Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Steven Guilbeault, Trudeau's environment minister, gives money to Steven Guilbeault’s old lobby group to fight against Canadian SUVs

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today I talk about a convicted criminal named Stephen Gilbert Bow, who went on

00:00:04.880 to become Trudeau's environment minister. And today I learned he's steering money back to his

00:00:11.160 old lobby firm. I can't believe that. I'll take you through and you'll be grossed out what the

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00:01:01.640 here's the thing.

00:01:15.600 Tonight, Stephen Gilbeau, Trudeau's environment minister, gives money to Stephen Gilbeau's old

00:01:21.100 lobby group to fight against Canadian SUVs. It's May 10th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:29.220 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:32.920 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:36.980 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:41.600 bloody right to do so.

00:01:48.560 You know, I believe in second chances. I really do. I've had a few in my day.

00:01:52.600 People can change. Maybe it doesn't happen often, but they can. So just because Stephen

00:01:58.200 Gilbeau, the convicted criminal seen here, is a convicted criminal doesn't mean that he can't

00:02:05.060 reform himself, become a positive contributor to society. Except that if you're a convicted

00:02:11.320 criminal like he is, you have to come to terms with that to understand why what you did was wrong

00:02:18.100 and genuinely believe that and genuinely change. There has to be contrition, maybe some restitution.

00:02:24.840 I don't know. Of course, Stephen Gilbeau was not contrite. After his arrest and conviction,

00:02:31.260 he was jubilant. It was a media stunt for Greenpeace. It made a ton of money for Greenpeace,

00:02:38.200 his lawbreaking. And he tricked the judge. Here's how the Globe and Mail reported his arrest at the

00:02:44.440 time. I'll read. Greenpeace takes Kyoto protests to new heights. I don't think this cheapens it at all,

00:02:52.520 Mr. Gilbeau said before he was rescued. Our goal was to come here, climb and get our message out.

00:02:57.980 And that's what we did. It was a difficult climb, Mr. Gilbeau said. I've done climbing actions for

00:03:05.260 Greenpeace in the past, but nothing this high. So he was excited about what he had done. He was thrilled

00:03:11.000 about his planned crime when he was caught. He loved it. And here's the Globe and Mail continuing the

00:03:19.540 report after he was convicted and sentenced. CN Tower climbers ordered to pay costs.

00:03:27.560 Two Greenpeace activists who scaled the CN Tower last summer and unfurled a massive banner in a stunt

00:03:33.300 that drew international media coverage pleaded guilty yesterday to public mischief.

00:03:38.660 Britain Christopher Holden, 24, and Montrealer Stephen Gilbeau, 32, received conditional discharges

00:03:45.500 and agreed to pay $3,000 to the tower's corporate owner as compensation for the security and staff

00:03:51.140 costs it incurred. Although a prosecutor told an Ontario court judge the two men were remorseful,

00:03:58.640 both expressed jubilation outside court about having drawn public attention to global climate change and

00:04:05.220 the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Oh, so they lied about remorse and the prosecutor went along

00:04:11.320 with it. They literally said what they needed to say to stay out of jail. Tell the judge whatever

00:04:16.180 he needs to hear. And once they had fooled the judge, once they tricked him, they reverted to their

00:04:21.260 real selves. Is that perjury? I wonder. Mr. Gilbeau told reporters that the climb helped raise public

00:04:29.240 awareness about climate change, and he believes it influenced Prime Minister Jean-Claude Chen's decision

00:04:34.220 to commit Canada to ratifying the Kyoto Accord on global warming. Mr. Gilbeau was placed on one

00:04:41.420 year's probation in order to perform 100 hours of community service in Montreal, where he works for

00:04:47.420 Greenpeace, and pay $1,000 of the $3,000 restitution. That's a pretty good deal. Break the law, no fine,

00:04:55.000 no jail, just pay a few bucks to CN for their costs, 100 hours community service. I bet he just called his

00:05:01.420 Greenpeace lobbying community service. I bet he called his crime community service. I bet that's

00:05:07.060 what he did. An unrepentant, unreformed criminal who lied to the courts to get an easy sentence,

00:05:13.620 who broke the law with impunity. Sounds like a Trudeau man. Well, of course, he's the environment

00:05:20.120 minister now. And a communist is a communist. He has not reformed himself. He's done the opposite.

