Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why didn’t mainstream media report when Aboriginal protests blocked Trudeau’s campaign bus？

00:00:00.400 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through a very strange story. It's a battle of who's

00:00:05.940 telling the truth. A reporter named David Akin, very longstanding reporter, very media

00:00:11.560 party, real insider. He's part of that anti-conservative union called Unifor. It's running those attack

00:00:17.460 ads. He's really a man of the establishment. David Akin says that Justin Trudeau's bus

00:00:22.660 simply was never blocked by indigenous protesters. That's one side of the debate. The other side

00:00:28.380 is a citizen journalist from Rebel News named Mocha Beziergan, who claims no, he was blocked

00:00:34.800 for half an hour, and Mocha's got the video proof of it. So why would David Akin deny it?

00:00:42.860 Oh boy, I'll take you through it. I'll show you what David Akin says, but I'll also show you Mocha's

00:00:48.120 video. You be the judge. Is David Akin the journalist he claims he is? Oh, I used to know

00:00:54.920 David used to work with him. I'll show you both David's case and Mocha's, and I'll let

00:00:59.040 you decide. That's ahead, but let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.

00:01:02.940 You know, that's the video version of this. And today's story, really, the proof is the

00:01:06.320 video, isn't it? I want you to see the proof with your own eyes. And you tell me, was that

00:01:10.460 bus blocked for half an hour? I think you can hear it, but if you had the video, you'd

00:01:16.340 see the proof of it. Just go to Rebel News Plus. By the way, it's normally eight bucks a month,

00:01:20.660 but for the course of the election, we're letting people subscribe for free with the promo code

00:01:25.800 ELECTION. And our hope is that you'll like it so much that you keep subscribing after the

00:01:30.700 election for eight bucks a month. All right, here's today's report.

00:01:33.420 Tonight, why didn't the mainstream media report it when aboriginal protesters blocked Trudeau's

00:01:55.120 campaign bus? It's August 23rd, and this is the answer to that show.

00:01:59.560 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:02:05.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:02:09.260 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:02:14.140 right to do so.

00:02:20.700 We have 17 Rebel News journalists in Canada. For comparison, McLean's magazine, Canada's

00:02:27.280 oldest news magazine, has a grand total of 14 staff for the whole company. It's a shadow of

00:02:33.780 its former self. I remember them when they really were the news magazine of record, when they were

00:02:38.480 huge and interesting. And you'd actually hear people talking about McLean's news stories.

00:02:45.400 It really had a seat at the table of the national conversation. They had a million readers a week

00:02:50.880 at their height. I just looked at their advertising rate card today, and their circulation, they claim,

00:02:57.380 is barely 100,000. And I bet most of that is freebies to doctors' waiting rooms. I mean,

00:03:03.060 when was the last time you heard anyone bring up a story that they read about in the plane?

00:03:08.260 I'm not being mean to them. I suppose I wish everyone success. But they're not really reporters

00:03:14.480 anymore. They're government reporters, which isn't really a thing. It would be like the difference

00:03:19.760 between a punk rock band and a government punk rock band. You really can't be a punk rock band

00:03:26.540 and also work for the government. Same with reporters. The more money they take from Trudeau,

00:03:32.140 the less read, the less readers trust them. So the more money they need from Trudeau, and the less

00:03:38.040 readers trust them, and the cycle repeats itself eventually, they'll get all their money from Trudeau,

00:03:43.040 and he will be their only reader. I think we're the opposite. We don't take a dime from Trudeau.

00:03:48.800 Trudeau's constantly trying to block us or censor us. Trudeau constantly has his pullings,

00:03:55.080 push our reporters out of the way, physically. But it just makes people want to hear what we say

00:04:00.840 all the more, I think. I mean, aren't you curious what questions are so deadly that Trudeau not only

00:04:07.140 hides from them, he sends police out to block us from asking them? I shouldn't say that it's only

00:04:12.460 the liberals, the NDP, and even Aaron O'Toole's conservatives, send the police out to block us

00:04:16.940 too. Here are the Tories calling the local cops on David Menzies, who've shown you this clip before.

00:04:23.820 And here's something new. The RCMP telling our reporter, Mocha Beziergan, that he doesn't,

00:04:30.620 doesn't have to leave an NDP event. He just can't ask questions. Hang on. Is that within a policeman's

00:04:37.920 power to do? If our reporter was trespassing, I would understand the legal power to kick him out.

00:04:43.240 That's a law thing. If he was a physical security threat, which of course he isn't,

00:04:48.680 I would understand protecting public safety. That's a law thing. That's a police thing.

00:04:53.440 But literally saying you can be here, but you just can't ask questions, that's not a law thing.

