Rebel News Podcast - April 27, 2022


EZRA LEVANT ｜ The RCMP seriously considered charging Trudeau — until one cop said he could pardon himself


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The Mounties considered charging Justin Trudeau with fraud over a family vacation at the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas, but decided against it because it was unclear if the Prime Minister had the authority to approve the all-expenses paid gift for himself.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, I take you through an RCMP document assessing the question, is
00:00:05.660 Trudeau a fraudster? And they have this decision tree. You know what I mean? Like, if he did
00:00:11.600 this, then proceed. If yes, then this. If no, then this. I'll take you through it. It's
00:00:15.960 quite something. Spoiler alert, he did commit fraud, according to the RCMP, but they didn't
00:00:24.140 charge him because they thought he could pardon himself. I'll show you the proof of that.
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00:01:00.000 Tonight, the Mounties were seriously considering charging Trudeau with fraud, until one cop said
00:01:14.940 Trudeau could just pardon himself, so they gave up. It's April 26th, and this is The Extra
00:01:19.820 Event Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's
00:01:26.680 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
00:01:32.040 government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:41.720 Here's a story from the Globe and Mail yesterday. Here's how it looked in the printed version.
00:01:46.660 You can see right there. RCMP considered whether to charge PM over Aga Khan trip. Police ultimately
00:01:56.160 decided rules were unclear about Trudeau's ability to approve his own vacation. The RCMP considered
00:02:03.340 charging Justin Trudeau with fraud over a family vacation at the Aga Khan's private island in the
00:02:08.920 Bahamas, but decided against doing so because it was unclear if the prime minister had the authority
00:02:13.580 to approve the all-expenses-paid gift for himself. Oh, so I guess if it's unclear, better let him get
00:02:20.760 away with it then, right? Now, that's what the headline in the story looked like at first,
00:02:26.080 but I see this happening a lot, especially with news media that take money from Justin Trudeau.
00:02:31.240 The original headline is changed, at least online, if it can't be changed in the print edition that has
00:02:37.500 already gone out the door. And since most people read the online version these days,
00:02:41.700 it's like the original never existed. So here's what that headline and that same story looks like
00:02:47.540 now if you go to the Globe and Mail website. Headline's different. Trudeau faces backlash
00:02:53.980 in-house over inquiry into Aga Khan trip. So the news isn't anymore that Trudeau was facing criminal
00:03:01.620 charges. It's not even mentioned in the headline. No. Now the news is that there's some awful backlash
00:03:07.440 by those lashing back conservatives. They're always lashing out, aren't they? And here's the first
00:03:12.900 sentence in the story now. The liberal government sidestepped opposition questions about an RCMP
00:03:18.860 inquiry into Justin Trudeau's family vacation of the Aga Khan's Bahamian retreat, saying on Monday
00:03:26.040 that the country faces more important issues than the prime minister's past ethical conduct. Oh,
00:03:31.220 so the headline is those lashing out conservatives. And the first sentence is no longer the news.
00:03:38.300 The accusation, the facts that the RCMP were considering charging Trudeau the fraud. The
00:03:43.160 first sentence is now his excuse. There are more important things to talk about. Well, look,
00:03:49.180 the Globe and Mail is owned by Canada's richest oligarchs, the Thompson family. But you don't get to be that
00:03:55.280 rich by letting free money slip through your fingers. I mean, a billion here, a billion there really adds up.
00:04:00.560 So the Globe and Mail takes tens of millions of dollars in newspaper bailout money from Trudeau,
00:04:06.200 extracted from working class Canadian taxpayers who have no use for that snobby newspaper other
00:04:12.180 than to line their birdcage. But what it does is it makes the Globe and Mail, like the rest of the
00:04:16.780 bailout media, very sensitive to hurting Trudeau's feelings. There's no doubt in my mind that the PMO
00:04:22.720 called up the Globe and had them change the headline and change the lead in that story to soften it for
00:04:28.380 the boss, the boss being Trudeau. It's true that conservatives did lash back, but pretty mildly.
00:04:36.000 Here's a clip of the exchange in question, period.
00:04:38.940 Mr. Speaker, we're talking about the RCMP here, not the ethics commissioner.
00:04:42.800 Nearly released documents from the RCMP reveal there may be reasonable grounds to believe that
00:04:48.180 the prime minister committed the offense of fraud on the government contrary to section 121,
00:04:53.460 1C of the criminal code. Now, this was after the prime minister was found guilty of accepting
00:04:58.860 luxurious Bahamian vacations worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Mounties didn't proceed
00:05:05.180 with charging the prime minister because the prime minister may have granted himself an
00:05:09.540 get-out-of-jail-free card. So did the prime minister give himself the power to break the law?
00:05:15.640 The Honourable Government House Leader.
00:05:23.440 Mr. Speaker, there was five years ago a report that was done by the ethics commissioner.
