Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The National Post announces a “capitalist manifesto” — brought to you with a $35M government grant

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I saw the funniest thing today. A company that takes a $35 million a year

00:00:06.420 bailout from Justin Trudeau is doing a series of articles on the beauties of the free market

00:00:12.280 and capitalism. It's almost like Bombardier or some other crooked companies giving an ethics

00:00:19.100 class. It's just too much. I'm talking, of course, about the National Post, the largest recipient

00:00:24.080 of Trudeau's media bailout. Oh, the irony. Holy moly. That's today's show. Let me invite you to

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00:00:50.720 the National Post does. All right. Here's today's show.

00:00:54.080 Tonight, the National Post announces a capitalist manifesto brought to you with a $35 million

00:01:14.340 government grant. It's December 15th. This is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:18.560 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:24.380 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:28.420 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:33.320 right to do so.

00:01:39.280 Gee, yesterday I criticized my former friend David Frum. Today I'm criticizing my former employer,

00:01:45.120 the National Post. I don't think I spent a lot of time gossiping about things, and it's not personal.

00:01:50.840 I think these are genuinely public interest stories. I think it's just that I've been around

00:01:54.940 so long, and Canada is a small enough place I've had interactions with some of these newsmakers.

00:02:01.980 In the case of the National Post, I was on their editorial board for about two years right after

00:02:07.080 they started. And for several more years, I wrote op-ed columns for them too. I've had a chance to get to

00:02:13.100 know their founder, Conrad Black, and some of their best columnists. I enjoyed my time there. I have no

00:02:18.760 grievance or grudge relating to those years. It was a great time to be in the newspaper business,

00:02:23.880 sort of like it would have been a great time to live in the world's most important and populous

00:02:28.760 and wealthy and Christian city in the world, Constantinople, in March of 1453. Of course,

00:02:36.520 the city was sacked by the Turks two months later. That's what working in newspapers was like back in 0.99

00:02:44.120 1999 or so. You could see this thing coming over the horizon called the internet, but you didn't

00:02:51.120 really know what it was going to do to you yet. That's what it was like back then. But yeah,

00:02:56.240 different media have coped with the internet in different ways. The New York Times and the

00:03:01.640 Washington Post were bought by billionaires as collectibles. Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man,

00:03:10.840 bought the New York Times, which is sort of odd. It gives him a powerful political seat at the

00:03:16.120 table, especially in matters of foreign affairs and Mexico-America relations. That's why Jeff Bezos,

00:03:23.800 one of America's richest men, the owner of Amazon, that's why he bought the Washington Post.

00:03:27.920 He wants politicians in America to be scared of him, not the other way around.

00:03:33.620 The Globe and Mail has always been controlled by Canada's richest family, the Thomson.

00:03:39.180 Don't think for a second this is done selflessly. Once upon a time, it was done in part for riches.

00:03:46.000 Owning a newspaper could be quite profitable back in the pre-internet era, but now that every newspaper

00:03:52.420 is losing money, the reason to own one is for power and prestige, not to make money. It's sort of

00:03:58.540 pitiful that no one wants to buy many other Canadian media outlets like Canada's biggest

00:04:06.000 magazine called McLean's. I think I told you the lawyer for McLean's magazine told me a few months

00:04:12.220 ago that the entire company has shrunk down. Now it just has 14 employees. How the mighty have fallen.

00:04:20.020 That used to be Canada's biggest and most important news magazine. It used to be published every week.

00:04:25.720 It was very current. Now it's a monthly that no one cares about. It used to have a million readers

00:04:31.980 a week. I just checked their advertising rate card today and they claim they still print 118,000

00:04:38.820 copies. They don't disclose how many of those are given away for free. I mean, seriously, would you

00:04:44.160 subscribe to it? 118,000 copies. That's it. In a country of nearly 40 million souls.

00:04:49.740 I guess a lot of them just go to dentist offices just to gather dust. So unlike the Washington Post

00:04:55.720 or the New York Times, McLean's doesn't have any prestige, doesn't have any political power left.

