Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators, but what about the Conservatives？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. You know, we love to take on Justin Trudeau. We do it every day,

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00:00:58.780 Tonight, the liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators. But what about the conservatives?

00:01:19.920 It's June 27th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:23.840 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:38.140 For months, we've had devastating revelations of the depths of the Chinese Communist Party's 0.95

00:01:43.520 influence in Canadian politics. The corruption is throughout the Liberal Party. It's not just

00:01:49.120 Liberal MPs like Han Dong and Liberal Senators like Yuan Pao Wu. It goes all the way up to the Trudeau

00:01:55.860 family themselves. Justin Trudeau's brother, Alexander Trudeau, personally accepted a six-figure

00:02:02.600 check from the Chinese government to the Trudeau Foundation. Absolute corruption, and it goes straight to

00:02:08.720 the top. The whole country, including the normally liberal-friendly media, have been appalled by Trudeau's

00:02:14.980 corruption and their gross attempts to cover it up, first by hiring a close family friend, David

00:02:20.100 Johnston, to cover it up, only to learn that Johnston himself was utterly compromised by China.

00:02:26.100 There have been some really awful moments, like when this Liberal MP tried to attack an honest journalist

00:02:32.560 for reporting on the corruption.

00:02:34.140 Cooper, to you now. On March 22nd, you published an article with the headline,

00:02:39.640 Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing the two Michaels.

00:02:48.000 Do you stand by this headline?

00:02:51.040 I don't write the headlines, but I stand by the story. I know that Global News stands by the story,

00:02:57.320 and there is a legal procedure underway, and the story speaks for itself, and the statement of defense

00:03:07.000 speaks for itself. The story stands.

00:03:08.900 Thank you. So, despite the fact that the article used the term allegedly at least about ten times,

00:03:14.720 you chose to frame the headline, or the newspaper chose to frame the headline,

00:03:19.140 excluding that language in the headline. Was that done on purpose?

00:03:22.840 I said at the outset I won't speak to editorial processes or legal procedures,

00:03:31.180 but I can assure the Honourable Member that legal vetting and editorial vetting of these stories

00:03:38.960 is extremely rigorous, and that's all I'll say about that matter.

00:03:43.000 Why didn't you include allegedly in the headline, Mr. Cooper?

00:03:46.380 Sorry?

00:03:46.900 Why did you not include allegedly in the headline?

00:03:49.200 This is a matter for editorial procedures and legal vetting procedures.

00:03:55.560 Okay. Did you review the transcript from the supposed conversation between MP Dong and the Consular General?

00:04:02.780 I told the Honourable Member at the outset that I'm not going to speak to editorial processes,

00:04:09.400 identification of sources, or legal procedures around this story, and I'll repeat it again and again.

00:04:16.160 Thank you. And will you table the supposed transcript that we've learned from the Right Honourable David Johnson's report does exist?

00:04:24.840 If you have or haven't reviewed that, I understand you won't talk about it.

00:04:28.300 Will you table that with this committee, the transcript, please?

00:04:32.920 I didn't prepare any materials around that question, and I'll stand.

00:04:39.380 And as I told the Honourable Member, I'm not going to speak to...

00:04:43.360 So gross.

00:04:45.400 Justin Trudeau is even worse, of course.

00:04:48.860 His security advisor says her top priority is hunting down the whistleblower who leaked the news about the Chinese spying.

00:04:57.280 She's not too concerned about the Chinese corruption itself.

00:05:00.220 It's the whistleblower who told the media about it that Trudeau wants to get.

00:05:05.300 Now, the Conservative Party has done pretty well on this issue.

00:05:08.440 Here, take a listen.

00:05:09.480 But unfortunately, there's no common sense in Justin Trudeau's Ottawa.

00:05:12.820 We see today that his ski buddy, cottage neighbor, family friend, and member of the Beijing-financed Trudeau Foundation

00:05:23.040 came out and did exactly what I predicted, help Trudeau cover up the influence by Beijing in our democracy.

00:05:32.120 We know that Beijing interfered in two elections to help Trudeau win.