00:05:28.640 That report made all of the matters clear. The prime minister responded appropriately.
00:05:33.700 But again, Mr. Speaker, I will say I understand that the party opposite wants to drag in partisan
00:05:38.460 politics and play games. But I would say there are a lot of pressing issues facing this country.
00:05:43.260 We just had a budget table that takes critical action on housing and indigenous reconciliation
00:05:48.760 and the environment. And I would think those are important questions to be asking about,
00:05:52.840 Mr. Speaker. Yeah.
00:05:54.640 Not very lashing, to be honest. Now, you might remember that Trudeau and his gold digger wife,
00:06:01.420 Sophie, wanted to party in the Bahamas like some, you know, reality TV stars or something like rock
00:06:07.920 stars, but they certainly didn't want to pay for it themselves, even though they have the money.
00:06:11.140 So Trudeau asked the billionaire named the Aga Khan, the leader of the Ismaili Muslim community,
00:06:17.400 to use his private Bahamian island for free. That's at least a $200,000 vacation. And Trudeau
00:06:24.140 kept it a secret. Here's how the Globe puts it a bit lower down in the story.
00:06:30.940 Mr. Trudeau and his family went to the Aga Khan's private island at Christmas 2016, even though the
00:06:36.820 Ismaili Muslim leader had millions of dollars in dealings with the federal government.
00:06:41.140 In 2017, then Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson found he violated the Conflict of Interest Act
00:06:47.780 by accepting the vacation because of continuing official business between the government and the Aga Khan.
00:06:53.820 The Aga Khan Foundation in Canada has received nearly $330 million from the federal government
00:06:58.900 since 1981. And, you know, that's the problem.
00:07:02.540 Justin Trudeau and the Aga Khan weren't really friends.
00:07:05.240 The Aga Khan was friends with Trudeau's dad, Pierre Trudeau.
00:07:08.920 Well, look, so many of Justin Trudeau's friends are just friends he inherited from his dad.
00:07:14.440 It's just that this friend, the Aga Khan, also gets hundreds of millions of dollars
00:07:18.160 from the Canadian government. So it would have been weird
00:07:21.120 to receive this greedy personal phone call out of the blue
00:07:25.200 demanding a secret luxury holiday for Trudeau and his family and his friends.
00:07:30.840 It wasn't just Trudeau himself. He brought the whole team.
00:07:33.220 But if you're asking the government of Canada for hundreds of millions of dollars in grants,
00:07:38.640 you bet you're going to give the greedy prime minister whatever personal loot bag he wants.
00:07:45.320 I mean, what's the rate of return on that investment?
00:07:47.860 So you have to really clean out the hot tub afterwards and restock the liquor cabinet.
00:07:52.000 But you're pretty sure you're going to get your next $330 million check in the mail.
00:07:57.420 That's good business. A third of a billion dollars?
00:08:02.040 But that's illegal. Pretty obvious.
00:08:04.740 I mean, don't take my word for it.
00:08:07.520 The ethics commissioner investigated and convicted Trudeau
00:08:10.620 of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act.
00:08:12.780 The penalty, though, a $500 fine.
00:08:16.420 A $500 fine! I'm serious.
00:08:18.580 You can find that report online.
00:08:19.820 It's called The Trudeau Report, published by the ethics commissioner, who had a trial on the matter.
00:08:24.980 But when you fine a man, 500 smackers, for taking a free $200,000 vacation,
00:08:31.560 you're not exactly making it a deterrent, are you?
00:08:34.380 So guess what?
00:08:35.980 There's a Trudeau report, book two.
00:08:39.520 He was convicted again.
00:08:41.620 And guess what?
00:08:42.980 There's a Trudeau report, book three.
00:08:45.840 I'm not even kidding.
00:08:46.960 He's being convicted again and fined again.
00:08:49.000 Good. Trudeau has broken the Conflict of Interest Act more than all other prime ministers combined
00:08:53.360 because he's, in fact, the only one to ever violate the act even once.
00:08:58.000 But he really doesn't care what judges or courts say.
00:09:00.280 I mean, that's for the little people. 1.00
00:09:01.840 I'm reminded of that day when the federal court of Canada
00:09:04.320 ordered Trudeau to accredit Rebel News reporters at the election debates
00:09:08.320 and the judges declared that we are, in fact, journalists who have the right to be let in.
00:09:12.660 So the federal court's ruling was so fresh it was hours old.
00:09:15.920 But Trudeau didn't care.
00:09:17.100 He doesn't care what some lowly judge has to say.
00:09:20.560 He's Trudeau.
00:09:21.420 So this is what he said to our reporter.
00:09:23.400 I have a question from Tamara Ugolini from Rebel News.
00:09:26.040 Mr. Trudeau, the only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today
00:09:35.060 the federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is
00:09:39.240 or is not a journalist.
00:09:41.000 This is the second election in a row that the court has overturned your government.