00:05:01.380 So what billionaire would buy it as a collectible, as a bauble, as a curiosity? Well, no billionaire

00:05:07.380 would, but a millionaire rents it. McLean's magazine and St. Joseph's Media, the company that bought

00:05:16.880 McLean's at fire sale prices from its former owner, they found themselves a benefactor in Justin Trudeau.

00:05:25.580 If no one else will buy McLean's out of pity or as a collectible, well, Trudeau will in the form of

00:05:32.180 the perpetual media bailout. He's a renter, not a buyer. Trudeau is now the single largest benefactor

00:05:39.160 to McLean's more than any other advertiser. So whereas Jeff Bezos uses his financial stake in

00:05:46.280 the Washington Post to influence the White House and influence Congress, Justin Trudeau uses his

00:05:52.020 financial stake in McLean's to influence voters and the media. Two sides of the same corrupt coin,

00:06:00.720 except that at least Bezos uses his own money. Trudeau uses our money to give himself a dollar

00:06:06.600 store version of Pravda. But the genius of Trudeau's plan is that McLean still pretends to be

00:06:11.540 independent. They're not wholly owned by Trudeau like Pravda was owned by the Kremlin. So Trudeau

00:06:17.300 actually gets more bang for the buck. He has corrupted the press, but he still gets to free ride off their

00:06:23.920 historical reputations as independent journalists. You might remember I did a story a couple months ago

00:06:31.340 above the 1,500 media companies that divided up a special $61 million pre-election payout from Trudeau

00:06:38.940 just weeks before the last election, and they all kept it a secret. I didn't know 1,500 people

00:06:46.640 could keep a secret. I didn't know 15 people could keep a secret. Two people can barely keep a secret.

00:06:54.580 But I guess there's honor amongst thieves. None of them wanted the world to know they were all in the

00:06:58.220 take. Anyways, all this brings me to the case of Post Media, the largest newspaper company in Canada,

00:07:04.680 the largest recipient of Trudeau's newspaper bailout. Only the CBC gets more, and they're wholly owned by

00:07:12.100 the government. So that's, I guess, their explanation. Post Media is so weird. They're not even Canadian.

00:07:18.560 Do you know that? They're controlled by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey hedge fund. Did you know

00:07:25.180 that? So these New Jersey boys are skimming all the money out of Post Media. They couldn't care less

00:07:31.320 about editorial quality. I've just got to read this to you. This is a quote from Chatham's main man in

00:07:36.060 Toronto, Paul Godfrey, who I rather like, by the way. He chairs Post Media, and he gave this interview

00:07:41.560 to Toronto Life. He was asked about Post Media's rapid decline editorially, and if he is actually proud

00:07:49.520 of what they publish, here's the exchange. You're in the middle of another round of job cuts. At what

00:07:56.960 point are you diminishing the print product so much that you're hastening its decline?

00:08:03.320 It hasn't happened yet. Are our papers as good as they used to be? No, but they haven't become

00:08:10.420 unacceptable. They haven't become unacceptable. That's quite a thing to say. That's quite a backhanded

00:08:17.300 compliment. Honey, how do I look today? Honey, does this make me look fat? How did I do my big

00:08:24.700 presentation today? You're not as good as you used to be, but you haven't yet become unacceptable?

00:08:32.720 That is so classic. You got to give Paul Godfrey full marks for a sense of humor. That reminds me,

00:08:38.880 I got to just show you this goofy, you know, remember that comedy? Remember that show called Dumb 0.96

00:08:42.740 Dumb and Dumber. It reminds me of this scene. I want to ask you a question straight out, flat out,

00:08:48.620 and I want you to give me the honest answer. What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and

00:08:55.900 a girl like me ending up together? Well, Lloyd, that's difficult to say. We really don't hit me with

00:09:07.080 it. Just give it to me straight. I came a long way just to see you, Mary. Just least you can do is

00:09:13.040 level with me. What are my chances? Not good. You mean not good like one out of a hundred? I'd say

00:09:28.320 more like one out of a million.

00:09:37.940 So you're telling me there's a chance.

