Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Shifty Trudeau escapes accountability by proroguing Parliament

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. When I woke up today, I thought Trudeau was resigning. When I first heard his

00:00:04.240 speech today, I thought he was resigning. When I watched it a second time, I realized I had been

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00:01:29.700 Tonight, don't be fooled. I was for a minute. Justin Trudeau has not actually resigned. It's January 6th,

00:01:53.260 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:57.780 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:02:09.920 Hello, my friends. Earlier today, the big news was Justin Trudeau was resigning.

00:02:14.300 I bought the hype. I bought the headline, including when I first listened to Trudeau say it. But after

00:02:19.680 I watched the tape a second time, I realized, no, no, no, he's not actually resigning. He's

00:02:25.140 delaying the resigning. He's rigging the process. He's kicking the can down the road. Here, watch

00:02:32.080 Sheila and I talk about it on today's live stream.

00:02:37.240 Big news this morning, obviously, is Justin Trudeau had a very substitute drama teacher moment where he

00:02:44.860 was very emotional. And he said that he's quitting, but not actually quitting. He's rigging it so he

00:02:53.180 can stick around for almost three more months. It's just the 6th of January. And he has announced

00:03:00.340 that he's going to be prime minister until March 24th. And to make sure no one can do anything about

00:03:04.840 it, he's dissolving parliament. He is removing any accountability from himself or his government,

00:03:10.040 no question period, no committees, no nothing. And most importantly, no ability for the MPs to vote

00:03:16.480 non-confidence in him. He's just telling them, thank you very little. We'll see you in March.

00:03:22.100 And he's basically making the entire country wait so the Liberal Party can choose his successor to him.

00:03:28.740 So even on March 24th, when he graciously puts down the crown, it's not going to be an election then,

00:03:36.740 because then there's going to be a new Liberal leader who's going to try and stretch it out as

00:03:41.060 long as possible before calling an election, because that new leader will want to brand

00:03:45.380 themselves and do a few things first. So I think they're effectively buying themselves six months

00:03:52.580 more of Liberal government. The latest opinion polls I saw last week by Angus Reid shows that Trudeau

00:04:00.000 and his government are at 16% in the polls. I doubt that a new leader will change that much,

00:04:05.320 given that every single Liberal candidate is complicit in this government. Even Mark Carney

00:04:10.540 has boldly supported, you know, carbon tax hikes, globalism. So this is not a day for democracy.

00:04:18.260 This is an anti-democratic day. Let's play a couple of clips to show people how it went today. And

00:04:24.140 then Sheila, I'd love to get your reaction. I'm full of it. I'm full of opinions on this.

00:04:30.140 Let's just play a few clips back to back, bam, bam, bam. And then let's chat about it.

00:04:34.300 Olivia, do you want to roll video number one?

00:04:39.520 My friends, as you all know, I'm a fighter. Every bone in my body has always told me to fight.

00:04:47.100 That's a lie. He's not fighting here. He's ducking. He's dissolving parlance. He doesn't have to fight.

00:04:51.020 He's a liar. 0.99

00:04:51.480 I care deeply about that. And I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest 0.94

00:04:57.960 of Canadians. That's not true. He's just stolen 90 days as Prime Minister.

00:05:02.880 Despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months.

00:05:09.460 after what has been the longest session of a minority parliament.

00:05:13.480 That's right, because he's illegally withholding documents.

00:05:16.820 Yeah.

00:05:17.080 That's why this morning, I advised the Governor General that we need a new session of Parliament.

00:05:24.480 She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24th.

00:05:30.460 Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family

00:05:39.500 about our future. Throughout the course of my career, any success I have personally achieved

00:05:46.220 has been because of their support and with their encouragement.

00:05:50.140 So last night, over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today.

00:05:59.820 I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime Minister, after the party selects its next leader

00:06:08.540 through a robust, nationwide, competitive process. Last night, I asked the President of the Liberal

00:06:15.900 Party to begin that process. This country deserves a real choice in the next election.

00:06:21.260 By the way, I correct myself, that doesn't necessarily mean he's gone on March 24th, does it?

00:06:25.580 No, not at all.

00:06:26.700 ...having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.

00:06:32.380 He just blamed internal battles, not himself. He just said, I'm leaving because,

00:06:38.220 oh, those guys, those quarrelsome fellows, they're the problem. That's why I didn't do anything wrong.

