Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why do they want a digital ID？

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:01:54.880 right to do so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:11:36.400 He was awful.

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

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

00:11:47.300 answer.

00:11:47.820 Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:17:31.480 What does all this mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:18:51.480 Summary.

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

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

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

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

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

00:19:36.480 Think about it.

00:19:37.480 Well, turn it over.

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

00:19:41.480 Turn over your emails.

00:19:42.480 Turn over your texts.

00:19:44.480 Your Facebook posts.

00:19:46.480 Everything.

00:19:47.480 Turn it over.

00:19:48.480 No search warrant.

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

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

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

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

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

00:20:05.480 Just a little clarification.

00:20:06.480 Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:20:57.480 B.

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

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

00:21:16.480 I'm almost done.

00:21:17.480 Or C.

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

00:21:37.480 Okay.

00:21:38.480 I'm sorry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:21:58.480 Penalty for hindering an officer.

00:22:01.480 Give me your password.

00:22:02.480 No.

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

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

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

00:22:33.480 Not more than six months.

00:22:38.480 Not more than six months.

00:22:41.480 Or both.

00:22:43.480 Huh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:23:19.480 Look at Roxham Road.

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

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

00:23:26.480 For guns.

00:23:27.480 For drugs.

00:23:28.480 Yeah, sure.

00:23:29.480 For illegal people. 0.99

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:24:06.480 Not probable cause.

00:24:08.480 Just a hunch, really.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:24:34.480 This bill will do that.

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

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

00:24:53.480 Thank you very much.

00:24:55.480 Stay with us for more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:26:09.480 That's my prognostication.

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

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

00:26:24.480 How did you get here?

00:26:26.480 How did you get here?

00:26:27.480 I walked.

00:26:28.480 You walked?

00:26:29.480 Yeah.

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

00:26:32.480 Of course not.

00:26:33.480 No.

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

00:26:35.480 Look at all of this.

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

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

00:26:41.480 Drop it. 0.73

00:26:42.480 No?

00:26:43.480 Drop it.

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

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

00:26:48.480 Why not?

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

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

00:26:54.480 I do.

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

00:26:56.480 I do lots of media.

00:26:58.480 Friendly media.

00:26:59.480 No, I do.

00:27:00.480 No.

00:27:01.480 God, no.

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

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

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

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

00:27:12.480 So you can deny it.

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

00:27:19.480 True North.

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

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

00:27:25.480 All people are good.

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

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

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

00:27:33.480 What would you answer people?

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

00:27:37.480 Take care, sir.

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

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

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

00:27:49.480 the next day.

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

00:27:54.480 Forum idea.

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

00:27:59.480 We should eat bugs.

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

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

00:28:05.480 How are you?

00:28:06.480 How are you?

00:28:07.480 How are you doing?

00:28:08.480 I miss you from yesterday.

00:28:09.480 Nice to see you again.

00:28:10.480 Who's your friend?

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

00:28:12.480 How are you doing?

00:28:13.480 Very well, thank you.

00:28:14.480 That's good.

00:28:15.480 Any bug sandwiches today?

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

00:28:18.480 No.

00:28:19.480 I actually haven't.

00:28:20.480 I haven't.

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

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

00:28:23.480 I don't know.

00:28:24.480 I need nothing.

00:28:25.480 So I'm happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:28:50.480 me otherwise.

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

00:29:00.480 bad things about us.

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

00:29:05.480 Take a look at this.

00:29:09.480 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:10.480 Is everything okay?

00:29:12.480 Now you stop to film.

00:29:15.480 Why?

00:29:16.480 Because you have not authorization.

00:29:18.480 Not film.

00:29:19.480 One second.

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

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

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

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

00:29:32.480 Yeah.

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

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

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

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

00:29:42.480 Yeah.

00:29:43.480 Maybe I do.

00:29:44.480 So what does it matter?

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

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

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

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

00:30:01.480 Bonjour.

00:30:02.480 Bonjour.

00:30:03.480 Do you speak English?

