Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau Liberals lose another court battle in bid to censor Canadians

00:00:00.160 Hello, my friends. What a surprise I have for you today. On Saturday, we sued Justin Trudeau's

00:00:05.780 former Justice Minister, David LeMani. I didn't even know you could file a lawsuit on Saturday,

00:00:09.500 but we did. He got the lawsuit on Sunday, and incredibly, today, Monday, he pretty much caved

00:00:16.760 in. Now, we're not done with him yet, but I'll give you the full update. That's today's show.

00:00:20.560 But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of

00:00:25.440 this podcast. It's eight bucks a month. You can get that at rebelnewsplus.com. Eight bucks a month

00:00:31.320 is good value for you, I put it. But more than that, it's the way we stay alive, because we do not take

00:00:36.240 any money from Trudeau, and it shows. All right, here's today's podcast. Tonight, we sued David

00:00:42.580 LeMani on Saturday. It's Monday, and he's already half caved in. I'll give you all the details. It's

00:00:48.700 January 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:54.580 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:06.760 In my hand here, I have a court order that I just got a few days ago. I haven't had a chance to tell 0.95

00:01:13.140 you about it yet. It is an order compelling three liberal cabinet ministers, Marcy Ian,

00:01:18.560 Yara Sachs, and Karina Gould, to forever unban Rebel News journalists and ordered those three 0.92

00:01:25.520 lovely liberal ladies to pay us $1,750 in legal costs for violating our rights and making us go 1.00

00:01:33.100 to court. It's a very similar order to the one that Stephen Gilbeau had to sign a few months back.

00:01:38.900 I was going to make my monologue about that today and make the case that this is sort of a small

00:01:44.380 victory, but it is a victory nonetheless, and anything that's going in the direction of more

00:01:49.020 freedom is the pendulum coming back. It's not a big win like last week's federal court ruling,

00:01:55.120 but it's a win nonetheless. So I actually had written my whole monologue on the subject when,

00:02:00.940 bam, I received news from our legal team, Chad Williams and his firm. As you may have heard from my emails

00:02:07.720 and a little video I did on the weekend, we sued David Lamedi on the weekend. David Lamedi,

00:02:13.520 the former justice minister, the disgraced justice minister, I think is a fair thing to say.

00:02:19.920 He was the justice minister who illegally approved Justin Trudeau's call for martial law,

00:02:25.700 and then he was sacked from cabinet. And after last week's federal court ruling against the

00:02:30.080 Emergencies Act, he resigned in disgrace, oddly being picked up by a law firm called Fask and

00:02:35.260 Martin. No. Anyways, what we noticed is that he had deleted his government Twitter account,

00:02:39.520 which is not his account. It's got that great check mark saying it's government,

00:02:43.840 and that's all his public records and some of his private communications too.

00:02:47.540 In my mind, it was like he was sneaking away and shredding all the documents that might hold him

00:02:53.100 culpable, especially as the lawsuits now deploy against the government. Anyway, I was blown away by the

00:02:58.800 fact that today, David Lamedi put his Twitter account back up. We sued him on Saturday. We served

00:03:07.440 him with the papers on Sunday. I didn't even know you could do that. I didn't know you could do these

00:03:11.060 things on a weekend. And then today, Monday, Lamedi basically says, okay, and he puts it back up.

00:03:18.180 It's a win for Rebel News. However, I'm not going to take that win to the bank because we need the court

00:03:24.080 to order it so he can't sidestep this again. He can't secretly delete things. Anyways, when I heard

00:03:30.020 this news, I did an emergency live stream. Let me play that for you today. This is what I did

00:03:35.900 a few hours ago as the news broke. But let me tell you, I am not satisfied with this until I have a

00:03:43.140 court order like this one. This bans Marcy Ian, Yarar Sachs, and Karina Gould from ever banning us on

00:03:49.460 Twitter again for the rest of their careers. And if they do it, they're in violation of the court.

00:03:54.160 That's a powerful thing. David Lamedi grudgingly putting Twitter back up today is a good step. But

00:04:00.580 until I have it in a court order, I will not be satisfied. In fact, I'm recording this. I'm

00:04:05.380 checking my watch. This is about 3 p.m. when I'm recording it. At 4 p.m., I have to hop on a Zoom

00:04:11.440 call called a case management judge that basically says, okay, it's a very emergency case. Here's the

00:04:18.040 deadline. So it's just a procedural hearing. But we are very much dedicated to seeing this through.

00:04:23.540 All right. Without further ado, here's my live stream when I just got the news. Come back after

00:04:29.020 the live stream because we've got an interview with Robert Krejcik, who's doing interesting things

00:04:33.300 in Ottawa. Okay. Here's the live stream, which has the news.

