Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ What do we think of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan？

00:00:00.560 Hello, my friends. Did you see that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House in the United States,

00:00:05.820 visited Taiwan? And the Chinese communists, oh my God, the reaction was, well, it was tantamount

00:00:13.060 to a call to war. They had military drills surrounding Taiwan. They put planes in the air

00:00:18.200 and ships in the sea. What do we make of that? Are we headed into another war? I'll give you

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00:01:01.100 is doing the guest interview today. Here it is.

00:01:03.400 Tonight, what do we think of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan? It's August 4th and this is the Ezra

00:01:25.340 World Event Show. Hey, let's talk about foreign affairs. There's that war in Ukraine, of course,

00:01:45.340 and rattlings and rumors of wars in Taiwan. Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China. They say they're

00:01:53.240 an independent country. In fact, they say they have the right to claim the Chinese mainland. Well, 0.86

00:01:58.720 the People's Republic of China, which is communist China, says the reverse. They say that Taiwan is a

00:02:04.940 rogue province. They, Taiwan, belong to China proper and they're just going to be reunified.

00:02:12.700 It's been a standoff that way since the Kuomintang, the anti-Mao forces, all retreated to Taiwan

00:02:19.580 after his successful revolution over 70 years ago. But if you want to talk about foreign affairs

00:02:26.680 and Justin Trudeau, you should know that he just decamped for a two-week luxury vacation

00:02:34.420 in Costa Rica where he's out of touch. Hey, when was the last time you had a two-week

00:02:42.420 foreign vacation? Have you ever had one? I had a two-week vacation once in the seven years at Rebel

00:02:53.140 News. I'm not talking about having Christmas often and what that. But one time I took a two-week

00:02:58.520 vacation. I felt very risky because I thought, geez, I can't leave Rebel News for two weeks. Well,

00:03:04.720 I'm not as busy or as important as a prime minister. And it's not the doldrums of summer,

00:03:11.060 nothing's happening. We are in momentous times. Just think of the files that a real prime minister

00:03:16.580 who actually had a work ethic would be covering right now. Inflation is one of the most obvious

00:03:21.420 ones. That means prices are skyrocketing and everyone's getting poorer. Interest rates have

00:03:27.180 been hiked and that makes mortgages more expensive too. Taxes are high. The airports are a mess. Both

00:03:35.340 Toronto and Montreal are by far the worst airports in the world. We keep winning worst airport of the

00:03:40.100 world. It's got nothing to do with the airlines. It's got to do with the Arrive Can app, which is a

00:03:45.920 vaccine mandate. It's got to do with so many government rules. And of course, there's the

00:03:51.700 passports department. You wait months for a passport. Maybe that's a blessing if you can't fly without one.

00:03:58.320 Now, before he left for Costa Rica, Trudeau focused on Ukraine. I don't think he really knows a lot

00:04:04.520 about Ukraine other than he loves photo ops. And Vladimir Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, seems to be

00:04:11.900 all the fashion now. So Trudeau went to Ukraine and had a big photo op of him opening the Canadian

00:04:21.020 embassy in Kiev, a statement that Canada is not running away. We're standing proudly there. There was a bit of

00:04:28.560 a problem as he tried to raise the flag. I think that was symbolic. We later learned that that whole

00:04:35.740 thing was fake. It was government propaganda, disinformation, you could say. In fact, the embassy

00:04:42.620 never did open. Trudeau obviously knew that. He was lying. And in fact, the embassy staff were terrified.

00:04:51.580 They were worried that they were on some sort of hit list for the Russians either to be kidnapped or,

00:04:57.400 God forbid, or even killed, God forbid. And it wasn't all happy smiles. The whole thing was a pack of

00:05:05.580 lies. That's Trudeau's last effort in Ukraine. And he's hiding out in Costa Rica while that and other

00:05:12.120 things happen in the world. So who has weighed in on the recent fracas in Taiwan? Well, Canada's foreign

00:05:21.040 minister is named Melanie Jolie. Jolie means pretty in French, and indeed she is. And it's a constant

00:05:29.520 source of irritation and wonder for me that any woman in Trudeau's orbit is a woman that he must

00:05:37.740 physically touch and grab and hug and pull close to him and get within her private space. And he does this

00:05:45.940 so often in a public moment where if a woman were in a private setting, she would recoil and pull away,

00:05:53.800 maybe even slap his face. But given that he's doing it on live TV or at a press conference,

00:05:58.620 the woman has an immediate and instant choice to make. Do I pull away from this man who's grabbing

00:06:04.120 me inappropriately and embarrass myself in this public moment? Or do I just submit and comply?