00:05:26.880 He's learned how to game the system. Gilbeau actually went on to start his own lobby group

00:05:32.460 called Équiter, sort of a Quebec version of Greenpeace, but more radical. That's what he was

00:05:38.580 doing for a living before he ran for politics for Trudeau. And being an unethical criminal,

00:05:43.880 it won't surprise you that as environment minister, he steers funding to his old lobby group. Look at

00:05:50.780 this. This is Équiter's website. Équiter launches an awareness campaign of the impacts of large

00:05:57.820 vehicles. It's a campaign against SUVs. Here's their slogan. It loses something a bit in English.

00:06:04.960 The translations are clunky. But their new campaign is, no SUV for me. The main complaint, of course,

00:06:11.740 is that SUVs consume more gas and therefore have more emissions in smaller cars. Well, of course,

00:06:18.300 a car uses more gas than a motorbike, too. But the war against SUVs is actually just a war against

00:06:24.040 a family. If you're a single person, a political activist who lives in the downtown of a big city

00:06:30.020 that has public transit, you hate SUVs for political and aesthetic reasons. But if you are a family who

00:06:37.220 lives in the suburbs where there's no subway and you have children, maybe take the kids to hockey

00:06:43.420 practice or girl guides or maybe go shopping at Costco and have a lot of stuff to take home and

00:06:49.480 using a bus or a subway isn't even an option, SUVs are a godsend. They're really just this generation's

00:06:55.600 version of a minivan, station wagon. But I want to point out to you this at the bottom. Scroll down

00:07:03.940 to the bottom of this campaign page. Look at this. The No SUV for me campaign is coordinated by Equitair

00:07:10.840 with financial support from the government of Canada? What? So the government of Canada, the environment

00:07:18.400 department, presumably, Gilboa's budget, presumably, they're funding this anti-SUV propaganda?

00:07:25.400 And other weird supporters, let me read, collaborating partners include Access Transport,

00:07:30.980 Veilable, the Automobile Protective Association, CAA Quebec, the Canada Research Chair in the Mobility of

00:07:37.100 People, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Fondation Quebecoise d'Education en Securité Routière,

00:07:43.880 HEC Montreal, Option Consumateurs of Piets en Quebec. Sorry, my accent's terrible. But the CAA,

00:07:50.200 that's the Canadian Automobile Association. They're against SUVs now? Is that what they're doing

00:07:56.220 with their members' membership fees? Attacking their members? HEC Montreal, I googled it,

00:08:00.900 it's a business school. So, more government money, really? Canada Research Chair, more government

00:08:06.780 money, really? So this is a government attack on SUVs, which really means on SUV drivers,

00:08:13.060 families. Well, I have an idea. How about Gilboa and the rest of the cabinet?

00:08:19.200 Lead by example. Here is a list of ministerial vehicles disclosed by the Trudeau government a few

00:08:26.340 months ago. They dropped more than a million bucks on cars for cabin ministers. And, of course,

00:08:31.540 they each have their limo driver, too. Lots of Toyota Highlanders, Ford Explorers. Most of the

00:08:38.080 vehicles on this list are SUVs. And not the little ones, either. The people who are chauffeured around

00:08:43.680 in SUVs are telling you not to drive SUVs. They're probably the same ones feasting on steaks while telling

00:08:49.900 you eat to eat bugs, living in big mansions while telling you to live in a pod. Yeah. I don't know

00:08:56.940 if you saw this story. Trudeau is contemplating a new tax on trucks. Of course he is, because it's a

00:09:02.900 vengeance against the truckers who embarrassed him politically. I bet that was his reasoning.

00:09:07.360 So he's going to tax trucks. Not like that won't be passed on. You know, everyone is, I mean, is there a

00:09:17.700 single thing you buy in a store, whether it's food or clothing or toys or books or even gasoline itself

00:09:25.380 that hasn't been brought in on a truck? So, yeah, tax trucks. That'll show them. Trudeau raises the

00:09:32.860 carbon tax every year already. Why not tax trucks, too? I mean, it's not like he and his

00:09:37.060 cabinet pay those taxes when they ride in their SUVs paid for by you. Taxpayers cover those costs.

00:09:43.240 It's just weird. It's just weird. Here's Trudeau making an announcement of $110 million in tax money

00:09:52.720 that he's giving to a Toyota factory to make RAV4s. I don't know if you know what that is. It's an SUV.

