Rebel News Podcast - December 21, 2018


EZRA LIVE! The year in review — PLUS your comments & questions!


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In the final episode of 2018, Ezra takes a look back at the highs and lows of the year and talks about some of the most memorable moments of the past year. He also talks about the new year and what he's looking forward to in 2019.

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00:00:00.000 Well, hello. It's December 21st. I'm Ezra Levan, and this is Battleground.
00:00:11.320 Hi, everybody. Great to see you every Friday. I like to sit down here live and just chit-chat a bit.
00:00:16.760 Every weekday at 8 p.m., I have a more produced show where I give an opening monologue rant and interview a guest.
00:00:24.180 But at noon on Fridays, I like to kibitz and take any questions. It's called a super chat, which is a word that YouTube invented.
00:00:33.660 It's basically the same as a normal live chat, except for if you chip in a few bucks, your comment is put in bold, highlighted color.
00:00:44.100 And if you chip in enough, it's appended to the top of the little message box there.
00:00:46.740 We like it, not only because we like the super chat, but we get 70% of the dough, which is good because YouTube demonetizes us on the rest of the site.
00:00:58.800 So at least so far, they let us keep at least 70% of this.
00:01:02.640 So great to have you here.
00:01:03.620 This will be the last super chat I do for 2018 because we're taking a break next week, but we'll be back in the new year.
00:01:14.360 And I thought I'd bring seven clips that show about the range of some of the moments of the year.
00:01:21.980 There's so many.
00:01:22.460 You know how many videos we've done?
00:01:25.000 And you can probably see this if you go on our YouTube homepage and click the About.
00:01:28.500 At least on the Creator Studio dashboard, it shows that we have produced and published close to 11,000 videos.
00:01:40.420 11,000 videos since we were born in 2015.
00:01:45.540 That's a lot of videos.
00:01:47.600 And I haven't looked at the stats in a little while, but last I checked, we had about 1.7 billion minutes of video that has been watched.
00:01:58.500 Again, I'm going from memory.
00:01:59.600 Don't hold me to the precision there.
00:02:03.320 So that was, we're coming along.
00:02:06.360 And, you know, it's December 2018, February 15th, 2019, which is only, what, seven weeks away, will be our fourth birthday.
00:02:17.240 And we're still around, and we're giving her.
00:02:20.720 We're giving her.
00:02:22.060 And we have new things afoot for 2019.
00:02:25.640 In fact, 10 minutes ago, I just got off a Skype call with some new talents that we are going to introduce to you, God willing, if everything goes well.
00:02:35.860 In 2019, I'm not going to say who it is, but they are a little bit cheeky.
00:02:41.640 Cheeky.
00:02:43.660 Just a little bit cheeky.
00:02:46.240 We have talents who are interested in joining our team.
00:02:48.960 I always find that flattering.
00:02:50.880 And I also find it excruciating because I want to say yes to everybody.
00:02:54.300 But, of course, we must live within our means.
00:02:55.840 We are not part of the state-sponsored government bailout media in Canada.
00:02:59.740 For my foreign viewers, as in non-Canadians, you may not know. 1.00
00:03:03.800 But Justin Trudeau, who already controls the majority of news media in Canada through the state broadcaster, the CBC, which has more news reporters than all private sector media combined.
00:03:14.000 It's not enough for him.
00:03:15.780 So he has actually rolled out a $595 million journalistic slush fund.
00:03:22.440 But, according to the Toronto Star, it will only go to journalists that Trudeau himself trusts.
00:03:28.380 Obviously, that's not us.
00:03:30.140 And, obviously, that's an immediate sellout.
00:03:32.280 It's inherent in the terms.
00:03:33.760 If you can only get the money if Trudeau trusts you, you are going to be trustworthy.
00:03:38.600 But journalists should not be trusted by politicians.
00:03:41.980 Politicians should be scared of journalists.
00:03:44.260 If not scared of them, they shouldn't be able to rely on them.
00:03:48.120 They should regard them as a threat because journalists would always be asking for the truth.
00:03:53.380 But we haven't had that.
00:03:54.920 In Canada, we will not have that.
00:03:56.620 If you're curious about the size of $595 million in the Canadian market, realize that Canada is one-tenth the size of the United States.
00:04:06.100 So for a rough comparison, it would be as if Donald Trump said, hey, failing newspapers, hey, TV stations, hey, everyone trying to compete in the age of the Internet.
00:04:15.500 You're having a tough time.
00:04:16.620 But guess what?
00:04:17.220 I have $5 billion, $6 billion that I will give to you.
00:04:21.200 But only if I can trust you.
00:04:22.860 Well, everyone would say that's a gross interference, a violation of the separation of the press and the government.
00:04:29.760 Well, that is exactly what's happening in Canada.
00:04:31.460 And, of course, the people who would normally be on guard, the watchdogs.
00:04:35.180 Well, they're the ones being bribed.
00:04:36.320 The watchdogs will become the lapdogs.
00:04:39.260 I think that's a problem.
00:04:44.360 So let me show you some of the vids that we've done.
00:04:46.300 And these are in no particular order.
00:04:47.840 I just put together seven little clips that I thought showed some of the fun stuff we did, fun or interesting or far afield.
00:04:55.760 You know, like I say, we've produced nearly 11,000 videos, so it's almost impossible for me to even cast my mind across all of them.
00:05:34.560 And the buses that were circulating, taking delegates around were sponsored by the Polish oil and gas company.
00:05:40.760 The whole thing was one giant 3D real-life troll.
00:05:44.820 I mean, imagine, let's say the United States hosted the U.N. Global Warming Conference.
00:05:51.200 It wouldn't happen under Donald Trump.
00:05:52.660 But, oh, they'd want to be in New York or Miami or L.A.
00:05:57.580 or maybe Seattle, it's cool up there.
00:06:00.700 Maybe Austin or Boston or Chicago.
00:06:04.840 Lots of great cities in America.
00:06:06.160 Lots of great, great cities in America.
00:06:08.000 I'm a fan.
00:06:09.060 But imagine if Donald J. Trump said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:13.400 You're going to a place that's almost heaven.
00:06:16.680 West Virginia.
00:06:18.460 Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
00:06:21.300 Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.
00:06:25.040 You're going to West Virginia.
00:06:29.400 Imagine if Donald J. Trump hosted the Global Warming Conference in West Virginia on top of a reclaimed coal mine.
00:06:37.120 That is what Poland did. 0.99
00:06:39.220 I love that.
00:06:40.680 So without further to do, here's a quick clip of Sheila.
00:06:43.100 I should tell you that obviously Sheila was banned from the formal conference. 0.97
00:06:46.680 And they tell her why.
00:06:48.220 They say the Canadian delegation specifically requested that she be banned because she asked the wrong questions.
00:06:54.300 They don't even hide it.
00:06:57.440 So here's Sheila. 0.96
00:06:58.160 She encountered some leftists.
00:07:00.960 I was going to say hippies, but they're not really hippies because they're all about the dough.
00:07:03.960 Hippies pretend not to care about money.
00:07:06.080 Hippies are more about like drugs and stuff and music.
00:07:10.560 But these folks at this Global Warming Conference, they're sort of the opposite of the hippies.
00:07:14.060 They're lobbyists.
00:07:14.860 They're schemers and scammers.
00:07:16.140 They're looking for subsidies.
00:07:18.020 They're multi-million dollar international anti-oil lobbyists.