00:06:44.380 I haven't done anything wrong in nine years. He ends as he began. He's never apologized for a

00:06:49.500 thing. He's good at apologizing for what Canadians do. He does that to differentiate himself. I'm 1.00

00:06:56.220 deeply embarrassed for the genocide of this country. Translation, I'm morally superior.

00:07:03.100 He'll apologize for anything anyone in the past has done, which is sort of an

00:07:08.940 oblique way of saying I'm better than anyone in history. I'm better than you. I'm better than

00:07:13.340 the mere people. He manages to put himself outside of things as if he's not the primary actor in all

00:07:19.420 of this. I'm resigning because of their infighting. Yeah, everything that he does is a learning moment

00:07:24.860 for the rest of us and never him, right? So for the next three months, we've got

00:07:31.580 a prime minister nobody wants, including his own party. He'll rule by fiat, I guess. And we're in the

00:07:38.780 middle of a trade or tariff war with a president who regards him as an absolute joke. And what is

00:07:44.460 our prime minister doing? Throwing the decision of who the next prime minister is back into the hands

00:07:50.780 of the people who put him into power. The Liberal Party cannot be trusted. And actually, we know from

00:07:56.700 the public order emergency, or not the public order emergency commission, wrong commission under the

00:08:02.300 liberals, the foreign interference commission, that the Liberal Party leadership race can be

00:08:08.780 contaminated by foreign interference because you don't have to be a citizen and you don't have to

00:08:15.340 put up any membership dues to be a member of the Liberal Party. I actually have that clip from Michael

00:08:20.620 Chong saying that, that China could still have their man running the show. They haven't fixed any of 0.98

00:08:26.060 this problem. You're so right. Let's take a look at that clip. Mr. Chong, just a couple of questions.

00:08:33.900 At paragraph 20 of your interview summary, we don't need to go there, but you recall that you said that

00:08:40.940 nomination rules are vulnerable to foreign interference. Is that right? That's correct. 0.97

00:08:45.980 And the commission has heard evidence that rules for nomination contests are similar to those for

00:08:51.420 leadership contests. Because if you're a registered member, you can vote in a leadership contest. And

00:08:57.180 I wondered if you, the concerns that you have about nomination contests would also apply to leadership

00:09:02.460 contests? Yes, the concerns I have about nomination contests apply to leadership contests. In fact,

00:09:07.020 my concern about leadership contests are even greater than my concern about nomination contests. And here's why.

00:09:13.660 The nomination contest is not the end of the matter. When a person is elected or selected as the candidate

00:09:26.780 for a registered political party, there is then a subsequent very important step, which is the election

00:09:34.700 or by-election to elect that individual to the House of Commons. No such second step exists

00:09:43.980 for the election of a party leader. And so if the vulnerabilities that have been exposed in

00:09:50.300 testimony today and yesterday are in place for the election of a leader of a party, particularly of

00:09:57.820 a party that has the majority of seats or commands the majority of support in the House of Commons, we are

00:10:07.340 heads of government in this country, including prime ministers and premiers,

00:10:11.580 to this foreign interference. I think of my late colleague, the Honorable Jim Prentice. When Jim

00:10:17.580 Prentice was appointed premier of the province of Alberta, he was a private citizen. He was no

00:10:23.340 different than anybody walking down Wellington Street today, who was appointed by the Lieutenant

00:10:27.900 Governor of the province of Alberta to be full premier of that province. He did not have a seat in

00:10:32.700 the legislative assembly of the province of Alberta. He had simply been elected as leader of the Alberta

00:10:39.100 PC party. And what has happened in recent decades, both at the provincial and the federal level,

00:10:44.460 is that party caucuses have deferred the election, the selection of party leaders to the registered

00:10:52.620 political parties. And so we could have a situation here in Canada where a prime minister resigns from

00:10:58.620 office. The registered political party conducts an election for the leader. That election, if subject

00:11:06.620 to the same kind of rules that some of the parties have outlined here today and yesterday at the

00:11:11.740 commission, would result in the appointment of a prime minister who does not have a seat in the House

00:11:17.900 of Commons and who was elected through a process that was significantly compromised by non-citizens

00:11:23.580 and by foreign state actors. You know what, it's an excellent point. And there's a lot of leadership

00:11:30.860 campaigns that are revving up right now. Dominique LeBlanc, Christia Freeland, Mark Carney. I think that

00:11:38.060 there's a few joke candidates too. I bet you Melanie Jolie. I think Francois-Philippe Champagne. Who else do you think?

