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00:00:00.400 Hello, my rebels. I'm going to take you through a, I guess, a sort of small and obscure bill

00:00:05.240 introduced by Justin Trudeau's liberals, introduced into the Senate, which is a little bit odd.

00:00:10.920 It's called Bill S-7, and it gives border guards the power to search your phone for

00:00:18.340 photos and videos and texts and emails, not based on probable cause or anything like that,

00:00:25.800 just really a hunch. General concern is what they say. It's quite something. I'll take you through

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00:01:16.900 Tonight, why do they want a digital ID so badly? It's May 27th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:39.860 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:45.960 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:50.020 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:54.880 right to do so.

00:01:55.880 I'm worried about a new bill introduced in Canada's parliament to give border guards the right to

00:02:07.800 search and seize information in your cell phone, including photos, including emails, including

00:02:16.440 documents. It really is modeled after China's so-called social credit system where everything

00:02:23.340 about you is tracked in a government database or more likely contracted out to a company like Amazon

00:02:30.520 or Google on behalf of the government. So they both have your stuff. I think it's the worst of both

00:02:35.040 worlds. I'm not against ID. I'm very much for ID for things like voting, for example, or immigration.

00:02:43.280 Those are things that the left hates ID for. They call ID racist. Weirdly, when you say that people

00:02:51.920 should have to show ID to vote in an election, I don't think it's racist. I think it's racist to say,

00:02:59.100 as the left does, that minorities don't have access to ID, that that's a barrier for them. I think that's

00:03:06.960 just weird. I think it's false. I think it's just an excuse. It's the soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:03:12.780 The left doesn't want ID because they want to cheat.

00:03:17.060 I'm for normal ID. What's normal is the question, I guess, these days. I've been carrying around my birth certificate

00:03:23.560 in my wallet for decades. Same with my original social insurance card. It's no problem. Those and my driver's license

00:03:33.400 and my health card fit in my wallet and in some credit cards and maybe some cash. And I guess the wall,

00:03:41.280 it's a bit bulky, but it's no big deal. I've never lost my wallet in my life. What a hassle it would be

00:03:47.960 to replace all those things. I can understand the appeal of digital versions of those IDs.

00:03:55.140 I get it. I use digital versions of tickets now. I used to fly before unvaccinated people 0.99

00:04:03.840 were banned from flying. You could choose a paper airline ticket, but it was also pretty convenient

00:04:10.320 just to have it on your smartphone. Just hope your cell phone battery doesn't die and you're fine.

00:04:17.680 Tickets for events, too. Ticketmaster gives you digital cards. I think phone-based payments,

00:04:25.140 pretty handy, too. I don't know if you've ever used Apple Pay, for example, where you scan your phone

00:04:31.960 on the credit card machine just like you would scan a credit card in the past. Apple Pay doesn't bother

00:04:38.460 me too much because if it weren't for my phone, I'd probably be swiping a credit card instead.

00:04:44.880 So it's not like I'm creating a new digital record about myself that I wouldn't otherwise do.

00:04:50.460 Same with the airline ticket, same with the Ticketmaster example. I think this is all obvious.

00:04:56.820 The reason we like digital tickets for things is because they can be convenient for us and they're

00:05:03.200 convenient for the other side, too, for airlines to scan you in that way. No fuss, no must, no paper.

00:05:10.240 It's connected right to their computer systems. But I'm worried about a merger between all of these

00:05:17.700 different databases. I'm worried about connections between the databases. I'm fine with my credit card

00:05:25.140 company knowing where I buy things. They sort of have to know that to make the payment for me.

00:05:29.740 But what else is connected? And to whom? And who gets that data? We've had scary answers to that

00:05:36.800 question in the past, especially in the past decade, not so much from credit card companies,

00:05:41.940 but from big tech companies who know much more about you, like Facebook and Google. Now,

00:05:48.040 they're free services, your Facebook page. They're free because they're not the product being bought

00:05:54.400 and sold. You are to their advertisers, but mainly to them. They know everything about you,

00:06:02.580 everything you read, everything you write, everything you buy. These days, everything your

00:06:07.080 eyes look at, everything you say is picked up by your phone's microphone. And you can't remember every

00:06:15.520 word you write or say in your whole life, but a computer can. It can store them. That's what's for sale.

00:06:21.200 That's the greatest value of these mega tech corporations. That's why they're free, because

00:06:27.480 you are for sale. And the knowledge about everything you care about and would pay for is for sale.

00:06:34.440 And in the case of Twitter, we've seen this, and YouTube too, and other highly political big tech

00:06:39.880 companies, they don't just want to make money off you for things you want to buy, advertise.

00:06:44.900 They want to manage your politics. They want to censor what you see and censor what you say

00:06:52.520 and want to boost left-wing things in your field of vision. That's what the new Twitter CEO,

00:07:00.180 Parag Agarwal, meant when he said they're not in the free speech business. They're in the attention

00:07:06.340 business. You can talk all you want on Twitter, but only they get to decide if anyone hears you

00:07:14.320 and what you hear in return. They get to turn on or off the taps. I think that's scary.

