Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The world reacts to Elon Musk getting his share of Twitter

00:00:00.480 Hello, my rebels. Day two in our coverage of Elon Musk's acquisition of nearly 10% of the stock of Twitter.

00:00:06.980 Today it was announced that he's getting a board seat. Very exciting.

00:00:10.440 And the reaction to him from the public, but also from woke Twitter staffers is very interesting.

00:00:16.500 I'll take you through some of it.

00:00:18.020 I'll also explain who might be behind the left-wing wokeness in so many big companies.

00:00:23.440 Is it radical staff or is it actually radical investors?

00:00:27.000 I'll give you some evidence both ways.

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00:01:04.160 Okay, here's today's show.

00:01:05.060 Tonight, the world reacts to Elon Musk getting his share of Twitter, including the staff of Twitter.

00:01:27.500 They've got a lot to say.

00:01:28.580 It's April 5th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:33.260 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:37.000 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:41.040 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:46.940 Well, Elon Musk buying a 9% share in Twitter isn't as important as, oh, I don't know, the bonfire of our civil liberties.

00:02:00.980 Today, later in the show, we'll talk to Janine Younis about a mom who was fired from her job for daring to ask the mayor of New York City about the rule that kids as young as two have to wear masks.

00:02:12.140 That's important stuff, the war in Ukraine with Russia.

00:02:16.520 That's important stuff.

00:02:17.600 There are real important issues, inflation, the price of oil.

00:02:21.060 You might think that a billionaire iconoclast, Elon Musk, buying 9% of a social media company based on narcissism and quarreling, that's really not important.

00:02:34.300 But actually, it is because it's about free speech.

00:02:40.020 Yesterday, it was revealed that Elon Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter, sending the stock sky high.

00:02:46.880 I'll talk about that a little bit more later.

00:02:49.000 But before that news was revealed, Elon Musk took to Twitter, which he uses better than most, to conduct a poll.

00:02:57.780 He said, free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.

00:03:03.140 Do you believe Twitter rigorously achieves, adheres to this principle?

00:03:09.260 And 70% of people said no.

00:03:13.180 And then he said, given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.

00:03:23.500 What should be done?

00:03:26.420 Well, he obviously had in mind what he ought to be done.

00:03:28.980 Well, today, news came that far from the passive role that was originally and somewhat strangely reported yesterday, I don't know how you can be a passive investor when you're the number one investor in a company with voting shares.

00:03:41.480 It was announced that, in fact, Elon Musk would have a board seat at Twitter, which means he'd be able to get deep into the details and ask questions and look through the financials and maybe take a peek at that algorithm that seems to suppress conservatives.

00:03:58.420 You saw that Elon Musk framed his acquisition in terms of free speech.

00:04:04.760 Well, here's how Bloomberg.com wrote it.

00:04:07.860 I just can't get enough of this.

00:04:10.060 Elon Musk's Twitter investment could be bad news for free speech.

00:04:16.460 I'm sorry.

00:04:16.980 I couldn't read that without laughing.

00:04:19.460 He's a free speech absolutist.

00:04:20.420 And Bloomberg says this is going to be bad for free speech.

00:04:24.500 And they say the Tesla founder's decision suggests that he wants to bring the social media platform to heal.

00:04:33.220 Really?

00:04:34.240 To heal.

00:04:35.200 That's as if Twitter is his target.

00:04:37.820 I think it's sort of the opposite.

00:04:38.940 He wants to rein in the censors at Twitter, bring the censors at Twitter to heal, to let people do the talking.

00:04:47.980 I'm not sure if that's why Twitter's stock price soared.

00:04:52.520 If they just thought, well, here's a rich guy buying shares.

00:04:54.900 He might want to acquire the whole thing.

00:04:57.120 It's just a strictly financial reason to buy.

00:05:01.480 Or do people say, you know what?

00:05:03.320 It's not just that you've got a new investor with fresh ideas.

00:05:06.060 He wants to bring Twitter back to the good old days of free speech.

00:05:09.260 And that unlocks value.

00:05:10.680 I don't know.

00:05:11.140 Well, Elon Musk himself read the article above, and he said, Washington Post, always good for a laugh.

00:05:19.840 But here's a good point.

00:05:21.940 And I saw this from an investor who was talking about political activism, not just by social media companies, but the recent quarrel between Walt Disney, Disney World, and Ron DeSantis.

00:05:36.640 One of the largest employers in Florida, Ron DeSantis, the very successful governor there, who recently brought in a bill that stops teachers from teaching sexuality of any sort.

00:05:48.560 There's no reference to heterosexuality or homosexuality.

00:05:52.200 It's just no sexuality can be taught in Florida schools in grades kindergarten through grade three.

00:05:59.260 Now, you're probably shocked and thinking, were they teaching sex in kindergarten and grades one, two, and three?

00:06:07.600 Yes, they most certainly were.

00:06:08.800 And if you don't think that's happening in Canada, you're not paying attention to the curriculum.

00:06:12.520 So Ron DeSantis passed this.

00:06:14.600 He was a big supporter of this law.

00:06:17.060 It was labeled by the Democrats as don't say gay, which, of course, the word gay or homosexual or heterosexual didn't appear at all.

00:06:25.380 And it's just don't talk about sexuality or gender to children of tender years.

00:06:30.640 But the Democrats had a big campaign saying that Ron DeSantis was a homophobe.

00:06:35.760 And for some reason, Disney, perhaps because it has big operations in Florida, the cruise ships and Disney World, Disney got more and more involved.

00:06:43.380 And here's a tweet by an investor who says, Disney CEO Bob Chappick appeared to bend the knee to a small group of radical employees.

00:06:53.360 But the real problem runs deeper.

00:06:56.180 His top three shareholders, they represent a $20 trillion cartel that pushes companies to advance political agendas.

00:07:04.800 And they're using your money to do it.

00:07:06.680 I'd like to show you a clip.

00:07:08.640 And just by the way, ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance.

00:07:13.800 Take a quick look at this video by Vibhik Ramaswamy.

00:07:18.580 Yeah, so let me give you some insight.

00:07:20.100 And this may actually even be confusing to a lot of people who see Disney doing business in countries ranging from Japan to cruise lines going to islands in the Caribbean where gay marriage is banned, where they don't say a peep.

00:07:30.920 Why is that?

00:07:31.660 So a lot of people look at the situation and think that CEO Bob Chappick was bending the knee to 20 employees who complained about him and are confused about why he's doing it.

