressive gripe, but it shows you how they put DEI diversity
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into everything, don't they? All right, back to their story. They say, quote,
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the main networks used for accessing creators are similar to the United States, namely YouTube
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and X. Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta, have restricted access to news content on their
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platforms in response to the Online News Act, and this is likely to have affected the popularity
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of some creator content on these networks in addition to news brands. That's true, isn't it?
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Trudeau and Al Carney effectively ban Canadians from reading about our own country's news
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on Facebook and Instagram, which are huge. And we've just all accepted this as normal. I mean,
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who does that other than China and North Korea and Iran? I'll read some more.
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The most mentioned Canadian online personality in our data is psychologist and author Jordan
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Peterson. Originally a University of Toronto professor, Peterson rose to international
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prominence through viral lectures and his book, 12 Rules for Life. He is known for his critiques of
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political correctness and for providing a conservative intellectual perspective on social and cultural
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debates. With around 9 million followers on YouTube and 6 million on X, Peterson's influence
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is also felt across multiple countries, with a number of mentions in Australia, the UK, South Africa,
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and Norway. All right, that's fair enough to me. I mean, sort of balanced. Now, I do note that Dr.
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Peterson has moved to the United States. I think he did that for freedom of speech reasons, actually,
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and maybe for business reasons. I don't think this is a particularly meticulous report, as I'll show
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you in a minute. I mean, sure, he's a Canadian. I think he's still a Canadian citizen, but he is an
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American in terms of his residence. But let me keep reading some more. News anchors from the main
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networks, CBC, CTV, Global News, and Radio Canada are widely cited in our survey, along with the branded
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accounts for these networks. Rebel News, a network that has been associated with the alt-right,
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says who? Says who? Also gains significant attention in social media. 1.1 million followers on YouTube,
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as does one of its co-founders, Brian Lilly, who now works for the Toronto Sun. Two things there. 1.1
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million subscribers on YouTube. We crossed the million subscribers line way back, I don't know, in 2017
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or something. And despite being throttled by YouTube, we're now at just under 2 million.
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I don't really care. And I really don't care that Reuters, the fact checkers, don't know that.
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I'm not that vain about it. I'm just pointing out that the expert fact checkers haven't even bothered
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to look at our YouTube page in more than half a decade when they're talking about it. And these are
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the experts telling you about Canadian preferences. Never trust these so-called experts. But look at this.
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This is true Reuters run by a Pfizer executive showing through. This is what they say. Ready?
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Rebel News was accused of spreading misinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic, among other issues.
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Yeah, accused by you. No one cares, mate. You lost that debate. Unfortunately, you've done eternal damage
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to people's trust in public health and even in their own doctors. I mean, I know a lot of people,
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and I'm one of them, who are much more skeptical of their own doctors because of all the lies during COVID.
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And the whole lockdowns will be remembered a long time. And I don't think we'll even know the full damage
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that Pfizer and the government lockdowns did, not just in terms of physical health, but mental health and suicide
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and the social effects of kicking kids out of school for two years and drug use and loneliness.
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But also any trust in any institution. Shame on Reuters and Pfizer and the rest of them.
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But let me show you one last thing. And again, as you can see, I don't really respect Reuters and I don't
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respect the methodology of this report, which doesn't even make sense and is based on factual errors,
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as I've shown you. But look at this. Look at this chart. This is what Reuters says.
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They say that the biggest news brands are, well, in first place, the CBC. Well, now you'd hope so,
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given the $1.5 billion a year they get. But look at who's in second, CNN.
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That's a huge black eye for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, CTV.
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Imagine being beaten by a foreign network that very rarely even mentions Canada.
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Next is CTV. I'm surprised they're that high, frankly. And then another foreign brand, the BBC,
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the British Broadcasting Corporation. Again, I don't actually believe that. The methodology just
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really checks name recognition. Have you heard of the BBC? Well, I'm sure people have heard of the BBC,
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but I don't think anyone in Canada actually watches the BBC. I'm sorry, I just don't believe it.
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But I do believe that we came in next, as you can see. Because you know it pained Reuters to say we
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did. And if they had any way, any excuse not to blow our horn, they would. But there you have it.
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Rebel News is the fifth most watched or most known news company in Canada. I don't know,
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but most watched probably are too. We're bigger than Quebec's CBC called Radio Canada. We're bigger
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than Quebec's private broadcaster, TVA. And most deliciously, we are way ahead of Global News.
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You know, Global News is owned by a company called Chorus. They also own some radio stations. Have
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you ever heard of Chorus? I checked the stock market. They're trading at about a penny a share.
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They're a penny stock. The total market capitalization of Chorus is less than $8 million.
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I joked on Twitter last night, should Rebel News buy some shares? Should we try and raise some money to
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buy a majority of the stock? Wouldn't that be something? I asked people, I asked Twitter,
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would that be a terrible idea, given that Global News loses so much money? Or is it a great idea?