00:07:21.940 Now, this was all happening already, of course, but then came the pandemic. Nothing worked. None of

00:07:29.420 their advice worked. The masks didn't work. They never did before. They were just used to keep

00:07:36.180 people in a state of fear and to be a flag to fly to show which team you were on. It was obedience

00:07:42.820 training for what was to come. The six-foot separation rule, it never worked. It was made

00:07:49.380 up in the first place. Don't take it from me. Ask the former head of the FDA, the commissioner of the

00:07:53.460 FDA, Scott Gottlieb. And you're right. The six feet was arbitrary. The six feet was arbitrary in and of

00:07:58.960 itself. But if the administration had focused in on that, they might have been able to affect a policy

00:08:04.500 that would have actually achieved their outcome. But that policymaking process didn't exist. And

00:08:10.680 the six feet is a perfect example of sort of the lack of rigor around how CDC made recommendations.

00:08:18.180 Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation

00:08:22.260 for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu where droplets don't travel

00:08:27.840 more than six feet. We now know COVID spreads through aerosols. The initial recommendation

00:08:31.980 that the CDC brought to the White House, and I talk about this, was 10 feet. And a political

00:08:36.680 appointee in the White House said, we can't recommend 10 feet. Nobody can measure 10 feet. It's

00:08:40.680 inoperable. Society will shut down. So the compromise was around six feet.

00:08:44.400 The lockdowns not only did not work, they made everything worse. Countless lives harmed or even killed,

00:08:52.040 especially children. What cruelty. And the vaccines and vaccine mandates, as in, if you don't get a

00:08:59.720 vaccine, you can't go to work or you can't fly or you can't go to a restaurant. Well, let's quote Bill

00:09:04.420 Gates himself, talking about how vaccines really aren't vaccines if they don't stop the virus from

00:09:11.100 breaking through. Here's the most honest six seconds he's ever said, just this week, in fact.

00:09:18.660 The idea of checking if people are vaccinated, you know, if you have breakthrough infections,

00:09:23.440 what's the point? Now, we knew a lot of this pretty early on. We knew the truth about the

00:09:30.300 disease itself pretty early on, how it wasn't as deadly as first thought. We knew, but it was in

00:09:37.300 too many people's interest to have the pandemic as the big thing. Again, here's Bill Gates himself

00:09:44.100 and how we got it so wrong. We knew things pretty soon. It wasn't until early February when I was in

00:09:50.460 a meeting that experts at the foundation said, there's no way, you know, this, there's been too

00:09:57.000 much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this. And then at that point, we didn't really

00:10:05.440 understand the fatality rate. You know, we didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate

00:10:11.660 and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different

00:10:17.380 than that. So that was pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United

00:10:25.180 States, nearly as fast as it needed to. I think Bill Gates is cruel and sociopathic and immoral, 0.99

00:10:31.940 by the way. As you know, his relationship with the child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which he 0.99

00:10:36.040 refused to stop visiting is just one example.

00:10:39.760 You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact

00:10:45.820 with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you. Did that play a role

00:10:50.940 in the, in the divorce at all in this process?

00:10:53.840 Yeah, as I said, it's not one thing. It was many things. But I did not like that he'd had meetings

00:11:01.200 with Jeffrey Epstein. No. And you made that clear to him. I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey

00:11:08.620 Epstein exactly one time. Did you? Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it

00:11:17.120 from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares

00:11:23.980 about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt.

00:11:29.280 And here I'm an older woman. My God, I feel terrible for those young women. It's awful.

00:11:34.200 You felt that the moment you walked in?

00:11:35.600 I didn't realize that.

00:11:36.400 He was awful.

00:11:36.740 Yeah. And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?

00:11:41.840 Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to

00:11:47.300 answer.

00:11:47.820 Okay.

00:11:48.260 But I made it very clear how I felt about him.

00:11:50.960 Gates himself just sort of chuckles about it even now.

00:11:54.260 Anyone else looking, looking at this?

00:11:56.240 Well, he's dead. So, you know, in general, you always have to be careful.

00:12:02.780 He's a creepy guy who has a bit of a God complex and he has a hundred billion dollars to indulge

00:12:08.860 any fancy. But I want you to meet this guy. I think we've shown him a couple of times before.

00:12:13.800 His name is Yuval Noah Harari. He's a thinker, a philosopher, even a futurist, I think.

00:12:20.680 He's a star at the World Economic Forum. He's pretty bizarre too, by the way. I won't get

00:12:28.280 into that here. But listen to him talk about everything that's happened and why it's so

00:12:34.520 useful. Not useful for public health. Sorry, that's not what he means. Useful to condition

00:12:40.560 people to obey, to train them to submit.

00:12:44.480 COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize total biometric 0.60

00:12:54.660 surveillance. If we want to stop this epidemic, we need not just to monitor people, we need

00:13:01.660 to monitor what's happening under their skin.

00:13:04.060 What we have seen so far, it's corporations and governments collecting data about where

00:13:09.480 we go, who we meet, what movies we watch. The next phase is the surveillance going under

00:13:17.060 our skin. We now see mass surveillance systems established even in democratic countries, which

00:13:23.480 previously rejected them. And we also see a change in the nature of surveillance. Previously,

00:13:31.060 surveillance was mainly above the skin, now it's going under the skin. Governments want

00:13:37.820 to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening

00:13:43.640 under our skin. What's our body temperature? What's our blood pressure? What is our medical condition?

00:13:49.480 Now humans are developing even bigger powers than ever before. We are really acquiring divine

00:13:59.480 powers of creation and destruction. We are really upgrading humans into gods. We are acquiring,

00:14:06.480 for instance, the power to re-engineer life. I know that in recent years, we saw populist politicians

00:14:12.480 undermining deliberately the trust that people have in important institutions, like universities,

00:14:19.480 like respectable media outlets. These populist politicians told people that scientists are this small elite

00:14:27.480 disconnected from the real people. I mean, all this story about Jesus rising from the dead and being the son of God,

00:14:33.480 this is fake news. Humans are now hackable animals. You know, the whole idea that humans have, you know,

00:14:42.480 they have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening inside me.