00:11:46.220 Christy Clark, I think. Right, Christy Clark from BC. And then there'll be some absolute

00:11:51.580 kook candidates, not that the ones I've just listed are particularly sober-minded.

00:11:56.380 So they're all busy. But I think the busiest place in the country right now in terms of

00:12:00.780 the liberal leadership is the embassy of the People's Republic of China. And they are probably

00:12:08.540 right now taking bids, taking offers. Let me remind you about something astonishing. Olivia,

00:12:15.100 see if you can Google this while in real time. Francois-Philippe Champagne, he's this little guy

00:12:22.620 from Quebec who's had a few different portfolios. I think one of his first portfolios was the Foreign

00:12:28.220 Affairs Minister. Okay. He disclosed in his ethics disclosure that he had a mortgage from a government

00:12:38.220 bank in China. So one of his apartments, because he's got many of course, he had, I think it was like

00:12:45.980 a million dollars loaned to him by a Chinese government bank, an obscure Chinese government

00:12:54.540 bank that does not do normal. Yeah, there it is right there. And this is, I think, a CBC story.

00:13:01.340 Champagne says he refinanced Chinese mortgages. So this is when he got out of it,

00:13:06.620 after it was all over. After he was caught. Yeah, after he was caught. But how do you even

00:13:11.500 do that? Like Sheila, I mean, I, you, I mean, I presume you have a mortgage. I have a mortgage.

00:13:16.380 You go to your regular bank or you go to a mortgage broker. There's, there's mortgage brokers who

00:13:22.860 specialize if you're a little bit hard to, you know, if you, if you're tough to get a mortgage,

00:13:27.020 they'll get you maybe a higher rate. Like there's a, there's probably a hundred companies in Canada

00:13:31.980 that lend mortgages, the big banks, credit unions. Like it's, it's such a standard loan.

00:13:37.020 And because it's secured with property, it's, it's an easy loan to make. Who, how do you even think to

00:13:44.380 yourself? I'm going to go to a government of China bank that does not normally give home loans.

00:13:53.580 And I'm going to get a mortgage from them. And I'm going to be the foreign minister of Canada

00:13:59.980 at the same time as I owe the Chinese government a million dollars. That's Francois-Philippe Champagne.

00:14:07.340 So normally I would say he's a joke, a quack. He's going to come in last place, but he is,

00:14:14.780 as far as I know, the leading contender for the People's Liberation Army, People's Republic of China,

00:14:20.620 Communist Party of China candidate. So don't be surprised if on election day,

00:14:26.220 Francois-Philippe Champagne gets his payoff. Yeah. I mean, we saw the, the foreign interference

00:14:33.180 on such a low level, you know, why wouldn't they meddle at a higher level? We saw them trucking in

00:14:39.540 foreign students from out of a riding to vote for Handong, who's just a backbencher, but China wanted

00:14:45.420 their man. And so this is now China's opportunity to have their man in the prime minister's office,

00:14:52.300 either with Champagne or somebody else. And as Michael Chong points out, this person does not

00:14:57.820 have to be a sitting MP. It's the choice of the liberals. And that's why what Justin Trudeau

00:15:02.860 has done is so dangerous. After nine years, nine years of arresting his critics, censoring his critics,

00:15:11.900 and subjecting Canadians to all their, all of Justin Trudeau's petty tyrancy, he still won't

00:15:17.820 let Canadians have their say. And he's doing this in such a compromised way.

00:15:22.460 I just want to get back to a clip that I just see on our list of clips here, Sheila.

00:15:26.540 Yeah.

00:15:27.260 One of my favorite moments, I mean, Justin Trudeau had a voice I always called his just the tip

00:15:33.580 voice. Sort of like a voice that he would use on a date. Like he gets into just the tip mode.