00:04:48.040 Ezra Levant here from Rebel News. I am coming to you with a breaking news live stream update. You may

00:04:55.020 have heard over the weekend that Rebel News and myself sued David Lamedi, the disgraced justice

00:05:02.260 minister who invoked the martial law, the Emergencies Act. We sued him because he was deleting and

00:05:08.420 destroying government records, namely his Twitter account. We filed that lawsuit. Normally, you don't

00:05:13.180 file a lawsuit on a weekend. I've never, in fact, heard of that before. But our lawyer, our legal team,

00:05:18.160 Chad Williamson, is one of our most keen lawyers and I would say our winningest lawyer. He's the guy

00:05:28.160 who won various lawsuits against cabinet ministers like Stephen Gilbeau. He also got us accreditation

00:05:36.460 in the 2021 election debates, but let's talk about what he did this weekend. He filed a lawsuit

00:05:43.700 for me personally and Rebel News as a company against David Lamedi and the government of Canada

00:05:51.200 and Lamedi in his personal capacity as well as his government capacity because David Lamedi had a

00:05:57.160 Twitter account with that gray government checkmark. And if you know Twitter, you know that gray government

00:06:02.400 checkmark means it is an official government account. It's not a personal account. It's not a private

00:06:07.560 account. It's not for friends and family. It's not done using personal resources or party resources.

00:06:12.980 It is a civil service project. And after the federal court ruled last week that the Emergencies Act was

00:06:20.820 illegal, unreasonable, unjustifiable, unintelligible, and unconstitutional, those are all words from the

00:06:28.820 ruling. Lamedi quit. He quit parliament and he announced he was going to work for some fancy law

00:06:36.940 firm called Faskin Martineau. Remind me never to deal with a law firm like Faskin Martineau that hires a

00:06:43.840 disgraced, discredited, civil liberties-torching justice minister. I mean, why you would hire a

00:06:49.360 loser like that is beyond me. But on his way out the door, he was destroying documents. That's what it 0.96

00:06:55.780 means when you delete your Twitter account. You're destroying your records, not just your public-facing

00:07:00.900 records, but any private direct messages, any DMs, as they're called. And the reason that's important

00:07:07.900 is because we know for a fact that these cabinet ministers use private communications like that. We saw

00:07:13.380 it during the judicial inquiry into the Truckers Commission. So not only was David Lamedi deleting his

00:07:20.720 public record, which is outrageous to begin with, but he was deleting, he, that sneaky little bastard 0.84

00:07:26.660 was deleting his private message to other MPs, other cabinet ministers, and whoever else he was 0.95

00:07:33.640 talking to on Twitter. And he thought he would just casually do this as he left the building.

00:07:38.940 Just delete it. But that's the thing, it's not his Twitter account to delete. That would be if,

00:07:44.560 like, if the disgraced Catherine McKenna, former environment minister, who, you know, 0.98

00:07:49.600 billions of dollars missing from her department, it's enough that she quit in disgrace. But imagine 1.00

00:07:54.780 if she deleted all the files, had all the hard drives wiped, and all the papers shredded for her

00:08:00.400 mismanagement. I mean, by the way, there's still no justice to come there. But as far as we know,

00:08:05.640 she didn't call the shredders. In 2024, you delete documents by pushing a button. You know,

00:08:13.860 maybe 20 years ago, you would have shredding trucks parked outside the office working all night.

00:08:18.880 It's not how it goes in 2024. But what's incredible is how few mainstream media journalists

00:08:25.460 pointed out his deletion of his Twitter account. And I think it was almost zero who cared about it.

00:08:32.080 Well, we cared about it at Rebel News. And we took him to court. And I want you to look at that

00:08:36.680 lawsuit. It was a pretty good lawsuit filed by Chad Williams and his team. You can find the whole thing

00:08:42.080 at StopTheCoverUp.com. That's the special website we set up. Don't you think that's a good name for

00:08:48.240 him? Because that's what it was. I mean, if David Lamenti wants to delete his family Facebook page,

00:08:54.960 that's his business. He wants to delete his private social media accounts. I don't care.

00:08:59.660 I have no interest in them. But I have a huge interest in his public accounts,

00:09:03.720 because he's a public person who's involved in a public controversy. And literally this morning,

00:09:09.280 I received a phone call from a law firm in Vancouver that is working with people who were

00:09:13.560 damaged by martial law, who are planning to sue the government. So in a very real sense,

00:09:19.960 what David Lamenti was trying to delete was evidence. It was absolutely evidence that would

00:09:25.720 be crucial in the upcoming lawsuit. And he thought he would delete it. But remember who David Lamenti is.

00:09:32.040 How did such a man become justice minister? Do you remember the story there? Canada had a justice

00:09:38.080 minister named Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was the first indigenous justice minister in Canadian history.

