Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The media finally ramps up scrutiny of Trudeau's China ties

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Lots of news today in the mainstream media about Justin Trudeau and his

00:00:04.360 connection to the Chinese Communist Party. It's great reporting. I absolutely acknowledge

00:00:09.680 the fine work being done by the Globe and Mail and Global News. I can't even believe I'm saying

00:00:14.000 that. I'll also read to you, though, from my book, China Virus, which I wrote three years ago, which

00:00:19.340 has many of the same revelations three years faster than the media party. I'll show you that

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00:00:46.100 without further ado, here's today's podcast. Tonight, the Globe and Mail ramps up its scrutiny

00:00:53.720 of China's donations to the Trudeau family. But you probably read that in my book,

00:00:58.600 China Virus, three years ago. It's February 28th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:03.560 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:06.500 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:18.840 I've said it before, the Globe and Mail is good on the China issue.

00:01:23.060 You might remember a few years ago when we broke the news of Trudeau training Chinese soldiers from

00:01:29.880 the People's Liberation Army here in Canada on Canadian military bases. It was accidentally

00:01:35.300 disclosed in an access to information document that was only grayed out, not blacked out. It was the

00:01:41.700 biggest scoop of my life. The Globe and Mail put that story on their front page. The CBC completely

00:01:48.400 ignored it. Not one word. Good for the Globe. They do a lot of stories on China and China's attempts to

00:01:54.320 undermine and infiltrate our country and our democracy. In fact, I'd say it's a major beat for

00:01:59.280 the Globe and Mail. Steve Chase is the subject matter expert, the reporter over there, and he often

00:02:04.640 collaborates with Bob Fyfe, their senior reporter over there. When the Globe and Mail wants to do

00:02:09.440 journalism, they do journalism. Give them credit where it's due. And they're going to work on Justin

00:02:15.040 Trudeau and his links to the Chinese Communist Party lately. Some might say, where have they been

00:02:20.000 all this time? I mean, this video clip here from the Sun News Network, where I worked before Rebel News,

00:02:25.200 which is actually before Trudeau became prime minister. There's a level of admiration I actually

00:02:32.320 have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy 0.75

00:02:42.080 around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast as we need to start, you know, investing in

00:02:46.560 solar. I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a

00:02:51.280 dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted. But still, they're going to work now.

00:02:55.600 And I think part of what's motivating them is that Trudeau is so brazenly lying,

00:03:00.480 lying while accusing the Globe and Mail of lying. You saw this yesterday when Trudeau claimed only

00:03:05.680 racists would suggest China is undermining Canada. Let me start by being very, very clear.

00:03:11.600 There are 1.7 million Canadians who proudly trace their origins back to China.

00:03:21.760 Those Canadians should always be welcomed as full Canadians and encouraged to stand for office,

00:03:30.880 to get involved in their communities, and to take on part of the leadership of this country.

00:03:38.000 That's one of the great things about this country. Let me say that we are extraordinarily lucky

00:03:44.240 and happy to have a member of parliament like Han Dong in our midst, serving his community,

00:03:51.440 serving our country alongside Chinese Canadian MPs from different parts of the country, alongside an

00:03:57.280 extraordinary diverse group of MPs who are proud Canadians, even as they trace their origins to

00:04:05.040 elsewhere around the world. And that is as it should be.

00:04:08.640 And I think one thing that gets the Globe and Mail mad and increases the number of leaks

00:04:13.040 to the Globe and Mail from government insiders, in this case, from CSIS,

00:04:16.560 is when Trudeau calls CSIS or others liars, as in the non-partisan civil service,

00:04:21.840 and in this case, the non-partisan spy agency, when Trudeau seeks to save his reputation by destroying theirs.

00:04:29.280 Trudeau has been doing a bit of that lately, too.

00:04:31.600 It's also very important to highlight that we have national security and intelligence agencies

00:04:38.800 who are there to protect all Canadians of all different origins, as well as our democratic processes.

00:04:46.320 And we always engage with them and listen to them. But let me also be very clear to a really

00:04:56.160 important point that I think some folks are choosing to overlook. In a free democracy,

00:05:04.000 it is not up to unelected security officials to dictate to political parties who can or cannot run.

00:05:17.520 That's a really important principle. We, of course, draw on the expertise every step of the way.

00:05:23.360 But the suggestions we've seen in the media that CSIS would somehow say, no, this person can't run or that person can't run,

00:05:33.360 is not just false. It's actually damaging to people's confidence in our democratic and political institutions.

00:05:41.920 So I think that Trudeau's move that he usually deploys against, say, Rebel News or the Trucker Convoy,

00:05:47.520 even the Toronto Sun or the National Post, that is, to go personal, to make ad hominem attacks,

00:05:52.640 or to call people racist or whatever. I just don't think it works against the Globe and Mail,

00:05:56.080 the ultimate establishment organization. They know they're not racist. They're not worried about the

00:06:00.960 accusation. In fact, it's a sign to them that they're over the target. I have to say Trudeau's response

00:06:06.240 to the reporting on the story reminds me of how he responded to the Globe and Mail's reportage

00:06:11.360 of how Trudeau fired Jody Wilson-Raybould as justice minister for not helping him to get criminal

00:06:16.880 charges dropped against his friends at SNC-Lavalin. The Globe had meticulously reported that story,

00:06:23.200 many sources, very carefully, but Trudeau just flat out denied it, just looked right in the camera and

00:06:28.800 said, it's not true. Remember that? Did you or anyone in your office pressure the former attorney

00:06:34.640 general to abandon the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin? The allegations in the Globe story this morning

