Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Saying goodbye to the frosty hospitality of Davos' WEF elites

00:00:00.040 Hello, my friends. It's the last day here in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

00:00:06.600 The streets are thinning out. The VVIPs are taking their private jets home. 0.99

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00:00:51.380 Tonight, while we've been in Davos for a week for the World Economic Forum,

00:00:55.360 we'll look back on the most important videos we recorded.

00:00:58.780 It's January 19th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:05.000 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:16.940 It's snowing very gently here in Davos, but it's still quite comfortable.

00:01:20.420 This is the town where Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum take over.

00:01:24.880 And I really mean take over every aspect of this town for one week a year.

00:01:29.560 The other 51 weeks, it's a gorgeous mountain getaway.

00:01:32.520 I don't know if you can see behind me a gondola.

00:01:35.620 There are gondolas all over the place on the train ride in from the town.

00:01:39.960 We're staying in closers.

00:01:41.400 We saw people cross-country skiing on the trains.

00:01:44.240 Sometimes they have ski racks on the trains because there's so many people skiing.

00:01:49.320 I joked with our videographer, Lincoln, that they come to ski, we come to slay.

00:01:54.940 A little bit of a pun there.

00:01:56.540 Not very funny.

00:01:57.280 In fact, the place we're staying is sort of a ski chalet or cabin by someone who lives in Zurich.

00:02:06.960 And he comes up here every weekend with his family.

00:02:09.200 But this one week a year, he rents it out because there's such an enormous demand for people to stay here.

00:02:15.200 It makes it difficult for independent journalists to come and cover it, which is why we have to crowdfund it.

00:02:20.020 And for that, I'm really thankful to you for chipping in to cover our costs.

00:02:24.000 I want to walk down the promenade slowly and talk to you about the week we've had and the things that I think we've seen and learned.

00:02:33.880 This is my second visit to Davos.

00:02:37.200 Our team has come a time before that, Avi Yamini and other journalists.

00:02:42.540 And I think we're getting the hang of it a little bit.

00:02:45.320 We applied for accreditation this year for the first time.

00:02:48.580 That is, I wrote a letter to the World Economic Forum and I said, look, we're going to be here anyways.

00:02:55.180 Why don't you let us come in and frankly talk to us?

00:02:58.180 Even if you're just sending a spin doctor, why don't you tell us if we got our facts wrong?

00:03:04.300 Why don't you bring other information to our attention to round out our story?

00:03:08.780 Our motto is telling the other side of the story.

00:03:10.940 And generally that makes us critics and contrarians.

00:03:13.380 But that doesn't mean we don't occasionally get it wrong.

00:03:16.280 And maybe there's another side to the other side of the story.

00:03:18.980 Maybe there's a third side to the story.

00:03:21.060 But they didn't even reply.

00:03:23.080 And I think that's part of the mindset here.

00:03:25.600 It reminds me of when a citizen journalist from Japan who told us she was inspired by our work.

00:03:31.300 Her name is Masako.

00:03:32.700 Lovely young lady.

00:03:33.640 She camped outside a restaurant where Klaus Schwab was having dinner last year.

00:03:39.160 She waited for hours in the cold and snow.

00:03:42.060 And he came out and she called out to him and he responded.

00:03:45.780 And she had a question for him.

00:03:47.500 And you know what his first reply was?

00:03:49.440 What outlet are you with?

00:03:51.300 And when she said, I'm independent, he said, ha, a peasant.

00:03:56.880 He didn't quite use that word, but that was what his body language said.

00:04:00.540 And he walked away.

00:04:01.260 In other words, his accountability, his responsibility to the world, his requirement to answer questions about public interest matters, in his mind, turned on the status, the class, and perhaps even the wealth of the question asker.

00:04:19.680 If Masako had actually been a fancy working for CNN or the Wall Street Journal or one of the other regime journalists who pay to play. 1.00

00:04:29.580 In fact, maybe that's what it was.

00:04:31.540 Maybe it wasn't even that she was a peasant.

00:04:33.820 Maybe it's that she didn't pay Klaus Schwab.

00:04:36.460 Understand that every single company here, every single media company that's on the inside, they paid to be here.

00:04:45.480 The World Economic Forum is not a charity.

00:04:48.360 The World Economic Forum is not a government NGO or something.

00:04:51.940 It is a for-profit organization cooked up by Klaus Schwab, who sounds and looks like a supervillain.

00:05:00.420 And I swear to God, it's almost too unbelievable.

00:05:03.760 If it was a Hollywood movie script, people wouldn't believe it because it's so unbelievable.

00:05:08.500 His father was a Nazi industrialist, a factory manager, who went to Germany to help Hitler's war effort.

00:05:19.280 He went to Germany to run a factory.

00:05:24.000 And Klaus Schwab himself obviously learned from his father.

00:05:27.980 Klaus Schwab was affiliated with the CIA.

00:05:31.000 Like, if you were to write this script, a Hollywood agent would say, it's too on the nose.

00:05:37.160 You can't have a supervillain-looking guy with a German accent who dresses sometimes like a space alien whose father was a Nazi. 0.71

00:05:45.180 No one will believe you.

00:05:46.160 It's just too far.

00:05:47.240 That is the truth.

00:05:48.940 And one of the things I tell our team at Rebel News about conspiracy theories, because there's all sorts of crazy ideas out on the net.

00:05:57.100 And once in a while, a conspiracy theory turns out to be true, by the way.

00:06:01.240 Jeffrey Epstein is an example of that.

00:06:03.420 Harvey Weinstein is an example of that.

00:06:05.220 But I say to my team, there's so many insane things just lying out there, unreported, that we don't even have to dig hard for.

00:06:15.020 No need to indulge in conspiracy theories.

00:06:18.280 The world is crazy enough.

00:06:20.240 And that's my approach to the World Economic Forum.

00:06:22.980 What this supervillain, Klaus Schwab, says, and what the other oligarchs he meets with say is so outlandish and so dangerous.

00:06:33.940 Simply reporting the truth is shocking enough.

00:06:37.280 And I think that has been proven this last week we've been here in Davos, Switzerland.

00:06:44.440 I should just point out as we walk around here now how things are shutting down.

00:06:51.900 There are some final panel discussions and final events.

00:06:56.140 But you can see the streets are very empty by comparison.

00:07:00.100 Some of the Potemkin Village movie sets are being stripped down and shut down.

00:07:05.820 The town will revert to its normal state.

00:07:08.140 Nature is healing.

00:07:08.940 The skiers are taking the places of the politicians and the lobbyists and the bureaucrats.

00:07:14.700 For the past week, these cars would have been ticketed and towed.

