Rebel News Podcast - December 23, 2025


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Special interview with the 2025 Rebel News Viewers’ Choice winner


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

176.57616

Word Count

6,887

Sentence Count

474

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Our friend Drea Humphrey, our BC Bureau Chief, joins us to talk about her win in the 2019 People's Choice Award, and why it's one of the most important awards she's ever received. Plus, a feature interview with your Rebbe Award winner.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, a feature interview with your winner in the Viewer's Choice Award.
00:00:04.960 It's December 22nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:07.800 You've got it for freedom!
00:00:10.660 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:00:22.300 Well, as you may know, every year we have an internal staff meeting,
00:00:26.360 and I give out awards to people at Rebel News called the Rebbies.
00:00:30.720 It's sort of fun. I won't lie.
00:00:32.440 It's a little bit of a knockoff of the Dundees,
00:00:35.720 which is at Dunder Mifflin in the fictitious comedy, The Office.
00:00:40.660 But people take the Rebbies pretty seriously.
00:00:43.160 I mean, hardest worker, most valuable player.
00:00:46.140 I mean, these are awards that people really value,
00:00:48.220 and I think people look up to within our company at the Rebbe Award winners.
00:00:53.880 You know, we have a variety.
00:00:54.900 It's not just for people who are on TV.
00:00:57.320 For example, our truck driver, he won a Rebbe,
00:01:00.360 and wouldn't you agree with me that he was quite brave,
00:01:02.700 some of the situations he went into.
00:01:04.820 So, yeah, that's a Rebbe winner.
00:01:07.260 But I make the decisions for all the Rebbies, except for one.
00:01:12.560 And that one goes to you, our viewers.
00:01:15.320 And we have a voting system that's actually pretty good.
00:01:17.960 I think it's more secure than the Elections Canada system.
00:01:21.420 You have to log in.
00:01:23.160 You're only allowed to vote once.
00:01:25.200 And thousands of people vote.
00:01:27.260 And we have all our on-screen talent, except for me.
00:01:30.400 I take myself off.
00:01:31.260 I like to think, oh, it's because I would win for sure.
00:01:33.680 Or is it because I'm afraid I would lose?
00:01:35.960 I don't know.
00:01:36.600 But I'm not on the ballot.
00:01:38.160 But all of our talent is.
00:01:40.160 And it is so much fun to watch the voting day after day.
00:01:46.120 And for the first few years, I should tell you, Avi Yamini,
00:01:50.200 I mean, a few years ago, he would just crush it.
00:01:53.760 And my theory for that is he had all of Australia voting for him, right?
00:01:58.680 Whereas our Canadian talent, well, they were competing three, four, five,
00:02:02.900 six, seven reporters for the Canadian vote.
00:02:05.240 So I think Avi had a leg up.
00:02:06.940 Plus, let's be honest, he did amazing journalism during the lockdowns from Melbourne,
00:02:11.340 one of the most locked down cities in the world.
00:02:12.960 Well, anyways, the pendulum has swum back to North America.
00:02:17.240 In third place this year was Avi.
00:02:20.080 He did a great job, as always.
00:02:21.860 In second place, our friend David the Menzoid Menz.
00:02:26.000 He's very brave.
00:02:26.880 He's always out there.
00:02:28.240 And in first place, and I got to say, it wasn't even close.
00:02:31.840 It was very close between second, third, and fourth.
00:02:34.640 Sheila was in fourth.
00:02:35.660 Very close between those.
00:02:37.100 In fact, just, I think, only about 11 votes out of thousands separated those two.
00:02:41.520 It was actually quite stunning to see how close they were.
00:02:44.740 But miles ahead, and I think you can probably guess why,
00:02:49.120 our Rebbe Award winner for the Viewer's Choice Award in 2025
00:02:53.420 is our friend Drea Humphrey, our BC Bureau Chief, who joins us now via Zoom.
00:02:58.800 Drea, congratulations again on winning the People's Choice Award.
00:03:02.080 How much fun is that?
00:03:03.940 You know, it's so much fun.
00:03:05.980 I just look at my colleagues as Canadian heroes,
00:03:08.920 and sometimes I'm just so humbled to be working beside them.
00:03:13.200 So to win the Viewer's Choice, the hearts of the people,
00:03:16.160 it just means so much to me.
00:03:17.880 I had a sneaking suspicion you were going to win,
00:03:20.280 and I'll tell you why.
00:03:21.100 Because I visited you when you were at the ostrich farm.
00:03:25.240 I visited twice.
00:03:25.920 It was only that briefly.
00:03:27.500 I didn't even stay overnight.
00:03:29.060 I just came in, and I got sort of the vibe of the place,
00:03:31.700 and I talked to the families, and I talked.
00:03:33.780 And I saw the connection that you had with people there,
00:03:39.180 the trust and the admiration they had for you,
00:03:41.880 and the gratitude that you were telling their story to the world.
00:03:45.560 And I don't know if you know this,
00:03:47.080 that second only to Tamara Leach and her battle in court,
00:03:51.400 your stories about the ostrich farm were the second biggest story
00:03:57.260 in Rebel News in all of 2025.
00:04:00.620 And it was a global story.
00:04:02.640 I was far away.
00:04:03.540 I was in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:04:05.700 And someone said, what's up with those ostriches?
00:04:07.860 And I think that especially in those early days,
00:04:11.880 it was your coverage that really told the story to the world.
00:04:15.280 Wow, that is shocking.
00:04:17.900 I did know it reached, you know, international levels.
00:04:20.960 I had people telling me they heard, you know,
00:04:23.340 family talking about it in Germany,
00:04:25.500 and also I think it was Hong Kong.
00:04:28.380 A lot of people were like,
00:04:29.540 I didn't even know there were ostriches in Canada.
00:04:32.080 I must admit, I was one of those people early last year going,
00:04:36.620 wow, we have a massive ostrich farm.
00:04:39.260 That's interesting.
00:04:39.980 But I think what really was the unifier here
00:04:45.820 is that everybody likes animals.
00:04:48.080 At the very least,
00:04:49.820 we know that if you are sick months,
00:04:52.640 or you were sick months ago, you're not sick now.
00:04:55.260 And so it was something that was nonpartisan.
00:04:57.920 It was something that was just very straightforward
00:05:00.220 where people were going, well, wait a second,
00:05:02.620 why aren't you testing these birds?
00:05:05.280 But it became a concern to me journalistically,
00:05:08.140 even before it had gotten to, you know,
00:05:11.040 the lengthy court battles and all of that as well,
00:05:14.020 because I've seen this pattern
00:05:15.820 where there is more government control on our farms
00:05:20.060 and the farmers who are the experts,
00:05:22.120 especially ostrich farmers,
00:05:24.080 they're certainly the experts,
00:05:25.660 are just not having any say.
00:05:28.960 You know, a few things struck me right away.
00:05:31.320 When I went out to visit,
00:05:32.580 I immediately got the same vibe.
00:05:35.100 I'm using that word vibe a lot.
00:05:36.500 That same feeling, that same group feeling
00:05:39.480 that I had when I was in Ottawa
00:05:41.480 for a couple of days for the trucker convoy in 2022.
00:05:45.660 You could feel that people came
00:05:47.640 from different walks of life on their own.
00:05:50.260 No one coordinated.
00:05:51.560 There was no official political party or corporation.
00:05:55.280 I mean, it was, this was grassroots,
00:05:57.080 authentic people saying something is awry here.
00:06:00.020 Something is amiss.
00:06:00.900 So I had that real people versus the system feeling.
00:06:05.880 And the second thing, and I suppose it's related,
00:06:09.740 is that it echoed the insanity,
00:06:12.780 the public health nonsense
00:06:14.280 that we all live through as humans.