00:06:42.080 are false. Neither the current nor the previous attorney general was ever directed by me or by

00:06:50.000 anyone in my office to take a decision in this matter. I think that was the moment Trudeau made

00:06:56.320 the Globe and Mail immune to his lies and gaslighting because they knew he was lying. And credit also to

00:07:02.240 Global News. I can't even believe I'm saying those words. I played a two minute clip for you yesterday

00:07:07.520 and I just want to play it again for you now because it was so chock full of news and facts

00:07:12.640 and investigative journalism and the liberal response to imperiously say, you've got everything

00:07:18.240 wrong. So many things wrong. We're not even going to list them all. So we won't even tell you actually

00:07:23.280 anything other than it's all wrong. What an absurd alibi. Imagine telling that to a cop who pulls you over

00:07:29.360 for speeding and driving with a broken taillight and making turns without a turning signal and running

00:07:35.040 a red light to say, officer, you know, you've got so many mistakes in what you say. I can't respond to

00:07:40.320 all of them other than to simply deny it. I just don't think it's going to work.

00:07:44.480 Now, I think that kind of excuse works for Trudeau most of the time in his life,

00:07:49.600 plus in his politics, never apologize, never explain. But it doesn't seem to be working this time.

00:07:55.840 Reliably read since 1993, scoring the Liberal nomination in Don Valley North has been harder

00:08:01.520 than winning a general election recently. But instead of leaning on his connections as a former

00:08:06.080 Ontario MPP, sources say Han Dong had help from the Chinese consulate in Toronto to become the 2019

00:08:12.880 Liberal candidate in the riding. Through a combination of CSIS documents and intelligence sources,

00:08:18.240 Global News has learned the consulate allegedly sent two busloads of Chinese Canadian seniors to the

00:08:23.520 Don Valley North Liberal nomination meeting. And those seniors knew who to vote for because Don's

00:08:28.640 name was written on their arm. Sources also say CSIS suspected that Chinese international students

00:08:34.240 with faked addresses were bussed in and told by the PRC consulate to support their preferred candidate

00:08:40.000 if they wanted to maintain their student visa status. Dong denied allegations he was helped by Beijing,

00:08:45.680 calling them false accusations that slander me and the community I represent. My nomination in 2019 was

00:08:51.840 open and followed the rules. The Liberal Party of Canada echoed that nomination was open,

00:08:57.440 adding Dong was elected by registered Liberals in a race that followed their national rules.

00:09:02.320 Global News has not verified the allegations against Dong, but even if they are found true,

00:09:07.040 political parties are private organizations and can set their own rules.

00:09:10.800 Non-Canadians can vote in Liberal nomination races if they live in the riding and are party members.

00:09:15.680 This is Han Dong. I'm the Liberal candidate for Don Manly North.

00:09:18.400 Dong won the nomination, but he still needed Justin Trudeau's stamp of approval to carry the

00:09:23.440 Liberal banner in the suburban Toronto riding, one with a sizable diaspora of Chinese Canadians.

00:09:28.560 A senior intelligence official told Global News, CSIS shared their concerns about Dong in late

00:09:33.360 September 2019 during a classified briefing with senior Liberal Party staff who hold security

00:09:39.120 clearances. In that meeting, CSIS urged them to rescind Dong's nomination. Despite the alleged

00:09:45.200 warnings to his staff, Trudeau approved Dong's candidacy. During the election, a top Liberal

00:09:50.480 organizer even warned Dong's team that he was allegedly a CSIS target, according to sources.

00:09:56.160 Dong is still an MP today. Global News asked the Prime Minister's office multiple questions,

00:10:01.200 including if Trudeau knew Dong was allegedly a CSIS target. But PMO didn't respond to any of our

00:10:06.320 questions, saying there were so many factual inaccuracies that it wasn't possible to begin to answer any of them.

00:10:12.000 So you have the Globe and Mail. They're big. And Global News, they're pretty big.

00:10:18.400 Doing some real journalism. That must feel good for them. After three years of propagandizing for

00:10:24.240 lockdowns and for Pfizer. It's like they're using muscles they haven't used in years. And it looks

00:10:30.800 good on them. And I hope to see more of it, by the way. You know, too much more journalism like that

00:10:35.280 to put Rebel News out of business. Of course, Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster knows its role.

00:10:40.800 Defend the regime. Defend the prince at all costs. Here's their headline on this whole thing. I am

00:10:46.800 serious. This is their headline. Look for yourself. Trudeau denies security officials told liberals to

00:10:52.400 rescind MPs candidacy. Seriously, the headline is the denial, not the accusation. They don't even

00:10:57.680 say what the accusation is about China infiltrating and corrupting. The story leads with the denial,

00:11:05.760 not the fact. And then it briefly mentions the accusations. And then the first expert, they quote,

00:11:12.320 says it's a fake accusation. Let me quote. Stephanie Carvin, associate professor of national security at

00:11:17.600 Carleton University, questioned the suggestion that CSIS would ask that a nomination be rescinded.

00:11:25.040 CSIS's mandate allows it to report on threats to the security of Canada. I do not think this

00:11:30.080 would extend to asking the prime minister's office to rescind a nomination, Carvin wrote in a tweet.

00:11:37.040 Oh, well, then that settles it. A professor who receives grant money from the Trudeau government

00:11:42.080 says she has trouble imagining that this thing happened. So case closed, right? Check this out

00:11:50.240 here, of course. They interviewed, get this, Gerald Butts. Seriously, who does that? Remember him?

