Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Media Party gives you advice on how to handle inflation

00:00:00.100 Hello, my friends. Today, I'm going to do a deep dive into Michael Bloomberg.

00:00:04.180 There's a name that you probably wouldn't have thought you'd hear again.

00:00:07.300 He ran briefly for the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, spent a billion dollars, but got crushed.

00:00:14.420 Well, you know, he's enjoying himself running Bloomberg, and he came up with some great advice for you poors on how to cope with inflation. 0.99

00:00:23.840 It's just gorgeous. I'll read it for you, and I'll try and put it in context of the larger be poor and be happy ideology.

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00:01:05.380 You're listening to Rebel News Podcast.

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00:01:37.700 You know this little guy, right? Five foot four.

00:01:49.240 One of the few people who makes me feel tall, according to Forbes, his net worth is $82 billion.

00:01:57.400 That's a pretty tall stack of bills.

00:02:00.300 I'm married, but men say it's tough finding a date if you're short, and some say that if you're bald, too.

00:02:08.360 Though I think that a lot of women are fine with that. 1.00

00:02:10.680 I've never met a woman who is fine with a guy being shorter than them. 0.97

00:02:16.120 Of course, money makes up for it, doesn't it?

00:02:19.060 Jeffrey Bezos, the second richest man in the world, has embraced his baldness, but the Daily Mail thinks he has had a lot of plastic surgery done to his face.

00:02:30.320 I think they're right, looks like it, and he's obviously working out, too.

00:02:35.280 But you don't really need plastic surgery when you're worth about $150 billion, do you?

00:02:42.420 Same thing with Mike Bloomberg, the man I showed you earlier.

00:02:47.320 That's him in the middle, next to Donald Trump.

00:02:49.860 Trump used to call him Mini Mike.

00:02:52.580 Boy, Trump was funny and sharp with the nicknames, wasn't he?

00:02:55.860 He loved to make fun of Bloomberg, and the fact that Bloomberg's campaign for president requested that he be able to stand on a box on the stage at the presidential debate,

00:03:07.500 so he didn't look short compared to the other candidates.

00:03:10.900 I don't know if you remember, but Bloomberg spent about a billion dollars running the Democratic presidential primaries, and he didn't move the needle at all.

00:03:20.680 Here's a fun Trump quip.

00:03:22.800 Look at this.

00:03:23.520 He's so funny.

00:03:25.600 But she was really mean to Mini Mike, I'll tell you, the way she treated her. 1.00

00:03:30.560 He didn't know what hit him.

00:03:32.560 He's going, oh, get me off of this stage.

00:03:34.860 Get me off! 1.00

00:03:37.920 Get me off of these stairs!

00:03:47.500 If you're wondering why I am making fun of Bloomberg and Bezos for things about them that they don't control,

00:03:56.980 Mike being short, Bezos for being bald, forgive me.

00:04:02.320 I know it's not fair, pot calling the kettle black, but it's one of the few things you can do to express your disagreement with these oligarchs who rule over you.

00:04:13.320 They really are oligarchs.

00:04:14.500 Why do Russian and Ukrainian billionaires, who like to meddle in politics, which they all do, why are they called oligarchs, but we don't use that sinister term to describe our own political billionaire class, like Bill Gates or the billionaires here in Canada?

00:04:31.880 Do you know who even owns the Globe and Mail?

00:04:35.560 It's owned by the richest family in the country, the Thompsons.

00:04:39.840 Why are they never scrutinized?

00:04:41.580 And if they are, only in the most deferential tones.

00:04:44.460 Anyways, Mini Mike knows what single men trying to get a date know for every inch you are below average height.

00:04:53.120 You'd better be earning, I don't know, an extra 20 grand a year or 50 grand a year to make up for it.

00:05:00.440 This is sort of an amazing picture.

00:05:02.320 If J. Howard Marshall wasn't a billionaire, how likely is it that the late Guess Jeans model and a Nicole Smith would have married him?

00:05:14.280 Here's how Bloomberg himself described it when boasting to journalists about how awesome he is.

00:05:23.040 He said, I like theater, dining, and chasing women. 1.00

00:05:27.740 Let me put it this way.

00:05:28.920 I am a single straight billionaire in Manhattan.

00:05:31.900 What do you think?

00:05:32.840 It's a wet dream.

00:05:35.560 It's funny, Donald Trump from time to time talked like that, locker room talk.

00:05:39.380 But I wonder why Trump was assailed for it forever, almost derailed his campaign.

00:05:45.260 But it was pretty much ignored when Bloomberg said the same thing.

00:05:48.640 I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that Bloomberg is a Democrat.

00:05:53.980 I mean, of course, they would ignore that kind of sexual boasting if you're a single man being a serial dater.

00:06:01.260 Well, it's not illegal.

00:06:02.580 It's not criminal.

00:06:03.680 And depending on your taste, it might not even be immoral. 0.52

00:06:06.620 I mean, if they give oligarch Bill Gates a pass for having been a close friend with Jeffrey Epstein, the child rapist and pimp, of course they're going to forgive Mike Bloomberg.

00:06:21.260 You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you.

00:06:31.500 Did that play a role in the divorce at all in this process?

00:06:34.940 Yeah, as I said, it's not one thing.

00:06:38.040 It was many things.

00:06:39.600 But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no.

00:06:45.120 And you made that clear to him?

00:06:47.100 I made that clear to him.

00:06:48.680 I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.

00:06:52.060 Did you?

00:06:52.620 Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was.

00:06:55.280 And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.

00:07:00.260 He was abhorrent. 0.91

00:07:02.080 He was evil, personified. 0.94

00:07:04.700 I had nightmares about it afterwards.

00:07:06.680 So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt.

00:07:11.100 And here I'm an older woman.

00:07:12.460 My God, I feel terrible for those young women.

00:07:15.000 It's awful.

00:07:15.620 You felt that the moment you walked in.

00:07:17.100 I didn't realize that.

00:07:17.920 He was awful.

00:07:18.020 Yeah.

00:07:18.940 And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?

00:07:23.360 Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to answer.

00:07:29.340 Okay.

00:07:29.760 But I made it very clear how I felt about him.

00:07:32.560 Yeah, and Bill Gates is still quoted on TV as if he's normal.

00:07:35.940 So why am I poking at these people with mean, even childish insults about being short?

00:07:43.020 Well, because they're mean to you and me.

00:07:45.540 Much worse, of course.

00:07:46.580 Look at this.

00:07:46.980 This is an editorial published by Bloomberg.

00:07:50.120 That's the media company named after Mike Bloomberg that has so enriched him.

00:07:55.000 It's what gave him the money to chase women all over Manhattan and to run for president in a vanity campaign. 1.00

00:08:01.520 Here's what Michael Bloomberg's news company published about how to deal with inflation, which is eroding your paycheck.

00:08:07.920 Prices are skyrocketing for everything.