00:09:43.660 Yeah!

00:09:45.560 Hey, you're not yet unacceptable.

00:09:49.060 So there's a chance. I say all this because one of the reasons the National Post is in decline is

00:09:53.720 because it has become a newspaper more focused on pleasing the powers that be and applying for

00:09:59.180 government grants rather than doing great journalism in the interest of its viewers,

00:10:03.640 readers. It's Trudeau's mistress now, and it sort of shows. They're grantrepreneurs, not

00:10:09.900 entrepreneurs. It's a different mindset. So I saw this today. It's a tweet from National Post.

00:10:16.560 Follow our new series that raises a toast to the miraculous free market. Starts December 18th in

00:10:23.560 the National Post. Or read it online now. A toast to the miraculous free market. Except what do they

00:10:30.720 know about that? Because instead of living by the free market, they live on government handouts.

00:10:36.900 How do they write that with the straight face? Look at that language. The Capitalist Manifesto.

00:10:45.620 That sounds so butch. So revolutionary. Celebrate capitalism. Except they celebrate socialism or

00:10:54.500 maybe crony capitalism or whatever it is when you rely on the state to fund you. And then you claim to

00:11:00.740 give good, honest critiques to that same politician. Yeah. Look, newspapers have to give their money from

00:11:05.900 somewhere. I get it. For a long time, newspapers got a lot of their money from ads. For example,

00:11:11.740 from car dealerships. I remember the Sun chain of newspapers would have dozens of different pages

00:11:17.980 of ads from different car companies. So it was probably true that the Toronto Sun or any other Sun,

00:11:24.580 Calgary Sun, Amazon, probably weren't too critical of car companies. Big advertiser. I remember when I was

00:11:31.900 working in the National Post 20 years ago, they took a run at one of the airlines. I forget if it was

00:11:36.740 Air Canada or Canadian. I don't know if you remember that airline back in the day. I forget which one.

00:11:41.860 And I was told that they got a phone call from that airline saying, if you keep bashing us,

00:11:48.900 don't expect those glorious full page ads. So you're always in some sort of competing pressure

00:11:56.500 when you have advertisers here at Rebel News. We don't really have ads. We make our money from

00:12:01.420 crowdfunding. The average size of a donation is just over $50. We simply don't have any advertisers

00:12:07.580 like that who could or would call us up to make an editorial demand like that. And even if they did,

00:12:13.440 they probably know that we would fire them before they could fire us. And we probably do a story

00:12:18.080 about it. So the Post really has just one benefactor now who counts. Justin Trudeau. I mean, let me make

00:12:27.620 a confession and look into your heart and you tell me what you think. If someone truly, truly, really,

00:12:32.920 no make-believe, actually offered me $35 million a year. And I mean, if it really happened,

00:12:41.420 not just a thought experiment, it would be very hard for me to say, no, I won't take so much money

00:12:47.720 that for the rest of my life and the rest of my children's lives and their children's lives,

00:12:52.660 they'll be set forever. No, I won't cash that check. I'll continue the hardscrabble effort of

00:12:57.640 earning our revenue $50 at a time. Look, I won't lie to you. If such a bizarre alternative universal

00:13:03.440 universe event happened, I would be morally challenged. It would test my mettle.

00:13:09.920 But I hope, I hope that if I took a $35 million a year bribe that everyone saw as we see post me,

00:13:19.340 I hope that if I were to do that with whatever remaining integrity I had or whatever remaining

00:13:24.820 shame I had, I hope that I wouldn't rub it in my viewer's face about being a super capitalist

00:13:29.940 who believes in the glory of the free market. Now, I did read the article. I clicked the link

00:13:37.320 and, you know, it's good enough. I encourage you to read it. It wasn't bad. It was the global

00:13:46.060 historical case for capitalism, how it raised everyone up, not just the richest. I think that's

00:13:51.380 a really important point, isn't it? I mean, the poor person today in, say, New York City lives a

00:13:57.680 life that, I don't know, in many ways could be comparable to how J.D. Rockefeller lived 150