00:05:35.700 We know that Beijing gave $140,000 to the Trudeau Foundation with the express purpose of buying the love and the loyalty of Justin Trudeau.

00:05:46.800 And we know that Trudeau has been briefed on these matters for years and done absolutely nothing about it except try to keep it quiet

00:05:53.600 and name-call anyone who spoke out about it.

00:05:58.620 And then in order to further sweep the matter under the rug, he put his friend, his ski buddy, his cottage neighbor,

00:06:07.640 and Trudeau Foundation member David Johnston in charge of today's whitewash attempt.

00:06:16.100 But Conservatives are not buying it.

00:06:18.240 We need a full public inquiry to get to the bottom of Beijing's interference in our democracy.

00:06:25.180 And that's what I will deliver when I am Prime Minister.

00:06:28.460 There will be a full public inquiry into this mess.

00:06:32.060 And in the meantime, we will continue to push for a real foreign influence registry that exposes anyone

00:06:37.720 who does paid work on behalf of a foreign dictatorship to manipulate our politics.

00:06:43.700 It's just common sense.

00:06:46.520 Let's bring it home.

00:06:47.420 Let's bring home control of our democracy back into the hands of the Canadian... 1.00

00:06:52.180 All right.

00:06:52.840 But here's the thing.

00:06:54.860 The Chinese Communist Party doesn't just target the liberals.

00:06:58.960 They target Conservatives too.

00:07:02.240 About a dozen years ago, a Conservative member of Parliament named Bob Deckert had an affair with a Chinese spy

00:07:09.120 who was working for the state broadcaster Xinhua.

00:07:12.240 But get a load of this guy, a Conservative senator named Victor Oh.

00:07:18.280 Senator Victor Oh says Chinese Canadians need to fundraise to sue messy reporters.

00:07:25.560 Seriously, let me read a little bit here.

00:07:27.880 A Canadian senator said he wants Chinese Canadians to set up a national foundation

00:07:31.880 that would focus on raising money to fund lawsuits against messy reporters

00:07:36.360 and politicians who try to smear the community.

00:07:39.880 Holy cow! 0.96

00:07:41.660 Well, let me read just one more sentence.

00:07:43.360 A video of Conservative Senator Victor Oh making the remarks was uploaded to the social media platform WeChat on June 5th,

00:07:52.480 showing him addressing a group at what was described as the Montreal Chinese Community United Center.

00:07:58.640 The Canadian press obtained the video, which showed Oh saying in Mandarin that, quote,

00:08:03.580 we need to raise money to cover the cost for people affected by all of these unreasonable reporters

00:08:08.220 who try to smear Chinese and discredit Chinese.

00:08:11.100 But did you catch that one part?

00:08:14.880 Not the part about hunting down reporters who uncover Chinese Communist Party corruption.

00:08:19.600 The part about him being a conservative.

00:08:23.220 As in, he sits in Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party in good standing.

00:08:28.560 He's not a liberal.

00:08:31.300 Why is this allowed to happen?

00:08:33.420 For months, Pierre Polyev himself has been pounding away at Trudeau and the liberals.

00:08:39.220 And the whole crooked Trudeau family and all the corrupt liberal MPs and senators.

00:08:45.320 And Polyev was actually brilliant at going after David Johnson, hired by Trudeau to handle the cover-up.

00:08:52.440 I mean, get a load of this.

00:08:53.920 David Johnson is a ski buddy, chalet neighbor, family friend, and member of the Trudeau Foundation.

00:09:02.040 He has no business in this job because it is a fake job that he is incapable of doing impartially.

00:09:08.620 And none of his recommendations can be taken seriously because he's in a conflict of interest.

00:09:12.400 And frankly, it's incredible that he didn't even mention the Trudeau Foundation in his report,

00:09:19.120 even though publicly available intelligence showed that the dictatorship in Beijing had given money to the Trudeau Foundation

00:09:29.460 for the express purpose of buying the love and loyalty of Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.

00:09:35.980 Now, Johnson's part of the Trudeau Foundation, so of course he wouldn't want to investigate himself.