00:07:21.940 Greenpeace, what's their budget these days?
00:07:23.460 About $500 million a year U.S.?
00:07:25.220 That's a multinational corporation.
00:07:27.020 So Sheila encountered some of these millionaire hippies.
00:07:31.000 And it was cold in Poland in December, as you might guess.
00:07:33.920 And she went to one of their sort of hippie hipster places. 0.99
00:07:38.900 And guess what?
00:07:39.660 It wasn't solar powered.
00:07:40.640 Here, take a look.
00:07:41.100 We're here at the central square in Katowice, Poland.
00:07:50.320 We're covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:07:53.640 It's the 24th annual being held in this Polish city.
00:07:57.220 Now, right behind me is one of the public displays around the city.
00:08:01.400 There's not a lot of them here.
00:08:02.660 And there's a man inside giving a lecture to about five to ten people who I only suspect
00:08:08.480 are in there trying to warm up because it is unforgivingly cold here in Poland.
00:08:13.140 But it looks tropical, right?
00:08:16.080 There's tropical plants growing on the wall.
00:08:18.440 They want you to believe that you can survive in a winter climate here and be comfortable
00:08:22.720 with just some tarping and another form of insulation that I'll show you just around
00:08:27.180 the corner here.
00:08:27.780 It's very familiar to me as a farmer.
00:08:29.500 So come on.
00:08:32.660 So just around the corner here is the sort of insulation you might use in your barn or
00:08:39.380 your doghouse if your animal spends any time outside.
00:08:42.520 It's straw.
00:08:43.680 They want you to believe that you can survive in a Polish climate and survive comfortably 1.00
00:08:49.100 with plastic tarping and straw, eco-friendly straw.
00:08:54.180 But there's something else that I noticed that is, again, very familiar to me as a Westerner,
00:08:59.220 as someone from Alberta.
00:09:00.740 Keep walking.
00:09:02.660 It's our old friend, the frost fighter heater.
00:09:08.240 This is pumping hot air inside this little meeting shack.
00:09:13.400 And it's plugged in.
00:09:14.540 There's the power cord you can see.
00:09:16.700 And it's plugged into an outlet that runs along the ground.
00:09:19.460 And this thing is pumping hot air.
00:09:21.680 If you come around the corner, there's the little tunnel, and it comes all around the corner, and it is pumping hot air to make these climate change fighters very comfortable inside their little meeting house.
00:09:39.060 This is just like everything else at the climate change conference.
00:09:43.640 It's fake, it's misleading, and it's a lie.
00:09:48.060 For the rebel.media, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:09:51.520 It looks so cold there.
00:09:54.280 It looked cold.
00:09:55.920 Of course they're not going to be able to keep that place warm on solar or wind.
00:10:01.100 It is fake.
00:10:03.100 It's a PR exercise.
00:10:05.360 You know, Sheila went to the Global Warming Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, a couple years ago.
00:10:10.220 Is it easy for you to find the electric car things, Justin?
00:10:14.140 You know, in Marrakesh, Morocco, they had these Tesla car chargers or electric car chargers, and Sheila noticed that no one was using them.
00:10:26.740 Like, no one was using them.
00:10:29.220 I mean, that's normal.
00:10:31.320 I mean, like here in Toronto, you go to a parking lot, and the premium spots are obviously for the handicapped parking.
00:10:37.960 And then the handicapped parkers, what, maybe they had to take a few handicapped slots away because the green car, well, they're given pride of placement too.
00:10:49.220 Why is that?
00:10:50.660 Why, because you're a millionaire and can afford a Tesla, why do you get to park closer to the entrance?
00:10:59.180 Anyway, it's a thing in Toronto, probably elsewhere too, that the premium placements go.
00:11:04.080 And they're never used.
00:11:05.560 I shouldn't say never.
00:11:06.540 However, maybe 10% of the time I see a Tesla in these rich downtown parkades, I never see them anywhere else around the country.
00:11:18.960 So you would think, so it's not a surprise that these electric car plug-in things are not used.
00:11:26.360 That's normal, right?
00:11:27.900 But you'd think at a UN Global Warming Conference that they would be showing it off.
00:11:31.280 They would be using it a little bit at least.
00:11:33.920 But Sheila was at this Global Warming Conference in Morocco and did not see it at all.
00:11:38.700 And she went up to one of these e-charger things, and it wasn't even real.
00:11:46.020 It wasn't even rooted in the ground.
00:11:49.020 It wasn't plugged in.
00:11:50.220 So we made a fun video about this.
00:11:52.380 So this is a video we made once we knew they were fake.
00:11:56.140 But she couldn't know they were fake until she went up.
00:11:58.640 Here, take a look at this.
00:11:59.760 This is Sheila in Mericrash at that Global Warming Conference.
00:12:03.800 My team and I have been at COP22 now for two full days.
00:12:07.300 And on both days, we noticed these little electric car chargers.
00:12:10.480 And both days, we noticed that nobody was using them.
00:12:12.820 So we thought we'd hang out for a little bit and see if anybody's actually using them or if they're just for show.
00:12:18.300 We'll be right back.
00:12:48.300 The waiting part is sort of funny.
00:13:13.160 But the fact that they weren't even real, that's not even funny anymore.
00:13:17.160 That goes to the thesis that was demonstrated in Poland there.
00:13:20.460 It's all fake.
00:13:21.560 It's all fake.
00:13:22.520 It's fake, fake, fake.
00:13:24.600 Okay.
00:13:25.100 I want to catch up because it's 12.13 and we only have one hour.
00:13:28.000 And I have seven clips.
00:13:29.400 And then I added that one right there.
00:13:31.040 If I keep up this pace, we're not going to get through it all.
00:13:33.160 Another one fairly recently, the migrant caravan coming up from Honduras and El Salvador and whatnot, making its way into Mexico.
00:13:43.860 I had a lot of obvious questions.
00:13:46.280 How?
00:13:47.040 Who?
00:13:47.200 I've dealt with large crowds before.
00:13:49.360 Sometimes we organize events.
00:13:51.160 I've even organized a long time ago marches and things of that sort.
00:13:55.540 It doesn't just happen organically.
00:13:57.100 There has to be a leader.
00:13:57.900 And if you're marching thousands of people hundreds of miles, well, that's not, that just doesn't happen on its own, especially if there's women and children and how these people fed and how they organized.
00:14:09.420 And what about health care?
00:14:10.860 What about bathrooms?
00:14:11.920 What about shelter at night?
00:14:14.060 That's not an organic thing.
00:14:15.820 That's just not real.
00:14:17.420 And yet there was no skeptical reportage in the mainstream media of this.
00:14:21.380 All we heard was the propaganda.
00:14:22.680 These are women and children. 0.99
00:14:23.460 These are refugees.
00:14:24.260 I didn't buy it because I've seen this movie before a few years ago when Angela Merkel invited the third world to Europe.
00:14:31.000 We saw then that the vast majority of the migrants were not women and children's first type refugees.
00:14:37.080 They were young military-aged men who were at best economic migrants, at worst, of course, we've since learned, terrorists. 0.99
00:14:44.240 So who were these people?
00:14:45.660 Well, we sent David Menzies down because you just can't trust the mainstream media to tell the truth.
00:14:51.660 And here just, David, by the way, did 27 videos.
00:14:57.500 He was embedded with his caravan for, I think, four days.