00:09:46.260 Certainly Trudeau made a lot of fanfare about that, as did the media. But the thing about Jody Wilson-Raybould

00:09:52.400 is I think she actually cared about the law. Now, she was a bit of a left-wing ideologue, 1.00

00:09:56.420 let's be honest. But I think she had a lot of integrity. And it is sort of exciting that an

00:10:02.720 indigenous person became justice minister. I'll say it. I mean, maybe that's affirmative action on

00:10:06.500 my part. But I mean, that is a step towards harmony, I think, you know. But the trouble is,

00:10:13.800 she was too ethical. And when Justin Trudeau's friends at a corrupt Montreal-based engineering firm

00:10:20.980 called SNC-Lavalin, when they were caught bribing their way into, I think it was a hospital,

00:10:26.520 they were, they bribed public officials to get a contract. So they were being prosecuted for

00:10:31.440 corruption. And they weren't disputing that, by the way. Justin Trudeau and his staff, including

00:10:38.400 Gerald Butts, kept pestering Jody Wilson-Raybould to drop the trial, to call off the trial, to call off

00:10:46.080 a criminal trial. And Jody Wilson-Raybould would not do it. In fact, she was sort of shocked that

00:10:52.100 Trudeau was demanding that she do it. And so he fired her. Justin Trudeau fired Jody Wilson-Raybould

00:10:59.100 because she was too honest. Have you ever heard of that before? So who would he replace to succeed

00:11:05.180 her? Obviously, it's not going to work if you fire her and replace her with someone else who's ethical 1.00

00:11:11.160 and puts the rule of law and independence of the judiciary above partisan politics. Obviously,

00:11:17.700 firing Jody Wilson-Raybould and getting a second Jody Wilson-Raybould is not going to help you with 0.96

00:11:23.480 your goal of letting your crooked, corrupt, bribe-paying Montreal cronies off the hook. It's 0.96

00:11:29.740 not going to work. So the chief qualification for being the successor to Jody Wilson-Raybould is someone

00:11:36.600 who will obey Justin Trudeau no matter what. And that man was named David Lamedi.

00:11:43.960 And wouldn't you know it, the chief defining characteristic about him is that he will put

00:11:50.180 his obedience to Justin Trudeau about his public duties. That actually became crucially important

00:11:56.680 two years ago when Justin Trudeau proposed to invoke martial law, the Emergencies Act, an act that had

00:12:05.280 never been used before, not even during 9-11. Now, a plain reading of the Emergencies Act, you don't

00:12:11.860 even have to be a lawyer to get this, is that you can only invoke martial law if there is a serious

00:12:19.920 violence in the country, a real insurrection, a revolution, an invasion, something of an existential

00:12:27.140 threat. It has to be an extraordinarily dangerous situation. And step two in the decision, you have

00:12:36.560 to invoke martial law only if no existing laws can handle the situation. So if there was, God forbid,

00:12:45.780 an invasion of Canada, if our Canadian forces could repel it normally, you don't need to put the country

00:12:51.320 under martial law. In fact, it's illegal to do so. So the Emergencies Act, which was drafted, I don't know,

00:12:55.880 almost 40 years ago, as a successor to the War Measures Act, it had some checks and balances

00:13:02.980 within it. You can only use the Emergencies Act if the country is in a grave situation tantamount to a

00:13:10.520 revolution or an invasion. And you can only do it even then if your regular laws don't work. Well,

00:13:17.060 obviously, regular laws work just fine on the truckers. They were honking too much. Our court 0.55

00:13:21.540 ordered them to stop. They stopped. Honking problem solved. There were some tickets for parking. Okay,

00:13:28.240 that they paid their tickets. And that was about it. There was no serious violence. There was no

00:13:31.960 violence at all, in fact. And so David Lamedi knew, because he's a smart lawyer, that invoking the

00:13:40.380 Emergencies Act was, as Justice Mostly of the Federal Court announced last week, illegal, unintelligible,

00:13:47.400 unreasonable, unjustified, and unconstitutional. David Lamedi and every other lawyer involved knew

00:13:56.260 it was illegal and unconstitutional. But David Lamedi did it anyways, because he was hired

00:14:02.700 specifically for his moral failure. The fact that he was corrupt and corruptible was precisely why 0.94

00:14:09.320 Trudeau chose him to be the Justice Minister. Jody Wilson-Raybould would never have approved this. 0.51

00:14:15.220 David Lamedi would have approved anything. And so when the federal court ruled, as I mentioned last

00:14:24.740 week, David Lamedi resigned and disgraced and slunked and sneaked out of Ottawa, going to his luxury

00:14:32.960 reward at Fask and Martineau, the law firm. But even on his way out the door, he was an unethical,

00:14:41.580 corrupt liberal, wasn't he? Deleting his own... Look at that bow tie. I know a few people with bow ties, 0.98

00:14:49.140 but just the fact that that little weasel is wearing a bow tie is his way of saying,

00:14:54.140 I'm untouchable. I'm different than you. I'm above you. The rules of ethics don't apply to me.

