Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant Show May 30 2018

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Starbucks shut down their whole chain of coffee shops to have a day-long

00:00:03.900 sensitivity workshop. We've got video footage from the inside.

00:00:08.300 It's May 30th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:16.280 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:20.080 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.780 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.780 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my

00:00:31.800 bloody right to do so.

00:00:37.320 A couple of months ago, two men sat down in a Starbucks in Philadelphia.

00:00:40.940 They didn't order anything to drink. In fact, they brought in their own bottle of water from

00:00:44.660 outside the store. A Starbucks employee came over and asked them if they wanted to buy anything,

00:00:48.700 and they said no. They were there for a business meeting about a real estate deal, and someone

00:00:52.440 else was going to come enjoy them. They were just enjoying the place, but they weren't paying

00:00:58.500 customers. They weren't customers at all. So, Starbucks called 911. And I think calling 911

00:01:05.380 is a bit much, don't you think? They weren't ruffians. They weren't making a scene. I mean,

00:01:09.720 I understand the idea. It's like people who go to a bookstore or a magazine stand. That used to be a

00:01:14.960 thing, magazine stands. And they just stood there and read the magazine or newspaper without buying it.

00:01:20.160 It's not a library. It's a magazine shop. You have to pay for things. It's a business.

00:01:25.820 Starbucks isn't really a clubhouse. I mean, they make money selling coffee and other stuff.

00:01:31.240 But Starbucks is really weird. It's a bit culty sometimes. They have this idea called the third

00:01:36.740 place. What? Yeah. Here's Starbucks kooky chairman, Howard Schultz.

00:01:43.320 We do everything we can to build that third place in your store.

00:01:50.160 The third place. It sounds like some Scientology thing. And it actually means to Starbucks people,

00:01:57.120 there's your home and then there's your work and there's Starbucks. That's the third place in your

00:02:04.380 life. Not a church, not a school, not a community center. They are your third place. It's a bit culty,

00:02:12.880 but don't you think that two guys sitting down in the Starbucks waiting for a third guy to join them

00:02:18.560 and not buying a drink right away? Maybe they would later. That's sort of third place-ish.

00:02:25.920 Maybe we need a high priest to interpret the third way of this third place now that we're in the third

00:02:33.120 millennium. Where are my crystals? The men who were arrested were black and it was caught on tape.

00:02:40.060 Take a look.

00:02:40.460 What did they do? What did they do? Did someone tell me what they did?

00:02:43.800 They didn't do anything. I saw the entire thing.

00:02:45.820 They didn't do anything.

00:02:46.960 What did they do?

00:02:47.020 And the woman said, it's for paying customers.

00:02:50.300 They didn't do anything.

00:02:57.600 Did you really need to handcuff someone to tell them to leave a coffee shop for not buying a cup of coffee?

00:03:07.440 They were just sitting there quietly. I don't think so.

00:03:11.680 But add the layer of race to it. And the thing went viral, of course.

00:03:16.720 The two men did the media circuit with a lawyer and politicians got in on it soon.

00:03:21.460 And they soon came to a confidential settlement with Starbucks.

00:03:25.260 You know that real estate deal they were meeting about?

00:03:27.800 I think it just got financing.

00:03:30.640 I say again, I'm sympathetic to any store owner who wants people in his shop to buy,

00:03:35.340 not just to browse. But I also understand that browsing is part of shopping.

00:03:42.460 When it comes to clothes, for example, at least for women, 0.99

00:03:46.080 I think men, if they need some shoes, drive to the mall park, walk to the shoe store and buy the shoes,

00:03:51.420 walk back to the car and go home.

00:03:52.520 For women, it's more about the journey, isn't it? 1.00

00:03:56.220 That's the shtick Starbucks is selling with its third place business.

00:03:59.320 They want you to hang out there, sounds like to me, for hours.

00:04:05.980 You literally could not be drinking coffee the whole time you'd float away.

00:04:09.260 So I think they're inviting people to lounge around, aren't they?

00:04:13.500 And these guys weren't even in there for 10 minutes.

00:04:16.280 I'm sympathetic to them.

00:04:18.680 But holy cow, has Starbucks bent over the other way now?

00:04:22.460 If you thought they were politically correct to begin with,

00:04:25.820 and that kooky cult leader of theirs, Howard Schultz,

00:04:28.680 he's constantly being touted as a candidate to run for president, by the way.

00:04:32.280 So he's always thinking politically.

00:04:34.460 Well, they just got kookier.

00:04:35.740 Like I say, the chain shut down for some re-education over this.

00:04:41.580 And you know what?

00:04:42.140 They probably do need some clarification where kooky cult talk by a millionaire CEO

00:04:47.540 and real-life situations by a minimum-wage coffee worker where they connect.

00:04:52.420 I mean, how long do you wait for someone to order coffee?

00:04:58.340 What if they're there all day and they never do?

00:05:02.180 If they're there for a business meeting,

00:05:04.180 is that different than if they're just there goofing around?

00:05:08.080 If it's two people just hanging out,

00:05:10.380 is that different than if there's, I don't know, 20 people just hanging out?

00:05:15.480 What if a whole group of people, like a whole sports team,

00:05:18.780 or maybe a whole gang, I don't know, I'm just brainstorming.

00:05:22.340 What if they sat in the Starbucks and took up all the seats,

00:05:25.220 let's say for the whole lunch hour?

00:05:27.060 I don't know.

00:05:27.860 What about if they were there for the whole day?

00:05:30.220 Their new third place, a free clubhouse that they don't have to pay for.

00:05:34.400 I'm just asking questions because, you know,

00:05:36.520 with 27,000 Starbucks locations around the world,

00:05:40.440 I bet you're going to get a lot of situations that need clarity.

00:05:43.120 Well, I obviously wasn't invited to one of these re-education sessions,

00:05:48.220 but Starbucks put out an official video of it.

00:05:52.320 Here's a clip from it.

00:05:54.240 More than 8,000 stores will close next month,

00:05:57.320 so that employees can receive racial sensitivity training.

00:06:00.360 This after the arrest of two black men at one of its Philadelphia stores

00:06:03.480 sparked an outcry and a call for a boycott.

00:06:06.400 All right.

00:06:07.620 We desire to treat everyone equally,

00:06:09.580 so let's start off with a little quizzing.

00:06:11.120 Let's say a black man walks up to order a coffee.

00:06:14.220 What do you do, Todd?

00:06:16.200 Take his order.

00:06:17.560 Take his order?

00:06:19.720 Rule number one, never assume someone's gender. 0.94

00:06:22.960 Never.

00:06:23.620 But you said he was a black man.