00:07:18.240 Police would have swarmed them because this entire promenade, this is the downtown strip in Davos.

00:07:24.560 They call it the promenade.

00:07:26.140 It was completely taken over.

00:07:28.340 I could see some people lingering.

00:07:30.500 There's the Kurdish house.

00:07:31.720 I never did get a chance to step into the Kurdish house and have a cup of tea.

00:07:37.180 I would have liked to.

00:07:38.800 I regard myself as a fan of the Kurds.

00:07:41.920 I went to Kurdistan a few years ago.

00:07:44.780 That's an unlucky country that I think is, well, it's a proto-country. 1.00

00:07:49.160 They want independence from Iraq and from Turkey, neither of which wants to give it to them. 0.92

00:07:53.880 There are some people who come here, like the Kurds, obviously, that are trying to win international support for their causes.

00:08:00.880 I'm not sure how they did.

00:08:02.060 I would have liked to pop in.

00:08:03.300 But enough about the physical plant and what's on the ground here in Davos.

00:08:12.180 I want to refer to the work we did.

00:08:15.600 Like I said at the beginning of my monologue,

00:08:18.920 who's that?

00:08:21.500 Look at that!

00:08:22.060 The Colombian delegation is still working.

00:08:29.140 They're dancing in the window.

00:08:31.660 I'm so glad they're here.

00:08:33.880 And I wish there were more people on the street to enjoy their Colombian dancing.

00:08:39.480 I didn't have a chance to pop in to the Colombian pavilion, but they're doing a great job.

00:08:44.580 And they're, look at that energy.

00:08:47.400 Look at that energy.

00:08:49.440 Viva Colombia is what I got to say.

00:08:51.240 That's lovely.

00:08:55.960 That's absolutely lovely.

00:08:57.560 Listen, there's entertainment here for sure.

00:09:00.240 I don't know if you saw our video, but we bumped into Will.i.am.

00:09:04.740 And that name might not mean things to people over the age of 60.

00:09:09.160 But he was the mastermind behind a very popular band 20 years ago called the Black Eyed Peas.

00:09:16.180 Here's a little taste to the Black Eyed Peas.

00:09:18.160 Ch-ch-ch-ch-chip.

00:09:19.040 Fill up my car.

00:09:21.220 Mazel tov.

00:09:22.780 Look at her dancing.

00:09:24.800 Just take it off.

00:09:26.640 Let's paint the town.

00:09:28.460 We'll shut it down. 0.99

00:09:30.300 Let's burn the roof. 0.98

00:09:32.300 And then we'll do it again.

00:09:34.260 So Will.i.am is a W-E-F guy.

00:09:54.980 And that always makes me a little nervous because I know guys like Bono of U2 are always hanging out at the World Economic Forum.

00:10:03.920 And I really wonder, are they just trying to appear more thoughtful and important than they are?

00:10:10.060 Or are they genuinely thoughtful people who want to fix the world?

00:10:15.020 I want to show you an excerpt from when Will.i.am talked at some length with my colleague Avi Amini.

00:10:23.120 I thought it was actually a pretty thoughtful conversation.

00:10:26.080 I won't show you the whole thing.

00:10:26.900 You can see the whole video at wefreports.com.

00:10:29.640 But here's Will.i.am talking about freedom and philosophy with Avi Amini.

00:10:35.880 I was impressed.

00:10:37.540 But I feel like the World Economic Forum is not really about love.

00:10:40.680 It's more about control.

00:10:41.860 I'm at Davos.

00:10:43.400 And I'm looking for mentors for my students because I have a program teaching kids computer science and robotics

00:10:49.300 so that when they graduate college they can fill jobs or create jobs.

00:10:52.520 How long have you been doing that for?

00:10:53.700 For 12 years.

00:10:54.660 Now if you want to come mentor our kids, if you're about that, about that, then please feel free to come help inspire our kids to be journalists.

00:11:01.520 Do that.

00:11:02.580 Put your heart where your mind is and your passion is.

00:11:06.620 I think that's nice.

00:11:07.420 But I get fearful when I see some of the most elite people.

00:11:10.680 Don't be fearful.

00:11:12.080 What is your contribution to make the world better?

00:11:14.120 Yeah, my contribution is under threat because of the WEF and because of the eSafety Commission and those that want to control our speech.

00:11:21.440 They tell me that what I say might be misinformation because it goes against their narrative.

00:11:26.260 On a platform that doesn't have any types of methods to ensure what's truth from false.

00:11:34.040 So you can't take that truth away.

00:11:36.440 That's true.

00:11:37.140 What do you mean?

00:11:37.960 We have a system where you could put anything and everybody would believe anything.

00:11:44.200 That's factual.

00:11:45.200 Yeah, but so the government, they want the government to say, to knock things off that they say is not true.

00:11:51.100 Whereas Elon Musk has implemented a system called community notes, which it means that the entire world puts their own response, says that is true.

00:11:58.640 That is untrue because, and people voted up and voted down.

00:12:01.260 As opposed to the government turning around and putting their money behind fact checkers.

00:12:06.820 So activists, they're activists who are hired to a small group to say, no, hold on, that's misinformation.

00:12:12.920 COVID was a great example.

00:12:14.260 During COVID, when we were talking about the vaccines and whether the spread of the, whether it stopped the spread, whether it minimized the spread.

00:12:21.480 Anybody who questioned that narrative at first were kicked off most social media platforms at the time.

00:12:27.720 Hold on.

00:12:28.120 At the time.

00:12:29.340 Right.

00:12:29.620 That's why.

00:12:30.180 Okay.

00:12:30.580 So, so that piece of information that we weren't allowed to discuss in the space because people like in the WEF were saying that the government should control.

00:12:38.480 How's that?

00:12:39.160 How?

00:12:39.660 That's why I'm saying to you that that's under a threat.

00:12:41.600 Do you think that that's okay?

00:12:43.180 No, not at all.

00:12:44.940 Not at all.

00:12:47.600 Not at all.

00:12:48.480 So, so you, you, you, so could you take that message in there that you think that people should have the freedom to express themselves on social media, even if the government deems it false?

00:13:00.140 Yeah.

00:13:00.420 So I have the things that I'm, that I'm passionate about where I go and my viewpoint and my viewpoint is we did not get web 2.0, right?

00:13:10.680 Yeah.

00:13:10.840 Social media was not executed properly.

00:13:14.100 Um, I do believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression and no one's account should be, uh, undone because they're doing their version of freedom of speech.

00:13:26.320 So it's not all evil supervillains like Klaus Schwab and Larry Fink.

00:13:33.520 You do have fun stuff like those Colombian dancers and entertainment.