00:09:46.200 Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and why?
00:09:49.880 First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the press gallery
00:09:56.520 and the consortium of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism
00:10:03.180 and the important information that is shared with Canadians.
00:10:07.100 The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation
00:10:19.340 on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic
00:10:26.840 and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger
00:10:35.560 and lack of understanding of basic science.
00:10:39.860 And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization,
00:10:44.340 your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
00:10:54.560 And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we take
00:11:01.640 about the kind of country we want to see.
00:11:04.000 And I salute all extraordinary hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do
00:11:11.600 and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians
00:11:19.340 from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.
00:11:24.560 Yeah, do you really think he cares what any judge says, what any law says, what anyone says?
00:11:30.680 He's his own God.
00:11:33.000 Fraud, Mr. Speaker, fraud on the government.
00:11:35.880 That's the charge the RCMP considered laying against the Prime Minister for taking an exotic holiday as a free gift in 2016.
00:11:44.460 Recent documents show the RCMP knew he committed the illegal act,
00:11:48.840 but they also knew there was a loophole that he could have used.
00:11:51.960 As silly as it might sound, the Prime Minister could have written himself a note, given himself permission to take the holiday.
00:11:59.040 So my question is this.
00:12:00.580 Did the Prime Minister give himself permission to take that free holiday in 2016?
00:12:05.900 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:12:10.320 Hello, Mr. Speaker.
00:12:12.140 This matter was settled years ago, when the Ethics Commissioner released the report.
00:12:17.180 While the Conservatives continue to focus on petty politics and on me,
00:12:21.080 we're going to continue to focus on Canadians, on investing in housing across the country,
00:12:26.460 in $10 a day child care for families,
00:12:29.180 in continuing to lead on world-class investments in fighting climate change.
00:12:33.700 That is what Canadians expect of us.
00:12:35.700 That is what we continue to do.
00:12:39.620 I mean, the corruption is out of control.
00:12:41.300 It's off the hook because he's entitled to everything.
00:12:42.980 But because everyone looks to the top of an organization for their role model, for their example,
00:12:48.740 you know, that's spread.
00:12:49.720 Remember when Stephen Harper was the Prime Minister?
00:12:52.620 He fired a cabinet minister for charging a $16 orange juice from a hotel minibar to taxpayers.
00:13:01.300 I'm serious.
00:13:01.780 $16.
00:13:02.380 Bev Oda was the cabinet minister's name.
00:13:05.160 She was actually great, by the way.
00:13:06.520 She cut so much wasteful spending. 0.76
00:13:08.520 But because it appeared that she was taking liberties with a $16 orange juice, she was sacked.
00:13:15.360 Can you even imagine that level of penny-pinching?
00:13:17.720 But Trudeau has set the opposite example, not just for waste and overspending, but for actual corruption.
00:13:25.220 Just yesterday, I see that Trudeau's hand-picked governor general got in on the game,
00:13:29.300 giving an enormous, nearly $100,000 sole source contract to some journalist who had praised her.
00:13:35.200 Seriously, they really are all this way, aren't they?
00:13:39.860 Look at this one.
00:13:40.820 The company directed by Defense Minister Anita Annan's husband was awarded COVID contract over 18 competitors, records show.
00:13:49.740 So, yeah, it's not just the size of the dollars.
00:13:54.040 It's just the bald-faced corruption and no one seems to care.
00:13:58.620 But this story on the front page of the Globe, the story that the conservative MPs had a backlash over,
00:14:02.820 It's quite something.
00:14:04.200 In short, the RCMP did, in fact, see plenty of evidence of fraud in Trudeau's sneaky free trip to the Bahamas.
00:14:12.340 But, incredibly, the reason they refused to prosecute him or to charge him, according to their own internal memo,
00:14:20.260 was because they thought Trudeau could forgive himself, could give himself permission to commit fraud,
00:14:25.860 could pardon himself, really.
00:14:27.080 So, sure, anyone else would have been charged with fraud, like a deputy minister or some bureaucrat.
00:14:34.140 I mean, think about it.
00:14:35.800 Imagine if some bureaucrat in charge of procurement, in charge of some government contract for the federal government,
00:14:42.460 who had access to a huge pot of government money.
00:14:45.760 Imagine if he were caught taking a sneaky, secret, free $200,000 vacation to the Bahamas,
00:14:51.660 courtesy of some registered lobbyists like the Aga Khan.
00:14:54.000 He would be fired and prosecuted for corruption.
00:14:57.080 But the argument of the RCMP was that because the PM is the PM, it's therefore legal, or at least it could be legal.
00:15:06.220 I'm serious.
00:15:06.700 The Conservatives released an access information request with these internal RCMP memos.
00:15:11.600 Much of it redacted.
00:15:12.640 But what's visible is still shocking.
00:15:14.780 And it's the continuation of the banana republicification of Canada.