00:08:10.240 Gasoline, food, cars, houses, pretty much anything.

00:08:13.040 Here's Minnie Mike's advice to you.

00:08:15.360 Inflation stings most.

00:08:19.200 If you earn less than $300,000, here's how to deal.

00:08:23.860 Take the bus.

00:08:25.260 Don't buy in bulk.

00:08:26.840 Try lentils instead of meat.

00:08:29.500 Nobody said this would be fun.

00:08:32.540 Hey, guys, if you're one of the poors earning less than $300,000, that's U.S. dollars. 0.99

00:08:37.340 So it's just a shade under $400,000, Canadian.

00:08:40.360 If you're one of the poors, here's some friendly advice from Mike Bloomberg. 1.00

00:08:45.660 Net worth $82 billion.

00:08:48.040 So let's take that advice line by line.

00:08:50.760 Take the bus.

00:08:51.940 I love it.

00:08:52.880 Now, there are some places where you can actually take a bus.

00:08:56.540 But do you think Mike Bloomberg has ever taken a bus in his life?

00:09:00.240 Take the bus.

00:09:01.040 So double your time in traffic wherever you're going in your life.

00:09:04.660 In no situation is taking a bus ever faster than taking a car.

00:09:08.840 We probably add an hour to the day of an average person.

00:09:12.600 But how do you take the bus when, I don't know, you're carpooling with your kids to the hockey arena with your big hockey bags?

00:09:19.020 How do you take the bus when you're going shopping for groceries at Costco or, you know, people in country places where they don't have public transport?

00:09:28.380 Or, you know, truck drivers who bring us all of our stuff like our food or, I don't know, farmers whose tractors and combines really can't be replaced with a bus?

00:09:39.160 But thanks.

00:09:40.000 But how would Mini Mike even know?

00:09:44.360 He never takes a bus other than an Airbus.

00:09:48.500 Look at this.

00:09:49.760 In three years as mayor, he took nearly 1,000 private jet flights to Bermuda, to Florida, to London, wherever.

00:09:56.920 That's pretty much a private jet flight per day.

00:10:00.700 This is the guy who says he's really worried about you driving so much because you're causing global warming, just so you know.

00:10:07.000 Don't buy in bulk is their second piece of advice, even though that's typically how people might save money by buying in bulk.

00:10:14.260 But just buy enough to live for the day.

00:10:16.680 Maybe you'll rent.

00:10:18.180 I love this next one.

00:10:19.500 Try lentils instead of meat.

00:10:21.500 Really.

00:10:22.120 Mmm.

00:10:22.960 I like a nice lentil hamburger for lunch.

00:10:25.480 And then when I get home, a nice thick lentil steak for dinner.

00:10:29.880 Medium rare.

00:10:31.020 Delish.

00:10:31.920 You know, lentils.

00:10:32.920 I mean, in North Korea, they'd die for that. 0.58

00:10:38.060 I checked.

00:10:38.620 Turns out the price of lentils has actually doubled in the past year.

00:10:43.000 So this advice for the poors, it's not quite as helpful as you might think. 1.00

00:10:47.580 But it's not meant to be helpful.

00:10:49.080 It's meant to normalize you being poor and miserable and accepting it like they lived under the former Soviet Union, rationing all the time, dreary and gray. 0.79

00:10:57.400 Seriously, I'm surprised they didn't go straight for their fetish of promoting people eating bugs.

00:11:03.240 They're so weird about that.

00:11:05.020 Here's the World Economic Forum. 0.97

00:11:06.920 They're just so gross.

00:11:08.300 This London insect farm is changing the way we eat.

00:11:12.100 I'm gagging just reading that.

00:11:13.260 Here's another one.

00:11:15.520 Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food systems.

00:11:20.480 Oh, my God.

00:11:21.660 Oh, I'm getting nauseous.

00:11:23.860 I'm gagging just thinking about this.

00:11:26.300 I'm going to skip this next one.

00:11:27.660 But you can see they're really pushing for bugs to be on the menu in restaurants.

00:11:35.520 Nobody said this would be fun.

00:11:39.640 That's Paris Hilton there.

00:11:40.800 Paris Hilton there, the heiress, wearing a shirt saying, stop being poor. 1.00

00:11:45.300 She later claimed the photo had been photoshopped.

00:11:48.440 She didn't say that, she claims.

00:11:51.620 It could be.

00:11:52.320 It could be.

00:11:53.160 I think the reason the fake Photoshop version resonated so much is because that's really how she lives.

00:12:00.760 Even if the words, she doesn't say the words, stop being poor.

00:12:05.220 She exudes that sentiment.

00:12:07.400 But really, how is any of that different from our very, very smart people whose advice to poor people, who can barely afford to fill up their gas tanks in their old beater?

00:12:18.700 Well, duh, just buy a new Tesla.

00:12:21.920 I mean, hello.

00:12:23.680 Those start at, what, 60 grand for the most basic model in Canada?

00:12:28.180 Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well.

00:12:34.000 Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a nationwide electric vehicle charging network so the people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV.

00:12:46.860 I mean, seriously, just stop being poor.

00:12:49.140 That's the advice.

00:12:50.880 They're going to make you poor, by the way.

00:12:54.260 I don't know if you know this, but in Canada, they're jacking up the carbon tax again on April Fool's Day.

00:12:58.760 Just an extra 11 cents a liter.

00:13:01.720 Just stop being poor already, people.

00:13:04.020 But they're taking care of themselves.

00:13:05.680 Don't you worry.

00:13:06.560 Every year on the same day, MPs and senators give themselves an automatic pay raise.

00:13:11.000 No matter how crummy they are, no matter how disastrous they are, no matter that parliament has barely sat these last two years, pay raise is all around.

00:13:19.880 Some conservative MPs claimed that they plan to give their pay raise to charity.

00:13:24.760 Do you believe they actually did?

00:13:26.940 But I want you to know and to really understand in your bones that they want inflation.

00:13:33.260 They want prices to go higher.

00:13:35.800 That they want prices to be so high you become poor, especially energy poor.

00:13:41.000 Because they say that.

00:13:42.640 That's their whole rationale for carbon taxes, or as they call it, pricing carbon.

00:13:47.180 It's to make energy painful to use.

00:13:50.160 That feeling you get at the gas pump, that feeling of dread, of how can I make ends meet?

00:13:55.820 That's what they want.

00:13:57.540 It's social engineering.

00:13:59.080 Here's how the Globe and Mail put it.

00:14:00.740 Stéphane Dion called it the green shift when he ran on it in 2008.

00:14:05.080 He was a klutz, and Harper devoured him. 1.00

00:14:08.560 But now it's the law. 0.68

00:14:10.700 Who had the last laugh there?

00:14:13.080 Here's Trudeau, just a few months ago, saying he wants to reduce the amount of oil and gas, make it scarce, make it more expensive.