00:15:01.840 I shouldn't knock bow ties. I have some good friends who wear them. But to see that little

00:15:05.880 prat in there as he sells out... The job of the Justice Minister, you can tell it from the word 0.96

00:15:11.920 Justice Minister, is to administer justice. The job of the Justice Minister is to ensure justice is done,

00:15:18.140 to protect the civil liberties of Canadians, including to protect them from the government

00:15:22.160 itself. But that little weasel did the opposite. He sold out justice. He sold out the citizens to

00:15:30.520 his boss. And what a disgrace. David Lamedi is an unremarkable man. The fact that he looks like a

00:15:38.280 weasel is secondary. And I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that weasely weasel, because that's not

00:15:43.260 the main point. Yes, he's a weasel. But the main point is he sold out his fellow Canadians, and that 0.96

00:15:49.980 is all he will ever be known for. His epitaph will be, here lies the weasel that sold out his fellow man

00:15:59.360 It takes remarkable courage, like Jody Wilson able to stand up to a bully. David Lamedi was the

00:16:05.280 bully's assistant. But here's my point. We went to court on Saturday. Have you ever heard of such a

00:16:09.720 thing? We rushed to court. We made an emergency application. In fact, I'm recording this live

00:16:15.260 stream at 2 p.m. Eastern time. We're running live at 2 p.m. Eastern. In just under two hours, we will

00:16:21.040 have a case management meeting with the federal court. Because when you file an emergency lawsuit on

00:16:26.720 Saturday, the court sort of wakes up on Monday and says, oh, we better get going. Let's get our

00:16:31.800 timing straight. So at 4 p.m. today, a case management judge will set out, okay, the plaintiffs

00:16:39.140 will have their paperwork in on this day, and the government will have two days to respond, and

00:16:44.120 et cetera, et cetera. You might say, well, what's the point of that now, Ezra? That David Lamedi has,

00:16:50.740 show it please, Ephraim, has restored his account.

00:16:58.520 It was gone on Friday. It was gone on Saturday. We sued on Saturday. We served all the bad guys

00:17:06.400 copies of the lawsuits on Sunday. And would you look at this on Monday? David Lamedi's Twitter

00:17:11.460 account is back. We sued on Saturday. He put it back up on Monday. I don't think I've ever seen such a

00:17:16.960 quick surrender in my life, except when you're dealing with a little weasel, it's not enough

00:17:24.120 for him to do something like that, because what if he deletes it again tomorrow? Or what if not he,

00:17:30.240 but one of Trudeau's henchmen deletes it tomorrow? Or what if they have a whipsies accident and delete

00:17:35.580 it tomorrow? Or what if they're just quietly deleting selected tweets? There are so many things

00:17:42.080 that a weaselly weasel might do to be weaselly. And so that is why we have to pursue and proceed

00:17:49.360 with this lawsuit. We need a court order requiring and compelling Lamedi and anyone else not to touch

00:17:59.840 those records, not to delete anything, to preserve those records forever, theoretically, as long as there

00:18:07.360 is litigation afoot, as long as there is a dearth of accountability for the abuses of the emergency

00:18:13.860 act. Imagine that little weasel who thinks he will sneak out the back door, deleting all his files as

00:18:19.760 he go. And the thing is, he almost got away with it. Do you think the Toronto Star or the CBC or the

00:18:24.520 Globe and Mail held him to account? They did not. Only Little Rebel News and our crowdfunded lawsuit did.

00:18:29.800 Yesterday, I was swearing and signing affidavits in this matter. I think our total filings,

00:18:39.560 including exhibits and documents, are 1,000 pages. It'll be interesting to see what the government

00:18:45.220 says at 4 p.m. today. I'm going to go and check right now to see if we have any live stream tweets,

00:18:53.620 if you have any, excuse me, super chats, or rumble rants, I think they're called, on rumble. We have

00:19:03.000 none so far, but if you've got something to say, I'll be on the live stream for another 10 minutes or so.

00:19:13.980 I'm just looking out right now. I'm looking through my notes here. It's very exciting.

00:19:20.760 It's very exciting what's happening. I want to touch on one more thing. Efron, that document you showed

00:19:26.620 me. Remember during the fake judicial inquiry into the Emergencies Act, I call it fake because

00:19:35.320 Trudeau handpicked the judge. Trudeau wrote the terms of reference. Trudeau gave an artificial

00:19:42.040 timeline to the judge and ta-da, surprised the judge said, oh yeah, your invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:19:47.920 was fine. Total stitch up. But in the real trial, it was an independent judge that Trudeau did not

00:19:55.260 choose with real rules of evidence, real rules of law, and Trudeau violated the Constitution. But during

00:20:01.720 that fake commission of inquiry, this document was presented as evidence. Now, I don't quite understand

00:20:10.620 the two different colors there, and some people have said this was a doctored document, but whatever

00:20:16.200 its providence, this was shown by the Trucker Commissioner of Inquiry. This is a text message

00:20:23.020 exchange between Marco Mendocino, the disgraced former public safety minister, and David Lamedi,

00:20:30.740 the disgraced former justice minister. So, Lamedi writes to Mendocino, you need to get the police to move,

00:20:41.860 and the Canadian Armed Forces, if necessary. Let's just stop right there. So, politicians order

00:20:50.220 cops to arrest protesters. Is that how it works? That's how it works in Trudeau's Canada under David

00:20:55.180 Lamedi. And the Canadian Armed Forces, really. We're going to roll in some fighter jets. I don't think

00:21:01.360 we have any to fly. Too many people are being seriously adversely impacted by what is an occupation.

00:21:08.840 I am getting out as soon as I can. What, you're running away from Ottawa? You little weaselly coward.