00:15:20.060 I mean, first Trudeau said his opponents should be marginalized, should not be tolerated.
00:15:25.180 Then he suspended civil liberties in Canada and imposed a form of martial law.
00:15:29.860 He seized his opponent's bank accounts without legal process.
00:15:33.740 He's looking to censor the internet.
00:15:35.480 These are all third world strongman moves.
00:15:38.080 And he ignores the courts or pardons himself, at least enough that the police don't even bother to charge him with crimes anymore,
00:15:48.140 for which they would charge another person.
00:15:50.260 That's the state of Canada in 2022.
00:15:52.600 Seriously, I want to show you page 329 of this RCMP memo.
00:15:56.720 It's called a decision tree on whether or not to prosecute someone for fraud on the government.
00:16:02.820 I think that's Section 121 of the Criminal Code.
00:16:04.820 Let me just show it to you.
00:16:05.780 This is the RCMP memo.
00:16:07.820 Was Mr. Trudeau a government official?
00:16:10.060 Yes.
00:16:11.440 Did Mr. Trudeau accept a benefit from the Aga Khan?
00:16:14.640 Yes.
00:16:15.740 Did the Aga Khan have dealings with the government?
00:16:18.120 Yes.
00:16:18.460 Did Mr. Trudeau have the consent in writing of the head of the branch of government for whom he worked?
00:16:27.340 Unknown.
00:16:28.040 What, they didn't ask him?
00:16:28.860 They didn't bother to ask him.
00:16:31.200 If no, did Mr. Trudeau know that what he accepted was a benefit from a person who had dealings with the government?
00:16:38.260 Yes.
00:16:39.220 Final verdict?
00:16:40.760 Guilty of fraud on the government.
00:16:43.620 So look at that one part marked unknown.
00:16:45.520 The cops are saying they don't know if Trudeau wrote himself a letter that he had the consent of the head of the branch of the government for which he worked.
00:16:55.380 Because the police thought that maybe Trudeau himself was the head of the branch for which he worked.
00:17:00.680 Well, of course he was.
00:17:01.400 It would be like a police chief being allowed to commit fraud because the police chief approved it.
00:17:07.780 Yeah, that's the problem.
00:17:08.720 The same police chief that is.
00:17:09.920 He could literally commit any fraud as long as he consented to himself committing it.
00:17:16.300 That's what the cops said.
00:17:17.520 That's why they didn't charge him.
00:17:20.700 Now, I can see how that is a possible interpretation of the law.
00:17:27.360 An interpretation that is at odds with the spirit of the law.
00:17:30.280 Maybe because no one who wrote the law ever contemplated that the prime minister himself would be a three-time convicted conflict of interest lawbreaker.
00:17:39.740 And that the laws had to protect against him personally.
00:17:44.560 But how about let a judge make that decision?
00:17:47.120 How about charge him and let a judge decide?
00:17:50.120 Instead of Trudeau's hand-picked RCMP commissioner, Brenda Luckey, shown here hugging her boss.
00:17:55.720 Yeah, she sure is holding him to account.
00:17:57.640 She's just holding him.
00:18:00.320 You know, just by coincidence yesterday, the liberals released information on how the RCMP cracked down on peaceful truckers and those donating them.
00:18:09.120 Here's part of their answer to a question on the order paper.
00:18:13.220 The RCMP disclosed information on 57 entities broken down into 18 individuals and 39 vehicles.
00:18:20.700 As well, the RCMP had identified and disseminated 170 Bitcoin wallet addresses as receiving funds linked to the Hong Kong Hodel crowdfunding campaign.
00:18:31.380 Got it.
00:18:31.780 So ordinary citizens who donated money for food and gas to the truckers and the RCMP goes full Putin on them.
00:18:38.760 18 people, 39 vehicles, 170 Bitcoin addresses.
00:18:42.520 So that's what the RCMP is busy doing.
00:18:45.480 But of course, those peaceful protesters were politically embarrassing to Trudeau.
00:18:49.260 Of course, Brenda Luckey and her partisan Mounties were going to harass them. 1.00
00:18:55.440 Those are the cops who literally shot our reporter Alexa Lavoie in the leg for embarrassing Trudeau with her journalism.
00:19:01.460 You know, for years, I have vigorously rejected anyone who has tried to call Trudeau a criminal, especially those who say he's a traitor or treasonous.
00:19:10.080 My argument has been that it's wrong to criminalize a difference of opinion.
00:19:14.240 That's what Trudeau does.
00:19:16.200 And it's wrong.
00:19:17.680 We should be able to disagree peacefully but vigorously without getting the police to arrest anyone.
00:19:23.460 Now, I don't think Trudeau is a traitor or treasonous.
00:19:25.920 Those have special meanings.
00:19:27.220 I don't think he's those things.
00:19:28.380 I think he's just an authoritarian bully, bit of a thug, a violator of civil liberties and a narcissist.