00:04:59.640 Mr. Singh, Mr. Singh, visible minorities have a much lower rate of getting vaccinated. Are you

00:05:14.700 going to convince them or are you going to coerce them? Isn't that a form of, isn't vaccine

00:05:19.420 passport a form of systemic racism? We'll convince them. You will convince them? Are you an RCMP

00:05:28.240 officer? Yes. Okay. I was told that I'm welcome to stay here. Yeah. And you're also told you're

00:05:38.920 not allowed to ask a question. That's why I didn't line up. Whether it's lockdowns or vaccine

00:05:45.000 passports or open borders immigration or censorship, I really don't see a lot of difference between the

00:05:49.720 three main parties. You'd be surprised how many rebel viewers these days are young people alienated

00:05:56.300 from political insiders altogether. Working class people who see that the lockdowns only affected

00:06:01.680 them, not the Zoom class or government union. Women, moms, health conscious people worried about 0.94

00:06:08.360 taking new medicines that haven't been fully tested yet. You'd be surprised what our average viewer

00:06:13.320 looks like today as opposed to just two years ago. I don't even think it's right-wing or left-wing.

00:06:18.240 I mean, if you're a pregnant mom worried about the baby inside you and you feel healthy and you know

00:06:23.220 that COVID really is a risk mainly to those who are really old and sick, are you really right-wing

00:06:28.680 to not want a forced vaccination shot? Or is that left-wing? I think the fault line these days is

00:06:35.060 insiders versus outsiders. Those profiting from the misery, Jeff Bezos, just to name one,

00:06:41.340 and those sentenced to be miserable. Those ruling us versus those of us who have to live

00:06:48.580 under the rules. I think that's the divide. I mean, when Barack Obama had his big birthday

00:06:52.720 bash a couple weeks ago, no masks, no social distancing. Or this video I just saw yesterday,

00:06:57.420 it's a fundraising dinner in Napa Valley for Nancy Pelosi. No social distancing, no masks for the rich

00:07:05.060 donors, but masks on the poor servants, mind you. Largely minorities, I know this. That's the divide. 1.00

00:07:12.800 In that last one, the servants who are being forced to wear masks, forced to get a jab to keep their

00:07:18.980 jobs, that's what rebel viewers are in 2021. I haven't done a demographic analysis of the 2,200-plus

00:07:26.260 Canadians we're helping fight the fines. We simply don't collect information from people like their 0.63

00:07:31.720 age or their religion or their race or anything like that. We just, we don't ask. We help everyone

00:07:36.240 regardless. But from the 200 or so that we've interviewed and done videos about, I can see that

00:07:44.040 they're often young and often poor. And just from the names, I see that we're helping a lot of people

00:07:50.320 who are either immigrants themselves or their children. If you help 2,200 families through one of the

00:07:58.440 worst crises of their lives, $1,000 or $5,000 ticket, they're going to tell their friends about

00:08:03.020 it, you know. I know that because I can't go for a walk without someone coming up to me and tell me

00:08:07.560 they're either personally a client or they know someone who is. That's our side of this divide.

00:08:12.240 We're with the people. Those are our viewers. So you're probably thinking, okay, Ezra, thanks for

00:08:16.820 all the stuff. Congratulations. Can we have the news now? Okay, sure. But it's relevant what I just said

00:08:21.720 because we are not allowed on the campaign buses or the campaign planes. You know, the candidates

00:08:28.720 rent these big planes and buses for the campaign. They put a huge decal on them. Their campaign staff

00:08:36.180 are on one bus typically and reporters are on another bus and they travel around together typically.

00:08:42.320 They won't let us on the media bus. So we're not on the inside. It's like when we go to United Nations

00:08:48.300 conventions, they won't let us in the conventions anymore. But that's okay. We report from the

00:08:52.960 outside and we always have more interesting news than when we were on the inside. Because when you're

00:08:57.560 on the inside of the UN convention, they just don't let you putter around on your own. That's what got

00:09:03.360 us kicked out asking an unapproved question. Here's that question, by the way, just to remind you,

00:09:07.660 this is what got us banned from the UN a few years ago. This is what made Catherine McKenna request the

00:09:13.380 United Nations never let us in again. Take a look.

00:09:20.380 Great. Sorry. And for which organization? No, sorry. We're actually not available. We're on our

00:09:32.380 way to another meeting. Well, he just agreed to speak to us. But he just agreed to speak to us. Why

00:09:40.060 are you not speaking to us? Is it just us in particular? Is it just us in particular that you

00:09:47.600 didn't want to speak to? Yeah. So if you ask a mildly tough question of anyone in power, you're

00:09:53.240 thrown out forever. But more than that, if you're just there on the inside of one of these big

00:09:59.500 government conventions, you will be spoon fed official talking points, press releases, official

00:10:04.960 speeches, and then you'll be groomed by countless spin doctors. You'll be massaged and managed and

00:10:10.220 pampered. Same with the campaign tour buses. They're not actually for the purposes of the news media.

00:10:16.600 They're for the purposes of the political parties. A hothouse where they can really go to work on the

00:10:21.140 reporters to propagandize them, to spin them. So we're not allowed on these media buses, which means

00:10:27.600 we're often pushed out of press conferences. But as I showed you with that UN clip of Sheila,

00:10:33.660 the moment we ask a tough question, we'd be kicked out anyways. I mean, here's the leader of the Bloc

00:10:38.400 Québécois, simply refusing to answer a great question from our reporter in Quebec, Alexa Lavoie,

00:10:45.560 because she's with a rebel, with a rebel, and really because she's asking a question here,

00:10:50.820 if you might. Take a listen.