00:15:39.020 And I just think, Oh my God, does anyone still buy that? And he was, he had that sort of fake

00:15:44.380 emotional substitute drama teacher voice today. And it sounds like a, um, a university professor

00:15:53.020 grooming one of his students into a sexual relationship. You know, that's what it makes 0.69

00:15:57.660 me feel like. I don't really watch, uh, this hour is 22 minutes, but there's a guy on there. I suppose

00:16:03.820 I could call him a comedian who does the Trudeau impression. He actually has that just the tip

00:16:10.300 voice down pretty well. That's he, I'll give him credit. He doesn't do a bad job of impersonating

00:16:16.700 Trudeau because he's got that substitute drama teacher voice. Um, here's Trudeau with the just

00:16:23.260 the tip voice talking about his greatest regret. This is clip number three, Olivia, if you could

00:16:30.780 play that clip. I think it's two. What's two? Um, we got elected in 2015 to fight for the middle

00:16:41.180 class and that's exactly what we've done over the past years. We reduced their taxes. We, uh,

00:16:48.140 increased the benefits to families. We made sure the economy was focused on working for everyone

00:16:53.580 and not just a few. And that has changed. That has dropped poverty rates in Canada. That has

00:17:00.620 brought more people into the workforce. That has moved us forward on reconciliation in a way that has

00:17:08.460 deeply improved the opportunities and success of Canadians, despite the incredibly difficult times

00:17:14.860 the world is going through right now. Um, um, there's lots more work to be done. And I know, uh,

00:17:22.460 that this party in this country and Canadians will keep doing it.

00:17:28.300 If I have one regret, particularly as we approach this election, probably to clip number three,

00:17:33.500 that one regret thing is fine. And he talks about some BS issue. He's never really cared about. I want

00:17:38.140 to show you his heartbreak over the fact that I think he knows Pierre Pauliev is going to be prime

00:17:46.140 minister this year. Play for me clip number three, because this is where he gets his most sensual,

00:17:53.180 most romantic. And remember ladies, he's single right now. Oh, it feels like someone's licking

00:18:00.140 in the inside of my ear. So gross. Disgusting. Play clip number three, Olivia. Yeah. Pierre 0.98

00:18:08.140 Pauliev's vision for this country

00:18:14.300 is not the right one for Canadians. Stopping the fight against climate change doesn't make sense.

00:18:21.420 Backing off on the values and strength in diversity that Canada has always, always worked to pull itself

00:18:35.820 together on. It's not the right path for the country. Attacking journalists, the CBC institutions.

00:18:43.900 That's not what Canadians need in this moment. We need an ambitious, optimistic view of the future.

00:18:51.180 And Pierre Pauliev is not offering that. And I look forward to the fight as progressives across this

00:19:00.060 country stand up for the kind of vision for a better country that Canadians have always carried, despite the

00:19:09.340 tremendous pressures around the world to think smaller, to veer towards the higher right, and to be

00:19:18.700 less ambitious for what we can be and do as a country when the world really needs Canada.

00:19:26.460 That's not an answer though. Yes or no.

00:19:28.140 You know what? There was some real reporter questions for the first time I've ever seen in my life.

00:19:33.500 Now that he's no longer in a position to appoint them to the Senate. Actually, what am I saying? I

00:19:39.180 shouldn't say that. He's got three months to make all the appointments he can. He's going to jam through

00:19:44.620 everything. Expect his barber, all six of them, to get appointments to the Senate, to whatever he can.

00:19:54.060 He is going to be taking every ally, every friend, every date he's had, anyone who gave him five grand or

00:20:03.660 50 grand or 500 grand. He is going to go nuts like the divorced dad that he is. He's going to go

00:20:11.580 cuckoo in the next 90 days in a flurry of patronage and corruption, the likes of which we have not seen.

00:20:19.420 And that acting he showed there of his dramatic thespian-ness is, you know, even the reporters

00:20:27.580 don't buy that. It was nice to see a little bit of that today. For the first time today, I think I heard

00:20:31.980 real questions in nine years from regime journalists. Sort of sad.

00:20:39.660 Well, after a few hours passed, I cogitated about things and me and Sheila connected again.

00:20:45.580 Here, watch my interview, or our conversation rather, a few hours later.

00:20:49.580 Well, that was some of our live reaction this morning to Justin Trudeau.

00:21:02.380 I would, at first, I sort of took the bait, and I said he resigned, but he didn't resign at all.