00:14:21.340 This is Stéphane Dion with a better haircut.

00:14:23.620 We're going to keep moving forward at home on emissions.

00:14:26.940 We've committed to put a cap and begin to cut emissions from oil and gas production.

00:14:33.220 We're the first major oil and gas producing nation to do that.

00:14:39.360 We've committed to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030, and in particular, reduce oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

00:14:52.400 On electricity, we've committed to phasing out coal-fired electricity by 2030.

00:14:59.760 We're going to ensure that all new vehicle sales are zero-emission vehicles and that we have a net zero grid by 2035.

00:15:07.080 This is something we've said a number of times, and people have remarked upon here at COP, that we're not just saying we need to move forward as a world, we ought to do things.

00:15:21.420 Canada is showing that we are doing things.

00:15:24.400 Canada is showing that we're making big decisions at home and encouraging people around the world to do more as well.

00:15:31.980 All right, I'm going to stop that there, but he's saying he wants to eliminate oil and gas, or at least Canadian oil and gas,

00:15:38.460 and he wants to let the world's demand for oil and gas be met by OPEC and Russia.

00:15:46.520 Well, we see how that works with Russia.

00:15:48.740 They're using their near monopoly of oil and gas in Europe to take Europe hostage. 0.92

00:15:53.280 How could Germany possibly take a tough stand against Russia when it imports about 40% of its energy from Gazprom, the Russian company?

00:16:01.540 Germany cannot put sanctions on Russia.

00:16:05.480 Frankly, it better be careful that Russia doesn't put sanctions on Germany.

00:16:09.660 Imagine if Putin cut off German gas with the flip of a switch.

00:16:15.000 That's where Canada could come in as a purveyor of ethical oil and gas.

00:16:19.460 Germany raised that in a face-to-face meeting with Trudeau the other day.

00:16:23.420 Did you know that?

00:16:24.100 But Trudeau turned them down.

00:16:26.500 Here, here's the official readout from the prime minister's website.

00:16:29.320 Prime Minister Trudeau met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

00:16:33.800 Together, the leaders discussed and coordinated next steps to counter Russia's ongoing and accelerating aggression against Ukraine.

00:16:40.440 The leaders also committed to strengthening bilateral cooperation to enhance trade, fight climate change, and build clean economies with good jobs, including through the transition to clean energy.

00:16:53.780 Oh, I thought they needed help with oil and gas to replace the Russian oil and gas, and coal also.

00:16:59.940 No.

00:17:00.580 Here's what Trudeau talked to them about.

00:17:01.880 To combat climate change and accelerate the transition toward a clean energy future, Canada and Germany will deepen collaboration on carbon pollution pricing, energy and critical minerals, through the high-level steering group on bilateral cooperation.

00:17:16.520 The leaders mutually recognized each country's leadership in carbon pricing through the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge on Carbon and the Climate Club, respectively, and agreed to collaborate for the broader adoption of pollution pricing in an upcoming multilateral forum.

00:17:34.560 Oh, so the only fighting they're doing, they're not fighting Russia.

00:17:39.580 They're fighting global warming.

00:17:41.600 And they're providing all assistance to Ukraine, short of help.

00:17:46.520 You know, we're sitting on the world's third largest oil reserves, with Venezuela and Saudi Arabia being in first and second place, but Trudeau won't open up the taps, even though Germany could use it, all of Europe could use it, because Trudeau wants to force people off oil and gas.

00:18:00.620 You heard him.

00:18:01.240 He wants to go harder on carbon pricing.

00:18:03.080 He's actually still talking about that, which is what the carbon tax is designed to do, to make oil and gas too expensive to actually buy.

00:18:09.940 They want Germany to be dependent on Russia, and they want you to be poor.

00:18:16.520 This is the World Economic Forum's video from a few years back.

00:18:20.800 It's all happening.

00:18:21.700 Thank you.

00:18:22.520 Thank you.

00:18:22.740 Thank you.

00:18:22.820 Thank you.

00:18:23.140 Thank you

00:18:24.480 Thank you.

00:18:54.480 Thank you.

00:19:24.480 Thank you.

00:19:54.480 You can't afford meat to eat.

00:19:58.040 Hey, nobody said it would be fun, but that's your lot in life, if Minnie Mike and Justin

00:20:04.300 Trudeau say so themselves.

00:20:06.820 Stay with us for more.

00:20:07.900 Welcome back.

00:20:20.160 Well, I used to phrase media party.

00:20:22.540 You've probably heard me say that for years now.

00:20:25.480 Another way I've heard it spoken is the media political industrial complex, an homage to

00:20:32.080 Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex.

00:20:36.540 And then, of course, there's the term I see sometimes on Twitter, Justin Journos, in reference

00:20:42.820 to those media who take bailouts from Justin Trudeau's government.

00:20:47.360 And, you know, it's an accusation.

00:20:49.960 It's a speculation.

00:20:51.340 It's a it's an interpretation.

00:20:53.280 But is it real?

00:20:55.400 Is there any pressure from the prime minister's office or the liberal government in any way

00:21:00.940 to companies that take those bailouts to maybe tailor their coverage a little bit?

00:21:06.640 Is there a quid pro quo?

00:21:10.200 If you take money from Justin Trudeau, do you have to do what he says?

00:21:14.380 Our next guest might have an opinion on that subject.

00:21:16.880 She used to work for iPolitics, a subsidiary of the Toronto Star that receives government

00:21:22.500 funds.

00:21:23.500 Now she works for Western Standard Online, which does not.

00:21:27.060 How did that move happen?

00:21:28.340 Joining us now via Skype from Ottawa is Rachel Emanuel.

00:21:31.800 What a pleasure to meet you.

00:21:32.740 Thanks for joining us today.

00:21:35.280 Yeah, absolutely.

00:21:35.880 I'm happy to be here.

00:21:37.380 Well, I saw you reporting at iPolitics and iPolitics, correct me if I'm wrong, it used

00:21:44.860 to be independent.

00:21:45.620 Then it was acquired by the Toronto Star.

00:21:47.820 So it has sort of an establishment point of view.

00:21:51.420 It's more a political subsidiary of Toronto Star that's really focused on Ottawa.

00:21:58.540 And it like it doesn't have sports.

00:22:00.560 It doesn't have weather.

00:22:01.520 It doesn't have traffic.

00:22:02.360 It's just it's for people who want a heavy dose of politics.

00:22:05.120 Is that a good summary?

00:22:06.200 Why don't you describe iPolitics from your point of view?

00:22:10.300 Absolutely.

00:22:10.960 It's for people that are in the know in Ottawa, and it largely focuses on public policy.

00:22:16.120 Got it.

00:22:16.580 So it's it's for it's for political junkies who just love it.

00:22:21.040 Now, my take on it is that they're actually sort of fair.

00:22:24.620 I mean, they they give coverage to Rebel News every week.

00:22:27.480 They do a little summary of us.