00:30:05.480 Très peu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:30:13.480 Do you have someone...

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

00:30:15.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:16.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:17.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:18.480 Do you have someone...

00:30:20.480 In English, I don't speak French, mate.

00:30:39.480 My name sounds good in French too.

00:30:42.480 This is certainly an image of health.

00:30:44.480 He's got his masks tied to his security belt.

00:30:48.480 It's very secure.

00:30:50.480 Please, just one moment.

00:30:51.480 Okay.

00:30:52.480 Thank you.

00:30:53.480 What?

00:30:54.480 One moment.

00:30:57.480 Yes.

00:30:58.480 It's possible to do your interview.

00:31:01.480 Okay.

00:31:02.480 Just for the image.

00:31:05.480 The image, yeah?

00:31:07.480 Yes, not inside the building.

00:31:08.480 We're not going inside.

00:31:09.480 That's okay.

00:31:10.480 Yes.

00:31:11.480 Okay, thank you.

00:31:12.480 Just a round.

00:31:13.480 Thank you.

00:31:14.480 You're welcome.

00:31:15.480 Thank you very much.

00:31:17.480 There you go.

00:31:18.480 So that's the thing you've got to learn when you stand up for yourself against tyranny.

00:31:24.480 And that's what it is.

00:31:25.480 That's a taste of tyranny.

00:31:26.480 That's what it looks like when authoritarian states and rulers try to shut you down.

00:31:32.480 If you stand up for yourself, nine out of ten times, at least while you're in a democracy, you will win.

00:31:40.480 Let that be a lesson.

00:31:41.480 Avi Mini for Rebel News in Geneva, Switzerland.

00:31:47.480 That's a good message by Avi at the end.

00:31:49.480 If you fight back for your rights in a democracy, you can sometimes win.

00:31:54.480 Avi says nine out of ten times you'll win.

00:31:56.480 I'm not sure if it's that high.

00:31:58.480 But Avi does a good job.

00:31:59.480 But you can see why he was elected twice by our viewers, our reporter of the year.

00:32:03.480 Well, one of my favorite reporters, in fact, my number one favorite reporter at the National Post, tied with Rex Murphy, is our next guest.

00:32:11.480 You know who I'm talking about, Rupa Supramania.

00:32:14.480 She joins us now via Skype to talk about her column about the World Economic Forum.

00:32:20.480 Rupa, great to see you again.

00:32:22.480 Great to see you, too, everyone.

00:32:24.480 Thank you so much for your kind words.

00:32:26.480 I just, I really appreciate it.

00:32:29.480 And I don't know if I fully deserve it, but...

00:32:31.480 Well, listen, what I like about your coverage is you're not afraid to zig when everyone else is zagging.

00:32:36.480 Sometimes you're a contrarian, and I think that's the hardest thing to be.

00:32:40.480 Hey, your new column, I have it in front of me here in the National Post.

00:32:43.480 It's called, World Health Organization and the Davos Elite leave a lot to be desired.

00:32:50.480 Canadians elect our leaders to work in our interests, not those of international bureaucrats or the rich and powerful.

00:32:56.480 I should have known this, but I didn't.

00:32:59.480 I didn't realize that Trudeau, last year, gave nearly 3 million Canadian tax dollars to the World Economic Forum.

00:33:08.480 They're full of billionaires, Rupa.

00:33:10.480 I know.

00:33:11.480 Like the richest people in the world.

00:33:12.480 What are we doing?

00:33:13.480 I know.

00:33:14.480 I know.

00:33:15.480 It truly is bizarre.

00:33:16.480 So this was a story that was actually broken by the True North Centre a couple of weeks ago.

00:33:22.480 And it came as a surprise to me as well.

00:33:26.480 I didn't think that a rich organization like the World Economic Forum, you know, which has all kinds of rich benefactors, needs to be subsidized by taxpayers.

00:33:38.480 And it's not just Canadian taxpayers who helped subsidize the World Economic Forum, it's also taxpayers in Japan, it's taxpayers in the US, you name it, Germany, a bunch of different countries.