00:06:25.360 Yeah, I know he's a guy because I already asked him his pronoun

00:06:27.840 before I called him a him.

00:06:29.480 You've got to be one step ahead.

00:06:31.060 That's what this takes, Todd.

00:06:32.680 That's what this takes.

00:06:33.860 You asked the fictional character in your head if he was a man.

00:06:39.580 Yeah, that's exactly what I did, Todd, because I need that.

00:06:42.680 Because we've got to go one step higher with our sensitivity training, everybody.

00:06:46.460 Take it one step up.

00:06:48.960 Now, I'm just kidding.

00:06:50.100 That was a satirical video, as I think you could tell, but just barely.

00:06:54.800 Here's a clip from the real video actually released by Starbucks.

00:07:01.800 Without a doubt, the events in Philadelphia prompted us to bring 8,000 stores

00:07:07.240 and 175,000 partners together on 529.

00:07:12.040 Because that is not who we aspire to be.

00:07:15.500 529 is an opportunity to renew our commitment to the third place.

00:07:19.720 Because we understand that racial and systemic bias have many causes,

00:07:25.440 sources, and ways of showing up within each of us and in our communities.

00:07:30.280 So to get things going, Kevin will welcome teams.

00:07:33.300 We are here to make Starbucks a place where everyone, everyone feels welcome.

00:07:38.340 And Common, one of our guides, will help folks start exploring their own identities.

00:07:43.020 Helping people see each other fully, completely, respectfully.

00:07:47.940 Once partners have gotten warmed up, they will start to explore the third place

00:07:52.340 and its relation to our mission.

00:07:55.700 Hang on, that guy's name is Common?

00:07:58.920 Yeah, you bet it is.

00:08:00.420 And how dare you assume he's a guy without asking him for his gender, for reverence?

00:08:06.820 Did you see the use of the word folks in there too?

00:08:09.580 That's not a southernism.

00:08:11.160 How y'all folks doing?

00:08:12.280 No, no, no.

00:08:12.820 It is a fancy way of saying men or women that is not so sexist.

00:08:17.660 It's Starbucks' version of Trudeau's word, people kind.

00:08:22.860 We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind.

00:08:27.940 Yeah.

00:08:28.880 And boy, are they ever into that third place thing, aren't they?

00:08:32.460 That huge storybook thing.

00:08:35.060 It's really weird, I think.

00:08:36.580 It's a whole cult.

00:08:37.800 I'm surprised it's in a giant, novelty-sized book.

00:08:43.900 You'd think it would be tiny, pocket-sized, maybe red, maybe printed in China.

00:08:49.080 I don't know, sort of like Mao's little red book.

00:08:50.900 It can have deep, deep thoughts in there.

00:08:54.120 But that one part by the CEO of Starbucks.

00:08:57.540 Take a look.

00:08:58.180 We are here to make Starbucks a place where everyone, everyone feels welcome.

00:09:03.420 All right.

00:09:04.920 Is it true that everyone, absolutely everyone, he said everyone, everyone, is everyone, everyone

00:09:12.400 really welcome at a Starbucks?

00:09:15.220 That can't be true.

00:09:16.760 Everyone?

00:09:18.300 Regardless of how they're dressed.

00:09:21.360 Regardless of their state of inebriation.

00:09:24.640 Regardless of their health.

00:09:27.240 Regardless of their conduct.

00:09:28.280 Regardless of how they treat Starbucks customers or Starbucks staff.

00:09:34.200 That can't be true.

00:09:36.140 It just can't be true.

00:09:37.700 Do you think that everyone, everyone's allowed applies to the corporate head office of Starbucks

00:09:42.540 in Seattle?

00:09:44.260 That anyone, anyone can just come into their place of work and hang out and be welcome

00:09:48.440 no matter what?

00:09:50.200 Now, don't be silly.

00:09:52.620 The Starbucks head office is for the important people.

00:09:55.120 You got to have security badges and all that.

00:09:56.700 The front line Starbucks workers, they must now put up with everyone, everyone.

00:10:02.340 Because to not do so might embarrass the virtue signalers at head office.

00:10:06.680 I say again, I don't think that Philly Starbucks should have called 911 and I don't think the

00:10:11.340 cops should have used handcuffs based on what I saw in that cell phone video. 0.99

00:10:15.440 But the answer is clearer standards, clearer rules, not no rules.

00:10:24.040 Okay, more from the corporate video.

00:10:25.440 Same question, Lisa.

00:10:27.660 A black man walks in to order a coffee.

00:10:29.540 What do you say?

00:10:30.360 I say, hi, welcome to Starbucks.

00:10:31.940 What can I get for you?

00:10:32.860 Whoa, what's with the tone, Lisa?

00:10:35.100 What tone?

00:10:37.100 What tone?

00:10:37.620 Okay, listen, I don't know how many times I have to say this, but we have to treat everyone

00:10:41.060 equally.

00:10:42.000 Try it again with a better tone, Lisa.

00:10:44.580 Okay.

00:10:44.900 Hi, welcome to Starbucks.

00:10:46.920 What can I get for you?

00:10:48.720 Okay.

00:10:49.100 You might as well just call a protest yourself, Lisa.

00:10:51.760 What can I get for you?

00:10:53.460 I'm sorry.

00:10:53.880 Is he that much of an inconvenience?

00:10:56.480 Like this is the kind of stuff that's going to get us in trouble.

00:10:59.100 I bet if he was a white man, you would have just said, how can I help you? 0.77

00:11:02.180 No, I think...

00:11:03.580 No, that's the problem.

00:11:05.060 Lisa, you don't think.

00:11:06.500 You need to care.

00:11:08.620 I feel like you're being a little bit insensitive to Lisa.

00:11:12.520 Well, you know what?

00:11:12.880 We can't afford to be sensitive in a sensitivity training.

00:11:15.640 It's 2018, people.

00:11:17.000 Y'all need to get woke.

00:11:19.640 All right.

00:11:20.280 Sorry, that was from the satirical video.

00:11:22.520 Again, here's a clip from the real video, but it's hard to tell the difference.

00:11:26.360 So I think we would say the structural work is something that has to be done for far longer

00:11:31.100 than the four-hour day.

00:11:32.320 And that's policy.

00:11:33.280 That's the work the company has to do to support the partners in the individual work.

00:11:37.440 Because one of the things we don't want to see is for each person to have to bear this

00:11:40.560 burden alone.

00:11:41.740 After a bit of learning and inspiration, partners will explore a bias personally and how it shows

00:11:46.900 up in each of their lives.

00:11:48.080 When I first started working there, I had to deal with difficult homeless customers all

00:11:53.880 the time.

