Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ World Press Freedom Day came and went, and Canada was an embarrassment

00:00:00.320 Hello, my friends. Today, I'm going to talk about World Press Freedom Day. That was yesterday,

00:00:04.060 actually. But I had a chance to look at who was talking about it and who wasn't and what

00:00:08.700 they were saying about it. And I'm going to do a bit of a reality check. When the government

00:00:12.840 is the one talking about press freedom, that's the time to hold on to your wallet. That's

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00:00:58.580 Tonight, Press Freedom Day came and went and Canada was an embarrassment. It's May 4th

00:01:13.240 and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon

00:01:19.340 consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:24.420 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:29.300 right to do so. Yesterday was Press Freedom Day or Media Freedom Day as it's now being called.

00:01:40.980 Once so little of our media is done on printing presses, that word is archaic. I noticed that

00:01:47.040 most of the people talking about it were government people. In fact, the media itself, the press

00:01:53.020 itself doesn't really seem to care about freedom anymore, certainly not their own independence.

00:01:57.920 I think they gave that up when they took Trudeau's bailout money. In fact, if anything, I think that

00:02:03.600 most of the mainstream media are positively hostile to the idea of press freedom. Here's just one

00:02:09.960 example. I could give you 20. It's a cartoon by, you probably recognize his style, De Adder is his

00:02:16.160 name. He does cartoons for various newspapers in Canada as well as for the Washington Post in

00:02:21.620 the States. And there he is with a cartoon depicting freedom as a dangerous thing, as a trick, as something

00:02:32.820 to be worried about. And this was on the eve of Press Freedom Day that this was published. That,

00:02:37.780 I think, is the typical position of the Canadian media in 2022. They really have been deracinated

00:02:44.400 so completely that the press doesn't speak up for the press. Most of the people yesterday talking

00:02:51.300 about press freedom were from the government. And of course, the government talking about press freedom

00:02:57.740 is like the tax department talking about your wealth or Colonel Sanders talking about chickens.

00:03:04.700 They're the destroyers of your wealth of chickens and of press freedom. You might think, well,

00:03:12.300 that's not true. I mean, corporations are hostile to the media. They may be hostile. But there's no

00:03:17.440 actual danger to, for example, there's no physical danger. There's no danger to life and limb

00:03:23.140 of journalists from the private sector. The entirety of the threat to journalists is from the government.

00:03:31.980 And so to see in Canada, the government posing as the savior of freedom is quite a laugh.

00:03:37.920 There's a group called Reporters Without Borders, a reporter sans frontier, as they're also called.

00:03:44.220 And they have an annual ranking. They say that Canada in the press freedom rankings fell this past

00:03:51.640 year from 14th best in the world to 19th out of 180 countries. And here's their website. They say,

00:03:58.460 while Canada continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to international press freedom protections

00:04:03.800 and practices, there is more room for progress, particularly with regards to press coverage

00:04:08.820 involving the rights of indigenous peoples and land disputes. What? I'm not saying there are no issues

00:04:15.920 about those things. But you've got one sentence to sum up press freedom in Canada. And you're saying

00:04:23.040 that it's tough to cover land disputes? What? I'll read a little bit more. Canada's two largest

00:04:31.460 newspapers, the Globe and Mail and the National Post, circulate widely throughout the country.

00:04:37.640 What? Well, first of all, they're not Canada's largest newspaper. That's the Toronto Star,

00:04:42.300 unfortunately. And the Globe and the Post do not circulate widely. In fact, they pretty much shut down

00:04:49.540 any places in the Atlantic where you can even buy them. Both newspapers are shrinking. I don't even

00:04:55.760 know where this comes from. I'll keep reading. The largest radio and television broadcaster is the

00:05:02.060 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is taxpayer funded, produces two hours of news daily,

00:05:08.060 both local and national, and broadcasts a separate 24-7 news channel. Other media options include local

00:05:13.980 newspapers, cable television, and other online and radio sources. More than 80% of Canadian media is

00:05:20.340 owned by just five corporations. That may be true. Of course, the government has a finger in all of them,

00:05:27.340 or 99% of them, through the bailout. Political context. Media outlets in Canada are generally free

00:05:34.460 of pressure from politicians, political parties, and political movements. The Canadian Broadcasting

00:05:40.000 Corporation is owned by the government, but operates independently. Can you imagine writing that with

00:05:45.000 a straight face? The government has publicly acknowledged that, quote, media freedom remains

00:05:50.300 an important part of democratic societies and essential to the protection of human rights and

00:05:55.220 fundamental freedoms. Well, I'm sure they say that, but then again, so does Cuba and so does Iran.

00:06:02.040 I'll keep reading because it's just such a quirky report. Legal framework. I mean, we've been talking

00:06:07.200 about Bill C-10, now called Bill C-11, Bill C-36, Bill C-18, or I can sum these up by their other

00:06:14.820 names. You know, censorship provisions, government regulating the internet, the online harms provisions.

00:06:22.380 But this is what these folks at Reporters Without Borders talk about. They say,

00:06:27.200 Canada has repeatedly demonstrated a legal commitment to freedom of the press,

00:06:31.820 including shield laws to protect journalists and their sources. However, in a few instances,

00:06:36.360 journalists have been arrested while covering protests, particularly those over indigenous

00:06:41.240 rights and land usage. These arrests demonstrate that more legal protections or better applications

00:06:47.160 of current existing legal protections are necessary for Canadian journalists.

00:06:52.460 Well, again, that may be true. I understand that there were some folks who were arrested at a protest

00:06:57.520 at the Coastal Gas Link. I don't know if they really were journalists or if they were just protesters

00:07:01.780 with cameras. I think everyone should have the same freedom. You know that our own reporters were

00:07:08.460 arrested repeatedly. David Menzies was taken to jail for covering the lockdowns in Montreal. Lincoln Jay,

00:07:15.080 Efron Monsanto, our own Alexa Lavoie was shot in the leg. Yeah, there are problems in Canada,

00:07:22.200 not just, I don't know, this land dispute thing. Sociocultural context. Although the majority of Canadians

00:07:28.260 still say that they have some trust in media institutions, overall trust in media has declined

00:07:33.900 recently in Canada. Social media harassment is a threat to journalists with an online presence that

00:07:39.300 is particularly prevalent against female and minority journalists. So you see what they're doing here is

00:07:46.260 they're saying that talking back, clapping back, arguing back, heckling back to journalists

00:07:51.860 is a threat. Now, if there is an actual criminal threat, then go after it. But this is not actually

00:08:00.480 what press freedom is about. Press freedom is not about the freedom of journalists to say whatever

00:08:06.620 they want, usually smearing people on the right, and then the ability to censor the public from talking

00:08:13.460 back. This is a flawed study. Look at this last one, safety. While journalists are typically safe to do

00:08:20.260 their jobs in Canada, reporters covering the 2022 Freedom Convoy to protest vaccine mandates received

00:08:27.340 death threats, were spat on, and were verbally and physically harassed. The window of a CBC Radio

00:08:33.780 Canada news cruiser was broken. So again, harassment or being heckled is the threat to media freedom.

00:08:45.260 No mention of our own reporters being shot, no mention of our own reporters being shot with a gun.

00:08:48.700 Oh! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! 1.00

00:08:57.780 There you go. You all right? Got shot.