00:10:00.520 What are we doing? You know, Toyota made $20 billion U.S. profit.

00:10:07.060 In the last nine months. So they're on track for what, like a $25 billion a year in profit?

00:10:11.960 And Trudeau thought it was so important that they make SUVs in Canada that he gave him $110 million

00:10:17.560 of your money to make SUVs. So money to make SUVs, but also tax money to stop SUVs, to attack them?

00:10:27.620 He really is stupid. Or maybe Trudeau's not stupid. Maybe we're the stupid ones.

00:10:33.680 Abiding Trudeau and his convicted criminal environment minister, who's still shoveling money back to his

00:10:42.240 own personal lobby group. Yeah, I take that back. Trudeau's not the stupid ones. We are. Stay with us for more.

00:10:48.960 In recent weeks, there's been a lot of bragging by the Pentagon about Ukrainian military victories

00:11:02.080 over Russia. Americans took some credit in the media for the sinking of the capital ship,

00:11:08.600 the Moskva, which was a disaster for the Russian Navy. And the Pentagon also took credit

00:11:14.520 for targeting Russian generals for Ukrainian attacks. A large number of senior ranking Russian military

00:11:23.340 officials have been killed. And America was taking credit for it, doing a bit of a victory lap.

00:11:28.980 I'm worried about that, that that will cause an escalation with Mothscow. But it also shows perhaps 0.86

00:11:34.900 one of the rationales for America's support for Ukraine is that Russia, thinking it would be a quick 0.88

00:11:41.740 victory as it had in the past in Ukraine and in Georgia, has become trapped again, sort of like

00:11:46.940 it was in Afghanistan. And the entire Russian military will be worn out, burnt up, that there

00:11:53.600 will be casualties and sinkings and crashes, and a large number of their tanks and planes will be

00:11:59.220 destroyed. Maybe the American position does make some sense, even if Ukrainians themselves are 1.00

00:12:07.080 the cannon fodder for it. I don't know. There's so much disinformation going around. But it's one of

00:12:12.460 the things on my mind when I look at China, and it's increasingly bellicose language in respect of 0.88

00:12:19.320 Taiwan. Now, it's very different. It's not a land war. It would be a sudden shock invasion over the sea

00:12:27.180 and air. I don't know if Taiwan could hold off the Chinese military in the same way the Ukrainians have 0.99

00:12:34.960 been able to. I don't know if America could restock Taiwan with high-tech weapons systems the way it 1.00

00:12:42.300 has been restocking Ukraine. But I do know that China has been increasingly vocal and dramatic in

00:12:49.780 its threats. There was a major incursion over Taiwanese airspace in recent days. I'm very worried

00:12:56.780 about this. And so it was that I saw this article in Newsweek magazine, written by our friend Gordon

00:13:04.200 G. Chang. The subject line of the essay is China now preparing to invade Taiwan. And of course,

00:13:12.900 Gordon Chang is one of the leading experts in China in the Western world. He's the author of the book

00:13:18.520 The Coming Collapse of China. You can follow him on Twitter at Gordon G. Chang. And he joins us now

00:13:25.120 via Skype. Gordon, it's a pleasure to see you again. Thanks for making the time for us. You and I have

00:13:30.700 talked about China's ambitions in Taiwan before. I think they're at a fever pitch. I really don't

00:13:36.820 think they've been this aggressive before, both rhetorically and in probing Taiwan's airspace and

00:13:43.240 actually with naval actions, too, that seem designed to keep Americans out. Do you think they're actually

00:13:49.040 going to invade? I think that they will invade at some point, but not now. This year is a very

00:13:57.300 politically sensitive one for Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler. He wants a president breaking third term as

00:14:03.260 general secretary. And the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party, if tradition holds, will be

00:14:10.240 held in October or November. But after that, anything can happen. Now, Ezra, there are hundreds of reasons

00:14:17.420 why China should not invade Taiwan. But those are like in a rational world. The Communist Party lives in a

00:14:25.640 different world than we do, different galaxy. So I'm very concerned that they can take us by surprise.

00:14:31.600 They've got a number of things going on, which we can't see because the political system has become

00:14:36.760 less transparent. So there is a real possibility that they would make some military move on Taiwan.