00:11:54.440 I found someone in the restroom shooting up. 1.00

00:11:57.140 Immediately, I shut down.

00:11:58.620 I froze.

00:12:00.380 Did you understand a word of that corporate gobbledygook they were saying at the beginning

00:12:05.860 of that clip there around the head office boardroom?

00:12:08.660 I didn't either.

00:12:10.360 But I sure understand those last two real workers there, both of whom looked like they

00:12:15.180 were visible minorities, by the way.

00:12:16.760 But I don't want to assume their race.

00:12:18.920 I won't make you watch the entire video, but I can assure you they never actually answer

00:12:24.140 the questions, what do you do with homeless people, and what do you do with people shooting

00:12:29.760 drugs in the bathroom?

00:12:32.420 Hey man, that's the third place.

00:12:34.240 Stop being so racist.

00:12:36.200 Here's some more.

00:12:37.600 Dale, help me out here.

00:12:38.960 What do you say?

00:12:40.200 Before I take your order, I would like to apologize on behalf of my white ancestors. 0.77

00:12:44.660 I don't see anything wrong with that.

00:12:47.520 That was good.

00:12:48.580 All right, let's move on to the second question.

00:12:50.880 Okay, he wants a plain coffee.

00:12:52.880 What do you say, Todd?

00:12:54.680 How would you like your black coffee, sir?

00:12:57.160 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:12:58.860 No.

00:12:59.820 No.

00:13:00.700 Do not assume that just because he's a black man that he wants black coffee.

00:13:04.720 But all of our plain coffee is black.

00:13:07.340 Oh, so now black coffee is plain?

00:13:10.300 Now if you have anything black, it's just plain and boring? 1.00

00:13:13.200 Is that it?

00:13:13.960 You know what, Todd?

00:13:15.040 If you stop eating mayonnaise all day and watching Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek, I

00:13:19.820 bet you'd finally be able to open up your eyes and see that the world is full of exciting

00:13:24.760 different colors, Todd.

00:13:26.640 Okay, Lisa, go. 0.99

00:13:28.580 Ask if he wants room for cream and sugar.

00:13:30.420 All right, if I were a woman, I would throat punch you, Lisa, and wake you up from your entitlement. 1.00

00:13:36.640 All right?

00:13:38.020 You don't need something white to make something good.

00:13:41.200 You understand that?

00:13:43.960 All right, I won't show you any more from that funny video.

00:13:47.120 Okay, maybe just a few more seconds because there was a nice Canadian plot twist here.

00:13:52.960 Do we have to start off every order apologizing for what happened in America?

00:13:59.420 I'm from Canada.

00:14:01.400 Yeah, I mean, shouldn't we just treat everybody equal?

00:14:03.320 All right, I expected to have to mansplain to Lisa over here, but not to you, Todd.

00:14:08.740 Not to you.

00:14:10.300 All right?

00:14:10.880 Sometimes you have to treat some people special to treat everybody equal, and that's what we're

00:14:15.740 doing.

00:14:16.040 We're treating everybody equal.

00:14:18.460 All right.

00:14:19.340 Back to the real video now.

00:14:20.840 Take a look.

00:14:21.240 Get your notebook out and turn to what makes me me, and you, you.

00:14:27.060 Together, partners will explore inspiration, partner stories, and problem solve using new

00:14:32.900 tools to reiterate our commitment to the green apron, what we look like in action when we

00:14:38.100 are truly at our best.

00:14:39.360 Oh, so there's a green apron thing now, as well as a third place thing?

00:14:46.360 This really is like Scientology, isn't it?

00:14:48.660 I swear.

00:14:49.220 When the postmodern left abandoned religion and heritage, they thought they were freeing

00:14:55.200 themselves, didn't they, from all those old rules and old symbols and old rituals and

00:14:59.500 dead white guy stuff, fussy stuff.

00:15:02.460 How dumb are those rules, right?

00:15:04.140 Well, I think people crave rules and codes and symbols for life, and look what the leftist

00:15:09.360 Marxists have done.

00:15:10.960 They've replaced any real traditions with the third place, the green apron, old codes of

00:15:18.620 conduct, I don't know, hand commandments, or even customs built up over centuries, like

00:15:22.960 the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

00:15:27.280 Aren't those traditional conservative values not only saner, but maybe actually more helpful

00:15:34.820 and practical?

00:15:36.320 I mean, some Seattle millionaire is saying, every single thing is permissible, everyone,

00:15:42.360 everyone is welcome.

00:15:43.740 That's not possible.

00:15:46.020 And it's not actually moral either.

00:15:49.600 And living with no rules is not real.

00:15:54.020 Their plan will fail.

00:15:56.200 Can you imagine telling those minimum wage coffee pourers from a moment ago, the ones

00:16:01.520 talking about homeless customers and drug shooting customers?

00:16:04.320 I say customers as if they're paying.

00:16:06.940 Yeah, we don't have time to answer those specific real life questions, because we have to spend

00:16:12.780 some time now with the big coloring book, learning about what makes me, me, and what makes you,

00:16:19.940 you.

00:16:20.300 That was not the satirical video, by the way.

00:16:23.340 I mean, if I worked for Starbucks, I might enjoy being paid to not work for a day and

00:16:29.300 instead to sit around and do this silliness.

00:16:32.620 I mean, few things are sillier than, you know, corporate team building exercises like this

00:16:38.960 example on the screen right now.

00:16:40.620 So being paid to sit around and listen to your cult leaders expiate their own racial guilt.

00:16:46.940 Well, I mean, if you pay me, I guess, and I guess it's a welcome break from having to

00:16:51.000 deal with hobos or drug addicts, I guess.

00:16:55.460 Last clip from the real video.

00:16:57.820 Oh, by the way, just like a religion, Starbucks has named yesterday's date as some sort of holy

00:17:04.900 day.

00:17:05.280 They call it 529.

00:17:08.120 We say 9-11 to sanctify that horrific day of the attack and memorialize it.

00:17:14.680 Tradition names important days like Christmas and Easter and Remembrance Day or Memorial Day.

00:17:21.100 The Starbucks cult has their new holy day, 529.

00:17:25.960 But listen to this.

00:17:26.860 529 will just be a start.

00:17:30.080 In the coming weeks, months, and years, we will address many other facets of what makes

00:17:35.100 us truly human.

00:17:37.400 The work will grow to reflect the realities of our abilities, ethnicities, gender identities

00:17:42.980 and expressions, sexual identities, class, language, citizenship, political views, religious

00:17:50.000 affiliations, and more.

00:17:51.260 You heard her.