00:22:28.660 And I don't mind it one bit.

00:22:30.180 I mean, a lot of other media just do nothing but ignore us or shoot at us.

00:22:33.880 So I have a bit of a soft spot for iPolitics.

00:22:36.360 But you actually worked in the bosom of that company.

00:22:40.040 Tell me what caused you to leave iPolitics and to join the Western Standard, which is very

00:22:46.140 flavorful.

00:22:46.880 It's very independent and freedom oriented.

00:22:49.460 Why don't you say it in your own words?

00:22:50.660 What caused you to change paths?

00:22:55.320 Absolutely.

00:22:56.120 So the biggest problem for me happened sort of throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:23:00.140 We saw so many government restrictions and really unprecedented level of a curtailment

00:23:04.560 of civil liberties.

00:23:05.720 And this was something that caught my attention.

00:23:07.600 It was something I was concerned about.

00:23:09.180 And it was also something that Canadians I was speaking to were concerned about.

00:23:12.520 And I noticed that the media wasn't really covering this.

00:23:15.240 We also saw a lot of health outcomes across the board go down.

00:23:18.640 But there was so much focus just on case numbers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when we saw

00:23:23.520 opioid related death spike and we saw suicide rate spike and depression spike even in youth.

00:23:28.780 So these were things that I was all paying attention to.

00:23:30.760 And I was just wondering why the coverage of this wasn't adding up.

00:23:33.400 So these are the types of stories I was trying to write at iPolitics throughout the COVID-19

00:23:37.020 pandemic.

00:23:37.880 And I experienced quite a bit of pushback from my editorial team, largely my editors, who

00:23:42.400 said, you know, there's not a lot of people in Canada who are against, you know, vaccine

00:23:46.520 mandates and we don't think that you should be giving so much attention and so much coverage

00:23:50.200 to basically how much our civil liberties are being curtailed.

00:23:53.580 So that really bothered me because I knew that there was a broad swath of Canadians who

00:23:57.480 were very upset about these measures and I wanted to do something about it.

00:24:01.380 And then, of course, as I was sort of making, putting motions in play to move, then my Christie

00:24:06.980 of Finland article was heavily edited and I was not given permission to review the changes

00:24:11.060 before they were made.

00:24:11.880 I only saw the changes that were made to words that were being published under my name after

00:24:16.260 it was changed and updated on the site.

00:24:17.740 And it was at that point that I knew I could no longer write any other articles for iPolitics.

00:24:21.700 Got it.

00:24:22.220 Well, let's break those two things because those are two very different things.

00:24:25.000 Let's talk about the vax one first.

00:24:27.140 I mean, I don't know how many Canadians are for and against the vaccine.

00:24:31.440 I mean, there are some polls.

00:24:32.980 One thing I do know is that when Justin Trudeau or others say 90 percent of Canadians agree,

00:24:37.640 I don't think that's accurate because a lot of people got the jab under some sort of duress.

00:24:42.520 If they didn't, they would be suspended or fired from their job.

00:24:45.600 If they didn't, they would be kicked out of university or they would just be shunned in

00:24:50.940 the public square, not allowed to go to restaurants, not allowed to fly.

00:24:53.620 So I don't know if we know how big or small the I don't even want to use the word anti-vaccine,

00:24:59.380 like someone who just makes a choice not to get a particular vaccine may not be an anti-vaxxer.

00:25:03.780 Maybe they just got the coronavirus and recovered naturally.

00:25:06.960 So they say, well, why would I get an artificial vaccine if I'm immune?

00:25:11.440 But my point is, it may be a small number.

00:25:15.140 It may be 10 percent.

00:25:17.120 But if you violate the civil liberties of 10 percent of the population, it's still a huge scandal.

00:25:23.020 The thing about civil liberties is it's for minorities. 0.99

00:25:26.180 You know, the vast majority of people, if they're, you know, the establishment, if they're

00:25:32.040 in power, they really don't need the protection of civil liberties because they're dominant. 0.81

00:25:36.960 Civil liberties are always for smaller groups.

00:25:38.880 That just sounds like an odd excuse not to cover the violation of civil liberties because

00:25:43.720 it's just happening to a few people.

00:25:45.840 Did you have what kind of conversations?

00:25:47.700 And again, I don't want you to break any confidence that you that you don't feel you

00:25:51.560 want to talk about publicly.

00:25:52.580 But how how are you advised of this?

00:25:54.780 Were you pitching stories that were rejected?

00:25:57.000 Were they just sort of arguing with you internally?

00:25:59.380 How did they say, no, we're not going to cover this?

00:26:03.280 So I did pitch a couple stories and actually started writing a couple stories that were

00:26:07.080 rejected.

00:26:07.780 Those ones were largely more science-based stories.

00:26:10.480 So obviously, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we had some credible doctors come out and disagree

00:26:14.480 with basically the government narrative and the government science, which for a period

00:26:18.080 of time seemed to be changing every other week.

00:26:20.800 Basically, those types of stories I wasn't allowed to write just because they didn't want

00:26:23.880 to get into the weeds on the science.

00:26:25.800 And, you know, there's some issues there with journalists these days are kind of spread too

00:26:29.080 thin.

00:26:29.380 You don't have experts in as many areas as you used to.

00:26:32.420 But then in other areas, I would just see really heavy editing on my work to sort of

00:26:36.020 change the editorial tone that I had presented.

00:26:38.260 As well, I was actually asked at one point, I was basically sat down and said, you need to

00:26:42.160 stop covering these issues.

00:26:43.920 We don't think that this is appropriate to be covering them.

00:26:45.980 We don't think that there's very many Canadians who are concerned about the vaccine mandates

00:26:50.380 and the lockdowns that we're seeing.

00:26:51.520 We don't understand why you're giving them such a loud voice throughout this period.

00:26:55.080 So we would prefer it if you just stopped covering it and turned your attention to something

00:26:58.520 else.

00:26:59.820 It's so strange.

00:27:00.900 I can't think of a bigger story over the last two years than the vaccine mandates and

00:27:06.220 those who have questions.

00:27:07.720 I mean, really, it's the biggest story of the century.

00:27:11.020 To say that you should move on seems odd to me.

00:27:14.320 Now, you did mention another thing.

00:27:15.660 I mean, I agree with you, most media in the country were cheerleading big pharma and big

00:27:22.500 government.

00:27:23.100 I mean, until recently, I think most media were skeptical of big pharma, I think.

00:27:28.620 But boy, were they cheerleaders. 0.92

00:27:29.920 But you said a very specific thing after we talked about the vaccines, after you mentioned

00:27:34.320 vaccines.

00:27:35.080 You talked about a Chrystia Freeland article that was altered.

00:27:40.180 It sounds like your work was altered without consulting you, even though it went out over your

00:27:43.960 name, it sounds like that happened sort of often.

00:27:49.400 But why don't you tell our viewers about the story you did?