00:14:43.840 You know, one of the big issues in Europe in dealing with Russia is Europe's dependence

00:14:51.020 on Russian oil and even more on Russian natural gas. And, you know, Germany itself,

00:14:57.920 more than a third of their energy comes from Russia. So how do you put sanctions on an enemy that

00:15:05.160 supplies you a third of your energy? I mean, if you put sanctions on them, are you not actually

00:15:09.900 punishing yourself? Well, Russia is small economically compared to our integration with China. And it's

00:15:17.900 almost unthinkable if we were even to try to put economic sanctions on China. I mean, I learned

00:15:25.100 during the pandemic that more than 90 percent of our medicines are made in China. Just for one example,

00:15:32.080 so much of our technology comes from China, even our food, so much of our logistics. So I wonder,

00:15:40.960 is China actually immune to some of the economic and political sanctions that are being used against

00:15:47.500 Russia? Some people in Beijing think that China is, in fact, immune and that the United States and

00:15:53.580 others would not sanction China for the reasons you talk about. And that is extremely dangerous. Now, I think

00:16:00.320 the Chinese are extraordinarily dependent on the U.S. and others, because they right now got an export

00:16:06.620 dependent economy. They need money because of the debt crisis. And they're short of food. But nonetheless,

00:16:14.940 Chinese arrogance right now is breathtaking. And I think the gap between China's abilities and what 0.99

00:16:22.520 the Chinese actually think they can do is really something that should make us concerned that they 1.00

00:16:27.620 would make a grab for Japan, Philippines, India, Taiwan, could be any number of different victims.

00:16:35.020 How is the military balance? I mean, the Chinese Navy in particular has had great advances. They're

00:16:43.400 getting used to using their operational aircraft carrier and they have more on the way. I mean,

00:16:49.040 they're replacing their old, you know, Cold War era fighter jets with modern jets, some of which

00:16:55.260 look like they were just ripped out of the American blueprints. I mean, I don't think the entire

00:17:01.240 people's liberation army is modern and ready to fight. But I think there's a percentage of it that

00:17:06.940 is probably almost on par with the American military. But the advantage is it's just across the

00:17:13.640 narrow strait from Taiwan. And like at least Ukraine abuts the rest of Europe. There's trains,

00:17:22.000 there's trucks. I mean, Taiwan is so far away from being resupplied. Biden just said he's going to send

00:17:29.340 another 40 billion or so to Ukraine. I know how it can get there. If America were to say we're going

00:17:34.200 to give 40 billion to Taiwan, I actually don't know how it would physically get there. I'm worried

00:17:39.980 that Taiwan could not stand a lengthy battle with China. Maybe I'm saying the obvious. What do you

00:17:46.260 think? Well, there's a lot there to talk about. Some of China's weapons are actually better than 0.95

00:17:52.020 America's. So for instance, their cruise missiles, they travel faster, they got longer range. And that's

00:17:58.160 critical because that can keep the U.S. Navy away from Taiwan, which goes to your point about can we

00:18:03.860 resupply the island. And because of that, I think the United States needs to pre-position weapons on

00:18:09.880 Taiwan and actually needs to put troops there as a tripwire. We were surprised, of course, about Russia 0.98

00:18:16.800 invading Ukraine. And we should not be surprised about Taiwan. You know, the idea of resupplying Ukraine, 0.97

00:18:25.420 that's great. But it would have been better if the Biden administration and the Trump administration

00:18:31.440 had actually put more weapons into Ukraine and more training. So this is something, a mistake we should

00:18:37.980 not make twice. Now, I don't want this to be partisan because this is something that should concern anyone,

00:18:44.800 Democrat or Republican or in our country of any party. I mean, I have such a sympathy for Taiwan.

00:18:50.640 The democratic reforms it has made, the economic liberty, I just have such a soft spot for it.

00:19:00.020 I'm worried that it's going to be devoured. For whatever criticisms there are of Donald Trump,

00:19:05.640 I don't think that some of the world's bad actors had the courage to make a bold move because they had

00:19:11.040 no idea what Trump would do. In fact, his very impulsiveness was a sort of a deterrent because you

00:19:18.220 just didn't know what Trump would do, but you knew he would do something. And in the form of Joe Biden,

00:19:23.360 who looks like he's in some cognitive decline, who doesn't look physically or mentally sharp,

00:19:30.300 who uses language of appeasement, he ran away from Kabul. You know, I think his weakness was a 0.56

00:19:38.480 provocation of sorts to Putin. I'm worried that Biden himself, who's going to be in office for a couple

00:19:44.440 more years. I'm worried that the Chinese look at him and say, ah, he's not going to do anything. 0.98

00:19:50.260 Yes, that's right. You know, to your point about Trump, it was his unpredictability that unnerved

00:19:55.800 China. And I think it also unnerved Putin. It's no coincidence that Putin went after Crimea in the

00:20:02.700 Obama administration, and it's went after the rest of Ukraine in the Biden administration.