00:15:00.740 You can see them all, if you're curious, at caravanreports.com.
00:15:06.260 Caravanreports.com.
00:15:07.060 All 27 videos.
00:15:08.640 But here, one selected at random by our producer, Justin.
00:15:11.700 Take a look.
00:15:12.020 The question arises as the migrant caravan makes its way through Mexico.
00:15:36.120 Why is it that so many people in so many of the towns and villages we've encountered would give water and food and clothing and, in some cases, even shelter to the migrants?
00:15:47.540 Well, we just had a fascinating discussion with a gentleman by the name of Martin Ramirez, who lives here in Sayula.
00:15:54.780 And what he told us is that it's principally being motivated by fear.
00:16:01.500 He told us that many in the community are afraid that if you have an onslaught of mostly young, angry, hungry men and don't give them food and water, then all that's going to rise out of this is trouble.
00:16:17.540 And certainly, they don't want trouble.
00:16:20.160 And if it's only going to be a temporary pit stop here in Sayula, then the idea is help them out, feed them, clothe them, give them some water, and let them be on their way.
00:16:30.900 And it just goes to show you, folks, like so much that we've encountered in this part of the world, nothing is as it truly seems firsthand.
00:16:40.580 For the Rebel.media, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.77
00:16:45.160 Great little clip there, but tell us the truth.
00:16:46.940 And by the way, you saw maybe 50 different souls in that short clip.
00:16:53.140 How many women and children did you see? 1.00
00:16:55.240 I don't think I saw any.
00:16:56.740 They're all young men.
00:16:58.040 You saw someone handing out bottles of water.
00:17:00.480 I don't think that was a townsfolk.
00:17:01.680 I think that was one of the organizers.
00:17:03.720 That's one of the things you have to organize.
00:17:04.920 David said it was very hot on the trip.
00:17:07.300 David told me that, I mean, of course, they landed and they had to catch up to the caravan.
00:17:12.200 And they were moving very quickly because they were mainly going by truck and bus.
00:17:19.360 And David said as they were approaching it, they saw this big semi-trailer stacked with portable toilets, port-a-potties, catching up.
00:17:30.120 And David said he didn't put that two and two together until later.
00:17:33.020 That was part of this enormous logistical exercise of moving 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 people at full tilt from El Salvador up to America.
00:17:42.160 Would you know how to get a flatbed truck stacked with portable toilets in Mexico?
00:17:50.420 Would you know how to get that?
00:17:52.500 Would you just know how?
00:17:54.340 Would you be able to afford it?
00:17:56.340 There was obviously a hidden hand at work, and it wasn't that well hidden because David talked to the organizers, and they didn't hide their identity.
00:18:05.740 They didn't say a lot to David, but it was clear he was organizing this.
00:18:08.580 I encourage you to go to Caravan Reports, caravanreports.com, to see more just excellent reportage from David.
00:18:16.440 And it put a lie to the media narrative about this being women and children and genuine refugees.
00:18:21.720 These men didn't say that.
00:18:22.720 They just wanted free stuff.
00:18:25.800 Another recent vid, and maybe I have a bias towards the most recent stuff because I remember it.
00:18:30.560 It's the end of the year.
00:18:31.220 We've done thousands of videos.
00:18:32.260 We have a new member of the team, his name is Kian Bexty, and he is in Calgary, but he went up to Edmonton because a convicted confessed war criminal, terrorist, and murderer, an al-Qaeda member named Omar Khadar, whose father was an al-Qaeda terrorist as well.
00:18:49.480 Well, he's applying for the right to get a passport so he can travel to Saudi Arabia to meet his pro-terrorist sister.
00:18:58.280 Yeah, what could possibly go wrong there?
00:19:00.340 So there's been a lot of press conferences with Omar Khadar over the years, and the media, they're not even acting as the press.
00:19:06.640 They're acting as stenographers.
00:19:07.660 Not our Kian Bexty, and he walked into the court, and he asked some questions of Omar Khadar.
00:19:13.540 Obviously, Khadar didn't answer them, but I thought it was good just to see for the first time in many years a real reporter asking real questions of Omar Khadar other than,
00:19:22.640 what's it like to be so dreamy, Omar?
00:19:24.880 Here, here's Kian Bexty.
00:19:26.740 Omar Khadar, can you tell me, do you regret killing Christopher Spear?
00:19:31.520 Do you regret killing Christopher Spear?
00:19:33.340 We're here outside of a courthouse in Edmonton where, in a few minutes, Omar Khadar is going to be showing up here somewhere.
00:19:42.420 We're not sure exactly which door he's going to come in.
00:19:45.120 Hopefully, we're at the right one.
00:19:46.840 He's coming for a bail hearing at 1 o'clock where he's going to be begging or pleading for a Canadian passport so that he can fly to Saudi Arabia to meet his sister,
00:19:56.660 who he hasn't seen in a long time, his sister who, by the way, has openly supported the mission of al-Qaeda.
00:20:01.880 We're not sure how this is going to turn out.
00:20:03.960 It's been postponed for a few months now where the Crown Prosecutor has waited, pushed it back so that they could get instruction from the federal government.
00:20:11.120 We're not sure what they're going to push for here in this hearing, but we'll keep you updated with what happens.
00:20:24.760 Omar Khadar, can you tell me, do you regret killing Christopher Spear?
00:20:27.860 Do you regret killing Christopher Spear?
00:20:32.800 Where's the money?
00:20:33.960 Where's the taxpayer-funded fortune?
00:20:35.740 Is it offshore right now?
00:20:37.560 Tell us, Omar.
00:20:39.320 After the hearing concluded, we ended up waiting outside of the courthouse for quite some time,
00:20:43.720 waiting for Omar Khadar and his lawyer to come out and read scripted statements and answer the media's questions.
00:20:49.340 Of course, once they realized I was from the rubble, they immediately quit answering my questions, as you'll see, but that didn't stop us.
00:20:55.900 Yes, sir.
00:20:56.700 So, as promised, Omar's got a few words to say, and let me just give you a brief introduction,
00:21:04.200 and then I'll let Omar speak because I realize, of course, you want to hear from Omar, not from me.
00:21:09.360 I'll just say that Omar came to me and he said he wanted to make a public statement.
00:21:15.460 He's prepared in advance, generally what it is he wants to say.
00:21:20.360 I didn't have anything to do with it, so these are not a lawyer's words or anything like that.
00:21:24.700 It's Omar's own words.
00:21:26.500 After he makes a statement, we've decided that he's not going to take any questions, okay?
00:21:31.340 So, and that's, he'd be happy to, but I told him I'd prefer that he not take questions.
00:21:37.120 You can ask me questions.
00:21:38.360 I know I'm much less interesting than Omar is, but I can answer some questions if that helps.
00:21:43.560 But I'd ask that you respect the process that we've adopted, which is that Omar's not going to be answering questions after his statement, okay?
00:21:51.400 So, that said, I'm going to turn it over to Omar.
00:21:55.880 Thank you so much, guys.
00:21:58.020 Well, thank you for giving me my privacy in the last three and a half years.
00:22:02.280 I just want to thank the court for a great, amazing judicial system for everything that it's been doing.
00:22:09.440 I'd like to thank the, you know, people here in Edmonton, Quebec, and B.C., and all across Canada.
00:22:15.660 I've only been met with kindness and warmth.
00:22:20.360 As you know, I just asked the judge to remove the conditions.