00:09:43.180 But frankly, that's why he should have recused himself.

00:09:46.620 Pierre Polyev was in sync with the spirit of the times.

00:09:49.820 Canadians are sick of selling out to China.

00:09:54.100 They're sick of the corruption.

00:09:55.580 Canadians are especially sick of politicians and businesses who sell out to Communist China.

00:10:00.420 And yet this whole time, a pro-Chinese Communist Party senator is on Polyev's Conservative Party team.

00:10:10.440 Now, senators are appointed, and unless he's convicted of a serious crime, he will be in the Senate until he turns 75, which is actually next year.

00:10:20.400 Polyev didn't appoint Senator Victor Oh.

00:10:23.160 Stephen Harper did that for whatever reason.

00:10:25.720 But Pierre Polyev controls who is in his Conservative Party caucus, who's in the party at all.

00:10:34.800 How can Pierre Polyev mock David Johnson and Han Dong and the rest of the Chinese Communist Party assets, 0.97

00:10:43.400 but then smile and shake Victor Oh's hand and be fine with all the things he said

00:10:49.000 and his plans to sue reporters for uncovering Chinese Communist Party influence?

00:10:53.640 How bizarre. A sitting senator threatening to silence Canadian reporters.

00:10:59.440 That's very Chinese Communist Party of him, isn't it?

00:11:03.440 But look, the thing about being a Conservative is you have to have standards, and you have to follow them yourself.

00:11:10.080 Liberals make a virtue out of hypocrisy.

00:11:12.920 Liberals break their own rules all the time.

00:11:15.300 It's part of the liberal identity, but Conservatives have to stand for something.

00:11:19.880 It's part of being Conservative, and you cannot criticize Justin Trudeau on Monday,

00:11:24.840 and David Johnston on Tuesday, and Han Dong on Wednesday, and U.N. Pow Wu on Thursday,

00:11:29.480 but then shake hands with Senator Victor Oh on Friday.

00:11:33.020 You just can't if you're a Conservative.

00:11:35.840 Pierre Polyev has to kick Victor Oh out of the Conservative Party.

00:11:40.260 I know that means the Conservatives won't have his vote in the Senate,

00:11:44.960 but look, the Conservatives are massively outnumbered in the Senate anyways.

00:11:48.820 They lose every vote every time already, so it's not like it's going to make a difference.

00:11:53.680 But what makes a difference is that Polyev has to show he doesn't stand for the kind of bullying

00:11:58.640 and corruption that Victor Oh has come to represent.

00:12:01.720 If you agree that Victor Oh has got to go, sign our new petition at kickhimout.ca.

00:12:14.580 We'll personally deliver that petition to the Conservative Party.

00:12:18.240 They simply have to kick out Victor Oh as a signal that they mean what they say about Chinese Communist Party interference, 0.66

00:12:26.720 and as a signal to the many Chinese Canadians who have been bullied by the Chinese dictatorship,

00:12:32.920 even bullied here in Canada, including by diplomats at the Chinese embassy.

00:12:38.400 The Conservatives need to show that not everyone in the establishment is compromised.

00:12:43.020 Not everyone has been bought off by Beijing.

00:12:47.440 Let Justin Trudeau woo the Chinese Communist Party vote.

00:12:51.480 And there is that vote in Canada.

00:12:53.120 Let Trudeau have it. 0.97

00:12:54.700 And it is, you know, who knows, maybe hundreds of thousands of voters.

00:12:59.600 But let Pierre Polyev be the party of Chinese democracy activists and Hong Kong and Tibetan and Uyghur freedom activists.

00:13:09.340 And more importantly, the party of Canadians, regardless of race or ethnicity.

00:13:14.500 The party that stands up to bullies, both foreign and domestic.

00:13:19.380 Go to www.kickhimout.ca.

00:13:23.780 Just because liberals are hypocrites doesn't mean Conservatives should be too.

00:13:31.160 Go to kickhimout.ca.

00:13:33.780 Well, Canada is not the only place where free speech is under attack.

00:13:50.180 In fact, it's under attack around the world, including in places that should know better,

00:13:55.000 places that have centuries of traditions of freedom of speech.