00:11:56.640 He was the corrupt aide to Justin Trudeau, the one who demanded that Jody Wilson-Raybould interfere

00:12:01.520 in that criminal trial. And he was later fired in disgrace over it. Who would talk to him about

00:12:06.240 anything, let alone ethics or corruption or honesty? Well, the CBC, that's who obviously.

00:12:10.800 He read the story in the Globe and he knows what the real blockbuster news is, though.

00:12:17.040 He thinks the big news is that someone tattled on his boss. He highlighted that the leak would be

00:12:22.960 illegal if it came from CSIS. And he said this on Twitter. He said, this is the most significant

00:12:27.920 paragraph in this morning's Globe story. Its implications buggle the mind. Is that really

00:12:33.120 the most important thing? That someone leaked to the Globe and Mail that China was paying off Trudeau

00:12:39.680 and the Trudeau Foundation? Is the leak more significant than the substance of the leak itself?

00:12:47.440 Well, for Gerald Butts it is, of course. He's terrified of what they might leak about him,

00:12:52.880 because do you doubt that Butts himself was given the same briefing?

00:12:56.080 I mean, he's been friends, best buddies since university with Trudeau. Butts was Trudeau's brain

00:13:04.560 until he was fired. He's still obviously deeply involved in Trudeau's government.

00:13:09.680 Butts was their chief candidate recruiter. Do you doubt he was up to his eyeballs in this?

00:13:13.520 But let me close with two things. First, let me read a bit to you from this

00:13:18.960 story in the Globe and Mail today. They're just doing work every day on this stuff.

00:13:23.200 The headline is CSIS uncovered Chinese plan to donate to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

00:13:28.400 China appears to have targeted Justin Trudeau in a foreign influence operation after he became

00:13:32.800 liberal leader in 2013, according to a national security source who said Beijing's plan involved

00:13:37.680 donating a significant sum of money to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

00:13:40.880 The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation in 2014 between

00:13:46.960 an unnamed commercial attache and one of China's consulates in Canada and billionaire Zhang Bin,

00:13:53.360 a political advisor to the government in Beijing and a senior official in China's network of state

00:13:57.840 promoters around the world. They discussed the federal election that was expected to take place in 2015

00:14:04.320 and the possibility that the Liberals would defeat Stephen Harper's Conservatives and form the next

00:14:08.080 government. The source said the diplomat instructed Zhang to donate one million dollars to the Trudeau

00:14:13.920 Foundation and told him the Chinese government would reimburse him for the entire amount.

00:14:18.720 Huh. That's big news. The story goes on and it's worth a read. Let me just read a little more.

00:14:24.320 Just weeks after the May fundraiser, talking about a fundraiser, the Trudeau Foundation and the

00:14:28.880 University of Montreal announced that Mr. Zhang and another wealthy Chinese businessman,

00:14:33.360 Ngu Gencheng, would donate one million dollars to honor the memory and leadership of Pierre Trudeau,

00:14:39.280 who as Prime Minister opened diplomatic relations with China in 1970.

00:14:43.920 Of the one million dollars, 200,000 went to the Trudeau Foundation, which provides scholarships,

00:14:48.240 academic fellowships and leadership programs. Another 50,000 went to pay for a statue of the

00:14:52.560 elder Mr. Trudeau and 750,000 went to the University of Montreal's Faculty of Law to fund scholarships,

00:14:58.400 which include grants that help Quebec students visit China. Pierre Trudeau graduated from the

00:15:03.120 faculty and later taught there. The Trudeau Foundation, by the way, is basically a huge

00:15:07.040 slush fund for the Trudeau family, friends, political allies. It's where family members get jobs.

00:15:15.040 Here's Sarah Coyne, who is the illegitimate daughter of Pierre Trudeau and his mistress,

00:15:21.600 Deborah Coyne. May as well give her a job. Here's Alexandra Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's brother. By the

00:15:28.960 way, Alexandra actually worked directly for the Chinese government. They published his book on

00:15:33.520 China. There are a million publishers in the world Alexandra Trudeau chose to work with and be paid by

00:15:39.920 the communist government in China. If you look at their list of recipients for grants and type in

00:15:46.000 the word journalist or journalism in the search field, you can see just how many so-called reporters

00:15:51.040 are on the Trudeau payroll directly, literally from the Trudeau Foundation, which means they're on the

00:15:56.480 Chinese Communist Party dime now. Now, doesn't it? That's what that means. I mean, for example,

00:16:01.360 here's Susan Delacorte. She reports for the Toronto Star, but she took money from the Trudeau Foundation.

00:16:08.560 Oh, and surprise, here she is with a loving piece on Justin Trudeau. Let me quote the story.

00:16:13.760 Justin Trudeau is losing ground to Pierre Polyev. He's using Donald Trump to fight back.

00:16:18.160 Got it. I'm sure it's a neutral, objective story. Hey, can I show you something? I read to you about

00:16:24.640 the donations to the Trudeau Foundation from Zhang Bin. There's good stuff in the globe. But let me show

00:16:30.160 you that in my book. Do you remember this book? China Virus. How Justin Trudeau's pro-communist ideology

00:16:37.760 is putting Canadians in danger. I wrote it in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic was really new.

00:16:43.120 Now, I got a few things wrong in retrospect. I think I was too worried about the disease itself

00:16:48.000 back in April of 2020 when I wrote the book, April, May. But that was just half the book. The other half

00:16:55.120 is about Trudeau's ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Let me read to you from my chapter called

00:17:01.040 China Buys the Liberal Party. Let me read a few pages to you, okay? I mean, if you don't, if you have

00:17:07.040 the book, you can follow along. Take the Trudeau Foundation, a massive slush fund for not only the

00:17:11.600 Trudeau family, but for Liberal Party hangers-on. That's where Trudeau would send Chinese millionaires 1.00

00:17:17.680 looking to make donations in exchange for favors, since it was all off the books.