00:33:53.480 And it really is perplexing, you know, why do taxpayers have to foot the bill for this annual event?

00:34:06.480 It's, you know, it's problematic optics, in my opinion.

00:34:09.480 Sure, three million dollars is not a whole lot of money.

00:34:13.480 And, you know, you could say it's an insignificant sum of money.

00:34:17.480 But my point is that, you know, this is happening in the context of a very inflationary environment, you know, where, you know, the average Canadian is struggling to make ends meet.

00:34:27.480 And so, you know, and so this is just very problematic for a range of different reasons.

00:34:34.480 Yeah, and it's, you know, three million dollars is not a lot of money in the scheme of the Canadian budget.

00:34:39.480 They waste so much, they waste that much in a matter of seconds.

00:34:42.480 But there's something immoral about it, it feels upside down.

00:34:46.480 This really is the Western meeting place for oligarchs.

00:34:52.480 Like we use the word oligarch as a pejorative to describe the billionaires around Vladimir Putin.

00:34:57.480 OK, I get it. They are shady characters.

00:34:59.480 But what do you call people in the West who are ultra rich and powerful and want to scheme behind the scenes?

00:35:05.480 George Soros, Jeffrey Bezos, Bill Gates.

00:35:08.480 Shouldn't we call them oligarchs too? 0.99

00:35:10.480 That's who Davos is for and about and by.

00:35:13.480 And so the idea that Canada would give even one dollar to the oligarch meeting group.

00:35:20.480 And it's not like this is some international government agency.

00:35:24.480 It's basically Klaus Schwab's company.

00:35:27.480 Yeah. 0.55

00:35:28.480 It's so gross that we're giving them any money.

00:35:30.480 I think it was our finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister Christian Freeland who called them plutocrats.

00:35:37.480 And she went from being, you know, one of their biggest critics to now being an insider.

00:35:44.480 She sits on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.

00:35:48.480 And, you know, again, this is something that I flagged about a year and a half ago.

00:35:54.480 And it was, you know, she's been a member of this board for a few years now.

00:35:59.480 And, you know, I'm not quite sure why, you know, why this is not a bigger issue here in Canada, because the optics, again, once again, don't look good.

00:36:11.480 So she's the only politician on the board of the World Economic Forum.

00:36:18.480 And and I think it's important that we ask why that that is the case.

00:36:23.480 Well, that's a great point.

00:36:24.480 I mean, I know a little bit about Christian Freeland and I did read her book plutocrats.

00:36:28.480 It felt like an attempt of being, you know, I don't know if our viewers remember there was a show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

00:36:36.480 It was by Robin Leach, who would just visit these rich people on yachts.

00:36:41.480 It felt like it was sort of a purient, if I'm saying that word right. 1.00

00:36:45.480 You know, I'm hanging out with billionaires.

00:36:48.480 She was actually George Soros's official biographer before she came back.

00:36:53.480 I think she just loved hanging around rich people.

00:36:56.480 And she would sort of say, oh, I'm not for the super rich.

00:36:59.480 But she was she loved it.

00:37:01.480 And she was working for Soros as a biographer.

00:37:04.480 And I don't understand what value she has to the World Economic Forum other than she's an insider in the Canadian cabinet like she had. 0.61

00:37:17.480 She was, you know, sort of a pop nonfiction author.

00:37:22.480 She had a project at Thomson Reuters that failed spectacularly.

00:37:26.480 I guess what I'm saying is just like Hunter Biden had these contracts in Russia and China and Ukraine, clearly because it was just about his relationship with his dad, Joe Biden.

00:37:36.480 I think Christia Freeland's only use to the World Economic Forum is not her brilliant management or strategic skills.

00:37:43.480 It's that she's plugged right into the Canadian government. 0.93

00:37:46.480 And that scares me because how can you be loyal to two organizations that are sometimes at odds?

00:37:52.480 Well, it's really inappropriate.

00:37:54.480 Well, that is the point, isn't it?

00:37:56.480 You have two different.