00:19:34.840 But I do think it's fair, having read this memo, I do think it's fair to say he has committed fraud against the country.
00:19:43.500 He's been convicted three times in a row by the conflict of interest commissioner.
00:19:48.060 He shows no compunction.
00:19:49.380 And he was let go of this fraud charge by the cops simply because they thought he could write a little letter pardoning himself.
00:19:57.140 So they didn't want to upset anybody by charging him with fraud, which they had otherwise decided they could prove.
00:20:05.720 So, yeah, I guess I do think Trudeau is a specific kind of criminal, a criminal fraudster.
00:20:12.420 I think the RCMP notes support that conclusion.
00:20:17.900 It's tough to watch, though, as he infuses his corruption and his authoritarianism into the entire Canadian political system.
00:20:24.380 It's tough to watch.
00:20:25.920 And it's tougher still to fight back.
00:20:29.480 Stay with us for more with Alexa LaVoie.
00:20:42.420 The federal government will pay for the hotel room for their quarantine.
00:21:07.840 The ministry report that, as of March 8, 2022, over 7,000 individuals entered Canada between a land port of entry in Quebec seeking asylum.
00:21:21.660 Of those individuals arriving at Waxham Road, approximately 40% were fully vaccinated and 60% were unvaccinated.
00:21:32.460 That means a lot of hotel room paid by you, taxpayer.
00:21:37.340 That's a clip from a great expose by our lead reporter in Quebec, Alexa LaVoie.
00:21:43.000 You can tell she was at the Waxham Road border crossing.
00:21:46.780 And it's a bit of a joke watching the police saying, if you take one more step, you'll be arrested.
00:21:53.360 Yeah, they'll be arrested and then given the luxury of their lifetimes.
00:21:57.580 I mean, a lot of these folks are not American, by the way.
00:22:00.320 There is no such thing as a refugee from America.
00:22:02.980 It's a modern, liberal, civil rights-respecting democracy with a social welfare system.
00:22:08.560 These are folks who come to America and then go to Waxham Road, knowing they'll be let in and be given three square meals a day and a roof over their head. 1.00
00:22:17.300 The arrest is more like a hug.
00:22:20.020 And, of course, there are people in the United States who are about to be kicked out of the U.S.
00:22:23.740 having failed to make their refugee claim there.
00:22:26.800 The rules of refugees is that you must apply in the first safe country you meet.
00:22:31.520 There is no one at that border who meets the legal definition of a refugee.
00:22:36.500 But the joke is everyone can see that they are going to cross in because it's a welcome mat, not a fence.
00:22:43.980 You could build a simple chain-link fence and stop it, but they don't want to.
00:22:49.920 Joining us now via Skype is our reporter Alexa Lavoie.
00:22:53.040 Alexa, great to see you again.
00:22:54.020 I'm so glad that you're interested in the story and that you went back there.
00:22:57.720 You've been there before and so have some of our other reporters.
00:23:00.440 It looks like they let you get up close without arresting you because you've been threatened with arrest there before, haven't you?
00:23:08.800 Yes, I was.
00:23:10.200 But that time, surprisingly, I crossed a little bit further to take a picture of, like, you know, the non-crossing stop.
00:23:19.580 You cannot cross here. 1.00
00:23:21.380 And so it's really close to the side of the U.S.
00:23:24.380 And surprisingly, in a minute after, we saw, like, a police car from the U.S. passing close from where I was.
00:23:35.620 So I was like, OK, that's actually kind of surprising.
00:23:41.900 Yeah, I mean, both the United States and the Canadian police know obviously what's going on.
00:23:49.280 And they both actually support it on the Canadian side.
00:23:53.380 It's Justin Trudeau's policy to welcome every single bogus refugee. 1.00
00:23:58.740 Like, the very first act is a breaking of the law.
00:24:01.640 And there is no such thing as a refugee from America.
00:24:04.520 There just isn't.
00:24:05.180 But the Americans don't mind it either. 0.75
00:24:07.800 The Americans could cut this off, too. 0.58
00:24:10.120 But they love it.
00:24:11.640 They can't believe America would take these folks off of—sorry, they can't believe Canada would take these folks off of America's hands.
00:24:20.400 I mean, many of these folks are about to be deported from the United States.
00:24:23.620 So this really is the mythical self-deportation.
00:24:27.340 Why would America stop a bogus lawbreaker from leaving the country?
00:24:32.360 The crazy part is on our side.
00:24:34.220 But you mentioned there, Alexa, that 60 percent of these people who come over are unvaccinated.
00:24:40.860 And, you know, I believe vaccination should be a personal choice.
00:24:44.720 But Justin Trudeau doesn't believe that.
00:24:46.820 He won't let you or I get on an airplane, get on a train, cross a border without being vaccinated.