00:17:23.040 One happy donor just happened to be Zhang Bin, a member of China's National Committee of the Chinese

00:17:28.400 People Political Consultative Conference. That's part of the Chinese dictatorship,

00:17:33.440 whose close comparison would probably be the Canadian Senate. Zhang happily spread a million

00:17:38.880 dollars around Montreal, including $200,000 that wound up in the Trudeau Foundation and a staggering

00:17:44.080 $50,000 for a statue of Pierre Trudeau. It's possible that a Chinese Communist Party boss

00:17:50.320 had a true affection for the Trudeau family. The Trudeaus certainly have an affection for China.

00:17:54.640 But Zhang's official biography makes it clear his goal is, quote, enhancing the global influence

00:18:00.400 influence of China. What exactly did Zhang seek to influence? And how would we even know how we went

00:18:05.760 about it? No one who has watched the grifting by Trudeau and his family can be genuinely surprised

00:18:11.600 that they accept dark money from foreign dictators. But Trudeau has invented something completely new,

00:18:17.040 having a sitting Canadian cabinet minister working for the Chinese Communist Party on an actual

00:18:22.320 committee, quote, in support of the national five-year plans.

00:18:25.360 As in, Trudeau is returning the favor to his Chinese dictator friends. The China Council for 0.90

00:18:32.160 International Cooperation on Environment and Development is not a bilateral organization that

00:18:37.680 serves both China and Canada, like a Chamber of Commerce or a diplomatic group. It is an actual

00:18:42.480 office of the Chinese government. And Canada's environment minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, actually works for

00:18:48.800 it, as did his predecessor, Catherine McKenna. You can see this is dated a little bit because

00:18:53.840 Stephen Gilboa is the environment minister now. The Council's membership list is obviously dominated

00:18:58.160 by Chinese bureaucrats. There are a few expats who come from the world of the United Nations, but the

00:19:03.600 only sitting politician from another country who goes to work for the government of China

00:19:09.840 is Trudeau's environment minister. Here's an excerpt from the official About Us charter of the Council,

00:19:15.520 wholly owned by the Chinese dictatorship. CCICED will provide policy analysis and recommendations,

00:19:23.520 technical support, best practice support experience, and early warning in support of the national five-year

00:19:29.520 plans and China's goal of building moderately well-off Xiaokang society. Again, this is not a Chinese 1.00

00:19:36.560 Canada trade group. It's got nothing to do with Canada, other than we pay for it and we actually make

00:19:41.840 Canadian cabinet ministers do it. No other country actually embeds its cabinet ministers in a foreign

00:19:46.720 government and tasks them with making Chinese people better off. No mention of our own country, 0.59

00:19:52.480 it's nuts. Even more incredible, Canadian taxpayers cover the cost of this. We pay 1.6 million dollars

00:19:58.480 a year to the Chinese government for the privilege of sitting on their council to help them meet their

00:20:03.360 five-year plans. I'm almost done reading from my book. How did that ever come to be and how on earth did it

00:20:09.120 continue despite China seizing Canadian hostages, stealing Canadian trade secrets, boycotting

00:20:14.720 Canadian agriculture, and lying to us about the virus? That's from my book, published three years ago.

00:20:23.520 There are a lot of details in the book, some of which was my own research, some of which is footnoted,

00:20:27.680 as you can see from other media. There are of course new details being broken in the reports in

00:20:32.560 the globe. They actually have a CSIS agent telling them the inside story. That is new.

00:20:36.480 And the fact that Trudeau and likely Gerald Butts were warned but waved off, the warning is stunning.

00:20:43.680 But even today, there is censorship on this file. As you know, my book China Virus was a bestseller.

00:20:51.600 It was allowed on Amazon, but then banned, but then allowed back again. Now, I just went there today

00:20:59.120 and it's banned again. I didn't even know that. Only the audio book is available for some reason. They have

00:21:03.520 literally banned the book again. They banned it. Who? Who's they? Who banned it? Trudeau? China?

00:21:15.200 These days, that's probably the same thing, isn't it? Stay with us for more.

00:21:20.320 Well, I think the last three years has been a disaster for experts because experts asked us to

00:21:38.240 rely on their authority and in the end they were proven inaccurate. It reminds me of the Milgram

00:21:43.680 experiment. You might recall there was the Ash conformity test and then there was the Milgram

00:21:49.760 experiment where I think the professor's name was Stanley Milgram sent someone in wearing a white lab

00:21:55.440 coat and a clipboard to tell people to do outrageous things in the case of his experiment to inflict

00:22:01.520 physical pain on someone in another room who was actually just an actor pretending to be in pain

00:22:07.840 to inflict an electric shock on them when they answered stupid questions wrong.

00:22:12.720 And the whole point of the Milgram experiment, which was proven, which was shockingly proven,

00:22:19.120 is that if someone looks authoritative and if they wear a white lab coat and they insist that

00:22:24.240 they're right, well, people follow that to the point of torturing their fellow man.