00:20:07.500 You know, the Chinese, they can deal with hostile American leaders, but the one thing they can't deal

00:20:13.840 with is someone they cannot predict. And so it is the impulsiveness that was the deterrent. With Biden,

00:20:21.100 right now, we've got to be concerned about one thing, and that is you have Russia, China, and North Korea

00:20:28.480 threatening to use their nuclear weapons, not as deterrence, but as offensive weapons. And this really

00:20:35.860 means that the whole idea of deterrence is broken down. As Henry Kissinger said on Saturday, we live in a

00:20:43.900 totally new era. And that era is not one of the calm and general peace after the Cold War. It's one, I

00:20:51.040 believe, of constant turbulence. So we have hit an historic inflection point. And it looks like we could

00:20:57.460 transition from the best moment in history to the worst.

00:21:00.140 Oh, my God. Let me ask you about Shanghai, a wonderful city, one of the most open-minded

00:21:06.960 Western cities in, Western-oriented, free-thinking cities, if I may say so, in China. A wonderful

00:21:13.900 place. Absolute lockdowns over COVID. Like, it's just such extreme video. And I know some of it's

00:21:22.460 disinformation and some of it's hoaxes. But the word we're getting back here, even from Western

00:21:28.360 expats in Shanghai, suggested it's a devastation what's happening. The lockdowns, that is. I'm not

00:21:34.860 referring to COVID itself. Why is China doing that? Do they believe in COVID zero? Like, it just seems

00:21:45.880 odd because they really came out of their lockdowns very early. They were out of their lockdowns by 2020.

00:21:51.080 It was only the West that had Fauci's, I don't know, you know, double mask and, you know,

00:21:58.920 six feet of separation. Like, it seemed to me that China got out of the lockdowns very early. But now

00:22:04.340 they're back harder than ever. What's going on? There are three things. First of all, China does 0.98

00:22:10.860 not have an effective vaccine, even against Delta and the prior variants. It has no defense against

00:22:17.500 Omicron BA2, the subvariant that is now ripping through Shanghai, Beijing, and many of the cities

00:22:23.580 on the eastern part of the country. Second thing is that Xi Jinping, as I mentioned, wants that third

00:22:30.740 term as general secretary. He's known as the author of the dynamic zero COVID policy. And he's not

00:22:38.100 allowing any criticism because he believes that any adjustment in the policy would be like giving a

00:22:43.580 dagger to his political opponents. And he's not about to do that. And the third thing is a general

00:22:49.320 Communist Party consideration. In the early months of the pandemic, go back to the beginning of 2020,

00:22:56.700 the Communist Party made the point that its control of coronavirus showed that its form of governance was

00:23:02.780 superior to democracy, and particularly American democracy. So every case, every death is a basically

00:23:11.420 a threat to Communist Party legitimacy. And that means that they'll do anything possible,

00:23:17.760 even the most draconian, even the most ridiculous, in order to keep their case numbers down. And so we're

00:23:23.780 seeing the confluence of those three factors. Let me ask you one last question. I'm so grateful for

00:23:29.700 your time. You've mentioned twice now that Xi Jinping is up for, I'm not going to call it really an

00:23:35.320 election, but it is an election from the party poobahs. It's not an election of a billion free 0.94

00:23:40.980 citizens casting their vote in a multi-party democracy, but it's the insiders through their

00:23:47.180 politburo, I guess. And tell me a little more about that and tell me who the rivals are, who, if it's not

00:23:54.160 Xi Jinping, is there someone else waiting in the wings? Are they more authoritarian than him? Are they more

00:24:01.740 reformists than him? Give us some Kremlinology, if I can use a Cold War term. 0.55

00:24:08.540 Right now, Xi Jinping, actually for the last five years, even longer, has made sure that there are no