00:17:53.240 They're going to do this for years, she warned.

00:17:55.500 But hang on.

00:17:56.380 Did you catch that?

00:17:57.760 They listed political views.

00:18:00.680 Do you believe for one second that Starbucks and this kooky cult would tolerate conservative

00:18:10.240 political views in their buildings amongst their staff?

00:18:14.080 Do you really believe that?

00:18:17.480 Yeah, no.

00:18:18.080 Now, hey, I'm not telling you not to go to Starbucks, but you know what?

00:18:25.380 If they're going to turn their stores into homeless lounges and they're going to turn

00:18:29.520 their bathrooms into drug shooting dens or who knows, places for sexual hookups, I don't 0.97

00:18:35.120 know, everyone, everyone, it wouldn't be a bad thing if thousands or even millions of

00:18:41.180 Starbucks customers said, yeah, your logo always looked a little bit like a cult.

00:18:48.080 Thing?

00:18:49.660 Don't you think?

00:18:51.480 And you've become this really weird place now where guilty white millionaires pay race

00:18:57.580 hucksters huge cash to come up with non-solutions to non-problems and non-solutions to real problems

00:19:05.780 and make giant coloring books.

00:19:07.960 So we're just going to go to normal stores to get our coffee run by normal people.

00:19:16.200 Wouldn't it be great if Starbucks collapses upon itself and it drove its customers back

00:19:21.000 into the arms of independent local coffee shops, coffee shops who have a real sense of community,

00:19:26.460 not corporate manufactured third place robot community.

00:19:30.680 real people who you would respect and they would respect you back.

00:19:37.680 And if Starbucks became by accident, by wonderful accident, the world's largest private corporation

00:19:44.240 that decided to turn itself into a homeless shelter, providing free facilities for the marginalized

00:19:50.840 people in society, whether they're drug users, prostitutes, homeless people, whatever.

00:19:53.980 I think that would be wonderful if Howard Schultz, the social justice warrior, wants to save

00:20:00.880 the world with his own money and his own company.

00:20:05.240 Great.

00:20:06.540 Let him use his money and that of his foolish shareholders who stick around to do that.

00:20:11.620 Hell, have needle exchanges right in there. 0.99

00:20:13.760 Have safe injections, shooting galleries right in there.

00:20:16.780 Put your red light districts right in there.

00:20:18.780 Let him welcome all of society's marginalized peoples, everyone, everyone, and let him care

00:20:27.140 for them deeply.

00:20:28.940 Give them all a green apron. 0.86

00:20:31.160 He's the new atheist culty Mother Teresa, and I think it looks great on him. 0.98

00:20:37.660 Stay with us for more.

00:20:48.780 The federal government has reached an agreement with Kinder Morgan to purchase the existing

00:21:00.400 Trans Mountain Pipeline and the infrastructure related to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

00:21:07.580 That happened yesterday.

00:21:09.020 Apparently, the purchase price is $4.5 billion.

00:21:13.240 Question.

00:21:13.680 Why did we need to purchase an existing pipeline that's already in the ground and happily pumping

00:21:19.240 away?

00:21:19.680 Isn't the challenge the proposed $7.4 billion expansion?

00:21:24.940 And who's going to pay for that?

00:21:27.460 And if the answer is us, how does that move it forward any?

00:21:31.520 It was already fully funded to begin with.

00:21:33.020 The problem was not money, but rather constitutional problems.

00:21:36.680 I don't quite understand, but I've never understood government bailouts of companies or government

00:21:41.980 nationalizations here via Skype to join us now to maybe shed some light on things is our

00:21:47.160 friend Aaron Woodrick, the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:21:52.240 Aaron, I don't even understand the full scale of what's going on.

00:21:57.140 I mean, I think that if you add in the $4.5 billion and the $7.4 to build it and indemnities

00:22:03.540 for delays in politics, you're looking at, well, you're getting close to $15 billion, probably?

00:22:14.140 Yeah, that's the bare minimum.

00:22:15.720 That's assuming that the government can actually keep to the timelines and do everything as

00:22:19.820 efficiently as the private sector company could, as Kinder Morgan could.

00:22:23.160 I think it's fair to say the odds of that are pretty low, given government's track record

00:22:27.620 of operating things.

00:22:29.720 But look, you're right.

00:22:30.960 This is a situation that the Trudeau liberals have put themselves in.

00:22:35.460 They made a series of bad decisions that have put us into this mess, and now they have tried

00:22:41.060 to buy their way out of it, and they're using taxpayer money to do it.

00:22:44.460 Well, and that's the thing is money was never the problem for Kinder Morgan, or for that matter,

00:22:49.620 Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline or TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline.

00:22:53.120 Those guys are professionals at raising money, and building pipelines is not the actual construction.

00:23:00.220 That's what they do.

00:23:01.380 So those guys had no problem.

00:23:02.900 They know how to build pipelines.

00:23:04.460 I don't think the federal government even knows basic things like how to do their own

00:23:07.760 payroll.

00:23:08.960 We've just solved a problem that wasn't there, but we didn't solve the real problem that is

00:23:14.540 there, which is the constitutional or political impasse with BC.

00:23:19.860 Do you think that's ever going to come, or do you think this whole thing is just a,

00:23:23.120 a holding pattern to get Trudeau and Notley through their next elections by saying, oh,

00:23:29.180 we did something, we bought a pipeline, don't you know?

00:23:33.060 Yeah, it's hard not to start drawing that conclusion, because you're right when you say

00:23:37.240 that this is a political problem.

00:23:38.800 This is not an economic problem.

00:23:40.740 These pipelines are viable economically.

00:23:42.920 The reason for the problem was you have the government of British Columbia and some of

00:23:47.060 their allies in the indigenous and environmental communities who seem to be willing to do anything,

00:23:51.600 including breaking the law, try to stop this pipeline.

00:23:54.700 That is the reason that Kinder Morgan got cold feet.

00:23:56.920 And that was the thing that Kinder Morgan wanted addressed, addressed by the federal government.

00:24:00.940 And they did not do that.

00:24:02.040 They did not even attempt to address it.

00:24:03.580 So I don't really know what has changed, Ezra, other than the fact that the risk is no longer

00:24:07.820 in Kinder Morgan's back.

00:24:09.280 It's on the backs of Canadian taxpayers.

00:24:11.740 But otherwise, people who are opposed to the pipeline are not just still opposed.

00:24:15.380 They're probably more opposed to it now, because now they're actually paying to build it.

00:24:20.080 Yeah.

00:24:20.540 Well, I want to say a couple of things.