00:06:16.880 So when we had stupid rules
00:06:18.900 that were enforced by heartless Kafkaesque bureaucrats,
00:06:23.060 like six feet of separation.
00:06:24.720 I remember watching a video
00:06:25.800 where someone took a tape measure
00:06:27.640 between two barbershop chairs
00:06:29.540 and it was like two inches short
00:06:31.220 so they wouldn't let the barbershop,
00:06:32.840 like pretend science
00:06:35.200 and that they were using as a sledgehammer.
00:06:37.420 I had that same feeling at the ostrich farm.
00:06:40.300 Public health experts
00:06:41.820 with their white lab coats and clipboards
00:06:45.200 who were saying things
00:06:46.480 that any common sense normal person would say,
00:06:49.480 you are crazy.
00:06:50.860 But the crazy people were running the place.
00:06:54.320 Absolutely.
00:06:55.080 I mean, they showed up not even wearing PPE.
00:06:57.220 It's like they themselves forgot to keep up the show.
00:07:00.400 And then the next days and moving forward,
00:07:02.640 you had the cops, you know, leading on the fence.
00:07:04.780 Nobody was scared of those birds.
00:07:06.500 Everybody knew those birds were healthy.
00:07:08.780 You know, North America and beyond included.
00:07:12.440 And it's, BC gets hit the hardest.
00:07:15.040 BC is an interesting place right now,
00:07:17.080 especially to be a journalist
00:07:18.480 telling the other side of the story.
00:07:20.080 I mean, we have mass callings happening here
00:07:22.820 more than any other province.
00:07:24.800 So this is definitely a BC issue,
00:07:27.340 but it is concerning across the country.
00:07:30.600 Can I share with you one more thing
00:07:32.440 that was a commonality for me?
00:07:34.220 It was the police.
00:07:35.960 And you mentioned that already.
00:07:39.360 I don't know how many police,
00:07:41.200 and I don't know if we'll ever be able to find out
00:07:43.080 exactly how many police were rotated through there
00:07:45.840 because they were there for weeks.
00:07:47.460 That was by far the largest police operation
00:07:50.320 in British Columbia,
00:07:51.060 which, by the way, could probably use some help
00:07:52.860 on other real crimes.
00:07:54.580 And they were at the, you know,
00:07:59.160 they were the servants of these public health bureaucrats.
00:08:02.300 The police were not in charge of themselves.
00:08:06.120 They were like auxiliaries to the health cops.
00:08:09.360 And for a while, they were sort of friendly,
00:08:12.200 but then they became a little bit,
00:08:14.160 I'm not going to say abusive,
00:08:15.740 but taunting and provocative.
00:08:17.460 I don't think the police handled themselves creditably.
00:08:21.440 And there was so much effort and expense
00:08:24.000 going to stop journalism,
00:08:25.760 the anti-drone systems,
00:08:28.480 building these massive walls out of hay bales.
00:08:31.780 None of it made sense from a health point of view.
00:08:34.160 It was all about stopping journalism.
00:08:36.660 When you were spending what's got to have been
00:08:38.740 millions of dollars to stop journalism,
00:08:41.660 you're giving it away.
00:08:44.980 You're doing something that you're ashamed of.
00:08:47.500 If you're not ashamed of it,
00:08:48.660 why are you going to such lengths to hide it?
00:08:50.780 And for the police to be politicized by that,
00:08:52.740 all these things were resonating through this story,
00:08:56.560 at least for me.
00:08:58.260 Well, I think you're right.
00:08:59.400 Will we ever get the answer to these things?
00:09:01.520 Of course, I'm working very hard on doing that,
00:09:03.520 but I just did a report after MP Scott Anderson
00:09:07.380 with the Conservatives did an order paper in question
00:09:09.960 saying how much money,
00:09:11.900 how much tax dollars were spent on this by the CFIA,
00:09:16.260 every penny he wanted to know,
00:09:18.280 and also the RCMP.
00:09:19.820 And of course they hid the numbers as best they could.
00:09:23.420 They only told us close to a million.
00:09:25.480 They did not tell us anything about salary,
00:09:28.540 overtime, you know,
00:09:30.360 the cost for the marksmen or anything like that.
00:09:33.080 But perhaps we could have put things together
00:09:35.380 if we had known how much they paid for salary and overtime.
00:09:38.740 But it's in the millions,
00:09:40.540 clearly staying there for close to 50 days.
00:09:42.920 The RCMP absolutely became an arm of the CFIA in many ways.
00:09:47.720 I remember being shocked when I found out that,
00:09:52.180 I don't know why I didn't know this,
00:09:53.720 but the bureaucrats were the ones
00:09:55.480 who were telling the RCMP to do the arrests.
00:09:58.100 And we know that because when the neighbor was saying,
00:10:01.120 can I please get onto my property
00:10:02.640 without being treated like a criminal,
00:10:04.980 that neighbor was texted by the RCMP liaison saying,
00:10:09.320 hey, just make sure you email the CFIA
00:10:11.500 before you walk on your own property
00:10:13.260 because we don't want them to authorize your arrest as well.
00:10:17.000 Oh my God.
00:10:18.380 It was like, I cannot believe this.
00:10:20.500 And you mentioned the other crimes
00:10:21.860 that they could be dealing with.
00:10:23.520 I mean, these officers,
00:10:25.560 I would say anywhere from 60 to 100 per day,
00:10:30.300 depending on, you know,
00:10:31.640 what level of stage of this whole standoff was.
00:10:35.360 These officers came from all across BC.
00:10:38.600 I know that for sure, including Surrey,
00:10:41.080 where just this year alone,
00:10:43.320 we've had over a hundred extortion cases
00:10:46.960 where people, most of those are gun violence,
00:10:50.640 illegal gun owner violence,
00:10:52.580 where they're just blasting up businesses and houses.
00:10:54.940 And you're going to tell me
00:10:55.900 you're going to send officers to stand at a farm
00:10:59.680 so that the farmers, what, don't feed their animals?
00:11:02.320 Like it was insane.
00:11:04.860 Yeah.
00:11:05.240 You know, I remember I was driving home.
00:11:07.760 I was driving from the ostrich farm
00:11:09.660 down to the airport.
00:11:11.180 And I saw this one, two, three, four, five
00:11:13.880 of this caravan of cops coming in.
00:11:15.620 I thought, oh, is the raid going on?
00:11:17.300 No, they were just changing shifts.
00:11:19.640 There was like,
00:11:20.440 I don't know if they had two or three shifts a day,
00:11:23.040 but, and they were all staying in hotels
00:11:25.440 and they were all getting overtime
00:11:26.960 and per diems and meals.
00:11:28.280 And like, it was the largest logistical operation
00:11:31.440 the police had in the province.
00:11:33.020 You know what?
00:11:33.380 I could tell it was wearing on some of the cops
00:11:36.060 because they deployed the chaplain.
00:11:38.500 And the chaplain, of course, is a,
00:11:39.880 is a religious cleric who is there generally
00:11:42.120 to help through stressful situations,
00:11:44.340 to help with morale, to help, you know,
00:11:47.360 just to help when the guys and gals
00:11:50.220 are down in the dumps.
00:11:51.380 They must have had a psychologically hard time
00:11:54.120 going to war against a farm
00:11:57.720 if they needed to call in the chaplain.
00:11:59.640 What do you think?
00:12:00.240 My understanding of why the chaplain was called
00:12:03.920 was because there,
00:12:05.620 there had been a supporter who passed away
00:12:07.880 named Tom and he passed away on the property,
00:12:11.260 which of course was devastating for everybody there.
00:12:14.260 And Tom was living there every day.
00:12:16.600 He was an elderly man and he passed away.
00:12:20.120 And so I understand they brought the chaplain for that reason.
00:12:23.440 But after they slaughtered the birds,
00:12:27.900 the farmers were asking for the chaplain to return.