00:27:52.860 I'd call it maybe the straw that broke the camel's back.

00:27:56.220 What was the story that you wrote about Chrystia Freeland that really burst the bubble here?

00:28:02.400 Sure.

00:28:03.000 So Chrystia Freeland was at a pro-Ukraine rally a couple weekends ago.

00:28:07.120 And there were some demonstrators there, including some who were carrying some red and black flags

00:28:11.840 that were associated with the Stefan Banderer movement.

00:28:14.880 And he was basically a Nazi collaborator during World War II.

00:28:17.620 He was responsible for the murders of, you know, probably thousands of Jews.

00:28:22.180 And she was photographed with this sign, and she had posted it actually to her social media account.

00:28:26.680 And then when people started commenting on the fact that this banner is associated with the

00:28:30.300 Banderer movement, she quickly deleted it and posted a new photo and offered no explanation.

00:28:34.300 So media, True North was the first to pick up on there, started writing about it.

00:28:38.060 I covered the story.

00:28:39.100 I explained the sort of muddled history of the scarf, that it had been associated with

00:28:42.840 Nazis, and it's now been repurposed by neo-Nazis.

00:28:45.600 And, you know, to her credit, not everyone is familiar about this banner and what it means.

00:28:50.000 Certainly, I wasn't aware of what it meant until I started writing the article.

00:28:52.980 And I explained in the article, not everyone knows what it means.

00:28:55.600 Certainly, it seems like Chrystia Freeland herself would have understood the history of the

00:28:59.080 banner because she is such an expert on Ukraine.

00:29:01.180 And after my article was written, Chrystia Freeland's office called my editor.

00:29:06.280 So the evening after my article was done, I was walking home from work, and I got a call

00:29:09.740 from an editor saying, Chrystia Freeland's office just called me.

00:29:12.620 They're not happy with the editorial framing of your article, and they would like to make

00:29:16.500 some changes.

00:29:17.180 And I sort of explained what the story was, and I said I stood by my reporting.

00:29:21.000 And a couple hours later, I got another call saying that changes had been made.

00:29:24.280 So at that point, I quickly went online to see the changes that were made.

00:29:26.960 And I did not agree with them.

00:29:28.560 And as I mentioned, I did not even have prior knowledge of them or get to consent to them

00:29:32.360 or agree to them.

00:29:33.940 Now, what were the changes?

00:29:35.740 Because it sounds like you acknowledge that, you know, maybe not everyone would know who

00:29:40.400 Stefan Bandera is.

00:29:41.660 And I agree with you.

00:29:42.460 I mean, Chrystia Freeland is so deeply rooted in Ukrainian history and politics.

00:29:47.320 And by the way, it's appropriate to mention, especially in this case, that her own grandfather

00:29:53.040 was a Nazi propagandist.

00:29:56.080 He published a pro-Nazi newspaper during the Second World War.

00:30:00.840 So the idea that she wouldn't know who Stefan Bandera is stretches the credulity.

00:30:07.220 But it sounds like you saying you acknowledge that maybe everyone didn't know that.

00:30:12.000 So it sounds like you had a few wiggle words in there.

00:30:14.520 You weren't implying that she knew and made a conscious choice.

00:30:17.340 You're just showing that it happened and that she deleted the evidence of it without comment.

00:30:22.120 So it sounds like you were just doing factual reporting.

00:30:24.560 Was there anything in particular that your editors or Chrystia Freeland's office took

00:30:29.720 issue with?

00:30:30.380 Was there a factual error that they said you made?

00:30:33.960 Sure.

00:30:34.580 So these were the big things that were sort of the points of contention.

00:30:37.820 The word neo-Nazis was completely removed from the article.

00:30:41.080 Any reference of it was taken out of the article.

00:30:42.720 They also sort of worded down the article to make it seem like Freeland had been pictured

00:30:47.600 with this scarf that had colors that were also at times associated with the Bandera movement.

00:30:53.240 When it was more than just that, there was, you know, a slogan on the scarf and there was

00:30:57.360 also an emblem there.

00:30:58.760 And the other thing was also that her office was really upset about was the word of the

00:31:02.060 use, banner.

00:31:02.540 So when I had first written the article, I had used the words banner and the word scarf

00:31:06.460 interchangeably because it's a scarf that's being used as a banner.

00:31:09.740 Three people are holding it up, including Freeland, and walking throughout the crowd.

00:31:14.160 So I'd use the words interchangeably.

00:31:15.960 And then my copy editor comes to me and says, well, don't use it interchangeably.

00:31:19.200 Like, which is it?

00:31:19.820 So I explained to her how it was being used.

00:31:21.480 And she says, no, no, that's not a scarf.

00:31:23.920 That's a banner.

00:31:24.560 So we made the decision to use the word as a banner.

00:31:26.580 So any reference of the word banner or sign were also removed from the article.

00:31:31.500 And a correction was put at the bottom saying that it was, in fact, a scarf.

00:31:35.580 And then the last thing was that I had spoken to an expert, a Ukrainian expert, just to kind

00:31:40.300 of get the whole context of the scarf.

00:31:42.220 Because as I mentioned, I was not familiar with its history prior to writing the article.

00:31:45.640 And I assumed that many of my writers wouldn't be readers, rather.

00:31:48.880 So I talked to this expert and I got kind of a sense of what the scarf meant and even explained

00:31:53.220 that, you know, not everyone really knew what it was about.

00:31:55.560 And so I gave him a lot of airtime at the bottom.

00:31:57.780 But it is worth noting that he was a friend of Christy Freelance.

00:32:00.820 Unfortunately, he was the only expert I could get on the phone.

00:32:03.160 I only had about an hour to write the story.

00:32:04.920 So I had a pretty quick turnaround.

00:32:07.520 But, you know, I included that his comments, but I also included that he was a friend of

00:32:10.580 Christy Freelance.

00:32:11.720 And after the article was published, my editor actually went to him and allowed him to basically

00:32:16.460 post-edit the article.

00:32:18.140 So he read it and then he told the changes that he would have made to it.

00:32:21.320 And she made those changes, which I thought was pretty unethical because you shouldn't

00:32:24.500 do that with a source.

00:32:25.560 In general.

00:32:26.540 But you also had to take everything he was saying with a grain of salt because he was

00:32:29.520 a friend of Christy Freelance.

00:32:31.080 And he even was critical of me writing the story.

00:32:33.100 He said, I don't know if we should give the story any oxygen.

00:32:35.480 You know, people in Ukraine are dying.

00:32:37.140 Is this really the conversation that we want to be having?

00:32:39.420 And I even included that comment in my article.

00:32:41.480 So I felt like I really went to great lengths to give him enough airtime to air his concerns

00:32:44.740 and to really accurately and thoroughly get his points across.

00:32:47.840 And then for it still to be edited afterwards, I thought was absolutely wrong.