00:21:17.400 Then he says, people are looking to us, you, for leadership, and not stupid people. People like 1.00

00:21:24.960 Carney, Cath, my team. Mark Carney, what role did he have to play? He's not part of the government.

00:21:32.160 I don't know who Cath is. Cath is, Cath McKenna? Who cares what she says? So, Mendocino writes back and

00:21:40.140 says, how many tanks are you asking for? I just want to ask Anita, Anita Nan, the defense minister,

00:21:50.760 how many we've got on hand? And Lamedi writes back, I reckon one will do.

00:21:58.420 Now, I've heard it said that this is just a joke. Really? Just a joke, eh? We know for a fact they

00:22:08.440 did deploy the military. They deployed military drones to spy on peaceful protesters. We know this

00:22:13.700 because that's the evidence that many of these prosecutions of these peaceful protesters has

00:22:18.800 relied on. Disclosure from the Canadian Armed Forces. We know this. We know that they jailed people.

00:22:26.720 We know they stomped ride horses on them. We know they seized bank accounts. Why would you suddenly

00:22:31.000 think, ha ha, this one, they're kidding? David Lamedi is the lowest of the low. You know that. I know

00:22:38.340 that. Justin Trudeau knows that. That's why he hired him. We went from perhaps the most ethical

00:22:43.060 justice minister in our history, Johnny Whistler-Raybould, to the least ethical justice minister,

00:22:49.740 David Lamedi. And on his way out the door, he thought he would delete the files.

00:22:55.040 But we sued him on Saturday, and on Monday, he stopped. The reason I showed you that exchange

00:23:01.460 with Marco Mendocino about the Canadian Armed Forces was not just to show what a depraved

00:23:05.400 man he is, but to show the kind of chit-chat on text messages, on private communications

00:23:14.380 that these cabinet ministers have with each other.

00:23:17.880 One of the ways people on Twitter talk to each other is through direct messages.

00:23:24.620 You don't actually need to call someone up or email them and say, what's your email? What's

00:23:30.500 your phone number? How do I connect with you? One of the fun things on Twitter is if someone

00:23:35.080 follows you, you can send them a direct message. I have many politicians follow me, for example,

00:23:41.860 so I can just send them a direct message. I don't have to text them or phone them.

00:23:46.180 It's actually a super convenient way of talking to someone. And unlike my phone list, which might

00:23:52.360 have a thousand names in it, well, there's about 400,000 people who follow me on Twitter. So

00:23:57.560 obviously, that's like the largest possible phone book I could possibly have. And I just have to click

00:24:03.780 direct message and I'm chatting with them. And I think people check their direct messages a lot more

00:24:09.180 often than their email because they get so many fewer of them. I think most people get only a

00:24:14.340 handful of direct messages a day as opposed to maybe a hundred emails. My point is, I bet you

00:24:21.060 that David Lamedi had a ton of direct messages where he spoke candidly and off without his guard up

00:24:32.420 about what to do with those protesters. We saw in that one text message that he was joking, I didn't

00:24:40.000 see the humor, about deploying tanks. What else did this little weasel say when he thought no one else

00:24:47.200 was looking? He managed to get through the public inquiry without being prosecuted or jailed.

00:24:53.760 He managed to get through Justice Mosley's ruling last week without being prosecuted or jailed.

00:24:58.840 And he thought all he had to do was delete his Twitter account and he'd be scot-free.

00:25:05.220 Well, Rebel News is on the file and we're not done yet. The reason I tell you all this is because

00:25:11.500 we are not giving up. I mean, you might say, Ezra, victory accomplished. Do a victory lap.

00:25:17.580 You got that little weasel to put his Twitter account back up. No, no, no, no, no. You have to

00:25:22.180 understand how these guys think. You got to think like they think. We don't know what he's deleting.

00:25:27.100 We don't know if he's cherry-picking embarrassing things. We don't know if he's gone back

00:25:30.240 and deleted select things. We need a court order barring him from doing that.

00:25:37.800 Mdrum12 chipped in a buck. I mean, Georgia, USA, I'm always impressed with Rebel News,

00:25:43.120 became aware during the trucker convoy in Viva Fry. You have our work cut out for you.

00:25:47.240 Yeah, that's true. All right. Well, you know what? I just wanted to make this announcement.

00:25:52.380 There's not too much more to tell you at this stage. At 4 p.m. Eastern, I will be attending the

00:25:59.220 case conference where a case management judge will outline what happens now. I'm excited that

00:26:07.220 it seems like Lamedi is surrendering at the first whiff of gunpowder, but these are tricksters and I

00:26:13.260 wouldn't count on the fact that they surrender. I think they're still planning nasty things.