00:09:01.700 I, uh, and it's framed as we need to stop citizens from talking back to journalists. I say again,

00:09:11.140 the threat to journalists, not just now, but throughout history, has not been from private

00:09:17.140 citizens or private companies. It's always been from government. You can see that this rating system

00:09:23.760 is infected with that bias, and they're moving towards journalism is about the elites being able to

00:09:30.620 speak with no populist clapback. This is a completely flawed state. Let me tell you the real state of

00:09:38.820 journalism. I want to tell you eight examples of how press freedom is being infringed, not from people

00:09:45.000 heckling us or being mean to us, but by the government. And these eight examples are just

00:09:49.940 rebel news examples. Example number one, our friend David Menzies was beat up by

00:09:54.920 Justin Trudeau's personal bodyguards. Remember this?

00:09:57.680 It means a lot of paperwork for me.

00:10:00.100 Yeah!

00:10:01.100 I don't know. Stay back. Stay back.

00:10:05.040 What are you doing? What are you doing? Get off me. 0.55

00:10:10.040 Hey, I can. Hey, this is assault. I'm on a sidewalk. What is this? I'm on a sidewalk.

00:10:18.680 I'm on a sidewalk. I'm on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot touch me. No bushing working.

00:10:26.860 It's me.

00:10:28.860 I'm on a sidewalk. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? I told you. What is this? You can't. Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Because otherwise you have no right.

00:10:46.680 You have no right.

00:11:08.680 Get off of me.

00:11:09.640 Guys, relax.

00:11:17.500 You don't think that's worth mentioning?

00:11:19.700 That the prime minister's personal bodyguards beat up our journalists and just threw them down and said, you can go, no charges.

00:11:26.100 You don't think that's worth mentioning?

00:11:28.600 Here's a second example.

00:11:29.820 Maybe this can get your attention.

00:11:31.060 You were talking about the trucker convoy.

00:11:32.940 Alexa Lavoie shot in the leg.

00:11:34.280 What are you doing?

00:11:35.740 What are you doing?

00:11:36.700 Hold him.

00:11:37.660 Stop him.

00:11:38.560 Stop him.

00:11:39.220 Stop him.

00:11:40.260 Stop him.

00:11:41.000 Stop him.

00:11:42.040 Stop him.

00:11:42.540 Stop him.

00:11:44.780 Stop him.

00:11:45.420 Stop him.

00:11:45.820 Stop him.

00:11:47.460 You just tried to throw this.

00:11:49.580 You just tried to throw this.

00:11:50.800 Stop him.

00:11:51.440 Stop him.

00:11:52.300 Stop him.

00:11:53.800 Ow. 0.99

00:11:54.840 Ow. 0.99

00:11:56.060 Ow. 0.99

00:11:57.560 Ow. 0.99

00:11:59.380 You all right?

00:12:01.040 Got shot.

00:12:03.280 Take care.

00:12:04.680 Bring her out. 1.00

00:12:05.280 Bring her out. 1.00

00:12:05.820 Come on.

00:12:06.860 Oh my God.

00:12:09.400 Yeah.

00:12:11.620 Oh.

00:12:13.300 Have you seen that covered literally anywhere?

00:12:15.580 I'm not talking about this reporter's ranking now, which is pretty clearly flawed.

00:12:21.000 But did you actually see any coverage of Alexa being shot in the leg by any other mainstream media?

00:12:27.160 CBC, CTV, Global, any of the newspapers?

00:12:31.080 Do you think that's odd?

00:12:31.960 I don't know if you know this, but I am still to this day being prosecuted by Elections Canada for publishing the book The Libranos.

00:12:40.720 Still to this day.

00:12:41.640 In fact, we're in the federal court right now.

00:12:43.860 That's example number three.

00:12:45.720 Example number four affects some of our journalists, including me.

00:12:49.480 Sheila Gunn-Reed was blocked from the Environment Canada-run Twitter account of Catherine McKenna when she was still environment minister.

00:12:57.340 And I've been blocked by Stephen Gilboa.

00:13:00.280 I'm not talking about their personal accounts.

00:13:01.960 I'm saying they turned off the government Twitter feeds for me.

00:13:06.280 They blocked me.

00:13:07.480 I'm not talking about what Stephen Gilboa does as a liberal or what Stephen Gilboa does in his personal life.

00:13:12.680 The government-run, government-owned account that broadcasts news and announcements by the ministry, by the department, has blocked Rebel News in the person of me and Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:13:26.080 If they can turn off that service, they can turn off anything to you.

00:13:29.780 They can ban you from anything.

00:13:32.100 This is a punishment because we ask difficult questions.

00:13:36.520 Example number five.

00:13:37.440 The most obvious one, banning journalists from attending press conferences.

00:13:43.200 Here's a blast from the past couple years back.

00:13:45.900 Kian Bexty, our alumnus, being physically frog-marched out of the prime minister's press conference because he, not that he did anything wrong.

00:13:55.720 He just had the wrong point of view.

00:13:56.960 Remember this?

00:13:58.900 Are you going to arrest me?

00:14:00.360 I'm going to escort you out.

00:14:01.540 So he's not arresting me.

00:14:02.560 Okay, let's go.

00:14:03.600 Don't touch me.

00:14:04.340 I will.

00:14:07.440 This is Ottawa, Canada, 2020, when Justin Trudeau is having his RCMP throw out a journalist for no reason, because I wouldn't show him my phone.

00:14:22.860 I wouldn't show him what pictures I've taken.

00:14:27.260 You're twisting my arm harder.

00:14:28.700 Well, that was just a warm-up.

00:14:31.960 Of course, Trudeau has twice now banned Rebel News reporters from election debates.

00:14:37.780 And twice now, we've gone to federal court.

00:14:40.440 Twice now, the courts have sided with us.

00:14:42.380 But look at how petulant he was when our reporters were ordered in by virtue of the court.

00:14:47.800 Look what he said to Alexa Lavoie, who asked, I think, one of the best questions in the last debate.

00:14:52.200 Remember this?

00:14:52.600 Bonjour, M. Trudeau.

00:14:53.440 Alexandra, pour Rebel News.

00:14:55.260 Donc, M. Trudeau, je vais revenir rapidement sur ce qui s'est passé hier.

00:14:59.380 Vous avez déabolisé l'un des rares médias qui ne reçoit pas d'argent du gouvernement.

00:15:05.120 Vous avez exprimé votre opinion en disant que nous propageons la désinformation.

00:15:10.840 Si c'était vrai et si c'était le cas, la Cour fédérale ne nous aurait pas permis d'être ici aujourd'hui.

00:15:17.180 Je suis moi-même scientifique et je me base sur les faits.

00:15:20.640 Ma question est la suivante.

00:15:23.440 L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.

00:15:27.780 Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.

00:15:31.340 Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.

00:15:37.480 Ma question est, plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.

00:15:45.980 Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au passeport vaccinal?

00:15:54.540 Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre?

00:15:59.900 Ou allez-vous encore déaboliser mon média?

00:16:02.380 J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir. J'ai pu rien dire.

00:16:09.560 Ça demande bien qui vous faisait. Merci.

00:16:11.240 So that's all old news.

00:16:13.400 But I mentioned new legal developments because that ranking of Canada didn't have anything to say.