00:13:37.380 I mean, listen, all these VVIPs in town, they'd like to have fun too.

00:13:42.200 I mean, the restaurants and the hotels around here really are luxurious.

00:13:46.500 Like I say, it's a ski chalet.

00:13:48.100 I mean, this is just an example of, um, of what this place is focused on most of the time, skiing and having fun.

00:13:58.500 So no wonder the supervillains like to come here and have that lifestyle.

00:14:03.780 Anyways, uh, I want to talk about the style of journalism we do for a moment, if I may.

00:14:08.220 Because we're often denied accreditation, we're denied access to places, because of our populist grassroots conservative approach, it makes it difficult for us to cover the news in a direct way.

00:14:23.860 And here's what I mean by that.

00:14:25.920 Um, politicians give speeches and they publish those speeches these days online and they send out press releases.

00:14:33.120 And you can cover a speech like a stenographer.

00:14:36.660 You can just take a video of the speech that was produced by the politician and you can post it with some commentary.

00:14:42.640 But, and there, there is some use to that.

00:14:45.240 You can critique it and you can post questions about it.

00:14:49.080 But if you actually go to the speech and ask a, perhaps a more prickly question to the politician directly and get an unscripted answer,

00:14:57.380 that's a higher level of journalism or a more important way to do journalism than just being really a stay in your office stenographer.

00:15:05.380 And, and that issue came alive about a week ago when our friend David Menzies was arrested for trying to ask a real question to Christia Freeland outside a vigil for the victims of an Iranian terrorist group shooting down a commercial jetliner that killed more than 50 Canadians.

00:15:21.160 So David actually physically went there, waited for Christia Freeland to arrive, and then put a very simple question to her.

00:15:29.200 Why have you not banned this Iran terrorist group? 0.66

00:15:31.720 And frankly, how dare you come to this vigil for the victims of that?

00:15:36.680 And she had him arrested.

00:15:39.160 He put two questions to her.

00:15:40.700 I received, I think I told you this before.

00:15:42.680 I got an email from Shannon Proutford of the Global Mail who said, I don't think that's real journalism. 0.98

00:15:47.780 And I just thought, who the hell are you? 0.75

00:15:49.580 You sit in your, probably work from home. 0.97

00:15:53.980 David did the real work on the ground, waiting for hours, putting a legitimate question to a deputy prime minister, and you got roughed up and arrested for it.

00:16:03.180 And you have the audacity, the chutzpah to say, you're a real journalist, but he's not.

00:16:09.220 I'm not denying that opinion journalism is journalism.

00:16:12.160 But don't tell me that what David did was not as important or more important.

00:16:16.460 In fact, it was the grist for the mill.

00:16:19.580 What David did gave 100 journalists something to talk about, but he was the primary actor there.

00:16:27.180 So coming here to Davos is our way to get personal contact with the world's oligarchs, the most powerful people in the world.

00:16:39.300 And some of them who, either by virtue of personality or their confidence in their subject matter, or for whatever reason, have absolutely no problem walking and talking with us.

00:16:54.240 Let me give you my, I guess, the best example from the past week.

00:16:57.720 I actually bumped into, he's retired now, but a few years back, he was the big boss at the United Nations itself.

00:17:07.660 Like the head honcho of the Security Council.

00:17:09.840 I can't believe it.

00:17:11.060 I just walked up to him and I asked him what I thought was sort of a provocative question.

00:17:14.940 I said, which is more powerful, the UN or the World Economic Forum?

00:17:21.320 Can I play this video for you?

00:17:23.060 It was a lovely walk and talk and it shows that you don't have to be scared of questions from Rebel News, even though so many are.

00:17:32.560 Here's, I think, the gentlest and friendliest conversation I had all week.

00:17:36.220 Take a look.

00:17:36.520 Hi, it's nice to see you here.

00:17:39.440 Are you enjoying the World Economic Forum?

00:17:41.180 Of course, always.

00:17:42.780 Which is more powerful, the United Nations or the World Economic Forum?

00:17:48.240 Well, these are two different baskets.

00:17:50.780 I can't say the United Nations is less powerful than the World Economic Forum.

00:17:57.400 Who is richer, the World Economic Forum or the United Nations?

00:18:01.700 Well, UN is here also.

00:18:03.180 I mean, UN is contributing to the World Economic Forum.

00:18:05.900 It's a partnership, isn't it?

00:18:07.120 Of course it is.

00:18:08.280 Here's a question for you.

00:18:09.280 Could I ask you a tough question?

00:18:11.020 Which is more democratic, the UN or the World Economic Forum?

00:18:16.560 Well, UN, I was the president of the General Assembly.

00:18:19.680 I know.

00:18:20.400 It's the, I think, the largest democratic platform in the world where every country is represented.

00:18:26.860 World Economic Forum is, of course, in its capacity for many years, is also showing this democratic

00:18:35.780 and giving space to every country in the world standards.

00:18:42.180 And I think we shouldn't compare the two.

00:18:45.280 They are helping each other.

00:18:47.560 And this combination is helping the world peace and stability.

00:18:51.700 Now, you could say that I wasn't very attacky.

00:18:54.680 But, listen, I really wanted to hear what he had to say.

00:18:57.460 And he was saying interesting things from an interesting perspective.

00:19:01.280 And I think the reason that we have sometimes a high-energy interrogatory style is because the

00:19:10.880 person we're talking to is either running away, refusing to answer anything, or is extremely

00:19:17.980 defensive.

00:19:18.620 But let me show you what I think was the most surprising interview of the week, because

00:19:25.460 it's a person who you would think would be defensive, evasive, maybe even abusive.

00:19:31.640 I'm talking about the former Bank of Canada governor, who then went on to be the Bank of

00:19:36.000 England governor, which is an unusual move.

00:19:38.980 And he is currently a special envoy with the United Nations for global warming.

00:19:44.120 And he is frequently listed as a likely contender to succeed Justin Trudeau as the leader of

00:19:53.440 the Liberal Party.

00:19:54.220 I'm talking about Mark Carney, who I would put in the top two or three names who would

00:20:00.620 throw their hat in the ring if and when Trudeau falls.

00:20:03.880 Christia Freeland being the other name, and perhaps Philippe Champagne, Francois Philippe

00:20:11.360 Champagne.

00:20:11.840 So my point is, I was talking to Mark Carney, who Avi Amini has spoken to a couple of times,

00:20:18.600 and I arrived, and I'm, you know, Avi's an Australian, and I don't think Mark Carney

00:20:23.920 as a Canadian with Canadian ambitions would be too worried about Avi, no disrespect to Avi,

00:20:29.360 but Avi's not as well-known in Canada as I am.