00:07:38.800 There's a quieter undercurrent here, too, Will.

00:07:42.040 If you look at who are the top shareholders of Disney, it is BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, the three largest asset managers in the United States who collectively manage over $20 trillion.

00:07:51.600 By the way, that's more than the GDP of the United States, who are the shareholders, technically the bosses of the CEOs who quietly tell them that exactly these are the kinds of social agendas that they want to see them pushing.

00:08:02.740 So actually, if you're a CEO in a public company today, you find yourself sandwiched not just between your progressive woke employees and people on the outside wonder why are they bending the knee to them.

00:08:12.800 It's that when you look at your alleged bosses, the quote unquote shareholders, they're actually quietly whispering in your ear that they want to see you doing the same things, too.

00:08:20.640 So it runs far deeper and it's far more complicated.

00:08:23.320 But the problem, Will, and you know this well, is that those shareholders aren't the actual shareholders.

00:08:28.300 They're actually the everyday citizens of this country who entrust those institutions with their money to manage their money.

00:08:33.300 But those institutions, I think, are betraying their true clients by telling these companies, Disney, Nike, Airbnb, et cetera, that you've got to actually behave this way.

00:08:40.500 That's what we have to do next.

00:08:41.240 It's a complicated equation.

00:08:42.640 So that's him talking about Disney.

00:08:44.800 That sure, you might have some Disney employee activists, but is that what's really motivating Walt Disney to go to war with Ron DeSantis, a handful of rambunctious employees?

00:08:56.680 Here's the next tweet by Vivek.

00:08:58.240 He says, this is why I like what Elon Musk did today.

00:09:03.140 We need more actual shareholders to compete at scale with the ESG-linked asset management cartel.

00:09:11.540 That is the single greatest lever to drive cultural change.

00:09:17.600 So do you see what he's saying?

00:09:19.300 Is that the people who are pushing for radical changes in society, whether it's trans education in kindergarten or whether it's censorship in the name of wokeness, sure, it's individual employee activists, but it's these huge investors behind the scenes.

00:09:37.240 Elon Musk isn't close to $20 trillion.

00:09:40.680 His own personal holdings are 1% of that, but it's enough to conquer Twitter and be the top investor there.

00:09:50.980 Here's Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat who's often railed against censorship.

00:09:54.640 She said, thank you, Elon Musk.

00:09:58.300 Now do Instagram, which is even less transparent and more aggressive in shutting down free speech than Twitter.

00:10:04.700 That's very true.

00:10:06.080 However, Instagram is owned by Facebook.

00:10:09.240 And although you can buy Facebook on the stock exchange, they have a share structure different from Twitter.

00:10:14.880 Mark Zuckerberg is a controlling shareholder with preferential shares.

00:10:18.900 No matter what happens on the financial side, he's the decider of things like that.

00:10:23.520 In that way, he's monomaniacal.

00:10:26.000 He's like an emperor for life of Facebook.

00:10:28.760 And I think some Facebook investors don't mind that.

00:10:31.760 But if you want to make Instagram free, you'll need more than an Elon Musk because all the money in the world can't change the fact that that's personally controlled by Mark Zuckerberg.

00:10:42.100 It's funny the outrage at Elon Musk, a billionaire throwing around his money, when all the other tech oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg seem to control the shot.

00:10:50.880 So she called on other billionaires to join along with Elon Musk.

00:10:56.100 I'm not sure there are that many who believe in freedom.

00:10:58.380 Peter Thiel, also Silicon Valley, is one of the few.

00:11:01.300 But I think most billionaires these days, I'm afraid, are part of that global asset management, world economic forum point of view.

00:11:08.980 There are some real individuals who are billionaires.

00:11:11.460 Maybe you have to be an individual to be a billionaire.

00:11:13.600 But too many of them still are chasing social acceptance.

00:11:17.280 But I want to read to you from Andy Ngo, who is a great journalist who's watched the left and has been attacked by anti-FUD death threats.

00:11:27.680 He said, days after inquiring his followers about free speech and the lack thereof, Elon Musk has become Twitter's largest shareholder.

00:11:37.420 Many leftists are concerned about what this might mean for their stranglehold on censorship policies that favor their politics.

00:11:45.560 So he's talking mainly about staff at Twitter.

00:11:50.440 Let me read.

00:11:51.660 Cassie Nick Arumba, a data scientist at Twitter, is among the employees and contractors very upset that Elon Musk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter.

00:12:06.100 A prominent transphobe buying a large stake in Twitter is not at all funny, she says.

00:12:12.580 I'm not going to go through all of them, but Andy Ngo has collected a good number of them.

00:12:17.480 Gerard Taylor, a senior software engineer at Twitter, is concerned about the leftist company culture following Elon Musk becoming the largest shareholder.

00:12:27.840 I'm just going to read a few more because they're amazing.

00:12:29.520 Looks like I picked a good week to be off, reacts Jerry Kidd, a recruiting manager for Twitter, to the news that Elon Musk is now the largest stakeholder in the company.

00:12:42.340 You know, a lot of Twitter staff are outraged.

00:12:46.240 But as we heard yesterday from Alan Bokhari, maybe that's a good thing.

00:12:50.460 I think it was Coinbase whose CEO got sick of all the staff politics and simply said, we're changing our policies.

00:12:58.240 No more politics at all.

00:12:59.600 No more political pressure groups.

00:13:00.940 No more action groups.

00:13:02.520 Well, if you insist on expressing yourself, we'll pay you a handsome severance and you can go do that elsewhere.

00:13:09.360 But if you come into work at Coinbase, I think it was that was the company.

00:13:12.840 This is where we will do business and no politics.

00:13:15.880 And it cost him a few bucks, but he got rid of all the radicals.

00:13:20.920 I don't know how many of the staff at Twitter are these radicals.

00:13:24.960 Probably most of the trust and safety censors.

00:13:28.240 But I think getting rid of them is sort of Elon Musk's point.

00:13:32.060 And if they storm off, I think that's just doing Elon Musk a favor.

00:13:36.280 The question is, how many of the people who actually make Twitter, Twitter, the engineers, the computer scientists, how many of them are extremist wokest?

00:13:44.340 We saw a few people there claim to be software engineers and who are woke, maybe.

00:13:50.980 But it'll be interesting to see if they will destroy and sabotage Twitter from within.

00:13:56.760 I don't know.

00:13:59.080 Can they cancel Elon Musk?

00:14:03.760 They're much bigger than him.