00:13:58.640 I think of Canada, of course.

00:14:01.460 I think of the United Kingdom, the United States, despite their First Amendment.

00:14:05.460 New Zealand, particularly harsh free speech lockdowns, if you will.

00:14:11.160 And as you saw the other day in my broadcast, Ireland, home of so many writers and poets,

00:14:18.460 home of so much comedy, including offensive comedy.

00:14:22.120 Could you imagine the Irish without free speech?

00:14:27.020 It's unthinkable, but it is being thought as a bill before the Irish Parliament right now, as I described,

00:14:35.540 that would ban hurt feelings and insults and even the possession of some digital asset,

00:14:42.280 like a meme or an email or an online joke.

00:14:44.920 Merely possessing something insulting could be a crime in Ireland.

00:14:51.540 Joining us now to talk about this is Alex Sheridan, the director of Free Speech Ireland.

00:14:58.220 He joins us now.

00:14:59.480 Alex, what a pleasure to meet you.

00:15:01.980 Could it really be that the land of so much comedy and culture and criticism and humor

00:15:08.480 and the limerick, for goodness sakes, could it be that Ireland is ending its glorious history of free speech?

00:15:18.120 Have I got it wrong from this side of the pond?

00:15:21.820 No, it's actually probably one of the most draconian hate speech bills which is being proposed yet within Europe or indeed the West.

00:15:29.940 This new hate speech legislation will even criminalize the mere possession of hateful content.

00:15:36.460 This could be a meme on your phone.

00:15:38.620 This could be a book that you have in your house.

00:15:40.720 This could be even a message or a diary that you're writing to yourself.

00:15:44.540 And even if you do not communicate any of these ideas or material or talks to anyone,

00:15:51.680 you can still be prosecuted and imprisoned for up to two years.

00:15:55.700 And the onus will be on yourself to prove that you have no intention to spread or communicate that material.

00:16:02.300 Alex, here in Canada and in other jurisdictions too, it's probably the same in Ireland,

00:16:06.180 To be convicted of a crime, you have to have the mental element,

00:16:10.580 mens rea, as they say in Latin, the guilty conscience.

00:16:13.860 So this law, and I read the law, I went through it in great detail on the show the other day,

00:16:18.840 it feels like it's not even the kind of law that is Irish at all.

00:16:24.700 The fact that merely possessing something on your phone or your computer,

00:16:29.740 you know, even if you don't have a guilty mind, even if you don't mean to hurt anyone,

00:16:35.580 the fact that it could, future tense, you know, it is likely to cause some offense,

00:16:42.260 even if you didn't mean for that to happen.

00:16:44.500 That's how my reading of the law looks.

00:16:46.940 It removes a guilty conscience.

00:16:49.640 Am I wrong?

00:16:50.160 You're not wrong.

00:16:53.220 It even goes even a step further than that.

00:16:55.320 So it deals a lot with a thing called incitement to hatred.

00:16:59.320 And one section of the bill also says that even if you were successful in inciting hatred or not,

00:17:07.560 you're still guilty of an offense.

00:17:09.780 So you could say something, you may not mean it, you may offend nobody,

00:17:14.800 but the fact that you said it, you can still be prosecuted.

00:17:17.180 Yeah, and truth is not a defense here if I read the law properly.

00:17:22.760 And I want to be careful because I'm not an Irish lawyer.

00:17:25.480 I went to law school in Canada.

00:17:26.880 I have a lot of experience with Canadian censorship,

00:17:29.440 but I'm relying on you, Alex, to tell me if I'm wrong.

00:17:32.860 Truth is not a defense.

00:17:34.700 Is that correct?

00:17:36.060 Well, the onus will be on you.

00:17:38.040 So truth can be a defense just so long as they accept that you are telling the truth.

00:17:42.340 So, for example, like, how are you meant to explain to somebody that you had no intention to communicate an idea or a mean that you haven't responded?

00:17:51.580 What I mean by truth is a defense is you can say something incredibly insulting that if it's true,

00:17:58.140 like sometimes the truth is hurtful, sometimes the truth is insulting.