00:14:03.000 years ago. The life expectancy of a poor person today in, say, New York, their life expectancy,

00:14:10.540 the health care they get, the food they eat, both its nutritiousness, its cheapness, its variety,

00:14:17.740 the entertainment you get, the travel you can do cheaply. That's capitalism that lifted not just

00:14:24.400 the rich up, but the poor out. The poor, the hungry, the working classes, they have been the 0.99

00:14:30.420 chief beneficiaries of capitalism, not just in America and Canada, but especially in the poorest

00:14:35.260 parts of the world. Think of India. Think of China. It's also why so many people who are working class 1.00

00:14:41.900 vote conservative. I don't necessarily mean the party of that name, but just they think

00:14:46.580 conservatively because they have a stake in things now. They have a house that they own, perhaps,

00:14:51.680 maybe a truck and a boat, too. They have what, in the not-so-distant past, only the rich have.

00:14:59.960 I think the case for capitalism really does need to be made. I'm just not sure if the National Post

00:15:05.560 is in a position to do it. Right now, capitalism has a bad name, in part because the most conspicuous

00:15:13.040 capitalists are, in many ways, the most evil. Disney Corporation and the NBA and all those

00:15:19.720 millionaire basketball players, they suck up to China and they stay silent about human rights 1.00

00:15:24.280 abuses in China. The richest companies of 2021, the big pharmaceutical companies, but they didn't

00:15:31.120 make their billions through free enterprise. They had governments buy huge tranches of not yet fully

00:15:38.720 tested drugs for them, give them a very uncapitalistic waiver on liability. You cannot sue them. I mean,

00:15:46.320 if anyone else made a product that kills people, you sue the company. Think of tobacco companies.

00:15:51.500 But Pfizer and Moderna and the rest of them, they have the best of all worlds. No liability for any

00:15:57.940 injuries or deaths they cause, plus government contracts, unlimited, plus the worst of it, government

00:16:04.400 is forcing citizens to buy and inject their stuff. Sorry, that is not capitalism. That's something else.

00:16:10.700 I don't know. Fascism, I think. Jeff Bezos, he got rich from his own smarts, but he got double rich

00:16:18.300 because governments banned his mom and pop shop competitors in your neighborhoods this past year

00:16:23.960 or two. You had to go with Amazon. The local store down the street was forced closed. No wonder young 0.99

00:16:29.260 people are turned off by capitalism. They've never actually seen it, except in the corrupt version that

00:16:34.720 they see outside on their TVs. Sure, I'm glad the National Post is dressing up as a capitalist for

00:16:41.360 one day a year as if they actually live the freedom lifestyle. It's like Halloween for them. They get to

00:16:46.500 wear a costume and forget about their reality as corporate welfare buffs. Sure, good for them.

00:16:53.940 And I guess it's not like any real young people in college or high school are reading the National Post

00:16:59.320 and relying on the National Post to rebut the Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez way of thinking.

00:17:06.300 So really, no harm done, except to the remaining reputation of what was once a great newspaper

00:17:13.220 run by a great newspaper man. Now it's just like Erin O'Toole. Controlled opposition one millimeter

00:17:22.080 more conservative than the liberals. Sorry, that's not enough to pretend that you're capitalist

00:17:27.640 or conservative anymore. Especially not when you line up for your gift from Trudeau's hand.

00:17:35.600 Stay with us.

00:17:38.900 So today, we are going to be introducing to the public, and we have legislators who are going

00:17:45.100 to help us with this, a new piece of legislation for the upcoming legislative session called Stop

00:17:51.040 Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act, the Stop Woke Act. And it's something that

00:17:56.160 will do a number of things that are very important. One, it will put into statute the Department

00:18:10.180 of Education's prohibition on CRT in K-12 schools. No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids

00:18:20.180 to hate our country or to hate each other. Well, that is a press conference earlier today

00:18:26.460 by Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis. I think he's the best governor in America. Not only does he do a

00:18:33.140 bang-up job on lockdowns and the pandemic, and he's brought a science-based approach, not a fear-based

00:18:39.300 approach. He's doing very well in the polls because of that. His economy is booming because he hasn't

00:18:43.200 locked it down. But he's rather adept at taking on issues that, well, other people talk about, but no

00:18:50.300 one really does anything about. One example is what's called critical race theory. You may not

00:18:58.020 understand what the word critical race theory is. Critical theory is applying Marxism to other fields

00:19:04.340 besides labor and capitalism. I mean, you have the class system, the owners versus the workers.