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Sort of like a work of performance art. Especially if, say, my good friend David Menzies,
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the Menzoid, were installed as the next CEO. I wonder what Reuters would have to say about that.
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Hey, welcome back. And I'm glad to be back in Toronto. Over the weekend, I was in British Columbia
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at the Ostrich Farm, where I spent some time with the family, the remaining protesters. I saw how
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aggressive the RCMP were. I got a little bit aggressive myself, I hate to say. Not physically,
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but I hollered at them. What a weird and bizarre story. International story all over the world.
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A real black eye for the Canadian government. But I really enjoyed my time with the family,
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and I really have a tremendous sympathy for them. And I didn't realize that ostriches live so long.
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An ostrich can live 30, 35 years. I mean, people truly grow to love their dogs. And dogs are not
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with us for 30 years, are they? But ostriches are. And they named the ostriches, and they had
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different personalities. And, you know, to kill all the ostriches, because a year ago, some of them
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were sick, is so senseless. Anyways, I recorded a lot of videos out there. Here's one where I sort of
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summed up the work we've done over these past months with Sidney Fazzard, who's been out there
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for a few weeks, and our key reporter on this file, Drea Humphrey, who I think has done a wonderful job.
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She's probably published 100 stories over the last six months about this farm. So without further ado,
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the video I recorded with my colleagues in Edgewood, B.C.
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Ezra Levant here in Edgewood, B.C., at the site of the ostrich farm that has gripped so much
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attention, not just across Canada, but around the world. It's been an important story for a number
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of reasons. And I thought I would take a huddle with Drea Humphrey, who's been leading our coverage
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on this file for months. And over the course of time, we've actually had six different Rebel News
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reporters rotate through here. And you might be thinking, why? Why is this an important story?
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And I didn't catch on right away either until I saw some of Drea's work. Drea,
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why has this turned into a massive international story?
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It actually starts back to the minks. Many people don't realize that during COVID,
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a mink farming industry was completely wiped out by unelected bureaucrats in the name of COVID-19.
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Now, they, unlike these farmers, chose not to publicly stand up. It all happened quietly and
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in the dark. These farmers were different. These farmers were special. And so were the herd that
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they wanted to save. And so when I saw that there were farmers that were willing to say no to the
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency and say they should live because they're healthy, I knew it was going
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to be an important story. Wow. I estimate you've done maybe a hundred reports from here.
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It's very close. You know, like you said, the team has started to help. So that's added to
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the close to 100 reports that I would say we've done.
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And you've built a level of trust with the family. I was talking to one of the neighbors who said that
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her entire worldview has been changed. She doesn't believe she can trust the mainstream media anymore.
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And this is a new thing for her because she just can't reconcile what is actually happening
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with what CTV and CBC are happening. I thought that was an incredible thing.
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Absolutely. They have welcomed me to be in there, sometimes behind the scenes while they're trying
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to figure out their next step. And they are just the most welcoming people. They are exactly who you
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would expect farmers to be. Hardworking. They were going out early mornings, doing the chores.
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Now the state has robbed them of that, but then still inviting all of these people. I don't know
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how they've done it for 10 months to be a part of this fight. They've been eating with them,
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crying with them, rejoicing with them on the wins they had along the way. And now they're preparing
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to fight back in a new way. Wow. Well, I know, I know even though the ostriches were massacred in the
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last few days, the Rebel News will stay committed to this story. Now, Sid, you have an interesting
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contrast because you were at the Coutts blockade. That was the main convoy for the truckers was in
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Ottawa. That was the big show. But in Alberta, truckers, farmers, grassroots people said,
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we've got to do something about Alberta's lockdown. You were embedded in that for two weeks almost.
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Compare, if you would, the people's sort of peaceful revolution you've seen here with what you saw in
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Coutts. It is actually, there are many similarities. I guess the one difference would be I was inside
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the security zone in Coutts and a lot of the supporters were stuck outside, like these people
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are stuck outside from coming to these animals. But there is actually quite a bit of overlay. And
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these people, obviously, they strongly care about this story. And so much so, they've been staying here for weeks.
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If you're trying to kill the ostrich with a shot, is it a shot to the head?
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We had asked for a plan. And the way they did it, every one of those animals would have suffered.
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And they would have known. They would have seen it. They would have been so agonizing. They would have been trying to get out.
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They had just suffered. That was just so wrong at every level.
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That's what you would have said. You thought it was a question period.
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You know, and it was a really kind of softball question. Like, wasn't it?
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Like, I thought to myself, what's such a soft way of doing this that maybe she'll give some thing?
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But she was obviously instructed, do not answer.
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No, and you asked it that way, too. It was nicely said.
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You know what, Cody? Is the RCMP supposed to be here today?
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They'll arrest you. They need their quota today.
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Well, it seems like they're trying to make fights.
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You know, I was saying to Chris outside, there's a phrase in psychological, typically sexual abuse cases called DARVO.
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So it's when someone who's done something awful, like a sexual abuse case, it's a psychological gaslighting move.