00:26:20.380 Let me close by saying no one else did this lawsuit. Not the official opposition,

00:26:28.800 not Conservative Party as a party, not other activist groups. Maybe charities couldn't even

00:26:36.080 do it. I mean, I'm friends with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. I'm friends

00:26:40.200 with the Democracy Fund, of course. And maybe their legal mandates under the Revenue Canada wouldn't

00:26:46.020 allow them to do this. Rebel News did this. And I think that's something that I'm proud of and

00:26:53.780 something that you as our viewers and supporters and donors can be proud of. I haven't got the legal

00:26:59.440 bill yet for the lawsuit. I know that three lawyers worked around the clock all weekend getting this

00:27:04.980 lawsuit in. And it's not going to be a gentle bill when I receive it. And like I say, we're not done

00:27:10.940 yet. We're just beginning. If you want to help us out, go to stopthecoverup.com because that's

00:27:17.920 exactly what Lamedi was doing. Go to stopthecoverup.com. And I'll give you an update tomorrow

00:27:24.640 after the case management hearing.

00:27:37.120 Well, one of our newer teammates is named Robert Kraychuk. You probably have come to know him

00:27:42.520 through his daily coverage of Tamara Leach's marathon trial in the city of Ottawa. Good thing

00:27:49.440 Robert lives in Ottawa. It's allowed him to cover things day by day. Of course,

00:27:54.520 there's a lot of news in Ottawa. And one of the new commissions of inquiry started today. It's

00:28:02.580 looking into foreign interference. But as we learned last year, commissions of inquiry,

00:28:08.920 when it's a hand-picked judge by Justin Trudeau doing a hand-drafted mandate drafted by Justin Trudeau,

00:28:18.160 there's some real questions about whether they'll ever get to the bottom of things. Case in point,

00:28:21.760 the Trucker Commission inquiry by Justice Rolo basically gave Justin Trudeau the green light

00:28:27.800 for his invocation of martial law. However, when that went before a real court, an independent

00:28:33.480 judge who followed the law, not just in Trudeau's directions, of course, we see what happened last

00:28:38.900 week. Justice Mosley of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that Trudeau's martial law was, well,

00:28:44.800 here's five words from the ruling, illegal, unreasonable, unjustifiable, unintelligible,

00:28:52.380 and unconstitutional. Well, Robert is back in these hearings. This time, it's the foreign influence.

00:29:01.880 We have a special website called protectourdemocracy.ca. And Robert joins us now from

00:29:10.300 Parliament Hill. Robert, great to see you again. Yes, it's great to see you too. Now, tell me where

00:29:15.320 you are. I see a plaque behind you. Are you in Parliament? Where are you standing? No, right

00:29:21.720 now I'm in this building. It's National Archives and Library for Canada. Right behind me, there's

00:29:27.260 this media room. Since I'm not legitimate media yet, I'll bring my badge tomorrow. I guess I'll get

00:29:31.400 a minute. It might be a bit more easy to do. It is like this is a bit more private. Okay. Now,

00:29:36.440 are they granting you access? Have they kept you out? Or will you be able to get in tomorrow?

00:29:42.320 I wasn't pushing the issue because I didn't bring this badge that I've got with me that,

00:29:45.920 you know, you guys were so kind to produce for me. I'll bring it tomorrow. I don't think it'll

00:29:49.160 be a problem. I'm sure I'll be in with all the good media out there. By the way, I want to add

00:29:53.160 something. You were questioning whether or not this inquiry will be legitimate, given that the judge,

00:29:58.660 or in this case, the commissioners or title, can be trusted to do a good state oversight of this

00:30:06.120 school equally, given the fact that, again, she's selected by the federal government. 0.99

00:30:11.360 Let's add the dimension of news media. There are news media in there also who are granted this sort

00:30:16.780 of intravenous status, which I'll explain later. So again, you've got government-funded media overseeing

00:30:22.400 this whole commission. And again, itself is erected by the federal government. The federal government

00:30:26.200 is sensibly investigating itself.

00:30:28.080 Well, Robert, I want you to try and get in there tomorrow. By the way, we were allowed in

00:30:34.540 to the Trucker Commission of Inquiry because that was up to the judge himself and he didn't have a hate

00:30:41.620 on for Rebel News the same way Trudeau does. I expect you'll be granted access tomorrow. But if you

00:30:47.120 don't, I want you to tell me right away because we will go to court and sue and ask the court to

00:30:54.080 order them to accredit you. And wouldn't it be incredible if the court said, no, no, no,

00:30:59.060 we're going to have a secret inquiry into foreign influence. We don't want any independent

00:31:03.860 journalists. I'm mad. I'm mad about that stuff, Robert. So don't let them get away with it.

00:31:08.940 Anyway, back to what's going on. Tell us a little bit more about the judge and what's going on. I

00:31:15.000 understand today is the first day of this commission of inquiry. What are they doing? Just sort of setting

00:31:19.400 out the ground rules and housekeeping and who's who in the zoo kind of thing, or are they right

00:31:23.700 into the thick of it? That's exactly it. So the judge herself, she's a judge from the Quebec Court

00:31:29.060 of Appeals. So ostensibly, she has the academic and professional pedigree to do this sort of work 0.99

00:31:35.560 in that she's dealing with legalities. I don't know much about her beyond that. We'll see how she 1.00

00:31:40.000 conducts herself over the course of these hearings. I don't want to be preemptive in any sort of

00:31:43.920 assessment. As far as what's happened thus far, it feels like a university lecture. It's basically

00:31:51.560 just laying out, as you put it, the ground rules, setting the audience's expectations as to how

00:31:56.000 things will operate, the schedule for the next four days. This is scheduled to run until Friday.