00:32:51.160 I got to tell you, it sounds like you did some good journalism.

00:32:55.800 You reported the story as you saw it.

00:32:57.940 You got an expert.

00:32:59.380 You consulted with your own editor.

00:33:01.400 It sounds like you, especially given the haste with which you, you know, the news breaks,

00:33:05.300 you had to get that story out.

00:33:06.440 I saw the picture and it was a scarf being used as a banner.

00:33:09.880 I don't know if a lot turns on that.

00:33:11.860 But the fact that they memory hold this whole story and shows they're hypersensitive to it.

00:33:18.280 And again, I think a lot of it is because Christy Freeland has the historical tie to her

00:33:23.640 grandfather, obviously.

00:33:24.900 But more importantly, Christy Freeland and this liberal government have been supporting

00:33:30.380 the neo-Nazi Adzov battalion in Ukraine.

00:33:33.900 So I think that they're just trying to kill any stories that shine a light on him.

00:33:37.920 But I got to tell you, Rachel, if any politician called us up and said, change that story,

00:33:46.700 oh, we would change it all right to add their attempts to interfere, metal, and censor.

00:33:53.640 So yeah, I mean, if some minister would call us up, I mean, if we got a fact wrong,

00:34:00.400 of course we would fix the fact and we would make a little editor's note.

00:34:03.500 But the fact that Christy Freeland was calling you and surely calling around anyone else and

00:34:09.280 trying to edit and getting editors to accept that, that is huge and shocking news.

00:34:15.820 And I don't think it's unrelated to the fact that iPolitics and the Toronto Star and 99%

00:34:21.340 of the media in this country are on the dole.

00:34:24.240 They take money from Christy Freeland and Justin Trudeau.

00:34:26.860 So when Christy Freeland calls up and says, delete that embarrassing story or change it,

00:34:31.300 they obey.

00:34:32.760 That's how it looks to me.

00:34:33.860 Is that how it looks to you?

00:34:36.580 Honestly, conversations about what is had to ensure that the government continues to give us money

00:34:41.200 is sort of above my pay grade.

00:34:42.860 I never really wanted to have to worry about those types of things.

00:34:44.960 I really just wanted to do good reporting.

00:34:47.160 Certainly, what I will say is what we learned from the We Charity scandal is that even the

00:34:50.740 appearance of a conflict of interest is problematic.

00:34:53.220 So absolutely, we have a problem with the media in this country taking money from the government.

00:34:57.300 And then when we have situations like this, it exacerbates it.

00:35:00.780 So whether there's a direct correlation there, it's hard to say that there wouldn't be.

00:35:03.480 It definitely seems like there was.

00:35:05.060 But as I said, that is a bit above my pay grade.

00:35:07.660 I really just wanted to be a reporter and kind of got pulled into this unwittingly.

00:35:11.520 Well, it's an incredible story.

00:35:13.000 And I thank you for telling it.

00:35:14.280 And I'm glad you're with the Western Standard Online.

00:35:17.340 You know, 15 years ago, I was involved with the print version of that magazine called Western Standard.

00:35:22.760 So it's a delight to see that the online version has been reborn and is alive and kicking.

00:35:27.260 And I look forward to watching your news there.

00:35:29.120 Thanks so much for taking the time and joining us today and telling us the story.

00:35:33.440 Absolutely.

00:35:33.920 Thank you for having me.

00:35:34.920 Right on.

00:35:35.320 My pleasure.

00:35:35.860 There you have it.

00:35:36.320 Rachel Emanuel, formerly of iPolitics, now with Western Standard Online.

00:35:41.520 Stay with us.

00:35:42.080 More ahead.

00:35:42.440 Hey, welcome back.

00:35:56.420 Someone named Bunny Blackwell says Ezra is 100% correct here.

00:36:00.080 And it's crucial that the old guard get familiar with this.

00:36:03.500 I hate the dependence on media tech, too, but it is the new theater of war.

00:36:08.360 And if we want to win, we have to understand it.

00:36:10.380 You're talking about seeing the world through those VR goggles that every single aspect is controlled.

00:36:17.520 You know, Alex Jones has his channel called Info Wars, and his tagline is there's a battle on for your mind.

00:36:23.280 He is so correct in that.

00:36:25.340 I feel like, you know, Facebook really commercialized that.

00:36:28.940 When you're not paying for a service, when you're not paying for Facebook, it's because you yourself are the product being sold.

00:36:35.600 Allison Coyne says, as a woman, this makes me so angry.

00:36:40.980 Talk about the elephant in the room.

00:36:42.580 The real women in the race should boycott the competition. 1.00

00:36:45.700 Without competitors, the nonsense would stop.

00:36:47.740 You're talking, of course, about Leah Thomas just crushing the women in that swim meet.

00:36:54.240 You know, I learned that Leah Thomas still has his twig and berries, his meat and two veg.

00:37:00.320 In fact, he still dates women, but he just goes and just crushes the girls.

00:37:07.580 And not just their swimming records, but their dreams, really.

00:37:14.740 You know, maybe it's too much to ask the girls themselves to fight back, but how about their dads and brothers?

00:37:21.400 And how about the rest of us?

00:37:22.540 How can we look on in this?

00:37:23.940 I find it very bizarre.

00:37:24.800 Someone with the nickname Second Chance says, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

00:37:33.880 Aldous Huxley, that is exactly right.

00:37:35.960 And we see that in Ontario today, the masks mandates have been dropped.

00:37:40.360 And people love it.

00:37:42.060 People love the masks on me.

00:37:44.020 There are so many people who refuse to give them up.

00:37:47.460 You know what?

00:37:48.280 I've heard it said that some long-term criminals, when they're done serving their very lengthy prison sentence, hate to leave prison.

00:38:00.020 They have come to love the, if not the bars in prison, the heavily regulated, proceduralized life where you have no responsibility, really.

00:38:11.700 Someone feeds you.

00:38:12.720 Someone tells you what to do, when to do it, where to go.

00:38:15.060 So some people, so it is said, love that so much they don't want to leave.

00:38:21.520 They don't want to be let go.

00:38:22.640 And on rare occasion, they actually re-offend so they can go back to jail.

00:38:28.040 They love the feeling of being controlled.

00:38:31.000 There are some people like that.

00:38:33.600 And I think there are people who love being told how to think, what to do, what to wear, who to meet.

00:38:39.220 As long as they're made to feel like they're on the team or they're doing something for the public's safety.

00:38:45.600 I don't know.

00:38:46.420 It's interesting times afoot.

00:38:48.900 That's our show for today.

00:38:50.620 Until tomorrow, let me leave you with this video of the day from Alexa on the backstory of some inappropriate signs spotted during the final day, first days, rather, of the Freedom Convoy.

00:39:02.120 Alexa made a bit of an investigation into it. 1.00

00:39:04.820 I'll let you watch that video now.