00:10:51.560 So I went to the headquarters of Medicago because today, the leader of the Bloc Québécois, Yves-François

00:11:11.560 Blanchet, went there to discuss about the drug production and research in Quebec. So let's see

00:11:21.220 if he really want to answer to my question.

00:11:24.140 We're going to pass to the last question in presence with Rebel News.

00:11:31.800 Yes, hello. My name is Alexa for Rebel News. In fact, my question today, it's to know your

00:11:37.800 position on the basis of the vaccine, but also the provincial, because we know very well

00:11:43.180 that in Quebec, the measures should be in place until the 1st September and that the rights

00:11:50.300 of certain people will be brimed on the level of measures, in fact, the emplacements and

00:11:57.360 establishments plaisir for certain people. And also, on the level of the federal, we know

00:12:01.640 that on the level of the transports aérien and on the level of the trains, this right

00:12:06.520 also will be brimed. Quelle est votre opposition par rapport à ça?

00:12:09.880 You m'envoyez sincèrement. Désolée, madame, parce que bien que votre question

00:12:12.600 apparaisse tout à fait raisonnable, je maintiens la politique de ne pas répondre aux questions

00:12:15.580 de Rebel News.

00:12:16.240 Yeah, so basically, he's saying, I'm not going to talk to you because I disagree with

00:12:44.860 you. And what I hear from that, and I think what millions of Quebecers heard from that

00:12:49.160 is, if you disagree with me, if I ever became powerful, I would not represent you in Canada.

00:12:55.920 You're a non-person to me, and I don't feel like I have to explain myself. He's deeply

00:12:59.960 undemocratical. So here's my story today, and here's why I give you a 10-minute preamble

00:13:05.240 about all this. So one of our young reporters, I mentioned him a moment ago, he's 22,

00:13:09.500 Mocha Bezergin. He's originally from Turkey, and he was interrogated at a police station twice

00:13:14.060 in Turkey as a teenager because he made YouTube videos that criticized the authoritarian regime

00:13:20.480 in Turkey. So he prefers Canada's freedom, but he knows tyranny when he sees it. Can you

00:13:26.440 imagine being a kid interrogated for a YouTube video at a police station? So he goes to Victoria,

00:13:32.180 BC for us to meet up with Trudeau. Now, so did a bunch of other journalists, but they were

00:13:37.460 in Trudeau's media bus. Mocha obviously was not. We flew him there on his own. We paid for his flight

00:13:44.500 ourselves. So you've got a bunch of journalists on the media bus, and you've got Mocha, not on any

00:13:50.600 bus, but they, he finds them and they meet up. But would you look at this? There are protesters there,

00:13:57.880 too. A bunch of them. I didn't track all of them. I think there's some anti-lockdown, anti-vax

00:14:03.200 protesters, but also environmentalist protesters and also indigenous protesters. You can agree or

00:14:09.820 disagree with them, but it's a democracy. And frankly, no one's been able to interact with the

00:14:14.540 ruling class directly in 18 months since the ruling class has been in hiding, using the lockdown as an

00:14:20.500 excuse. Parliament hasn't really been sitting, et cetera. Now, I'm going to play a few minutes of

00:14:25.320 the protest for you. What they say isn't really the purpose of me showing you this clip. The purpose

00:14:31.220 is to show you that it was a protest and then it blocked Trudeau's bus. Now, it went on for half

00:14:36.720 an hour. I will not show you all of that, but Mocha was there for the whole thing. And actually

00:14:41.220 online, he has sort of a sped up version of this to show how long it was. By the way, when Mocha got

00:14:48.500 there, he was so interested in this blockade, he phoned me to tell me what was going on. Not what

00:14:53.580 Trudeau said or the protesters said. The fact that the bus was blocked, he thought that was interesting.

00:14:57.420 I'm glad he phoned me. Here, just watch for a bit.

00:15:02.920 Justin Trudeau's tour bus was blockaded by indigenous rights protesters for half an hour.

00:15:09.920 Nothing on me. Nothing I heard of. I just want to be acknowledged. I want to be heard.

00:15:13.920 And he was evacuated from the bus by the RCMP. 0.84

00:15:16.920 Justin Trudeau does not give a **** about indigenous people.

00:15:21.420 Justin, why don't you engage with the protesters?

00:15:23.420 That was on my reserve where he laid those flowers and that teddy bear. He did that for

00:15:28.420 a photo of the people from my reserve are uncomfortable.

00:15:31.420 Did you even saw this on the telly? No.

00:15:34.420 No. Because the media did not want you to see it.

00:15:37.920 So Mocha told me about the blockade when it happened. He phoned me. He filmed a ton of

00:15:43.920 it. He interviewed the protesters, the left-wingers and the right-wingers. Even though he said

00:15:48.920 their comments weren't particularly interesting. But what was interesting to him and to me was

00:15:53.920 that Trudeau's bus was paralyzed because they were indigenous and eco-protesters, two groups

00:15:58.920 that Trudeau doesn't like to tangle with. I mean, that's part of his image, right?

00:16:02.920 Remember the last time he tangled with an indigenous protest? Remember this one?

00:16:08.420 That we invest in the middle class and in people working hard to join it. Thank you very

00:16:14.420 much. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you.