00:32:01.900 There's a second and third set of hearings for March and beyond, but that's what we're dealing with

00:32:06.080 now and laying out some definitional parameters. Like just now, for example, here you'll also find

00:32:10.660 it's interesting. Again, it's this sort of question about how transparent, how good faith,

00:32:15.500 how legitimate can this inquiry be? The definitions for classified information were being laid out by

00:32:21.040 somebody who's appointed by this commission. I think he's one of the legal counsels. And he's stating

00:32:25.960 that there are different degrees of classified information, different degrees of secrecy. And putting

00:32:32.300 aside all those sort of minutiae, those boring details, the most important factor is as follows,

00:32:37.920 that in the event that there is classified information that will be presented to the

00:32:42.700 commissioner and her legal team, and that presumably, let's say the commissioner and the

00:32:47.960 legal team want to make that public, they don't think there's a justification to keep this from

00:32:53.360 Canadians. It's still up to the government to make that final determination. So basically,

00:32:59.860 if the commissioner and her legal team want to make something public, they've got to go to the

00:33:03.980 government and say, pretty please. Really? So Trudeau has a veto. Trudeau has given himself a veto on

00:33:10.380 what can be released. Well, this is what they call in Britain. They call this a stitch up,

00:33:15.220 is what they would say. Now, let me ask you this. I seem to recall the Conservative Party of Canada

00:33:19.860 wanting full access, wanting equal access to look at things. And I recall reading headlines that

00:33:26.480 that was denied. Are there different tiers of participants here? Because by the way, I accept

00:33:33.360 that there are some things that are national security secrets that it's probably not wise for

00:33:39.640 me and every ordinary person, including bad guys, to know. I think there are some legitimate state

00:33:45.720 secrets. But in those cases, members of parliament who were maybe vetted by RCMP and signed some

00:33:53.480 confidentiality, I'm comfortable with MPs and senators seeing confidential things as long as

00:34:01.160 they're adverse to the government. So if there's opposition members included, and often these

00:34:05.060 national security committees, not just in Canada, but in the US, in the UK, they're non-partisan.

00:34:11.700 They're multi-partisan. So they have people from every party. So it's not just running errands for the

00:34:16.340 PM. It's really advocating for the whole country. Let me ask you this. Are there people in that room

00:34:22.640 who are adverse to Trudeau who still have access to everything? Or is it all a Trudeau stitch-up?

00:34:30.300 Is it just if you're with Team Trudeau, you get full access? If you're not, well, you can just stay

00:34:36.140 over there and we'll decide what you can see and hear. Okay. So let's take your first question first,

00:34:41.660 which was whether or not there are degrees or levels of participation. So there are basically two

00:34:46.820 broad categories. One is a party withstanding. And a party or person withstanding will have

00:34:54.920 essentially full access to everything except for those things deemed classified, which will only

00:35:00.140 first be shown to the commissioner and her legal team. And then there's a possible dispute there. Again,

00:35:05.760 if they ask the government, please, can we disclose this beyond that? And they'll have the access to

00:35:10.920 cross-examine witnesses. The second is a so-called intervener. That's a term I alluded to earlier.

00:35:17.580 An intervener has limited access to the proceedings. An intervener can make requests of the commission

00:35:25.560 to ask certain types of questions, to invite certain types of witnesses or subject matter experts that

00:35:30.960 would be decided by this commissioner as to whether or not they are relevant or germane or helpful to the

00:35:38.220 overall ostensible purpose of this inquiry. And the CPC was granted that intervener status. Now,

00:35:45.920 I also saw some tweets and headlines, hand-wringing, oh, they're not allowing the CPC to be a full party,

00:35:51.960 to be a party withstanding. So is this inquiry really legitimate? I don't know if I agree with that

00:35:59.000 completely, but I will say this, what the commissioner could have done to sort of afford this standing to

00:36:05.260 the CPC while maintaining some degree of even handedness would be to grant that to all political

00:36:10.980 parties who requested it. And that wasn't done. So you could still have a liberal party representative

00:36:16.880 in addition to the federal government, an NDP representative, so to speak, and these different

00:36:21.120 parties could have either intervener status as was granted at the CPC or full standing to introduce

00:36:27.060 witnesses, to cross-examine witnesses, to introduce evidence and so forth.