00:16:20.160 C-11 is a new bill that used to be called C-10.

00:16:23.800 And C-11 has introduced a requirement that tech companies like Google and Facebook change their algorithms to suit the government's tastes.

00:16:37.160 So, I mean, I'm furious and frustrated all the time with the algorithms that suppress conservative views and promote liberal views that the tech companies do on their own.

00:16:46.400 But now C-11 commands those companies to follow Justin Trudeau's whims.

00:16:52.740 And the eighth one, I'm not sure if it goes to journalistic freedom, but it goes to something about journalism, is that Canadian governments, not just the feds, provincially too, routinely violate access to information laws.

00:17:06.600 You know, some of our access to information requests about Trudeau have been delayed six years.

00:17:12.620 For years. Now, we'll wait them out, but the thing is, once we finally get them and they're heavily redacted, they're, you know, the story has gone.

00:17:23.700 The news has gone. The government gets away with it.

00:17:26.200 So that, I give you that as the background.

00:17:28.840 Even this weird and wacky international rating system that clearly doesn't know what's going on in Canada.

00:17:34.100 Even they say Canada has fallen four places in the world.

00:17:38.740 But I put it to you, they're not even familiar with half the terrible things that's going on in this country.

00:17:42.280 It's really weird.

00:17:43.500 And that's why the government gaslighting on Press Freedom Day is so gross.

00:17:47.920 Like I say, the private sector doesn't care about press freedom anymore because they've sold out to Trudeau.

00:17:52.840 Like the CBC, CTV, well, I guess CBC's not the private sector.

00:17:56.560 But all the newspapers have sold out so they don't talk about it.

00:17:59.180 But take a look at this.

00:18:00.460 This is from Chrystia Freeland.

00:18:03.940 Democracy depends on a vibrant free press.

00:18:06.940 Yet today around the world, journalists face attacks, persecution, and violence for doing their job.

00:18:12.020 To support our democracies, we need to support our journalists.

00:18:15.200 World Press Freedom Day.

00:18:17.340 You know, Chrystia Freeland talks a lot about foreign journalists. 0.99

00:18:21.700 But she doesn't respect domestic Canadian journalists, which is actually her job.

00:18:27.500 You know, it's funny.

00:18:28.360 She's obsessed with Ukraine, and I can understand that. 0.81

00:18:30.360 She's Ukrainian by heritage.

00:18:32.340 And it is an important news story.

00:18:34.780 But her friend, Vladimir Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has arrested reporters for criticizing the government.

00:18:42.540 I don't think that she is even handed about it.

00:18:44.760 But I really don't care about Chrystia Freeland's views about Ukraine.

00:18:47.820 I care about her views about Canada.

00:18:49.300 I just think it's very strange.

00:18:53.360 And she herself, I want to give you a little flashback.

00:18:56.920 I don't know if you remember.

00:18:58.040 A few years ago, before the pandemic, Sheila and I traveled with Andrew Lawton of True North to London, England, where Canada was co-hosting a media freedom conference with the British government.

00:19:07.820 And Chrystia Freeland was there.

00:19:09.200 So we're at a media freedom conference on media freedom day.

00:19:14.120 And Freeland just gave a speech.

00:19:16.340 And she was going to have a press conference.

00:19:18.880 And Sheila and Andrew Lawton were there.

00:19:21.280 And Chrystia Freeland said, you can't come into the press conference at a media freedom conference.

00:19:28.060 Now, incredibly, in what may be the only time this ever happened, the rest of the press corps said, well, if they're not allowed, we're not going.

00:19:34.180 Obviously, these were not your Ottawa, Toronto, you know, mean girls.

00:19:38.300 These were, you know, European-based journalists in the main.

00:19:42.080 But here, take a look at this.

00:19:43.240 This is how that went down.

00:19:44.280 This is Sheila.

00:19:44.720 I'm going to play an extended clip.

00:19:46.120 Here's Sheila, who was denied access to Chrystia Freeland's event. 1.00

00:19:51.280 Um, Glover Mail, um, Global, um, CTD, Altaxera, CDC, and the National Conference.

00:20:01.300 What about the rest?

00:20:02.480 The rest of us?

00:20:04.540 No, I think we all go.

00:20:06.000 No, no.

00:20:06.180 That's nonsense.

00:20:06.900 No, no, no, no.

00:20:07.440 That is nonsense.

00:20:07.940 We all go.

00:20:08.980 That's, let's take us to the room.

00:20:11.060 And we can see if we can.

00:20:11.720 No, we're not going, Brittany.

00:20:12.620 We're just not.

00:20:13.240 We're all going.

00:20:13.720 This is a media freedom conference.

00:20:15.020 Yeah, this is ridiculous.

00:20:15.880 We just don't do that.

00:20:16.660 Yeah, we're not going then.

00:20:17.660 Yeah, if you're at a media freedom conference that you co-sponsor, and you're not willing

00:20:22.560 to walk the walk there, I'm guessing you don't actually believe in it.

00:20:26.220 Now, here's Trudeau's heritage minister, who took over from Stephen Goodwill.

00:20:30.520 This is Pablo Rodriguez.

00:20:33.680 He's thanking a room of journalists on World Press Freedom Day, and he says that they're

00:20:38.660 the front line of fighting disinformation.

00:20:42.120 The society, not the government, the society needs you.

00:20:46.720 Take a look at the clip.

00:20:48.820 So, I also want to recognize the incredible work that you guys, the journalists, have done

00:20:53.520 in Canada through the last, over the past two years, from keeping Canadians up to date

00:20:58.660 on the pandemic, to providing on-the-ground coverage of the war in Ukraine, even keeping

00:21:06.480 Canadians in formats going on at their local city hall, which is fundamental for our communities,

00:21:11.040 for different regions.

00:21:13.560 So, all of this is essential.

00:21:15.380 And you are the front line of fighting disinformation.

00:21:19.140 We need you.

00:21:20.460 The society, not the government, the society needs you.

00:21:24.140 Now, that's not actually the purpose of journalists.

00:21:27.200 The purpose of journalists is not to critique other journalists.

00:21:33.040 I mean, you can do that.

00:21:34.020 I mean, it's, I do that.

00:21:35.220 It's sort of fun.

00:21:35.860 But the purpose of journalists is to find the truth.

00:21:38.940 And one of the important democratic functions of journalists is to hold the government to

00:21:42.740 account.

00:21:43.920 They're a kind of official opposition, but they can be more free.

00:21:47.860 They can be more rambunctious than a political party.

00:21:50.420 I mean, the official opposition of the country is a political party that typically minds their

00:21:54.360 P's and Q's. 0.86

00:21:55.100 And there's certain things any political party doesn't want to talk about because they're

00:21:57.920 trying to get votes.

00:21:59.180 Whereas journalists can be freer.

00:22:00.700 They don't have to win an election.

00:22:02.380 They don't have to worry about not saying certain politically incorrect things.

00:22:07.120 So you can see that Pablo Rodriguez says that journalists, he doesn't say your job is to

00:22:12.820 hold government to account.

00:22:14.340 Why would he say such a thing?

00:22:15.940 He says their job is to fight disinformation, which really means he thinks their job is to

00:22:20.920 criticize the critics, to go after his opponents.