00:12:32.120 They were actually begging for someone to come there
00:12:35.300 and deal with the trauma that was happening
00:12:37.600 after that traumatic night of going through,
00:12:40.740 I don't know, 600 to 1,000 gunshots,
00:12:44.160 riddling the devastation and seeing what took place
00:12:46.800 of these healthy animals that everybody had come to support.
00:12:50.260 And it was nothing.
00:12:51.120 And they kept saying,
00:12:51.880 I don't understand why you guys,
00:12:53.520 like we really, really need this.
00:12:55.720 And they wouldn't do that.
00:12:57.760 Thank you, by the way, for clarifying.
00:12:59.940 I think I misunderstood the chaplain's presence,
00:13:02.180 but you've cleared that up for me.
00:13:03.560 I appreciate that.
00:13:04.180 Now, of course, the birds are gone,
00:13:07.980 but the story still remains to be fully told.
00:13:12.800 Now, Rebel News is commissioning a documentary.
00:13:16.300 Tell us a little bit about that.
00:13:17.880 And I know there's some folks
00:13:18.940 who have been following every bit of this story.
00:13:21.380 They'll want to know more about it,
00:13:22.780 including how they can support it.
00:13:24.340 Just give us two minutes on the documentary we're planning.
00:13:27.720 And then I want to ask you about what's going on
00:13:29.340 in BC politics in general,
00:13:31.200 because it's sort of crazy out there now.
00:13:32.380 But tell me before we do that,
00:13:34.480 a little bit more about the documentary.
00:13:36.240 What's it called?
00:13:38.120 Well, the documentary,
00:13:39.600 we haven't launched the full name yet.
00:13:41.660 So you can find all the information
00:13:43.320 at ostrichfarmdocumentary.com.
00:13:46.220 And we actually have something exciting
00:13:48.080 to come about the name.
00:13:49.260 So, but what I want to-
00:13:51.080 Don't give it away now then.
00:13:52.100 So I didn't mean to make you-
00:13:53.580 No worries, no worries.
00:13:54.420 Give a spoiler.
00:13:55.260 No good.
00:13:56.480 Hold back the secret till it's ready.
00:13:58.660 Yes, no worries.
00:14:00.400 But I just want to take everybody back
00:14:02.160 to that next morning.
00:14:03.820 And even myself, you know,
00:14:05.220 it was a long drive for me to go home.
00:14:06.700 So my plan was,
00:14:08.520 I was going to, you know,
00:14:09.540 stick around and just kind of,
00:14:11.920 you know, see what was going on with the people.
00:14:14.060 It was so-
00:14:15.880 I've never seen or felt anything like it.
00:14:18.500 It was just so gut-wrenching
00:14:21.840 to look at those empty fields
00:14:23.640 and to know what happened.
00:14:25.080 And so what I'm getting at is
00:14:27.420 I felt so angry
00:14:30.120 and it wasn't even my animals.
00:14:32.840 And so I keep saying this,
00:14:35.160 hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned
00:14:37.820 because I did everything I could
00:14:39.920 to get the story out,
00:14:41.400 to get the truth out,
00:14:42.460 to get that there was no scientific reason,
00:14:45.100 there was no risk to kill these animals.
00:14:47.080 So now I want to get my revenge.
00:14:50.300 And I know many are in support
00:14:53.000 of avenging the ostriches
00:14:54.520 and what's happened.
00:14:55.720 And so we, myself and Sid Fitzard,
00:14:59.100 who's going to help me produce this,
00:15:00.780 we're going to do that together.
00:15:01.920 We are already working very hard.
00:15:04.440 So you're going to see some stuff
00:15:06.260 that you didn't see
00:15:07.040 because let's face it,
00:15:08.000 it was just nonstop.
00:15:09.600 So we couldn't get everything out.
00:15:11.220 So you're also going to see,
00:15:13.140 obviously, the fruits of our investigation
00:15:15.040 into the CFIA,
00:15:16.800 into the policy of what went wrong,
00:15:18.560 not just here,
00:15:19.420 but what's been happening for decades
00:15:21.480 to farms that don't stand up
00:15:23.900 against the state
00:15:24.760 when it comes to this stuff.
00:15:26.040 We're really going to go really hard
00:15:27.720 on these issues.
00:15:28.540 We can't do any of that without you.
00:15:30.300 We've already obtained
00:15:32.220 a very important interview to that
00:15:35.120 that I think people might have thought
00:15:36.940 we wouldn't have been able to get.
00:15:38.760 So we're already rolling on that.
00:15:40.880 And again,
00:15:41.440 nothing is possible without you guys.
00:15:42.980 So Ostrich Farm documentary
00:15:44.280 is how you can keep us going.
00:15:47.180 We've already traveled for it.
00:15:48.500 We're going to continue to do so
00:15:49.860 into the new year.
00:15:51.000 So it's going to be good.
00:15:52.800 I think that's going to be,
00:15:53.900 a lot of people are going to want to watch that.
00:15:55.860 Hey, let me just,
00:15:56.560 before we move on,
00:15:57.100 I want to talk about other BC things,
00:15:58.640 but I had one very small question
00:16:02.660 that I could put
00:16:05.440 to the federal health minister.
00:16:07.160 This whole operation
00:16:08.100 was under the jurisdiction
00:16:09.220 of the health department.
00:16:11.620 And the new health minister,
00:16:14.520 Marjorie Michelle is her name,
00:16:16.160 was in Alberta
00:16:18.200 at a joint event
00:16:19.500 with the Alberta government.
00:16:20.620 And although the federal government
00:16:22.020 never accredits us as journalists,
00:16:24.200 the Alberta government does.
00:16:25.760 So I called up my friends in Alberta.
00:16:27.780 I said, look, can I come to Calgary?
00:16:29.840 I'd like to put a question
00:16:30.920 to the federal health minister.
00:16:32.520 And they checked
00:16:34.220 and we got it cleared.
00:16:36.940 So I went to this press conference.
00:16:38.860 Normally, Rebel News is kicked out
00:16:40.100 by the Liberals.
00:16:41.020 And I got in line early
00:16:42.920 and I put what I thought
00:16:44.220 was a friendly question.
00:16:46.420 Frankly, it was a softball question.
00:16:49.680 And before I asked it,
00:16:50.940 I even said something nice
00:16:52.380 about the Liberals.
00:16:53.180 I said, thanks for accrediting me.
00:16:54.560 I thought it was a good question.
00:16:57.240 But the way they non-answered
00:16:59.860 was so stark.
00:17:01.120 I didn't even know
00:17:01.620 what was going on at first.
00:17:02.620 I thought maybe I had a translation problem
00:17:04.760 because she's French
00:17:05.820 as her native language.
00:17:06.760 Let me show the video
00:17:07.960 of me asking
00:17:09.520 what I thought was a good question
00:17:11.460 and the non-response.
00:17:14.300 By the way,
00:17:14.980 the non-response was so shocking.
00:17:16.780 This video got 1 million views on X.
00:17:20.700 Take a look.
00:17:21.380 Thank you, Minister,
00:17:22.540 for agreeing to accredit Rebel News.
00:17:24.320 I very much appreciate
00:17:25.160 your dedication
00:17:25.980 to freedom of the press.
00:17:28.040 I have a question
00:17:28.880 about the ostrich farm.
00:17:30.300 Now, don't worry,
00:17:30.720 I'm not going to ask
00:17:31.300 about the lawsuit
00:17:32.080 because I don't want you
00:17:33.240 to talk about anything
00:17:34.580 that are before the courts.
00:17:36.480 But there was a letter
00:17:37.520 and I noticed in the statement
00:17:38.720 you talk about Canada-U.S. cooperation.