00:18:01.780 If you say something that's true, it may well be offensive or even hateful.

00:18:09.340 But, I mean, I know in Canada I was prosecuted under a hate speech law in the province of Alberta,

00:18:15.340 and truth was not a defense.

00:18:16.920 I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.

00:18:18.900 This was over a dozen years ago now.

00:18:20.840 Truth and fair comment were not defenses.

00:18:23.120 That's what I mean by truth is a defense.

00:18:24.700 If you say something awful or offensive, but it was a true statement, is that legal in Ireland?

00:18:31.840 It may actually be illegal.

00:18:33.620 So the bill is currently being debated in our upper house, the Irish Senate.

00:18:38.120 And even one of the government senators, a few of them have actually broken ranks on this,

00:18:43.240 brought up the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

00:18:45.440 So cartoons which would have been considered highly offensive to Muslims,

00:18:49.560 but resulted in a violent act towards the cartoonists.

00:18:52.860 That was brought up as a point of consternation and worry, concern,

00:18:58.560 that this actually might open up arguments to prosecution under the bill.

00:19:02.280 Not just that.

00:19:03.320 You've had multiple senators, multiple politicians who've been in opposition,

00:19:06.740 very worried about any gender critical ideas,

00:19:10.320 any ideas to do with maybe the criticism of immigration,

00:19:14.120 and believing that they actually might be open to prosecution of the bill.

00:19:17.480 They were to mention such things outside of the parliament,

00:19:20.360 where they'd have parliamentary privilege.

00:19:21.900 And the same would go for anyone who isn't a politician,

00:19:24.980 and they wouldn't have the same gross neck or courage to speak up

00:19:28.380 in the same way that somebody who is an elected legislator would.

00:19:31.160 I saw a brief excerpt of a speech by, I believe it was a Green Party politician in Ireland,

00:19:38.060 who said, and this was quite incredible, we'll play a clip of it now,

00:19:42.040 who basically said,

00:19:43.440 every law infringes on your freedom,

00:19:46.280 and we're just doing that here.

00:19:48.240 It's for the common good.

00:19:50.120 Here, let me play a clip of that.

00:19:51.580 This was such an astonishing worldview

00:19:53.800 that government exists to reduce your freedom.

00:19:58.640 I suppose in some ways there's some truth to it,

00:20:01.440 but she was embracing that as a feature, not as a bug.

00:20:05.460 Here, take a look at this.

00:20:06.480 When you think about it,

00:20:08.500 all law, all legislation is about the restriction of freedom.

00:20:12.800 That's exactly what we're doing here,

00:20:14.360 is we are restricting freedom,

00:20:16.280 but we're doing it for the common good.

00:20:18.200 You will see throughout our constitution,

00:20:20.640 yes, you have rights,

00:20:22.120 but they are restricted for the common good.

00:20:25.160 Everything needs to be balanced.

00:20:27.720 And if your views on other people's identities

00:20:30.600 go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, 0.94

00:20:36.480 and cause them such deep discomfort

00:20:38.920 that they cannot live in peace,

00:20:41.000 then I believe that it is our job as legislators

00:20:44.380 to restrict those freedoms for the common good.

00:20:47.540 Please tell me that this is not desired

00:20:50.740 or demanded by the Irish people.

00:20:53.420 Please tell me that these politicians

00:20:55.600 are just imposing their own view.

00:20:57.920 I saw some news coverage that suggested

00:21:00.300 that Irish people aren't clamoring for this. 0.51

00:21:04.120 These are just politicians taking advantage.

00:21:06.920 What's the truth?

00:21:08.000 Have the Irish people given up their love for freedom?

00:21:11.000 The truth is, no.

00:21:12.340 Actually, there is an overwhelming majority

00:21:14.280 of Irish people who are still in favour of free speech.

00:21:17.620 Now, I actually attended a meeting there recently in London

00:21:20.520 with multiple free speech activists

00:21:22.300 from all around the world

00:21:23.380 discussing on how we might fight these censorship bills,

00:21:27.600 such as coming in in Canada,

00:21:29.080 coming into Germany, Brazil.