00:06:11.000 He does it a lot. Just a week ago, Trudeau was at a bar in Prince Edward Island, and he grabbed two

00:06:17.520 waitresses. Look at him here. And look at his hands. Have you ever touched a woman like that who wasn't

00:06:24.860 your wife or girlfriend? Who does that? Who touches a cabinet minister with a hand around her neck like

00:06:32.420 that? I would never imagine doing that to the women who work at Rebel News. I would imagine if I did 1.00

00:06:38.160 that they would quit and probably sue. It would be a Me Too moment. Trudeau does this all the time.

00:06:43.940 But he doesn't do it in private. Who knows what he does in private? He does it in public and the media

00:06:49.640 nod along. They're fine with it. Oh, she experienced it differently. This handsiness.

00:06:56.880 Now, does anyone actually believe that Melanie Jolie is in command of our foreign policy?

00:07:04.300 I don't. By the way, just one last thing. I don't believe the rumors that Trudeau and Jolie

00:07:11.160 are having an affair. I mean, it's obviously possible. We know that Trudeau is engaged in

00:07:16.440 sexual misconduct before, including sexually assaulting Rose Knight, the reporter in Creston,

00:07:21.880 B.C. I think, though, that the way he touches women so inappropriately

00:07:26.780 obviously suggests that he is free with other women in inappropriate ways. So it wouldn't shock me if 0.94

00:07:34.000 he actually was having an affair with Melanie Jolie. But that's not actually my point today. My point is

00:07:38.160 that he's inappropriate even without an affair. But back to Jolie herself. She actually put out this

00:07:44.520 mildly positive statement. She did it in concert with other G7 leaders, so I don't think she actually

00:07:52.020 drafted him. So she was mildly positive towards Taiwan and said that China should de-escalate,

00:07:59.620 not that Taiwan should. Normally, Canadians say both sides should de-escalate. So I don't know,

00:08:07.340 maybe Justin Trudeau should go away more because he probably would have had a much more pro-China

00:08:11.580 statement. What we're talking about is a trip to Taiwan the other day. It wasn't even a two-day trip

00:08:16.720 by Nancy Pelosi, the octogenarian Speaker of the House, one of the longest-serving Democrats

00:08:25.120 in the Congress. She flew to Taiwan. And there's some websites out there that you can actually track

00:08:32.660 flights in real time. Over 300,000 people were riveted by that and were tracking her plane as it came in

00:08:40.820 to Taiwan. And there were a lot of reasons for that curiosity, just the novelty of tracking a plane.

00:08:46.760 And also, there were even some mild threats by some Chinese propagandists online, but maybe they would 1.00

00:08:52.580 shoot down that plane. Can you imagine? Have they done that? But the fact that they put that propaganda

00:08:58.580 out there shows their bellicosity. A U.S. aircraft carrier was apparently tasked to head closer to Taiwan.

00:09:07.000 But the reaction from mainland China, the People's Republic of China, was the most extreme I think

00:09:12.920 I've ever seen. They had massive drills and they leaked images of them, propaganda images online. When

00:09:20.520 I say leaked, it's because they normally cover those things up and they censor them on social media.