00:22:31.040 This was an experiment that, like the Ash conformity test, sought to explain how a modern, 0.84

00:22:37.520 liberal, educated civilization like Germany could have become what it did become under the Nazis. 0.56

00:22:44.720 How did that happen? Well, I'm not comparing the next subject to Nazism, but I'm saying that 0.98

00:22:50.560 that obedience to experts who have studies and clipboards and white lab coats, I think it is a

00:22:57.680 weakness in our social national psyche. And that weakness was shown during the pandemic and the

00:23:04.720 lockdowns. Because look at this headline from climate depot.com, climate change blamed for 8000

00:23:13.360 gun deaths in new study in Journal of the American Medical Association. So you know it's true. 1.00

00:23:21.280 Claims association between temperature and shootings. Joining us now is the editor of

00:23:27.440 climate depot.com, Mark Morano. Mark, I've never heard this one before. And if there's some expert

00:23:34.160 with a white lab coat and a clipboard telling me it's true, it's got to be true that climate change

00:23:40.160 has caused 8000 gun deaths. This one I got to hear. I got to hear this one. How do they

00:23:47.920 how do they square that circle, Mark? Well, first of all, you know, keep in mind there's

00:23:53.120 doctors in Canada who for the first time ever, and this is in fall of 2021, diagnosed the first

00:23:58.560 patient as suffering from climate change. You have academics in Australia in a peer reviewed study

00:24:03.360 calling for climate change to be listed as a cause of death on death certificates. And now you have this

00:24:09.120 study. And here's the interesting thing. This is, as you mentioned, Ezra, this is in the Journal of

00:24:14.880 the American Medical Association, premier medical and public health journal. I'm not on this show

00:24:21.440 hyping up some Greenpeace blogger. I found some obscure, you know, panelists at Friends of the Earth.

00:24:27.120 No, this is a peer reviewed study in the Journal of American, the top flight medical and public health

00:24:33.840 journals of the world. This is a pairing. And I'll simplify the study for you in real simple terms.

00:24:40.640 They actually believe that if you that warmer wet, because in summer there's more crime,

00:24:47.600 because global warming is said to be increasing temperatures, we should expect more crime. And this

00:24:52.880 is one of the basis of this of this study. And this is not a first time thing. About 2014,

00:25:00.560 a United Nations climate scientist, or actually, I shouldn't say climate scientist, but a United

00:25:06.160 Nations affiliated academic did a study claiming that barroom brawls, rapes, vehicle thefts, and all

00:25:14.000 sorts of crime would increase as global warming increased on that same premise that warmer weather

00:25:20.000 brings more crime. And of course, this is nonsense. You can go back and I did this at the time in 2014.

00:25:26.160 It may no longer be true. But from the 1970s cooling, when they're worried about a coming ice

00:25:30.960 age, until at least the 2010s, there had been dramatic reductions in crime, both in the United

00:25:37.600 States, Canada, all Western societies. And if you look at that, we warm since the global cooling scare.

00:25:43.280 So the correlation didn't add up there. And of course, the other thing, the obvious thing here that

00:25:48.560 this study doesn't even address are Soros prosecutors, no funding for no prosecution

00:25:54.400 and misdemeanors. And of course, the defund the police movement. There's a lot of other factors

00:25:59.440 besides temperature that deal with crime. Yeah, it's just such a reach. But of course,

00:26:04.320 where there's money, you will find studies and grant seeking scientists. We, I think we all

00:26:09.840 are learning that again on the COVID side. Climate change is the cause of all these heart attacks

00:26:16.000 amongst young men, apparently. I'd never heard that one before, but they need to misdirect,

00:26:21.520 I think, from the real cause. Yeah, there's a lot of things that have to do with the crime

00:26:25.920 rates. I mean, I think Rudy Giuliani as mayor of New York City is probably did more single-handedly

00:26:32.480 to change the crime rate in America than any other factor. He just simply arrested and jailed people for,

00:26:38.560 you know, his broken windows theory of James Q. Wilson, arrest people for the small stuff,

00:26:42.800 you'll build up to catch them for the big stuff, arrest them for jaywalking, arrest them for

00:26:46.800 vandalism. And that cleaned up America's largest city, which was one of America's most dangerous

00:26:52.160 cities. That one man did it. And yeah, I don't think it was global warming. I think that,

00:26:59.360 here's my question for you. You and I look at this and we laugh, but how many people out there

00:27:05.280 said, well, a scientist said it, an expert said it, someone in a white lab coat and a clipboard

00:27:10.880 said it, so I may as well shock this stranger in the other room. I may as well believe this absurd

00:27:16.000 study. Do a lot of people still believe this, or is this just a little cottage industry of grant-seeking

00:27:22.400 academics looking for some dough? Well, it's absolutely grant-seeking

00:27:26.320 academics looking for dough on one hand. But on the other, you're going to get 40% of the population

00:27:31.600 to agree. The same way you'll see them double masking when Fauci says it, the same people who

00:27:37.120 immediately comply with all the vaccine mandates who go along because they think it's for their

00:27:42.480 own good and the good of society. Now, this study actually says, and I'm quoting now,

00:27:46.960 increase in warmer temperatures due to climate change may create environments with higher risk

00:27:52.000 of firearm violence in the future, unquote. So what they're doing here is they're scaring you.

00:27:57.840 So here's the thing. If you don't support the UN-Paris agreement now or the Green New Deal,

00:28:03.120 the message of this study is you are a killer with guns. Instead of being like,

00:28:08.720 if you don't wear a mask, you're a grandma killer. If you don't support lockdowns, you're a grandma 0.84

00:28:12.560 killer. Now, if you don't support climate mitigation measures, you're killing 8,000 people because of the

00:28:19.200 increase in gun violence it will cause. And this is how, and the same thing they're doing with COVID

00:28:24.240 in climate. They're now saying that the unchecked virus, unchecked climate change leads to more

00:28:28.640 viruses. So if you don't support a WHO pandemic treaty, for example, you are now a grandma killer 0.99

00:28:34.080 because of that. So what this is doing is it's creating a template, a narrative among that 40%.