00:24:54.000 But these people who are not Canadian citizens, whose very first act is breaking the law, they're allowed to come and go vaccinated or not.
00:25:02.180 It's really weird.
00:25:04.220 Yeah, and that's a really funny part.
00:25:08.900 Like, Mr. Trudeau is letting people enter, like, at large without knowing where they're from, what is their path.
00:25:20.500 But Mr. Trudeau has signed, like, in 2018 for implementing the key, like, the biometrical identity for the airport for the security of the people who enter in our country.
00:25:40.140 But what about Roxham Road, who is actually just like a free enter without, like, surveillance?
00:25:50.100 You know, Roxham Road, of course, borders New York State and Quebec.
00:25:54.140 But I imagine most of the people who cross over are not Francophone.
00:25:58.600 So although they're detained in Quebec initially, they're all let go.
00:26:05.420 Like, they're not kept in a giant jail or anything.
00:26:08.120 And many of them will not have their refugee hearings for years.
00:26:12.700 And I mean, like, five or ten years.
00:26:15.340 So if they don't speak French and they don't have to leave for five or ten years, they can literally go anywhere in the country, right?
00:26:23.340 I mean, I suppose if you're a French-speaking bogus refugee, you'd hang around. 1.00
00:26:28.180 But the rest of them just go wherever they want in the country.
00:26:31.680 Yeah, and one of the biggest problems right now is, like, usually they are, they have shelter in Montreal.
00:26:39.780 It's where they put them.
00:26:41.800 But now they don't have any space anymore because you have too much people right now and too much immigrants. 1.00
00:26:48.660 So they just don't know where they will lodge them.
00:26:51.480 So now probably because we have a lack of space, they probably go somewhere else where they have more, like, lodging for them.
00:27:03.260 Now, the politics of immigration are a little bit different in Quebec than they are in the rest of the country.
00:27:08.720 I think one obvious reason is that Quebec is an island of French-speaking people in a sea of Anglophones of North America. 0.93
00:27:16.280 And so language policy applies to that province.
00:27:21.020 You know, you want immigrants who speak French, who understand the French history and culture.
00:27:25.520 I get it.
00:27:26.260 I respect it.
00:27:26.980 I admire it.
00:27:28.300 So I think Quebecers and Quebec politicians and Quebec journalists are more critical of ridiculous immigration loopholes like this than in English Canada where people are afraid of criticizing it.
00:27:45.100 Is that correct?
00:27:45.960 Is the Quebec media and our Quebec provincial politicians more critical of Roxham Road than the English Canadian media who are silent about it?
00:27:56.320 I would say that in our media, they don't really talk much about it.
00:28:02.880 I think right now I can tell you that I maybe see like two or three reports from Radio Canada that is actually the CBC but in French.
00:28:15.040 Of course, they are really open to talk about the problem, but most of the time after like they did their report, everything goes under silence.
00:28:26.100 Well, it looks like there was, I mean, you were not camped out there for weeks.
00:28:30.780 So even in your short time there, it looks like there was a steady stream.
00:28:35.140 How long were you there and approximately how many people did you see cross during your time there?
00:28:40.900 So that time I was not really there for a long time because I was going there for a quick report, but I was really surprising.
00:28:51.200 I think I saw in maybe, I would say one hour that maybe I spent ways the crossing border and I saw three or four taxis with the entire family.
00:29:07.060 And when I came to St. Bernard de la Colle, where is the big establishment, I saw a couple of buses.
00:29:17.360 Buses, eh?
00:29:18.720 So buses on the Canadian side or on the American side?
00:29:21.860 Canadian side.
00:29:22.540 So there's a taxi service basically nonstop brings these migrants to the border.
00:29:29.840 We've seen that before.
00:29:30.900 And then they get on buses on the Canadian side and they're processed.
00:29:34.360 And then they have a short stay in a hotel and then they're really let go.
00:29:38.480 Is that really how it goes?
00:29:39.960 So when they arrive by a taxi, I have an advertise on the side of the taxi from the U.S.
00:29:47.140 When they cross, they have two vehicles, one for the luggage and another one for the passenger.
00:29:54.940 So they go to the St. Bernard de la Colle, they process by the immigration. 0.87
00:29:59.320 And since they are at the immigration, the RCMP is not my business anymore. 0.98
00:30:06.960 And so after that, they put them in kind of buses.
00:30:13.120 And I think they go to maybe for a PCR test in the establishment.
00:30:18.440 But as you can see in the video, the buses is like, you know, the window are completely black.
00:30:25.600 So you cannot really see inside, but you can see some silhouettes.
00:30:30.560 And after that, they have been transported in Montreal at some hotel where they quarantine for something that is non-vaccinated.
00:30:39.780 Well, it's just incredible to me.
00:30:41.480 I mean, I have not been able to leave our country.
00:30:44.380 In fact, I have not left the country since before the pandemic.
00:30:47.580 Now I don't think I would be allowed to.