00:21:10.460 He says he will resign. Now, he might or might not keep his promise, but he gave no specific date. I was

00:21:17.180 listening, I suppose not carefully enough, the first time when he said the parliament is prorogued till

00:21:23.900 March 24th. And I thought, oh, that's when the resignation kicks in. No, he didn't say that at

00:21:27.820 all. He said he'll resign when the Liberal Party has a new leader. We don't know when that is. So

00:21:33.820 the interest of the Liberal Party comes first. He will be the prime minister for months longer,

00:21:40.540 if he likes. The only thing about March 24th is that people will be stopped from voting no

00:21:46.140 confidence against them. And by the way, Jagmeet Singh has showed himself endlessly malleable.

00:21:51.660 He might well agree that, well, there's a new Justin Trudeau, and I like what he's done,

00:21:56.780 and it's critical that we all come together under Donald Trump's threat. Or if there is a new

00:22:02.940 Liberal leader, well, we have to give them a fair chance to get their feet under them. Justin Trudeau

00:22:08.300 is not yet gone. Joining me now to talk more about this is my friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Sheila,

00:22:12.860 how you doing? I'm doing okay, I guess, all things considered. I think I bought the hype a little

00:22:20.780 bit too much in the first hour there. So when you and I were reacting in almost real time,

00:22:26.700 I think it took me a while to sort of figure out what was really going on. This is just a guy

00:22:30.860 managing to give himself three months without any press conferences, without any question period,

00:22:36.940 three months of really holidaying, enjoying the perks. And my prediction, Sheila, is he's going to

00:22:43.100 try and ram through as many patronage gigs as possible. He's going to be ramming through as many

00:22:48.700 checks to his buddies, corporate contracts to his buddies, and just shredding and shredding and

00:22:54.140 shredding any documents. It's going to be like Hillary Clinton on speed, just deleting things. I think

00:22:59.740 he's basically given himself a three-month staycation. Yeah. I mean, on one hand, I'm sort of glad that

00:23:07.260 they wiped out all the work that they had tried to do. When liberals are working, your civil liberties

00:23:13.100 are disappearing. They, by proroguing parliament, they have successfully murdered Bill C-63 and the

00:23:20.140 pandemic bill that they were trying to ram through that would sort of force control of the food chain over

00:23:28.220 to the government. So that's the good news. But the bad news is nothing has changed. So Justin Trudeau

00:23:34.380 is still the prime minister. The liberals are still the governing party. And our choices right now are

00:23:41.900 Justin Trudeau or eventually a person who propped him up in the last nine years as he inflicted the

00:23:49.260 pain that he has onto Canadians. You know, I saw already a new website, Canadians for Carney. That didn't

00:23:57.580 take Mark Carney long at all to set up. He was waiting in the wings. There'll be others. Chrystia Freeland.

00:24:05.740 I haven't seen her campaign website yet, but it's surely afoot. I've seen Mohamed Faki, the...

00:24:13.420 Oh, Lord. There's a patronage appointment.

00:24:15.740 Yeah. He's telling his followers to get engaged because remember the rules of the Liberal Party.

00:24:21.660 You don't have to be a citizen to be a member. You can be as young as 14. So literally 4.9 million

00:24:33.420 people in Canada who are here on a temporary basis, temporary workers, temporary students,

00:24:40.860 refugee claimants, people who are not citizens, they can vote. There's almost 5 million of them.

00:24:48.540 And even like 14, you can't drink, you can't drive, you can't enter into certain contracts,

00:24:57.340 but you can choose the Prime Minister of Canada before Canadian citizens can go to an election.

00:25:04.620 It's so gross and it's so Trudeau, isn't it?

00:25:08.380 Well, and these people will be low liability interlopers because there is absolutely no bar

00:25:15.100 for entry. As you say, they don't have to be citizens. They can be as young as 14 and there's

00:25:18.620 no money changing hands. So you can become a member of the Liberal Party without ever having to pay a

00:25:24.060 membership due, which is how other parties manage who's actually invested in the system, but also how

00:25:31.660 they manage where the money and motivation is coming from. The Liberals could have a leader

00:25:39.420 that is chosen completely by non-citizens. And it might even be a leader who's not even an MP,

00:25:45.260 if that's who they choose to run. So this is ripe for foreign interference.

00:25:49.900 Yeah. I don't think we're going to see that. I mean, I saw a clip.

00:25:53.580 Carney.

00:25:54.460 Yeah, that's right. I mean, I don't even know where he lives. Where's his home residence?

00:25:59.500 England, maybe?

00:26:00.780 Yeah. I mean, his last big job was being the Bank of England governor.