00:22:24.020 And he was talking to a room full of journalists, every single one of whom was on his payroll.

00:22:32.620 That's the thing about this QCJO journalism license that they're denying to us.

00:22:38.060 Without that government journalism license, you're not allowed into federal government

00:22:41.420 events.

00:22:41.720 You're just not.

00:22:43.020 So every single journalist in that room was on his own payroll when he was thanking them.

00:22:48.040 In fact, I don't know if you remember this story.

00:22:50.280 A few weeks back, obviously, it's from Black Locks, great people.

00:22:53.140 Government grateful for coverage.

00:22:55.320 Let me read a bit.

00:22:57.400 Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is promising more media subsidies after thanking reporters

00:23:02.420 for their Freedom Convoy coverage.

00:23:05.360 Look at the role that the journalists played, said Rodriguez.

00:23:08.580 I think there are even more things we should be able to do, said Rodriguez.

00:23:12.620 We're looking into that in the context of supporting the whole ecosystem.

00:23:17.480 Rodriguez made his remarks in a webinar hosted by Canada 2020, an Ottawa think tank affiliated

00:23:22.740 with the Liberal Party.

00:23:24.160 Canada 2020's executive chair is a past president of the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:23:28.880 Invited guests at the webinar entitled The Future of News included executives with the Toronto Star

00:23:33.960 and other federally subsidized media like The Logic and The Narwhal.

00:23:38.200 None of the participants reported on his remarks.

00:23:41.800 Isn't that amazing?

00:23:42.740 That's the funny thing is that when you're taking millions and then cumulatively billions

00:23:49.060 of dollars from Trudeau for your media company, you're probably not going to report that to

00:23:53.860 your own viewers.

00:23:54.720 You become complicit in it.

00:23:56.700 You're on Team Trudeau keeping things on the lowdown.

00:24:00.440 Remember when $61 million was given out in a rush by Trudeau before the last election?

00:24:05.560 Not a single one of the recipients reported on that.

00:24:08.640 It was us and one other independent news agency that did.

00:24:12.920 Pablo Rodriguez, Christia Freeland, they're atrocious, but Trudeau himself is obviously

00:24:18.660 the worst.

00:24:20.020 Here's what he said on Twitter.

00:24:21.640 What a laugh.

00:24:23.940 To journalists across the country and around the world, thank you for your relentless pursuit

00:24:28.080 of the truth and for your commitment to sharing those truths.

00:24:31.360 Today we celebrate your work and we pay tribute to your colleagues who have been injured

00:24:35.220 who lost their lives on the job.

00:24:37.500 I don't think any Canadian journalist lost their lives on the job.

00:24:40.860 I don't know any who were injured other than our own reporters who were assaulted by his

00:24:44.780 goons. 0.75

00:24:45.800 But at least he did talk about finding the truth.

00:24:48.620 But he put out a larger press release.

00:24:50.220 I'm going to go through most of it with you.

00:24:51.780 I want to show you the doublespeak.

00:24:53.880 And this goes to my earlier point.

00:24:56.440 The government really shouldn't be talking about press freedom.

00:24:59.880 The government is the mortician for press freedom.

00:25:04.860 The government is the antithesis.

00:25:06.300 It's the enemy of press freedom.

00:25:08.420 But the only thing our press these days have to say is that freedom isn't good anymore.

00:25:12.060 Here, let me read.

00:25:12.720 The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on World Press Freedom

00:25:17.620 Day.

00:25:18.900 Today on World Press Freedom Day, we honor the many journalists here in Canada and around

00:25:23.100 the world who work tirelessly to seek out and report on the truth.

00:25:26.240 We also reaffirm our longstanding commitment to the freedom of the press, a foundational

00:25:30.720 pillar of our democracy, and recognize who have been injured or lost their lives defending

00:25:35.480 freedom of the press.

00:25:36.700 While Canada enjoys a strong and free press, we know that this is not the case everywhere.

00:25:41.420 Many journalists face censorship, intimidation, violence, imprisonment, and false arrests.

00:25:47.060 This year alone, many journalists were killed and hundreds imprisoned in the line of duty

00:25:52.080 around the world.

00:25:52.780 So this serves as a reminder that we must continue to advocate for journalists and for a strong

00:25:57.600 and free press.

00:26:00.340 But like I've told you several times today, our journalists have been jailed.

00:26:04.220 Our journalists have been shot.

00:26:05.360 Our journalists have been arrested.

00:26:06.840 Our journalists have been frog-marched out of federal events.

00:26:09.140 Our journalists have had to go to court to get in.

00:26:11.400 Our journalists, once they were given in by the courts, were condemned by Trudeau.

00:26:14.460 How can he say these?

00:26:15.780 How can you be such a sociopath that you know what you've done?

00:26:18.980 You're active in persecuting and denying rebel news, and yet you claim to be a champion

00:26:23.980 of free journalism against censorship.

00:26:26.820 Oh, but he loves to beat up on Russia. 0.97

00:26:30.480 As Russia continues its illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, we thank the reporters 0.95

00:26:36.280 on the front lines who are risking their lives to deliver accurate information to the world

00:26:40.500 in the age of disinformation and misinformation.

00:26:44.380 Independent fact-based reporting is vital.

00:26:47.220 We must all come together to support the work of journalists and double down in the fight

00:26:51.080 against disinformation.

00:26:52.840 Again, what's the disinformation thing?

00:26:54.620 It's a war over there.

00:26:55.580 So there's disinformation on both sides.

00:26:57.800 I mean, that whole ghost of Kiev thing was, you know, obviously a myth.

00:27:03.040 Truth, you know, it's war.

00:27:06.160 Truth is the first casualty in a war.

00:27:09.080 And again, I'm more interested in what he thinks about journalism and freedom here in

00:27:13.160 Canada.

00:27:14.420 But look at his obsession with misinformation and disinformation.

00:27:19.040 One man's misinformation and disinformation is another man's talkback.

00:27:23.220 And everything here from all of these politicians and from the Reporters Without Borders group itself is focused on protect elite speech, demonize critical speech.

00:27:36.660 Protect speech that praises the government, demonize the opposition as disinformation.

00:27:42.760 Let me read a little more.

00:27:44.680 The government of Canada is supporting media freedom at home and abroad.

00:27:48.380 As co-chair of the Media Freedom Coalition and as 2022 chair of the Freedom Online Coalition, Canada is working with international partners to defend media freedom.

00:27:57.940 We're also addressing the challenges and the spread of disinformation online by giving people the tools to recognize disinformation and working to build a healthy information ecosystem, including through the Digital Citizen Initiative and new investments in Budget 2022 to fight disinformation.

00:28:12.140 Canada is also providing $13.4 million over five years to bolster the G7 rapid response mechanism, which strengthens coordination between countries in identifying and responding to foreign threats to democracy, including state-sponsored disinformation.

00:28:28.140 Well, he should know.

00:28:30.160 It's not journalism that he's supporting.

00:28:32.520 That's anti-journalism.

00:28:34.040 That's government criticizing journalists.

00:28:37.220 That's government vetting journalists.

00:28:39.800 It's not the government's place to vet journalists.

00:28:41.400 It's a journalist's place to vet governments.

00:28:44.640 It's incredible how he can say these things.