00:24:22.300 First of all, I read in the Globe and Mail that the Royal Bank estimates that Canada overpaid

00:24:29.720 by $1 billion for the existing pipeline.

00:24:33.700 And that does not surprise me at all, given how poorly Justin Trudeau negotiates with, say,

00:24:37.680 Bombardier.

00:24:38.540 But the second thing, and let me just throw this in.

00:24:40.060 Now, I know it's a small point, but I've got a, I'm not going to call him a close friend,

00:24:44.540 but I'm pretty friendly with him.

00:24:45.680 His name is Ernie Cray.

00:24:47.060 And he's an Aboriginal chief from BC.

00:24:50.180 And I really like the way he thinks about things.

00:24:52.520 I haven't interviewed him in a while, but I should again.

00:24:54.460 And he's just tweeting up a storm and talking to anyone who'll talk with him about how there's

00:24:59.740 a lot of Aboriginal bands who totally support Kinder Morgan.

00:25:05.400 And often they're the ones along the route, often the ones who don't support the pipeline,

00:25:10.060 are far away.

00:25:10.840 They're just melting off for the cameras.

00:25:13.200 But the ones who support it are maybe quieter.

00:25:15.500 So I just want to point out that while there are some noisy Aboriginal opponents, I think

00:25:21.360 many of them are professional activists and local chiefs.

00:25:25.560 Look, they've been living with this pipeline since the 50s.

00:25:27.980 They know it's no problem.

00:25:29.080 It's buried underground.

00:25:30.600 And they just get money from it.

00:25:32.720 I think blocking this pipeline actually harms Aboriginal people.

00:25:39.740 I think of the Northern Gateway, 10% of that pipeline was owned by the Aboriginal community.

00:25:43.940 10% of the jobs were set aside.

00:25:45.460 Anyways, I'm worried that this thing is being stopped for bogus reasons.

00:25:49.620 But Trudeau's not lifting a finger.

00:25:51.060 What do you say?

00:25:53.200 Yeah, no, you're absolutely right to make that point about the Aboriginal community.

00:25:56.220 There are some who oppose it, but there are many who support it as well.

00:25:59.260 And that's something we don't hear about often enough.

00:26:02.460 I want to go back to your first point, talking about the strategic masterstroke of Justin Trudeau

00:26:08.260 and Bill Morneau here.

00:26:09.680 I mean, not only have they bought this pipeline that they didn't need to buy, the way they

00:26:14.060 went about it, I mean, I'd love to play poker with these guys.

00:26:16.600 They show you their cards before the game even begins.

00:26:19.520 The first one, Kinder Morgan came out and said, oh, we have concerns.

00:26:23.040 What was the first thing that Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau did?

00:26:25.960 They came out and said, we will do anything to save this pipeline.

00:26:29.840 So is it any surprise that Kinder Morgan took them to the cleaners when it came to the sale

00:26:33.920 price?

00:26:34.260 And now that they own it, Bill Morneau has said, well, we don't want to own it for long.

00:26:38.420 We want to get rid of it.

00:26:39.340 I mean, try selling your house by advertising the fact you're desperate to get rid of it

00:26:43.460 and see what kind of offers you get.

00:26:45.180 Yeah.

00:26:45.460 You know, there's one more thing that's related to that.

00:26:47.780 Both Rachel Notley in Alberta and Bill Morneau federally, by the way, Justin Trudeau is

00:26:52.120 hid from this issue, have said this is proof that Canada is open for business and this

00:26:57.600 is going to strengthen the investor confidence.

00:27:00.440 I don't know how anyone would possibly come to that conclusion.

00:27:03.000 This is proof of the opposite, that even a mighty, well-funded, regulatorily approved company

00:27:09.320 like Kinder Morgan cannot proceed.

00:27:12.320 And the best they can hope for is to be bought out by the government.

00:27:16.200 I can't imagine any boardroom of any industrial company in the world saying, let's spend, I

00:27:23.320 think they're in five, almost five years in regulatory processes, a billion dollars sunk

00:27:28.520 into regulatory.

00:27:30.020 And what's the outcome?

00:27:31.840 They got to sell it now to the government, even if they're making a billion dollars out

00:27:35.100 of it.

00:27:35.520 Who would say, let's invest in Canada knowing it can't get through unless the government

00:27:40.760 decides to nationalize us?

00:27:42.160 And by the way, maybe they won't decide to do that.

00:27:44.940 Energy East and Northern Gateway were both left to die on the vine.

00:27:49.340 I don't know how this goes anywhere near building investor confidence.

00:27:53.840 I think it does exactly the opposite.

00:27:56.020 It says Trudeau has no clue how to get things done if it's a private sector investor.

00:28:01.640 Yeah, I don't know how you can conclude that because the government has to step in and buy

00:28:06.160 it off Kinder Morgan, that that in any way demonstrates that Canada is a country where you can come invest

00:28:11.140 and build a project if you're a private company.

00:28:13.060 It says the opposite.

00:28:14.320 And if anything, it might actually start inducing people to say, hey, you know what?

00:28:18.080 Why don't we take a look at Canada?

00:28:19.220 Because if we go in there, even if we have no intention of building something, but we just

00:28:23.240 say we are, we can make a little bit of noise and hold the government hostage.

00:28:27.780 And hopefully they'll come use taxpayer money to take it off our hands.

00:28:31.200 I mean, that is the last thing that we want.

00:28:32.860 Yeah.

00:28:33.040 Well, I think most companies will say we just don't need the drama.

00:28:36.320 We're in the mining business, the forestry business, the pipeline business, the marine

00:28:40.300 terminal business, not the political games business.

00:28:43.140 Even I think Kinder Morgan will do just fine here.

00:28:45.860 I think they already profited a billion dollars, courtesy of you and me.

00:28:49.340 So I think they're going to get out OK.

00:28:50.980 But I think any other prospective investor is saying, yeah, I don't need the five years

00:28:55.760 of drama in my life.

00:28:56.640 I'll just go to somewhere less stressful, like, you know, Kazakhstan or something.

00:29:00.720 But I think it's very sad.

00:29:02.380 Listen, Aaron, I'm glad you're fighting hard on this one.

00:29:04.340 I just I'm worried that the four point five billion is just the appetizer and the main

00:29:09.200 course is still to come.

00:29:11.620 I think so.

00:29:12.500 It's a big mistake that's entirely caused by the choices this government made.

00:29:17.480 And taxpayers are going to have to pay the price for it, it looks like.

00:29:19.820 Yeah, too bad.

00:29:20.820 But that's the way it is.

00:29:22.040 We've been talking with Aaron Woodward.

00:29:23.240 Great to see you, Aaron.