00:14:08.300 BlackRock a hundred times as much.

00:14:10.340 Let me show you what the CEO of Twitter had to say about Elon Musk.

00:14:18.120 I'm excited to share that we're appointing Elon Musk to our board.

00:14:22.420 Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our board.

00:14:29.900 I'm sure.

00:14:30.920 He's both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service, which is exactly what we need on Twitter and in the boardroom to make us stronger in the long term.

00:14:43.340 Welcome, Elon.

00:14:43.900 So, again, I say, why did the stock go up?

00:14:49.440 A big buyer coming to take over a company, financial reasons, you know, you know he's going to pay a premium.

00:14:54.880 Or is it the belief that Elon Musk will return an essential element to social media that it's been lacking for years?

00:15:00.920 Freedom of speech, a valuable asset.

00:15:03.080 I think we're going to figure out soon how this goes.

00:15:07.660 Elon Musk is a powerful man, a wealthy man.

00:15:10.780 He's now a director and the CEO claims to say he wants to work with him.

00:15:15.180 I'm not sure how true that is.

00:15:16.600 We saw Parag Agarwal, we quoted him yesterday, saying he doesn't really believe in free speech.

00:15:20.600 He believes in giving attention to political views he favors.

00:15:24.520 They tried to cancel Elon Musk before, but I don't know if they'll be able to.

00:15:31.900 If Elon Musk succeeds and retakes Twitter for the free speech side of the thing, I think that it'll excite conservatives who have been trying to make their own alternatives.

00:15:44.740 And I think it'll put to the test liberal belief in free speech.

00:15:49.800 But I don't think that test is a mystery.

00:15:52.260 I think from the New York Times to the ACA, to the Washington Post, to the CBC, to the entire press corps in Canada, with maybe five exceptions, liberals actually don't believe in free speech anymore.

00:16:06.780 They say that hate speech ought to be banned and they define hate speech as any speech that they hate, anything they disagree with.

00:16:14.220 They believe in canceling people, not debating them.

00:16:17.680 This is a wonderful experiment.

00:16:18.920 I think in many ways this is just as important to our daily lives as inflation, the price of gas, the war in Ukraine.

00:16:27.500 Because if Elon Musk is able to liberate Twitter, in a way he'll make all of us freer, more than any politician I can point to.

00:16:37.480 Stay with us for more.

00:16:38.540 Thank you.

00:16:39.540 Thank you.

00:16:40.540 Thank you.

00:16:42.540 Thank you.

00:16:44.540 Thank you.

00:16:46.540 Thank you.

00:16:47.540 Thank you.

00:16:48.920 Well, Quebec is the only place left in Canada where there is a mask mandate, although some schools still implement it.

00:16:58.300 In the United States, New York, which was one of the most oppressive lockdownist jurisdictions, mask mandates are gone pretty much everywhere except for in New York City.

00:17:09.340 Apparently, apparently the science is different there.

00:17:11.300 Now, the new mayor there, Eric Adams, said that yesterday, April 4th, would be the end of the mask mandates.

00:17:17.100 Well, he has caved in on that to the pro-mask lockdownists and insisted that especially young kids, almost toddlers, have to wear masks.

00:17:29.080 So I think it's a form of child abuse myself.

00:17:31.620 Well, so did one mom who accosted the mayor yesterday. 0.67

00:17:37.500 I'll let you take a look at that and I'll let you know what happened to her afterwards.

00:17:42.080 Take a look.

00:17:42.500 This is Daniela Jampel, a lawyer in the city.

00:17:46.580 This morning, I walked into the mayor's press conference at 11 a.m. as a private citizen to ask him why he decided to renege on his promise to unmask our toddlers.

00:17:58.320 Three weeks ago, some parents confronted him at a bar on St. Patrick's Day and he said, trust me, they'll be unmasked.

00:18:04.740 And then 10 days ago, he announced that on April 4th, they would be unmasked.

00:18:11.240 And then on Friday at the 11th hour, he told us, actually, no, they will not be.

00:18:16.020 So I am a private citizen.

00:18:18.100 He is my mayor.

00:18:19.480 He works for us.

00:18:21.160 And I think I deserve to hold him accountable.

00:18:24.600 You know, it's really hard.

00:18:25.840 I had a lot of, I had very high hopes for this mayor.

00:18:28.460 I thought he'd be a moderate.

00:18:29.700 I thought he'd govern accordingly.

00:18:31.080 And for him to keep children aged 2 to 4 masks, and I really want to point out here that nowhere else is this happening.

00:18:39.700 Very few places is this happening.

00:18:41.520 It's not happening in Westchester.

00:18:43.160 It's not happening on Long Island.

00:18:44.920 And if he thinks that the science means that these children have to be masked, then by all means, he should share that with other places because they deserve to know, too.

00:18:52.940 But there is no science that requires our children aged 2 to 4 to mask.

00:18:56.640 He knows that.

00:18:57.440 That's why he's not talking about it.

00:18:59.040 I don't know why they're doing this, but it's really unfair to our toddlers.

00:19:03.420 Well, I think she makes a good case, a case that millions of moms and dads and kids around the country and the continent have made, too.

00:19:12.480 She emphasized that she was there in her capacity as a private person.

00:19:16.040 Indeed, I understand she's on an extended maternity leave with the blessing of her employer who granted her that extended leave just two months ago.

00:19:23.720 She was there, like I say, off-duty, private person asking questions of her own mayor, except for this one wrinkle.

00:19:30.760 I mentioned that Daniela is a lawyer. 1.00

00:19:32.600 She is indeed.

00:19:33.800 She works for the city.

00:19:35.920 And apparently the mayor was so enraged by being challenged by this mom that Daniela Jampel was fired by the city in less than an hour after she dared to ask His Royal Highness about the April 4th mask ban, 0.99

00:19:51.580 which did not come to pass.

00:19:54.000 We're joined now via Skype from Washington, D.C. by Janine Yunus, a staff lawyer at the new Civil Liberties Alliance.

00:19:59.500 Janine, great to see you again.

00:20:00.820 We've talked to you before about your lawsuits on behalf of people who got COVID, recovered naturally, had natural immunity,

00:20:08.160 and yet were forced by institutions to take the vaccine.

00:20:11.920 So you've done a lot of civil liberties work on this issue.

00:20:14.120 What do you make of the case of Daniela Jampel?

00:20:18.600 Well, it's very despicable what happened to her.