00:20:33.160 Avi's focus is Australia.

00:20:34.280 So when I started putting questions to Mark Carney, he didn't run away.

00:20:42.920 He didn't say, I'm not talking to you.

00:20:44.900 In fact, he answered in a calmer manner than my questions were put.

00:20:48.840 It actually sort of calmed me down a bit.

00:20:50.840 Let me show you what Mark Carney said.

00:20:52.740 This was the most surprising interview of the week.

00:20:56.420 Mark Carney, special envoy for the United Nations and perhaps future candidate for the leader

00:21:02.140 of the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:21:03.500 Take a look.

00:21:04.080 Justin Trudeau is struggling in the polls there.

00:21:06.680 What would your, I guess, advice be to Trudeau?

00:21:11.840 Because you've got an election coming at least in the next couple of years.

00:21:15.100 It's pretty good of you to follow Canadian politics that close to that.

00:21:18.740 You guys are buddies.

00:21:20.180 Talk to a Canuck.

00:21:21.880 I'm great.

00:21:22.580 Nice to see you.

00:21:23.400 But seriously, he needs help.

00:21:24.820 He's down 20 points.

00:21:26.200 He has a gender gap. 0.61

00:21:28.580 Women are choosing conservatives more than liberals. 0.99

00:21:30.720 I don't remember the last time that happened.

00:21:32.980 What advice would you have for the youngster?

00:21:35.280 Going to a central banker for political advice is never a good idea.

00:21:40.260 Come on.

00:21:40.640 We know that you're in the line.

00:21:42.680 I heard you had a meeting the other day with the prime minister in Ottawa.

00:21:46.400 Is that correct?

00:21:48.080 I see the prime minister from time to time.

00:21:50.360 In what capacity, may I ask?

00:21:53.520 Well, I do a lot of work on climate, as you know.

00:21:57.720 I'm sure a big fan of that.

00:21:58.960 Do you ever register as a lobbyist or is it just friendship?

00:22:03.000 Sorry, I don't.

00:22:03.740 When you meet with the PM on climate, are you there on your own behalf or are you there

00:22:08.080 on behalf of a company lobbyist?

00:22:09.700 I am the UN special envoy on climate action and finance.

00:22:14.960 And what do you make?

00:22:15.700 It's a bitter cold in Canada, down to minus 40s.

00:22:18.720 Back home in Alberta, it was minus 40.

00:22:21.540 And Gilboa was saying go to electric cars.

00:22:23.680 That doesn't work.

00:22:24.500 That doesn't work.

00:22:25.040 Well, you've got to have, watch out, you've got to have the full, you've got to have full

00:22:29.740 capacity, right?

00:22:30.620 And you've got to have, you've got to, you know, one of the things we're going to need

00:22:35.100 to do in Canada, across Canada, and this is, you know, for the benefit of jobs in the country

00:22:41.740 is build out the grid.

00:22:43.500 You can't switch before you build it out, number one.

00:22:46.360 Number two, one of the things you need, regardless of the form of energy you have, we have, is

00:22:54.760 is also to have what's called a capacity market alongside the electricity market.

00:23:01.060 So you think that Gilboa's plan is a little bit hasty since we haven't done those foundational

00:23:04.760 things?

00:23:05.360 Well, I think what's important is that, you know, whether it's in Alberta, Ontario, Canada,

00:23:11.800 Australia, for that matter, is that you have to, yeah, you have to build, you have to build.

00:23:17.220 And it's a, it's a time to build.

00:23:18.840 And look, we're in a position where we in Canada are in a position where we have been

00:23:26.920 an energy superpower.

00:23:28.560 We can continue to be an energy superpower.

00:23:31.420 We've always, we've always had the ability to develop new sources of energy.

00:23:38.520 But the PM said there was no market for natural gas.

00:23:40.980 How do you feel about natural gas, especially to relieve Ukraine and other Europeans from Russian

00:23:46.780 gas?

00:23:47.040 How come they're buying Russian gas and Qatari gas, but Justin Trudeau won't let them buy

00:23:51.500 Canadian gas?

00:23:52.460 Well, we would have to get to build the trains in order to do the, what are called LNG trains

00:23:58.440 in order to get the gas to them.

00:24:00.100 Well, God, this is a long interview, isn't it?

00:24:02.100 I'm enjoying it and I'm, and I'm doing my best to be fair and friendly.

00:24:06.160 If this was Canada, you could have him arrested.

00:24:09.780 Did you see that?

00:24:10.640 Your rival, Christy Freeland, had one of our reporters arrested.

00:24:13.820 I don't think she did.

00:24:14.620 I think she didn't say a word against it.

00:24:16.320 On the incident, as you guys know very well, Canada is a rule of law country.

00:24:28.240 Canada is a democracy.

00:24:30.120 Operational decisions about law enforcement are taken by the police of jurisdiction.

00:24:37.340 Quite appropriately, political elected officials have no role in the taking of those decisions.

00:24:45.820 And that's why I don't have any further comment.

00:24:47.680 It was the wrong thing.

00:24:48.920 It was absolutely the wrong thing.

00:24:50.860 Thank you for saying that.

00:24:52.940 Look, freedom of the press, look, I've been a public figure in Canada, been a public figure in the UK.

00:25:00.820 I know you got to answer tough questions and you guys, you know, you ask tough questions and that's fair.

00:25:05.180 Well, I want to thank you for saying that because I have to say, Christy Freeland has not yet said anything in the vein that you have.

00:25:11.980 She's been happy to let the cops do her work for her. 0.99

00:25:14.520 And if she disagrees with the cops, she hasn't said so.

00:25:18.360 Well, I said what I said.

00:25:20.840 So, but look, the questions you were asking earlier about energy and I'm going to have to.

00:25:25.620 Thanks for your time.

00:25:26.420 I really appreciate the important and I appreciate keeping it.

00:25:29.240 Good luck.

00:25:29.920 Thanks.

00:25:30.220 Come on.

00:25:30.800 I feel like until next year, until next.

00:25:34.000 No, no, no.

00:25:35.200 Take care.

00:25:35.660 Thank you.

00:25:36.280 Well, what do you think of that?

00:25:38.580 I don't want to be dazzled by a man's charm.

00:25:42.120 What's important is substance.

00:25:44.600 But the fact that he was A, willing to talk to Rebel News and B, willing to say two interesting, substantive statements.

00:25:54.060 I have to give the guy credit for that.

00:25:55.880 One of the interesting substantive statements was that he disagrees with the arrest of our colleague, David Menzies.