00:24:15.300 rivals who can take over. The Communist Party has some guidelines as to who can become general

00:24:20.920 secretary. He's made sure that nobody fits those guidelines. Now, the answer to your question is

00:24:26.780 anybody could take over. And, you know, when you look back at two millennia of Chinese history,

00:24:33.100 some of the most unlikely characters have risen up to become emperor. So the answer to your question,

00:24:40.540 I suppose, is that there's 1.41 billion people who could, you know, any one of them could become the

00:24:46.340 next leader of China. But it's very dangerous right now because Xi Jinping has fundamentally changed the

00:24:53.860 political system. He inherited a consensual form of government where every important decision was

00:25:01.060 shared across the Politburo Standing Committee, which is the highest body in the Communist Party,

00:25:05.660 and even across the wider Politburo. Now he's turned it into a one-person system. And at the same time,

00:25:14.120 Ezra, he's also increased the cost of losing a political struggle. So he's got a very low threshold

00:25:20.200 of risk. And we have seen, for instance, in this last week, dueling statements. Xi Jinping on Thursday

00:25:26.900 doubling down on zero COVID. And on Saturday, Li Ka-chong, the premier, the head of the Chinese

00:25:33.180 central government, actually talking about stabilizing the employment situation. Well,

00:25:38.860 you can't do both. And so there is now, even in public, evidence that there is extreme discord at

00:25:46.500 the top of the Communist Party. Very interesting. Gordon, we're in your debt. Your knowledge is so

00:25:52.020 deep and wide on these subjects. We're grateful to you. Let me recommend Gordon's latest piece in

00:25:57.120 Newsweek magazine. The title is China Now Preparing to Invade Taiwan. So many facts in there. And of course,

00:26:04.500 as always, I recommend Gordon's book, The Coming Collapse of China. And I follow Gordon on Twitter. And if

00:26:11.280 you're on Twitter, you absolutely must. If there's one source for China news and views, let it be

00:26:16.560 Gordon G. Chang on Twitter. Great to see you, my friend. I'm always grateful when you jam us in

00:26:21.620 your busy schedule. We learn so much. Take care and stay safe. Well, thank you so much, Ezra. And you

00:26:26.700 too. Thank you. All right. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:26:30.220 Hey, welcome back. Your viewer mail RT says, in current times, business success is based on how

00:26:45.180 much fiat currency access they have, either by affinity to ruling political party because of

00:26:50.460 donations or receipt of stimulus or bailout packages. You know, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but

00:26:56.480 here's what I think. There's a lot of companies in Canada that get bailouts from the government.

00:27:02.340 Earlier today, I told you about how Trudeau gave $110 million to Toyota, which is one of the richest

00:27:07.460 companies out there. But if you give $110 million to Toyota, it's not going to change how they make

00:27:14.340 their car. Their car will be the same. They're not going to change how they sell their car or the color

00:27:18.820 of the car. Nothing will change other than taxpayers are on the hook for it. I think with most businesses,

00:27:24.780 it's that same way. They're really not going to change what they do just because they got a government

00:27:29.100 grant, like a clothing company or a restaurant. But of all the industries in the world that will

00:27:36.860 be changed, that must be changed when the government gives them money, journalism is probably the most

00:27:42.700 changeable. And that's why they're giving them money. If the center of your work as a news journalist

00:27:48.880 is to report on Justin Trudeau and the federal government, and Justin Trudeau and the federal

00:27:53.440 government gives you a bailout, you will change your product more than almost any. I can't even

00:27:58.940 think of another industry that would change their product more. Like I say, Toyota is not changing

00:28:03.160 what its RAV4 looks like because Trudeau gave them $110 million. But you give the National Post or the

00:28:08.720 Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, $110 million from Trudeau. They are absolutely going to change

00:28:13.540 their product. That's why David Skok of the logic is a bit of a fibber.