00:14:48.480 So whatever I choose, whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will, that's over.

00:14:55.480 There was a lot in that clip there. It was a bit of a montage, but did you get that first part?

00:15:00.480 He said, COVID is critical because that is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize total biometric surveillance.

00:15:09.480 We need not just monitor people. We need to monitor what's happening under their skin.

00:15:16.480 If you think that's science fiction, well, here's the president of Pfizer talking about a pill that works in a very practical way. Just look.

00:15:28.480 It is basically a biological chip that it is in the tablet. And once you take the tablet and dissolves into your stomach,

00:15:37.480 sends a signal that you took the tablet. So imagine the applications of that, compliance.

00:15:43.480 The insurance companies to know that the medicines that patients should take, they do take them.

00:15:49.480 It is fascinating what happens in this field.

00:15:54.480 Funny, that was at the World Economic Forum too. So can these people be serious?

00:16:00.480 Sure, serious like a pericarditis heart attack, serious like a trillion dollars. That's how serious they are.

00:16:07.480 So that's what the vaccine passport was about. That's what Trudeau's Arrive Can travel app is about.

00:16:19.480 That's what digital ID is about. It's to connect it all.

00:16:24.480 It's tracked on GPS, your location.

00:16:27.480 And of course, the phone companies have already been handing over all of your data about where you have been going based on that GPS.

00:16:34.480 They hand that over to the government too, even though they lie about it.

00:16:38.480 Here's a story that popped up in the Toronto Star.

00:16:42.480 It's very early in the pandemic.

00:16:44.480 Governments aren't tracking your cell phone in the battle of COVID-19.

00:16:49.480 They aren't. They might, but they aren't.

00:16:52.480 All right, well, here's one from January of this year.

00:16:58.480 Canada's privacy watchdog probing health officials' use of cell phone location data.

00:17:05.480 And here's one from a month after that.

00:17:08.480 The privacy commissioner, few realized the government was tracking their pandemic movements.

00:17:15.480 Yeah, few realized it, of course, because the government lied about it and the media covered it up and called anyone who was skeptical a conspiracy theorist.

00:17:25.480 So I think these things are connected.

00:17:27.480 That's the nature of a network, the nature of the Internet.

00:17:31.480 What does all this mean?

00:17:33.480 I think it means total surveillance, but also punishment if you get out of line.

00:17:39.480 I mean, ask the hundreds of Canadians who had their bank accounts seized with no court order.

00:17:47.480 Ask the thousands of people who tried to donate to the GoFundMe for the truckers, but the tech company blocked it on the demand of the government.

00:17:57.480 That's what I mean, connected. Link it all together.

00:18:00.480 One digital ID system for everything, an everything card, where you are, how's your body, your most private details, your money, and give the power to the government to, I don't know, turn it off.

00:18:19.480 Which brings me to the Bill S-7.

00:18:24.480 Now, you might say, don't bills in Parliament start with the letter C, like Bill C-11?

00:18:31.480 Well, that's when they're introduced in the House of Commons.

00:18:36.480 Strangely, this government bill was introduced in the Senate, so it's got an S, an act to amend the Customs Act and the Preclearance Act.

00:18:47.480 I'm going to read from the summary of the law in the actual legislation.

00:18:51.480 Summary.

00:18:52.480 The enactment amends the Customs Act to A, clarify the circumstances in which border service officers may examine documents stored on personal digital devices.

00:19:03.480 B, authorize the making of regulations in respect of those examinations.

00:19:08.480 And C, update certain provisions respecting enforcement, offenses, and punishment.

00:19:14.480 The enactment also amends the Preclearance Act to A, clarify the circumstances in which preclearance officers may examine, search, and detain documents stored on personal digital devices.

00:19:29.480 So, let's say you're not carrying your master digital ID, but so much of your info these days is on your phone, right?

00:19:36.480 Think about it.

00:19:37.480 Well, turn it over.

00:19:39.480 Seriously, turn over even your photos.

00:19:41.480 Turn over your emails.

00:19:42.480 Turn over your texts.

00:19:44.480 Your Facebook posts.

00:19:46.480 Everything.

00:19:47.480 Turn it over.

00:19:48.480 No search warrant.

00:19:50.480 Here's the new standard.

00:19:52.480 It's a little bit long, but I'm going to read it.

00:19:55.480 I'm going to read it slowly.

00:19:57.480 I think it's important.

00:19:58.480 And by the way, the words exported and imported means if you're leaving or entering Canada with these things.

00:20:05.480 Just a little clarification.

00:20:06.480 Okay.

00:20:07.480 This is from the bill, S7.

00:20:09.480 First, documents or personal digital device.

00:20:12.480 At any time up to the time of release or at any time up to the time of exportation, an officer designated under subsection 2 may, in accordance with the regulations, examine documents, including emails, text messages, receipts, photographs, or videos that are stored on a personal digital device that has been imported or is about to be exported.

00:20:38.480 And is in the custody or possession of a person if the officer has a, get this, reasonable general concern.

00:20:47.480 Oh, what's that?

00:20:48.480 That this act or a regulation made under it has been or might be contravened in respect of one or more of the documents.

00:20:57.480 B.