00:26:01.660 Now, how hard is that to say?

00:26:04.380 You don't have to be a Rebel News subscriber.

00:26:07.620 You don't have to be a conservative to like the fact that freedom of the press applies to everybody.

00:26:14.140 And to be offended by police arresting and actually assaulting a journalist.

00:26:19.540 You don't have to like David Menzies to support his freedom of the press.

00:26:23.360 And I think Mark Carney understands that.

00:26:24.800 Maybe it's because he's not as immersed in the Ottawa groupthink or maybe because he realizes that the Liberal Party of Canada has gone the wrong way on freedom of the press.

00:26:33.860 But wouldn't you agree with me that that is the most pro-freedom of the press thing you've heard from a liberal in all of Canada?

00:26:40.360 Certainly felt that way to me.

00:26:43.180 And the second thing he said was a phrase that I haven't heard since Stephen Harper was prime minister, which is to call Canada an energy superpower.

00:26:52.420 Did you hear him say that?

00:26:53.580 And I said, well, I mean, we started talking about how bloody cold it is in Canada, especially in Western Canada.

00:27:00.760 And I asked him, well, Stephen Gilbeau, the environment minister, wants us all to have electric vehicles in a few years.

00:27:07.600 Electric vehicles don't exactly do very well when it's minus 30, minus 40.

00:27:12.080 And in any event, I don't know if the grid is strong enough to handle that.

00:27:14.960 I didn't add that last part.

00:27:16.700 He did.

00:27:17.820 And he said, well, we have to build those things up first.

00:27:21.100 So those are two important things he said.

00:27:22.960 Energy superpower and we can't rush to an electric grid.

00:27:27.020 And then there's support for freedom of the press.

00:27:28.980 That's a surprising statement. 0.84

00:27:30.860 Now, listen, I'm not foolish enough to think he's a conservative. 0.80

00:27:34.520 He plans to run for the Liberal Party. 0.97

00:27:37.220 But maybe he's not as nuts and ideological as the current crew.

00:27:41.860 So I thought that was an interesting interview.

00:27:44.960 There were a couple of non-interviews that I had that, again, were revealing.

00:27:52.820 I showed you my non-interview with the president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

00:27:59.100 And by non-interview, I mean, I put the questions, but not a word in reply.

00:28:03.400 Here's just a quick reminder of that.

00:28:04.860 I won't play the whole thing because it's about eight minutes.

00:28:07.040 You can find the whole thing at WEF Reports.

00:28:09.000 But remember when I walked with the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for eight minutes?

00:28:15.140 Take a look just to refresh your memory.

00:28:16.700 Can I ask you a few questions about the foundation?

00:28:19.800 Unfortunately, I'm running late for something.

00:28:21.700 I'll walk with you.

00:28:22.860 One of the criticisms is Bill Gates is sort of a master of the universe, but he's not elected at all.

00:28:29.100 But he exerts a lot of power.

00:28:31.440 How do you feel about that?

00:28:33.040 Isn't it a little undemocratic?

00:28:34.180 Is Melinda still involved at the foundation even after the divorce?

00:28:42.920 But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:28:47.120 How many times did Bill Gates actually visit Epstein?

00:28:51.220 I've seen estimates that it was in the dozens.

00:28:53.360 Is that true?

00:28:53.880 Why is it that Bill Gates is out free when others who were involved with Epstein are being prosecuted, like even Prince Andrew's in trouble?

00:29:06.400 How did Bill Gates manage to skate?

00:29:12.720 What was Bill Gates' involvement in the simulation for a worldwide pandemic just months before COVID-19?

00:29:21.020 Has he ever explained that?

00:29:23.880 I was at a pavilion called We Lead.

00:29:29.140 It was a women's rights organization in India.

00:29:32.060 They said that the Bill Gates Foundation was a funder.

00:29:35.740 What are you doing poking around India like that? 0.92

00:29:38.280 What's Bill Gates' ambition in India?

00:29:41.540 So we had a lot of those non-interview interviews.

00:29:46.500 One of them was with the boss of MIT.

00:29:50.540 You know what MIT stands for, right?

00:29:51.840 The Massachusetts Institute.

00:29:53.880 We had a lot of those non-interviews of technology.

00:29:54.960 And my whole life, I've thought that the MIT was the absolute highest, most prestigious, most accomplished, most competent, most meritorious science-oriented university in America.

00:30:10.100 It was as prestigious as Harvard, but for the hard sciences.

00:30:15.260 And like Harvard, they've recently been racked with crazy, out-of-control anti-Semitism.

00:30:24.300 And I don't just mean latent anti-Semitism. 0.98

00:30:26.900 I mean, Hamas-style hate marches, people calling for death to the Jews.

00:30:35.660 The kind of thing that I don't think is being seen at MIT ever. 0.90

00:30:41.120 I mean, really reminiscent of KKK-style chants for black lynchings.

00:30:47.820 And so I asked him about anti-Semitism, and he dismissed it.

00:30:52.440 Ha! 0.89

00:30:53.140 Ha! 0.89

00:30:53.780 You know, he just was so dismissive and condescending.

00:30:59.300 In that first second, you know, that first reflexive response is a person's honest response before they sort of gather themselves and say, well, what's the right PR move?

00:31:09.340 And I walked with him for a bit, and he got angry that I dared to ask.

00:31:14.420 Let me show you.

00:31:15.380 I mean, it wasn't a very long non-interview, but here's how it looked.

00:31:19.940 Does MIT have an anti-Semitism problem?

00:31:22.260 No.

00:31:23.160 No?

00:31:24.340 Sure looks like it.

00:31:25.580 Come on.

00:31:26.560 Oh, are you just waving it off again?

00:31:28.400 That's not the right approach these days, is it?

00:31:33.920 Do you have a plagiarism problem?

00:31:35.620 Why are you being so unresponsive?

00:31:41.100 Don't you think you need to clear the air a bit?

00:31:43.480 I mean, your first response to me, oh, come on, when I ask about anti-Semitism, isn't that what got you in this trouble in the first place, is you being so dismissive of it? 0.89

00:31:55.840 Would you say, oh, come on, if I said you had a racism problem against black people or a homophobia problem against gay people?

00:32:02.460 Why are you so dismissive about anti-Semitism?

00:32:05.620 It seems like MIT's learned nothing from the last two months.

00:32:15.140 Sorry, thank you.

00:32:16.760 Thank me for what?

00:32:17.580 You haven't given me an answer.

00:32:20.980 Don't follow me.

00:32:24.660 Now, maybe that's the right approach.

00:32:26.740 Maybe he doesn't have to talk to Rebel News.