00:09:26.480 They wanted the world to know how mad they were. Land, sea, and air, they had enormous

00:09:31.420 batteries of trucks and military vehicles on the Chinese coast opposite Taiwan. They had naval

00:09:41.300 exercises. Remember, China has just debuted a new aircraft carrier. And they sent fighter jets around

00:09:49.140 Taiwan. So they encircled Taiwan when Nancy Pelosi was there. They had tough language. And I saw one

00:09:57.500 economic ripple that was attributed to Nancy Pelosi's visit. A major Chinese company that was going to 0.58

00:10:04.000 open a battery factory in the United States put that on hold. Now, was this a wise decision for Nancy

00:10:12.540 Pelosi to go? Believe it or not, the Biden White House and the State Department distanced themselves from

00:10:17.860 Pelosi. The official American position is the same as Canada's official position, which is one of

00:10:23.860 ambiguity, not formally recognizing Taiwan as an independent country. And I don't think Nancy Pelosi

00:10:29.920 actually did that. By the way, she's not the first Speaker of the House to visit Taiwan. Newt Gingrich did

00:10:34.580 that too. But that was about 25 years ago. And China was a lot weaker economically and militarily

00:10:40.900 then. Now China is pretty much on par with the United States economically. And militarily, they're behind,

00:10:48.420 but they're catching up quickly. But it raised the question, should the West, including Canada,

00:10:56.500 though I'm not sure what we would even do, should we go to war for Taiwan to keep it free? I mean,

00:11:02.620 actually a war. You know, Canadians fought and died in the Korean War. There were some volunteers in the

00:11:09.800 Vietnam War, but Canada was deployed to Korea. Now Taiwan is not a NATO ally. We are not bound

00:11:16.640 to defend it in the same way we are, let's say, an attack on the United States. Taiwan is so very far 0.90

00:11:23.620 away. Again, I don't know how we could actually help them. It would take us an enormous amount of

00:11:27.860 time and effort to get there. I fear that a war in Taiwan will be over quite quickly. And of course,

00:11:34.700 there's the fact that China is not only a strong conventional military power, with the second

00:11:40.820 largest military budget in the world, but they're a nuclear power. They have nuclear weapons.

00:11:48.080 Should Canada or the United States go to war against a nuclear power, China, for Taiwan?

00:11:55.220 There are obvious comparisons to the war in Ukraine, but I think there's many important differences too.

00:12:00.860 Taiwan is a very free country with a strong rule of law and deep civil liberties. I don't think you

00:12:08.200 can say that about Ukraine. I think it's very corrupt. It's run by oligarchs. In the past few

00:12:13.500 months, Zelensky has cracked down on opposition parties and even banned media that don't support him.

00:12:20.080 I think China's imperialism is a deeper and more far-reaching problem than Russia's imperialism,

00:12:27.420 which seems to be restricted to certain ethnically Russian parts of Ukraine. I'm not legitimizing it 0.56

00:12:33.120 or excusing it, but I think an observation is that Russia's territorial ambitions, they annexed Crimea,

00:12:40.260 they want to have eastern parts of Ukraine, are much more modest than China's imperialism to swallow

00:12:45.600 whole all of Taiwan and to expand elsewhere, possibly even Korea, and to threaten even Japan.

00:12:53.820 Remember, they just absorbed Hong Kong and are proceeding to strip it of its civil liberties.

00:12:59.900 So what exactly is Nancy Pelosi doing there? Well, I think it was a bit rash, but it was not a

00:13:07.120 militarization of Ukraine. Nancy Pelosi didn't come with $40 billion worth of Pentagon weapons as Biden 1.00

00:13:16.320 and the Congress just approved for Ukraine. She wasn't coming to make a statement that Taiwan is now

00:13:22.940 recognized as an independent country. She was just flying there. And I'm not even actually sure what

00:13:27.760 the goal was other than to show that she could do it. And maybe that's why I'm actually sympathetic to

00:13:33.940 it. Nancy Pelosi was a bull in a China shop. It's fascinating. Donald Trump was much more antagonistic

00:13:39.540 to China than Nancy Pelosi. I mean, Biden and Pelosi are China's best friends in the United States.

00:13:45.140 Trump was China's worst ally. But Trump did not provoke China in any manner that yielded this

00:13:53.300 response. In fact, when Trump visited China, they rolled out the red carpet for him and they gave him

00:13:59.360 nicknames like Uncle Donald and Donald the Strong. Here they're threatening to go to war against Nancy

00:14:05.820 Pelosi. But the very fact that Pelosi's trip to Taiwan was so unconsequential and it lacked meaning,

00:14:13.220 that is, is why I think it's defensible. Could China really veto the visit of the Speaker of the

00:14:22.520 House to Taiwan just by pounding their chest and hollering? Would that be enough to veto a visit 0.56

00:14:30.100 by a top American lawmaker to Taiwan? I don't think that that could be excused. I don't think that

00:14:38.760 you would ever want to get into a situation where Taiwan could say no Americans could fly here,

00:14:44.480 no Canadians can fly there. Now, it's fascinating, this hyperventilation in China. It's fascinating, 0.86

00:14:51.940 but not surprising that it comes from a Democrat. The Democrats really do love wars, don't they?