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I mean, in reverse who the victim and offender are here.
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I think they're trying to find an excuse to arrest someone so they can say, oh, violent or something.
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They have such a black eye, they need to flip the script.
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And they even had their one dude every time there was yelling at the front line with his GoPro right in the corner.
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One of my questions that I'm going to put to the cops is, are you building a database with that facial recognition?
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And did you database all the license plates of the cars here?
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I know the answer before I ask it, but I want to have them give them a chance to answer.
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We know that during the trucker convoy, the military deployed some of those drones, even though they denied it at the time.
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There is one drone that we haven't been able to see because it is so big and so high up.
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Some people keep mistaking it as a plane, but it's not a plane.
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That's not going to be something that a regular police for you and the RCMP has.
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I mean, we've seen shit here that even our liaisons, they're just trying to get us around.
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Oh, I saw them interact with Chris Dacey, and I tell you, I can't believe his self-controlled it.
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Wait till you see what they did to your husband, Trevor, who lives next door, and what they did while they were killing the birds.
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They were harassing them and calling them for the cats.
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They were harassing them and saying, where were your protesters when you were killing them for you?
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It reminds me of the end hours of what, just before Trudeau brought in the Emergencies Act.
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I never thought that would be going on here, but that's exactly what's going on.
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So is it coincidence that Durbel sounds so similar to Gabbel's?
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CTV, CBC, Global, have any of them given you fair reportage?
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Global's been good, but then they move on to, right after us, avian flu detected everywhere.
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It's like they're trying to segue in, and it's just a little bit.
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And I mentioned there's no, there's no avian flu.
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Well, it's the kind of thing that you can just, at any time, say it.
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There hasn't really been fair reporting other than you guys, honestly.
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You know what I've seen on social media, CTV and CBC, and they always try and make it sound
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Like they never clarify that that was over almost a year ago.
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And what's so funny is, once they were all dead, all the PPE came off, and then all of
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Even right after, when they're taking the hang out.
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Putting out in the field for the trucks to come in, drive over it, so that they wouldn't
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get stuck, and then drive out and go, what, to Vancouver?
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But there is footage of them before they did the slaughter.
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But the day we lost a supporter here on the farm, a few days before, they actually sent us
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an email in the afternoon and said, what are you going to do?
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We want a complete SOP plan for when you are done disposal and what you're doing to clean
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And I thought the same way that somebody passed away and they knew that on the farm.
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And I thought, I want to talk about the most cold-hearted, evil bastards there is.
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Don't forget about the email that you got so that we could go in to see the birds one last
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One of the biggest reasons why we couldn't go in and even just say goodbye to them was
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that it was still a quarantine and they weren't even wearing PPE at all.
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I have a video taking of the email that they sent immediately and then straight up, zoomed
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The biggest thing is this was done so it could never have been more inhumanly done.
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And they said a bed had to be on site and we had asked for a plan and the way they did
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it, every one of those animals would have suffered and they would have known, they would
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And they went for a while and they turned the microphone to go again.
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They would have been hitting the veils trying to get out.
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And our count was only, what, 250 in both of those pens that they have.
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So even if you want to go with their 330 that they say was there, that's at least three shots
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And all of them have to watch their loved ones get killed.
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When you shoot a bird in the head from that distance down, you're going to hit one or
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two more birds after it goes through that head.
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And all those shots, there was so much maiming going on.
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And that's why even after we sent five emails begging them to go in to say a prayer over
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You know, getting dark, the only reason to do it in the dark is to hide it from public
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Doing it in the dark complicates everything, makes it more dangerous, makes it more likely
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to miss a bird and injure it rather than kill it, makes it more likely, more dangerous.
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There's literally no medical or public health reason to do it in the dark other than to hide.
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Well, then, if you would come out at night, you'd see what happens here.
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They put lights on the bales shining toward us.
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Yeah, so we had, so initially they, initially they were.
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And then they had 10 or 20 big double, triple lights around the outside, into the pens, and
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they were up there as a shooting gallery just going on.
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Do you have any information about who they were?
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No, they were all white dudes and they were Army, I won't say Army, but retired Army age
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Do you think they were British Columbians or do you think they were brought in from maybe
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But the RCMP shut down our road and removed everyone off of the highway while this was
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And my wife had to go get baby stuff from the store, like some diapers and more formula,
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They said for threat of not being able to get back in.
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It was for your safety where you're not allowed back in the campground because that's where
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You're just going to stay out on the road and fend for yourself.
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And they also blacked out everything here so the supporters couldn't see where they were
00:28:24.660
I walked into a poll as a journalist trying to cover it.
00:28:29.640
They just had the lights on previously and then it all blacked out.
00:28:33.660
They had the lights on for a month on everybody.
00:28:37.780
But initially, out at the pen, those lights were just in the pen until they saw that we
00:28:44.940
No, that's the only time they worked was at night.
00:28:48.040
Then they turned those lights onto the highway so no one could see.
00:29:21.280
Just so the voices come over well on the video here, we shouldn't all talk at once.