00:32:29.360 He's never heard of us before.

00:32:30.600 He's an American.

00:32:33.040 He's not a Canadian. 0.99

00:32:34.960 His job as the boss of MIT is really to raise money for the university.

00:32:40.560 And maybe there's nothing he could say that could possibly help his cause.

00:32:45.260 But I'm not quite sure about that.

00:32:49.400 I mean, why wouldn't he just say we stand against hatred of all forms and the recent wave of anti-Semitism is appalling and MIT rededicates itself to, you know, civil liberties and respect for all?

00:33:03.120 Like, that's so generic.

00:33:04.940 How are you going to hurt yourself by saying that?

00:33:07.440 It'll just make you look less secretive and less defensive.

00:33:11.160 I mean, he was Jewish himself.

00:33:13.640 Surely it would be very easy for him to come up with language like that.

00:33:17.900 And again, this isn't the first time he's been asked about that.

00:33:21.220 There's some truth to the fact that we're scrumming him on the streets and maybe his head was in a different space.

00:33:27.840 But I say again, it's absolutely legitimate journalism to go up to a person who's in the center of a public controversy, who's a public figure, who happens to be in a public place and ask him a public policy question.

00:33:40.020 There's nothing we asked anyone up and down this street that is of a personal or private nature.

00:33:46.540 We did not talk to anyone who was a private person.

00:33:50.140 We did not go into any private place.

00:33:52.940 And the subject matters we asked were of public interest.

00:33:56.660 And by the way, I saw some criticism of when we had our scrum style journalism with Richard Quest of CNN.

00:34:05.220 I just want to play that three minute exchange again because I had so much fun with it.

00:34:09.520 Can I show you that again?

00:34:10.880 I know I showed it to you before.

00:34:12.220 Take a look at a scrumming CNN's Richard Quest, who I like.

00:34:16.840 I like the guy.

00:34:18.080 I find him likable.

00:34:18.840 Take a look.

00:34:19.680 I'd recognize that voice anywhere.

00:34:21.060 How you doing?

00:34:21.660 I'm sorry.

00:34:22.280 Not this morning.

00:34:22.860 What are you sorry about?

00:34:23.660 Well, I'm sorry that I can't stop to talk to you.

00:34:25.500 Let's not stop.

00:34:26.080 Let's talk and walk.

00:34:26.860 We got 60 seconds.

00:34:28.100 I got one question for you.

00:34:29.580 I've been thinking about CNN and yourself especially.

00:34:32.400 A lot of credibility, a lot of reputation.

00:34:34.000 But how can you ask critical questions here if you're paying to be here?

00:34:39.220 Like CNN pays to be here.

00:34:40.640 So how can you critically ask questions about the WEF?

00:34:43.180 I always find it's best to be very careful when walking, talking and doing interviews,

00:34:48.400 particularly in snowy conditions.

00:34:51.520 Because I think...

00:34:52.200 Now you're avoiding the question.

00:34:53.280 I think it's because you're embarrassed.

00:34:54.280 I think it's always very important to understand.

00:34:58.800 Now we have two against one.

00:35:00.920 I'm not against you, mate.

00:35:02.040 We're all on the side of the truth.

00:35:03.520 At least I am.

00:35:04.140 I know you are too.

00:35:04.980 Now let me ask you.

00:35:05.600 Do you ski?

00:35:06.780 I have a better question that's more in the public interest.

00:35:09.760 How can CNN report neutrally or objectively on the World Economic Forum if you're paying

00:35:15.100 hundreds of thousands of dollars to be here?

00:35:16.820 You're part of the insiders.

00:35:17.780 When you say we are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to be here, precisely what do you

00:35:25.240 mean?

00:35:25.900 Well, to get access to the inside, CNN and the other regime media pay hundreds of thousands

00:35:33.060 of dollars.

00:35:33.400 The other, sorry?

00:35:34.200 Regime media.

00:35:35.280 Excuse me?

00:35:36.400 Regime.

00:35:36.960 R-E-G-I-M-E. 1.00

00:35:38.180 Excuse me?

00:35:38.760 Yes.

00:35:39.900 My God, you know.

00:35:41.680 You are...

00:35:42.460 This is fascinating.

00:35:43.580 You're not doing very well as an answerer.

00:35:45.240 You're good as an asker, but not as an answerer.

00:35:47.500 You're paying more cameras to try and get me.

00:35:51.360 I'm not trying to get your mates.

00:35:52.300 I'm trying to get an answer from you.

00:35:53.640 It's different.

00:35:54.460 My fundamental view on wealth?

00:35:56.280 Yes.

00:35:56.580 A lot of what happens here is a waste of time.

00:35:58.560 A lot of it is far too expensive, but there is real value in people coming together at

00:36:03.260 the beginning of the year to see where they stand on controversial or political...

00:36:06.400 With no Democratic oversight, no opposition party, and no independent journalists.

00:36:12.000 It is a crypto government.

00:36:14.160 It's a lobbyist festival.

00:36:15.960 It's an unregistered lobbyist.

00:36:18.380 You get away with things.

00:36:19.460 Right.

00:36:19.920 You have now transgressed.

00:36:21.540 You have followed me for the last however many minutes.

00:36:24.140 I've made it clear I didn't particularly want to be interviewed.

00:36:26.580 I've given you some answers.

00:36:27.820 Now will you let me proceed?

00:36:29.040 Go ahead.

00:36:29.540 You're about to be in your safe space.

00:36:30.340 You're about to go past the gate.

00:36:31.840 Oh, I love it.

00:36:32.320 You know, sir.

00:36:33.480 Why do you think we don't get excess, but you do?

00:36:36.980 I really love the fact, really love it, that you will take whatever I say in however I say

00:36:44.700 it and manage to turn it either...

00:36:46.960 We've learned from the master.

00:36:48.160 We've learned from the master.

00:36:49.280 You're doing it now having CNN.

00:36:50.740 You're doing it now.

00:36:51.480 And either turn it against me or against CNN or against anybody else that you deem to be unworthy

00:37:01.200 of your approval.

00:37:03.240 Well done, sir.

00:37:03.880 Go with the masters of the universe.

00:37:05.460 Go with your people.

00:37:06.740 Go to your people.

00:37:08.100 Those are your people.

00:37:09.060 I'm looking forward to seeing how you edit this.

00:37:10.500 It'll be raw, my friend.

00:37:11.900 Uncut.

00:37:12.540 Excellent.

00:37:12.920 In which case, you will fully understand, it's not particularly pleasant at half past

00:37:18.720 nine in the morning to be ambushed by one, two, three, four, five people.

00:37:25.260 Five.