00:36:30.460 You know, there's so much wrong with foreign influence in Canada. Global News broke the story

00:36:36.240 a few weeks ago about 700 agents of the Iranian dictatorship running amok in Canada. 700

00:36:44.180 basically foreign spies from Iran alone. And then you've got China, which is absolutely not only an

00:36:53.240 industrial intellectual espionage, but an influence campaign. And there's so many, ranging on

00:36:59.740 Sikh extremism and how that affects our relations with India, to the Tamil Tigers, to even, I put it 0.92

00:37:06.340 to you, a lot of what Trudeau's doing in Ukraine is because there's hundreds of thousands of expats

00:37:10.800 here. I think in so many ways, this diaspora, and let me just talk about Hamas. All of a sudden, 0.95

00:37:17.080 Canada is chummy with Hamas, getting praised by Hamas, voting with Hamas at the UN. And it's

00:37:23.600 obviously because there's, you know, a million and a half, two million Muslim Canadians, only 300,000

00:37:28.520 Jewish voters. Trudeau can do the math. I think there's so many ways that Canada's politics has

00:37:33.880 become twisted by foreign influence. And by the way, I don't think any of that is going to be

00:37:40.320 addressed by this judge because I think the judge was selected and the terms were written

00:37:45.200 to suit the government. And in every issue I just listed, foreign, you know, I just think that Trudeau

00:37:54.580 is more compromised by foreign entanglements than any other prime minister in recent history.

00:38:01.220 Last question to you, what kind of stuff do you expect to see over the days ahead? Do you think

00:38:07.500 there will be anything that's a surprise? Or do you think we already sort of know it? We've never

00:38:11.960 just heard it all told in one place at one time before. Well, I can tell you what I know will happen,

00:38:18.040 and then I'll tell you what I suspect will happen. What we know will happen is that certain politicians

00:38:21.680 who have been accused or alleged to have been somehow compromised by or assisted by the Chinese

00:38:29.220 Communist Party will be here as witnesses. They've got standing so they can cross-examine anybody who

00:38:35.060 testifies against them or in relation to allegations pertaining to them. If I recall their names, one

00:38:41.220 is a Senator Yu. He's, I think, from British Columbia. I could be wrong about that. Another one was

00:38:46.760 another lady, actually, a Chinese lady. Her name is, she's a member of parliament, Jenny Kwan. She's an 0.99

00:38:51.840 NDP MP, and she's stating that she's been targeted by intimidation and coercion campaigns operated by

00:39:00.120 the CCP. Really? So she's going to be, yeah, so she's going to be a witness testifying that she's been,

00:39:05.460 again, targeted by the CCP for intimidation. There's another one, too. I'm trying to recall his name.

00:39:11.620 I think he's the deputy mayor of some city, maybe even Toronto or Brampton or something. I can't recall

00:39:16.400 his name. I'm not familiar with all the Canadian personalities yet. He's also stating that he has

00:39:20.680 been targeted for intimidation and coercion by the CCP. So he'll testify. And there's another one,

00:39:27.140 Han Dong, an MP who was formerly with the so-called Liberal Party of Canada. Now he's supposedly

00:39:32.540 independent. He is also a party withstanding because some of these allegations were targeted

00:39:39.000 against him in terms of him being a beneficiary of CCP influence. I remember Han Dong.

00:39:44.680 What operation went for him?

00:39:45.940 We had a campaign to get him turf from the government. Isn't that funny? So he's got

00:39:49.780 standing. He's got more access to the facts than the conservative opposition, which is

00:39:54.480 intervener status. That's incredible. Well, listen, I'm sure you'll hammer out all the details and get

00:39:58.880 the exactitudes of the names and the relationships in your reports. The website, one more time,

00:40:03.200 it's preserveourdemocracy.ca. Sorry about that. We have a lot of websites, but it's a good way to

00:40:13.500 compile all our reports in one place. Protectourdemocracy.ca. Robert, thanks for being on the

00:40:19.200 scene. We're really glad to have you in Ottawa.

00:40:21.700 Bye, Ezra. Thanks.

00:40:22.340 All right. Take care. Well, there you have it. Robert Krejcik at this latest Trudeau

00:40:26.580 Commission of Inquiry. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:40:39.380 Well, I was sort of surprised. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that David Lamedi gave up so quickly.

00:40:46.180 Maybe he's already purged all the embarrassing things, so he's just putting up the public stuff

00:40:50.480 he doesn't care about. But still, to give up basically without a fight was incredible. Of course,

00:40:54.880 I want it in writing. I want a consent order like I have against the other liberals.

00:40:59.820 In some ways, what we're doing is small beans, you know, small potatoes. But I have to say even

00:41:05.340 a small win is a win. And it's time we start pushing back against these bullies. And I have

00:41:10.400 to tell you that that federal court ruling last week has given me a new confidence. I feel like

00:41:15.300 the atmosphere has changed a little bit. I feel like freedom, the pendulum, is swinging back just a

00:41:19.860 little bit. And when the federal court says to Justin Trudeau and David Lamedi, you're lawbreakers,

00:41:24.280 it gives the rest of us courage that, you know, we're not the only ones who feel this way. So I'm

00:41:28.180 very excited about that. We are still going to proceed. We have a number of lawsuits against

00:41:32.280 the government proceeding. And whether they're small or big, we're going to keep going. If you

00:41:36.520 want to see the latest on this Lamedi lawsuit, go to stopthecoverup.com because that's what he's

00:41:42.260 doing in my mind. He's just deleting the record so that he, you know, it's really deleting evidence.

00:41:47.360 That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:41:52.820 to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 30, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau Liberals lose another court battle in bid to censor Canadians

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