00:29:28.500
I have a question and I don't mean to be gruesome.
00:29:30.700
I'm just trying to find information that I think a lot of people would want to know.
00:29:48.680
If you try to kill the ostrich with a shot, is it a shot to the head?
00:30:01.520
We came back the next morning and I heard there were still birds alive and they have to shoot them.
00:30:08.240
So there were birds that were injured and were likely twitching in pain.
00:30:16.200
And because they did it at night, that would likely have not been easily visible at night.
00:30:26.700
Because they did it at night, they couldn't see if they killed the animals.
00:30:35.700
I want to tell you something that Karen told me that was new to me.
00:30:45.480
And there's no way, the only way you can do it humanely with a firearm is to the head.
00:30:55.160
And it's for me, because like growing up with them, I was the only one who had to put them down when they got broken legs and stuff.
00:31:05.900
And the only humane way is a shotgun blast to the head.
00:31:20.960
We came out and aggressively had taken a swipe off of two birds' chunks.
00:31:26.680
And they were still standing there waiting for us to fix them.
00:31:43.700
So let me ask you a firearms question, because I'm not an expert.
00:31:49.840
You think you heard rifle shots as opposed to shotgun shots?
00:31:57.080
I mean, you and me, we wouldn't use a 30-odd six at 20 yards.
00:32:02.700
It had to be maybe 12-gauge, but that's too loud.
00:32:16.260
And you're saying that the only humane way to put down an ostrich is with a shotgun.
00:32:24.700
There's a reason why it's a legal pen hunt, but yet that's exactly what they did.
00:32:31.120
They created a pen and hunted them while they're running back and forth.
00:32:36.500
So in your estimation, there were two shooters or three or five?
00:32:47.320
We had people on YouTube and were watching lives, counting every single shot.
00:32:52.880
And it was between some people at 750, but there was a lot that had 900 and a little above.
00:33:16.760
They separated them from their supporters, too.
00:33:19.060
Have them on the highway, and then they blocked it, and they tried to prevent me from coming in, too.
00:33:25.960
Because I saw they still have the anti-drone machinery.
00:33:39.080
And they were documenting it, and they were on Ferry Road.
00:33:43.440
And they have it on film, which we downloaded, a shot that came really close to them and hit a tree.
00:33:50.020
They were looking for the shell because they said it was right by the vehicle.
00:33:58.740
And hay bales are not, like, they are not a backstop to firearms.
00:34:08.860
You know, the air pockets throughout them, that is not, you shouldn't be using that.
00:34:13.540
Like, the only real way to stop a bullet in a safe way is sand or steel or, you know, I mean, water it, too, but not hay bales.
00:34:24.200
So any of those, like, bouncing off could easily go through those hay bales.
00:34:29.340
And they would, those bullets would be going right through ahead, through the hay bales and into the neighboring properties.
00:34:44.400
They have, how does, how do the police communicate with you, or do they not?
00:34:53.360
They brought in kind of a goon squad for this last year.
00:34:57.940
So were they different people that you hadn't seen before?
00:35:00.360
Yeah, yeah, and they were all very disrespectful.
00:35:05.560
I saw some of the videos that Chris Dacey and others took.
00:35:09.060
It really felt like they were trying to provoke an incident.
00:35:14.480
So they had, like, how many weeks or months total were the RCMP?
00:35:30.100
And they came times before, and you guys obviously were like, oh, no, it's happening.
00:35:34.200
Have you ever had a communication from the CFIA since the court order letting them in?
00:35:43.300
No, we had police liaisons, and even when we wanted to treat spirit, the hen.
00:35:55.780
But I told the police, because they wouldn't let us talk to the CFIA.
00:35:58.660
Then the next, they said, okay, we'll put it in writing.
00:36:01.540
So the next day, we put it in writing, because that's, I came back, and I said, have you treated?
00:36:07.860
Then they said, the next day, I said, so was she treated?
00:36:12.640
And then they said, no, now you need to send them an email.
00:36:15.720
It was day five that we finally got David to check her, and at that point, that's what
00:36:24.400
So that's you talking to the CFIA, and have they ever proactively spoken to you?
00:36:32.900
Only on email, and it's the same generic answer.
00:36:38.140
Concerns, and animal health, welfare, and their generic thing is, under the law, the quarantine,
00:36:45.020
we have control of your birds, and we have a veterinarian on site.
00:36:49.080
But they told us they would not treat any of our animals with that veterinarian, even
00:36:53.640
though in the court order, where it says they have to maintain custody through the interim
00:36:59.540
order, stay order, which means maintain, leave them status quo.
00:37:04.520
Now, what they did, the day after the interim stay order came on, they chased all the hurt
00:37:11.080
birds out of the hurt bird pen into the general public.
00:37:14.720
Immediately, they were in breach of the quarantine.
00:37:18.140
Let me ask you one more question about the CFIA.
00:37:20.280
Were any of their emails signed by a person, or was it just generic CFIA?