00:20:58.480 Any other act of Parliament that prohibits, controls, or regulates the importation or exportation of goods and is administered or enforced by the officer.

00:21:08.480 Any regulation made under the act has been or might be contravened in respect to one or more of the documents.

00:21:16.480 I'm almost done.

00:21:17.480 Or C.

00:21:18.480 Any other act of Parliament that prohibits, controls, or regulates the importation or exportation of goods and is administered or enforced by the officer or any regulation made under the act.

00:21:37.480 Okay.

00:21:38.480 I'm sorry.

00:21:39.480 That's a lot of words.

00:21:40.480 It's a lot of words.

00:21:41.480 But what it's saying is they just have to have a general concern that there's something on your phone.

00:21:47.480 And they demand to look at it and don't think you can stop them.

00:21:52.480 Don't think you can deny them access.

00:21:54.480 Don't think you can say, yeah, try and hack it, buddy.

00:21:57.480 I'll read to you.

00:21:58.480 Penalty for hindering an officer.

00:22:01.480 Give me your password.

00:22:02.480 No.

00:22:03.480 Here's the penalty, buddy.

00:22:04.480 Every person who contravenes section 153 is guilty of an offense.

00:22:16.480 Sorry, punishable and on summary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for a term.

00:22:33.480 Not more than six months.

00:22:38.480 Not more than six months.

00:22:41.480 Or both.

00:22:43.480 Huh.

00:22:44.480 So don't think that you can't deny them.

00:22:47.480 You can just deny them password.

00:22:49.480 And by the way, you're guilty of an indictable offense and you can be liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years or to both.

00:23:01.480 Imagine $50,000 and five years in prison for not letting them into your cell phone.

00:23:06.480 Now, I believe the customs officers and border guards are important jobs and I believe they should be able to guard our borders.

00:23:15.480 Now, they don't, by the way.

00:23:17.480 As a matter of policy, they do not.

00:23:19.480 Look at Roxham Road.

00:23:20.480 They don't guard anything there.

00:23:23.480 But sure, be on guard.

00:23:26.480 For guns.

00:23:27.480 For drugs.

00:23:28.480 Yeah, sure.

00:23:29.480 For illegal people. 0.99

00:23:30.480 For people being trafficked, like children being trafficked, Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein style, you know.

00:23:39.480 But seriously, going through your phone, clicking on your apps, downloading, copying your stuff.

00:23:46.480 I didn't read part of the bill, but it's in there that they can take copies of your stuff.

00:23:54.480 And all of it based on a reasonable general concern.

00:23:59.480 Have you ever heard of that?

00:24:01.480 But what is a reasonable general concern?

00:24:03.480 I just got this, I just got this feeling in my tummy.

00:24:06.480 Not probable cause.

00:24:08.480 Just a hunch, really.

00:24:11.480 So right now, they have to change the law through S7 to permit this.

00:24:19.480 This is not legal right now.

00:24:20.480 Trudeau wants to make it legal.

00:24:22.480 He's introduced this bill in the Senate.

00:24:23.480 They want to make it legal for cops to go through your emails, your texts, your photos, your videos.

00:24:30.480 It's a little pervy if you ask me.

00:24:32.480 They don't have that power right now.

00:24:34.480 This bill will do that.

00:24:36.480 But really, if they have a digital ID, they won't really need to search your phone at all, will they?

00:24:50.480 They'll already have all that information.

00:24:53.480 Thank you very much.

00:24:55.480 Stay with us for more.

00:25:06.480 Hey, there were some really exciting moments of our team in Switzerland.

00:25:13.480 First, they were in Davos, where the World Economic Forum met.

00:25:17.480 And then they went down to Geneva, where the World Health Organization met.

00:25:21.480 I want to show you three clips because they're just too good.

00:25:24.480 And it's not going to surprise you that the star of these is Avi Yamini, our Australian chief correspondent.

00:25:31.480 I think, you know, every year we have a viewer survey, a poll, a vote, really, for best rebel reporter.

00:25:39.480 Now, we got some amazing.

00:25:40.480 And it's hard for me to choose.

00:25:41.480 It's like asking which child is my favorite.

00:25:44.480 No, I love them all.

00:25:45.480 But Avi has won the MVP award two years in a row from our viewers.

00:25:51.480 And you're about to see why.

00:25:52.480 Here's the first time he bumped into Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, then the governor of the Bank of England.

00:25:59.480 Now he's got a climate post with the U.N.

00:26:02.480 And I am most certain he intends to come back to Canada, run for parliament and become the liberal leader to succeed Trudeau.

00:26:09.480 That's my prognostication.

00:26:10.480 Here's Avi versus Mark Carney, part one.

00:26:13.480 How do you justify, how does the U.N. climate envoy justify the massive carbon footprint here today to set this up, this fake city for a week event?

00:26:24.480 How did you get here?

00:26:26.480 How did you get here?

00:26:27.480 I walked.

00:26:28.480 You walked?

00:26:29.480 Yeah.

00:26:30.480 Did you come on a private jet?

00:26:32.480 Of course not.

00:26:33.480 No.

00:26:34.480 So how do you justify this?

00:26:35.480 Look at all of this.

00:26:36.480 For one week event, the carbon footprint is huge. 0.80

00:26:39.480 Do you think that's a bit hypocritical? 0.77

00:26:41.480 Drop it. 0.73

00:26:42.480 No?

00:26:43.480 Drop it.

00:26:44.480 Look, there is lots of progress being made.

00:26:46.480 But look, I'm not doing a stand-up interview, okay?