00:21:30.360 And when we communicated to the other activists

00:21:33.840 that in Ireland,

00:21:34.560 actually the overwhelming majority of people

00:21:36.140 are against this stuff,

00:21:37.840 people from Germany or even Australia

00:21:39.800 were actually quite astounded saying,

00:21:42.060 well, there's actually a cultural issue back home

00:21:43.880 where we don't think the majority of people

00:21:45.860 support free speech.

00:21:47.640 In Ireland, we recently had a public consultation

00:21:50.060 which was to see if the people wanted to bring in

00:21:53.360 such hate speech laws as started by the government.

00:21:55.560 73% of responses said,

00:21:58.300 no, we don't want hate speech laws.

00:22:00.220 What's more, in 2018,

00:22:02.100 65% of the Irish people voted to remove

00:22:04.460 the blasphemy laws from our legislation,

00:22:06.280 which made it illegal to criticise God.

00:22:08.560 This shows that the Irish people 0.54

00:22:10.100 have no appetite for restrictions on speech.

00:22:12.840 And what's more,

00:22:13.760 and last week debated in the Irish Senate,

00:22:16.100 we have five different senators 0.87

00:22:17.640 say that this is the most correspondence,

00:22:20.060 whether by mail, phone call or email,

00:22:21.800 they have received over a single legislative topic

00:22:24.680 in their entire career.

00:22:26.020 We had one extra senator

00:22:27.780 who's been there for 30 years

00:22:29.800 who said that this is the second most,

00:22:32.080 their first being mobile for baby homes,

00:22:33.920 which was a irredefining issue.

00:22:36.480 So hundreds and hundreds,

00:22:38.260 if not thousands of emails

00:22:39.420 that they're getting each.

00:22:40.880 This is not a popular issue in Ireland,

00:22:43.520 but unfortunately the Irish government

00:22:44.980 looks like it wants to dig its heels in

00:22:47.180 and it does not want to look weak

00:22:48.680 after proposing this legislation

00:22:50.240 so they may not back down.

00:22:51.800 Alex, it's great to talk with you.

00:22:53.240 Unfortunately, we have a bit

00:22:54.400 of a rough internet connection.

00:22:55.980 I hope we can pick up this conversation

00:22:57.680 another day

00:22:58.640 because we want to hear you clearly on this

00:23:01.520 and we want to learn more about it

00:23:03.240 and we want to learn

00:23:04.480 if there are other allies

00:23:06.660 for free speech in Canada.

00:23:08.460 I fear that many voices

00:23:10.240 that in the past

00:23:11.220 would have defended free speech

00:23:13.020 no longer do.

00:23:14.100 Either they're media voices

00:23:15.320 that have been colonized

00:23:16.860 and corrupted with government bailouts

00:23:18.420 so they just do whatever

00:23:19.540 the government says now

00:23:20.640 or they're just either

00:23:22.740 gone woke themselves

00:23:24.640 or are afraid of the woke mob.

00:23:27.960 So in Canada,

00:23:28.760 which used to really embrace

00:23:30.340 freedom of speech,

00:23:31.260 I mean, when I was growing up

00:23:32.440 and I'm not that old,

00:23:34.200 but there's very few voices now.

00:23:36.240 Let's keep in touch, Alex,

00:23:37.740 and let's connect

00:23:38.840 when we have a stronger

00:23:39.780 internet connection

00:23:40.660 because this is important

00:23:42.320 and it's not just important to Ireland.

00:23:44.460 People around the world

00:23:45.760 want to see a global resistance

00:23:49.040 to this global order of censorship

00:23:51.540 and it really is global.

00:23:52.800 You had Jacinda Ardern

00:23:54.600 and Macron,

00:23:57.380 Emmanuel Macron

00:23:58.100 and Justin Trudeau

00:23:59.640 and all these other

00:24:01.040 authoritarian liberals

00:24:03.860 signing declarations

00:24:05.860 about internet censorship.