00:16:17.420 People in Rocky Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning.

00:16:21.420 Thank you.

00:16:23.420 Thank you for being here. Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate

00:16:28.420 the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. And as we know.

00:16:34.920 Yeah, they didn't go too well. So instead of having his armed guards push the protesters

00:16:40.420 away like they pushed away our reporter, Drea Humphrey, Trudeau just killed time for 30 0.79

00:16:46.920 minutes. Did other things. He improvised like in the theater when the next act isn't ready.

00:16:52.420 And so the emcee does a song and a dance to keep the crowd entertained. He killed time.

00:16:58.920 And they finally left.

00:17:01.920 So MOCA had the story of the protest, the blockade, and we put up a tweet about it with a short

00:17:06.920 video. It was news. Indigenous protesters blocking Trudeau in D.C. I think that's news, don't you?

00:17:13.920 And then a few days later, a left wing foreign funded eco group called Dogwood tweeted basically

00:17:20.420 the same thing, but from their point of view. That's fine. Fair enough. It did happen.

00:17:24.420 Like I said, there were protesters from the left and from the right. But then David Akin,

00:17:29.420 who is a uniformed journalist for Global News, whose own union dues go to run ads attacking

00:17:35.920 the conservatives. He weighed in. He saw that Dogwood tweet and he said that it was a lie.

00:17:42.420 And he said that left wing and right wing journalists lie. It's just him and the rest of the insider

00:17:47.920 media, who are the honest ones, don't listen to citizen journalists. Here's what he said.

00:17:54.920 You think right wing news outlets stretch the truth? How about this whopper from a left wing

00:17:59.420 advocacy group? Complete fake news. I was there. No helicopters were harmed during Trudeau's stop

00:18:05.420 in Elizabeth May's riding. Fake news, eh? Here's what Dogwood said in reply to Akin. He said,

00:18:11.920 we were just going off video from the Justin Canada YouTube channel and social media updates

00:18:17.420 from people and from the bus. What did you observe? And Akin said, no helicopter for one thing and a

00:18:24.920 completely typical Trudeau event. Bus showed up, parked where it was supposed to, lots of RCMP around,

00:18:30.420 a handful of people around the bus yelling about this and that. PM left the bus late as usual. PM got on the

00:18:36.420 bus late as usual. Normal. Well, I don't know about the helicopter thing, but I do know the bus was

00:18:42.420 blocked and could not leave. We showed you that. But Akin said, in fact, it was one of the more sedate PM

00:18:50.420 events during the week. I traveled with him. His access to or from the nursing home in San Luis was never

00:18:55.420 obstructed. Well, I don't think anyone said he couldn't get out of the nursing home. They said his bus was blocked.

00:19:01.420 The bus was blocked. Akin says his bus was not blocked ever at any event I attended in the last

00:19:09.420 week. Well, that's pretty terrible. Is David Akin telling the truth? Was Trudeau's boss never blocked ever?

00:19:19.420 My friend Mocha was standing right there. He thought it was so newsworthy that the bus was blocked.

00:19:24.420 He phoned me in real time to tell me. He filmed it. You can see it. He spoke to the block haters.

00:19:32.420 You can see that, too. But David Akin says it never happened. And worse, he says anyone who claims it is

00:19:40.420 is just a right wing fake news site or left wing fake news site. What's going on here? Is David Akin

00:19:46.420 a full out liar? I don't think so. I know David a little bit or at least I used to. He worked with me

00:19:53.420 at Sun News. Like most journalists, his natural inclination is to tilt to the left or really to tilt

00:19:58.420 towards power. Let's be more honest. He hasn't lifted a finger to oppose his own union using his own

00:20:04.420 union dues to attack conservatives. So that tells you something about him. But like I say, he's the

00:20:09.420 usual center left establishment man who cares about maintaining his contact with power.

00:20:14.420 But I don't think he'd lie so brazenly. I know him enough to know he's not a liar. So what happened?

00:20:22.420 Why did he say that then? I think I know. I think that the liberals, when they saw that their

00:20:30.420 bus was blocked, they improvised. They said they were having so much fun at the event that

00:20:37.420 they were going to extend the visit by half an hour. And they herded the media. They managed

00:20:45.420 the media. They massaged the media. They kept the media away from the blockade until the blockaders

00:20:51.420 were done. In fact, that's what Akin basically says. But he doesn't realize it was to trick

00:20:57.420 him. He says, Trudeau arrived on time at the LTC long-term care home, spent extra time visiting

00:21:04.420 seniors because he really cares what they have to say. He left late because of that. And

00:21:11.420 he responds to someone, Vitor, you've been on buses with media. You must surely know that

00:21:16.420 ambitious reporters would hardly bury such a story. Come on, man. So David Akin says that

00:21:26.420 Justin Trudeau left late because Justin Trudeau just was so interested what these seniors said

00:21:32.420 at the LTC, the long-term care home. That's why. Trudeau was just spending so much time with

00:21:38.420 the seniors. And you know that we'd never bury a story otherwise. Yeah, no, no. He wasn't

00:21:45.420 with the seniors. That was a lie from Trudeau's spin doctors to the journalists. He was on the

00:21:52.420 bus. Mocha saw him. He was rattled. His team of professional liars made the lie, told it

00:21:58.420 to the journalists who believed it. They'll believe anything and repeat it, won't they? 0.84

00:22:05.420 I mean, put yourself in David Akin's shoes. Who would you believe if you were David Akin?