00:19:11.980 Critical theory applies that same thinking to gender. For example, you have men who oppress

00:19:18.320 women. Apply that to race, and you have white people who oppress black people. It's Marxism 1.00

00:19:25.540 transposed onto other fault lines in society. In other words, it stokes racial division the same way

00:19:35.760 Marxism stokes economic division between workers and managers, for example. Now, you wouldn't

00:19:41.900 think that critical race theory is a big deal in Canada. We did not have slavery of any substance.

00:19:49.580 We abolished slavery many decades before the United States did. We were part of the British Empire that

00:19:56.840 went to war for 50 years against slave trading ships. The Royal Navy, of which Canada was a part,

00:20:04.460 fought against slavery. We didn't have the same Jim Crow laws. The Klan was never a major fact in Canada.

00:20:11.680 In fact, we were the destination of the Underground Railroad. So, I was startled to learn that critical race 0.93

00:20:18.060 theory, in fact, is being imported into Canada, sort of treating us like a branch plant, a copycat of what

00:20:26.380 may be a real issue in the United States, but has no roots here. Well, it's finding roots. Joining us now to

00:20:32.280 talk about this is Dr. Theresa Pierre, the president of parents as first educators of parents' rights groups

00:20:40.840 based here in Ontario. Dr. Pierre, pleasure to have you on the show. Thanks for being here.

00:20:46.000 Hi, Ezra. Thank you so much for having me.

00:20:48.520 Well, it's my pleasure. I mean, I have always thought of critical race theory as an inherently

00:20:53.220 American thing, because it's part of the black experience merged with Marxism. And I get it. I 0.98

00:21:01.460 may disagree with it, but I can see how there are grievances and there is some healing that needs to

00:21:06.340 be done. I'm not going to weigh in. I'm not an American, but I get it, even if I disagree with it.

00:21:11.520 Canada, it feels like they're grafting on someone else's solution to a problem that we don't have.

00:21:18.180 Um, I mean, I think that racism is a problem throughout the world and in every society. Um,

00:21:27.460 but I think you hit the nail on the head when you point to it being transplanted from Canada to the

00:21:36.480 States. Um, of course there are, uh, issues of racism that are present in our society. Um, but

00:21:43.860 this is, um, the, what they're advocating is really to kind of turn it into our, our race,

00:21:51.340 a divide, like race divide, like to deepen it further. And, um, this is, uh, you know,

00:21:57.300 what, one of our criticisms of the project is, is, you know, why are you going to try to heal

00:22:04.640 something, um, with more division? Why are you going to, um, you know, try to, um,

00:22:13.900 make things better by stoking division between, uh, children of different races?

00:22:20.080 Well, let's, uh, start there. What exactly is being taught in Canada? I mean, I've actually

00:22:26.920 learned more about American critical race theory because there's been a real political battle.

00:22:30.900 And I think it was one of the reasons why the Republicans had a surprise win in the gubernatorial

00:22:37.440 race in the state of Virginia. Uh, the Republicans were 10 points behind just a year ago in the

00:22:44.060 presidential election and they won it largely on this issue. So I feel like I know what's

00:22:50.060 going on in the States. Can you give us a bit of an inventory or a status report? What is the state

00:22:56.300 of these courses, these classes, this ideology in Canada? Can you give us some specific examples?

00:23:02.760 Um, yes, uh, we have, um, we have it being rolled out in classrooms and we've seen that,

00:23:10.400 um, through the, the blog of Samuel say he, um, uh, reported on the teaching of it in the

00:23:18.100 Peel district in Ontario. And I'm having, you know, trustees from across the country saying

00:23:24.120 they're getting in services on this and, you know, they, um, they want a parent's help to

00:23:30.900 try to push back against the school boards that are doing that.