00:37:25.940 I don't even deploy that many people when I'm going to interview a president.

00:37:29.300 You've got that many people in the makeup room alone.

00:37:32.180 By the way, there was a short part two to that.

00:37:34.300 I saw Richard Quest the next day, and I have to say, I think his feelings were a little bit hurt.

00:37:39.880 I don't think he's ever been criticized before.

00:37:43.000 That guy dishes it out every day, and he didn't like to take it.

00:37:47.300 I think he felt better when some people from India asked him for a selfie.

00:37:51.620 I think that helped his self-esteem a little bit.

00:37:53.580 Anyhow, a lot of people enjoyed my interaction with Richard Quest because, you know, journalists

00:37:58.340 dish it out, but they don't take it, and CNN really has a righteous indignation to them.

00:38:03.740 But I saw one PR expert online who said, this is ambush journalism, it's not fair, and very

00:38:12.400 rarely do you see it done to journalists themselves.

00:38:15.020 He was sort of shocked and appalled by it.

00:38:17.640 But I think that's BS.

00:38:21.500 I think left-wing woke journalists do that kind of ambush journalism all the time. 0.84

00:38:28.100 I mean, think about Donald Trump.

00:38:30.800 They had ambush-style journalism in the White House press gallery every day.

00:38:34.700 By the way, Trump loved it.

00:38:36.340 Trump would host hour-long scrums, and for some reason I'll never understand, he always

00:38:43.280 went to CNN first, especially Jim Acosta.

00:38:46.820 He loved to spar.

00:38:48.720 He loved to debate.

00:38:50.320 And that was completely normal when it was a Republican politician taking the tough questions.

00:38:58.800 But I think that the media-political-industrial complex doesn't like it when there's people

00:39:05.360 on the left.

00:39:06.500 But let me show you the only instance I have seen of a mainstream media outlet that paid

00:39:13.560 to be here at Davos doing our kind of scrum-style journalism on a politician of the left, a former

00:39:21.480 Labour Prime Minister named Tony Blair.

00:39:24.040 Here, take a look at this brief exchange.

00:39:27.140 It involves a scandal in the United Kingdom involving the company Fujitsu.

00:39:31.960 The details aren't that important.

00:39:33.620 I just want to show you that ITV, which is a large broadcaster in the UK, their one time

00:39:40.900 I've ever seen it, scrummed Tony Blair.

00:39:43.620 Take a look.

00:39:44.200 Your government was considering ditching the Horizon IT project back in 1998.

00:39:50.360 Do you regret not doing so?

00:39:52.020 It is a good place to do it.

00:39:53.600 Mr Blair?

00:39:55.060 You had the opportunity to kill the Fujitsu project.

00:39:58.680 You chose not to.

00:39:59.460 Why not?

00:40:01.340 Do you regret that decision, Mr Blair?

00:40:05.240 Do you feel in any way responsible for what has happened since?

00:40:10.900 Peter Mandelson, Mr Blair, was worried about upsetting Fujitsu.

00:40:25.840 Was that a concern that you had?

00:40:29.960 Mr Blair?

00:40:31.940 Why wouldn't you speak to us?

00:40:33.740 This is an important issue, isn't it?

00:40:36.020 Mr Blair?

00:40:36.620 Gordon Brown spoke to us about this yesterday, Mr Blair.

00:40:49.100 Will you?

00:40:52.460 Mr Blair, hello?

00:40:54.120 Mr Blair, hello?

00:40:55.400 We have to text more than rich people.

00:40:57.440 And I show you that because that's absolutely fair journalism.

00:41:00.420 Tony Blair, who has a hundred things to answer for, walking down the street at Davos, is absolutely fair game.

00:41:07.700 It's only when Rebel News does it to the darlings of the globalist left that it's considered controversial.

00:41:15.580 Anyhow, we're walking down the streets and you can see things being torn down.

00:41:19.840 It's sort of like the morning after a wild party the night before.

00:41:25.460 Let me leave you with one more video.

00:41:29.240 I can't show you all of them.

00:41:30.840 There's just literally too many to show.

00:41:33.080 You can see all.

00:41:33.760 I really want you to go to wefreports.com.

00:41:37.520 I'd like you to see the totality of our work.

00:41:40.500 Some of the interviews we did will probably only be able to get up online Saturday, Sunday, even Monday because we have such a backlog.

00:41:49.360 Let me leave you with a video of someone we were not able to find, even though we looked for her.

00:41:54.100 And I think that's some purpose.

00:41:55.780 I think she was sort of hiding from us.

00:41:57.860 And I'm talking about Chrystia Freeland herself, the woman who had David Menzies arrested and assaulted for asking impertinent questions.

00:42:05.480 Chrystia Freeland, like I've told you before, is actually on the board of the World Economic Forum, which I think is a conflict of interest that in any.

00:42:14.040 Hey, how are you?

00:42:15.000 Good.

00:42:15.580 How are you?

00:42:16.000 Oh, good.

00:42:16.740 Good.

00:42:17.220 Thank you.

00:42:18.980 You know, I believe it or not, there's a lot of people at the World Economic Forum who have come up to us and saluted us.

00:42:29.840 Obviously, some workers, some hotel staff, some other people, basically, quote, the servants to the oligarchs here.

00:42:38.220 Everywhere we go, restaurants, a lot of the people on the street, for example, the kids handing out the newspapers, taxi drivers, a lot of the working class people here have regarded Rebel News as sort of their champions because they have to deal with these VVIPs and their outrageous demands. 1.00

00:42:56.080 So it's fun to be in league with the working class people here.

00:43:00.240 I've really got a kick out of it.

00:43:01.380 But there's also, like, that guy seemed pretty fancy to me.

00:43:04.740 I don't know exactly who he was.

00:43:06.980 I saw him walking down the street before.

00:43:09.120 Not everyone here is 100% in sync with Klaus Schwab's ideological agenda.

00:43:17.400 And people saw some of our interviews, not just this year, the video I did with the Bill and Bill and the Gates guy, which had a million views overnight.

00:43:26.560 But people even remember the interview we did with Albert Bourla of Pfizer last year.

00:43:35.460 I mean, how can you forget it?

00:43:36.460 Here's just a taste of that.

00:43:37.620 Did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?

00:43:40.800 How long did you know that without saying it publicly?

00:43:43.760 Thank you very much.

00:43:44.700 I'm sorry.

00:43:45.340 Why don't you answer that question?

00:43:46.500 I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission.

00:43:50.580 But why did you keep it secret?

00:43:54.220 You said it was 100% effective.

00:43:56.720 Then 90%, then 80%, then 70%.