00:24:07.160 it's a global campaign

00:24:10.280 to censor grassroots people

00:24:13.080 and I hope there's

00:24:14.240 a global resistance to it too

00:24:16.860 and it looks like

00:24:17.360 you're part of that.

00:24:18.300 Alex Sheridan,

00:24:18.780 I hope we keep in touch.

00:24:21.080 Okay, thank you very much

00:24:22.180 for having me, Ezra.

00:24:22.900 Well, it's our pleasure.

00:24:23.900 There's Alex Sheridan.

00:24:24.880 He's the director

00:24:25.400 of the Free Speech Ireland,

00:24:27.580 which is very much needed.

00:24:29.180 I promise we'll get back

00:24:30.260 in touch with Alex

00:24:31.420 when we have a stronger

00:24:32.400 internet connection with him.

00:24:34.840 Stay tuned.

00:24:35.640 More ahead.

00:24:36.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:24:49.580 Your letters to me.

00:24:50.520 This is about my chat

00:24:51.280 with my friend Andrew Lawton.

00:24:52.820 Grandma G67 says,

00:24:54.820 if these big companies

00:24:57.360 don't start downsizing

00:24:58.580 and do what you're doing,

00:24:59.960 they won't survive.

00:25:00.960 You actually listen

00:25:01.660 to your subscribers too.

00:25:02.680 You do journalism,

00:25:03.420 but these other companies don't.

00:25:04.960 You know, it's interesting.

00:25:06.420 I was thinking about radio

00:25:07.460 in this country.

00:25:08.100 I remember growing up

00:25:08.920 and talk radio

00:25:09.700 was where the excitement was

00:25:11.760 because you never knew

00:25:12.660 who was going to call in.

00:25:14.240 And this was in the early days

00:25:15.520 of cell phones,

00:25:16.160 but you would get truckers,

00:25:17.240 you would get people on the road,

00:25:18.100 you would get people

00:25:18.660 obviously calling from home.

00:25:20.500 Also, talk radio

00:25:21.860 was sort of the wild west

00:25:23.540 and there were some truly

00:25:24.680 conservative voices there.

00:25:26.060 But I think talk radio

00:25:27.600 was homogenized

00:25:28.880 and baudelarized

00:25:30.460 and vanillified.

00:25:33.580 Either the conservative

00:25:35.060 firebrands retired

00:25:36.260 or they were worried

00:25:37.280 about being canceled

00:25:38.640 so they sort of became

00:25:39.720 woke themselves.

00:25:40.720 I think that happened

00:25:41.380 to a few of them

00:25:42.340 like my old friend Charles Adler.

00:25:43.700 I think he's just gone so woke

00:25:44.800 I don't recognize him anymore.

00:25:47.500 But mainly it's the companies.

00:25:49.040 When radio stations

00:25:49.800 are owned by huge

00:25:50.840 mega corporations

00:25:51.720 like Bell Canada,

00:25:53.620 which owns CTV

00:25:55.380 and a bunch of radio stations,

00:25:56.900 they're not going to be

00:25:58.280 controversial at all.

00:25:59.760 There's woke as they can.

00:26:01.920 So their radio hosts

00:26:03.040 have to be just sort of

00:26:04.140 bland and corporate

00:26:05.220 and who wants to listen to that?

00:26:07.260 Especially now that you can

00:26:08.280 listen to anything

00:26:09.300 on your Spotify

00:26:11.040 or however you get your podcasts,

00:26:13.880 you can do that in your car too.

00:26:15.400 So if it's not interesting,

00:26:16.800 why would anyone listen to radio?

00:26:18.800 I don't know.

00:26:19.400 I'm worried about the CRTC

00:26:20.580 regulating us

00:26:21.500 because they might try

00:26:22.320 and make us vanilla too.

00:26:24.620 Mike Traynor Music says,

00:26:26.980 Andrew is an excellent speaker.

00:26:30.140 Rebel and True North

00:26:30.980 will be around for a long time.

00:26:32.820 Well, from your mouth

00:26:33.440 to God's ears,

00:26:34.040 I really like Andrew.

00:26:35.600 And he's conservative,

00:26:37.720 but he's got a very warm heart.