00:37:58.480 So you have the national interest, the Canadian national interest, which is what she's supposed to be defending.

00:38:03.480 That's that's that is what she she should be standing up for.

00:38:06.480 And then you have the the interests of the World Economic Forum, which may be at odds with what what is in our national interest.

00:38:13.480 And this this this does present a dilemma.

00:38:17.480 And the World Economic Forum says that, you know, the the the their board of trustees is comprised of people from a range of different backgrounds from the political establishment, from big corporations, from civil society and so on and so forth.

00:38:35.480 But, you know, it still begs the question, why is the only actively serving politician on the board of trustees from Canada?

00:38:44.480 What exactly what purpose is that serving?

00:38:48.480 And and I feel that this this is not getting the attention that it that it deserves.

00:38:54.480 Now, the the World Economic Forum makes it very clear that, you know, the board of trustees don't get any compensation for for for serving on the board.

00:39:03.480 And but they provide guidance.

00:39:07.480 They provide guidance to the organization.

00:39:10.480 But what is that guidance?

00:39:12.480 You know, what does that guidance look like?

00:39:14.480 And is that is that in our national interest?

00:39:18.480 That's the that's the most important question, I think.

00:39:21.480 Yeah. You know, I would think that being finance minister, deputy prime minister, and she seems to be the foreign minister, at least in regards to Ukraine, I would think that sort of takes up someone's time.

00:39:33.480 So I wonder why and how she can make time to serve the interests of a group of oligarchs. 1.00

00:39:40.480 I find it odd. Maybe it's a relationship with George Soros that has carried her over.

00:39:44.480 I don't know. But I'll tell you this.

00:39:46.480 It's very rare that Canadian journalists other than independent sort of even fringe journalists talk about the World Economic Forum.

00:39:54.480 I know that Terry Corcoran of the Financial Post does.

00:39:57.480 But other than him, you mentioned the World Economic Forum and people will hiss at you and say, that's a conspiracy theory.

00:40:04.480 The Great Reset is a conspiracy theory.

00:40:06.480 They don't actually want you to own nothing and be happy, even though each of those faces is their official thing.

00:40:12.480 I don't. It's so weird how in certain polite society, if you even mention the World Economic Forum, they'll call you a crank, even though it's a real thing.

00:40:22.480 We were just there. It's a real thing.

00:40:24.480 Last word to you, Rupa, why is it that no one even is curious?

00:40:28.480 This is a very interesting thing.

00:40:29.480 Even if you like billionaires and oligarchs and secret societies and Klaus Schwab, who is literally the son of a man who moved to Nazi Germany to run a factory.

00:40:40.480 I mean, I'm not blaming him for his father's affiliation with the Nazis, but he's like this classic supervillain, this Klaus Schwab.

00:40:47.480 And he says the craziest things like surely just out of sheer spectacle, journalists would find this curious, but very few even talk about it.

00:40:58.480 Yeah. So, so, Ezra, I don't think we need to, you know, really even have a conspiracy theory here.

00:41:05.480 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:41:06.480 It's all out in the open.

00:41:08.480 Their agenda is out in the open.

00:41:10.480 They they're very clear about where they're coming from, what they want to accomplish.

00:41:15.480 They see themselves as agents of change.

00:41:19.480 They they see themselves as powerful individuals trying to influence governments all across all over the world.

00:41:26.480 Where is the conspiracy here? Right.

00:41:28.480 But ultimately, I think what what what what is important is that does that serve the national interest?

00:41:35.480 That's the question that we should be answering every single time that the World Economic Forum, you know, is a topic of discussion or for that matter,

00:41:43.480 the World Health Organization and the pandemic treaty, which is is, you know, which is as you mentioned, they also met this past week.

00:41:50.480 And the pandemic treaty now is it's it's to be honest with you.

00:41:55.480 I mean, I'm nothing against international treaties.

00:41:57.480 I think they serve they serve a purpose.

00:42:00.480 But with the pandemic treaty, you really have to wonder an organization that got it so wrong on the pandemic.