00:20:21.420 And actually, to clarify, the city is only requiring two- to four-year-olds to wear masks because they're the unvaccinated population.

00:20:29.760 So adults and children of any other age actually don't have to wear masks.

00:20:34.740 Another lawyer actually won an injunction against the toddler mask mandate on Friday, and the mayor immediately appealed that.

00:20:42.460 So that day, the appellate division issued a stay.

00:20:45.220 So basically what that meant is that the appeals court invalidated the lower court's decision, at least pending appeal, so the kids still have to be masked.

00:20:52.960 So that's why, you know, the mayor is being confronted over this.

00:20:56.320 And Daniela, you know, it is a wrinkle that she's an employee of the city, but she was confronting the mayor in her personal capacity as a mother. 0.98

00:21:02.940 She has young children.

00:21:04.060 She has children the age that have to be masked.

00:21:06.480 So she was expressing her concern as a mother.

00:21:08.580 I watched the video of her confronting the mayor.

00:21:10.460 She didn't do anything out of line.

00:21:12.520 She was perfectly calm.

00:21:14.060 She, you know, she was not insulting.

00:21:15.740 She didn't yell.

00:21:16.280 She didn't scream, or she was in no way threatening.

00:21:18.580 The other aspect of this is that they claimed that she lied and said that she was pressed in order to get in.

00:21:25.060 First of all, I spoke to some people who were there, and that's not- that wasn't the case.

00:21:29.140 Anybody could just walk in.

00:21:30.080 You didn't have to be pressed.

00:21:31.180 Also, Daniela has an active Twitter account where she's been criticizing the mayor and others for these policies.

00:21:35.960 So, in a way, she is pressed.

00:21:38.240 So that, in my opinion, is not a valid reason.

00:21:42.080 That has nothing to do with anything.

00:21:43.680 Yeah, and even if she said she would press and she's not, and like you say, what is journalism other than doing journalism?

00:21:50.740 It's not a profession.

00:21:53.500 It's not like impersonating a doctor or something.

00:21:56.260 Right, right.

00:21:57.920 And, I don't know, I think it's incredible that she would be denied the chance to ask a question in any event.

00:22:07.440 And I understand that the mayor allowed her to continue.

00:22:09.900 Here, let's watch the clip of the actual confrontation.

00:22:12.420 Take a look.

00:22:13.100 Hi, Mr. Mayor.

00:22:14.100 Three weeks ago, you told parents to trust you, that you would unmask our toddlers.

00:22:18.760 Ten days ago, you stood right here, and you said that the masks would come off on April 4th.

00:22:26.300 That has not happened.

00:22:27.580 You reneged on your promise.

00:22:28.860 And not only did you renege on your promise, you had your lawyers race to court on Friday night to overturn a state court.

00:22:35.160 No, no, no, no.

00:22:36.340 Let her finish, because you let her start.

00:22:39.420 Go ahead and finish, ma'am, okay?

00:22:41.300 But you've got to come to a conclusion.

00:22:43.300 Can't do it.

00:22:44.120 Okay, come to a conclusion and turn on your phone so you can get my answer correctly.

00:22:47.640 But come to a conclusion.

00:22:48.900 Okay, how are you back there?

00:22:50.120 You told them on March 17th that you would, trust me, I will unmask your toddlers.

00:22:54.820 You had your lawyers race to court on Friday night, arguing that there would be irreparable harm

00:22:59.240 if children under five were allowed to take off their masks today, along with their older siblings in the school.

00:23:05.880 So my questions are, what is the irreparable harm to children age two to four taking off their masks,

00:23:11.280 just as they do in Long Island, just as they do in Westchester?

00:23:14.380 When will you, and when will you unmask our toddlers?

00:23:16.600 Thank you.

00:23:17.640 As I stated, as you indicated, I made the announcement that we were looking to announce today,

00:23:23.640 which is Monday, to take the mask off to two to four years old.

00:23:27.980 But I also stated, if we see an uptick, we will come back and make the announcement of what we're going to do.

00:23:36.140 We're going to pivot and shift as COVID is pivoting and shifting.

00:23:39.440 There's a new variant.

00:23:40.960 The numbers are increasing.

00:23:42.660 We're going to move at the right pace.

00:23:44.600 And that's the role I must do.

00:23:46.360 That's what I stated.

00:23:47.320 I'm living up to my promises.

00:23:49.760 If I have to pivot and shift and have other adults do something different, I'm going to do so.

00:23:54.500 I'm going to continue to do so.

00:23:56.340 I answered your question.

00:23:57.260 If you want a follow-up, we can do a follow-up.

00:23:59.200 But I answered your question.

00:24:00.120 Thank you.

00:24:02.840 You know, I think she was asking questions that, frankly, what I call the media party, the legacy media, the corporate media, which is almost uniformly pro-lockdown.

00:24:16.060 I think she was compelled to ask these questions because the media party doesn't.

00:24:19.920 If anything, they're demanding to know why the mayor doesn't clamp down harder.

00:24:24.260 I actually didn't know that New York City imposes masks on children of such tender years.

00:24:30.220 I mean, it's been a while since my kids were as little as two.

00:24:33.500 But I can't imagine forcing a two-year-old to have a mask on.

00:24:37.820 It would just be so unnatural and uncomfortable.

00:24:40.420 They'd be fidgeting.

00:24:41.300 It's just it feels so brutal and abusive.

00:24:43.680 The fact that it fell to this mum to be a citizen journalist to ask that question speaks not just to the mayor's failure as a political leader and a civil liberties guarantor, but it shows the failure of the corporate media legacy media.

00:24:58.980 The fact that they stand for this in New York City alone is outrageous.

00:25:03.580 That's absolutely right.

00:25:04.820 And, you know, I think what happened to Daniela is part of a broader trend where a lot of people who have been on the right side of history with this, I consider myself among them, are being sort of silenced.

00:25:14.760 Now that we have been proven right, the population is moving towards our side.

00:25:18.740 And I actually have a lawsuit against the United States government on behalf of a few Twitter users who've had their accounts suspended for ostensible COVID misinformation.

00:25:28.800 Such misinformation as saying that the vaccines don't stop transmission, natural immunity is better than the vaccines.

00:25:34.460 Things that many epidemiologists and public health experts agree on.

00:25:38.280 And the government, the U.S. government has been pressuring these companies to censor people like my like my clients.

00:25:45.480 And I think that a lot of this is happening now because the governments know how wrong they got it and they don't want to be held accountable and they don't want people like my clients, like Daniela, like myself to be able to voice our opinions.