00:28:47.740 I remind you that short weeks ago, only after an access to information request was made by Professor Michael Geist, did we see the hundreds of submissions by not only the public, but by experts in the industry in response to Trudeau's online plans.

00:29:02.800 You might remember that Twitter said the only other place they've seen this kind of censorship is in places like China, North Korea, and Iran.

00:29:10.320 How perverse is it that Justin Trudeau, who is bringing in North Korean-style censorship, is the chair of some international freedom group for the Internet?

00:29:21.080 Obviously, the whole thing is corrupted.

00:29:22.760 You know, I think the fact that Justin Trudeau and Christian Freeland and Pablo Rodriguez did more talking about Media Freedom Day than the journalists and the journalist organizations tells you a lot.

00:29:36.300 But what they said and what they're getting away with, my friends, I think this is going to be the battle for the years ahead.

00:29:44.200 The pandemic was their template. 0.92

00:29:47.300 It gave them the excuse to censor in the name of public health.

00:29:50.940 But they're just getting started.

00:29:53.700 I think the biggest battles are going to come.

00:29:56.380 Stay with us for more.

00:30:10.120 Well, look, we have here, it's our friend Sheila Gunnery, our chief reporter and managing editor here at our World High Court Central.

00:30:14.940 Good to see you.

00:30:15.920 Thanks for having me, boss.

00:30:16.880 Well, it's nice to have you in town.

00:30:18.380 You're in town for the Democracy Fund Student Journalism Conference that Rebel News is co-sponsoring with True North.

00:30:25.240 That's a great tag team right there. 0.99

00:30:27.020 Why don't you give us two minutes on that?

00:30:28.920 So we have journalists, young journalists, citizen journalists from all across the country coming in to the Student Journalism Conference,

00:30:35.980 where hopefully we will be able to arm them with the skills they need to do citizen journalism.

00:30:41.880 And one of the things that I aim to teach them is practical skills that we didn't really have the opportunity to teach me when I started at the company.

00:30:51.880 So, you know, of course, part of my role here at Rebel News is to onboard the new journalists, bring them up to speed with our systems,

00:30:58.720 but also teach them how to do things efficiently and quickly and often alone.

00:31:05.980 You know, back in the before times when we used to travel internationally, I would put all my equipment in a backpack and go across the world and cover a UN conference or to cover a protest alone.

00:31:17.680 And we can do that efficiently.

00:31:21.140 And it's one of the best ways for student journalists and citizen journalists to tell the other side of the story,

00:31:25.680 because you roll up to these protests and you see CBC with their three satellite trucks, their chase producer, their sound guy, a cameraman,

00:31:34.100 the on-camera journalist and a guy holding a sheet of tinfoil.

00:31:37.320 And it doesn't have to be that way.

00:31:39.900 And that's what I hope to teach them.

00:31:41.900 You know, and Rebel News has grown over the years, and sometimes we have cameramen plus a journalist.

00:31:47.240 It feels like a luxury.

00:31:48.600 But in the early days, it was, you know, Rebel, part of the rebellion inherent in the name is rebelling against that high cost, you know, bloated model that was sinking the industry.

00:32:01.360 I mean, when I came from Sun News Network, there were 10 people that worked on my show.

00:32:06.680 And it was not much longer or more intense than the show I do here.

00:32:10.420 In the control room, they had five people.

00:32:12.580 We have one person here.

00:32:14.320 So being cheap and cheerful and running around, it's even easier now with, I mean, every cell phone these days has amazing, an amazing camera.

00:32:22.920 And you can even edit it right on your phone.

00:32:24.740 Those are great practical tips these kids are going to learn.

00:32:27.280 Yeah, I hope so.

00:32:28.020 And, you know, part of the point of being a citizen journalist is that there really is no huge financial commitment to entry into doing journalism.

00:32:40.160 Because it's not, it's a thing you do.

00:32:43.040 It's not a guild you join.

00:32:44.660 That's what the government's trying to do.

00:32:45.900 They're trying to put up a barrier to entry, this QCJO, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization journalism license.

00:32:52.740 That's exactly a barrier to entry.

00:32:54.900 They hate the fact that just any old nobody with a cell phone is a journalist these days.

00:32:59.820 They despise it.

00:33:01.000 And half the talk about disinformation and misinformation is just a way for the official corporate media to crush any new contenders.

00:33:09.740 Yeah.

00:33:09.940 And, you know, we're seeing it today.

00:33:11.500 I saw a story that came out, I think it was in the Ottawa Citizen, about Justin Trudeau using military planes to surveil the convoy.

00:33:25.040 And what's the first thing Justin Trudeau did when he was asked about it in the House of Commons today?

00:33:29.140 He cried misinformation and disinformation.

00:33:31.680 So a year ago, two years ago, we heard science denier or vaccine denier.

00:33:38.460 That was the shut up.

00:33:39.620 Before that, it was racism.

00:33:41.740 You're a racist.

00:33:42.420 That's the shut up.

00:33:43.560 Now the new shut up is disinformation, misinformation.

00:33:47.220 Yeah, you're exactly right.

00:33:48.160 And the reason that's powerful is because they'll get the tech companies to ban you.

00:33:53.080 You know, science denier.

00:33:54.380 OK, well, that's a point of view.

00:33:55.580 But no, no, this is this is some sort of evil words, some dangerous words.

00:34:00.720 It's not just wrong words.

00:34:02.300 They're dangerous.

00:34:03.560 And the words themselves have to be deplatformed.

00:34:06.400 I'm excited about these kids that are coming from all across the country and a couple of kids who cannot fly because there's no fly list are joining via Zoom.

00:34:13.540 And half the content is going to be how to be a journalist.

00:34:19.640 Half is going to be on civil liberties and freedom.

00:34:22.700 And I think that's important.

00:34:23.660 I have this dream that if this student journalism conference goes every year, you know, 20 or 25 kids a year for 10 years, you put through 200 kids, 250 kids over a decade, maybe only 10 of them get really involved full time as journalists.

00:34:39.300 But you've created a crop of truth speaking citizen journalists.

00:34:43.440 I'm very hopeful that they can be an antidote.

00:34:46.380 I know there are thousands of state journalists and corporate journalists, but to have a sense of connection and camaraderie and networking and community, I think it's hopeful.

00:34:55.660 I think it's exciting.

00:34:56.640 Yeah.

00:34:56.860 And, you know, when you think about the impact that our journalists have had here at Rebel News, if you and, you know, on some days there are only 10 journalists working out in the field.

00:35:07.280 So, you know, to find and do like a talent ID camp or an ID camp of journalists this way, think about the impact that that can make when you have double the size of Rebel News journalists out there in the world who care about civil liberties and who have the tangible skills and the fearlessness to not only take on the story, but also take on their critics.

00:35:27.940 Yeah. And that's the worst case scenario of only one a year out of these kids full time.

00:35:32.580 I mean, I did a student journalism conference back in 2014, so long ago, and I see the alumni still.

00:35:40.180 I mean, one of them is Raquel Dancho, the MP, the conservative MP for Winnipeg, was quite good.

00:35:47.280 And you could tell she was good even back then.

00:35:49.380 And so just to help give some speed and direction to these young folks, I think good things have come from.

00:35:55.860 Well, I'm really glad you're there flying the flag for Rebel News.

00:35:58.860 And I know True North has some folks there, too.