00:26:06.300 Um, yeah, it's going to be amazing. You're going to have Iran, Hamas operatives. You're 0.99

00:26:11.420 going to have Chinese operatives. And I saw a clip posted by one of our friends over, I think it was

00:26:18.540 Countersignal, from the Halifax Security Conference. It's there every year. It's sort of

00:26:26.060 interesting military security conference. And Chris Alexander was talking about Russian interference and

00:26:32.380 Elon Musk is Russian interference. I don't think so. In fact, Elon Musk not only was the largest donor,

00:26:38.940 largest private donor to Ukraine of satellite services, he is also, I mean, people don't talk

00:26:46.300 about this a lot. We all know about Starlink. That's the residential. I'm on it right now.

00:26:53.820 Yeah, you're on it right now. But there is a second half to his company. Did you know this,

00:27:00.940 Sheila? Called Star Shield. Have you ever heard of that?

00:27:04.540 Nope. Well, I don't think you see it talked about one percent of the time you see Starlink talked

00:27:12.540 about. That is the Pentagon's contract with SpaceX. It's not just happy, chit chatty satellite internet

00:27:23.660 that Elon Musk is sending into the sky. It is military satellites. Of course it is. So to claim that Elon

00:27:30.540 Musk, one of the largest military contractors in America, the free speech booster and the friend 1.00

00:27:37.580 of Ukraine is a Russian asset, is stupid and a lie. And the point for me to make this is 1.00

00:27:46.540 there is about to be an ocean of foreign interference in Canadian politics. But you won't think,

00:27:51.580 you won't see idiots like Chris Alexander. Here's a clip of him at the Halifax conference. I think 1.00

00:27:57.820 this was actually a few weeks ago. We need to push back. We gave them the gift of these unregulated 0.89

00:28:04.540 platforms that they have flooded with their assets. I mean, Musk has turned it into a weaponized,

00:28:13.100 a weapon of war for Russia and to some extent China, his platform. The scale, people still don't even,

00:28:21.580 Musk doesn't even know the scale of it. He's just making money. Regulators have no clue.

00:28:25.900 Elections Canada is trying to get a grip on election spending and advertising in Canada,

00:28:31.740 which is fully regulated in this country. Absolutely nothing to say about social media.

00:28:36.220 It is a joke. We have turned ourselves into a doormat. We will not get our politics back until

00:28:41.740 there is regulation. Effective efforts, intelligence security efforts to counter propaganda,

00:28:48.380 and we go on offense against the countries that are doing this.

00:28:50.780 Yeah. All of these people who defame conservatives as Russian spies or who I don't even know the

00:28:57.900 latest smears, we are about to have more foreign interference than ever in our history,

00:29:03.340 and you're not going to hear a peep about it from the official regime journalists.

00:29:07.260 And there won't be any fact checking from the regime journalists either,

00:29:10.460 because they know that the gravy train with biscuit wheels is just rolling out of the station without

00:29:15.180 them. You look at those sullen boiled potatoes over at the CBC on those panels today. They know that

00:29:22.140 the free ride is about to be over. I think they've known that for a long time. That's why they work so

00:29:26.300 hard to polish whatever nonsense that Justin Trudeau is saying. But while conservatives are being called

00:29:33.020 Russian operatives, you're not going to hear any reasonable balance coming from the so-called 0.95

00:29:38.620 professional journalist class in this country. You know, I don't know those steps of grief or whatever

00:29:44.460 it is to denial, bargaining, grief, acceptance. I don't know that. I think they're around step three.

00:29:51.420 Yeah. And I think today the reality sort of came home from him that their dream is almost over,

00:29:58.220 but it's not over yet. So Sheila, Andrew Coyne, Rosemary Barton, the guy from Newfoundland who took the

00:30:05.180 free poutine, Aaron Wary, all those CBC hacks, it's over enough for them to get over the grief

00:30:13.820 and start crying. A lot of them looked like they had been crying today, but they know they have about

00:30:18.380 90 days to make a casual inquiry of the boss and say, look, if I really dig in for you, will you give

00:30:26.140 me that Senate appointment in this province or will you let me have a luxury condo in Manhattan like Tom

00:30:33.100 Clark did? There are so, and they'll invent new perks and patronage gigs and they'll sole source

00:30:41.660 contracts. They'll hire Rosemary Barton for half a million bucks a year in a sole source contract. 1.00

00:30:47.500 I mean, the amount of, the amount of just sheer raiding the treasury, it's like a run on the bank.