00:17:41.800 I know that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
00:17:43.660 your U.S. counterpart,
00:17:45.360 has written saying
00:17:46.660 he thinks that there's
00:17:48.080 some medical research value
00:17:49.660 in these ostriches
00:17:50.480 because they had avian flu
00:17:51.860 but then have recovered
00:17:54.040 and they're now immune.
00:17:55.640 In fact, he's offered
00:17:56.680 to do the research
00:17:57.840 and even to pay for it.
00:17:59.900 It seems to me
00:18:01.300 that we need allies
00:18:02.760 around Trump's cabinet table.
00:18:05.120 And if you could throw him a bone
00:18:06.940 and say,
00:18:07.520 sure,
00:18:08.200 Secretary Kennedy,
00:18:09.740 you can study these birds.
00:18:11.520 It's sort of no skin
00:18:12.280 off Canada's nose.
00:18:13.400 And don't you think
00:18:14.220 it would be helpful
00:18:14.820 to have an ally
00:18:16.580 in Trump's cabinet
00:18:17.820 when we're doing
00:18:18.620 our trade negotiations?
00:18:19.720 That's my question.
00:18:23.720 Don't you think
00:18:24.280 it would be helpful
00:18:24.840 to have a friend?
00:18:25.400 Next reporter.
00:18:26.260 Merci.
00:18:30.940 Oh, you're not going to answer,
00:18:32.560 Minister?
00:18:33.520 Prochaine question.
00:18:34.420 Merci.
00:18:35.360 I don't understand.
00:18:36.400 Did I do something wrong?
00:18:37.780 Next question.
00:18:38.680 Thank you.
00:18:41.520 Minister, did I miss an answer?
00:18:43.540 I don't get it.
00:18:45.280 Okay.
00:18:45.900 I'll sit down.
00:18:47.060 I guess it's question period,
00:18:50.020 not answer period.
00:18:51.020 Merci beaucoup.
00:18:51.860 Now, look,
00:18:52.460 I'm not saying
00:18:53.100 that I'm an important person
00:18:54.920 and that I must be answered to you.
00:18:57.580 But if you accredit me
00:18:59.400 at a press conference
00:19:00.280 and know I'm coming
00:19:01.240 and you get
00:19:01.920 a simple,
00:19:03.280 straightforward question like that,
00:19:05.320 I think it behooves
00:19:06.840 a cabinet minister
00:19:07.740 of a democratic country
00:19:08.800 to say something,
00:19:09.680 even to say I can't answer
00:19:11.520 or let me think about it
00:19:13.000 or I'll get back,
00:19:13.540 like just to say something,
00:19:14.620 but just to stay there
00:19:15.820 stunned and refusing
00:19:17.620 to say a word,
00:19:18.780 to me that summed up everything.
00:19:21.280 The haughty attitude,
00:19:22.680 we don't have to answer,
00:19:24.240 who are you?
00:19:24.980 You're just some grubby person.
00:19:27.600 Leave the thinking to us
00:19:29.760 and you just go,
00:19:30.580 like it was so high-handed.
00:19:32.840 It was a really weird moment.
00:19:35.060 What did you think of that?
00:19:36.640 Well, you had asked that question
00:19:37.940 like Mr. Rogers.
00:19:39.540 Yeah, that's right.
00:19:41.080 You couldn't have asked it
00:19:42.100 any friendlier
00:19:42.840 and you laid the groundwork.
00:19:44.640 You said something
00:19:45.840 so that she couldn't say,
00:19:47.280 oh, this matters
00:19:47.800 before the courts
00:19:48.640 and you gave her
00:19:49.820 a very clear path
00:19:51.420 on what you were asking,
00:19:52.840 you know,
00:19:53.120 during this time,
00:19:54.160 why don't we have a friend,
00:19:56.180 an ally over this situation
00:19:57.480 and you were snubbed.
00:19:58.540 That means the people were snubbed.
00:20:00.060 Your question was valid.
00:20:01.840 It's something the public
00:20:02.980 wants to hear.
00:20:04.080 Even non-liberals
00:20:05.520 want to hear it
00:20:06.300 and she's snubbing it.
00:20:07.580 So it makes her feel horrible.
00:20:09.180 I can't help but be reminded
00:20:10.700 of the smugness
00:20:11.700 of Jagmeet Singh
00:20:12.660 during the election debate
00:20:13.840 where I did the same thing.
00:20:15.540 I laid out the facts.
00:20:16.840 I asked a very valid question
00:20:18.740 that many Canadians,
00:20:20.500 including some from his own,
00:20:22.500 you know,
00:20:23.600 his own following
00:20:24.740 that say they stand against hate,
00:20:26.600 might want to know the answer to.
00:20:28.320 And so when you take
00:20:29.200 that arrogant,
00:20:30.200 entitled,
00:20:31.300 you know,
00:20:32.620 stature
00:20:33.080 that they've been getting away with,
00:20:34.680 it's not flying as easy anymore
00:20:36.640 because I don't think
00:20:37.900 they realize
00:20:39.020 how strong
00:20:40.580 the independent news voice is
00:20:42.540 and how many people
00:20:43.440 are waiting to hear
00:20:45.440 what answers
00:20:46.480 they're going to get
00:20:47.500 to our questions.
00:20:48.280 Yeah.
00:20:48.900 You know,
00:20:49.500 you make me remember
00:20:50.360 that, of course,
00:20:51.280 you got a lot of votes
00:20:52.560 for the ostrich story,
00:20:53.680 but you had,
00:20:55.720 in the same manner,
00:20:57.160 a very successful question
00:20:58.960 to Jagmeet Singh
00:20:59.900 that, like me,
00:21:01.000 you got no answer,
00:21:02.940 but like my non-answer,
00:21:04.600 your non-answer
00:21:05.380 actually revealed quite a bit.
00:21:07.220 Let's just watch that moment.
00:21:08.500 And by the way,
00:21:09.020 I was there.
00:21:09.760 I was just a few feet away from you.
00:21:11.900 And one thing
00:21:12.740 that the official microphone
00:21:13.960 did not pick up
00:21:15.200 was the booing
00:21:16.780 and the heckling
00:21:17.600 by rival journalists
00:21:20.580 for the regime media.
00:21:22.500 It was just shocking to me
00:21:25.080 that other journalists
00:21:26.460 would be booing you.
00:21:27.760 Here's your question
00:21:28.900 to Jagmeet Singh.
00:21:29.980 And his disgraceful non-answer.
00:21:31.780 Take a look.
00:21:32.620 Hello, Mr. Singh.
00:21:33.840 Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
00:21:35.900 Your party takes great pride
00:21:37.300 in standing against hate
00:21:38.600 such as white supremacy,
00:21:40.040 Islamophobia,
00:21:40.900 and online...
00:21:41.060 Sorry, I didn't get your outlet.
00:21:43.260 Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
00:21:44.720 Okay.
00:21:45.780 Your party...
00:21:46.320 You know where I'm going
00:21:46.660 to go with this, though, right?
00:21:48.620 Can I speak?
00:21:49.540 Yeah, you can.
00:21:50.060 I'm just going to say
00:21:50.560 you know where I'm going
00:21:51.040 to go with it, though.
00:21:51.660 Wow.
00:21:52.060 Your party takes pride
00:21:53.400 in standing against hate
00:21:54.640 such as white supremacy,
00:21:56.240 Islamophobia,
00:21:57.080 and online hate speech.
00:21:58.400 Yet you stay silent
00:22:00.200 about ongoing attacks
00:22:01.620 against Christians,
00:22:03.000 even after Conservative MP
00:22:04.600 Jamil Javani's
00:22:05.720 order paper question
00:22:06.920 revealed that over 200 churches
00:22:08.920 have been targeted
00:22:09.980 by arson and vandalism
00:22:11.700 since claims of remains
00:22:13.560 being discovered
00:22:14.320 at former residential schools
00:22:15.800 swept the nation in 2021.