00:14:57.360 I mean, Trump fought in Afghanistan, but it fell under Biden. This provocation,

00:15:05.740 as it's being seen by China, is coming to the most pro-China administration in memory. Trump didn't

00:15:14.480 do that. Trump was a negotiator. I think Biden and the deep state that loves war, I don't think they're

00:15:20.800 actually as good at their job as they claim. And maybe that is a silver lining here. I don't know

00:15:28.180 how this is going to end. I hope it'll blow over. We don't need another war.

00:15:31.020 But maybe this ill-advised visit, this provocative visit by Nancy Pelosi will do

00:15:38.480 accidentally what Trump was starting to do on purpose, to unhook the two superpowers. Trump

00:15:48.560 was doing it with trade sanctions, with a call to repatriate American jobs and factories to home,

00:15:54.240 and by calling out Chinese espionage, industrial spying, and checking Chinese expansion. Trump

00:16:01.060 said exactly what irritated him and took legislative steps to correct it and diplomatic steps to correct

00:16:07.600 it. Biden and Pelosi have done none of that. But by stumbling around in Taipei, maybe they will make

00:16:14.700 China pull the two empires apart. And I think that's a good thing. 1.00

00:16:19.200 I think that it shouldn't be as easy and casual to travel to China as it is now. I think

00:16:26.800 we Canadians have to remember they kidnapped the two Michaels and held them for years just to prove a

00:16:33.240 point. That they stole our industrial secrets too, including Nortel, a great Canadian company that

00:16:39.100 they practically destroyed. I think we have to start pulling Canada and the United States apart from

00:16:45.940 China. We have to start making more things here, including minerals. Did you know that 90% of

00:16:52.740 medicine that we consume comes from China? Did you know that? An enormous amount of our tech, including

00:16:58.740 our phones and computers, made in China. Don't you think we should unhook from them a little bit? 1.00

00:17:05.220 And if that is the outcome of Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, well, maybe it's a good thing after all.

00:17:12.100 Stay with us. My friend David Menzies will have the guest interview next.

00:17:28.260 Well, folks, just when you thought that the trampling of our rights and freedoms all in the name of COVID

00:17:34.900 COVID safety couldn't get any more brutal. Well, along comes this story from Windsor, Ontario.

00:17:41.300 Resident Chris Soda is planning to run for Windsor City Council this fall. But when he visited City Hall

00:17:49.540 to file his paperwork and pay his registration fee, a city clerk informed Mr. Soda that

00:17:55.860 all City of Windsor employees, including apparently councillors, must be fully vaccinated.

00:18:03.380 Translation, given that Chris is not fully vaccinated, he wouldn't be able to run for office, apparently.

00:18:11.700 What next? If a Windsor resident is not vaxxed, does that mean they forfeit their right to vote? Outrageous.

00:18:20.580 And joining me now from the City of Windsor is Chris Soda. How are you doing there, sir?

00:18:26.020 Yes. Good afternoon, David. I'm doing fine. Thank you. Good to see you.

00:18:29.540 Good to see you, my friend. Chris, when you were originally told that you were basically persona

00:18:35.460 non grata due to your vaxx status in terms of running for office, how did you feel?

00:18:42.420 OK, I wouldn't be that dramatic about it, David. But I, you know, like I said,

00:18:48.500 I had spent approximately 45 minutes finishing off all the paperwork, signing everything off,

00:18:54.180 paying the fees, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And then the last page was, oh, by the way,

00:19:02.020 all City of Windsor employees have to be, I think the term was fully vaccinated or some mention of

00:19:09.540 COVID vaccinations. And so I just paused for a second. I said, oh, really? Well, I said,

00:19:17.140 you know, my private medical choices are probably going to stay private. I said,

00:19:22.820 you know, for the most part. But just out of curiosity, why would a councillor need to be

00:19:28.660 vaccinated? And a Windsor police officer who's also, excuse me, a City of Windsor employee,

00:19:35.140 wouldn't need to be vaccinated.