00:42:07.480 Do we really trust them to come up with this global pandemic treaty to to deal with the next pandemic?

00:42:12.480 I know I I it raises a lot of questions for me and it should it should for a lot of people.

00:42:19.480 Yeah. Well, Rupa, we're so grateful for your column in the National Post.

00:42:23.480 I'm so glad you have that prime journalistic real estate because you're getting the people who who really ought to hear it.

00:42:29.480 And I'm glad they are. Nice to see you again, my friend. Thanks for your time.

00:42:32.480 Thanks so much, Ezra. Right on.

00:42:34.480 There you have a Rupa Supermania, who is a columnist for the National Post, as well as for Nikai Nikkei.

00:42:41.480 Nikai, excuse me, the Asian news agency. Stay with us.

00:42:58.480 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me.

00:43:01.480 Island Jason says Roman never fails to impress me. 0.70

00:43:06.480 Thanks for the great interview.

00:43:08.480 Roman Babber. I really like the guy.

00:43:11.480 And I have to say he was probably the most effective critic of the lockdowns from within government.

00:43:18.480 I really like the the cut of the jib of Randy Hillier. I like how he fights.

00:43:23.480 I like the fact that other MPPs battled Doug Fortu.

00:43:27.480 They were all thrown out.

00:43:28.480 But I think that Roman Babber did the most research.

00:43:31.480 He was the most meticulous, the most authoritative.

00:43:35.480 And really, he was pretty early to it.

00:43:38.480 He was pretty early to it.

00:43:39.480 I think he was sacked in January of 2021.

00:43:42.480 So not even a year into it, he realized things were wrong.

00:43:45.480 Give the guy credit for that.

00:43:47.480 Sebastian says.

00:43:50.480 Most likely, Pierre is going to be the candidate.

00:43:55.480 But I'm hoping Roman becomes an MP and works his way up to be leader.

00:44:02.480 I think it's quite possible that Roman Babber is elected.

00:44:08.480 And it wouldn't surprise me if Pierre Pauliev appoints him to cabinet, especially if Roman

00:44:15.480 Babber wins in his Toronto riding of York Center.

00:44:18.480 I actually happen to live in that riding.

00:44:20.480 And, you know, the conservatives have a tough time in the greater Toronto area.

00:44:25.480 That's a winnable seat.

00:44:27.480 It was held by the conservatives.

00:44:32.480 It was lost to the liberals.

00:44:33.480 I think Roman Babber could could win it back.

00:44:36.480 Ryan F. says Roman is one of the few candidates who kept it 100 during the lockdowns and mandates.

00:44:45.480 Yeah.

00:44:46.480 And he lost his job over it.

00:44:47.480 I mean, he absolutely would have been reelected.

00:44:49.480 And I think he probably would have merited being in cabinet.

00:44:53.480 So I think he did pay a price for speaking out.

00:44:55.480 I'm glad he did.

00:44:56.480 That's a show for the day.

00:44:58.480 That's the end of our week.

00:45:00.480 What a week.

00:45:01.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:45:02.480 We covered so many trials.

00:45:04.480 We covered things in every time zone.

00:45:06.480 Juan Mendoza Diaz was covering the border, was covering the Uvalde shooting, if I'm saying

00:45:12.480 that right.

00:45:13.480 And, of course, we had our team in the World Economic Forum in Davos and then the World

00:45:18.480 Health Organization in Geneva.

00:45:20.480 I think it was actually one of the busiest weeks in the history of Rebel News and one

00:45:25.480 of the most important.

00:45:26.480 I'm very proud of our team.

00:45:27.480 In fact, even last night, we had a documentary premiere in the city of Calgary.

00:45:31.480 A lot going on.

00:45:32.480 I wish I could have been there, but like I said, I can't fly.

00:45:35.480 That's our show.

00:45:36.480 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.

00:45:41.480 Good night.

00:45:42.480 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:45:43.480 And let me leave you with our video of the day from Alexa Lavoie.