00:30:54.300 It's like they're going to, it's going to be looted because they all know they've got about 90 days,

00:31:00.300 maybe 120 days to just ring out everything they can. And that's the Trudeau way.

00:31:07.820 Oh, there are plenty of Charles Adler's in waiting right now in the mainstream media. And we're going

00:31:14.460 to see a replication of what it was like when Justin Trudeau first took power. All the mainstream media

00:31:19.740 journalists who elevated him, who just glossed over his nonsense and his stupidity, they are, 1.00

00:31:26.700 they know that it's their time to shine. So when Justin Trudeau first took power, remember, 1.00

00:31:32.140 he was hiring all sorts of CBC hacks to be communications advisors to him and the liberal

00:31:37.980 party. And we're going to see that all replicated on the way out the door. They're just going to

00:31:42.620 raid the treasury. Let me throw one last thing. I heard today at the press conference,

00:31:47.420 there were a few questions from the media party that were the toughest questions I've ever seen

00:31:52.620 them ask in, in nine years. Here's a quick clip. Just, it doesn't even matter what they were about,

00:31:57.260 just to see people pushing back at non answers, people a little bit exasperated with the word salad.

00:32:02.780 Here, just use a little sample of that. We need an ambitious, optimistic view of the future.

00:32:07.740 And Pierre Polyev is not offering that. And I look forward to the fight as progressives across this

00:32:17.180 country stand up for the kind of vision for a better country that Canadians have always carried,

00:32:24.700 despite the tremendous pressures around the world to think smaller, to veer towards the horror right,

00:32:35.180 and to be less ambitious for what we can be and do as a country when the world really needs Canada.

00:32:43.020 That's not an answer though. Yes or no. Is there another leader that could beat them?

00:32:47.260 Absolutely. This prorogation will take us only into March and there will be confidence votes in March in the passing of supply that will allow Parliament to weigh in on confidence in a way that is entirely in keeping with all the principles of democracy and the workings of our strong institutions.

00:33:14.300 With respect, don't you think this is undemocratic because you're not allowing Parliament to express its lack of confidence in your government while your party is looking for a new leader?

00:33:29.900 Shouldn't you just call an election? Don't you think that would be the better approach?

00:33:34.380 And my point for showing that is it's nice to see that for the first time in nine years.

00:33:38.940 But I think that's going to go away, not just for people trying to suck up for jobs, but let's fast forward to when China and Iran choose the next liberal leader.

00:33:50.940 And let's say, let's just say it's Chrystia Freeland. She's sort of the odds on favor, but don't count out the others.

00:33:56.780 You're going to see all these journalists say, uh-huh, it's Chrystia Freeland. 0.67

00:34:02.140 So it's not Trudeau. So I have all new sucking up to do. Go girl boss. We can do this. You were wronged by Trudeau. 0.89

00:34:10.680 And you're going to see a whole new set of rationalizations by which the media party can fall in love all over again with the liberals, even though Chrystia Freeland was literally on their team for 99.9% of everything they did until her own dignity was in question.

00:34:29.880 I don't know. I think that this is definitely not a resignation. Trudeau will be in there at least three months. Wouldn't surprise me if he's in there for six months.

00:34:37.560 I wouldn't be surprised to see this go all the way to October 2025. I really would not be surprised by any of that.

00:34:46.240 By the time Trudeau regs the puck enough, pro-rogues, we're not going to see the NDP, the aid of the conservatives, to vote against Justin Trudeau and have the House fall in a confidence motion.

00:35:00.560 Why do I know that? Because they didn't do it at least four times. They didn't even vote for a confidence motion. They used Jagmeet Singh's own words.

00:35:06.880 So I don't believe a single thing that guy says. I think they're going to take a protracted and prolonged leadership approach to replacing Justin Trudeau.

00:35:18.740 And they're going to say it's a fulsome and robust competition. And I think we're going to get all the way through to 2025 in October. That's what I think.

00:35:26.780 Yeah, I think you're right. Wow. Well, Sheila, great to see you. Thanks very much for joining me. And I enjoyed the live stream, too.

00:35:34.800 And you keep up the fight out west. We have to get into election mode because Trudeau is.

00:35:40.700 I mean, that's what I mean. We're in a new phase now. It's shaping the battlefield in advance of the election.