00:22:11.420 The PM's communications staff, who have been so nice to you, and they just gave you such

00:22:17.420 a lovely lunch, and they were so helpful with your last story, and they gave you such nice

00:22:22.420 compliments about your last report. Wouldn't you believe them, or would you really believe

00:22:28.420 the right-wing and left-wing citizen journalists with an axe to grind? David Akin knows which team

00:22:33.420 he's on. He's on team establishment, team power, team insider. He's on the bus. The media

00:22:43.420 bus, not the Trudeau bus. And the media bus was told a lie, and they believed it. I really

00:22:50.420 don't blame David Akin, my old friend, for believing a lie. And he should probably be more skeptical

00:22:58.420 or more curious. But I do blame him for believing the lie so deeply that when other outsiders

00:23:05.420 prove with videotape that it was a lie, that Trudeau's bus really was blocked, instead of

00:23:11.420 changing his mind or changing his story, he lashes out, calls us fake, calls us liars, and

00:23:20.420 shows that indeed he is a uniform man. He's an insider. And he'd rather promote a Trudeau lie than

00:23:27.420 tell the truth that was first reported by outsider citizen journalists like us. That's too bad.

00:23:37.420 Stay with us for more from our Citizen Journal.

00:23:39.420 Hey, welcome back. You know, we've got 17 reporters covering the election. Now, some

00:23:56.420 of those people are part-time editors, part-time reporters, but I'm talking about 17 folks who

00:24:01.420 occasionally appear on camera and some who appear on camera every day. One guy who's on camera every day

00:24:07.420 is our Calgary reporter, Adam Sose, who's been so busy covering the election in Southern Alberta.

00:24:14.420 He joins us now via Skype from Calgary. Adam, great to see you again.

00:24:17.420 Great. Thanks for having me on.

00:24:19.420 Well, it's a pleasure. Let's talk about some of the things you've covered lately.

00:24:22.420 Derek Sloan, one of our favorite guys, he ran for the Conservative Party leadership.

00:24:27.420 He didn't win. He was later kicked out under such absurd pretext by Aaron O'Toole and has decided to run,

00:24:38.420 but not in his old riding in Ontario. He's decided to run as an independent, I think, in Alberta.

00:24:47.420 You were there. Tell me a little bit about what you saw there.

00:24:50.420 Yeah, so we've attended a number of events, and I think part of the decision is he's been able to draw

00:24:56.420 very large crowds in these parts of Alberta, particularly in these rural communities.

00:25:01.420 So we've seen numerous events with several hundred people attending, and just last week he held an event.

00:25:07.420 He tends to do them at curling halls because they're the only things that can handle the kind of capacity he has.

00:25:11.420 They're estimating about 700 or more people attended a Derek Sloan announcement.

00:25:16.420 So this is someone who's running as an independent. He was working on getting his party registered,

00:25:20.420 but it won't be ready in time for the election. So in order to run, he had to run as an independent.

00:25:25.420 But in response to the strong support that he's received in this community,

00:25:29.420 he has decided that that's where he's going to be running in Bavardry.

00:25:32.420 He also made the particular point that he didn't want to run against someone who was maybe doing a good job,

00:25:37.420 but they weren't with the right party or someone who espoused some of his values.

00:25:40.420 He was targeting a conservative party insider, Blake Richards, who is the party whip,

00:25:45.420 because he wanted to make a point and take on someone who is emblematic of the entitlement of the Aaron O'Toole Conservatives.

00:25:52.420 Yeah. Hey, here's a clip from, it's a recent coverage you did of Derek Sloan in Alberta. Take a look.

00:25:59.420 Listen, it's time, it's time to take this country back.

00:26:02.420 And this writing is going to be a litmus test of whether a person who is loved and respected by the people can win over a color, over a party.

00:26:11.420 Let's stand up, Canada, because right now in Banff Airdrie, all eyes are going to be on us.

00:26:16.420 Do not let democracy die. Freedom fighters from across Alberta, come and join us.

00:26:21.420 Let's show the Conservatives, let's show the establishment that we can win when the people stand up and have their say.

00:26:27.420 Have somebody who has conservative values and thoughts and processes that care about the people who live in this city, this province. 0.96

00:26:36.420 Like, this is ridiculous. No one hears our voice. And I'm excited that we're going to have somebody who is going to be listening.

00:26:43.420 So, you were saying you were approached by someone from CBC and what did you tell them?

00:26:47.420 I told them that I don't want to talk to you.

00:26:50.420 And what was your reasoning?

00:26:52.420 Well, he asked me, he said, why don't you want to talk to me?

00:26:55.420 And I said, because you're CBC. He said, yeah, but you pay for it.

00:27:01.420 And I said, well, that's why I don't want to talk to you.

00:27:04.420 Now, I don't know that riding very closely, Adam.

00:27:08.420 I mean, I know it from being a tourist and loving Banff and those parts.