00:43:59.680 But we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission.

00:44:03.320 Why did you keep that secret?

00:44:05.300 Have a nice day.

00:44:06.520 I won't have a nice day until I know the answer.

00:44:09.560 Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?

00:44:16.420 Is it time to apologize to the world, sir?

00:44:18.740 To give refunds back to the countries that poured all their money into your vaccine that doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine?

00:44:25.240 Yeah, you have a little bit around here.

00:44:27.040 It's not me too.

00:44:27.700 Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple of years?

00:44:30.160 Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?

00:44:32.300 Are you proud of it?

00:44:36.360 You've made millions on the backs of people's tire livelihoods.

00:44:41.280 How does that feel to walk the streets as a millionaire on the backs of the regular person at home in Australia, in England, in Canada?

00:44:48.220 What do you think about on your yacht, sir?

00:44:51.500 What do you think about on your private jet?

00:44:54.060 Are you worried about product liability?

00:44:56.420 Are you worried about myocarditis?

00:44:58.520 Anyway, so like I say, it's sort of been fun walking up and down the strip here.

00:45:02.680 And in a way being the champion of the underdog.

00:45:06.240 But let me close with what I was saying about Chrystia Freeland.

00:45:09.600 She's on the board of the World Economic Forum.

00:45:11.600 How can you be on the board, which means you have a duty of loyalty?

00:45:15.160 If you're on the board of something, you have a fiduciary duty to look out for their interests.

00:45:19.460 You have to put them first.

00:45:21.320 How can you put the World Economic Forum first if your duty as a cabinet minister is to put Canada first?

00:45:28.140 Sometimes there might not be a conflict between the two, but other times there absolutely is.

00:45:33.080 And we also know that Chrystia Freeland does dirty deals here. 1.00

00:45:36.400 She's given hundreds of millions of dollars in untended contracts to her friends, including at McKinsey, that VVIP consulting firm.

00:45:45.080 I thought we would bump into her on the street because she likes to walk on the street. 0.99

00:45:48.920 But I think she was being kept off the streets and just squired around in some of these vans with dark glass windows.

00:45:55.700 Because I think she knew that we were looking for her, especially since her debacle back in Canada having David arrested.

00:46:02.360 But she gave an outrageous speech where she boasted about her plans to decarbonize Canada. 1.00

00:46:09.020 What does that mean, to decarbonize Canada?

00:46:10.800 Carbon is an element in the periodical table.

00:46:13.740 You can no more decarbonize the world than you can take nitrogen from the air.

00:46:19.140 It's what the air is made of.

00:46:20.760 But here's a clip of her saying that at the World Economic Forum.

00:46:25.340 This is a hugely transformative moment in the whole global economy.

00:46:31.580 I think that right now we're living through a moment which is comparable only to the industrial revolution itself.

00:46:40.000 In terms of the energy transition and the way we need to retool all of our manufacturing.

00:46:46.760 That is huge.

00:46:48.060 Canada's strategy, Borgay, is to say, look at these two trends and let's see how we can use them to play to Canada's strengths.

00:47:00.420 And our view is there's a lot that Canada can offer to the world in this moment.

00:47:10.220 You know, we have the critical minerals and metals that you need to build a green economy.

00:47:16.620 We have a lot of clean energy.

00:47:19.300 85% of our grid is already clean and we are investing heavily in building more clean energy.

00:47:26.260 We are a country that believes in manufacturing, has manufacturing know-how and capacity.

00:47:32.900 And then you guys spoke about industrial policy.

00:47:35.960 You know, the thing that is new about industrial policy is we are developing our economies, growing our economies at a time when we also need to accomplish the green transition.

00:47:52.100 And I spoke yesterday to a very significant international business leader who is also a big investor in Canada.

00:48:00.540 And he said to me, all the countries in the world need to be very careful that decarbonization does not mean de-industrialization.

00:48:12.180 I thought that was an extremely smart comment.

00:48:16.000 And Canada is absolutely determined that decarbonization for us will mean more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing.

00:48:26.000 And we recognize government needs to play a role to make that happen.

00:48:30.520 That's crazy.

00:48:31.320 And she says those things here in Davos to applause that she would never say if she were, let's say, in Calgary or Edmonton or Fort McMurray or the north of Canada or really anywhere that depends on real industry.

00:48:46.720 I think Chrystia Freeland is the worst thing about Canada in terms of policy. 1.00

00:48:53.980 Justin Trudeau is obviously the worst person in the government and he sets the example. 0.98

00:48:58.380 He's the most corrupt.

00:48:59.260 And I think, though, he has a level of personal style that can still win some people over, even though three quarters of Canadians want them gone. 0.56

00:49:11.700 But Chrystia Freeland is one who actually implements the disastrous decisions. 0.62

00:49:15.840 Justin Trudeau is not a policy man.

00:49:18.000 I think the World Economic Forum, when Klaus Schwab boasted about penetrating the cabinets, remember that clip?

00:49:25.280 Here it is again.

00:49:26.180 This notion to integrate young leaders is part of the World Economic Forum since many years.

00:49:33.920 When I mention our names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on, they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.

00:49:44.340 But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets.

00:50:00.080 So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet, are actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.

00:50:20.760 Yeah, when Klaus Schwab boasts about penetrating the cabinets and he mentioned Justin Trudeau, I think what he really meant was Chrystia Freeland, who's on the board of the World Economic Forum and is the pipeline of terrible ideas from this place directly to Canada.

00:50:38.980 That's why we're here.

00:50:40.020 We came this long distance and we braved the cold and we chased the VVIPs up and down this promenade. 1.00

00:50:47.060 Because believe it or not, many of the changes, many of the things that affect your life, many of the taxes, many of the regulations, many of the atrocious ideas that you're forced to live with in Canada came from right here in this Swiss town, high above in the Swiss Alps.

00:51:08.000 They were here making plans for you, and they were not telling you about it or consulting you or asking you.

00:51:16.980 And that's why we came here to hold them to account.

00:51:19.920 Please go to wefreports.com.

00:51:22.560 I want you to watch every video we did, the long ones, the short ones, the back and forth videos, or the interviews where we were the only ones talking.

00:51:32.080 Look at our work, and if you think it's important, and if you realize that Rebel News is doing more of this accountability journalism than all other media combined, chip in a few quid if you can to help us cover the costs.

00:51:44.560 We'll be back in Canada soon, and we'll have so much more to say.

00:51:49.000 Thanks for your support this past week.

00:51:51.080 And from all of us here in Switzerland and our home base in Canada to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:52:02.080 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - January 20, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Saying goodbye to the frosty hospitality of Davos' WEF elites

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