00:35:47.920 And there's a lot to cover and we're going to do it. Thanks for your time.

00:35:51.440 Thanks, boss.

00:35:51.900 All right. There you have it. Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter. Stay with us more ahead.

00:35:59.480 Well, that was Sheila and me talking about things after we had cogitated and ruminated on things for a while.

00:36:04.960 You know, I was thinking about things and it's just trickery and it's Trudeau evading responsibility and it's the media party being fooled and it's Trudeau avoiding question period and press conferences for three months.

00:36:16.480 And it's letting the Liberal Party choose the course of Canada rather than Canadian citizens.

00:36:20.980 It's gross every way you cut it.

00:36:23.380 I spent much of today thinking about what we're going to do and how we're going to cover things in the months ahead.

00:36:27.660 I had sent a memo out about a week ago. We called it Campaign 2025.

00:36:31.620 But I put together some new thoughts and you can find them at the website CallTheElection.ca.

00:36:37.240 It includes using our billboard truck.

00:36:39.720 We've actually just just this morning, I talked to Andy Lee about signing her up on a special project to monitor Chinese language recruitment in the liberal leadership race.

00:36:50.000 We probably should get someone in Persian also because Iran is going to be heavily involved, I think.

00:36:55.180 So we're going to bulk up our team to give this proper coverage because the CBC won't.

00:36:59.320 Anyhow, lots of work ahead.

00:37:01.720 Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:37:11.400 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me.

00:37:14.240 Frank Zivich says, disgraceful liar. 0.97

00:37:17.260 The governor general, how much is she being paid? 0.98

00:37:19.580 The election should have been called.

00:37:21.180 Yeah, the governor general represents the king in Canada, doesn't represent Trudeau to the king.

00:37:27.360 And I think that Trudeau has such low credibility and he's so clearly just trying to evade a vote of confidence.

00:37:33.740 I think the governor general should have stood up to him.

00:37:35.640 But alas, Trudeau has corrupted so many different offices, including, I mean, frankly, Mary Simon is no worse than David Johnston, the previous appointee.

00:37:44.160 Next letter, Rodent Contamination Breach says, First and Second Amendment for Canadians is a must.

00:37:52.880 More funding and discipline to the military and police, especially in cities, completely changes standards of law enforcement and military.

00:37:59.280 Raise them. Quality of soldiers now are a joke.

00:38:02.020 Hard fist on cartels and gangs and the drug policies.

00:38:05.020 Canada must become strong and free again.

00:38:06.740 Also, investigate Trudeau and his friends for corruption and crimes against humanity.

00:38:11.980 I think you go about 5% further than I would there.

00:38:16.420 By the way, we don't have a First Amendment or a Second Amendment.

00:38:19.100 Those are American constitutional features.

00:38:21.240 I think we do need a stronger constitution.

00:38:23.140 We don't respect freedom as much.

00:38:24.900 In terms of prosecuting Trudeau for crimes against humanity, I've always said I don't really support that kind of radicalism.

00:38:31.920 Because if he's committed a crime, prosecute him for a real crime.

00:38:35.960 But don't recast his policy decisions, which are atrocious, as crimes.

00:38:41.280 You know why?

00:38:42.320 Because if you put on the books that you can criminalize someone for radical ideas, you know that's going to be used against you and me, not against the Trudeaus of the world.

00:38:52.060 Next letter.

00:38:53.400 Stephen James says, Destroyed the middle class.

00:38:57.400 Complete opposite.

00:38:58.280 Yeah, I don't know if you remember this, but in the final years of the Harper administration, the average Canadian was actually earning on a purchasing power parity basis.

00:39:08.220 We were earning more than the average American.

00:39:11.300 It was the first time that had happened in memory, that we were actually richer on an individual basis than Americans.

00:39:17.820 Now we're so much poorer.

00:39:19.660 Our dollars around 70 cents.

00:39:21.480 I saw the other day, and I want to go deeper on this, that we are now on average poorer than the poorest U.S. state.

00:39:27.920 I totally believe it, by the way.

00:39:30.040 Hopefully Pierre Polyev will take a doge, Department of Government Efficiency approach to the government, if and when he takes over.

00:39:37.260 Well, that's our show for today.

00:39:39.040 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:39:44.240 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:39:45.340 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - January 07, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Shifty Trudeau escapes accountability by proroguing Parliament

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