00:26:48.480 Why not?

00:26:49.480 You're walking that way anyways.

00:26:51.480 I think people around the world, you know, this year they say regaining trust.

00:26:54.480 I do.

00:26:55.480 That's the whole purpose.

00:26:56.480 I do lots of media.

00:26:58.480 Friendly media.

00:26:59.480 No, I do.

00:27:00.480 No.

00:27:01.480 God, no.

00:27:02.480 The ones that are here invited.

00:27:03.480 I'm doing no media at this point.

00:27:05.480 Can we sit down and I'll make a time with you and answer some actual tough questions?

00:27:09.480 You can make a request for a meeting.

00:27:12.480 So you can deny it.

00:27:14.480 Look, as I say, as with everyone else, you can do the same thing as with the guy from

00:27:19.480 True North.

00:27:20.480 Oh, he's a good guy.

00:27:22.480 I'm sure you're a good guy as well.

00:27:25.480 All people are good.

00:27:26.480 It's absolutely right. 1.00

00:27:27.480 But the whole world is looking at this now going, you're a pack of hypocrites and you're 0.99

00:27:31.480 at the top of the chain there. 0.99

00:27:33.480 What would you answer people?

00:27:35.480 Just give me one answer to the people.

00:27:37.480 Take care, sir.

00:27:40.480 Yeah, he's a little bit of a slippery fish, isn't he?

00:27:43.480 And he's not used to being asked questions.

00:27:45.480 Well, wouldn't you know it, Davos being a small town, Avi Yamini bumped into Mark Carney

00:27:49.480 the next day.

00:27:50.480 And if you don't understand the reference here, Avi's talking about the World Economic

00:27:54.480 Forum idea.

00:27:55.480 I think it's so gross that we should eat bugs. 0.63

00:27:59.480 We should eat bugs.

00:28:00.480 Anyhow, here's part two of Avi versus Carney.

00:28:04.480 Mark, now a good time?

00:28:05.480 How are you?

00:28:06.480 How are you?

00:28:07.480 How are you doing?

00:28:08.480 I miss you from yesterday.

00:28:09.480 Nice to see you again.

00:28:10.480 Who's your friend?

00:28:11.480 Do you want to introduce me?

00:28:12.480 How are you doing?

00:28:13.480 Very well, thank you.

00:28:14.480 That's good.

00:28:15.480 Any bug sandwiches today?

00:28:17.480 I haven't had anything to eat today.

00:28:18.480 No.

00:28:19.480 I actually haven't.

00:28:20.480 I haven't.

00:28:21.480 I haven't had anything to eat today.

00:28:22.480 But have you got any recommendations?

00:28:23.480 I don't know.

00:28:24.480 I need nothing.

00:28:25.480 So I'm happy.

00:28:26.480 Well, that's good.

00:28:27.480 I want to show you just one more video.

00:28:29.480 And this is Avi Amini and Savannah Hernandez and our team when they were in Geneva, the

00:28:34.480 World Health Organization and their assembly.

00:28:37.480 That's their big meeting.

00:28:38.480 They were just outside the building, like literally outside doing what we call a scene

00:28:43.480 setter, just showing you the backdrop.

00:28:45.480 And police came and said, and I'll let you see it for yourself because you will not believe

00:28:50.480 me otherwise.

00:28:51.480 The police said, you may not even film images of the outside of the building if you're saying

00:29:00.480 bad things about us.

00:29:02.480 I swear to God, don't take my word for it.

00:29:05.480 Take a look at this.

00:29:09.480 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:10.480 Is everything okay?

00:29:12.480 Now you stop to film.

00:29:15.480 Why?

00:29:16.480 Because you have not authorization.

00:29:18.480 Not film.

00:29:19.480 One second.

00:29:20.480 Why do you need authorization here?

00:29:22.480 Yes, it's WSHO.

00:29:24.480 Why can't you film the World Health Organization?

00:29:26.480 Because it's official if you said, WSHO is bad.

00:29:32.480 Yeah.

00:29:33.480 WSHO, when you film, it's okay, WSHO.

00:29:37.480 He said, okay, you film.

00:29:39.480 If I say it's bad.

00:29:41.480 Perhaps, I don't know.

00:29:42.480 Yeah.

00:29:43.480 Maybe I do.

00:29:44.480 So what does it matter?

00:29:45.480 We can film if we like the World Health Organization.

00:29:47.480 But if we're reporting badly on the World Health Organization, we can't film.

00:29:53.480 So they don't seem too happy with filming the World Health Organization.

00:30:00.480 How are you doing, mate?

00:30:01.480 Bonjour.

00:30:02.480 Bonjour.

00:30:03.480 Do you speak English?

00:30:05.480 Très peu.

00:30:06.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:07.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:08.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:09.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:10.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:11.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:12.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:13.480 Del you have somebody...

00:30:14.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:16.480 Do you have someone to speak French, mate?

00:30:17.480 Who is your name?

00:30:18.480 Do you have...

00:30:19.480 So...

00:30:20.480 Do you have somebody...