00:23:34.280 Okay. You mentioned Peel district. That's a, that's a, uh, area outside the Toronto proper.

00:23:39.060 Um, right. And you, you mentioned you're getting calls across the country. What is an in service?

00:23:43.740 You said, use that word. I'm not a, I'm not a teacher. I don't know what that word means.

00:23:48.240 What is, when you say it's coming in as an in service, what does that mean?

00:23:51.020 Um, um, what it means is that, um, in the case of trustees, they're, they're bringing

00:23:57.480 in speakers, um, often at quite an expense to inculcate these teachings of, uh, critical

00:24:05.280 race theory, um, and lay it out. So the trustees can understand how oppressive they are, um, being

00:24:13.100 and, um, to try to get them to change policies and to adjust things in the schools.

00:24:20.440 Um, based on that theory.

00:24:22.940 Uh, Dr. Pierre, pleasure to meet you today. Thanks very much for your time.

00:24:28.300 Okay. There you have it. Dr. Teresa Pierre, head of parents as first educators. Stay with us more ahead.

00:24:35.080 Well, listen, I appreciated, uh, our last guest spending some time with us. I just didn't feel

00:24:48.700 like I got the answers I need, but we will continue on that story. If critical race theory is being

00:24:53.620 taught in our schools, I'd like to learn how, and in what ways I'd like to hear examples of it. I know

00:24:58.400 those examples are out there and I'm sorry we just didn't get them today. I hope my questions were

00:25:02.540 not too pressing or too persistent, but I just want to know the facts. Anyways, here's some reader

00:25:08.500 feedback or viewer feedback. Chainsaw 2100, not sure if that's the name your mama gave you, says,

00:25:14.400 I quit my security job because I refuse to ask for vaccine cards. It's just wrong. Well, I salute you

00:25:21.820 and I say you're very much a small minority. I don't know if you remember when I was talking to

00:25:29.060 Alexa Lavoie about, uh, Jordan Peterson's comment. The troubling reality is that most people plunked

00:25:35.980 into Nazi Germany in the thirties would have just gone along with it. Every other force in society, 0.79

00:25:42.460 every person in the media, every institution, the laws, you would go, it's very hard to swim

00:25:48.880 against the current. Very hard. Anthony Richard says, started following Rebel more with COVID

00:25:57.120 nonsense and Alexa's doing a great job showing us what happens in Quebec. Perhaps the worst

00:26:02.020 province in Canada, measure wise. Alexa is great. She's always a source of interesting stories.

00:26:08.880 She's got quite a personality herself. We're so very proud of her. That's why she won the ambassador

00:26:13.200 award for reaching out to people that Rebel hasn't really spoken to.

00:26:16.200 Perseus 09 says, I've shared this story before and I wish to share it again. Here again, during an

00:26:24.280 interview not that long ago, a Holocaust survivor was asked, if you knew then what you know today,

00:26:29.800 how would you have dealt with the Nazis during the war? The man answered this way, if we only met them

00:26:35.780 at the door with kitchen knives and fire pokers, the Holocaust would never have happened. History teaches 0.99

00:26:41.960 us many lessons, and this is one of them. By doing nothing, you are granting these tyrants permission

00:26:47.140 to destroy innocent lives including your own. How far are you willing to go to stop this tyranny?

00:26:52.660 What has to happen before you take action, even if it means doing the unthinkable?

00:26:58.760 But when would they have had fire pokers in the night? At what stage in the game?

00:27:03.940 When it was the brown shirts and the paramilitaries running around the streets?

00:27:08.240 Or when it was the police authorized by laws passed by the Reichstag? At what point? Because

00:27:17.560 there were some illegal riots. Kristallnacht was illegal torching in the synagogues and

00:27:23.840 Jewish businesses, for example. But as I mentioned the other day,

00:27:27.940 the Nuremberg laws that created racial segregation, fired Jews from jobs, for example,

00:27:34.120 that was a lawful law, passed lawfully. It was a moral, evil law, but it was passed. So who would

00:27:41.280 you take the knives up against? The police? The politicians? That's the trouble when the entire

00:27:48.040 society goes off the rails. How do you fight back? Do you try and fight back from within the society?