00:22:17.560 These claims have been disproven
00:22:20.540 by bans that excavated
00:22:22.100 and remain unproven
00:22:23.860 by those that have not.
00:22:26.120 Will you condemn
00:22:27.120 the rise in acts of hate
00:22:28.760 against Christians today
00:22:30.040 and explain what your party
00:22:31.940 will do moving forward
00:22:33.680 to keep Christians safe
00:22:35.320 from hate in Canada?
00:22:37.500 Again, thank you,
00:22:38.520 but I'm not going to respond
00:22:39.340 to an organization
00:22:40.140 that promotes misinformation
00:22:42.100 and disinformation
00:22:43.280 like Rebel News,
00:22:44.140 so no, I'm not going to respond
00:22:44.940 to your question.
00:22:45.740 Wow.
00:22:46.020 What she said
00:22:46.520 had no misinformation in it.
00:22:49.940 Perhaps you didn't hear me.
00:22:52.380 Over 200 Christian places
00:22:54.080 of worship
00:22:54.600 have been attacked
00:22:55.440 in Canada since 2021.
00:22:57.400 Many served First Nations
00:22:58.780 communities,
00:23:00.420 many were historic,
00:23:02.040 and they diverted
00:23:02.920 police and resources
00:23:05.760 and put others at risk.
00:23:07.660 What do you say
00:23:08.420 to Canadians
00:23:09.000 who see your refusal
00:23:10.120 to answer,
00:23:10.920 especially from one
00:23:11.840 of the few media outlets
00:23:13.240 here that are not funded
00:23:14.340 by the state,
00:23:15.240 as proof that a vote for you
00:23:17.480 is a vote for a dangerous
00:23:19.460 radical party
00:23:20.340 that gaslights the public
00:23:21.520 into thinking
00:23:22.160 it stands against hate
00:23:23.380 when its silence
00:23:24.720 is instead emboldening
00:23:26.180 Christophobia?
00:23:27.920 Your question
00:23:28.840 is another example
00:23:29.880 of why I don't respond
00:23:30.900 to agencies like Rebel News
00:23:32.540 that promote misinformation
00:23:34.000 and disinformation.
00:23:34.980 I was so proud
00:23:35.940 of your dignity there,
00:23:37.380 and it was so cringed
00:23:39.780 the non-answer.
00:23:40.940 What made it worse,
00:23:41.940 if I may,
00:23:42.620 was when Rosemary Barton,
00:23:43.820 the CBC pundit,
00:23:45.460 was watching
00:23:46.300 and she thought
00:23:46.920 she would give an answer
00:23:48.240 that Jagmeet Singh couldn't
00:23:49.400 by saying,
00:23:50.080 you were wrong
00:23:51.480 about the buried graves.
00:23:55.580 Here's Rosemary Barton
00:23:56.720 trafficking in misinformation.
00:23:59.900 Take a quick look.
00:24:01.200 I think we have to
00:24:02.140 sort of address
00:24:02.780 the elephant in the room.
00:24:04.300 How are these people
00:24:05.940 chosen to answer
00:24:07.360 these questions?
00:24:08.000 And I don't know
00:24:08.400 if either one of you
00:24:09.060 have an answer for that,
00:24:10.120 but I think there will be
00:24:10.920 people at home saying,
00:24:12.220 some of these seem
00:24:12.780 like odd questions,
00:24:13.840 some of them
00:24:14.140 aren't getting answered.
00:24:15.400 How come we've heard
00:24:16.160 so often from
00:24:17.040 this one particular outlet?
00:24:18.700 Any idea what's going on there?
00:24:19.760 There's three right-wing,
00:24:22.320 very right-wing media,
00:24:24.800 we can call them media,
00:24:25.820 websites that are present
00:24:26.940 in there.
00:24:28.300 They get in line
00:24:28.860 to ask a question
00:24:29.600 like anybody else.
00:24:30.900 Their accreditation
00:24:31.700 has been approved
00:24:32.480 by the Commission of Debates,
00:24:34.200 and so they get the right
00:24:35.660 to stand in line
00:24:36.440 and ask a question
00:24:37.420 that they choose to ask.
00:24:39.440 In this case,
00:24:40.260 you saw Mr. Singh,
00:24:41.300 and this has been
00:24:41.920 his position for some time,
00:24:43.320 to refuse to answer questions.
00:24:45.300 Rebel news in particular,
00:24:46.660 traffics in misinformation,
00:24:48.560 facts, lack of facts,
00:24:50.520 and as you heard
00:24:51.700 in that question,
00:24:52.540 which was woven
00:24:53.900 with some truth
00:24:54.900 and some things
00:24:55.860 that weren't true.
00:24:56.700 Yes, there have been
00:24:57.500 burnings of Christian
00:24:59.140 Catholic churches.
00:25:00.200 Yes, there have been
00:25:01.920 remains of Indigenous children
00:25:03.480 found in various places
00:25:05.500 around the country,
00:25:06.320 which she misrepresented.
00:25:07.980 We'll see if Mr. Poiliev
00:25:08.820 gets any questions
00:25:09.700 from right-wing organizations.
00:25:11.080 I would suspect no.
00:25:12.080 Okay, all right,
00:25:12.980 let's have a listen.
00:25:14.120 Yeah, she later
00:25:15.100 had to make a correction.
00:25:16.340 You were right.
00:25:18.080 I don't know.
00:25:18.800 I think that that,
00:25:20.500 in both cases,
00:25:21.680 my question and your question,
00:25:22.660 we didn't get
00:25:23.120 an actual answer,
00:25:24.420 but what we did get,
00:25:26.220 I think, spoke volumes.
00:25:28.200 Absolutely.
00:25:28.640 Again, the people
00:25:29.840 just want to know
00:25:30.800 the answers
00:25:31.340 to these questions.
00:25:32.420 And when they see this,
00:25:33.560 they go,
00:25:33.860 oh my gosh,
00:25:34.580 who's Rebel News?
00:25:35.920 Why didn't they
00:25:36.660 answer that question?
00:25:37.440 It actually makes them
00:25:38.500 start to critically think,
00:25:39.920 like, what is going on here?
00:25:41.880 So it definitely
00:25:42.540 does them a disservice.
00:25:44.180 Well, I was so proud
00:25:45.480 of our whole Rebel team there.
00:25:47.200 It was such an important moment.
00:25:48.800 And by the way,
00:25:50.200 some credit belongs
00:25:51.080 to our lawyers
00:25:51.760 who had to sort of
00:25:52.880 blast our way in.
00:25:54.580 We had to go to court
00:25:55.640 twice in 2019
00:25:56.960 and then again in 2021
00:25:58.180 beat them twice
00:26:01.040 so that by 2025
00:26:02.680 they no longer
00:26:04.020 tried to bar us.
00:26:06.000 It was quite an incredible,
00:26:07.200 I had a lot of fun too
00:26:09.280 hanging out with you guys.
00:26:10.600 It was fun journalistically
00:26:12.740 because we were like a team,
00:26:14.280 but it was also frustrating.
00:26:15.640 Hey, let me switch gears.
00:26:16.580 I want to ask you
00:26:17.120 one more thing
00:26:17.780 about British Columbia.
00:26:19.420 And I love British Columbia,
00:26:20.840 but I'm far away
00:26:21.660 here in Toronto
00:26:22.440 and BC is sometimes
00:26:24.240 its own world.
00:26:25.380 It doesn't pay so much attention
00:26:27.000 to Toronto and vice versa.
00:26:28.720 So help us understand
00:26:30.140 what's going on with,
00:26:32.000 we know the NDP,
00:26:33.160 they're atrocious as always.
00:26:34.940 What's up with the BC Conservatives,
00:26:37.380 the 1BC?