00:36:01.040 I'm going to pop by myself.

00:36:02.820 Dave Rubin is joining via Zoom.

00:36:04.540 I think it's going to be Robbie Picard.

00:36:06.300 Yep.

00:36:06.480 So there's going to be a great lineup.

00:36:09.020 Hey, I want to just ask you a little bit more about Press Freedom Day.

00:36:13.640 It really irks me that that day has been colonized by the censors, that Christy Freeland and Justin Trudeau, who are leading the world's worst, the free world's worst censorship campaign, that Twitter has compared to North Korea's, that they are calling themselves the free speech people, the free press people.

00:36:33.820 And no one's really calling them on it.

00:36:35.660 Yeah, you know, it's funny how the liberals conflate defending free speech with giving journalists money.

00:36:43.400 Those two are not the same thing.

00:36:45.300 But for some reason, Justin Trudeau, but not just Justin Trudeau, the mainstream media also thinks that that's the same thing, too.

00:36:52.280 It's actually the opposite.

00:36:54.220 It's colonizing the media with your thought, with your viewpoint.

00:36:59.440 You know, I wrote it up for the website the other day where Justin Trudeau has overseen one of the most drastic declines in press freedom in the free world.

00:37:09.360 And I went back and looked at where Stephen Harper sat on this issue in his last year in office.

00:37:15.360 Canada was at number eight.

00:37:17.040 And I remember 2015, although it seemed so long ago, the media could not shut up about the stranglehold that Stephen Harper had on his party and on information, how poorly he treated journalists.

00:37:29.840 But Canada right now, even though, you know, the rankings are a bit funky and skewed and they don't make a lot of sense.

00:37:37.080 But even by their metrics, their left wing metrics, we've plummeted to 19.

00:37:41.700 Yeah.

00:37:41.980 I mean, the things they said about Donald Trump being a fascist.

00:37:46.200 I mean, it's just.

00:37:46.700 Give me a break.

00:37:46.940 Yeah.

00:37:47.800 Oh, my God.

00:37:48.600 Well, listen, I'm proud of the rebel and you're a chief reporter.

00:37:51.680 I'm delighted to have you out here.

00:37:53.200 And every time you come out here, it's a little bit different.

00:37:55.340 We have new folks.

00:37:56.200 I mean, we've had to rearrange some of the desks just to jam more people in here.

00:38:00.440 It's sort of fun.

00:38:01.240 It's great to see you, Sheila.

00:38:02.200 Thanks, boss.

00:38:02.760 All right.

00:38:03.020 There you have it.

00:38:03.420 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.

00:38:04.640 Stay with us.

00:38:05.160 Your letters to me, including a comment about my scruff.

00:38:08.500 That's next.

00:38:18.600 Hey, welcome back.

00:38:21.160 Your feedback.

00:38:21.820 Neil Thompson says, wow, all of a sudden, the definition of a woman is now clear.

00:38:26.580 Yeah, you're exactly right.

00:38:28.200 I saw Gavin Newsom saying, well, if men could get pregnant, this, you know, abortion would

00:38:32.340 be a sacrament.

00:38:33.100 Hang on.

00:38:33.420 I thought you said men could get pregnant. 0.84

00:38:37.000 Ray Banites 432 says, there are bigger problems to worry about.

00:38:41.560 This is just another political distraction to get the left proactive again.

00:38:44.980 I think there's some truth to that.

00:38:46.040 But it's incredible to see the entire Canadian political establishment jump on this.

00:38:51.000 We will defend the right to abortion in Canada.

00:38:54.280 The right to abortion in Canada is actually the most liberal in the world.

00:38:57.080 There are no limits on it whatsoever from the moment of conception to literally the moment

00:39:01.520 of birth.

00:39:01.920 And it's government subsidized to boot.

00:39:04.260 You can get a sex-select abortion because you don't like baby girls. 1.00

00:39:08.460 If there was ever a genetic test for if there was a gay gene, you could in Canada legally get 1.00

00:39:14.280 an abortion to abort a gay baby. 0.95

00:39:16.640 That's why there are groups like Gays for Life worried about that.

00:39:20.000 If you can get an abortion for any reason or no reason, that could be used for eugenics. 0.99

00:39:25.440 I mean, that is the state of law in Canada.

00:39:27.480 What was funny is Trudeau and his cabinet were talking about how they were going to let Americans

00:39:31.620 come to Canada for abortions.

00:39:33.120 Now, obviously, that's perfectly legal.

00:39:35.300 Just like Canadians go down to the Mayo Clinic for medical treatment. 1.00

00:39:40.640 It was just a PR stunt.

00:39:43.720 But it made me think, besides the fact that now Americans get to get in our waiting lines

00:39:49.760 for health care up here, they could probably buy their way to the front.

00:39:52.100 I thought, I wish they cared enough about my freedom of mobility as a Canadian, as they

00:39:58.460 do about Americans.

00:40:00.340 I mean, I know it's just a PR stunt.

00:40:01.920 I mean, Americans can come up here for any reason.

00:40:04.400 They can get an abortion up here if they want. 1.00

00:40:06.520 Of course, it's nothing new.

00:40:08.400 But again, they're just so blind.

00:40:11.600 They have millions of Canadians on a no-fly list because we're not vaxxed, our personal

00:40:16.880 health choice.

00:40:18.260 And yet they're rolling up the red carpet for Americans' personal health choice to fly

00:40:22.480 across the borders.

00:40:23.520 That's the real question.

00:40:24.580 Would they allow an unvaxxed American woman to come up to Canada for an abortion? 1.00

00:40:28.820 That would test Trudeau's commitment to freedom of choice, wouldn't it?

00:40:33.500 Theo says, imagine my surprise to see the Ezra LeVant show being guest hosted by Grizzly

00:40:38.660 Adams.

00:40:39.120 Yikes! 1.00

00:40:39.740 I had to go back to the intro and listen to the now famous, it's my bloody right to do

00:40:43.580 so, a couple of times to match the voice and make sure it was really Ezra after all.

00:40:48.780 You know, I am trying to grow a beard.

00:40:51.440 I'm about three weeks into it.

00:40:52.740 I'm obviously failing.

00:40:54.180 It looks like I just forgot to shave or something.

00:40:56.500 I obviously lack the manpower to grow a beard.

00:41:01.080 I think I'm going to try for about like another week.

00:41:03.860 And if I don't have more success, I'm going to go back to my soft as a baby's bottom cheeks.

00:41:09.340 I just, you know what?

00:41:10.240 I remember why I haven't tried growing a beard since I was 20.

00:41:13.520 I just can't do it.

00:41:15.040 So thanks for only being very gentle in your jokes.

00:41:19.180 My friends, that's the show for today.

00:41:20.540 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:41:24.140 good night.

00:41:24.460 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:41:26.160 And let me leave you with our video of the day.

00:41:27.760 Our friend David Menzies.

00:41:29.940 It's the director's cut of the no more comments lady, who I think was dressed up as a witch. 1.00

00:41:36.260 I'm not sure.

00:41:36.980 Anyways, I'll leave you with that.

00:41:37.960 See you tomorrow.

00:41:41.240 Sunny day, eh?

00:41:45.340 Hi, ma'am.

00:41:46.780 Your son says, convoy, go home with peace symbols on it.