00:27:13.420 But that's pretty, it's pretty safe conservative country.

00:27:18.420 I mean, I can't remember the last time that went to a party other than the conservatives.

00:27:24.420 I don't know, frankly, if it ever has.

00:27:26.420 So, is Derek Sloan's strategy just to get the biggest vote he can?

00:27:32.420 Does he actually think he can win?

00:27:35.420 Does he want to be a spoiler?

00:27:38.420 I might have thought he would have run against a red Tory in downtown Calgary, Michelle Rempel-Gardner, who, you know, has really gone woke on so many subjects.

00:27:49.420 Like, I mean, he could be a spoiler there.

00:27:51.420 What's the strategy?

00:27:52.420 I mean, does he actually think he can push through in the first place?

00:27:56.420 I mean, I think he does, actually.

00:27:58.420 And I don't think he's a novelty politician or someone doing this to build their name or to make a point.

00:28:03.420 He's someone who wants to win.

00:28:05.420 And given the short notice and given the lack of an opportunity to actually start his party and get rolling, he looked at the support he was receiving in this community and said, this is really something.

00:28:14.420 If we look at the 2019 election, over 70% of the vote, 72 roughly, went to the conservatives.

00:28:21.420 Beyond that, we saw the Alberta Liberals and the NDP take the next portion of the vote.

00:28:26.420 And then a People's Party candidate actually came in fourth place with about 4% of the vote.

00:28:31.420 She is running again.

00:28:32.420 But we have an interesting situation where we have a very charismatic Maverick Party candidate who has joined this election and is going to take part in it.

00:28:41.420 So he may pull some votes.

00:28:43.420 Maxine Bernier will be in this constituency next week with the People's Party candidate.

00:28:48.420 That may pull some votes.

00:28:49.420 And Derek Sloan will certainly pull some votes from the conservatives.

00:28:53.420 So is there enough there to make a hole for Derek Sloan to take that lead?

00:28:57.420 Is it probable?

00:28:58.420 No.

00:28:59.420 But is it impossible?

00:29:00.420 Certainly not.

00:29:01.420 Many would have suggested that an Ontario MP gathering 700 people on a weeknight to make an announcement was an impossibility as well.

00:29:07.420 But he pulled that off.

00:29:09.420 Well, I sure like Derek Sloan.

00:29:10.420 I like his style.

00:29:11.420 I like his policy ideas.

00:29:13.420 I dislike how he was defenestrated from the party.

00:29:17.420 I think it shows thin skin on the part of Aaron O'Toole.

00:29:20.420 I think a small tent.

00:29:22.420 I think a bullying side of O'Toole that's very unseemly.

00:29:26.420 So I do wish Derek Sloan well.

00:29:28.420 I just wonder, I mean, time will tell if choosing this running was a smart one.

00:29:32.420 And I think that it does speak to the fact that he was kicked out of that party.

00:29:35.420 We're seeing with this short election, whether it be Justin Trudeau or Aaron O'Toole, they're not actually campaigning.

00:29:40.420 They're having these secret events with 50 people invited.

00:29:43.420 No questions are allowed.

00:29:44.420 They're running on a one month platform of let's not screw up and hopefully we can get through the debates.

00:29:49.420 You see people like Maxine Bernier and Derek Sloan saying, no, we're going to let people know we're having these events and everyone will come out.

00:29:55.420 So is there that possibility that that sort of populist mentality may garner some people over who are sick of lukewarm politicians?

00:30:03.420 Hmm. Well, it's it certainly feels volatile right now, more so than I thought it might.

00:30:08.420 Now, Justin Trudeau doesn't spend a lot of time in Alberta.

00:30:12.420 That that is a dead place to him.

00:30:15.420 I'm not saying he doesn't have a chance to pick up a seat or two in Edmonton or even theoretically one in Calgary itself.

00:30:23.420 But he doesn't like Alberta. He doesn't like Albertans. He doesn't like the oil and gas industry.

00:30:28.420 He prefers slobbering, you know, partisans in Montreal, for example.

00:30:33.420 But he did recently go to Calgary and I just have to chuckle because there is no social distancing or mask rules in in Alberta.

00:30:40.420 Those have all been lifted. So there are no pandemic rules.

00:30:44.420 But to mask to cover the fact that he has very tepid support, he implemented social distancing rules at his Calgary rally, which he has not done in other places.

00:30:57.420 So he's had rallies in Ontario, in Quebec, where it's jammed, where he doesn't even pretend to socially distance.

00:31:04.420 But in Calgary, the one place that doesn't have these rules, everyone had to be in their zone of distancing.

00:31:10.420 Tell us a minute about that and then we'll show a clip of when you went to such a thing.

00:31:15.420 I mean, it was comedic. First of all, they were hiding the event. They didn't want anyone to know.

00:31:21.420 We almost felt like the paparazzi trying to figure out where this event was.

00:31:24.420 And you think as a politician, you'd want people to know where your events are.

00:31:27.420 We get there. It's a spectacle. Only people with the pre-approved red bands get to go in.

00:31:32.420 And they literally had chalk circles drawn on the floor.

00:31:35.420 And you were only allowed to get to go into your little cohort on a chalk circle.