00:29:24.060 Thanks for being here.

00:29:24.940 Aaron's director for the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:29:31.780 Stay with us.

00:29:32.880 More Ahead on the Rebel.

00:29:44.440 A bit of a younger crowd.

00:29:46.340 And I know there has been a bit of a generational clash going on between generations.

00:29:57.600 And I just want to say it is an honor and a white privilege.

00:30:03.340 I'm sorry.

00:30:06.980 Did I trigger somebody there?

00:30:08.300 I'm happy they woke anybody up with that.

00:30:11.860 Because that would not be good.

00:30:16.020 That's pretty funny.

00:30:17.160 I am surprised that has not yet been made illegal to tell jokes like that in Canada.

00:30:22.980 That's Glenn Foster.

00:30:24.320 His website is thatcanadianguy.com.

00:30:26.300 And he joins me now in the studio.

00:30:27.280 Great to meet you.

00:30:27.960 Thanks for being here.

00:30:28.660 My pleasure.

00:30:29.140 I think we might have met before, but it's nice to see you more officially now.

00:30:31.400 At the old place.

00:30:32.260 That's right.

00:30:33.080 The old Sun News.

00:30:34.820 That's right.

00:30:35.400 Well, nice to see you here at the Rebel.

00:30:37.880 It's tough being in comedy.

00:30:39.620 It's a really tough go.

00:30:41.160 But these days, anything that you would laugh at, well, you're not allowed to laugh at anything anymore.

00:30:47.000 You have great comedians, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, saying they don't even want to do shows on campus anymore because of political correctness.

00:30:54.000 How do you survive in Canada?

00:30:56.640 Well, I don't know if it's political.

00:31:00.100 It's a pre-censorship is what it is, right?

00:31:03.720 I mean, if you tell the joke and somebody goes, oh, I'm offended by that, fine, right?

00:31:08.600 But the way it is now is like, you know, you get hired for a gig and they'll say, well, we don't want any jokes about this.

00:31:14.740 And we don't want it.

00:31:15.540 Usually corporate situations, right?

00:31:17.880 Because they have a reputation to.

00:31:20.300 And I love that, too, because you'll, you know, you'd be working for like a steel company and they'll say, no, you know, we have a certain reputation here.

00:31:26.900 And, you know, 10 minutes earlier, they're in the boardroom going, what the fuck?

00:31:30.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:30.620 Right?

00:31:31.380 But, oh, because we have a reputation.

00:31:33.220 So we don't want anything sexist and we don't want anything racist and we don't want anything.

00:31:37.640 And not that I'm going to do anything like that.

00:31:39.640 Yeah.

00:31:40.340 But if you touch on those subjects, it's a danger zone, too, right?

00:31:45.400 Because usually it's like, we don't want this and we don't want that and we don't want that and I'll be like, well, then you don't want me.

00:31:50.420 Yeah.

00:31:50.840 Right?

00:31:51.400 And the thing is, I mean, the most racist jokes are often told by, I mean, if you took the N-word out of Chris Rock, his routines, he wouldn't have anything.

00:32:02.480 He couldn't tell any of his jokes.

00:32:04.000 Well, that's not entirely true.

00:32:05.780 I'm a big Rock fan.

00:32:07.280 Okay, let me take that.

00:32:08.240 That's an exaggeration.

00:32:09.560 But certainly if you took profanity out and half of the jokes people make.

00:32:14.500 People don't mind profanity.

00:32:16.200 It's not profanity.

00:32:17.380 That's the thing.

00:32:18.020 It's not profanity they have an issue with.

00:32:20.200 And I never get censored on profanity.

00:32:22.020 I'm a pretty clean comic, right?

00:32:24.320 But I run into trouble on subject matter.

00:32:26.420 Right.

00:32:26.720 You know?

00:32:28.100 Religion.

00:32:29.220 Politics these days to some degree.

00:32:31.500 In the States, there are clubs that say, we don't want any Trump jokes.

00:32:34.800 Yeah.

00:32:35.160 Well, fair enough.

00:32:35.820 And it's overdone, by the way.

00:32:37.520 It is overdone.

00:32:38.760 But it's also the fact that it's so polarizing.

00:32:41.720 Yeah, people take it personally.

00:32:43.080 Right, exactly.

00:32:44.400 You know, I mean, if you took Jewish jokes out of the mouths of Jewish communities, like all of Seinfeld is a form of a Jewish joke. 0.90

00:32:52.500 Wow.

00:32:52.680 And curb your enthusiasm.

00:32:53.480 Okay, you follow this more closely.

00:32:55.560 Curb, yes.

00:32:56.180 I could see that.

00:32:57.940 I mean, or let's say Woody Allen.

00:33:00.800 If he wasn't allowed to poke fun at ethnic stereotypes, he did a whole movie called Zelig that I think was a metaphor for Jews trying to fit in or something.

00:33:09.660 Okay.

00:33:09.920 He's really, and is it, is a bad joke good if someone laughs?

00:33:16.640 Or is a joke not racist if it laughs or if it's told by the person of that race?

00:33:21.600 The rules are so complicated.

00:33:22.720 Well, this is the whole thing.

00:33:24.620 I say people now, we draw these lines, right?

00:33:26.820 And we go, well, that's not funny.

00:33:28.260 That's offensive.

00:33:29.380 No.

00:33:30.080 Can you be funny and offensive?

00:33:31.240 It's funny and offensive.

00:33:32.160 Of course.

00:33:32.380 It can be two different things, right?

00:33:34.420 You know what?

00:33:35.200 It's like the Cosby situation.

00:33:36.900 Yeah.

00:33:37.080 Okay.

00:33:37.460 Yes, he's a rapist, but does that make him any less funny?

00:33:42.900 Yeah.

00:33:43.540 You have to separate those two.

00:33:45.200 People won't, of course, right?

00:33:48.020 And, you know, you can have two people sitting next to each other watching a comedy evening, and one will laugh and the other saying, I don't like that.

00:33:55.320 Right.

00:33:55.500 And then the other will laugh and the other says, that's not funny.

00:33:58.420 The taste is so personal, isn't it?

00:33:59.940 But that's another thing about it.

00:34:01.620 Like, you know what I mean?

00:34:02.580 Like, there's, it is so personal, right?

00:34:06.800 And there's these people right now, they're like, oh, what should we laugh at?

00:34:11.020 What should you laugh at?

00:34:13.220 That's not how comedy works.

00:34:14.800 Yeah.

00:34:15.020 Comedy is not, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:34:17.860 Yeah.

00:34:18.280 Comedy is, ha, ha.

00:34:19.760 Yeah.