00:25:56.520 You know, I read in the New York Post and we're grateful for their coverage on the subject that Miss Jampel, if I'm saying her name right, was fired in less than an hour. 1.00

00:26:06.400 And that's quite something.

00:26:07.740 I mean, to fire anyone with with obviously no any with no process, no inquiries, no conversation, no not even a day to cool off, come in.

00:26:17.000 Let's talk about this is a mom on mat leave to fire her, obviously, unilaterally without any sort of hearing or process strikes me as high handed. 0.65

00:26:26.100 Now, at the end of the day, I think any employer can fire any employee other than in a collective bargaining agreement.

00:26:31.440 If you're willing to pay if you're willing to pay enough severance, but to sack someone so brutally in such a clearly vengeful act, it strikes me.

00:26:42.520 I mean, I don't know the nature of her employment, but if you fire if you're a government and you sack a lawyer, which is a fairly high ranking position, immediately enrage in. 0.96

00:26:54.700 I mean, she's a form of a whistleblower. 1.00

00:26:57.740 I mean, she's not blowing the whistle on something secretly, but what she did was in the public spirit.

00:27:02.440 She wasn't stealing.

00:27:04.560 It's laughable to claim she was impersonating a journalist.

00:27:07.700 She obviously was a journalist.

00:27:10.820 It just is so vengeful and so contrary to the public spirit.

00:27:13.860 Is there any kind of whistleblower protection?

00:27:16.800 Obviously, she's not in a union. 1.00

00:27:18.740 What can she do?

00:27:19.580 So, I do not know, you know, this is a, I'm not an employment lawyer, so this, that would be this, that area of law.

00:27:27.280 I do know that government employees have some First Amendment protections.

00:27:30.760 Given that she was speaking as a private citizen on behalf of her children, she wasn't speaking as a lawyer for the city, which, you know, would be a little bit different since she is, you know, criticizing the city's policies while working for the city. 0.86

00:27:43.700 That is, that would be a different situation.

00:27:45.940 At the very least, the spirit of free speech should, you know, should make us all see this as a very reprehensible act.

00:27:55.080 I can't, I don't know the ins and outs of the employment law, so I'm not sure what her, what her prospects are in a lawsuit.

00:28:03.020 You know, I can just imagine if Donald Trump had sacked someone who, in their private duties, private life, had criticized him, that would be news everywhere.

00:28:12.180 I see the New York Post is digging in here.

00:28:13.880 How has the rest of the media covered this case?

00:28:16.380 Have they covered it at all?

00:28:17.920 Have they condemned Daniela Jampel?

00:28:20.840 I mean, I think this is an interesting case.

00:28:23.200 I think it shows a thin-skinned-ness on the part of the mayor.

00:28:26.700 I think it shows, I understand the mayor of New York is becoming a bit of a control freak with messaging, demanding every single department have their communications, their day-to-day press releases vetted by the center.

00:28:37.800 I mean, he sounds like a bit of a control freak.

00:28:40.300 I had high hopes for this mayor.

00:28:42.140 I think they've been underwhelmed.

00:28:43.820 But how has this story been covered?

00:28:45.520 Has there been any coverage?

00:28:47.060 And how have the lockdownist media covered it?

00:28:50.140 So, I'm not actually sure about that either.

00:28:53.100 To my knowledge, it hasn't yet been covered, but I expect it will.

00:28:55.800 It's just, it all happened very quickly.

00:28:57.640 So, I expect we'll see some articles in the next few days, and I'll be curious what they say.

00:29:01.420 I mean, there's no question that if this was a Republican mayor who had done this, the city would be, you know, absolutely up in arms, that a mother was being fired from her job merely for speaking up on behalf of her children.

00:29:14.840 So, yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens.

00:29:17.980 I'm not sure.

00:29:19.580 Yeah, I mean, we have folks who go on maternity leave here at Rebel News, and, you know, frankly, I don't even know what the legal status of that means.

00:29:26.380 I guess they are an employee, but they're just on a hiatus.

00:29:29.460 I don't even know what it technically means.

00:29:31.160 But if someone is on an eight-month maternity leave, and they're wearing their civilian clothes or whatever, and they're going out in their personal capacity, to sack them for a legit act of public, you know, accountability journalism just seems so, so over the top.

00:29:48.500 And, like, it's not a bona fide reason.

00:29:50.900 I don't know.

00:29:51.260 I don't, like you, I don't know New York employment law.

00:29:55.460 But I want to come back to something you said that you said it in passing, but my ears perked up, when you said that you're representing clients on Twitter who said things.

00:30:05.040 And I want to make sure I caught what you said.

00:30:07.440 You're representing a Twitter user, am I right, that was suspended for saying things contrary to the official narrative on COVID.

00:30:15.340 Can you tell us a little bit about this case?

00:30:17.080 I know it's off topic from Daniela Jampel, but we're very interested about Twitter and censorship, especially with Elon Musk making news.

00:30:24.020 Can you give us maybe a minute on your Twitter cases?

00:30:26.840 Sure, sure.

00:30:27.320 So I'm representing actually three people.

00:30:29.580 Michael Singer, whose account was permanently suspended.

00:30:32.180 That means it's basically been deleted.

00:30:33.540 He's never allowed to create another Twitter account again.

00:30:36.280 Mark Cengizzi, a cognitive theoretical scientist who studies sort of like how social contagions, mass hysteria, this is sort of his specialty.

00:30:46.420 So he's been very critical of COVID hysteria, looking at it from that angle.

00:30:50.260 And then Daniel Coatsen, who's actually Jennifer Say's husband, Jennifer Say was the president of Levi's and was pushed out for her tweets on opening schools.

00:31:01.140 So I'm representing all three of them.

00:31:02.900 Cengizzi and Coatsen were suspended only temporarily.

00:31:05.160 But our argument is that the government, the U.S. government, has been pressuring Twitter to censor people who say things that conflict with the government's messaging on COVID.

00:31:14.700 And so that their suspensions and censorship were essentially a result of government action.

00:31:18.920 And that makes this First Amendment violations.

00:31:20.720 There's also a Fourth Amendment issue that's in the United States that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, warrantless searches and seizures.

00:31:29.780 So the Surgeon General demanded that tech platforms turn over sources of misinformation, which includes the identities of people.

00:31:36.900 We don't know if it might include their direct messages, emails, phone numbers by May 2nd.

00:31:43.460 And he also, the other issue is that he doesn't have the authority to do this.