00:30:21.480 my name sounds good in french too this is certainly an image of health he's got his

00:30:45.240 masks tied to his security belt it's both secure please just one moment okay thank you what

00:30:57.800 yes it's possible to to do your interview okay just um for the the image the image yes not

00:31:07.960 not inside the building we're not going inside that's okay yes okay thank you just around thank

00:31:13.640 you you're welcome thank you very much all right there you go so um that's the thing you got to

00:31:20.520 learn when you stand up for yourself against tyranny and that's what it is that's a taste

00:31:26.040 of tyranny that's what it looks like when authoritarian states and rulers try to shut

00:31:32.040 you down if you stand up for yourself nine out of ten times at least while you're in a democracy

00:31:38.760 you will win let that be a lesson avi mini for rebel news in geneva switzerland that's a good

00:31:48.520 message by avi at the end if you fight back for your rights in a democracy you can sometimes win

00:31:55.080 avi says nine out of ten times you'll win i'm not sure if it's that high but avi does a good job but

00:31:59.960 you can see why he's was elected twice by our viewers our reporter of the year well one of my

00:32:05.000 favorite reporters in fact my number one favorite reporter at the national post tied with rex murphy

00:32:10.840 is our next guest you know who i'm talking about rupa supermania she joins us now via skype to talk 1.00

00:32:17.960 about her column about the world economic forum rupa great to see you again

00:32:24.600 so much for your kind words i just uh i really appreciate it and i don't know if i fully deserve

00:32:30.840 it but well listen what i like about your coverage is you're not afraid to zig when everyone else is

00:32:36.280 zagging sometimes you're a contrarian and i think that's the hardest thing to be hey your new column i

00:32:41.400 have it in front of me here in the national post it's called world health organization and the davos elite

00:32:48.120 leave a lot to be desired canadians elect our leaders to work in our interests not those of international

00:32:53.720 bureaucrats or the rich and powerful i i should have known this but i didn't i didn't realize

00:33:01.160 that trudeau last year gave nearly three million canadian tax dollars to the world economic forum

00:33:08.840 they're full of billionaires rupa but the richest people in the world what are we doing i know i know

00:33:14.200 it's it truly is bizarre uh so this is a story that was actually broken uh by the true north center a

00:33:21.160 couple of weeks ago and uh i i it came as a surprise to me as well i i didn't think that a rich

00:33:28.280 organization like the world economic forum you know which has all kinds of rich benefactors

00:33:33.560 uh needs uh to be subsidized uh by taxpayers and it's not just canadian taxpayers who who who've been

00:33:42.120 subsidizing help subsidize the world economic forum it's also taxpayers in japan it's taxpayers in the us

00:33:48.680 um uh you name it germany a bunch of different countries um and uh it really is perplexing you

00:33:56.760 know why why why do taxpayers have to uh foot the bill for this annual event um and uh you know it

00:34:05.320 really does uh you know it's it's problematic optics in my opinion um sure three million dollars is not a

00:34:13.000 whole lot of money and uh you know you could say it's it's it's an insignificant sum of money but

00:34:17.880 my point is that uh you know this is happening in the context of a very inflationary environment

00:34:23.480 uh you know where you know the average canadian is struggling to make ends meet um and so you know

00:34:30.440 and so this is just just very problematic for a range of different reasons yeah and it's you know

00:34:36.840 three million dollars is not a lot of money in the scheme of the canadian budget they waste so much

00:34:41.160 they waste that much in in a matter of seconds but there's something um immoral about it feels

00:34:46.920 upside down this really is the western meeting place for oligarchs like we use the word oligarch

00:34:54.040 as a pejorative to describe the billionaires around vladimir putin okay i get it they are shady characters

00:34:59.880 but what do you call people in the west who are ultra rich and powerful and want to scheme behind the

00:35:05.400 scenes george soros jeffrey bezos bill gates shouldn't we call them oligarchs too that's

00:35:11.160 who davos is for and about and by and so the idea that we canada would give even one dollar

00:35:18.600 to the oligarch meeting group and and it's not like this is some international

00:35:23.160 government agency it's it's basically klaus schwab's company it's so gross we're giving them any money

00:35:30.040 i think i think it was our finance minister and deputy prime uh deputy prime minister christian

00:35:35.720 freeland who called them plutocrats uh and she went from being uh you know one of their biggest 0.97

00:35:41.320 critics to now being an insider and she sits on the uh uh board of trustees of the world economic forum

00:35:48.760 um and um and you know again this is this is something that i flagged about a year and a half ago

00:35:54.520 and it was you know she's been a member of this board for a few years now and um and you know i'm

00:36:01.480 not quite sure why um you know why this is not a bigger issue here in canada because the optics again

00:36:08.440 once again uh don't look good uh she's the only um a politician um on the board of the world economic 1.00

00:36:17.560 forum um and uh and i think it's important that we ask why that that is the case that's a great

00:36:24.440 point i mean i know a little bit about christia freeland and i did read her book plutocrats it felt

00:36:29.320 like um an attempt of being uh you know i don't know if our viewers remember there was a show called

00:36:34.920 uh lifestyles of the rich and famous it was by robin leach who would just visit these rich people on

00:36:40.360 yachts i it felt like it was sort of a purient if i'm saying that word right um you know i'm hanging

00:36:48.200 out with billionaires she was actually george soros's official biographer before she came back i think

00:36:53.880 she just loved hanging around rich people and she would sort of say oh i'm not for the super rich but

00:36:59.640 she was she loved it and she was working for soros as a biographer um i don't understand what value she

00:37:10.520 has to the world economic forum other than she's an insider in the canadian cabinet like she had a

00:37:17.560 she was uh you know sort of a pop non-fiction author she had a project at thompson reuters that

00:37:25.560 failed spectacularly i guess what i'm saying is just like hunter biden had these contracts in

00:37:31.160 russia and china and ukraine clearly because it was just about his relationship with his dad joe biden