00:19:37.860 Oh, and Chris, if I can jump in there, I think this is a very important point. The clerk said,

00:19:43.700 all City of Windsor employees, well, I'm sorry, the police are City of Windsor employees. I mean,

00:19:50.420 they, you know, they're, they have their own board, but that's neither here nor there. But,

00:19:55.620 and when I think of police work, sometimes as a cop, you're getting your hands dirty. Literally,

00:20:01.060 you're dealing with bad guys, or might be bodily fluids, blood, what have you. And there's no

00:20:08.100 mandatory vaccination for that. But for somebody that's implementing policy at City Hall,

00:20:17.460 you have to be vaccinated. I don't get the logic here.

00:20:21.460 Well, I thought for a minute, maybe they must have some pretty volatile, uh, counselor sessions

00:20:27.620 where they're, that's what I know, seriously. So I just say, you know, would you mind checking,

00:20:34.100 checking this for me? Very, very nice woman, uh, at the court shop. You know, not her fault. She's 0.98

00:20:38.420 just relaying the message. So she said, yeah, that's a good question. I'll, I'll check with our

00:20:42.980 legal department and I'll get back to you early next week. This was on a Thursday. Uh, so I waited until

00:20:49.140 the Tuesday that was early next week. And I called and asked for that person. And I was told that

00:20:53.860 that person's off for this week. Uh, I said, well, can you check this for me? It's a pretty simple

00:21:00.340 question. You know, I'm, I want to run it as a counselor and, uh, for the council position in war

00:21:04.820 two. Uh, but I guess there's a vaccination requirement for city Windsor employees. Could you

00:21:09.780 find out if that applies to a counselor? She said, oh yes, no problem. I'll get back to you by the end

00:21:14.260 of the week. That was in the Tuesday. So on Friday, uh, nobody got back to me. So, uh, yeah,

00:21:20.580 yeah. So I, I, I was meeting with my friends one and suggested that I contact, uh, rebel news about

00:21:25.460 this. And I said, they, they don't, uh, they, they have more important fish to fry. He go, no,

00:21:29.780 no, no, no contact them. So I did. And, uh, you know, I just sent out an email there very quickly

00:21:34.900 and they're like five minutes later, you contacted me. So, you know, Oh yeah. Well,

00:21:38.420 Chris, uh, with all due respect, I think this is a very big fish to fry. The very idea that an

00:21:44.740 individual in a democracy could be forced to sit on the sidelines because of not getting a

00:21:53.780 vaccination. I think that's huge. And I'm not kidding. Like what's the next step? Voters, uh,

00:21:59.220 who don't get backs, they get denied their franchise there. Now, eventually, Chris, as I

00:22:04.260 understand when we spoke off camera, they said it was under review. Uh, you, you picked up, uh,

00:22:09.300 uh, a stink about this, uh, very politely, of course. Um, and, uh, uh, you know, of course city

00:22:15.700 hall, uh, moves at the speed of a glacier, it would seem, but eventually you did get in touch with

00:22:22.260 somebody and you scored what I would call a partial victory. What is the deal as of right now,

00:22:30.500 Chris? The partial victory, the Pyrrhic victory, as you put it, David is this, uh, number one,

00:22:36.420 uh, I am eligible to run as a counselor, uh, for the council position in war two, uh, here in

00:22:42.340 Windsor for the October 24th election, uh, part two, uh, if I'm elected, I'll be able to represent

00:22:48.740 my constituents, um, uh, as a city of Windsor employee, uh, number three, uh, the vaccination

00:22:56.820 requirements are still in place. So, uh, when all the smoke clears from all that, this basically

00:23:04.100 means you can run when you get elected, uh, you can represent the ward, but you either have to get

00:23:10.020 your shots to do it, to represent the ward in person and council chambers, or they didn't actually

00:23:16.180 say it, but I'm guessing the only other alternative would be some sort of, uh, uh, video, video

00:23:21.780 conferencing of some kind, um, you know, in the next room or, or from my home, whatever. Uh,