00:28:41.280 And here's the key. This is the part that kills us, Ezra. These aren't an inconsequential 40%.

00:28:46.240 These are generally the academic elite ruling class and the people in bureaucrats, governments,

00:28:54.000 cabinets, prime ministers, presidents, their staff, and sadly, most of our elected officials.

00:29:00.320 That's the problem is the 40% that fall for this will gleefully use it as another argument to push

00:29:07.440 their policies to mitigate climate, to mitigate COVID. It's another fear mongering tactic.

00:29:12.880 You know, it's probably enough to invoke the Emergencies Act in Canada. That used to be just

00:29:19.520 for national dangers like a revolution or an insurrection. But after the judge ruled it completely

00:29:27.200 legal because there was some horn honking, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a climate emergency

00:29:32.480 that was used as a justification to bring in martial law. I'm actually not joking, Mark. If they can call

00:29:38.240 bouncy castles and hot tubs and some horn honking, a justification for martial law, then surely this

00:29:46.880 study from experts in the Journal of American Metal Association, that's surely proof enough.

00:29:52.800 You know, I was thinking about, I think it was Jordan Peterson who said,

00:29:57.440 there's something deep in our DNA that we stick together for safety. And you can see that in the

00:30:02.160 natural kingdom. You can see, you know, lions and tigers when they attack, you know, wild buffalo or

00:30:10.000 zebras, they go for the ones that are off away from the herd. You don't see lions dashing into a huge

00:30:16.080 herd that get kicked or stomped. And I think there's probably something in our genes that we stay with

00:30:21.200 other people for safety. Fish are in a school for reasons of safety. And I suppose it's just safer to

00:30:29.760 go with what the experts say, just to go with the dominant narrative. Maybe there's something deep

00:30:34.800 within our genes that is conformist, that says, well, this might be crazy, but everyone else is

00:30:40.080 doing it. And I'll probably be safer socially, safer physically, safer emotionally, safer politically,

00:30:46.720 if I just do and say what everyone else is doing and saving. Maybe there's something deep within us that

00:30:53.200 that is a conformist. I don't know. Because why else would people obey such absurd studies?

00:31:00.560 Yeah, I mean, we could have questioned this, but March of 2020 changed our world. And we saw

00:31:06.080 things like the Milligram experiment, where the more absurd they got, the more willing

00:31:10.400 most of the public was to go along with it. And unfortunately, I think the early days

00:31:14.320 seemed like 80% of the public was going along or more. And then every month that, you know,

00:31:19.440 less and less public would defer to these experts. But it's absolutely, it's a psychological terror.

00:31:25.280 It's a psychological operation. This is what they were doing. Now, who would think we'd be eating

00:31:30.160 bugs? But what they've done as a psych op, they're introducing cricket-based snacks that are based in,

00:31:36.720 you know, all this flour and crispy and fat. So they don't look or taste like crickets,

00:31:40.880 but they're giving them to elementary kids. That's a psych op. So later on in life, they'll say,

00:31:45.600 oh, I ate insects. They were fine. They're doing the same thing in Europe, the kids. This is how they

00:31:50.000 weaponize the psychology of fear. And the key thing to mention here is you were talking about

00:31:55.920 how they can declare these, you know, all these associations and emergencies. We've had the New

00:32:00.400 York governor want to declare a gun violence emergency. We've had people talk about a

00:32:04.400 misinformation emergency. In the United States, we're talking about Joe Biden declare a national

00:32:08.880 climate emergency, which would give him 130 powers, executive powers. Now, if we think,

00:32:14.160 now this is a peer-reviewed study, what are you, a science denier? If you think that gun violence is

00:32:19.040 going to increase, 8,000 people are going to die because we're not doing anything about climate.

00:32:23.680 Under a climate emergency, is it really that hard in the post-COVID lockdown world to imagine a

00:32:30.400 president of the United States attempting to seize guns or to issue massive gun control without any

00:32:36.640 legislation under emergency powers because of a study like this warning of more gun violence?

00:32:42.080 That is where I think the true genius of this study lies. They're laying the groundwork

00:32:47.680 through the established organs of our ruling class in our countries to lay the foundation for judges

00:32:54.240 to say, well, this isn't a prestigious journal saying gun violence will increase. The president

00:32:58.960 has declared an emergency. He has these powers. We now have to start banning guns because of the

00:33:05.200 excess deaths we're concerned about. That is not far-fetched. I sound like a nut saying it,

00:33:10.000 but it's 2023. I would have been a nut saying it in 2019, but not now.

00:33:15.120 That's incredible. You probably don't know this because I don't know if you were following that

00:33:20.960 closely, but when Justin Trudeau invoked martial law, when he invoked the Emergencies Act,

00:33:26.400 which had never been used in Canadian history, not even during 9-11,

00:33:30.560 the response from the media was overwhelmingly, go harder. It wasn't shock or telling him to put on the

00:33:40.880 brakes. You've pushed the panic button. Now start swinging the batons. Start stomping people.

00:33:50.000 The media was exuberant. They wanted to see blood. It was like they were at a wrestling match or

00:33:56.160 something. So what you're saying, I think that all the global warming media, the Greta Thunbergs of the

00:34:03.200 world would be absolutely cheering for a climate revolution, literally a revolution. I believe it.