00:39:06.700 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, goodnight.

00:39:11.580 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:39:13.120 For nearly four weeks, the Convoy for Freedom demonstration was one of the largest human rights demonstrations the country had ever seen.

00:39:24.120 And yet, it remained perfectly peaceful, at least from the side of the protester.

00:39:30.020 The Convoy for Freedom to Ottawa grew from a trucker protest against cross-border vaccine mandate to a protest against all COVID restrictions for all Canadians.

00:39:43.680 And so, thousands of truckers and their supporters headed to Ottawa.

00:39:50.100 Even before they arrived, Prime Minister Trudeau was making climb about these people he had never even talked to.

00:39:59.280 The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know.

00:40:20.860 And even before the Convoy came to his doorstep, Trudeau had his mind made up about people who disagree with his handling of the pandemic.

00:40:34.320 Last December, Trudeau attacked his critique on a French-language talk show.

00:40:40.500 On the morning of January 28th, a day before the protest, a pickup truck was photographed with a Confederation flag and a Canadian flag.

00:41:09.380 Clearly, the psychological shortcut was in reference to the convoy, which, for the most part, hadn't even arrived on scene yet.

00:41:20.180 Why is the reference to a Canadian flag automatically associated with the protester?

00:41:26.140 Everyone is Canadian and has the right to have a Canadian flag, right?

00:41:32.500 That morning, anyone could have had that flag in order to discredit the convoy.

00:41:38.840 And moreover, all the easier not to be confronted with protesters since they were not yet present.

00:41:47.320 The following day was the day that would initiate the three consecutive weeks of the Freedom Convoy movement,

00:41:56.240 during which the first impression is made by what people can observe.

00:42:02.060 Two incidents involving inappropriate signs took place.

00:42:06.560 First, some photos of a man carrying a Confederation flag were publicized.

00:42:13.140 Let me explain a bit about what happened that day.

00:42:16.460 This man, fully masked, also wearing sunglasses, came to the demonstration alone with an apparently custom-made,

00:42:27.360 high-quality flag was seen at Parliament Hill and reportedly walking for a while down Wellington Street.

00:42:36.360 This man certainly did not want to be recognized, and the photos taken of him, which had been highly publicized,

00:42:46.960 are not low-quality photos either, but are from experienced photographers.

00:42:53.740 One of them, Dave Chang, who sold his photo onto Getty Image,

00:42:59.340 including the one of the men with the Confederation flag,

00:43:03.720 which was sold for the modest sum of $575.

00:43:08.460 He was Prime Minister Paul Martin,

00:43:11.240 official photographer from 2003 to 2006,

00:43:16.080 and is now a freelance photographer who provides photos for editorial,

00:43:21.480 as well as for cooperation.

00:43:25.500 Not only can we see pictures of the convoy on his page,

00:43:29.720 but we can also see portrait of Mr. Trudeau.

00:43:34.600 Curiously, his Twitter account is protected and his Instagram account is private.

00:43:41.840 I wrote to him without receiving any answer.

00:43:45.460 The second photographer, Andrew Mayday, also seems to be close to Mr. Trudeau

00:43:51.780 when we look at his photo, which he has also published in several legacy media outlets.

00:44:00.280 His Twitter is also protected.

00:44:03.620 Randy Balsworth, a Carterton-based journalist working for iPolitik, was also there.

00:44:10.500 As can be seen from their photo,

00:44:15.100 they were all in the same place at the same time since the photo have the same landscape angle.

00:44:23.520 That day, several people had interaction with the men in question.

00:44:30.080 Here is my interview with one of them.

00:44:33.540 Daniel, you were there when the Confederation flag was flying.

00:44:39.200 You had an interaction with the men.

00:44:41.640 Can you a little bit explain to us what was his behavior?

00:44:45.780 Yeah, I mean, I was working that day.

00:44:48.020 I was a body man with Maxim on the day.

00:44:51.720 He was hovering nearby Maxim,

00:44:55.480 trying to get his flag in the background of a bunch of Max's photos,

00:44:59.500 which is the last thing we need.

00:45:00.900 So I was pushing him away.

00:45:02.500 I didn't get to see his face or anything.

00:45:04.880 He was fully masked the entire time, like a balaclava,

00:45:07.840 so you could only see his eyes and his mouth.

00:45:10.540 After a while, I got fed up, and I just told him,

00:45:13.360 like, bro, you're clearly a plant. 0.98

00:45:17.140 F off. 0.85

00:45:18.080 And then a bunch of people around started chiming in and chasing him off.

00:45:22.300 And then he pretty much disappeared.

00:45:23.620 I didn't see him for the rest of the day.

00:45:25.340 I talked to some of my colleagues, some of our volunteers,

00:45:27.620 told him to watch out for this guy in case he came back and tried to do the same thing.

00:45:31.180 But no one saw him for the rest of the day.

00:45:32.980 He just kind of scampered off, disappeared.

00:45:34.800 I don't know if he tucked away his flag and took off his mask or what,

00:45:38.340 but I didn't see him at all for the rest of the day as soon as he was confronted.

00:45:41.360 Did you say something, or did he try to interact with somebody?

00:45:46.280 He didn't try to interact with me.

00:45:47.820 I didn't see him talk with anyone.

00:45:49.200 He was just kind of trying to get his flag into people's pictures and stuff,

00:45:53.220 trying to make sure it got out there, which I thought was pretty strange behavior.

00:45:57.360 I thought the flag in general was kind of strange.

00:46:00.140 It was clearly like custom made and stuff for this occasion in specific,

00:46:03.580 which I thought was kind of suspicious.

00:46:04.740 But no, as soon as I talked to him, he disappeared.

00:46:08.420 Do he was a part of the protesters or not?

00:46:11.200 All the people around me had the same opinion.

00:46:13.660 Like they were wondering what he was doing, what he was trying to do.

00:46:16.160 They didn't like the flag.

00:46:17.640 As soon as I called him out, everyone started going with me,

00:46:21.040 saying, get out of here and stuff like that.

00:46:22.960 No one was interested in his kind of, the kind of flag he was espousing.

00:46:26.880 So do you think that he came there for a purpose to disturb?

00:46:33.660 He definitely looked like an agitator to me.

00:46:36.800 I don't think he was part of the protest.

00:46:38.860 And it was definitely very strange how he just disappeared as soon as he was called out.

00:46:42.100 But I don't know.

00:46:43.360 I don't have any special info or anything.

00:46:45.440 So clearly, this man would not have been part of the protest

00:46:49.420 and was simply coming to discredit the movement.

00:46:53.500 Second, one Nazi flag was seen along the left side of the Château Laurier.

00:47:00.760 The three photos of the Nazi flag that were published in the media

00:47:05.520 were tweeted by freelancer Justin Ling,

00:47:09.400 who claimed that someone sent him these photos

00:47:12.880 and that he wished to remain anonymous.