00:27:54.200 That's one of the things we grapple with here. I mean, we like to use the law. We like to go to

00:28:00.100 court. We like to represent people. But what happens if the law itself is changed and you have

00:28:05.660 to fight within a law that is innately immoral and tilted against you? It's a terrible question

00:28:11.460 because that Holocaust survivor's point is correct. At a certain point, you have to say,

00:28:17.540 I am no longer going to limit myself to acting within the law. I'm going to use a knife and a hot

00:28:22.460 poker, he said. But what is that point? And will you, in fact, have the opprobrium of 99% of people

00:28:30.580 who say, now you're the violent one. Now you're the cause of this ruckus. I do not believe we are

00:28:36.160 as far down the road as that Holocaust survivor says. We are not yet there.

00:28:42.520 The Holocaust didn't happen overnight, though. Hitler took power in 33. Second World War didn't 0.94

00:28:51.020 start till September of 39. The Holocaust itself didn't really get started till 1940. And the worst 0.73

00:28:58.240 of it was 43, 44 even. So it took a decade to get there. I put it to you that we are more than a day

00:29:09.300 into that decade. More than a week, more than a month. I'm not saying we're a year down that road

00:29:14.740 in terms of how far they went. But we have had lawmaking by decree. We have had courts rubber 0.64

00:29:22.480 stamping these decrees. We have the demonization of minorities. We have forced internment even just

00:29:29.740 for a few weeks. How far down that decade-long journey that Nazi Germany made, how far down that road

00:29:37.620 have we thought? I don't know. It's a terrible question. I hope we don't go any further.

00:29:42.660 I don't propose the pokers and the knives strategy. But I understand the sentiment.

00:29:50.500 Because look at what happened when no one pushed back until the end.

00:29:54.740 That's our show for today. Sorry to end on such a sad and fatalistic note.

00:30:02.100 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:30:06.580 And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with Sheila Gunn-Reed's report on Justin Trudeau's

00:30:12.580 choice of in-flight movies. You'll get a chuckle out of that. All right. See you tomorrow.

00:30:17.380 Besides being able to hold the government accountable on behalf of the people, I love

00:30:22.580 access to information investigations because I like knowing I was definitely right. To think that

00:30:28.420 government bureaucrats are so often a bunch of weirdo control freaks using their overinflated 1.00

00:30:33.460 salaries to focus on the most bizarre things that literally nobody cares about.

00:30:41.940 Sheila Gunn-Reed for Rebel News and I love a good I told you so as much as the next girl.

00:30:46.020 And when I say that Justin Trudeau and the people around him are a bunch of paternalistic 0.93

00:30:50.020 weirdos and fake feminists, well, it's kind of nice to be able to show you that fact in a 1.00

00:30:55.060 government document. We're currently going through an enormous document package on the use of the 0.92

00:31:00.660 government challenger jet fleet. It's an ongoing project that we do year after year, wherein we

00:31:06.820 show you the high-flying ways of Justin Trudeau and his senior cabinet ministers and VIPs.

00:31:13.140 And there are so often liquor-soaked bashes up in the sky where they treat the executive fleet of

00:31:18.420 jets like a limo on a bachelorette party night. Today, however, I'm not telling you about the

00:31:25.060 thousands upon thousands of your dollars that Justin Trudeau and his friends spend on booze in

00:31:29.700 the sky, nor the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spend on food, but rather how the in-flight movies

00:31:36.900 are causing controversy. At least two of them were deemed not suitable for our female governor

00:31:43.860 general at the time, Julie Payette. Now, for some reason, the Department of National Defense sent us

00:31:50.020 the list of movies available to the prime minister and his VIP friends to watch when they're on the

00:31:56.180 government challengers. The DND didn't even send us the whole list. They just sent us the B and C titles.