00:23:26.980 but I just think it just puts, you know, it's, it's, it's shockingly, uh, someone, you know,

00:23:32.820 you're trying to represent your ward. You want to be there face to face. You want to be able to

00:23:36.500 make eye contact with people, body language is a big part of communication. I'm sure you're aware

00:23:40.740 of that. Right. So, you know, I won't, yeah, I want to, I want to represent my ward in a healthy,

00:23:45.620 responsible manner. And now I'm, you know, right off the bat, you're telling me, well, you know,

00:23:49.780 you can't sit with us. So it's, you know, it's a little strange, but, uh, you know,

00:23:55.140 at the end of the day, um, you know, I, I'm only one person, David, like, you know,

00:23:59.700 there's lots of people in Canada who face a lot of more serious issues, but, you know,

00:24:04.340 going forward, just, you know, the whole idea that a municipal, uh, regulation or bylaw,

00:24:09.940 whatever they call it, um, can supersede federal or provincial election guidelines. It's like,

00:24:17.780 you know, this is supposed to be guaranteed. And I suppose our charter or our constitution,

00:24:22.820 here's the city saying, well, forgot about if you're Canadian and you're 18 and you live in the

00:24:28.260 area, those things don't matter as much as do you have your child. So it's like,

00:24:33.220 wow, I didn't notice that change to, uh, any federal provincial, uh, laws. So,

00:24:38.660 yeah, so, you know, that, that's the first thing, but the second thing,

00:24:41.780 there are a lot of municipal elections coming up. It's not, uh, you know, in Canada for the rest of

00:24:47.060 it, there's like, I think maybe 10 different, uh, jurisdictions that are going to have municipal

00:24:52.020 elections. So are they going to face the same, you know, the same kind of thing? You're going to

00:24:55.700 have to be vaccinated. Other people are going to be running in this election here in Windsor.

00:25:00.340 Um, I'm sure they're not all vaccinated either. So, you know, I, I just think it's a strange,

00:25:05.060 uh, point to make at this time. Uh, but anyway, uh, you know, you, you roll with the punches.

00:25:12.980 Uh, I try to keep a sense of humor about this. Uh, so it's like, well, okay. Um, I want to be,

00:25:18.900 I want to be seen as, as making a difference, uh, you know, at city council. I just didn't think

00:25:24.900 it would be like a difference in medical choices, but that's okay. I'm willing to go forward with it.

00:25:30.900 Uh, as I mentioned to you, I've got two main issues I want to run on. Um, but you know,

00:25:36.020 if they're going to make the vaccination issue, you know, I didn't really want to talk about that

00:25:39.860 at all. Um, originally until I got hit with that when I went to city hall and it's like, okay,

00:25:45.540 so this is going to be, you know, the media is going to force this as an issue. Um, okay,

00:25:50.500 then you know what I got, I got it taken on. So, you know, I'm happy I've got the opportunity to

00:25:55.060 explain a little bit here today on your show. Well, Chris, I mean, uh, I, I agree. It's good to keep

00:25:59.940 your sense of humor about things in these crazy times, but I'm failing to see the punchline here.

00:26:06.420 I mean, as you said, in theory, if you were to get elected in, uh, the fall and be the councillor for

00:26:13.780 ward two, you can't attend city hall. You have to be at home basically quarantining like you're a

00:26:20.820 modern day typhoid Mary. Um, I would argue, uh, why not make attendance a matter of choice,

00:26:30.340 which is to say, despite your vaccination status, uh, if you want to come into council,

00:26:35.540 you're free to come into council. If you have a problem with fellow councillors who might not

00:26:41.460 say be vaccinated, or you don't know their vaccination status, then you stay at home and,

00:26:46.820 uh, cocoon in a home office. Uh, the other factor, uh, Chris, do you, um, you're right.

00:26:54.820 I don't even, I don't know if this is indeed something a municipality, uh, can enact and enforce.