00:37:24.680
Oh, it's called West AI-7, and they said it goes to seven people, and they do that.
00:37:30.880
They only have it West AI-7 to protect, so they don't get death threats.
00:37:35.440
So, literally not a single time has a CFIA individual met with you in person, on the
00:37:45.520
When they busted in here, when they first busted in there, it was two males.
00:37:49.900
One older gentleman, one other one, and they were...
00:37:53.360
You could look through their eyes, and they were black.
00:38:01.480
So, since the first contact, they literally have not had any human contact, no phone calls,
00:38:12.400
February 26th was the last real contact that we had with them.
00:38:27.120
We did everything, because this is the kindest human being you can imagine.
00:38:36.400
Do you have any sense of whether this operation is being run out of Ottawa or from B.C.?
00:38:58.900
So the policy comes from a World Health Organization?
00:39:09.100
Have they referred to that at all in any documents?
00:39:12.660
Yes, they have the World Health that they referred to.
00:39:23.540
If they had followed that entirely, this wouldn't have happened.
00:39:27.240
Because there is exceptions in the World Health.
00:39:29.740
The CFIA has gone beyond what the World Health was saying.
00:39:33.760
And WOA actually said at one point that the calling is not a long-term...
00:39:47.280
In the courts, the CFIA points to WOA and says,
00:39:52.720
we are practicing what they say and what is normalized internationally.
00:39:56.860
But then they supersede it as well and go beyond what that calls them to do.
00:40:07.400
I mean, the high-handedness, the taunting, the provocations, the refusal to deal with you directly, the refusal of the minister to answer my friendly question, the stonewalling, the massive police presence, the shock and awe of the firearms massacre.
00:40:25.840
All of this seems so irregular, it's almost like it's trying to send a message.
00:40:35.560
They think you're sending presidents is what they think.
00:40:37.780
That we're an example to the world because we stood up, but what they really are doing is they're stealing our science.
00:40:49.920
Have you been in touch with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
00:40:56.340
I thought that letter was eminently reasonable, friendly, neighborly, moderate.
00:41:02.000
It came from John Casamideas, Dr. Oz, Emmett Oz.
00:41:05.880
And since this has all happened, they all want now evidence.
00:41:14.300
It feels like my question to the minister, and I don't want to talk too much about my question, but it was designed to say, look, here's a thoughtful man who thinks about viruses.
00:41:29.300
And I don't know what private message they sent him, but in public, they've given him, you know, the back of their hand.
00:41:37.520
Do you think that RFK Jr. will have something to say about the way this ended?
00:41:50.100
And that's what we are in touch with them still.
00:41:53.000
But the biggest thing here is, like we said, it's the science that they wanted.
00:41:56.060
We found out, they say there in the news that there's no evidence of what our science was.
00:42:02.880
We gave them every evidence, including an actual program to follow, something that we could all do together.
00:42:09.300
And with our scientists in collaboration, to give a natural cure, we offered to work to mitigate the problem right at the source of the ducks.
00:42:19.480
We gave them every piece of information for diagnostic tools or to do a therapeutic.
00:42:32.900
They take it away a week later, and they tell us there's not enough manpower or resources to do this.
00:42:38.800
Let me ask you a question about, I mean, here's what I saw with my own eyes.
00:42:42.600
I saw the imagery of CFIA personnel disabling your cameras.
00:42:51.160
And as far as I can tell, that is not contemplated in the court order, that they have the ability to do things like that.
00:42:59.060
They did it at, like, all the things that, the decision to do this at night, the refusal to engage with you.
00:43:07.400
And even animal cruelty, which is in the criminal code.
00:43:12.320
Have you made any complaints to the RCMP about the CFIA's conduct, including possibly animal cruelty?
00:43:22.060
They were opened with the RCMP an animal abuse case investigation.
00:43:28.940
And we've been handing them stuff, and they say every time we talk to them, oh, it's an ongoing investigation.
00:43:36.140
Okay, let me ask you, because that could be true, or that could be just blowing you up.
00:43:40.500
Have they told you which officer is in charge of that investigation?
00:43:44.780
Has any officer contacted you and say, I'd like to take a statement from you?
00:43:50.160
No, they just keep saying that they're going to hand it to their investigative team, and that's all we get.
00:44:01.820
And then, and other stuff, they, at one point they did give a file number or something like that, but we couldn't figure out where that would lead us.
00:44:12.520
I asked many times where the investigation was going, and they just kept saying it's ongoing.
00:44:18.320
We all said at the gate, what do you do when you have a problem?
00:44:23.240
We said, you're right here, and we're asking you to do the right thing.
00:44:29.720
When the birds were slowly disappearing, they were using a crane to remove the bin from inside their kill pen, a crane.
00:44:41.220
Now, if it's, as they say, which was PPE and the trash from their food, you don't need a crane to take that out.
00:44:49.900
You actually do, because that was a flat, that truck, and they didn't have a sock pole or anything, so they had to, those are big bins.