00:45:46.480 Quebec City residents share their perspectives on Klaus Schwab.

00:45:51.480 Bye now.

00:45:53.480 Bye now.

00:45:54.480 Bye now.

00:45:55.480 Bye now.

00:45:56.480 Bye now.

00:45:57.480 Bye now.

00:45:58.480 Bye now.

00:46:23.480 davos switzerland it's happening the annual forum of the world economic forum so during this forum

00:46:30.760 they are talking about climate change they are talking about global cooperation technology as

00:46:37.240 well as economy and way more other topic so i'm here today to look if people are know this man

00:46:47.000 claus schwab the president of the world economic forum i i don't have too many remedies the remedies

00:46:54.840 have to be discussed through dialogue by the stakeholders of our global system but um i just

00:47:02.600 see the need for such a dialogue and i see the need for action i see the need for a great reset

00:47:09.160 and i'm here as well to ask them what the sentence of you will own nothing and you will be happy means

00:47:19.400 to them so let's check it out so today i'm asking people uh if they know this man yes who is it uh

00:47:30.760 schwab yeah is that steve cohen no no i don't know who he is who is he claus schwab oh that's schwab okay

00:47:39.560 do you recognize this man nope if i say it's claus schwab do that invoke something charles schwab

00:47:47.640 claus schwab i know i've heard of charles schwab before but nope no and you no i do not

00:47:58.520 no should i i don't know this is a person i'm not sure i know of the world economic forum but not

00:48:08.840 sure about schwab um i'm from ontario no i do not know who this man is i'm actually from

00:48:17.400 i was born in korea and i don't really know this man this man is knowing like all around the world

00:48:23.960 charlie monger no if i see claus schwab of the world economic forum do that mean something

00:48:30.360 the schwab like the bank the founder of the bank is it or but this one is the president of the

00:48:35.960 world economic forum oh i'm sorry i'm young i don't really know about that and so what that

00:48:42.600 sentence means for you if i say you will own nothing and you will be happy

00:48:49.320 it's a lie yeah the more i own the more happier but it's not necessarily true you can be happy with

00:48:56.360 nothing i was before what that sentence means for you oh this is yeah that's very unfortunate to say

00:49:03.560 the least um it's a lot of increase in economic inequality and um you know destroying our lives

00:49:09.880 one step at a time as they have been for the last 40 or 50 years it's not good but more well because

00:49:17.800 you'll never own anything because everything is so expensive but you'll have to come to grips with it

00:49:23.160 and then just be happy in life but it's sad because you won't never own anything yeah you

00:49:29.320 don't need to own things to be happy that seems like a good statement you don't need to own things

00:49:35.080 to be happy like you don't need material goods well i guess if it's saying like if it's demanding that

00:49:41.480 you will own nothing at least from an american standpoint i know that that would make people upset

00:49:47.320 but i think if it's something that you like are making the decision about yourself then

00:49:53.000 it could be a good thing what that sentence means to you you will own nothing and you will be happy

00:49:59.720 what that means to you uh i think i'm sad here thank you come back

00:50:08.040 oh okay you understand it's good good yeah for me see yeah so it's these older white guys that are

00:50:18.200 trying to uh that think that they know what the younger generations need or want and they are

00:50:27.160 trying to organize the future in the way that they see is best fit but i think this guy is affiliated

00:50:34.760 with a lot of uh big or big you know multi multinationals and and um and it's kind of like

00:50:42.280 one big gang that's trying to organize or plan our future in a way that's just uh not in line with

00:50:50.280 the realities of what people are actually living so there's a disconnect i don't think it's such a

00:50:56.360 good thing but do you think it's a good or bad thing uh in terms of as a young as a young generation

00:51:06.120 it'll be good if you don't have anything but you'll more have opportunity to have more in the future

00:51:11.160 right but if you're um that of like my dad like um that of want a family i will be it'll be a little bit

00:51:18.520 more heart heart because you will have to raise your family you know you if you're a mom if you're

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

Rebel News Podcast - May 28, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why do they want a digital ID？

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