00:30:49.500 Certainly not by plane or train.
00:30:51.020 I mean, it's such an egregious fact that this illegal border crossing where, I mean, it was just if you take one more step, I'll arrest you.
00:31:01.260 But they knew that that arrest would be the beginning of a life of free stuff.
00:31:06.280 I mean, they're coached.
00:31:07.400 They know exactly what they're doing.
00:31:09.040 I wonder if a real refugee could go the other way. 1.00
00:31:13.140 I wonder if a vaccine refugee who doesn't want to be fired from their job, who doesn't want to be demonized by Justin Trudeau, who doesn't want to be treated poorly, can cross over into the American side at Roxham Road and can be told by American police, you'll be arrested and say, I want asylum. 0.66
00:31:33.840 I wonder if any Canadian would ever go the other direction because they want to live in a freer country than Canada.
00:31:40.640 So a lot of people actually ask me if it's a two-way crossing border.
00:31:47.500 I say, no, it's not, unfortunately.
00:31:51.100 And probably in the U.S. side, you would be received with a really, well, not good treatment to compare to Canada.
00:32:00.880 And some people are crossing the border, you know, like the entire family that I saw with, like, fresh, new, like, shoes, nice headphones.
00:32:12.540 And when they ask to them, like, where you're from?
00:32:15.360 And they say, like, oh, but we were living in Bahamas.
00:32:19.980 But finally, like, the passport was not from there.
00:32:23.800 It was from Haiti.
00:32:24.820 It was like, OK, you travel a lot.
00:32:26.300 Well, that's the thing.
00:32:28.240 I mean, there was a temporary permission for people from Haiti to stay in the United States.
00:32:33.880 There was a natural disaster in Haiti.
00:32:36.160 And so Haitians were allowed to overstay the normal time limit in America. 0.91
00:32:41.900 But as that's coming to an end, they either have to go back to Haiti, which is not a particularly nice place economically.
00:32:49.660 It's still a wrecked disaster.
00:32:52.500 It's not particularly free.
00:32:54.320 There's lots of violence there, political violence.
00:32:57.440 You can stay in America, but you might be deported. 0.66
00:33:00.020 Why not come to Canada, go to Montreal where there's a Haitian community?
00:33:03.900 And I just think that we're being suckers.
00:33:06.340 We're suckers to these people who are fake refugees. 1.00
00:33:09.380 We're also suckers to the United States.
00:33:11.280 We're taking thousands of people off of their plate.
00:33:14.660 And that's why I think that's why the American cops don't mind one bit.
00:33:19.260 If these people want to self-deport, they can.
00:33:21.300 I don't know.
00:33:22.200 We'll have to see.
00:33:22.800 I wonder if there's a Canadian who would go the other direction and would.
00:33:27.380 I mean, it looks like there's not a bunch of cops waiting on the other side, although you said some police came quickly when you looked around the corner.
00:33:35.320 Very interesting.
00:33:36.280 I got to tell you, Alexa, I'm so glad you keep going to Roxham Road.
00:33:40.200 And please do continue to go there from time to time because we have to tell the story because the rest of the media won't.
00:33:48.020 Yeah.
00:33:48.480 And people need to understand that in 2017, this place was only temporary place.
00:33:58.560 It was not permanent.
00:34:00.020 Yeah.
00:34:00.620 Yeah.
00:34:00.900 Well, now it's a permanent station.
00:34:04.180 Listen, keep up the great work.
00:34:05.420 And folks, I invite you to watch the entire video elsewhere on the Rebel News site.
00:34:09.120 It was a great piece by Alexa.
00:34:10.980 Thank you, my friend.
00:34:12.280 Thank you very much.
00:34:13.220 All right.
00:34:13.620 There it is.
00:34:14.100 Alexa Lavoie, our chief reporter on Quebec.
00:34:19.060 Stay with us.
00:34:19.780 More ahead.
00:34:20.040 Hey, welcome back.
00:34:32.900 Your viewer mail, Mark S. says, if he's all about free speech, he can prove it by giving Trump's Twitter account back.
00:34:40.080 Let's see if he does that first.
00:34:41.560 You're talking about Elon Musk.
00:34:42.640 Well, I have already seen some banned Twitter accounts come back, and Elon Musk isn't in the building yet.
00:34:50.160 I understand that Trump has said he won't come back even if he's asked.
00:34:53.840 Maybe that's because he's trying to set up his truth social arrival on social media platform.
00:34:59.500 I think Trump should come back.
00:35:02.180 I mean, it would be fun if Trump had his own thing, although I'm curious why it's taking so long getting it going.
00:35:08.120 But really, the whole point of Trump is to interact with the whole world, not just with his team.
00:35:13.040 That's the difference between Trump at a public rally where it's just surrounded by his allies and Trump in the world tweeting at the president of Russia, the president of Ukraine.