00:26:39.300 There's all these splinters.
00:26:40.980 Help me understand,
00:26:42.100 is it a disaster?
00:26:44.040 It is a disaster.
00:26:45.480 It is a disaster.
00:26:46.360 And of course,
00:26:46.800 I read some of the comments
00:26:48.080 about people who said
00:26:49.100 they were voting for me.
00:26:50.260 Of course,
00:26:50.800 a lot was because
00:26:51.520 of the ostrich,
00:26:52.220 but a lot of them
00:26:53.140 were also talking about
00:26:54.600 some of the stuff,
00:26:55.940 you know,
00:26:56.560 with my coverage of 1BC
00:26:57.800 and them going out
00:26:58.680 at the universities
00:26:59.540 and things like this.
00:27:01.140 So, so much has been happening
00:27:02.980 in British Columbia
00:27:03.760 and they also mentioned
00:27:04.820 the coverage
00:27:05.620 on the land grab threat.
00:27:07.800 Right, right.
00:27:08.360 So this is something
00:27:09.240 that I've been sort of
00:27:10.360 speaking to journalistically
00:27:11.780 for close to
00:27:13.600 when I first started,
00:27:14.720 but to see it unravel
00:27:15.880 in real time
00:27:16.820 and actually to see
00:27:18.200 that it was already in place
00:27:19.480 is quite shocking.
00:27:21.280 So politically,
00:27:23.760 I mean,
00:27:24.240 where do you start?
00:27:25.740 So we had the election,
00:27:28.200 let's not forget,
00:27:29.820 where it was almost a tie
00:27:31.020 between the rising star
00:27:33.780 BC conservatives.
00:27:35.020 They went from nothing
00:27:35.960 to almost winning
00:27:37.760 the government
00:27:38.540 for the first time,
00:27:39.180 I think in 100 years
00:27:40.160 or something like that.
00:27:41.680 And then, you know,
00:27:43.180 we just saw one by one
00:27:45.040 sort of at first
00:27:45.780 it was their more conservative
00:27:47.160 MLAs getting kicked out
00:27:49.200 or leaving.
00:27:50.140 And that was, of course,
00:27:50.960 Dallas Brody
00:27:51.740 and then Tara Armstrong
00:27:53.440 and Jordan Healy.
00:27:54.480 And then we saw
00:27:55.180 sort of the ones
00:27:56.060 that were quite leftist
00:27:57.780 get kicked out
00:27:58.840 of the party more recently.
00:28:00.000 So they are kind of,
00:28:01.480 the Conservative Party
00:28:02.260 has been losing confidence
00:28:04.560 in the people
00:28:05.240 to the point
00:28:05.860 that their own MLAs,
00:28:07.700 you know,
00:28:08.080 wanted John Rustad out.
00:28:10.960 I think I was
00:28:11.880 the first journalist,
00:28:13.020 I suppose,
00:28:13.460 on the Conservative side
00:28:15.000 to do a critical piece
00:28:16.540 of John Rustad
00:28:17.380 months ago
00:28:18.140 after the AGM
00:28:19.100 and the shenanigans
00:28:20.560 that took place there.
00:28:21.720 I sort of exposed
00:28:22.640 some things
00:28:23.620 that certainly
00:28:24.100 seemed unethical there.
00:28:26.080 So John Rustad's out,
00:28:28.340 Trevor Helford is in,
00:28:29.880 he seems to be doing good
00:28:31.060 as an interim leader
00:28:32.120 for now,
00:28:32.720 but who the heck
00:28:33.660 is going to be
00:28:34.320 the next leader?
00:28:35.280 Then you have
00:28:35.740 the Splinter Party
00:28:36.720 or you had
00:28:37.440 the Splinter Party
00:28:38.380 or I don't know
00:28:38.900 if we still have
00:28:39.600 the Splinter Party,
00:28:41.320 that is 1BC.
00:28:42.700 And so that was led
00:28:44.760 by Dallas Brody
00:28:46.780 and side-by-side
00:28:48.200 with Tara Armstrong
00:28:48.880 and they were making
00:28:49.660 some big moves
00:28:50.640 in the sense that
00:28:51.420 you had this
00:28:52.360 two-person party
00:28:54.000 but they were making noise
00:28:55.880 and they were speaking
00:28:57.100 to issues
00:28:57.800 that British Columbians
00:28:58.860 actually care about
00:28:59.800 and are tired
00:29:00.500 of being called racist about
00:29:01.820 and that, of course,
00:29:03.100 was them exposing
00:29:04.960 the false 215 claim
00:29:08.320 and starting off with that
00:29:09.760 and then when
00:29:10.220 the land grab came,
00:29:11.340 well, who had the respect
00:29:12.440 on that conversation?
00:29:14.440 And let's remind you
00:29:15.440 that Kamloops,
00:29:16.600 where that false claim
00:29:18.180 came from,
00:29:18.760 well, the whole city
00:29:19.820 of Kamloops
00:29:20.500 is being claimed
00:29:21.420 for Aboriginal title
00:29:22.420 as well.
00:29:22.960 It's not just part
00:29:23.720 of Richmond,
00:29:24.200 it's the entire city
00:29:25.200 of Kamloops.
00:29:26.100 So they became
00:29:27.060 an authority
00:29:27.980 in that for many people
00:29:29.940 building trusts
00:29:31.520 who didn't want
00:29:32.260 to be called racist
00:29:33.040 to be concerned
00:29:33.960 about what's happening
00:29:35.000 with their land
00:29:35.720 and then they dropped
00:29:36.860 that documentary.
00:29:38.020 They dropped that
00:29:38.940 Making a Killing documentary
00:29:40.380 and it went viral.
00:29:42.200 Millions of views
00:29:43.140 on X.
00:29:43.840 Last I checked,
00:29:44.640 I think 400,000 views
00:29:46.280 on YouTube.
00:29:48.280 And so they were
00:29:50.900 doing as good
00:29:51.820 as you could
00:29:52.420 as a two-person
00:29:54.060 breakaway party
00:29:55.200 and then boom,
00:29:56.500 overnight last weekend
00:29:58.020 they completely imploded.
00:30:00.320 And so I've done
00:30:01.240 a report with a timeline.
00:30:03.240 I was up at like
00:30:03.920 one in the morning
00:30:04.640 looking at their text
00:30:05.620 fights going off
00:30:06.460 and I was like,
00:30:07.060 oh my gosh,
00:30:07.880 what is happening?
00:30:09.180 And of course,
00:30:09.660 I did a sit down
00:30:10.440 with Dallas Brody
00:30:11.320 who was abruptly
00:30:13.740 kicked out
00:30:15.260 by her own board
00:30:16.620 out of the party
00:30:17.480 and then she's been
00:30:18.200 fighting to get
00:30:18.840 the party back
00:30:19.580 and now I'm about
00:30:20.340 to do a report
00:30:21.100 about how she did
00:30:22.460 get the party back
00:30:23.360 and it's just her.
00:30:25.840 So it is a mess,
00:30:27.660 a messy way
00:30:28.520 to end the year
00:30:29.440 for the conservatives
00:30:30.540 and there's rumors
00:30:31.400 that,
00:30:32.240 and why wouldn't there be,
00:30:33.360 that there might be
00:30:34.260 a snap election
00:30:35.320 by the NDP.
00:30:37.080 David Eby's saying,
00:30:37.840 no, that's not happening,
00:30:38.900 but there's still rumors
00:30:41.160 swirling that he might
00:30:42.360 It would be very
00:30:42.660 strategically smart
00:30:43.880 while the opposition
00:30:44.720 is so fractured
00:30:45.860 fighting itself.
00:30:47.040 You know,
00:30:47.200 there's an old saying,
00:30:48.160 while two argue,
00:30:49.800 a third grabs the hat.