00:41:49.860 What does that mean?

00:41:50.480 It means peaceful protest.

00:41:53.140 If you're going to protest something as nebulous as freedom, then you can't encroach on others.

00:41:59.300 I'm not sure I understand.

00:42:00.260 Is nebulous as freedom?

00:42:01.440 The concept of a nebulous freedom.

00:42:04.660 They don't have a specific title, a specific reason for being here.

00:42:12.200 They're all over the place.

00:42:13.700 And all they're doing is suppressing Ottawa residents, Ottawa businesses.

00:42:17.740 We are being harassed and held hostage for their supposed approachments on freedom.

00:42:26.360 What does a single f***ing white man have to say to anybody about a bodily autonomy freedoms?

00:42:33.200 I'm not sure what race has to do with this.

00:42:35.260 I didn't say anything about race.

00:42:37.140 You said a white man.

00:42:39.720 Single white man.

00:42:40.800 Sure, race.

00:42:41.520 Okay, so, I mean, what does race have to do with it?

00:42:43.860 When I look at people that are gathering here today, it's right across the multi-diverse spectrum.

00:42:50.700 No more comments.

00:42:52.000 Oh, okay then.

00:42:52.960 Well, by the way, when it says convoy, go home.

00:42:56.140 Didn't the convoy go home in February?

00:42:59.180 They called it a convoy.

00:43:00.440 It's a convoy.

00:43:02.100 You mean this gathering here?

00:43:04.740 Is that a convoy?

00:43:06.040 Please go away.

00:43:07.360 Okay then.

00:43:07.860 No more comments.

00:43:08.860 All right.

00:43:09.340 No more comments.

00:43:10.500 It just seems to be...

00:43:11.800 No more comments.

00:43:13.260 No more comments.

00:43:14.820 You can't articulate your position?

00:43:16.520 No more comments.

00:43:17.440 No more comments.

00:43:19.140 Have I triggered you?

00:43:19.920 No more comments.

00:43:21.760 No more comments.

00:43:23.600 No more comments.

00:43:25.300 No more comments.

00:43:26.540 It's like interviewing a Coke machine when your soda doesn't come out.

00:43:30.040 No more comments.

00:43:30.880 She just...

00:43:31.640 No more comments.

00:43:33.240 No more comments.

00:43:35.160 It's like a fembot has malfunctioned.

00:43:38.540 And you think that if somebody is going to go on a corner...

00:43:43.460 Walk away.

00:43:44.500 No more comments.

00:43:45.460 Why do I have to walk away?

00:43:46.460 Walk away.

00:43:47.120 No more comments.

00:43:48.960 No more comments.

00:43:50.720 Why do I have to walk away?

00:43:51.680 It's a public place.

00:43:52.480 No more comments.

00:43:53.380 No more comments.

00:43:55.580 No more comments.

00:43:57.560 Do you mind me asking, what do you do for a living?

00:43:59.920 No more comments.

00:44:01.320 I'm now interviewing a sign.

00:44:03.400 Why is it when the left can't articulate itself, it goes into a meltdown?

00:44:08.960 No more comments.

00:44:09.500 In any event, I am not going to bother asking her any more questions.

00:44:14.380 No more comments.

00:44:15.280 Good golly, could you imagine living with this person?

00:44:19.060 Holy cow. 0.89

00:44:20.200 No more comments.

00:44:22.240 The irony is profound.

00:44:23.840 She wants this peaceful protest to be shut down.

00:44:29.160 She finds this an affront to her sensibilities.

00:44:33.300 But look at this.

00:44:35.680 She is herself demonstrating.

00:44:39.740 She's got some sort of an amplification device. 0.97

00:44:43.420 But that's okay, because she thinks she's righteous.

00:44:48.420 Now, if you have a sign that's proclaiming something such as, convoy, go home, and the

00:44:56.440 convoy went home in February, tomorrow is May, what is the point of demonstrating if

00:45:06.760 you're not going to articulate your position to people in the media that could further your

00:45:12.320 position?

00:45:13.480 Anyways, we have some sort of interaction going on here.

00:45:16.420 We are home.

00:45:16.860 We are home.

00:45:18.040 God, are you home?

00:45:19.620 Come on.

00:45:20.840 Are we home?

00:45:21.920 Are you home?

00:45:23.280 We'll just sit by and watch this.

00:45:26.260 This lady by her apparel might... 1.00

00:45:29.180 This is done with love.

00:45:30.120 Yes.

00:45:30.640 It's done with love.

00:45:31.800 Okay?

00:45:32.340 Let's go.

00:45:32.760 I apologize.

00:45:33.500 Come on.

00:45:33.760 We can't be doing this.

00:45:34.460 My apologies.

00:45:35.480 I wanted to make sure that...

00:45:37.280 How are you doing?

00:45:37.660 Good, sir.

00:45:38.280 We all need to respect everyone's free speech.

00:45:42.180 That's why everyone's here.

00:45:43.480 We're here for her freedoms, too.

00:45:45.060 Right.

00:45:45.620 We're here for her freedoms, too.

00:45:46.740 Right.

00:45:47.340 Okay?

00:45:47.680 She has every right to be doing what she's doing. 0.76

00:45:49.460 She has every right to be here.

00:45:51.040 She has every right to be here, just like everyone here.

00:45:53.400 So let's not...

00:45:54.000 We all have our rights to be here.

00:45:55.240 This movement is done with love.

00:45:56.740 Thank you.

00:45:57.280 Okay?

00:45:57.860 Well, sir, those are good words.

00:45:59.260 I'm just wondering, though, I can't help but notice the hypocrisy here.

00:46:03.620 I agree with free speech, freedom of assembly, protest demonstrations.

00:46:07.580 But she wants everyone to go home.

00:46:11.600 But she finds that it's okay for her to stand on the corner.

00:46:15.020 I have no problem with that.

00:46:16.260 But isn't there a double standard here?

00:46:17.960 There may or there may not be.

00:46:19.420 But that's...

00:46:19.880 Regardless of double standards, it's her right to be here.

00:46:22.040 And it's her right...

00:46:22.840 We're here.

00:46:23.840 All of the veterans served so that everyone could be here and do what she's doing.

00:46:28.240 Sir...

00:46:28.600 You can't be here, so do I.

00:46:30.120 I couldn't agree with your position more, sir.

00:46:33.520 I would fight for her right to be here, but she wants all of you to leave.

00:46:38.820 She's allowed to want that. 0.99

00:46:40.820 But don't you see the double standard here that you are having a peaceful demonstration here?

00:46:45.920 What's wrong with that?

00:46:47.420 There's nothing wrong with that either.

00:46:48.600 We're expressing our free speech and she's expressing hers.

00:46:51.000 And any of us, any veteran, would die for her right to do what she's doing.

00:46:54.880 A hundred percent.

00:46:55.560 But I don't think she understands that because...

00:46:57.660 I think she does.

00:46:58.320 So whether she does or not is not my concern.

00:47:00.380 Okay, then.

00:47:01.060 Because we're standing on the principles of what's right and fair and what should be the standard in a free and democratic society.

00:47:08.720 Right.

00:47:09.100 But I would say this is someone that subscribes to cancel culture.

00:47:12.300 If you don't think her way, she doesn't agree to disagree.