00:27:03.380 So I'm curious, is there maybe a legal challenge here about such a coercive and discriminatory policy

00:27:12.500 when it comes to vaccination? I just found out about this myself, you know, uh, the same, uh,

00:27:18.900 you know, the same, uh, week I, I, uh, I messaged you. Um, I actually, I don't know if it's being

00:27:24.020 challenged anywhere in court and, you know, like I say, um, if it, you know, if it is being challenged,

00:27:30.900 uh, that's probably going to take a lot of time. It's going to take a lot, you know, after October 24th.

00:27:36.660 So I'm, I'm more practical about this. It's like, okay, so they're going to say, I'm going to run.

00:27:41.060 I just, I honestly think that, you know, when I'm elected, that they're not going to go through with

00:27:46.580 this. They're not going to say, oh, okay, he's a duly elected rep for, for war two. And, uh, you know,

00:27:53.620 here's your, uh, here's your, your, your, uh, zoom code and ID for you to participate. I don't see them

00:27:59.380 doing that. I think there would be too much negative publicity from this. They would just say,

00:28:04.980 we're going to make an exception to our bylaw or regulation. So, you know, so this guy can sit,

00:28:09.780 but you know, what we, you know, if you've ever attended municipal meetings,

00:28:14.820 they normally sit in a chamber, uh, you know, in a, in a circle, uh, or facing each other,

00:28:19.540 they're in a semicircle. Um, and there's people in attendance. So I'm just wondering, like,

00:28:24.420 if I have to be vaccinated city bylaw, what about the people who are in attendance? No,

00:28:29.780 of course they're not city Windsor employees, but that, you know, the virus doesn't care about that.

00:28:34.420 The virus doesn't pop around looking for who's paid by the city, who works for the city,

00:28:38.820 the virus goes anywhere. So I, I just don't see the point of sitting in a room

00:28:43.540 with the people vaccinated and there's 200 other people who are not. And they're going to say,

00:28:48.420 well, I feel safer because, you know, Chris Soda is vaccinated. I don't really care about

00:28:52.820 those other 200. It's like, this is, you know, the logic is just, it's bizarre. So,

00:28:57.380 Oh, I agree, Chris. Maybe the solution is to take something from the classic, uh, uh,

00:29:03.860 TV series, get smart. Remember the cone of silence. We'll just put people in, uh, transparent tubes and

00:29:10.900 ensure, uh, social distancing and, uh, non viral contact. But, um, we got to wrap it up. We're

00:29:17.940 running out of time. However, I, I want to, uh, speak to you. You mentioned something that was key

00:29:23.300 about the negative publicity, but when we spoke off camera, you told me that, um, the likes of

00:29:29.620 the local media there, such as the Windsor star, uh, I think this is a hell of a story.

00:29:34.500 They think likewise. In fact, you even told me that you've been banned from commenting on the

00:29:41.140 comments page of the Windsor star. You don't do, uh, I'll take you at your word. You say you're not

00:29:46.580 profane or threatening or racist, anything like that. It's just that you have a tendency to ask

00:29:52.980 impolite questions. And I guess the Windsor star, uh, being a Justin Trudeau media outlet,

00:29:58.740 they're happy to have your money. No, not so happy to have your opinions or your rude questions.

00:30:05.300 Tell us a little bit about that, my friend. Well, very quickly. Yes. Okay. So yeah,

00:30:09.460 that happened long before I got, I got banned from, uh, I think post media in general, the, uh,

00:30:15.940 the national post to winter star, they all kind of fell in succession there one after the other,

00:30:21.140 but basically, uh, you know, you, you write in a, uh, you know, you, there was an article of some

00:30:26.260 kind. Uh, so, you know, you, you write a comment or you answer someone else's comment and you know,

00:30:32.340 you expect if you're using the wrong kind of language that you're not going to get your, your,

00:30:37.220 your opinion published. Right. But it wasn't the case. It would just say, uh, uh, pending,

00:30:43.140 you know, you get like a little thing that said pending, um, or then content deactivated.