00:31:46.260 The Surgeon General doesn't have the right to be involved in censorship on tech platforms.

00:31:52.400 And all of these people, my clients, many other people, including myself, are afraid to say things on Twitter now because we don't want to lose our accounts.

00:31:59.160 So this is effectively the government chilling speech.

00:32:01.280 And that's a huge First Amendment issue.

00:32:03.340 Yeah, it sure is.

00:32:04.080 I hope Elon Musk's arrival in the boardroom of Twitter.

00:32:07.660 Yesterday, we did a show on him acquiring 9.2 percent of the stock.

00:32:11.940 Those are voting shares.

00:32:13.220 And I see today he's come to terms with the board, that he'll be on the board, and he'll have the right to, I don't know under what rule, to acquire even more stock.

00:32:23.620 I'm very excited about it.

00:32:25.780 And hopefully he can bring a little ray of freedom back in there.

00:32:29.400 So it seems to me that your case relies on being able to prove in some way that the government pressured these tech companies.

00:32:39.240 And perhaps in the disclosure process of the lawsuit, they would reveal if anything was put in writing.

00:32:44.500 Who knows?

00:32:44.800 Some of those conversations may just be done verbally on the phone.

00:32:47.620 But have you received disclosure?

00:32:49.520 Is that what it's called in the United States when the other sides hand over the records?

00:32:54.180 Discovery.

00:32:54.700 We're actually in that process.

00:32:55.940 So we have a hearing in—we filed in Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. Chang-Easy lives.

00:32:59.840 And we have a hearing there on the 26th on a preliminary injunction.

00:33:03.200 So sort of an emergency motion because of the May 2nd deadline.

00:33:07.180 So we'll see what we can find out.

00:33:08.680 I actually think that there's enough on the record in order to win.

00:33:12.900 Both the Surgeon General, various other members of the Biden administration have made statements that I think are enough to establish that the government is pressuring these tech companies.

00:33:21.140 They've said it's their fault that Americans are dying, that they must be held accountable, that we're going to look into regulating them.

00:33:27.640 I think the case law is pretty clear, that that puts enough pressure on these companies that it turns it into government action.

00:33:33.640 Is the lawsuit itself available on the NCLA, your new Civil Liberties Alliance?

00:33:37.740 It is, yes.

00:33:39.140 Be sure to link to that below.

00:33:40.320 I have not read these lawsuits.

00:33:41.640 I just heard about them in your comments to me about Daniela Jampel.

00:33:45.080 I'm fascinated by that.

00:33:46.380 I just want to ask one more question.

00:33:47.480 And I know we didn't call you on this, but you're obviously on top of it.

00:33:51.140 You're suing Twitter.

00:33:51.980 Are you also suing the government itself in the same legal action?

00:33:55.320 We're only suing the government.

00:33:56.760 We're not suing Twitter.

00:33:57.920 Oh, isn't that interesting?

00:33:59.580 Are you able to subpoena documents from Twitter even though you're only suing the government?

00:34:04.600 Well, that will be determined.

00:34:07.520 Well, this is very interesting because I think this is the new front line.

00:34:10.680 And if governments can contract out their censorship to private entities and say, hey, it's not us.

00:34:16.060 It's Facebook fact checkers.

00:34:19.180 Hey, it's not us.

00:34:20.000 It's trust and safety at Twitter.

00:34:22.780 Then they can evade scrutiny and accountability.

00:34:26.620 I think your lawsuits are very important.

00:34:28.780 Thank you.

00:34:29.220 Thank you.

00:34:29.600 And certainly, I mean, in the United States, at least the case law is clear that the government can't commandeer private companies to accomplish what it wants.

00:34:36.720 And so we should be able to win.

00:34:37.920 Well, I sure hope so.

00:34:39.660 I'm just delighted with the work that the NCLA is doing.

00:34:42.800 I love saying it, the new Civil Liberties Alliance, if I got that right, because the old Civil Liberties Alliance I don't think has lived up to its name and its promise during the Civil Liberties Bonfire the last two years.

00:34:55.180 The ACLU in your country, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association up here, they've really been hibernating or even occasionally taking the wrong side of things.

00:35:03.920 So I'm glad that the NCLA has stepped up.

00:35:07.540 And you, in particular, Janine, I love following you on Twitter as well.

00:35:10.080 We'll have your Twitter handle below.

00:35:12.080 Great to catch up with you.

00:35:13.060 Please let us know how that Twitter lawsuit goes.

00:35:15.600 Of course, I'm interested in the lockdown stuff and the mass stuff and Daniela Jampel.

00:35:19.820 But your lawsuit regarding Twitter, I think, is the strategic long-term one, because if they can stop us from talking about things, if they can take away our freedom of speech, then we'll lose our other freedoms even faster.

00:35:31.820 Exactly.

00:35:32.420 That's exactly right.

00:35:33.360 And, you know, I sort of identified this as the underlying issue.

00:35:35.940 I mean, that's what went wrong with the whole COVID thing.

00:35:38.580 I mean, was censorship, whether sort of formal or informal, just shaming people for questioning the overarching idea that lockdowns and mask mandates were the right thing to do.

00:35:48.580 So I think censorship is really at the root of a lot of what's happened here.

00:35:52.040 And that's why this is sort of the next frontier as the mask and vaccine mandates fall away.

00:35:56.420 Let me throw one last question.

00:35:57.800 I was going to let you go, but you just made another question.

00:35:59.600 Here in Canada, when I think of the institutions that failed, and all of them failed, we don't have a Rhonda Sanis, we don't have a freedom wing.

00:36:09.620 Every government party and every opposition party were unified in every federal and provincial jurisdiction.

00:36:15.120 Imagine not just every government, Janine, but every opposition, too.

00:36:19.420 In fact, sometimes egging the government on even more.

00:36:21.560 Every police force, every media outlet, every court.

00:36:26.180 We did not have a single substantial court case rolling back any lockdown.

00:36:31.260 In fact, our Supreme Court hasn't even yet bothered to weigh in on any cases, if you can believe it, two years in.

00:36:37.480 But to me, the greatest failure of all, perhaps, was the colleges of physicians and surgeons, the doctor regulators,

00:36:45.200 who, if any doctor dared to, God forbid, provide an exemption letter, God forbid, prescribe a medicine, you can't even say Invermectin, let alone prescribe it,

00:37:00.260 or tweet, those doctors were investigated and suspended by their regulatory bodies.