00:37:36.840 i think christia freeland's only use to the world economic forum is not her brilliant management or

00:37:42.920 strategic skills is that she's plugged right into the canadian government and that scares me because 0.82

00:37:49.400 how can you be loyal to two organizations that are sometimes at odds i just think it's really

00:37:53.960 inappropriate well that is the point isn't it uh you have two different so you have the national

00:37:59.800 interest the canadian national interest which is what she's supposed to be defending that's that's

00:38:04.120 that is what she she should be standing up for and then you have the the interests of the world

00:38:09.160 economic forum which may be at odds with what what is in our national interest and uh this this this

00:38:15.800 does present a dilemma and uh the world economic the world economic forum says that you know the the

00:38:21.720 the um their board of trustees is comprised of people from a range of different uh backgrounds uh

00:38:28.680 from the political establishment from uh big corporations uh from civil society and so on and so forth

00:38:35.560 um but you know it still begs the question why is the only actively serving politician uh on the

00:38:43.400 board of trustees from canada um what exactly what purpose is that serving and uh and i i feel that this

00:38:50.760 this is not getting uh the attention that it that it deserves uh now the the world economic forum makes it

00:38:57.880 very clear that you know the board of trustees don't get any compensation for for for serving on the board

00:39:03.560 uh and but but they provide guidance uh they they provide guidance to the organization uh but what

00:39:12.120 is that guidance you know what does that guidance look like um and is that is that uh in our national

00:39:18.520 interest that's the that's the most important question i think you know i would think that being finance

00:39:24.360 minister deputy prime minister and she seems to be the foreign minister at least in regards to ukraine

00:39:29.960 uh i would think that sort of takes up uh someone's time so uh i i wonder why and how she can make time 1.00

00:39:38.040 to serve the interests of a group of oligarchs i find it odd maybe it's her relationship with george

00:39:43.080 soros that has carried her over i don't know but rupa i'll tell you this it's very rare that canadian

00:39:49.080 journalists other than independent sort of even fringe journalists talk about the world economic forum i know

00:39:54.520 that terry corcoran of the financial post does but other than him you mentioned the world economic

00:39:59.880 forum and people will hiss at you and say that's a conspiracy theory the great reset is a conspiracy

00:40:06.360 theory they don't actually want you to own nothing and be happy even though each of those phrases

00:40:11.080 is their official thing i don't it's so weird how in certain polite society if you even mention the

00:40:19.640 world economic forum they'll call you a crank even though it's a real thing we were just there it's a real

00:40:24.040 thing last word to you rupa why is it that no one even is this is a very interesting thing even if you

00:40:30.040 like billionaires and oligarchs and secret societies and klaus schwab who is literally the son of a man

00:40:37.400 who moved to nazi germany to run a factory i mean i'm not blaming him for his father's affiliation with

00:40:43.400 the nazis but he's like this classic super villain this klaus schwab and he says the craziest things

00:40:50.440 like surely just out of sheer spectacle journalists would find this curious but very few even talk

00:40:57.240 about it yeah so so ezra i don't think we need to you know really even have a conspiracy theory here

00:41:05.080 it's not a conspiracy theory it's all out in the open uh their agenda is out in the open uh they they're

00:41:11.640 very clear about where they're coming from what they want to accomplish uh they see themselves as uh uh

00:41:18.440 agents of change they they see themselves as uh powerful individuals trying to influence um

00:41:25.160 governments all across all over the world where is the conspiracy here right uh but ultimately i think

00:41:30.840 what what what uh what is important is that does that serve the national interest that's the question

00:41:36.840 that we should be answering every single time that the world economic forum um you know is a topic of

00:41:42.360 discussion or for that matter the world health organization and the pandemic treaty which is is you know which is

00:41:48.360 as you mentioned they they also met this past week and uh the pandemic treaty now is it's it's

00:41:54.520 to be honest with you i mean i'm nothing against international treaties i think they serve they serve

00:42:00.200 a purpose but with the pandemic treaty you really have to wonder uh an organization that got it so wrong

00:42:06.440 on on the pandemic do we really trust them to come up with this global pandemic treaty to to deal with the

00:42:12.360 next pandemic i know i i it raises a lot of questions for me um and it should it should for a lot of

00:42:18.840 people yeah well rupa we're so grateful for your column in the national post i'm so glad you have that

00:42:25.080 prime journalistic real estate uh because you're getting the people who who really ought to hear it

00:42:30.120 and i'm glad they are nice to see you again my friend thanks for your time thanks so much ezra right on

00:42:34.760 there you have a rupa supermania who is a columnist for the national post as well as for nikai nikai

00:42:41.720 excuse me uh the asian news agency stay with us

00:42:48.760 hey welcome back your letters to me island jason says roman never fails to impress me

00:43:06.520 thanks for the great interview roman babra i really like the guy and i have to say he was

00:43:13.320 probably the most effective critic of the lockdowns from within government i really like the the cut of

00:43:20.520 the jib of randy hillier i like how he fights i like the fact that other mpps battled doug for two they

00:43:27.480 were all thrown out but i think that roman babra did the most research he was the most meticulous the

00:43:33.560 most authoritative um and really he was pretty early to it he was pretty early to it i think he was sacked

00:43:40.520 in january of 2021 so not even a year into it he realized things were wrong give the guy credit for

00:43:46.920 that sebastian says most likely pierre is going to be the candidate but i'm hoping roman becomes an mp

00:44:00.840 and works his way up to be leader i think it's quite possible that uh roman babra is elected