00:22:25.200 When I initially asked for bail, I didn't expect it to take this long.
00:22:33.940 My sentence initially should have ended this past October, but here I am.
00:22:42.440 The Canadian government has put this court in a position where it has to enforce a judgment and a ruling that was derived from torture.
00:22:53.500 The same torture that the Canadian government has apologized for.
00:22:58.920 This is not the first time my life has been held in suspension, and I'm going to continue to fight this injustice.
00:23:07.900 And thankfully, we have an actual court system that has actual rules and laws.
00:23:13.700 Thank you so much.
00:23:14.960 How can you compare Canada to Guantanamo Bay?
00:23:17.440 How can you do that?
00:23:18.280 Omar's not doing that.
00:23:20.180 Needless to say, Canada is not like Guantanamo Bay.
00:23:22.680 You heard Omar say right from the outset what a good judicial system we have.
00:23:27.340 And the problem here, of course, though, is that the Canadian government continues to enforce a judgment decided in a different system.
00:23:34.520 So I don't think that's a fair characterization of what Mr. Cotter said.
00:23:39.220 Do you have any other questions?
00:23:40.500 Even if he gets a passport, which airline in Canada will take him to Saudi Arabia?
00:23:45.540 You'd have to ask some Canadian airlines.
00:23:47.540 I doubt that they'd want to take a terrorist across the sea to Saudi Arabia.
00:23:51.780 Did I understand?
00:23:53.840 So the day started with us running around the Edmonton Court Center trying to find out which door Omar...
00:23:58.120 I think what's...
00:24:02.040 For our foreign viewers who don't understand who Omar Cotter is, remember, he murdered U.S. Army medic Christopher Speer.
00:24:09.480 Then he was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for that murder.
00:24:14.540 But Barack Obama cut a deal with him, unbeknownst to the jury.
00:24:17.720 And basically freedom from Guantanamo Bay sent him to Canada, where Justin Trudeau apologized to Cotter and gave him $10.5 million and the media turned him into a cause celeb.
00:24:30.220 And what I liked about that interaction there was, for the first time ever, a journalist called Omar Cotter a terrorist.
00:24:40.700 Did you see how shocked his lawyer was?
00:24:43.020 He had never heard that said because the media was so docile.
00:24:46.040 Did you hear how his lawyer...
00:24:47.220 I think his name was Nate Whitley, if I recall.
00:24:49.360 ...said, here's the rules, no questions for Cotter.
00:24:51.940 You have to follow our process.
00:24:53.580 And I liked the fact that our Kian Bexty did not follow the process.
00:24:57.940 And he asked real questions like, what airline would take a terrorist al-Qaeda murderer on?
00:25:02.880 I was impressed with that.
00:25:04.640 And yet Kian did remain polite. 0.62
00:25:06.780 And his questions, including where's the money, is a good one.
00:25:09.520 Where is that $10.5 million?
00:25:11.400 Is it hidden offshore?
00:25:12.780 These are very good questions.
00:25:14.800 I think a super chat came in.
00:25:16.600 Let me just see if I can find it.
00:25:17.740 Here we go.
00:25:18.100 Nigel, two pounds.
00:25:19.280 Tommy has had death threats.
00:25:21.060 Hope he is okay.
00:25:22.100 Yeah, can you call up Tommy's vid?
00:25:27.560 And maybe fast forward about a minute into it where he's reading the Osman warning.
00:25:32.160 Tommy has a new vid.
00:25:32.860 It's on his YouTube.
00:25:33.700 We embedded it on our page today, too.
00:25:36.200 Yeah, I mean, we'll see if we can get the vid.
00:25:39.760 Basically, police...
00:25:40.840 It's crazy.
00:25:41.680 Police came to Tommy's door with a notice and said, yeah, we have intelligence and someone's trying to hurt you.
00:25:48.720 But what's so interesting, there's a lot of interesting things about that, including the fact that the police say you can't really defend yourself, it being Britain, of course.
00:25:58.660 But it was left-wing Antifa who were the threat.
00:26:02.200 It was not a Muslim threat.
00:26:03.600 Isn't that interesting?
00:26:05.560 We'll play a moment from that clip.
00:26:07.420 Justin, if you can find the part.
00:26:08.740 Tommy sort of waits for people to come so we can skip over the first minute or so to where he reads.
00:26:13.380 I'd like to play a minute of him reading from that Osman warning with you.
00:26:16.700 So you got it there, do you?
00:26:19.060 Okay.
00:26:19.700 I'll wait for your signal.
00:26:20.860 I'll read the next super chat in the meeting.
00:26:22.960 Caleb Neisinger says,
00:26:25.380 I want to thank you for being a genuine reporting outlet for younger people learning about politics like myself.
00:26:30.800 I am not from Canada, but I still find your The Rebel reports on Canadian issues informative in many ways.
00:26:36.520 Well, I appreciate you saying that.
00:26:37.780 And I understand what you mean, because some of the themes we talk about, so Omar Khadr is a name probably not well known around the world, but there are terrorists or terrorist supporters like him in many jurisdictions.
00:26:50.340 Anjum Chowdhury in the United Kingdom is an obvious example.
00:26:54.100 We had a jail Anjum campaign over there, and we delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street.
00:26:59.560 So a lot of the themes we talk about, we talk about open borders immigration.
00:27:02.880 I showed you some global warming matters.
00:27:05.980 Those are global.
00:27:07.680 Those are global themes.
00:27:08.960 We do have the clip ready.
00:27:10.120 Here's a quick clip of Tommy reading this warning that police hand-delivered to his house.
00:27:15.580 Take a look.
00:27:17.700 So this is Osman versus the United Kingdom, Bedfordshire Police.
00:27:23.900 Name, Stephen Christopher Lennon.
00:27:27.720 That's me.
00:27:29.580 I am PC from Bedfordshire Police.
00:27:33.520 I must inform you that you are not under arrest or under caution.
00:27:38.300 That's a start.
00:27:40.080 I'm meant to inform you that we have received information that your well-being may be in danger.
00:27:46.060 This relates to left-wing activists having sourced your home address and are threatening to attend and cause criminal acts of violence.
00:27:55.840 I believe you are personally aware of that, and the situation may have risen as a result of your business activities and lifestyles.
00:28:04.400 No, it's arisen as a result of my political beliefs.
00:28:08.480 This is political targeting of opponents with threats of violence.
00:28:14.400 I must advise you to take appropriate measures to ensure your safety, but warn you that this does not entitle you to break the law.
00:28:22.560 Anyone sitting in America, what that basically means is we're not allowed a weapon to defend ourselves.
00:28:27.500 We have to sit like sitting ducks with our family, waiting for people to come and commit acts of violence against us.
00:28:33.580 If you feel you need police assistance, I'm able to put you in touch with experienced officers who can advise you.
00:28:40.720 Well, Officer Police, I have given you countless, countless and numerous amounts of evidence to show you who is threatening me, who is promoting acts of violence against me, and you've not once ever arrested one single...
00:28:56.920 It's a really good video. I don't want to play the whole thing now because we just don't have time for it, but we have that video.
00:29:02.420 You can find it on Tommy's own YouTube page, where we have embedded his YouTube video on the rebel.media, too.
00:29:09.680 It's a very succinct video by Tommy where he outlines the laughable nature of this warning.
00:29:15.260 It's basically police saying, oh, by the way, mate, someone's coming to get you, but you can't protect yourself.