00:37:06.980 And to put that fear into doctors and then say, hey, everybody, it's unanimous.

00:37:12.360 Yeah, because you're prosecuting the dissidents.

00:37:14.960 I think of all the failed institutions, police departments, prosecutors, the College of Physicians and Surgeons will go down in history as the worst of them all in Canada.

00:37:26.120 How have they been in the United States?

00:37:28.160 It's been really bad.

00:37:30.780 So, you know, Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, who are two of the people who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration,

00:37:35.560 which basically said that lockdowns are a horrible idea, they cause more harm than good, they were both persecuted.

00:37:41.460 Martin Kulldorff, who's one of the most esteemed epidemiologists and vaccine safety specialists in the world, was driven out of Harvard.

00:37:48.200 Jay Bhattacharya is still at Stanford, but he's been really persecuted.

00:37:51.520 There were months where he would go to campus and there were signs calling for him to be fired.

00:37:56.700 I mean, I've talked to many, many doctors, you know, spent the last year and a half doing that,

00:38:01.600 who agree with us and who have been really persecuted, afraid to speak out.

00:38:06.120 I know Monica Gandhi, Vinay Prasad as well.

00:38:08.500 So it's abysmal what's been done to these people.

00:38:11.540 I understand mob and deplatforming, cancel culture and threats.

00:38:15.420 I get that.

00:38:16.000 But if I can zero in on the, I don't know what they're called in the United States.

00:38:19.560 It's here, they're called the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

00:38:21.920 It's the regulatory body that investigates, suspends, punishes.

00:38:28.580 I don't know if disbar is the word, but they're the bosses for if a doctor does something wrong.

00:38:34.000 So putting aside the public pressure, which you've just described,

00:38:36.940 I don't know if it's called Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.

00:38:39.660 It would be like the Law Society for Lawyers.

00:38:43.560 How have they been, these Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons?

00:38:46.340 So I haven't heard anything nationally.

00:38:49.940 I don't know of anything like that.

00:38:51.400 I do know that there have been state incidents where like the state boards have been threatening doctors,

00:38:56.320 telling them not to grant or not to request exemptions from vaccination requirements.

00:39:01.880 And, you know, various other, I know of somebody who was told he couldn't prescribe ivermectin,

00:39:06.680 even though he thought he should have been hydroxychloroquine.

00:39:08.820 So I think it's happening more at the state level in the United States than at the national level.

00:39:13.220 Right. Yeah, it was the same way here.

00:39:15.160 Well, listen, I won't keep you any longer.

00:39:16.440 You just keep saying interesting things.

00:39:17.840 And I want to ask you more.

00:39:18.800 Janine Yunus, great to see you.

00:39:19.840 Well, I'm always happy to come back.

00:39:21.340 Well, I look forward to it.

00:39:22.240 And we'll have you back on when we have news on those Twitter lawsuits.

00:39:25.280 Great. Thanks so much, Ezra.

00:39:26.780 All right. All the best to you.

00:39:27.800 There you have it, Janine Yunus, a lawyer at the new Civil Liberties Alliance.

00:39:31.460 And I really encourage you to follow her on Twitter.

00:39:33.840 Her Twitter account will be found below this video.

00:39:36.380 Stay with us, Morehead.

00:39:37.220 Hey, welcome back.

00:39:49.680 Your viewer mail, someone with a nickname, New Force Pony, says,

00:39:52.920 Can Elon please do the same to YouTube, Google, Facebook and Wikipedia, please?

00:39:59.840 Well, he could buy big chunks.

00:40:01.700 That's for sure.

00:40:02.320 The guy's got a quarter of a trillion dollars.

00:40:04.840 But some of the companies you're mentioning are worth a trillion dollars.

00:40:10.320 I mean, you don't need to buy it all to have a real commanding presence in them.

00:40:15.220 I mean, you can have 10 percent and really be a dominant shareholder for sure.

00:40:22.000 I looked at the other Twitter owners, and they're owned in chunks.

00:40:27.400 About half the company is owned by big institutional investors, 8 percent, 5 percent, 2 percent.

00:40:32.860 So there's millions of individual owners, and then there's probably a dozen big institutional investors.

00:40:41.100 As we saw earlier in that video I played from Vivek, I don't want to try and mispronounce his last name,

00:40:47.020 a lot of those institutional investors are actually hardcore, left-wing, woke, environmental, social governance investors.

00:40:54.920 But yeah, you've got a quarter trillion dollars, you can do a lot of damage.

00:40:58.200 But remember, that money is just not a pile of cash sitting in an Elon Musk bank account.

00:41:02.320 A lot of that is Tesla stock.

00:41:04.440 So he's very rich on paper, but it's not liquid.

00:41:08.760 I don't know.

00:41:09.340 I like what I see.

00:41:10.700 And it'll be interesting, very interesting to see if Donald Trump is allowed back on Twitter.

00:41:16.920 That will be the ultimate test of who's boss, because there's nothing the left hates more than Twitter.

00:41:24.640 Will Elon Musk allow him back on the platform?

00:41:28.340 If he does, then we'll certainly be in the new territory, won't we?

00:41:33.880 Rich Bills says we can only hope that Musk will have an impact.

00:41:38.460 I think he will have to have a bigger stake to have any meaningful impact.

00:41:42.520 At 25 percent, he could theoretically control the company.

00:41:44.500 Well, I mean, if he has the CEO bending to his will, he could control the company with what he has now.

00:41:55.280 It'll be interesting to see what the other investors say.

00:41:58.040 And maybe, frankly, they want to sell their shares to Elon Musk at a premium.

00:42:02.960 Stephen Kruse says if Elon finishes what he started and improves free speech on Twitter, I will consider buying that Tesla, but not before.

00:42:11.160 Well, I mean, Elon Musk is quite an interesting character.

00:42:15.160 There's no one else like him, is there?

00:42:17.280 I'm excited by it.

00:42:18.260 I think it'll make a difference in our lives.

00:42:20.760 That's our show for today.

00:42:22.440 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:42:27.460 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:42:28.360 And here's our video of the day from Adam Sos, who talks to James Topp in Calgary about why he is walking to Ottawa.

00:42:36.620 Take a look at this.

00:42:37.400 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:42:38.300 Adam Sos here for Rebel News.

00:42:39.620 And in just a moment, I'm going to be joined by James Topp, a 28-year Canadian Armed Forces veteran

00:42:44.960 who is walking 4,293 kilometres across Canada protesting COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates

00:42:53.340 that have fundamentally undermined Canadian values and principles.