00:44:08.440 and it wouldn't surprise me if pierre polly appoints him to cabinet especially if roman babra wins in

00:44:16.520 his toronto riding of york center i actually happen to live in that riding and um you know the

00:44:23.320 conservatives have a tough time in the greater toronto area that's a winnable seat um it was held

00:44:30.520 uh by the conservatives it was lost to the liberals i think roman babra could could win it back ryan f says

00:44:39.240 roman is one of the few candidates who kept it 100 during the lockdowns and mandates yeah and he lost

00:44:46.600 his job over it i mean he absolutely would have been re-elected and i think he probably would have

00:44:52.360 merited being in cabinet so i think he did pay a price for speaking out i'm glad he did

00:44:56.440 that's a show for the day and that's the end of our week what a week oh my gosh we covered so many

00:45:04.280 trials we covered things in every time zone juan mendoza diaz was covering the border was covering the

00:45:10.840 the uvalde shooting if i'm saying that right and of course we had our team in the world economic forum

00:45:17.000 in davos and then the world health organization in geneva i think it was actually one of the busiest

00:45:23.880 weeks in the history of rebel news and one of the most important i'm very proud of our team

00:45:27.880 in fact even last night we had a documentary premiere in the city of calvary a lot going on

00:45:32.840 i wish i could have been there but like i said i can't fly that's our show until monday on behalf

00:45:38.840 of all of us here at rebel world headquarters see you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

00:45:43.880 and let me leave you with our video of the day from alexa lavoie quebec city residents share their

00:45:49.560 perspectives on claus schwab bye now

00:46:09.240 so hey alexa for urban news and we are the monday 23 of may and i'm currently in petit champlain in quebec

00:46:17.240 city as you know between the 22 and the 26th of may in davos switzerland it's happening the annual forum

00:46:27.240 of the world economic forum so during this forum they are talking about climate change they are talking

00:46:33.720 about global cooperation technology as well as economy and way more other topic so i'm here today to

00:46:43.400 look if people are know this man claus schwab the president of the world economic forum i i don't have

00:46:51.720 too many remedies the remedies have to be discussed through dialogue by the stakeholders of our global

00:46:59.560 system but i just see the need for such a dialogue and i see the need for action i see the need for a great

00:47:08.680 reset and i'm here as well to ask them what the sentence of you will own nothing and you will be

00:47:18.280 happy means to them so let's check it out

00:47:24.120 so today i'm asking people uh if they know this man yes who is it uh schwab yeah is that steve cohen no no

00:47:34.920 i don't know who he is who is he claus schwab oh that's schwab okay do you recognize this man nope

00:47:42.840 if i say it's claus schwab do that invoke something charles schwab claus schwab i know i've heard of

00:47:50.360 charles schwab before but no no no and you no i do not no should i i don't know this person

00:48:02.040 uh i'm not sure i know of the world economic forum but not sure about schwab um i'm from ontario no i

00:48:13.480 do not know who this man is i'm actually from i was born in korea and i don't really know this man

00:48:19.880 it's more as many is knowing like all around the world charlie monger no if i see claus schwab of the

00:48:27.640 world economic forum do that mean something the schwab like the bank the founder of the bank is

00:48:33.480 or but this one is the president of the world economic forum oh i'm sorry i'm young i don't

00:48:39.880 really know about that and so what that sentence means for you if i say you will own nothing and

00:48:46.840 you will be happy it's a lie yeah the more i own the more happier but it's not necessarily true

00:48:55.240 you can be happy with nothing i was before what that sentence means for you oh this is

00:49:01.560 yeah that's very unfortunate to say the least um it's a lot of increasing economic inequality and um

00:49:08.840 you know destroying our lives one step at a time as they have been for the last 40 or 50 years

00:49:13.480 it's not good but more well because if you'll never own anything because everything is so expensive

00:49:20.280 but you'll have to come to grips with it and then just be happy in life but it's sad because

00:49:26.520 you won't never own anything yeah you don't need to own things to be happy that seems like a good

00:49:32.840 statement you don't need to own things to be happy like you don't need material goods

00:49:38.280 well i guess if it's saying like if it's demanding that you will own nothing

00:49:43.560 at least from an american standpoint i know that that would make people upset but

00:49:47.560 i think if it's something that you like are making the decision about yourself

00:49:52.760 then it could be a good thing what that sentence means to you you will own nothing

00:49:58.680 and you will be happy what that means to you uh i think i'm sad here thank you

00:50:07.960 oh okay you understand

00:50:10.120 it's good yeah for me yeah so it's these older white guys that are trying to uh that think that

00:50:21.080 they know what the younger generations need or want and they are trying to organize the future in the way

00:50:29.720 that they see is best fit but i think this guy is affiliated with a lot of uh big or big you know

00:50:37.240 multi multi multinationals and and um and it's kind of like one big gang that's trying to

00:50:45.320 organize or plan our future in a way that's just uh not in line with the realities of what

00:50:51.960 people are actually living so there's a disconnect i don't think it's such a good thing but

00:50:57.000 mm-hmm you think it's a good or bad thing uh in terms of as a young as a young generation it'll be

00:51:06.440 good if you don't have anything but you'll more have opportunity to have more in the future right

00:51:11.560 but if you're um that of like my dad like um that of one of family i will be it'll be a little bit more

00:51:18.760 more heart heart because you will have to raise your family you know you if you're a mom if you're

00:51:25.640 a dad you want to have um you want to do good things to refer for your family right that's all

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