00:35:22.580 I'd love to see that again.
00:35:23.640 Claude says, I wonder if Trudeau called Elon to congratulate him.
00:35:29.080 He is, after all, a big advocate for democracy and free speech, right?
00:35:32.640 Well, that's going to be interesting.
00:35:35.680 Because Canada, as you know, has introduced a bill, C-18, where Trudeau wants to regulate social media.
00:35:43.920 And we showed you the other day that Twitter's official response was already fairly robust, comparing Trudeau's plans to China and North Korea.
00:35:51.560 Well, that was before Elon Musk took over.
00:35:54.640 So I think both sides are in for a bruising battle.
00:35:58.540 Someone called Old Time Faith says Elon Musk is owner of Neuralink and hopes to connect people to AI, artificial intelligence.
00:36:05.840 He is a wicked man, and Ezra has been making a lot of weird predictions as of late.
00:36:10.480 I am familiar with Neuralink a little bit.
00:36:13.020 And there are questions there that I want to answer or to have answered for me.
00:36:19.120 And I can't say I'm completely comfortable with it all.
00:36:22.900 I also acknowledge that Elon Musk is exposed to China through his Tesla investments there.
00:36:29.880 And I think that's sort of a place where Elon Musk doesn't feel as courageous speaking out.
00:36:35.920 But I don't know if someone has to be perfect in all regards for him to be good in one regard.
00:36:40.980 And I think it's incontrovertible that by buying Twitter and announcing that he's going to emphasize free speech,
00:36:47.040 in that one area of the world, Elon Musk has made the world better.
00:36:52.020 And what do I care?
00:36:52.780 It's his own money.
00:36:53.460 I mean, he could buy yachts and homes like, you know, Bill Gates or, you know, Jeffrey Bezos or Leo DiCaprio do.
00:37:01.260 But instead, he bought Twitter with the claim that he wants to make it freer.
00:37:06.060 How am I going to disagree with that?
00:37:07.660 You know, the Bible says, put not your trust in princes.
00:37:10.760 I think what that means is don't trust in any politician or any businessman or any human being too much because everyone's flawed.
00:37:17.900 Everyone's a bit of a sinner.
00:37:19.000 Maybe everyone's a liar in some cases.
00:37:21.320 I'm not saying Elon Musk is my new god, but I'm saying he did come as a bit of a miracle to stop the censorship patrol at Twitter.
00:37:29.740 And I think he's going to pay a price for it.
00:37:31.420 They tried to stop him.
00:37:32.840 He's got the company, but I think they're going to try and stop him in other ways.
00:37:36.140 He's not a perfect man, but I think he's the only man at that level of wealth who has at least a public commitment to free speech.
00:37:44.740 Listen, time will tell.
00:37:45.520 We'll see what's what.
00:37:46.600 I'm not saying that I endorse his early program.
00:37:49.060 I'm not that familiar with it.
00:37:50.140 And I have a lot of questions about it, but that doesn't stop me from celebrating the free speech win.
00:37:56.180 That's the show for today.
00:37:58.160 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:38:02.920 And let me leave you with a fun little comedic video.
00:38:08.080 We have met this fabulous TikToker.
00:38:13.460 Well, I'll say no more.
00:38:14.460 Just take a look and watch for yourself.
00:38:16.700 Bye-bye.
00:38:16.960 Space is exciting.
00:38:21.920 Okay.
00:38:23.280 And it spurs our imaginations.
00:38:28.280 That means it gets it going.
00:38:30.740 And it forces us to ask big questions.
00:38:36.860 Right?
00:38:37.200 Huge question.
00:38:41.240 Huge, huge questions.
00:38:45.240 He lives up there and free.
00:38:47.700 But space.
00:38:50.600 It affects us all.
00:38:54.140 It connects us all.
00:38:56.780 Binds.
00:39:00.080 Us all.
00:39:01.280 And that binding.
00:39:03.780 That binding is significant.
00:39:06.500 It's a significant type of bond that's affecting more than it's binding.
00:39:13.360 The message I wanted to deliver today is for any extraterrestrials.
00:39:25.860 That means aliens.
00:39:28.000 And that message is, do not come.
00:39:32.220 Do not come.
00:39:37.340 I'm just kidding.
00:39:38.300 We're taking them all.
00:39:39.160 We're taking them all.
00:39:39.920 We're taking them all.
00:39:39.940 We're taking them all.
00:39:41.260 We're taking them all.
00:39:59.500 We're taking them all.
00:40:00.640 We're taking them all.
00:40:01.760 We're taking them all.
00:40:02.660 We're taking it all.
00:40:03.260 We're taking them all.
00:40:03.880 We're taking them all.
00:40:04.280 We're taking them all today.
00:40:04.840 We're taking them all.
00:40:06.340 We're taking them all.
00:40:06.720 We're taking them.
00:40:07.360 We're taking them all.