00:47:17.300 His photos were then republished by Amni Singh,

00:47:22.720 who happened to be Jang Min Singh, NPD Executive Director.

00:47:28.680 A perfect opportunity to support Mr. Trudeau's claim, isn't it?

00:47:34.700 According to the photo angle,

00:47:37.200 the person is supposed to have been downstairs

00:47:40.600 in the canal attached to the Château Laurier Hotel.

00:47:45.140 However, the access to go down there was blocked by the police.

00:47:50.120 So the canal being more difficult to access,

00:47:54.760 how could someone have been there at the perfect moment

00:47:58.040 when the person with the Nazi flag was passing by?

00:48:03.520 Here is my investigation on the field.

00:48:07.020 So I'm currently on the other side of the river.

00:48:11.940 As you can see, it's still locked.

00:48:15.340 We are now two weeks after the convoy have been dismantled.

00:48:21.600 But we talk about the Nazi flag who have been shown on the picture on the other side.

00:48:27.260 And the only way that the picture has possibly been taken is on this step just right there

00:48:36.100 or on the other step there where the angle is the perfect angle to take the picture there

00:48:43.160 or probably a little bit down there.

00:48:44.920 The only thing is like this place was locked

00:48:50.180 and this door was locked by the police as well.

00:48:56.320 So, oh, someone was allowed to take the picture in this area and down there.

00:49:04.340 It was prohibited to enter here.

00:49:07.580 So, my question is, who were there?

00:49:13.840 How did they enter here?

00:49:17.280 And for which purpose they were there in the same time that the Nazi flag was showing on the other side?

00:49:24.980 At the perfect moment where nobody else saw the Nazi flag close to the Parliament Hill 0.61

00:49:33.060 and on Wellington Street, only that time, perfect moment.

00:49:38.400 And afterwards, these people have went away and we never saw this flag again.

00:49:47.120 So, my question is, who?

00:49:50.820 And the picture I've been taken by one freelancer that I've been shown on the Internet

00:49:57.280 is not being taken by him, but he said that he was sending by someone to him during the night

00:50:03.020 and it was Justin Ling, the one who had published the picture,

00:50:08.740 but it was sent by someone else.

00:50:11.140 So, you can see me right now.

00:50:13.900 I'm here where the picture I've been taken, just here and as well here.

00:50:18.740 And you can see that the angle is not working because now, Guillaume Roy, my camera person,

00:50:28.160 is on the bridge right now, taking me and it's not the same angle.

00:50:33.620 So, my question is, if the person wanted to take the picture, it's all down.

00:50:42.780 I will show you the picture on the screen right now.

00:50:46.420 But it's all down there on the street or all up there.

00:50:53.120 But I'm pretty sure that the person was on the street.

00:50:57.160 The stair was closed.

00:50:58.780 The access was closed.

00:51:00.700 And these people were coming from a park where another picture had been taken.

00:51:07.740 And afterwards, after walking through the stair, we never saw the flag again.

00:51:14.800 So, do they just pass there to show the flag and they came back into the Fairmont Hotel?

00:51:23.220 Who was this person?

00:51:25.140 It was actually some individual, the same one, who had been seen on the park

00:51:30.760 and as well here and disappeared after with a Nazi flag.

00:51:37.360 But never been shown where the Freedom Convoy was.

00:51:41.440 So, I'm standing where the second picture was taken.

00:51:45.280 And as I say, it's the park next to the hotel.

00:51:49.120 You can see the Hotel Chateau Laurier just right there at my right.

00:51:56.080 And so, the people who was walking in this park went towards on the side of Chateau Laurier

00:52:05.420 and the flag disappeared.

00:52:07.440 So, is it stage to just put it out their flag in this park, walking where they know that

00:52:18.380 some people will see them and after that disappear?

00:52:23.080 That is a little bit like mysterious.

00:52:25.860 So, we will show you the distance that this, this person have walked in total.

00:52:35.340 If we follow the picture, first picture there, follow me.

00:52:41.320 It's really a short distance where the flag had been seen.

00:52:47.980 No picture was taken at the Parliament Hill.

00:52:52.120 So, of course, if it was on Parliament Hill or anywhere else with the number of media

00:53:00.580 that was present that day, many pictures will have been like on media.

00:53:07.000 But only four pictures have been seen so far and published.

00:53:11.080 You see, now we can actually begin to see the stair just in front of me where the second picture

00:53:18.260 had been taken.

00:53:20.540 And afterwards, no flag anymore.

00:53:24.660 So, do you think that, if the people still believe that these people was part of the protest,

00:53:35.380 I still say that no.

00:53:38.480 They were there for discredit the movement and I'm here to investigate on it.

00:53:42.780 So, in the Chateau Laurier, they have like many rooms and we know that on Chateau Laurier

00:53:50.080 was for a long time the headquarter of the police officer, from the police that was coming

00:53:56.380 from everywhere from Canada.

00:53:58.620 They were staying there, they were feeding there and that was their headquarter.

00:54:04.020 The same hotel where the Nazi flag was and no, no police have interacted with these, these 0.99

00:54:13.040 individuals, but it was full of police everywhere.

00:54:18.040 And if this flag was as bad as that, probably police will have intervened, you know?

00:54:25.020 But now I'm standing where the second picture was taken in this stair from someone who took

00:54:33.720 it from down there.

00:54:39.000 So, a Nazi flag, whose photo revealed to have been taken by the same individual, who walk

00:54:46.820 a few minutes distance, who were never seen again, neither on Wellington Street nor on Parliament

00:54:54.560 Hill, and who, after the photo were taken, completely disappeared from the place.

00:55:00.780 Moreover, the hotel was also the headquarter of the different police units, and strangely enough,

00:55:12.420 none of them would have seen it.

00:55:15.800 I wrote as well to the Ottawa Media Relations, and I didn't receive answer of my question.

00:55:23.620 For my part, this is clearly a discrediting tactic.

00:55:29.640 Why is this?

00:55:31.200 Because from the following Monday, Mr. Trudeau used these photos as an argument to support

00:55:38.180 his narrative, being able to use them as a tool against the convoy, and to support his

00:55:45.000 other argument afterwards.

00:55:46.900 Yet, for the next 21 days, none of these flags were ever seen again, nor was there any mention

00:55:55.900 of them.

00:55:57.240 The first impression is always the one that people will keep in mind, and the government

00:56:02.500 know that.

00:56:04.280 Then, it was just a matter of playing around with these claims.

00:56:10.080 Nice tactic.

00:56:10.720 And it, obviously, worked.

00:56:15.760 What's my report on the Nazi flag and Confederation flag?

00:56:18.780 I hope you enjoy.

00:56:19.720 What's Alexa for Ribbon News? 1.00

00:56:21.560 We'll be right back.

00:56:32.200 Bye-bye.

00:56:32.600 Bye-bye.

00:56:33.560 Thank you.

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