00:31:39.420 Of course, when Justin Trudeau was shaking hands, the circles went away.

00:31:42.420 And when he went back to his bus, everyone absolutely rushed together and piled on.

00:31:46.420 But like we said, there was maybe 70 to 100 people there.

00:31:49.420 They tried to keep this event secret and there was still probably 20 counter-protesters at this event.

00:31:54.420 So there's certainly a lack of support and even trying to keep people away.

00:31:59.420 Nearly 20% of the people in attendance were counter-protesters who found their way to the event.

00:32:04.420 Funny, when you talk about the circles, it reminds me of these foolish circles that they made in the park in Toronto.

00:32:12.420 One of the most popular outdoor parks in the city, Trinity Bellwoods. 0.98

00:32:15.420 They had these foolish circles. 0.98

00:32:17.420 It was so embarrassing. 0.98

00:32:19.420 But of course, the real comparison is Joe Biden, who had, I think, a rally of like less than 10 people.

00:32:25.420 And he had the circles there to cover it up.

00:32:28.420 It wouldn't surprise me if some Biden campaign advisers were working for Trudeau too.

00:32:33.420 So I think in some ways, Southern Alberta is one of the most boring places during an election because everyone sort of knows how it's going to go.

00:32:41.420 But maybe not in that one riding.

00:32:43.420 Maybe not in that riding.

00:32:44.420 I still think I'd give it to the conservatives.

00:32:46.420 Just the odds of an upset there seem pretty long to me.

00:32:49.420 But you never know.

00:32:50.420 It could happen.

00:32:51.420 It's the one we're going to be watching most closely.

00:32:53.420 And we've reached out to all the candidates.

00:32:55.420 Like I said, Maxine will be here next week. 0.99

00:32:57.420 We're certainly going to be there to cover that.

00:32:59.420 So I think it's going to be one of the ones to watch across Alberta for sure.

00:33:03.420 Right on.

00:33:04.420 Well, listen, I know you'll be out covering it along with our videographer, Kate, too.

00:33:07.420 We've got a great team up in Edmonton led by Sheila, of course. 0.99

00:33:10.420 And we have reporters across this country.

00:33:12.420 Dre and Matt out there in Vancouver, all the way east to Alexa Lavois in Quebec, who's doing a great job.

00:33:19.420 We're very excited about our coverage.

00:33:20.420 And thanks so much for being out and about in Alberta for us.

00:33:23.420 My pleasure.

00:33:24.420 Thanks so much.

00:33:25.420 All right.

00:33:26.420 There you have it, Adam.

00:33:27.420 So stay with us.

00:33:28.420 More ahead.

00:33:37.420 Hey, welcome back.

00:33:38.420 You know, we're growing.

00:33:39.420 We had two new teammates join our team here at our head office.

00:33:44.420 And we're hiring.

00:33:46.420 If you're curious, go to Revolues dot com slash careers.

00:33:50.420 I think we're looking for seven or eight more positions.

00:33:53.420 I want to tell you, we just put up a video on the weekend from a new reporter in Brisbane,

00:34:01.420 which is in the state of Queensland in Australia.

00:34:05.420 Our Australian audience is growing very quickly.

00:34:10.420 They're very great crowd funders.

00:34:12.420 They're helping us cover our bills there.

00:34:14.420 But mainly Australia is under one of the worst lockdowns in the world.

00:34:18.420 And you see this freedom movement coming up from the grassroots.

00:34:22.420 And Avi Amini's been doing a great job as a reporter in the city of Melbourne.

00:34:26.420 But I want to show you a video I think is great.

00:34:30.420 This is the very first video by our new ally in Brisbane.

00:34:37.420 And there's this one beautiful moment I want you to watch.

00:34:39.420 It's only five minutes long where she says, I can't even believe a year ago I was selling clothing in a retail store.

00:34:46.420 And now I'm a reporter.

00:34:47.420 It's actually very touching.

00:34:49.420 And she's doing a great job.

00:34:51.420 Wouldn't you agree?

00:34:52.420 I hope we have a lot more videos from her.

00:34:54.420 So let me say goodbye to you now.

00:34:56.420 But let me leave you with an inspiring and hopeful and professional report by our new woman on the ground in Brisbane, Australia.

00:35:06.420 Take a look.

00:35:07.420 Ms. Sawyer for Rebel News reporting for the first time in Brisbane, Australia.

00:35:11.420 On the weekend, thousands marched for their freedom in Brisbane CBD.

00:35:15.420 But unfortunately, the mainstream media painted this event as something evil.

00:35:19.420 We're here to tell you the other side of the story.

00:35:22.420 Watch the report.

00:35:23.420 But we need your support.

00:35:24.420 So please go to BrisbaneReporters.com.

00:35:26.420 We are one!

00:35:27.420 We are one!

00:35:28.420 We are one!

00:35:29.420 We are one!

00:35:30.420 We are one!

00:35:31.420 We are one!

00:35:32.420 We are one!

00:35:33.420 We are one!

00:35:34.420 We are one!

00:35:35.420 We are one!

00:35:36.420 We are one!

00:35:37.420 We are one!

00:35:38.420 We are one!

00:35:39.420 They described it on Channel 9 last time.