00:42:57.780 As a serviceman in the military, he defended this country, and now he is defending our fundamental freedoms.

00:43:03.880 So this is how we're doing it.

00:43:06.500 We found a way.

00:43:09.080 And you can do it, too.

00:43:11.220 All you need to do is convince people around you to ask themselves what they can do and stop focusing on what they can't do.

00:43:20.260 It was folks like Danny Bulford.

00:43:23.560 It was truckers who went to Ottawa.

00:43:25.780 It was that group of people who assembled there to make a stand, to make their voices heard.

00:43:30.720 And so that inspired me.

00:43:32.660 And it also inspired me on a different front was to see that those people were ignored and insulted, and I had an issue with that.

00:43:40.540 And so one of the things I wanted to talk about, and that has come up throughout some of the Freedom Convoy stuff, there's some obvious parallels with sort of the Terry Fox story.

00:43:51.160 Did his story inspire you in any way to take on this action?

00:43:55.460 It did, but I cannot in any way compare myself to Terry Fox.

00:43:59.720 I am no Terry Fox.

00:44:00.860 So what it did do, because I live close to Vancouver, well, relatively speaking, an hour and a half away, the Terry Fox Memorial.

00:44:09.980 It was a place outside of British Columbia, a place where I could use as a kind of a landmark.

00:44:16.200 But in a way, pay my respect to the man for something I was going to do in a similar vein.

00:44:23.020 And it has personal meaning to me because Terry Fox was doing the business when I was a little kid, right?

00:44:28.220 So he was out there making that attempt to make a change in a constructive, meaningful way.

00:44:33.660 And I want to say I take inspiration from that, but in no way, shape or form can I compare myself to Terry Fox.

00:44:40.260 Do you feel that your sort of calling to join the armed forces, to stand up for freedoms, speaks to your character in a certain extent?

00:44:49.760 And it is the same sort of calling that has called you to do this?

00:44:53.540 To be perfectly honest, I will say that as a young person joining the armed forces, I didn't particularly pursue any higher form or any higher calling.

00:45:03.940 I just I was a young guy looking for adventure, looking to travel.

00:45:06.780 I would say that it wasn't until later on and probably within the last three or four months where I really realized what I was doing as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, as a public servant.

00:45:17.960 What is my role in the federal government?

00:45:20.500 What was I doing in the Canadian Armed Forces for 28 years?

00:45:23.620 When you look at the role of the Canadian Armed Forces is defend the security of the nation.

00:45:27.160 And you have to ask yourself why, because we want the people there to have secure, successful and happy lives.

00:45:33.380 Now, one of the things that we've seen throughout all of this, whether it be peaceful protests, peaceful freedom convoys, we've seen the vilification of people standing up for freedoms.

00:45:43.700 Have you experienced any of that?

00:45:45.400 I haven't.

00:45:46.420 Well, to say that I have gotten some negative feedback on the route, it has happened.

00:45:52.640 I'm mystified by it because I can't understand why our national flag is now looked down on and is something that disgusts a certain segment of the population.

00:46:04.400 I just I simply do not understand it.

00:46:06.940 And I can't understand why anybody would take offense to what I'm doing.

00:46:10.680 So there is there there has been some negative feedback, but not a lot.

00:46:16.040 No, I was the overwhelming support for what I'm doing.

00:46:18.740 It's actually quite astonishing.

00:46:20.740 And to focus on the positive there, what sort of you've had people joining you on the march.

00:46:24.860 You've had a lot of positive feedback, very much a peaceful message of positivity.

00:46:29.220 What what is the energy been like out there when you're talking to people on your march?

00:46:33.240 Well, that is that is what compels me to move forward.

00:46:36.260 It's the encouragement, it's it's I'm hesitant to go too deeply into it because I frequently am at a loss for words to describe it.

00:46:45.820 And it's very emotional experiences.

00:46:47.300 That's coming from somebody who's not typically emotional to have, you know, senior citizens like tell me how they believe in what I'm doing,

00:46:58.620 like little kids making drawings for me and stuff like that.

00:47:01.220 And mementos offered along the way, folks opening their houses to us so that we can sleep at night.

00:47:07.880 I mean, it's just it's overwhelming.

00:47:10.460 It's overwhelming.

00:47:11.320 It's not something I ever saw myself doing.

00:47:13.520 And it's probably the most amazing experience I've ever had in my life.

00:47:18.060 And probably one of the reasons why I'm so shocked, because I'm experiencing something that is the opposite of depression that we've been experiencing for the last three years.

00:47:26.060 And how for those who aren't familiar, how long have you been on the road and how much longer do you expect your journey to take?

00:47:32.720 Well, I'm going to be I've been on the road for 41 days, actually 42 days as of today.

00:47:38.540 But the day is kind of a down.

00:47:40.460 We're taking a break today, starting up again tomorrow from where we left off yesterday.

00:47:46.960 And we're going to head towards a place called Coaldale.

00:47:51.920 I expect to be in Ottawa around the end of June.

00:47:56.580 So it's not something I can predict with any sort of pinpoint accuracy.

00:48:00.420 But that's the time frame I've given myself.

00:48:02.500 So another roughly 90 days from today.

00:48:05.100 Incredible.

00:48:05.720 For most of us out there, it's impossible to imagine even walking from Calgary to Edmonton, let alone across the country.

00:48:10.860 Finally, where can people follow your story?

00:48:12.880 Where can people keep apprised as to where you are?

00:48:15.420 Yeah, I have what we have made a website for what we're doing.

00:48:19.520 It's called Canada Marches, one word, canadamarches.ca.

00:48:22.620 And in there you can find links to a number of social media platforms.

00:48:26.660 On the actual website itself, there is a GPS, a live GPS tracker because we were donated a spot tracker and the technology to kind of link our location real time.

00:48:39.300 So you can go to canadamarches.ca, click the link, and you'll see exactly what my location is.

00:48:47.280 And I typically march from 8 to about 6 p.m. in the evening.

00:48:51.980 Incredible.

00:48:52.420 Well, James, I want to thank you so very much.

00:48:54.020 It's an honour and a privilege.

00:48:55.200 Yeah, thank you.

00:48:55.500 And for everyone out there, I hope you enjoyed this so much.

00:48:57.580 Thanks so much for tuning in.

00:48:58.720 For Rebel News, I'm Adam Seuss.

00:49:00.300 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - April 06, 2022

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