00:30:51.960 I don't know.
00:30:52.980 Of course, of course.
00:30:54.700 You know,
00:30:55.280 it's,
00:30:57.280 you know,
00:30:57.800 you can chuckle
00:30:58.380 at politicians,
00:30:59.200 but British Columbians
00:31:00.300 who have to live there
00:31:01.280 under this shenanigans,
00:31:03.040 I want to point out
00:31:04.160 something.
00:31:04.540 The Wall Street Journal
00:31:05.340 is one of the most
00:31:06.240 prestigious newspapers
00:31:07.520 in America.
00:31:08.180 The New York Times,
00:31:08.860 I think,
00:31:09.120 is probably the most
00:31:10.720 prestigious
00:31:11.580 if you can measure
00:31:12.880 such things,
00:31:13.680 but the Wall Street Journal
00:31:14.560 is a very large readership
00:31:16.120 and it's a very large
00:31:17.620 business readership.
00:31:19.000 Pretty much,
00:31:19.460 if you're a serious
00:31:20.560 businessman in America,
00:31:21.860 you read the Wall Street Journal.
00:31:23.520 And they had
00:31:24.840 a significant report
00:31:27.260 saying
00:31:28.540 that British Columbia
00:31:30.640 is a risky place now
00:31:32.700 because of the land title issue
00:31:34.940 you referred to
00:31:35.640 because the question
00:31:36.840 of indigenous sovereignty
00:31:38.300 and indigenous title
00:31:39.560 is a live issue.
00:31:41.800 The Wall Street Journal
00:31:42.980 has told its,
00:31:44.140 I don't know,
00:31:44.660 one million subscribers,
00:31:46.460 like two million readers
00:31:48.500 to watch out
00:31:49.640 for that province.
00:31:50.560 That has got to be
00:31:52.240 devastating.
00:31:53.320 I mean,
00:31:54.480 you know,
00:31:54.800 when international companies
00:31:56.500 talk about investing,
00:31:57.560 they measure the local risk.
00:31:58.980 That's why
00:31:59.440 they wouldn't
00:32:00.660 likely go to a place
00:32:01.820 like,
00:32:02.240 I don't know,
00:32:03.240 Kazakhstan.
00:32:04.300 But crazy enough,
00:32:05.560 Kazakhstan is probably
00:32:06.600 a safer investment
00:32:07.820 now than BC.
00:32:08.680 What do you make
00:32:09.180 of the fact
00:32:09.940 that the story
00:32:10.600 is spreading
00:32:11.240 and that the whole world
00:32:12.300 is talking about this?
00:32:14.320 This is so sad.
00:32:15.540 BC is such a beautiful place
00:32:17.520 with so much to it.
00:32:20.460 As you know,
00:32:21.280 many people have come here
00:32:22.220 because it's beautiful
00:32:23.160 British Columbia
00:32:23.860 and this is absolutely
00:32:25.080 a huge risk.
00:32:26.680 We're hearing of realtors
00:32:28.020 who are saying
00:32:28.640 people were wanting them
00:32:30.180 to look for homes
00:32:30.880 and they're like,
00:32:31.400 no more.
00:32:32.020 They were wanting them
00:32:32.760 to sell their homes
00:32:33.500 and they're also like,
00:32:34.400 no more.
00:32:35.120 We hear these concerns
00:32:36.340 of, you know,
00:32:37.460 getting a new mortgage.
00:32:38.360 The NDP government
00:32:40.120 has come out now
00:32:41.660 and said,
00:32:42.200 okay,
00:32:42.420 well,
00:32:42.680 we're looking at least
00:32:43.660 for the chunk
00:32:44.660 of people in Richmond
00:32:45.660 to give them financing
00:32:48.420 so that they could
00:32:49.200 at least have financing.
00:32:50.260 Well,
00:32:50.420 that's not a sustainable thing
00:32:51.900 if this keeps happening,
00:32:53.620 which, you know,
00:32:54.600 maybe it already
00:32:55.300 is keep happening
00:32:56.000 because I take you
00:32:57.000 back to Canlips again.
00:32:58.300 We just found out
00:32:59.180 about that
00:32:59.760 after the Cowichan
00:33:00.800 versus Canada case
00:33:02.020 and that's a decade-old case.
00:33:03.860 So we don't even know
00:33:04.900 if these cases
00:33:05.720 are already happening.
00:33:08.120 There's parts of Port Coquitlam
00:33:09.720 up for grabs.
00:33:10.680 So far,
00:33:11.020 it doesn't look like private.
00:33:12.740 But of course,
00:33:13.480 who wants to do business
00:33:14.540 in British Columbia?
00:33:15.480 Who wants to do
00:33:16.240 any type of real estate
00:33:17.340 in these particular areas,
00:33:18.740 especially where it's happening?
00:33:20.260 What does it mean
00:33:21.200 for anybody?
00:33:21.860 We don't know.
00:33:22.840 And again,
00:33:23.480 British Columbia
00:33:24.300 is the first,
00:33:25.980 the most extreme
00:33:27.040 jurisdiction
00:33:28.340 in the world
00:33:29.560 to have taken
00:33:30.240 that aspirational
00:33:31.520 UN framework
00:33:33.380 for Indigenous rights.
00:33:34.940 They ignored
00:33:35.720 the UN's human rights,
00:33:37.580 which would have
00:33:38.020 include all of us.
00:33:39.180 And they took
00:33:39.760 the UN's idea
00:33:41.200 of what Indigenous rights is,
00:33:42.860 which includes
00:33:43.500 that they should have
00:33:44.360 access to any land
00:33:45.820 that they ever walked on,
00:33:47.300 pretty much,
00:33:47.840 if they say they did.
00:33:49.520 And they made
00:33:50.740 that law binding.
00:33:53.160 And they have a commitment
00:33:54.620 to make all of our laws
00:33:56.340 align here.
00:33:57.140 So we're not just
00:33:57.740 seeing this
00:33:58.200 in land.
00:33:58.780 We're seeing this
00:33:59.600 in our conservation.
00:34:01.200 They're starting to say
00:34:02.300 that, you know,
00:34:03.720 before,
00:34:04.120 if you would dig
00:34:04.700 in a development
00:34:05.360 and you would find
00:34:06.120 something that was ancient,
00:34:07.000 you would have to give it,
00:34:07.960 you know,
00:34:08.260 over to the First Nations
00:34:09.200 to have a look at.
00:34:09.960 Okay, fair enough.
00:34:10.920 Now they're trying
00:34:11.760 to make it
00:34:13.300 so that they could
00:34:14.100 just say,
00:34:14.620 hey, no,
00:34:15.100 you can't do
00:34:15.740 a development in there
00:34:16.520 because we may have
00:34:17.460 something under
00:34:18.080 the ground there.
00:34:18.900 So this is popping up
00:34:20.400 in a very big way.
00:34:21.500 And this is going
00:34:22.040 to be a very big issue
00:34:23.080 for 2026.
00:34:24.720 You just wait and see.
00:34:26.120 I believe you.
00:34:27.240 You know,
00:34:27.600 I sometimes call Alberta
00:34:29.200 a good ideas laboratory,
00:34:30.700 whether it's for tax reform
00:34:32.960 or property rights
00:34:34.140 or there's a lot of
00:34:35.200 freedom-oriented ideas
00:34:36.700 that come from Alberta.
00:34:37.640 But I think it's fair to say,
00:34:39.520 and I say this
00:34:40.020 with a heavy heart,
00:34:41.060 that BC
00:34:41.700 is sometimes
00:34:43.580 a bad ideas laboratory.
00:34:45.240 For example,
00:34:46.180 the hard drugs
00:34:47.320 that are,
00:34:47.860 you know,
00:34:48.240 the safe supply,
00:34:50.020 that idea
00:34:51.320 has really progressed there.