00:29:19.880 And, hey, if you need any coaching, just phone us and maybe we'll send someone around.
00:29:25.820 It's quite...it's a shocking...it's really a cover your tush move by the police so they can say, well, we told them.
00:29:34.880 We told them someone was coming for...well, if you know Antifa's coming for Tommy's home, why don't you go and stop it?
00:29:43.760 Why don't you go and arrest someone? Why don't you go bust it up?
00:29:46.520 Oh, no. See, Gov, around here, we just give you a notice.
00:29:50.520 It's...you know, I love the United Kingdom because, of course, Canada came from the United Kingdom.
00:29:56.580 Some of...much of our traditions, legal, historical, constitutional, parliamentary, cultural, come from the United Kingdom.
00:30:04.680 We are...the Queen's on our money. The Queen's on our passport.
00:30:10.600 The Queen of Britain is also the Queen of Canada.
00:30:16.520 But how can you...how can you watch that and...and feel pride in what Britain has become, at least legally, constitutional, and parliamentarily?
00:30:26.580 And it's one of the reasons we're so interested in the Tommy Robinson case, because we love the United Kingdom, but we also see it as a warning to the rest of us.
00:30:33.920 Ingrid K. Warner chips in 10 bucks, thanks, Ingrid, and says,
00:30:39.200 It's rather sad that our country would apologize for Qatar and paid him out, yet we have...we gave a half-assed apology to thalidomide babies. 1.00
00:30:48.400 Or...or a hundred other more deserving people.
00:30:52.360 I mean, an analogy I often make...or, sorry, a comparison I often make is when Trudeau said to that soldier who was injured in Afghanistan, who was asking why veterans don't have more benefits, Trudeau said,
00:31:04.740 They're asking for more than we can give.
00:31:10.420 That's the one time Trudeau finds its fiscal conservatives when he's talking to veterans, but he can scare up 10 million in a jiffy for any terrorist.
00:31:18.920 By the way, there are at least three other terrorists or accused terrorists or alleged terrorists that he's paid off at 10 million bucks a pop.
00:31:25.200 So he's about 30 or 40 million dollars so far.
00:31:27.620 D. Tyler Dunbrack chips in 12 bucks and says, Could you comment on the Faith Goldie decision, ordered to pay Bell's legal fees?
00:31:36.160 What is going on with her judges? 0.50
00:31:38.720 I saw that. I think she has to pay $43,000. 1.00
00:31:41.420 That seems excessive to...for what was probably a half-day hearing.
00:31:48.940 It is within the discretion of judges.
00:31:51.360 It's also within the discretion of judges not to order costs at all.
00:31:55.460 If there was some germ of public interest in the case, which there probably was, I didn't read the judgment, the ruling in full.
00:32:03.420 I understand it said that Faith should have gone to the CRTC rather than the particular court first.
00:32:09.840 It strikes me, though, that a $43,000 cost penalty, that sounds like a full indemnity basis.
00:32:17.200 No one gets that in court.
00:32:18.520 So I think it was a judge flexing their own political bias.
00:32:24.660 Welcome to Toronto.
00:32:26.460 All right.
00:32:27.080 I think I've caught up on the super chats.
00:32:30.840 So let's go to the next video, which I'll introduce in a second.
00:32:36.520 You know, we have a lot of...
00:32:37.840 You just asked me a question about Faith Goldie, and we fired Faith, of course. 1.00
00:32:41.100 So that was an unhappy ending.
00:32:42.860 But she did have a great tour of duty with us before that.
00:32:46.260 We have people come and go at the Rebel, and sometimes they come and go in happy ways.
00:32:52.680 We were just talking about Tommy there.
00:32:53.820 I mean, we said goodbye to Tommy, too.
00:32:56.080 It was amicable.
00:32:57.220 I mean, Tommy just is not built for a boss.
00:32:59.540 That's the short answer.
00:33:01.400 I mean, that's how I said it to Tommy when we said goodbye.
00:33:03.920 I said, Tommy, love you, mate.
00:33:05.380 But you can't put lightning in a bottle.
00:33:09.500 That's the exact phrase I used.
00:33:11.540 So it was a goodbye with Tommy, and then three months later, he was arrested and in prison.
00:33:17.580 And then we came back to help him, even though we didn't have any formal ties with him.
00:33:21.020 And it was great, actually, to reconnect with Tommy, not as boss and employee, but as sort of equals or friends or whatever.
00:33:29.740 Like, we don't have a formal—it was a lot better, frankly.
00:33:34.100 It's way more fun to be Tommy's friend than to be Tommy's boss.
00:33:38.460 That's just a tip.
00:33:39.080 So we had people come and go, Lauren Southern, Jack Posobiec, Gavin McInnes.
00:33:46.860 Gavin was hired away by CRTV.
00:33:49.020 I guess he was a little bit too hot for him, so they let him go.
00:33:52.420 We've had a lot of characters, and one of the characters we had with us this year for most of the year was Katie Hopkins.
00:33:57.480 And we sent her to Molenbeek, which is a municipality in Belgium, which is really—even its own mayor says it is the terrorist hotbed of that country.
00:34:10.580 In fact, one of the terrorists plotting and carried out the Bataclan terrorist attacks hid out there in plain sight in Molenbeek.
00:34:18.100 It's the kind of place that's so Islamic and demographic and character that no one rats out an actual ISIS terrorist to police because it's not even—they don't even regard themselves as Belgian.
00:34:32.900 They're like colonists or settlers for the caliphate. 0.96
00:34:35.820 Here's our Katie Hopkins.
00:34:38.540 She was with us at the time.
00:34:40.980 By pure chance, she encountered the mayor of Molenbeek on the street.
00:34:45.220 I mean, it's hard to imagine that that happened coincidentally, but Molenbeek is a pretty small place, and Katie was right in the center of the city, and she was walking up to some park bench or something, and it was dirty.
00:34:56.800 And I guess the mayor saw that, and the mayor came up to Katie and said, don't sit there because it's dirty. 1.00
00:35:02.960 I'm the mayor.
00:35:04.680 Can you believe the odds of that?
00:35:07.080 I'm told it's a small city, so that's not that incredible that it happened.
00:35:10.240 But Katie knew her stuff, and asked the mayor, why did you let these terrorists camp out here when you knew they were here?
00:35:19.020 Watch this interaction.
00:35:28.200 But were you told that Salah Abdel Salah was a suspected terrorist in Molenbeek?
00:35:33.380 Were you given that list?
00:35:34.700 Were you given that information in October 2016, 15?
00:35:38.380 Yes, well, we had a list, but this list was known, I just had a list of a few names, well, I would say more than 30 names, but it was not the job of the local police to follow those people.
00:35:59.880 This is the job of the federal police, and still now it's the job of the federal police.
00:36:04.540 But if 130 people died and 415 people were injured, if that was my daughter, and you said, but it wasn't our job, I would really want to, I would feel angry at you, wouldn't I?
00:36:15.540 Yes, of course, and many people were angry.
00:36:17.680 We're still angry, every day.
00:36:19.580 And I understand that French people were angry. 0.99
00:36:20.880 Are angry.
00:36:21.600 About what's happened, I understand.
00:36:23.500 Yeah, but that you were given a list, and you said it's not the job.
00:36:26.920 No.
00:36:26.940 You were given a list.
00:36:28.080 No, no, no.