00:30:48.420 And, you know, I checked why and it would say, you violated our community byline. So I would call,

00:30:53.140 uh, like I, I called the star a couple of times. I said, what, what community bylines, uh, have I

00:30:59.380 violated? And, uh, the, the guy, uh, couldn't, couldn't come up with any. And I said, well, no,

00:31:05.220 it's on, it's on the page there. You can see it yourself. What am I doing? He goes, well,

00:31:09.300 you know, I'll, I'll check more into this. So, you know, after a while you just say, okay,

00:31:14.100 it's good. So forget that. But it's like, uh, I think it's a tendency in this country, uh, to muzzle,

00:31:21.140 uh, people who ask, uh, uncomfortable questions. Um, and that's, you know, maybe, maybe with,

00:31:28.180 with my situation, this might come up. Like, why do I have to be vaccinated? Police officers don't.

00:31:33.700 That's also an uncomfortable question. Uh, but you know, in Canada, we, we don't have that

00:31:39.780 vibrant, uh, discussion that we used to be able to have. So I think that's like the biggest

00:31:45.220 picture of all. Yeah. You're a hundred, you're a hundred percent right, uh, Chris. And we should

00:31:49.940 have that discussion, especially since we are involuntarily paying for it. I mean,

00:31:54.980 the Windsor star might say they're all about diversity. I'm sure not so much diversity of

00:32:00.580 opinions. That is clear. Chris, it was a delight, uh, speaking with you. Good luck in the, uh,

00:32:06.660 fall election. And, um, depending on what happens, uh, maybe they're a follow-up story,

00:32:12.980 uh, will, will be beckoning, uh, in case you do indeed, uh, when you're writing and, uh,

00:32:19.860 you get on the horse to get this, uh, crazy vaccination policy change at the city of Windsor.

00:32:26.980 So you have a good day, my friend. Pleasure talking to you.

00:32:31.140 Pleasure is mine, David. Thank you so much. And, uh, thank you to your, uh, viewers for

00:32:34.740 tuning in today. So thank you so much. You got it. And there we have it folks. That is

00:32:39.780 Chris Soda. He is running in ward two in the city of Windsor in the fall municipal election.

00:32:47.300 Keep it here. More of the Ezra Levent show to come right after this.

00:33:02.180 Well, folks, lots of response to yesterday's Ezra Levent show, especially Ezra's monologue.

00:33:08.260 Trip E88 writes,

00:33:10.580 Yeah. Imagine that folks in this day and age. If you tweet out a meme, a meme that is deemed

00:33:27.060 offensive by the alphabet soup people. Well, you can expect the police to come a knocking on your

00:33:34.100 door. I mean, yeah, there's murder and assault and rape and carjacking, but getting offended

00:33:40.500 by a meme. That's really serious. My Sparrow writes the Trudeau government has changed everything.

00:33:49.220 A true Canadian and Canada has always stood for the day all these government leaders and

00:33:55.780 every entity of the government lives the way they're pushing on the citizens for two full years

00:34:03.860 is the day I might take them partially serious. You know, I totally agree.

00:34:09.860 And look how fast this change has occurred. Justin Trudeau got elected in 2015. That was only seven

00:34:16.580 years ago. I would say that I don't recognize what's happened to this country in just seven

00:34:23.460 years, less than a decade. Let us collectively hope regime change is on the way, hopefully sooner rather

00:34:31.780 than later than later. Well, folks, thank you so much for tuning in to the Ezra event show. I'll be back

00:34:37.700 tomorrow, Friday, hosting for the big boss man. He is on urgent business as always. And in the meantime, as always,

00:34:46.580 stay sane. Reconciliation is something that is extremely important to this country. And it is a process that will

00:34:54.500 involve many steps forward and a few setbacks. It is difficult, as we all know, to end these long-term

00:35:01.940 boil water advisories. Otherwise, other governments would have done it. 1.00

00:35:05.460 People in crossing arrows are suffering from mercury poisoning.

00:35:09.060 Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate the

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00:35:59.700 about the children. It is hard to believe that even in 2022, there are countries on earth that are

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00:36:38.740 advisories, which means for at least a year they have not had access to clean and safe drinking water.

00:36:44.500 We're still, there are some First Nations communities that have been under long-term drink water advisories

00:36:50.660 since 1995. That, for those paying attention, is two years before the last residential school closed.

00:36:58.500 These communities are being denied fundamental human rights. These Canadian communities, this is

00:37:07.140 fundamentally un-Canadian, and this is an authentic emergency that must be addressed, not like these 0.99

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Rebel News Podcast - August 05, 2022

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