00:44:56.540
You have to pick them up and put them, and we've dumpster dove lots, but I'm not saying you're wrong.
00:45:01.400
But dumpster diving, there was always two dumpsters that always drove around the back that you never got to dumpster dive.
00:45:12.580
They didn't dump them, and they just set them over there.
00:45:15.240
So when we were dumpster diving like they thought we were going to do, we didn't find anything.
00:45:21.560
I think the bottom line here is you guys were cut off from the herd, which is not normal.
00:45:26.820
The CFIA usually allows farmers to be a part of the process up until the call.
00:45:32.100
They sat here while you guys were dealing with Supreme Court for 40 days and blocked you from your herd.
00:45:40.360
You saw actual evidence of neglect, and furthermore, the other hen who was injured, and you guys can't even get a count.
00:45:49.180
I want to go back to what you said about the science, because they didn't just slaughter the herd.
00:45:54.280
They slaughtered the science with it, and the manipulative framing we're seeing in the media now to shift public support against you guys.
00:46:03.460
The framing is the claim that you brought up, and you said they're trying to say you're not even involved in science.
00:46:09.200
And when you look at the CFIA, how they do that is they word it in a way where they say they saw no evidence of the science on the property.
00:46:17.080
So, I want you to explain why that is manipulative for them to be saying, and the media to be saying.
00:46:26.840
Struthio Biosciences, Dr. Tsukamoto in Japan, Dr. Stu Greenberg in the U.S., we were about to build a lab this year in the Okanagan, but we're not the lab.
00:46:41.660
So, sure, we don't look like we're a research facility, but we very much are.
00:46:46.940
And we've been doing it for four years, and we had 98% effective antibodies for COVID-19, which they also knew.
00:46:54.120
And like Dave said, February 26th, they said, we'll be coming for those too.
00:46:59.320
And they asked us where they were, and we said, and they said, don't worry, we're coming for all of them too.
00:47:03.920
They knew we had, the older birds would have had H5N1 pseudonomas and COVID-19.
00:47:11.020
So, those hens were very valuable to them, very valuable.
00:47:14.900
And they also know you had expert scientists, witnesses, and their testimonies or their statements were rejected from your cases.
00:47:23.760
So, they know very well you guys are involved in science, but they put out a different message to make you guys look crazy to the public.
00:47:29.940
Everything from the record, from day one, and the biggest thing is our, the virus that was here, and Steve Pellick told us this.
00:47:39.140
When we, I had to put in the freedom of information to get the genome sequencing, it finally came in just before court.
00:47:45.980
And Steve Pellick right away took it apart, and he said, oh my goodness, you guys, there's eight chromosomes.
00:47:50.860
He said five of them were high path, but three were low.
00:47:54.180
And he said, the minute you have that, he said, and they would have known this, he said it becomes a hybrid.
00:47:58.620
So, it can never have the effectiveness of a high path.
00:48:03.940
He said, so, but every time we tried to get that evidence into court, they would strike it from the record, strike it from the record.
00:48:09.900
All four of Steve Pellick's reports got stricken from the record.
00:48:14.400
And that's what we say today, we've never had a day in court.
00:48:17.860
We have never had, and then we asked for a ministerial reconsideration of the true facts to date, our facts, that they've been healthy for 10 months, and we've been denied, dismissed.
00:48:35.920
And yet, the day they showed up here on the farm, Courtney herself wrote us a letter denying that she said the reconsideration of our facts from CFIA.
00:48:45.740
But at the bottom of that paper was what's so important.
00:48:48.420
She said, but you're allowed to stay on your property, please, and feed your birds and take care of them.
00:48:53.220
And she said, but stay away from the areas that we're working on.
00:49:03.060
They came back, and they said, that means nothing now.
00:49:05.700
Then they promised us we could go feed our animals.
00:49:08.480
And the minute we're out of camera view, even though they promised us we could, they didn't even let us pour out the last two buckets on one side.
00:49:16.100
They didn't even finish our chores, which I said, we're handcuffed.
00:49:24.200
And they wouldn't even let us finish, and they didn't even finish the chores that day.
00:49:37.600
And then the guy holding the camera were like, is he allowed to do that?
00:49:43.380
And he hands off his stick with the gloves still on.
00:49:49.900
They don't disinfect us at all from coming off the place.
00:49:53.440
Then they hand us their phone to talk to our lawyer.
00:49:56.920
And just everything that was done is, if you want to spread a virus, if this was, it would have been spread.
00:50:02.860
But they have no problem, because they all knew there was never a virus here.
00:50:07.540
The other thing I'm seeing in the media, that's what I've been doing this morning, is seeing what the mainstream is trying to put out there.
00:50:13.400
And the other thing is, they keep talking about John Katsumaridis, a mega conservative billionaire who's been helping you guys and trying to somehow act like because a billionaire helped you guys, it's an issue.
00:50:25.820
But I want the public to know the significance, especially since we are in a trade war where Mark Carney is supposed to be getting us a deal.