00:28:18.260 Eric Ochico says, I don't see a problem with him taking a one-time grant from the government. It's

00:28:24.560 free money to be taken. It's only a problem if you rely on that cash yearly like the Toronto Star,

00:28:29.020 etc. I think Ezra needs to get off his high horse and give the guy a break. Ezra is looking more

00:28:35.040 masculine these days. Is he hitting the gym? Is that the same letter? Well, you know what? I don't want

00:28:41.680 to raise expectations, but I actually am hitting the gym. You can't even believe it. I'm about to say

00:28:46.760 six times a week. And so I don't know if it's making any difference, but six days a week I go

00:28:54.900 in at 7.30 in the morning. Now I don't know if it's making a difference, but thank you. But to answer

00:28:59.260 your question, like I say, there is no way that journalism cannot be changed by government giving

00:29:06.280 it money. But more to the point, none of these grants are one-offs. They are annual. And in that

00:29:13.260 video I referred to yesterday, David Skok was arguing for more money. Because when you start

00:29:18.320 to be a grantrepreneur instead of an entrepreneur, when you start to change your whole thinking to

00:29:24.200 what can I get for free? What can I beg from government? You're on an endless conveyor belt

00:29:29.400 of begging and them giving and begging and giving. And pretty soon you're merged and you're a government

00:29:34.300 man. JR says Russia has already stated both Canada and Finland are next on their hit list.

00:29:43.680 Well, I don't know who in Russia stated that, but it does worry me. You know, the Pentagon has bragged

00:29:52.580 about helping to sink that Russian major ship called the Moskva. And the Pentagon has bragged

00:29:59.360 about killing Russian generals. That's sticking your, you know, that's poking them in the eye with

00:30:07.000 a stick. That is flaunting and taunting. And I don't know if Vladimir Putin makes decisions

00:30:13.080 emotionally and impulsively, or even just in a tit-for-tat way. But if you've got Americans 0.51

00:30:20.500 and Canadians being deeply involved in military affairs against Russia, do not be shocked if they

00:30:29.360 retaliate. I am nervous about it. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us

00:30:37.640 here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom. And let me

00:30:41.560 leave you with our video of the day, our friend David Manzies.

00:30:43.780 Ottawa police arrest a demonstrator and tow his bus twice from a private parking stall

00:30:53.540 for blowing bubbles? Sounds like a perfect David Manzies story. So I'll leave with that.

00:30:58.040 I'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.

00:30:59.000 Well, folks, I'm with freedom fighter Jim Kerr. And we've interviewed Jim on several occasions,

00:31:04.800 but he had a very rude welcoming to Ottawa going back to Friday. Jim had his famous bubble bus

00:31:12.840 towed not once, but twice. Right now, I think it is safe in a church parking lot, but these days

00:31:20.520 in Ottawa, who knows? Jim, why in the world did Ottawa police tow your vehicle? Is blowing bubbles

00:31:27.720 illegal in Justin Trudeau's Ottawa these days? I'm quite confident that he does not like bubbles.

00:31:33.600 First day on Ottawa Insight, we were at Metcalfe and Slater, the same place where we were for half of

00:31:39.300 the Ottawa thing in January. The police came in. There was about a dozen police. Three of the owners

00:31:44.340 of the lot came down and said, yes, police, we would like you. We're not going to open the lot this weekend.

00:31:49.780 We want everybody out. Now, this is after we had already paid for the parking at Metcalfe and Slater.

00:31:54.520 Oh, so you paid for parking on a private parking lot. You were not on a no-stop-in street, correct?

00:31:59.080 Correct. Yeah, we were inside the parking lot with a couple of other trucks who had paid for parking.

00:32:03.920 Okay. And then the cops said, well, you're going to have to move. I said, we paid for parking. They said,

00:32:08.080 well, no, because the owners here want you to move. It's private property. They want you to move.

00:32:13.520 Yeah. Wait a minute. They took your money. Why did they want you to move?

00:32:16.960 Uh, you'll have to ask them. I don't, I don't really, I don't, I don't really, no, honestly.

00:32:21.600 But Jim, that sounds like fraud to me. If there's any policing, if you pay for a parking spot and then

00:32:27.040 they say leave and they don't give your money back. In all fairness, I did speak with the owner

00:32:32.960 of the thing. And she reassured me that she was going back to the office. And if you emailed them,

00:32:37.200 that they would get you their money. Okay. So that's- You got it yet? Oh, dude,

00:32:41.520 I haven't had two seconds to breathe. I was up at Parliament Hill. We were a couple of blocks down

00:32:45.920 another private lot. Um, this time I did not pay for parking. Somebody comes up and goes,

00:32:50.160 there's a dozen people around the bubble bus, man. I'm freaking out. So I ran and that's,

00:32:53.280 I started the live and I went live for like two hours yesterday. I just started my phone.