00:34:20.000 Right?

00:34:20.220 You didn't even, it caught you.

00:34:21.480 Right.

00:34:21.740 It's a reflex.

00:34:22.300 And it is.

00:34:23.220 It's a gut reaction.

00:34:24.400 Yeah.

00:34:24.540 Right?

00:34:24.740 So, to me, and the other one I love is, oh, I shouldn't have laughed.

00:34:28.660 Yeah.

00:34:28.900 You shouldn't have laughed.

00:34:30.040 Yeah.

00:34:30.200 Yeah, you shouldn't have sneezed, you shouldn't have farted, you shouldn't, right?

00:34:33.700 Yeah.

00:34:33.860 But you did.

00:34:34.560 Yeah.

00:34:34.860 Right?

00:34:35.200 And to me, that's, if you laugh, it's funny.

00:34:38.020 But, you know, it's like you say, it's subjective.

00:34:40.700 If you laugh, it's funny to you.

00:34:43.580 Yeah.

00:34:44.200 It might not be funny to anyone else.

00:34:46.340 You know, I think it was, was it Orwell or was it Solzhenitsyn who said, every joke, every

00:34:54.860 laughter, every huge comedy is a little revolution.

00:34:58.400 Was that Orwell or was that Solzhenitsyn?

00:34:59.660 Aye.

00:35:00.400 And on the other hand, Ayatollah Khomeini said, there's no humor in Islam.

00:35:05.680 So, and Stalin, he sent Solzhenitsyn to the gulag for writing a joke about Stalin's mustache.

00:35:12.380 And it wasn't even a funny joke.

00:35:13.920 Really?

00:35:13.960 He just called Stalin the whiskered one.

00:35:16.200 He wrote a letter saying, da, da, da, the whiskered one.

00:35:18.940 That's not even funny.

00:35:20.020 Right.

00:35:20.160 But you're not allowed to poke fun.

00:35:21.720 He was sent to seven years because he told a whisker joke about Stalin.

00:35:25.820 And if you can mock, when you laugh at someone powerful, all of a sudden you've taken a little

00:35:30.560 power away from them.

00:35:31.500 Right.

00:35:32.560 That's the obsession these days, too, is truth to power.

00:35:36.200 But they're not funny about it.

00:35:37.500 Punching up.

00:35:38.660 Yeah.

00:35:39.020 But it often comes off as very preachy now.

00:35:42.400 Well, and that's the thing.

00:35:43.200 Half of late night comedy doesn't feel like comedy anymore.

00:35:46.200 It feels like political talking points with a laugh track.

00:35:48.940 I can't watch Saturday Night Live anymore.

00:35:50.560 I don't think it's funny anymore.

00:35:52.380 Maybe that's just because I'm Trumpy.

00:35:54.000 I haven't watched it in quite a while, actually.

00:35:56.700 Well, let me tell our viewers why you're here.

00:35:58.920 I'm excited to announce that you will, I mean, I think we've announced it on our website,

00:36:04.180 but I don't know if I mentioned it on the show, that you are coming to The Rebel Live

00:36:08.160 this Saturday to do a politically incorrect comedy.

00:36:11.520 Which would be interesting because if I'm doing politically incorrect comedy for people

00:36:15.280 who are against political correctness, will it have the same punch?

00:36:20.280 You know what?

00:36:21.020 I'm going to make a prediction is that people are going to be so refreshed by having someone

00:36:24.840 tell jokes.

00:36:25.420 I mean, let me tell you a pet peeve of mine.

00:36:30.280 This hour has 22 minutes, and I know, I casually know a couple of the people on that.

00:36:36.120 Boy, they love making fun of Donald Trump, but he's not the president of Canada.

00:36:40.940 That's true.

00:36:41.620 And so they're very bold about mocking the powerful in another country.

00:36:47.100 I've never seen them take a really good hard run at Justin Trudeau, and I think it's

00:36:50.860 because they work for the state broadcaster.

00:36:52.380 Well, this is the thing, and I work for the state broadcaster on occasion as well, and

00:36:56.180 I have noticed everything I've ever done for the CBC, when I listen back to it, for some

00:37:01.320 reason, only the left speaker is working.

00:37:05.100 You know, can I ask you, can I throw something at you?

00:37:07.720 Sure.

00:37:10.320 I'm not a scholar on this subject, but I'm interested in it.

00:37:12.780 I want to learn more about it.

00:37:13.860 My understanding is that historically, the role of the court jester, or the fool, was

00:37:20.020 not just for entertainment, but he had a special immunity that he could say things to the king

00:37:25.940 that no one else was allowed to do because it was just joking, and so he had an incredibly

00:37:31.580 important role in that he could basically be the one saying the emperor has no clothes.

00:37:36.420 Like, if everyone was afraid to tell the king something, the fool could say it in a ta-da,

00:37:43.360 goofy, ridiculous joke, and the king would say, oh, all right, and I'm not going to kill

00:37:48.540 you because you have this special role.

00:37:50.300 Yes.

00:37:50.880 Well, that apparently is the original role of the jester, that it was speaking truth to

00:37:56.740 power, and he was the only one who could get away with it because he was the jester, but

00:38:01.600 not on Game of Thrones, if you recall.

00:38:03.500 Right, that's right.

00:38:04.660 Which would you rather you lose, your tongue or your hand?

00:38:07.200 That's right.

00:38:07.920 I mean, I want to study that a little bit more, but that's an incredibly important thing,

00:38:12.500 and we need that.

00:38:14.380 And we're losing that.

00:38:15.180 I think we are.

00:38:15.960 We are losing that because of all the pre-censorship.

00:38:18.460 Yeah.

00:38:18.840 The issue that Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, all they have with these colleges is that they're

00:38:24.340 so left-dominated that you can't go into a comedy show without them saying, now, you

00:38:30.640 may be triggered by this.

00:38:32.040 Yeah.

00:38:32.380 You know, you might be offended.

00:38:33.800 Oh, yeah.

00:38:34.200 I might be, but I might not be.

00:38:36.100 Yeah.

00:38:36.340 And if you don't want to be, then maybe don't go to comedy night.

00:38:38.400 Well, but why?

00:38:39.400 Maybe go to play.

00:38:40.380 Maybe you can get one of those adult coloring books that are on the way.

00:38:43.760 All those things frustrate me.

00:38:45.080 Well, listen, I can hardly wait to see you.

00:38:46.460 Now, by the way, besides doing the Rebel Live, this afternoon.

00:38:50.300 I'm at Absolute Comedy all this week.

00:38:52.100 Absolute Comedy.

00:38:52.560 Where's that located in the city?