00:50:34.620
And what was on the table here with the highest medical professionals in the United States.
00:50:40.160
Could you explain one of John Katsumaridis' businesses and why it's important to Canada?
00:50:51.020
He's one of the number one importers of Canadian oil.
00:50:56.880
And couldn't even, nobody, they just ignored it.
00:51:05.180
And be an importer of, one of the number one importers of Canadian oil into the U.S.
00:51:18.540
Like, they've been hiding behind lights, no-fly zones, RCMP.
00:51:23.460
They put the no-tab zone, and that's very important, too.
00:51:31.400
That was after you and Tamara went up and made the chopper.
00:51:38.660
I know you've talked, you've said these things before, but I'm fairly new to it.
00:51:43.360
But I'm so delighted that Drea has been here so much, and Sid.
00:51:46.820
And we've had a couple others rotate through, Sheila and others.
00:52:00.580
Do you have any information about when the CFIA and the RCMP are going to go?
00:52:05.780
They say, it is written, that as soon as they are done their operations, which I would imagine that the bodies have left the property, they're supposed to be off your property within 12 hours.
00:52:16.080
If they're not, whatever after 12 hours becomes your property.
00:52:22.340
And that's why they went under that guise of that, is because it's endless.
00:52:31.520
I mean, how do you know when that 12 hours starts?
00:52:34.760
They could be searching for their own shell cases.
00:52:40.000
It should be when the bodies have left the property.
00:52:42.740
And also fluids, also fluids of these animals, it takes like 22 days for that to die off with, with herbals.
00:52:51.080
So how many hours has it been since the bodies have been removed?
00:52:58.700
Yeah, probably the last one was around midnight.
00:53:05.220
I sometimes think legally, and I know you guys had that legal case that went all the way up to the Supreme Court and they refused to hear it.
00:53:15.720
But we've talked about other issues today, including possible crimes being committed by the CFIA in terms of animal abuse.
00:53:25.120
There may be mischief altering your surveillance cameras.
00:53:34.940
Have you contemplated, instead of playing defense, going on the offense and lawyering up, even to help with access to information requests, to help follow up?
00:53:50.320
Because I understand that you've made some complaints.
00:53:53.160
But I think if you have a lawyer doing that, it might be taken more seriously.
00:54:00.500
And the lawyer might know if there's a certain way to appeal certain decisions.
00:54:05.800
A lawyer might even be able to help with a private prosecution.
00:54:16.060
And that's what he said is, we're offense 100%.
00:54:22.540
They've created nothing but time and a bigger vision.
00:54:25.500
They've created the strength of a village and bloodshed and voices that need to be heard and will not die.
00:54:33.560
And I have nothing but time to dismantle this organization to put one with a proper response that will treat animals properly.
00:54:43.580
They should be wearing cameras like the police.
00:54:59.220
I'm glad to hear that you're thinking that way because I think they're brushing you off.
00:55:09.600
The way they've rejected your complaints so far.
00:55:13.500
I think there's a lot of information you might be able to get just through privacy requests or information requests.
00:55:24.520
I think you need a lawyer to help be the pointy edge of the sphere.
00:55:35.480
We've got evidence that it's higher than this house.
00:55:44.360
A lot of the problem is we don't know the truth.
00:55:48.100
Because they've literally kept you in the dark.
00:56:04.840
And I think that's one of the things that upsets people.
00:56:08.280
Because it's like when the government sees truckers' bank accounts.
00:56:17.180
And it made people afraid of their own government.
00:56:20.020
The fact that there's no transparency, no accountability, high-handed, abusive, won't even sign their names.
00:56:27.020
That's not how a government is supposed to work in a democracy.
00:56:31.420
We're at the highest court now, and they refuse us.
00:56:34.620
The one below that, three of them, all said no.
00:56:41.300
Well, I mean, there's different battlegrounds, right?
00:56:44.540
There's the access to information battleground.
00:56:46.800
There's the complaints about animal cruelty battles.
00:56:49.620
So those are different court cases, different causes of action, different legal tools.
00:56:56.400
They took this out of the country when it had gone the German thing.
00:56:59.900
Why can't we do this somewhere else, like Brussels or something?
00:57:04.860
I think that the people in the United States who cared about that medical research, you know, I'll tell you one thing.
00:57:12.800
RFK Jr., anyone from Trump's cabinet is going to get their phone call answered in Ottawa, I think.
00:57:22.620
We're trying to have trade negotiations with America.
00:57:26.640
We got nothing from Ottawa saying Carney didn't even stick his head out.
00:57:31.380
Well, listen, I appreciate you answering my questions, some of which were good questions, some of which were sort of dumb questions.
00:57:40.020
Thanks for showing so much hospitality to Drea Humphrey and her family and my friend Sid and the other journalists.
00:57:48.680
I mean, this is a really important story to Rebel News viewers across the country and even overseas.
00:57:55.620
I was overseas and people said, what's up with those ostriches?