00:32:57.360 I heard there's a dozen cops down by the bus. I'm beginning to think that you gentlemen might have a

00:33:02.000 problem with bubbles. Everywhere the bubbles go, evidently the suits show up. I'm wondering why.

00:33:07.280 Could you maybe let me know that? I go running up and the 12 cops that had already kicked us out

00:33:11.600 over there are now 15 or 16 along with a couple of bylaw outside of the bus. And there's not really

00:33:16.960 anybody else there. Does it actually require one, two, three, four, eight, 10, 14 officers to issue a ticket?

00:33:23.520 Is that an effective use of city resources? I can't take you seriously, man. You're not supposed to.

00:33:33.200 I'm a church of bubbles, man. I blow bubbles. I want to make better things better for all

00:33:37.600 humanity. Every single one of us. I'm trying to communicate with these people. Here's the problem.

00:33:42.640 All I want to do is have a conversation with somebody who can give me an answer that makes

00:33:48.080 sense. That's all. Tell me how I'm literally breaking the law or doing something that is

00:34:09.120 illegal or is going to hurt someone. Tell me that and I will respond. I don't need force in order to

00:34:14.320 respond. Let's go. Show me your ID. Why? What crime have I committed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great, good.

00:34:25.280 Great, great. Are you guys going to beat it now? Thanks so much. Your country loves you.

00:34:31.200 They threatened to charge me with mischief when I was in the car and then when I was in the second

00:34:34.880 cop car they ended up charging me with trespassing. Don't resist, don't resist. You said you told the

00:34:40.960 truth. You gave lots of time. Let's go. Trying to get out of here, right? Let's go.

00:34:47.600 Don't resist. Don't resist. Don't resist. Sir, you're under arrest. Let's go.

00:34:51.920 Unbelievable for blowing bubbles. Thank you. You're under arrest for trespassing right now,

00:34:57.440 okay? We'll deal with this. I mean, I'm not interested in this, but I can't let it go.

00:35:03.360 I understand. Do you feel good about doing this? It's not about that right now. I'm not. Again,

00:35:08.400 if we speak differently, I'm not going to talk about good or bad or anything else. It's part of the job

00:35:12.000 that is. Laws are being broken right now. That's what we do, right? I think it's an egregious injustice.

00:35:17.280 That's not the end of it. No, no, no. God, dude, I'm just getting started. Okay. They eventually

00:35:22.160 towed the bus, arrested me, let me go in a parking lot, and then the next day as I was pulling into

00:35:28.080 Confederation Park. The cops pulled me over. They didn't give me any explanation why I was pulling

00:35:31.440 over. They just said, ID, ID, ID. I ended up producing the ID. They brought in the MTO. The

00:35:36.080 MTO helped me to figure out how you break an emergency brake line. If you've got an older

00:35:41.200 vehicle, you haven't used your brake line. If you press it all the way to the foot, it breaks. Well,

00:35:44.080 guess what? I did that. The brake line popped. I said, dude, something just snapped. He says,

00:35:47.680 oh, don't worry about that. Apply your foot on the other brake and release it slowly. I rolled forward,

00:35:52.400 and he went, oh, guess what? You're off the road. You have no emergency brake. Unbelievable.

00:35:57.600 Jim, do you think we're living in a police state now?

00:36:03.200 I guess we're going to let's play that look on your face. I'm concerned.

00:36:07.440 I'm sorry to hear a genuine nice guy like you, you know, attract all this petty policing,

00:36:16.320 shutting you down for no reason, giving you tickets. If you come, listen to me. If you come back,

00:36:20.640 you're going to be arrested. Back where? For trespassing. Okay. For no reason. It's a disgrace.

00:36:26.000 I hope you fight them, and I hope you get some justice because this is just egregious, Jim. So

00:36:31.760 thank you again for your time. No problem, dude. Don't feel bad. It's all good. All worked out well.

00:36:36.240 Everybody's safe. It's a couple of bucks and fines, and it was a great weekend with great people. I

00:36:41.120 can't be happier. Honestly, it was a bit of trouble, but it's not too much. Everybody's doing their own

00:36:45.360 thing. That's awesome.

Rebel News Podcast - May 11, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Steven Guilbeault, Trudeau's environment minister, gives money to Steven Guilbeault’s old lobby group to fight against Canadian SUVs

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