00:47:16.420 She wants all opinions eradicated that don't fall in lockstep with hers. 0.90

00:47:21.380 That's what I'm getting at the double standard.

00:47:23.120 I'm a hundred percent with you.

00:47:24.020 I would fight for her right to be here.

00:47:25.720 I don't want her to leave.

00:47:26.760 She has something to say.

00:47:28.320 It's hate speech.

00:47:29.280 This is hate.

00:47:30.380 I mean, this is hate.

00:47:31.760 Oh, you find it to be hate, sir.

00:47:33.340 Well, I mean, it is hateful.

00:47:35.440 The extreme left claim to be a party of inclusion.

00:47:40.640 But I mean, come on, man.

00:47:41.760 This is hate the other way.

00:47:43.660 I'm not sure if it would meet the benchmarks of hate.

00:47:46.400 Okay, maybe not hate in that manner, but I mean, it's a hateful message.

00:47:49.220 It's not a message of love.

00:47:50.320 And I think over here at the convoy, it's a message of love.

00:47:52.660 I think it's a message.

00:47:53.720 I respect their right to totally protest.

00:47:56.500 100%.

00:47:57.020 Have fun.

00:47:58.400 I think it's a message of hypocrisy.

00:48:00.420 She is demonstrating, and I fully support her right to demonstrate.

00:48:04.000 But the purpose of her demonstration is saying to those people, leave, get out of my city. 0.98

00:48:10.400 Isn't that a double sander?

00:48:13.280 Here's the hypocrisy.

00:48:14.500 You people, the residents of Ottawa, you know, you live in the capital of the country.

00:48:20.860 This capital belongs to everyone, whether you like it or not.

00:48:24.360 You chose to live in the capital of Canada.

00:48:27.020 If our leader is a bad leader and pisses people off, well, this is what happens.

00:48:32.980 And you live in the capital, man.

00:48:34.720 Go live in a real, go live in Karachi, Pakistan. 0.95

00:48:37.480 Go live in, like, India and tell me if you guys like honking and noise. 1.00

00:48:41.660 Like, this is nothing.

00:48:42.960 You guys had it.

00:48:43.860 This is nothing.

00:48:44.960 Nobody even lives downtown here.

00:48:46.560 It's all a joke.

00:48:47.400 It's all a charade.

00:48:48.440 I'm getting the feeling you might have more rights in Karachi, Pakistan, than you do on Parliament Hill these days.

00:48:52.980 I mean, yeah, but, like, I mean, those are noisy cities.

00:48:55.440 This is not a noisy.

00:48:56.420 This is the boringest city I've ever been to.

00:48:58.920 Honestly, I'm from Montreal.

00:49:00.780 This is a boring city.

00:49:02.600 There's nobody out past 8 o'clock.

00:49:04.540 No wonder they're freaking out that the protests come here.

00:49:07.860 It's not a fun city.

00:49:08.940 We tried to interview this lovely lady here. 1.00

00:49:11.680 This lady.

00:49:12.140 Oh, yes.

00:49:12.880 Sadly, she got rocks thrown at her house.

00:49:15.900 She had to pay a lot of extra money to travel because she was kind of locked in her house.

00:49:20.420 That's not right.

00:49:21.460 Who threw rocks at her house? 0.96

00:49:23.020 She doesn't know.

00:49:24.400 Okay?

00:49:25.020 So what I said to her, though, that she kind of is rebuting a little bit.

00:49:28.780 Lookit, I wish these palaces and castles were in the middle of nowhere.

00:49:33.380 So that when we protested, which we have the right to do that, we didn't bother anybody that lived around them.

00:49:39.580 But that's not where they built them.

00:49:41.040 They built them right here.

00:49:42.580 So sadly, this lady and that lady and likely this man, they chose to live down here.

00:49:47.380 So with living here comes the benefits of all of this stuff as well as the baggage.

00:49:53.920 It's a plan to divide us with hatred because with hatred in your heart, your vision is blurred.

00:50:00.340 You don't see the reality of what's really going on.

00:50:03.700 I'm not sure what her political viewpoints are.

00:50:06.440 She just screams no comment. 1.00

00:50:07.920 Anyone has questions.

00:50:09.640 And that speaks volumes too, sir.

00:50:10.980 If you're going to demonstrate in public with a sign and an amplification device,

00:50:15.860 wouldn't you want to articulate your viewpoints to media outlets?

00:50:19.640 But she just ends up screaming at us. 1.00

00:50:22.220 Well, in fairness, right, I actually had a decent conversation with her.

00:50:26.220 I really and truly did.

00:50:27.240 Because I just came over as a friendly guy and said, can we talk?

00:50:30.400 And she says, as long as you're not going to hassle me.

00:50:32.220 She's very jaded with the public.

00:50:33.980 And she didn't want to speak to me because she's afraid of getting COVID.

00:50:37.280 Oh, really?

00:50:38.200 Yeah.

00:50:38.740 Why is that?

00:50:39.600 You're not Typhoid Mary, are you, ma'am?

00:50:41.580 She's afraid of getting COVID.

00:50:43.500 And I just want to say something.

00:50:45.220 You're actually a real Canadian hero.

00:50:47.760 No, I'm not.

00:50:48.020 This is a real Canadian hero.

00:50:49.740 Come here.

00:50:50.920 Wow, look at that.

00:50:51.740 So are you.

00:50:52.560 Wow.

00:50:53.280 Wow, can you believe?

00:50:54.220 Look at all this hatred in the air, folks.

00:50:56.100 Look at all this.

00:50:57.680 Holy.

00:50:59.340 I bet you do.

00:51:00.480 Oh, please.

00:51:01.080 I bet you do that to all the girls, Ramp Butler. 1.00

00:51:04.580 I know.

00:51:05.220 They didn't get COVID from each other.

00:51:07.300 It was so nice talking to you.

00:51:08.760 It was really nice to speak to you.

00:51:09.400 And sir, she's all yours now.

00:51:11.440 No, no.

00:51:11.960 She's a great lady.

00:51:13.160 Hold on, though.

00:51:13.840 I just want to say your makeup is very, very pretty.

00:51:17.540 Her makeup is pretty.

00:51:19.100 Look at that.

00:51:19.440 We got another.

00:51:20.000 Well, there's always a silver lining, isn't there, folks?

00:51:22.660 Silver lining.

00:51:23.280 Your makeup is pretty.

00:51:24.420 Well, folks, is that not an example of perverse irony?

00:51:27.680 Here we have a sole demonstrator who doesn't like the members of Rolling Thunder and their

00:51:32.400 supporters demonstrating or celebrating at the National War Memorial, yet she wants to

00:51:40.200 demonstrate.

00:51:41.360 And believe me, I support her right to demonstrate, even though I think she's, well, quite frankly,

00:51:47.080 full of nonsense.

00:51:47.960 But that's not a crime.

00:51:49.920 In any event, I think this woman is the poster child for cancel culture. 1.00

00:51:55.600 What a shame too many people are subscribing to such a fascist belief.

00:52:02.700 For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.60

00:52:05.620 If you guys see those libs of TikTok videos, that's pretty much what they look like.

00:52:10.380 You should have been here earlier.

Rebel News Podcast - May 05, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ World Press Freedom Day came and went, and Canada was an embarrassment

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