00:34:10.000 I want to hate. You know what? When you said that, you reminded me, I want to say, Mark,

00:34:13.920 I think it was early March of 2020. You were the very first person I spoke to who is a skeptic

00:34:21.600 on the risk of COVID-19. I will admit for at least a couple of weeks, I thought there was a real risk.

00:34:29.120 It was something not like black death, but you know, I had seen those propaganda videos out of

00:34:35.920 China with people literally falling in the streets. I had seen, you know, yeah, I was,

00:34:41.520 I was a little bit worried and you were the first voice on this show to say, come on,

00:34:45.280 this is like the Y2K thing. And I thought, geez, Mark, I mean, I like that you're a contrarian. I

00:34:50.320 like that you're a skeptic, but on this, come on, look at, use your own eyes. I mean, I, I didn't quite

00:34:56.480 say that, but I thought, boy, you're, you, you're certainly, um, taking a bold step there.

00:35:02.880 You were the first person I met who was a skeptic. And in the end, you've been absolutely redeemed on

00:35:09.040 that. And, uh, I like to think of myself as a skeptic and a contrarian and a critic,

00:35:13.920 but I think for a couple of weeks I bought into it. Well, thank you for saying that. Yeah. I mean,

00:35:18.560 I was in this in March of 2020. And the reason I think I was so skeptical is I had seen what public

00:35:23.120 health had done with the vaping crisis, how they just used an illegal black market

00:35:28.640 vape to literally try to ban all vaping. And then cigarette rates went up as well. So it's,

00:35:33.520 you know, regardless of what you think of vices, cigarette smoking has proven more dangerous than

00:35:38.320 vaping. Uh, and I saw public health, the way they handled that, but more importantly, I followed the

00:35:43.440 work of Michael Fomento for decades, science under siege. He had detailed a lot of the stuff you're

00:35:48.960 seeing now from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was written about decades ago by Michael Fomento about Anthony

00:35:54.000 Fauci, about NIH, about the AIDS virus, about past, uh, the virus scares. So I was extremely skeptical

00:36:01.440 that anything that had Anthony Fauci's name on it, uh, in March, 2020, we were being had and we were

00:36:07.280 had in probably in our lifetimes. Uh, I can't think of an equivalent of what happened. Not so much

00:36:13.360 that the virus did or didn't exist, but that the solution to the virus was pure and, uh,

00:36:18.720 unbelievable, raw authoritarianism. And they're ready to keep it going. Bill Gates, number two

00:36:24.320 funder, the world health says, follow Australia. We have the Biden administration pushing for this

00:36:29.040 pandemic treaty beyond what even the who does. So in essence, we haven't learned anything on a

00:36:34.720 government level, but let's hope that the public engages in mass resistance, uh, if any future

00:36:41.600 restrictions like this come down the pipe. Well, some will, that's for sure. But I,

00:36:45.520 I have to tell you every day in this city, I see people with masks or double masks, even they're

00:36:50.880 outside snowing, they're outside wearing two masks by themselves in the snow. If that's how it is,

00:36:57.680 Mark, when they bring, if they bring back another crisis, do you think that person, he would be the

00:37:02.320 first person to sign up? I don't know. I, um, you had an advantage if you knew who Anthony

00:37:08.480 Fauci was and you knew his history. And I did not, I had never heard of him until this. And so I think

00:37:14.400 you knew enough about health scares that that armed you. I took it on good faith and I, I kicked myself

00:37:22.240 for being naive, but I think I sobered up pretty quickly on this stuff. Well, I want to say one

00:37:26.080 thing I would, I just gave a speech in Orlando, Florida at the Heartland climate conference.

00:37:30.000 The focus of my speech was, it was a 1985 book called everything I needed to know I learned in

00:37:35.040 in kindergarten. Well, I retitled that book to everything I needed to know about COVID. I had

00:37:39.680 learned in the climate debate, come up with, and I, everything was so familiar, come up with scary

00:37:44.480 models of death and doom, unless we follow some big authoritarian government response. And I went

00:37:51.440 through a point after point. Then you smear your opponents. I used examples of how they smeared

00:37:56.080 scientists and climate, how they smeared them in, uh, COVID. I went through all the examples of government,

00:38:02.160 uh, overreach and, uh, all, I mean, the similarities, I, John Kerry is who I used.

00:38:07.760 He said the similarities between COVID and climate are screaming at us. And it was an amazing thing

00:38:13.600 because all the solutions were the same. All the tactics were the same. Then claiming we own the

00:38:18.560 science, the UN claimed it on climate. And of course, government said, we own the truth. We,

00:38:23.520 uh, and Anthony Fauci said, I represent science. Unbelievable imperatives. I gave a 25 minute speech

00:38:29.680 just on that. And I think that is why I was so skeptical. Cause I just, I literally was watching

00:38:35.120 the climate debate play out in real time in a matter of say two months, what I had witnessed

00:38:40.240 over two decades. Yeah. You know what? I, I really didn't know much about our Robert F. Kennedy,

00:38:45.200 Jr. I knew he was, uh, involved with the water keepers and he had some environmental bona fides like

00:38:50.480 that. I never really knew that much about him. And by the way, shocking development. And I just gave

00:38:56.080 this at Heartland and it wasn't received by a lot of climate skeptics. He called for the

00:38:59.680 jailing of climate skeptics, 2014. But if you look at his children's defense fund, Robert F. Kennedy,

00:39:04.080 Jr., he literally has now had articles warning of climate lockdowns, articles warning of the United

00:39:10.800 Nations and climate agenda, articles warning against sustainability. There is no way Robert F. Kennedy,