00:36:29.480 This list, it was, those people are maybe supposed to be concerned by the terrorist activities, not the terrorist activities, the jihadist activities.
00:36:43.440 This is not the same.
00:36:43.840 I don't think it makes it better.
00:36:44.800 I don't think it makes it better.
00:36:45.940 And still no one did anything.
00:36:47.400 That's your feeling.
00:36:47.820 Of course.
00:36:48.420 That's your feeling.
00:36:48.820 I am angry, because I live in London, and my children are at risk every day.
00:36:53.340 Yes, yes.
00:36:53.960 And I'm living in Molenbeek and in Brussels, and we have the same, the same feeling.
00:37:00.220 But what if, given that list, you'd just gone out and grabbed those people, nothing would have happened.
00:37:04.820 Paris wouldn't have happened.
00:37:05.840 You don't understand.
00:37:07.040 No.
00:37:07.300 The police local can arrest people.
00:37:10.180 We are not able.
00:37:12.500 We can't, we just can't catch people when they, if they do something, on the fact.
00:37:23.380 But we can't arrest people.
00:37:26.040 No.
00:37:26.660 That's not how it works.
00:37:27.800 Thank you.
00:37:28.380 I do appreciate your time.
00:37:29.600 I appreciate your honesty, and I appreciate you being kind enough to speak.
00:37:31.940 I'm a little bit shocked, because foreign people, especially for people from the United States or from England. 0.87
00:37:38.660 I don't feel foreign.
00:37:39.860 And they are always going, coming back.
00:37:41.500 Angry.
00:37:42.760 No, they are not angry.
00:37:44.260 And they are always, and I know the New York Times talk about it, and you always come with this list.
00:37:51.860 We do.
00:37:52.700 And you see, well, you're guilty because you didn't make anything with this list.
00:37:57.640 We couldn't arrest.
00:37:58.780 We cannot arrest people.
00:38:00.880 I just don't.
00:38:01.380 Still now.
00:38:01.900 I can't arrest people.
00:38:03.460 But you would understand, if it was your child that was slaughtered, you would say, I wish we'd just done something.
00:38:08.660 I think you would.
00:38:09.740 I would.
00:38:10.220 Yes, but not me.
00:38:10.860 I'm an administrative authority.
00:38:15.360 I don't have the power to arrest people.
00:38:18.280 Yeah.
00:38:18.500 That's the way it is.
00:38:19.280 I'm not a sheriff.
00:38:21.060 No.
00:38:21.560 No, I understand.
00:38:22.760 I understand, and I respect you taking the time to explain it.
00:38:26.760 I'm not a sheriff of the district.
00:38:28.480 No, but somebody has to own it.
00:38:30.760 You have to make the difference between the administrative authority and police authority.
00:38:36.700 But as a mother of a dead child, you don't make that distinction.
00:38:39.720 You know.
00:38:41.860 I understand.
00:38:43.040 I understand.
00:38:43.820 But as an administrative authority, I have to respect the law.
00:38:49.620 Of course.
00:38:50.180 Thank you very much for your time.
00:38:51.180 I appreciate it.
00:38:51.800 I appreciate you talking to me.
00:38:53.240 Thank you.
00:38:55.740 What are the odds, eh?
00:38:58.760 Katie knew her stuff.
00:39:00.920 What do you think of the excuses?
00:39:02.660 Yeah, well, it's not my job.
00:39:04.580 Sure, I was sent a list of terrorist suspects in town, but stop bugging me.
00:39:10.000 Why are you such a nitpicker?
00:39:12.240 It's someone else's job. 0.67
00:39:13.660 Why are you asking me to do someone else's job?
00:39:15.760 I'm just the mayor.
00:39:18.660 Why are you asking me?
00:39:20.180 I can't believe that.
00:39:21.320 I should tell you.
00:39:22.000 I don't think we ever made this public, but that mayor had the prosecutor contact us saying
00:39:28.780 they were going to sue us for slandering and embarrassing Belgium.
00:39:33.600 I thought that's not a thing, but I did look it up, actually, and that actually is a thing.
00:39:38.620 I think it was just some saber rattling because it's been the better part of a year and they
00:39:44.620 have not followed through, but obviously Katie struck a nerve there because they threatened 1.00
00:39:49.560 to sue her.
00:39:50.920 David Anderson, chips in 20 bucks.
00:39:52.360 Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah, Ezra.
00:39:54.200 Keep up the great work and see you in 2019.
00:39:56.340 Well, that's very nice for you.
00:39:57.280 Thank you very much.
00:39:59.140 And yeah, we're going to be four years old in February.
00:40:02.520 That's pretty cool.
00:40:04.540 Let's check the time.
00:40:05.520 How much time we got is 1239.
00:40:06.680 I have three more clips here.
00:40:10.000 The first one's a little bit, the next one's a little bit self-serving, but you know what?
00:40:13.780 It was a very fun moment for me.
00:40:16.120 And will you indulge me for about like two minutes?
00:40:20.460 Because, you know, I showed you some vids from some of our different personalities.
00:40:26.540 Sheila in Poland, Sheila in Morocco, David in Mexico, Kian in Edmonton, Katie in Belgium.
00:40:32.380 Um, I don't travel as much as I'd like because I got to be here in, in, in our world headquarters
00:40:40.760 and I have to do a show every day for the world headquarters and, uh, you know, I got
00:40:45.380 a family.
00:40:45.860 I don't want to take off a week and travel the world.
00:40:48.840 Um, as much as I might otherwise.
00:40:55.640 But I, but I did take it upon myself to go to London for Tommy's travails because I knew
00:41:00.720 him personally.
00:41:01.580 It felt like a personal mission.
00:41:03.340 I have a law background.
00:41:05.240 I, I, I worked with Tommy before I knew about contempt.
00:41:08.340 So I, I, it was just like a, it was only something I was a fit for, you know?
00:41:12.820 Uh, cause I, I had known Tommy's court problems when he was with us.
00:41:19.300 So I felt like I was completely up to speed with who is Tommy?
00:41:23.180 What is his legal history?
00:41:25.360 What's his history in regards to contempt of court and British judges?
00:41:30.920 So there was no way I could have briefed anyone on that to take that.
00:41:33.300 I had to do that myself.
00:41:35.000 And I flew to London, I think five times this year.
00:41:43.520 And I'm not going to complain about it, even though it's seven hours each way, because
00:41:46.460 Avi Yamini flew there twice from Melbourne, Australia.
00:41:49.840 That's 25 hours each way.
00:41:51.120 If a guy's going to spend 25 hours each way in a plane, you cannot complain for spending
00:41:55.020 seven hours each way in a plane.
00:41:56.240 So I won't complain.
00:41:57.580 But I did a lot of reports.
00:41:58.940 I did a ton.
00:41:59.620 And you can see them all at TommyTrial.com.
00:42:02.120 If you're curious, I probably did, uh, 40 videos.
00:42:06.000 I'm just estimating.
00:42:07.760 Um, and, uh, when I started, I was pretty unknown in the UK.
00:42:12.000 I mean, I had never done a video in the UK.
00:42:15.220 Tommy never mentioned me.
00:42:16.080 Why would he?
00:42:17.460 But over the course of the summer, I, as I fought in the court of public opinion and
00:42:21.520 helped a little bit with their fight in the court of law, uh, I guess Tommy's army saw
00:42:26.160 me as a source of information.