00:57:58.940
You know, it's such an unusual thing, but people, either their love for animals kicks in or they don't understand the Kafka-esque rules.
00:58:10.520
Like, there's something here that has caught the attention of millions of people.
00:58:14.900
And I think telling the story is the first step.
00:58:18.680
So thank you to Drea and all the other citizen journalists.
00:58:27.780
Even though a lot of the reporting is coming to an end on location, I think some of these battles will continue possibly for years to come.
00:58:38.360
I haven't told you guys all formally, but just because the ostriches' lives and your livelihoods were lost yesterday, you know the battle isn't over.
00:58:47.060
Journalistically, it's certainly far from over for me, too.
00:58:49.940
That's why we're shifting our reports about Save the Ostriches to Avenge the Ostriches at AvengeTheOstriches.com.
00:59:04.800
Sid recorded that, so we'll edit that up a bit.
00:59:07.900
And I think that a lot of people would find this conversation very illuminated.
00:59:21.660
And there hasn't been one person that's walked through that door that hasn't been welcomed and tried to feed.
00:59:40.600
I'd like to make one more statement, and maybe I shouldn't.
00:59:46.980
The hardest thing that we've had to do as all the supporters come forward, many supporters have wanted to take physical action
00:59:58.220
And the hardest thing for us has been to say, no, we can't.
01:00:07.880
Because if we take the physical action, that's what they've been trying to provoke us all the time.
01:00:12.820
But now with those birds dead out there, it's just, there's something alive.
01:00:17.840
Well, I look forward to seeing the strategy you choose to go forward.
01:00:24.400
You know that Drea is deeply engrossed in this story.
01:00:27.520
She has a mastery of so many details, and I know that you can brief her, either in person or by phone or by email.
01:00:41.580
But to me, they're a symbol for a government that is abusive, high-handed, secretive, vengeful, unreasonable, authoritarian.
01:00:54.520
And we still don't even know who the shock calder was.
01:00:59.540
And I need to understand a little bit more about this international organization.
01:01:03.420
I mean, because that's the craziest of all things.
01:01:07.440
Imagine if this really is being directed by some global public health authority.
01:01:14.760
It took months, and the whole world was infected by it.
01:01:22.460
It feels very similar, as does the unthinking response to it.
01:01:38.020
I really feel like we're reliving the worst of the COVID mania.
01:01:44.420
And I think it's motivated in some parts by controlling turf.
01:01:49.840
And I think there's big bucks in the vaccine side of things.
01:01:58.620
And the fact that they were killed, I can't help but wonder if it was because they had medical value and the secrecy with which the government killed them.
01:02:08.720
You know, I think the government is coming to this without clean hands.
01:02:12.720
Everything they did was not what you would expect from a democracy.
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You don't turn off the camera unless you're doing something untoward.
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Thank you for letting me pepper you with questions for this past hour.
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And I'm going to talk to some other great journalists here.
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Chris Dacey, I think, has done a really good job.
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Well, you know, this is what Rebel News is about.
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You know, our motto, telling the other side of the story.
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But, you know, one of our mottos is follow the facts wherever they lead.
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I think there's been a bit of snobbery aimed at the farm.
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I don't want to use the word classism, but there's a bit of that.
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And by the way, there's some idea so stupid only an expert will believe them.
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I mean, only a Ph.D. would say kill a herd because 10 months ago they were sick.
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But these so-called experts, that's the flashback I'm having for COVID.
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Dr. Angela, I think we're 35 years of experts with the ostrich in the industry, and not once did they ask us a question for the ostrich.
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Well, thank you again for hosting Drea and Sid and others, and thanks for being so candid.
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He said you've been, you've been, you've been, you've been fun that time.
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I tell you, it was very emotional out there, and the feeling of disappointment and frustration and anger at our government was palpable.
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Here, let me read your letters to me about the ostriches.
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Tickster 123 says, this is outrageous, and give them hell, Ezra.
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Well, the RCMP, I think they really torched their credibility.
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Why did they let themselves be used by these food inspectors?
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InfoSec Strategic said, it is illegal in Canada to shoot at night.
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Any hunter would likely end up in jail if he shoots animals at night.
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I'm not a hunter myself, but that sounds plausible to me.
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They waited till nightfall so they could do it in the dark.
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Animals witnessing the demise and cries and screaming of other animals, as they are called, and experiencing the intense fear, is cruel in itself.
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And they were all there together as they were killed one after the other.
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I don't want to pretend that the ostriches were human beings.
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And animals have, you know, they have certain faculties.
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But, you know, there are some emotions in animals.
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And they have a knowledge of what's going around.
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And they do form bonds and family and friendship in their own animal way.
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And to have them be exposed to this must have been an extremely stressful end.
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And I think the worst thing I heard when I was out there was there was over 900 shots that were heard in the night.
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But I heard that there were shots in the morning, which to me means that in the daylight, some of the ostriches must still have been alive and twitching or moving.
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And then only then did the shooters finish them off.
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We set up a new website at AvengeTheOstriches.com.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.