00:32:03.300 And I don't know why they did this. I don't know if they're sending me this stuff to waste my time

00:32:07.860 because I have to read it, but you know what? I did read the list. And frankly, it's kind of heavy

00:32:13.200 with Leonardo DiCaprio content, so read into that what you will. The beach is on the list and Blood

00:32:18.200 Diamonds on there, too. Anyway, I thought it was sort of curious. Something piqued my interest.

00:32:26.520 There are two movies on the list whose titles I can't know now because they were deemed inappropriate,

00:32:31.600 as in the movies were listed as something Justin Trudeau could watch, but they were deemed

00:32:36.640 inappropriate for the Governor General Julie Payette to watch when she was on the flight.

00:32:41.840 Good gracious, what are those titles? What did those movies have in them? And why do these

00:32:47.480 government bureaucrats think they need to go about the business of pre-censoring movies

00:32:51.500 for the Lady Governor General? I'm pretty sure she can make her own mind up about what she wants to 1.00

00:32:57.340 watch on a flight. Think whatever you want about Julie Payette, and I certainly do. But the Queen's 1.00

00:33:03.320 representative in Canada at the time is an autonomous adult woman who doesn't need a feminist 1.00

00:33:09.980 government and their bureaucratic enablers telling her what she can't cast her pretty little eyes upon,

00:33:15.820 that it might angry up her blood. Also, again, I'm just dying to know what those movies were,

00:33:22.240 and specifically what genre they fell under and what rating were they given. R, X, triple X.

00:33:28.400 Feminism for Justin Trudeau is when you fire prickly women you can't control, and wherein you 1.00

00:33:33.840 have bureaucrats tell other women what they can't watch on a flight. 1.00

00:33:38.760 It is so important that we all understand that it's not only that men can be feminists,

00:33:47.600 it's that men should be feminists as well. And I am proud of that. Being a feminist for me means

00:33:55.660 recognizing that men and women should be, can be, must be equal, and secondly, that we still have an awful

00:34:03.180 lot of work to do. He for she is a UN movement that I hope all of you go up and sign up for,

00:34:09.800 of men standing up for women, men shutting down some of those negative conversations that we get

00:34:16.020 in locker rooms, in bro culture. We need to know that we are better than that.

00:34:22.920 Still, going through this document package is an enormous task. This is the same document package

00:34:29.580 where we discovered that a challenger had indeed gone to Barbados last Christmas, but it was for a

00:34:34.600 military purpose, which is weird because the bureaucrats should have just told everybody

00:34:38.840 and the conspiracy theories would not have run rampant last Christmas. And there's so much more

00:34:44.280 to get through. Lots of little tidbits like this one here. But doing these sorts of investigations,

00:34:50.080 so time consuming, and it is expensive. We have somebody who helps us read through these research

00:34:55.460 documents. But the truth is we have to physically lay eyes on every single page. Filing takes time

00:35:01.800 and it takes money. And then appealing takes time and money when they deny the initial filing.

00:35:08.200 This one alone has taken a year. And I'm just now getting through the documents. If you'd like to

00:35:14.680 support this sort of government accountability journalism that really nobody else is doing, we have a very

00:35:20.060 special fund where you can donate. It's at rebelinvestigates.com. We don't get big bucks like

00:35:26.040 the CBC to do stories nobody watches. We rely on the support of viewers like you at home to ask

00:35:32.120 questions nobody else will. And thanks again to everybody who donates to make this sort of work

00:35:37.400 possible. For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:35:40.440 Are you like me? Are you just dying to know what movies Justin Trudeau was watching that were deemed

00:35:49.980 inappropriate for the lady Governor General, Julie Payette? If you'd like to help me find out that

00:35:55.480 information, please donate at rebelinvestigates.com. I'm going to do my best to file for that

00:36:01.280 information. If they block me, I'm going to appeal. I must know the answers to these questions. Again,

00:36:06.340 that's rebelinvestigates.com.

00:36:10.440 We'll see you next time.

00:36:12.180 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - December 16, 2021

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