00:38:53.600 It's at Young and Eglinton.

00:38:55.480 And I don't know if this is going to go out in time, but if you want to see the Thursday

00:39:00.140 night show, call and make a reservation, use the code Canadian1, and arrive Thursday half

00:39:08.240 an hour before showtime, you get your tickets for half price.

00:39:10.500 This will be on time.

00:39:11.600 Thursday only.

00:39:12.540 Okay, that's good to know, because this airs Wednesday.

00:39:14.620 At 8 o'clock?

00:39:15.160 Yeah.

00:39:15.520 Oh, okay.

00:39:16.180 Yeah.

00:39:16.800 Well, that is great.

00:39:18.280 And we'll see you on Saturday.

00:39:20.180 For the folks who haven't signed up, it's at therebellive.com.

00:39:22.400 And do you have other gigs going on?

00:39:23.900 It's all on my website at thatcanadianguy.com.

00:39:27.020 That's great.

00:39:27.560 Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing you at the event.

00:39:30.060 And it'll be a change of pace, because we've got some heavy-duty political talkers.

00:39:33.040 Yeah, I know.

00:39:33.480 And just to lighten it up, to keep it fun.

00:39:35.740 I mean, I've watched your stuff on, I mean, I remember the Sundays, and I watched your

00:39:39.720 stuff online.

00:39:40.340 I think people are going to feel great about it.

00:39:42.280 And you know what?

00:39:42.720 I hope you get some gigs out of it, too.

00:39:44.020 Hope so, too.

00:39:44.620 Right on.

00:39:44.900 Well, nice to see you.

00:39:45.540 Thanks for coming in.

00:39:46.140 Nice to see you.

00:39:46.520 There you have it.

00:39:47.180 Glenn Foster.

00:39:47.980 He's thatcanadianguy.com.

00:39:50.640 And he'll be the entertainment at The Rebel Live this Saturday.

00:39:55.020 Stay with us.

00:39:55.760 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:40:07.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:08.240 I caught my monologue yesterday about the worst business deal in Canadian history, the

00:40:11.900 purchase of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline.

00:40:13.680 Yvette writes, nothing has been solved.

00:40:16.460 Before the purchase, we heard over and over again how the government had jurisdiction over

00:40:19.560 the provinces, and the pipeline would be built.

00:40:21.440 Today, Morneau said they had to purchase the pipeline to have jurisdiction to build it.

00:40:25.440 So which is it?

00:40:26.020 Either they lied to us, or they didn't know.

00:40:29.600 Well, the government has always had the jurisdiction.

00:40:32.900 That happened in 1867, under Section 91 of our Constitution Act.

00:40:38.240 That applies to both publicly owned or privately owned enterprises that have a national or international

00:40:45.560 characteristic.

00:40:46.900 I use the example of the CP Rail and the CN Rail.

00:40:50.100 Both used to have a public ownership.

00:40:52.380 Now they're private ownership.

00:40:54.940 They're both under federal jurisdiction.

00:40:57.800 Paying $4.5 billion for an existing pipeline is weird to begin with.

00:41:03.820 The Royal Bank says they overpaid by at least $1 billion on its real market value.

00:41:08.240 That does nothing to actually build the expansion pipeline.

00:41:13.960 That's another $7.4 billion if it was done by the private sector.

00:41:17.160 Double that for the government to run it.

00:41:19.220 And what on earth does that have to do with any jurisdictional issue?

00:41:21.760 I mean, I think the number one response by environmentalists I've seen is, this changes nothing.

00:41:26.620 And it's true, other than it changes who's on the hook for it now.

00:41:33.140 Taxpayers.

00:41:34.860 Grieg writes, just like PetroCanada and the gun registry, the taxpayers are going to take a huge hit.

00:41:41.100 Oh, enormously so.

00:41:43.040 Enormously so.

00:41:45.840 The Royal Bank estimates that the government of Canada paid more than $1 billion too much for the existing pipeline.

00:41:50.860 The next pipeline, how's that even going to be built?

00:41:57.680 And will it even be constructed?

00:42:02.680 There is no will, political will, legal will, policing will, on behalf of Ottawa to get this done.

00:42:08.400 And so what has happened, other than a few billion dollars have enriched a Texas pipeline company so that Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley have a few months of talking points, I still hold by my predictions this pipeline will not be built.

00:42:22.560 Billy writes, Justin will also slow walk construction or stall it, blaming Horgan's court challenge, so he can cancel the whole project after he wins another majority.

00:42:32.620 See, that's the thing.

00:42:33.240 It's all about timing.

00:42:34.840 We are, what, maybe 12 months away from both a federal and Alberta election.

00:42:41.300 They were both in the same year in 2015.

00:42:43.440 They both happened in 2019.

00:42:46.160 This is just kicking the can down the road so they have a talking point to get both Notley and Trudeau through their elections.

00:42:51.680 I think Notley's finished no matter what.

00:42:53.980 I think Trudeau will stall this and say, well, we're doing it.

00:42:58.040 We invested $4.5 billion.

00:42:59.860 What more do you want?

00:43:00.700 We've given so much to the province of Alberta.

00:43:02.520 No, you didn't give to the province of Alberta.

00:43:04.320 You gave it to some shareholders in Texas and you overpaid by a billion dollars.

00:43:08.780 This pipeline, I predict, will not be built until the government has changed.

00:43:12.420 I mean, never say never, of course.

00:43:14.300 The Keystone Extel was killed by Barack Obama, but Donald Trump revived it.

00:43:18.480 But yeah, this pipeline ain't being built as long as Gerald Butz is running the PMO.

00:43:22.820 Well, that's the show for today.

00:43:24.060 What do you think about that Starbucks video?

00:43:25.760 There was a point there I bet you couldn't tell when I was switching between the satirical one and the real one where that guy says,

00:43:30.760 we're going to spend some time talking about what makes me, me, and what makes you, you.

00:43:37.400 What does that mean?

00:43:38.820 And how does that help those two minimum wage coffee slingers who are saying, so what do I do if a hobo comes in again?

00:43:45.860 So what if I do if a guy starts shooting drugs into his toes in the bathroom again?

00:43:51.780 Well, you've got to figure out what makes you, you, and then ask what makes him, him.

00:43:57.300 Okay, so what do I do with the hobo again?

00:43:59.960 Well, you've got to just talk to him about the green apron in the third place.

00:44:03.400 Okay, so but what do I do again?

00:44:05.800 You're not being racist, are you?

00:44:07.640 All right, that's our show for today.

00:44:09.200 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:44:14.240 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - May 31, 2018

Ezra Levant Show May 30 2018

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