00:42:27.320 So, uh, when Tommy was finally freed at the, uh, old Bailey courthouse a couple months ago,
00:42:34.980 I went up on the stage and said a few quick words.
00:42:38.060 And then there was this spontaneous moment, you know, it was touching and it was quite
00:42:41.800 something when 2000 people sing a little song for you, that's never happened to me before.
00:42:47.740 Just take a look.
00:42:48.520 Let me, let me, uh, have my own, uh, reminiscence here for two minutes.
00:42:53.820 And I know this is self-indulgent, but this was a fun moment for me.
00:42:57.280 Take a look.
00:43:01.140 I want to thank, I want to thank every single person who showed me support.
00:43:06.740 When I come out, my head was all over the place and I couldn't even deal with this.
00:43:11.640 Make sure it's real.
00:43:13.100 Hey strong!
00:43:13.860 Yay! 0.99
00:43:14.800 Hail, Hail, Hail,
00:43:38.780 Well, that was pretty fun just watching that now.
00:43:52.620 Boy, you know, my face went red, didn't it?
00:43:55.100 It's always a little bit red, I guess.
00:43:56.400 In the background there, you saw Avi Yamini.
00:43:58.280 He was wearing the armchair.
00:43:59.460 And there was Gerard Batten, the head of UKIP.
00:44:01.380 And I think Janice Atkinson was a member of the European Parliament.
00:44:04.080 So there was a good crew of folks there.
00:44:05.260 That was a really fun day.
00:44:06.160 And, of course, Tommy right in the front, he was feeling like a million.
00:44:08.980 Because, of course, the recorder of London, which is what they call the senior judge of the Old Bailey, said he could basically go.
00:44:15.220 So that was a very fun day.
00:44:16.360 And it felt like the culmination of several months of effort.
00:44:19.900 And, no, that was just quite a surprise.
00:44:23.320 And even just watching it again now, I have those same feelings of, whoa, that was pretty good.
00:44:29.300 That was pretty great.
00:44:30.140 I won't lie.
00:44:31.180 That felt great.
00:44:31.840 So thank you for that.
00:44:33.320 And I have a little bit of fun news for you about Tommy in the new year.
00:44:39.260 So let me just tease you with that.
00:44:41.000 I'm sorry that I won't tell you the whole story.
00:44:43.180 But I'll tell you more in the new year.
00:44:44.900 Check the clock.
00:44:46.080 It's 1244.
00:44:47.260 Have I been up to date with all the Super Chats? 1.00
00:44:51.600 Yeah.
00:44:52.220 Okay.
00:44:52.840 So there's two more clips I want to show you.
00:44:57.420 And I think we can get through them.
00:44:58.840 And then I'll take some more questions.
00:45:01.780 I've read all the Super Chats. 0.96
00:45:03.640 If you read the Super Chats, I will.
00:45:06.260 If you make a Super Chat, I'll read it.
00:45:07.500 But other than that, I'm just going to hold off on the regular chat until I get through these next videos.
00:45:15.580 I mentioned some of the world travel we do.
00:45:17.980 And you know what?
00:45:18.660 It's sort of fun.
00:45:19.700 Like, I enjoy going to London.
00:45:22.080 It's a beautiful city.
00:45:23.860 The flight didn't bug me.
00:45:24.980 I would sleep.
00:45:25.940 I would always take the night flight over.
00:45:27.560 I'd sleep.
00:45:27.920 I enjoyed the banter with the cabbies.
00:45:32.360 I enjoy the, you know, it's when you live in London, I imagine you grow numb to how amazing it is.
00:45:38.240 The history, the architecture, every street has a story.
00:45:42.640 You probably take it for granted if that's all you know.
00:45:45.720 But when you're from one of the, well, from the Commonwealth as we are here, it's sort of like a homecoming in a way.
00:45:51.960 Of course, there's many things about the UK today that are unrecognizable.
00:45:55.600 But that's a different story.
00:45:57.920 And my point is, I enjoyed that trip, but I would always come back really quickly.
00:46:08.280 And same thing with most of our people.
00:46:15.780 Like when Sheila was in Poland, when David was in Mexico.
00:46:19.220 Like Mexico is nice as a tourist, but David did not go to resorts.
00:46:22.880 You saw where David was.
00:46:23.980 He was in very untouristy parts.
00:46:29.320 And they were sleeping in shack-style hotels.
00:46:34.260 And Sheila was in Poland, not staying at the five-star hotel.
00:46:39.620 She was working full tilt with our cameraman.
00:46:41.340 So, it's not a party, although it's interesting and it's travel.
00:46:49.780 It's a very different way of traveling than the CBC state broadcaster sends their journalists.
00:46:54.300 Or than the UN delegates send their journalists.
00:46:56.580 So, we did send David Menzies to Marrakesh this year, where they weren't having a global warming conference.
00:47:03.600 They were having a UN Global Compact for Migration conference.
00:47:09.600 And so, I threw in that preamble, because it sounds like fun touristy visits, but I want to let you know that these guys work.
00:47:18.000 So, we were there gathering facts and doing our best job.
00:47:21.180 But we're the only people in Canada who criticize this UN Global Pact for Migration.
00:47:25.540 And we're one of the few outlets in the world, frankly, that do so.
00:47:28.360 Because all the mainstream media either ignores it, or says, oh, this is wonderful.
00:47:34.280 Or if you press them, okay, there's a lot of concerning things in it, but it's not binding, so don't worry.
00:47:40.540 So, we go against the grain.
00:47:42.760 One of our mottos here is the other side of the story, telling the other side of the story.
00:47:47.340 So, in the same week, an official talking point went out in Canada.
00:47:53.040 Demonized the rebel.
00:47:53.820 And so, we did a mashup of Canada's immigration minister, who himself is a Muslim refugee from Somalia.
00:48:03.240 And he wants to open the gates to endless migration.
00:48:06.320 And Justin Trudeau, and listen to their exact wording.
00:48:08.460 They literally were reading from the same script.
00:48:10.920 It's sort of embarrassing when someone is writing a script for your prime minister,
00:48:15.160 and it's the same word for word as for your immigration minister.
00:48:17.640 You think, oh, so neither of them are really the boss, since there's someone who's scripting even your prime minister.
00:48:24.040 But watch this mashup we made.
00:48:25.320 I sort of like it.
00:48:26.000 It is disappointing to see the conservatives and the member opposites engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.
00:48:37.280 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.
00:48:43.300 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.
00:48:49.660 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.
00:49:01.260 I like that mashup.
00:49:05.260 I like that mashup.
00:49:06.180 It's a little weird, but they were literally saying the same words from the heart, though.
00:49:11.480 I take it as a great badge of honor that two globalists, open borders extremists, think that the rebel is the source of the other side of the story.
00:49:24.680 And we have asked, in writing and verbally, what conspiracy theory they're talking about.
00:49:32.460 I don't know what conspiracy theory they're talking about.
00:49:34.180 We read the 34-page document and commented on it, and David attended the Morocco event.
00:49:42.060 They wouldn't let him in the actual conference building, but we went around the event like Sheila did for the Global Warming Conference.
00:49:48.140 So I don't know what conspiracy theory they're referring to.
00:49:50.220 I don't think they know.
00:49:50.940 I think someone has to give them a cue card with their answer for that.
00:49:53.720 But, in fact, I think that we're the only people in the country in journalism who have actually read the agreement.