00:34:52.840 the eco-extremism.
00:34:56.180 We've just been talking
00:34:57.080 about indigenous title.
00:34:58.240 Even the transgenderism
00:34:59.480 in schools,
00:35:00.200 it often gets started
00:35:01.580 earliest in BC
00:35:03.020 and it goes wackiest.
00:35:05.060 It's part of the
00:35:05.580 wacky left coast.
00:35:07.380 And you're right,
00:35:07.960 it's so beautiful
00:35:08.600 and there's so many
00:35:09.200 wonderful things.
00:35:09.940 I think BC is,
00:35:11.220 I mean,
00:35:11.420 I love every province,
00:35:12.320 but I think BC
00:35:12.940 is probably the most beautiful.
00:35:14.880 And it's just a shame
00:35:15.960 that it has
00:35:16.440 some of the worst politics.
00:35:17.820 I'm glad you're out there.
00:35:19.440 I'm glad you're,
00:35:20.280 whether it's the ostrich issue
00:35:22.040 or the indigenous land title
00:35:23.660 or watching
00:35:24.680 as Francis Whitteson,
00:35:25.800 the professor,
00:35:26.620 tries to speak
00:35:27.820 at a university,
00:35:29.020 you're there.
00:35:30.040 And I want you
00:35:31.000 to make me a promise
00:35:32.560 that you're going
00:35:32.980 to stay safe
00:35:34.000 in 2026.
00:35:35.560 As you know,
00:35:36.500 we provide security
00:35:38.100 for your colleague
00:35:38.840 in Montreal,
00:35:39.720 Alexa Lavoie.
00:35:40.880 They've got a bad case
00:35:42.140 of Antifa out there.
00:35:43.440 I know that once or twice
00:35:44.800 you've been,
00:35:45.540 you know,
00:35:46.600 crowded and rushed
00:35:47.560 by Antifa
00:35:48.260 and we've had security
00:35:50.140 for you before
00:35:50.780 when you covered
00:35:51.320 Jonathan Yaniv,
00:35:52.160 the trans extremist.
00:35:53.640 I want you to promise me
00:35:54.640 that you're going
00:35:54.960 to stay safe in 2026
00:35:56.840 and that if you need security,
00:35:59.280 better to ask
00:36:00.460 and not need it
00:36:01.800 than the opposite.
00:36:03.080 Because I'm,
00:36:03.800 I'm a little bit worried
00:36:04.900 because you're so successful
00:36:06.180 and you're starting
00:36:06.720 to get recognized.
00:36:07.720 Before we turned
00:36:08.360 the cameras on,
00:36:09.000 you were telling me
00:36:09.500 that you got recognized
00:36:10.420 to the store
00:36:11.060 in a really fun way.
00:36:13.080 Somebody bought us meat,
00:36:14.620 our family meat.
00:36:15.460 That's like the best gift
00:36:17.680 ever,
00:36:18.280 steaks.
00:36:19.500 Yeah,
00:36:19.880 isn't that wonderful
00:36:20.540 that,
00:36:20.840 you know what,
00:36:21.180 when people buy you,
00:36:22.240 buy you a gift
00:36:23.060 just because they love
00:36:23.880 your work
00:36:24.320 and there's a hundred
00:36:26.380 of those
00:36:27.040 but for every hundred
00:36:28.000 like that,
00:36:29.100 there's one hater
00:36:30.300 and I don't mean
00:36:31.340 to be negative
00:36:31.820 and I'm not trying
00:36:32.440 to end on a down note.
00:36:33.780 It's just your,
00:36:34.660 it's just,
00:36:35.240 I want you to be safe
00:36:36.500 because you've,
00:36:38.040 your reputation
00:36:38.640 has grown so much.
00:36:39.800 Your profile
00:36:40.360 has grown so much
00:36:41.360 because of the stories
00:36:42.600 we've been talking about
00:36:43.560 and I just want you
00:36:45.040 to stay safe out there
00:36:45.960 because we're in
00:36:46.440 a little bit
00:36:46.960 of a different world now
00:36:48.000 and I have this talk
00:36:49.060 with Alexa
00:36:49.640 and with David
00:36:50.960 because that's the world
00:36:52.660 we're in
00:36:53.040 so I want you
00:36:54.260 to stay safe
00:36:54.880 and keep doing
00:36:55.360 your great journalism
00:36:56.260 and we will provide
00:36:57.600 you with security.
00:36:58.560 Our viewers,
00:36:59.260 they love to provide security
00:37:01.200 because that's the best
00:37:02.340 thing they can do
00:37:03.080 as a gift,
00:37:03.900 as their gift to us
00:37:05.400 is to help keep you safe.
00:37:06.680 Last word to you, Drea.
00:37:08.180 Well, thank you so much.
00:37:09.220 You guys always keep me safe
00:37:10.420 and you're still protecting me
00:37:11.720 from Yaniv.
00:37:12.340 Even in my own home,
00:37:13.420 you've got security up.
00:37:14.340 I don't know if you forgot
00:37:15.080 but you're keeping me
00:37:16.460 very safe
00:37:17.020 and you always do
00:37:17.720 and thank you
00:37:18.560 to all of our viewers
00:37:19.400 who do donate
00:37:20.540 at Journalist Defense Fund
00:37:21.840 to make that possible
00:37:23.240 and, you know,
00:37:25.000 thank you to God
00:37:25.660 for keeping me safe so far.
00:37:27.660 Right on.
00:37:28.360 Well, happy Christmas
00:37:29.440 to you and your family
00:37:30.720 and I just want to say
00:37:31.780 I mentioned this before.
00:37:33.020 Happy New Year.
00:37:33.860 I should have said that
00:37:34.460 to everybody.
00:37:35.080 No problem.
00:37:35.300 You took your family
00:37:36.320 with you to the ostrich farm.
00:37:37.800 We got you an RV
00:37:38.600 because you're a mom.
00:37:39.980 You're a busy mom
00:37:40.740 with a busy life
00:37:41.860 and the only way
00:37:42.880 you were able to spend
00:37:43.720 weeks out there
00:37:44.400 was to incredibly
00:37:45.740 take your family with you
00:37:46.760 and I thought it was
00:37:47.280 sort of wonderful
00:37:47.880 and I really enjoyed
00:37:49.620 seeing it
00:37:50.060 and thanks to your whole family
00:37:51.460 for lending
00:37:52.520 so much of you to us.
00:37:55.140 Have a great year,
00:37:55.860 my friend.
00:37:56.240 Keep up the great work
00:37:56.880 and congratulations
00:37:57.520 on winning
00:37:58.680 the Viewer's Choice Award.
00:37:59.980 Very much well deserved.
00:38:01.540 Thank you so much,
00:38:02.480 everybody.
00:38:02.940 Happy New Year.
00:38:03.740 Love you all.
00:38:04.320 You too, Ezra.
00:38:04.940 Thank you, Drea.
00:38:06.240 See you later.
00:38:07.760 Well, there she is,
00:38:08.400 Drea Humphrey.
00:38:09.140 Boy, what a great year she's had
00:38:11.000 and only bigger things to come.
00:38:14.040 Well, that's our show for the day.
00:38:16.000 Until tomorrow,
00:38:17.060 on behalf of all of us
00:38:18.040 here at Rebel World Headquarters
00:38:19.400 to you at home,
00:38:20.580 good night
00:38:20.960 and keep fighting for freedom.
00:38:24.060 Thanks, Drea.
00:38:24.880 Good night.
00:38:25.480 Thank you.
00:38:26.180 I sent you an email.
00:38:27.340 It's not a rush,
00:38:28.160 but I just want to make sure
00:38:29.180 you saw it.
00:38:30.200 Bug.
00:38:30.660 Bug.
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