00:26:40.440 And I think he's just

00:26:41.920 one of the most likable guys

00:26:43.200 in the business.

00:26:44.240 And I really admire

00:26:45.020 what he's doing

00:26:45.600 with the folks at True North.

00:26:47.620 The Hot Mask 1979 says,

00:26:50.320 I've known about

00:26:51.000 Justin Trudeau's indiscretions

00:26:52.440 with one of his students

00:26:53.300 for a few years.

00:26:54.420 It ticks me off

00:26:55.180 that Parliament

00:26:56.020 is just getting around

00:26:56.840 to this conversation now.

00:26:58.780 No wonder Justin Trudeau

00:26:59.620 is trying to protect people

00:27:00.660 like Paul Bernardo.

00:27:01.940 Maybe they have

00:27:02.600 a few things in common.

00:27:04.560 I think you're going

00:27:05.480 too far there.

00:27:06.800 I think a lot of people

00:27:07.860 have heard the rumors

00:27:08.640 about Justin Trudeau

00:27:09.840 at that British Columbia

00:27:11.700 private school,

00:27:13.100 but it's just rumors.

00:27:14.420 And you're right,

00:27:15.340 there hasn't been

00:27:15.960 a proper investigation into it.

00:27:17.640 And mainly,

00:27:19.420 no one in the mainstream media

00:27:22.320 has had Trudeau

00:27:23.560 in an interview

00:27:24.100 and just put

00:27:24.640 a straight up question to him.

00:27:25.900 I think they're embarrassed

00:27:27.080 or shy,

00:27:27.900 but they shouldn't be.

00:27:29.260 I mean,

00:27:29.720 think about Bill Gates,

00:27:31.500 the American super billionaire

00:27:33.880 who has enormous power,

00:27:36.640 but there are still

00:27:37.600 some journalists,

00:27:38.440 I think of Anderson Cooper,

00:27:39.640 who ask him about,

00:27:41.220 for example,

00:27:41.880 his affiliations

00:27:43.140 with the child rapist

00:27:44.440 and pedophile predator

00:27:46.120 Jeffrey Epstein.

00:27:47.900 So Bill Gates,

00:27:48.500 powerful guy,

00:27:50.300 Anderson Cooper,

00:27:51.600 you know,

00:27:51.840 mainstream journalist,

00:27:52.760 but he had the courage

00:27:53.880 to put questions

00:27:54.700 to Bill Gates about it.

00:27:56.100 And I think we need

00:27:57.760 a mainstream journalist

00:27:59.620 who has the opportunity

00:28:01.160 to have a face-to-face

00:28:02.160 with Trudeau,

00:28:02.640 not that Trudeau can run off,

00:28:04.160 but on a set and say,

00:28:05.660 look,

00:28:06.200 can you answer us

00:28:07.180 once and for all,

00:28:08.540 why were you let go

00:28:10.540 from a private school

00:28:12.240 mid-semester,

00:28:13.200 which is very rare

00:28:14.100 for a teacher?

00:28:15.080 There's a lot of innuendo

00:28:16.140 out there.

00:28:16.620 Can you answer it?

00:28:17.480 The fact that not a single

00:28:18.780 mainstream journalist

00:28:19.860 would ask that question

00:28:20.880 shows you how much

00:28:22.720 in collusion they are

00:28:23.580 with the liberals

00:28:24.040 or much worse,

00:28:25.940 that they know the truth

00:28:27.140 and don't want to ask about it.

00:28:28.280 But I don't think you can assume

00:28:29.380 the answer to that question.

00:28:31.920 That's our show for today.

00:28:33.600 Until tomorrow,

00:28:34.600 on behalf of all of us

00:28:35.540 here at Rebel World Headquarters

00:28:36.720 to you at home,

00:28:37.940 good night

00:28:38.300 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:28:44.100 Good night.

00:28:44.660 Good night.

00:28:44.700 Good night.

00:28:45.520 Thank you.

00:29:02.080 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - June 27, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Liberals have their Chinese Communist Party infiltrators, but what about the Conservatives？

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