00:39:16.320 Jr. is the same Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of five years ago, supporting all the climate hysteria. He

00:39:21.600 can't be because he would have to recognize the same people, the same tactics, the same model of

00:39:27.760 science, the same authoritarianism is in both. So I urge your readers and listeners and viewers to go

00:39:34.240 look at the children's defense fund of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He's got some great material there

00:39:38.320 warning now of how they're using climate to do similar type COVID stuff. I would have never thought

00:39:44.080 it. Now for the democracy fund, we hosted Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for an hour. And I learned so

00:39:51.440 much from him and my respect for him. And I couldn't believe that I was thinking and feeling this way

00:39:56.800 because his family, the iconic, ultra liberal, essential liberals. But given this, he's intellectually

00:40:03.040 honest. He's fiercely independent. He doesn't give a care about what popular opinion has to say.

00:40:10.240 And maybe it comes from being the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of John F. Kennedy

00:40:17.200 and their service and their sacrifice. Maybe he just doesn't care what the mean kid says. I learned

00:40:23.920 so much from him and I couldn't, and I felt liberated from, I'm not going to say I was prejudiced

00:40:29.440 against him, but I just wouldn't have given him the time of day. It was probably the most interesting

00:40:34.320 hour I had spent on the whole subject. And he's very rigorous too. And we're both in the RFK

00:40:42.480 Jr. Fan Club, it sounds like. And I saw James O'Keefe of Project Veritas visiting with him. There

00:40:49.360 was a little selfie that they posted on Twitter the other day. That made me feel good too. Last

00:40:54.080 word to you, Mark. Yeah, I was going to say, the key to Robert, you said it, is intellectual curiosity

00:40:59.440 and honesty. He called us, you know, he said climate skeptics should be jailed at the Hague with

00:41:04.400 three square meals and a cot. I write in my book, The Great Reset, all is forgiven for him standing up

00:41:10.480 against the vaccine mandates, the mask mandates, against public health authoritarianism,

00:41:14.560 the lockdowns. He knows how to build coalitions. He's going on your show. He's going on Tucker

00:41:19.520 Carlson. He's going on conservative podcasts. He is willing now to work and create new alliances,

00:41:25.280 as are people like Russell Brand and Jimmy Dore. I recommend you get Jimmy Dore on your show if you

00:41:29.920 can. He's phenomenal. And also Russell Brand. This is a new coalition between people who want freedom

00:41:37.360 versus tyranny. It's not left-right anymore. And they were trying to divide us on left-right issues,

00:41:42.960 be it race, be it the woke agenda, be it transgender. We have to keep our eye on the bigger prize, 0.82

00:41:48.480 which is just pure freedom versus tyranny. And that's where we can work with these honest liberals.

00:41:54.480 You're so right. And the pandemic has really shown that it's a new coalition. I find myself working with

00:42:01.120 people who I wouldn't even have considered four years ago. Well, great to see you and

00:42:06.240 thanks for the update and keep up the fight down there. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'll be in

00:42:10.960 Canada. I'll be in Calgary coming up this week at an event in Calgary, giving a keynote on climate

00:42:16.560 lockdowns. Well, that's great. We've got a lot of supporters in Calgary and we'll put that information

00:42:21.040 on the screen and under that, under this video. Well, there you have it. Mark Morano,

00:42:25.280 the boss of ClimateDepot.com. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:42:34.880 Hey, welcome back. Your viewer mail. The Salty Duke says,

00:42:39.520 Hi, Ezra. On your story about Chinese interference, great work, but Handong is only part of the story.

00:42:44.640 The fact that the app TikTok has been allowed on government mobile phones for years before it was

00:42:48.400 just banned is what we should really know. How many confidential government meetings have been

00:42:52.880 recorded? How many private conversations from elected officials have been recorded and captured

00:42:57.520 by this ByteDance app that is a Chinese Communist Party controlled entity? This app has been a known

00:43:03.040 privacy breach for years, as was previously reported by Rebel News. I think it would be far more interesting

00:43:08.080 to know which government officials had this app on their phones to understand how compromised our

00:43:12.480 government really is. Keep up the great work. Well, not just that. In fact, I just saw today,

00:43:17.760 the independent news website called Black Locks reported that the government of Canada

00:43:22.640 advertises more than a million bucks a year on TikTok. So they're deeply into TikTok.

00:43:29.200 Steven Irku writes, keep Canadians safe. That's all he ever says. They must have focus group that line

00:43:34.880 and found it plays well with the liberal voting base. Yeah, they tell us they're keeping us safe from

00:43:39.920 so many things. From the virus, all you have to do is stay locked in your home. From misinformation,

00:43:45.360 all you have to do is let Trudeau censor things. He's certainly keeping us safe, isn't he? Safe

00:43:50.160 from our own choices and our own freedom. Between the lines, 55 says, Suzuki is an expert in anarchy.

00:43:58.800 Well, I think he supports anarchy, but he's very much an establishment man. I used to do a lot more

00:44:03.760 research on Suzuki. When I last checked in on him, he has four homes. He's a multi-multi-millionaire.

00:44:11.120 Obviously, he receives a lot of money from the CBC, but at the same time, he has a whole charitable

00:44:17.760 foundation named after him that receives millions of dollars, including from offshore interests. So

00:44:22.480 yeah, he is an anarchist in the streets, but an establishment man in the sheets.

00:44:29.600 That's our story for today.

00:44:31.200 Thanks for watching. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:44:35.040 see you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 01, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The media finally ramps up scrutiny of Trudeau's China ties

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