00:35:40.420 They described the rally in general as kids, dogs and confusion.

00:35:43.420 I can't believe how many kids are here today.

00:35:45.420 I mean, I feel like I'm a warrior.

00:35:47.420 I'm in my mid-twenties, but you've literally got kids here starting at age two fighting for

00:35:52.420 their freedom along with their brothers, sisters, friends and families.

00:35:56.420 So I really have to give it to them more than me.

00:35:58.420 Well, last time when me and my dad came, it was packed, but not this packed.

00:36:05.420 Like, it's filling up all the streets and it's actually really good because we should

00:36:10.420 be treated equally and we shouldn't have to listen to the government telling us what

00:36:16.420 to do and telling us to have a lockdown.

00:36:35.420 Freedom of choice over everything.

00:36:39.420 We are one!

00:36:40.420 We are united!

00:36:42.420 Never to be divided!

00:36:45.420 You're right!

00:36:50.420 The march, sorry to break it to you, isn't going to win the war, okay?

00:36:53.420 Information like this to protect the people is going to make a big difference.

00:37:00.420 So why are you guys all here today?

00:37:02.420 To protect our future.

00:37:04.420 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:05.420 For freedom and our kids and our choices.

00:37:07.420 Yeah.

00:37:08.420 So what do you guys think of all the lockdowns?

00:37:10.420 I like our human rights, but it's just destroying our economy. 0.78

00:37:13.420 It's breaking down small businesses.

00:37:15.420 Only businesses that are, say, government funded or whatever.

00:37:18.420 Clearly it's not working for a lot of people.

00:37:20.420 A lot of businesses and livelihoods are getting affected.

00:37:22.420 Hopefully, you know, we're waking up everybody around us.

00:37:25.420 I mean, stopping traffic and...

00:37:27.420 Yeah.

00:37:28.420 Go guys.

00:37:29.420 Power to Australia.

00:37:30.420 We've got drums, we've got music, we've got chants.

00:37:36.420 I feel like I'm at a concert right now, not a rally for freedom.

00:37:40.420 We are one!

00:37:41.420 We are one!

00:37:42.420 We are one!

00:37:43.420 We are one!

00:37:44.420 We are one!

00:37:45.420 We are one!

00:37:46.420 This is not an attack on these guys as individuals.

00:37:48.420 Arby, how's it going, bro? 0.76

00:37:49.420 You're f***ing rock, man. 0.66

00:37:50.420 We are one! 0.97

00:37:51.420 We are one!

00:37:52.420 We are one!

00:37:53.420 We are one!

00:37:54.420 We are one!

00:37:55.420 We are one!

00:37:56.420 We are one!

00:37:57.420 We are one!

00:37:58.420 We're not food.

00:37:59.420 We are grandmothers.

00:38:00.420 We are everyday people.

00:38:02.420 This is what you've caused people to do just to live.

00:38:07.420 Just to live, for goodness sake.

00:38:14.420 Freedom!

00:38:15.420 Freedom!

00:38:16.420 Freedom!

00:38:17.420 Freedom to Australia!

00:38:18.420 We've had enough of this!

00:38:19.420 TV and other news stations just don't show what really happened, so it's great that you

00:38:31.420 guys are up here.

00:38:32.420 I believe we've shut down the whole city.

00:38:34.420 We've got police on bikes, in vans.

00:38:37.420 We've literally got people in bars filming us on their mobile phones.

00:38:42.420 I think we're going to fill up every platform tonight.

00:38:45.420 There's an emotion.

00:38:46.420 Emotion!

00:38:47.420 This is so moved.

00:38:48.420 This is rebel news.

00:38:49.420 I was working in a clothes shop last year and now I'm recording the news.

00:38:53.420 This is surreal.

00:38:54.420 My makeup's worn out of thought.

00:38:56.420 It's got some decent media up here.

00:38:59.420 It's something that just shows that we're all human, we're all the same.

00:39:02.420 And it's really good to see so many different kinds of people here.

00:39:07.420 I'm amazed.

00:39:09.420 I'm impressed.

00:39:10.420 When you've got children fighting for their rights, I mean, I get emotional.

00:39:19.420 I can't hide that on camera, so.

00:39:21.420 I'm proud that those who have the guts or have the power and know for you to stand up,

00:39:33.420 they're the people that need to be here today.

00:39:35.420 Plenty of people with their masks on, even though you can see how many people are walking

00:39:40.420 here without their masks on.

00:39:43.420 I did it in America last year, so, yeah, they don't wear nothing over there.

00:39:48.420 There is a future for us, for humanity, and it's better than anything we can imagine,

00:39:54.420 and it's bigger than this.

00:39:56.420 So how did I go on my first ever report?

00:40:00.420 I had a lot of fun giving you the other side of the story from Brisbane, Australia.

00:40:04.420 If you're willing and able, please donate to BrisbaneReporters.com so we can keep giving

00:40:09.420 you the other side of the story.

00:40:11.420 BrisbaneReporters.com, donate now.

00:40:13.420 We'll see you next time.

00:40:14.420 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - August 24, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why didn’t mainstream media report when Aboriginal protests blocked Trudeau’s campaign bus？

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