00:50:00.780 Do you really think Justin Trudeau has read the agreement?
00:50:03.260 All right, it's 1249, and we have one more video.
00:50:09.520 And it touches on some of the events that we do at the Rebel.
00:50:14.240 We do events.
00:50:15.200 We have a big event in Toronto every year called The Rebel Live, where we have close to 1,000 people join us for one day, and we have great speakers.
00:50:23.720 In the past, Jordan Peterson has been a speaker.
00:50:30.000 Doug Ford, before he was Premier of Ontario, was a speaker.
00:50:33.420 Lindsay Shepard has been a speaker at, I think, three of our events now.
00:50:38.860 We have an event in Calgary.
00:50:41.000 And recently we had Maxine Bernier speak to us.
00:50:43.900 Now, I should tell you that we invited the leader of the Federal Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, as well.
00:50:49.180 And we invited the leader of the new People's Party, Maxine Bernier, who was Andrew Scheer's rival.
00:50:55.160 We invited them both on identical terms.
00:50:57.660 Come, give a speech, speak whatever you want, Q&A, both keynote speeches, whatever.
00:51:02.720 And we made the same invitation to Jason Kenney, by the way.
00:51:05.920 But the problem with Jason Kenney, Andrew Scheer, is that although they actually agree with us on probably 99% of things, they're afraid to say so, because the mean girls in the media party will criticize them for hanging out with the rebel.
00:51:20.640 And I know this because I have enough friends in both of these parties to talk to them and say, look, Ezra, if we do an interview with the rebel, if we're seen with the rebel for a week, all the mean girls, the Rosemary Bartons, the Wendy Menzleys, the Paul Wells, the Althea Radges, the post medias will rag on us.
00:51:35.580 And I said, well, who cares?
00:51:37.020 Why are you letting the media determine who you can talk to and what you can say?
00:51:41.860 But they're timid.
00:51:43.420 And they're making the mistake of thinking that, no, I swear I can make him love me.
00:51:47.240 Yeah, he beats me, but he hits me because it's only because he loves me.
00:51:51.100 It's like they've got what used to be called battered women syndrome. 0.93
00:51:55.120 Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney are terrified of the media.
00:51:57.980 But look, guys, they're going to hate you no matter what you do.
00:52:00.400 How about be yourself?
00:52:02.820 Maxime Bernier doesn't suffer from the same lack of confidence.
00:52:06.720 So he came to speak to us at our Rebel Live event.
00:52:10.780 And let me say, I've said this publicly, I think Maxime Bernier should have stayed in the Conservative Party.
00:52:15.140 I think what he's doing is splittist.
00:52:17.800 And I think he would have been the heir apparent when, I think it's a when, it might be an if.
00:52:23.760 Andrew Scheer loses the next election.
00:52:25.580 Maxime Bernier could have been there to catch the prize when Scheer dropped it.
00:52:30.020 Who knows?
00:52:30.380 Maybe Scheer will win.
00:52:31.140 I don't know.
00:52:32.260 So I think Maxime should have stayed within.
00:52:35.680 But he's out.
00:52:36.180 And that's a fact.
00:52:36.800 And he's a newsmaker.
00:52:37.560 So we invited him to give a speech.
00:52:39.180 And I've got to say, it's tough not to like the guy.
00:52:42.880 He's likable.
00:52:43.540 He's charismatic.
00:52:44.540 He's a good communicator in French.
00:52:46.920 He's got pretty good English.
00:52:48.340 But most of all, he's bold.
00:52:50.420 And even the fact that he came to our conference, despite the mean girls all clucking,
00:52:54.320 oh, you went to the Rebel.
00:52:57.180 You went, yeah, yeah.
00:52:58.840 And he'll even talk to the CBC despite their fiasco, their Me Too fiasco of Jeanne Gomesche.
00:53:04.320 Who would ever talk to the CBC again after that fiasco?
00:53:07.900 Well, I mean, I guess you talk to them because not everyone's a Jeanne Gomesche and because
00:53:12.220 you want to talk to the CBC's viewers.
00:53:14.200 But why would, like, every media, like, I don't even understand the idea of, I don't even
00:53:19.280 know why.
00:53:21.040 But the mean girls don't want the Rebel to be treated as equals to them. 1.00
00:53:25.740 But we're not equals to them.
00:53:26.820 We're bigger than them.
00:53:29.100 We have 1.1 million subscribers on YouTube.
00:53:31.360 On any given day, CBC's The National gets, what, 300,000 viewers?
00:53:36.660 So I don't know.
00:53:37.480 I mean, it doesn't hurt my feelings particularly.
00:53:39.160 I just think it shows a sign of lack of courage on the part of Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney.
00:53:43.240 But Maxime Bernier did indeed come to our conference.
00:53:47.580 I think Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney would have been very well received, by the way.
00:53:51.340 And they could have made their case.
00:53:53.000 Instead, they let Maxime Bernier have our entire audience.
00:53:56.700 I can't remember how many people.
00:53:57.820 I think he had 600 people there.
00:53:58.980 And Bernier had them all to himself.
00:54:00.980 And I should tell you, a lot of them were skeptical.
00:54:03.380 They called them a splittist.
00:54:04.640 They said, why?
00:54:05.240 But after he gave a really good talk and answered questions, I have to say, every single person
00:54:10.600 in that room who liked him liked him more.
00:54:13.880 Or who didn't like him, well, they liked him, they disliked him a little bit less.
00:54:18.360 And he turned around people.
00:54:20.020 And frankly, these are grass tops, political activists.
00:54:22.440 And Kenney and Scheer were foolish not to be there, too.
00:54:25.160 So without further ado, here's just a couple of minutes, just a couple of minutes, chosen
00:54:28.520 almost at random, from Maxime Bernier's speech to our Calgary conference.
00:54:35.000 And the last one, the last one for Ezra.
00:54:40.200 Yes, cutting the CBC budget.
00:54:42.800 Yes, I'll be pleased to do that.
00:54:53.200 I'll be pleased.
00:54:55.660 You think that CBC is bad?
00:54:58.800 Radio Canada in French, it is worse.
00:55:01.860 So, on these and many other issues, the Conservative Party has nothing specific to offer.
00:55:14.500 On the master's head of my blog, there was for many years a sentence that summarizes my approach
00:55:23.680 to politics.
00:55:24.520 If you want conservative principles to win the bargain of ideas, you have to defend them
00:55:33.900 openly, with passion, and with conviction.
00:55:38.840 I have been defending the same small government principles since I entered into politics 12 years
00:55:54.320 The specific policies that I proposed during the leadership campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada
00:56:02.160 are the same ones that form the basis of the People's Party platform.
00:56:10.480 With me, you know what you are getting.
00:56:16.400 What about Andrew Scheer's Conservative?
00:56:18.560 A year and a half after becoming the leader, Scheer is still an unknown quantity.
00:56:30.640 Most Canadians didn't know who he is and what he really stands for.
00:56:37.200 The Party has to run ads on TV to make sure Canadians have some idea of who he is.
00:56:45.340 We know he is against the carbon tax, against illegal immigrants, and for pipelines.
00:56:54.260 That's fine.
00:56:55.500 We all agree with this.
00:56:58.380 But what else?
00:57:00.300 The Conservative Party still has no platform for the next year's election.
00:57:05.480 They keep saying they will unveil bits and pieces of it in the coming months.
00:57:11.960 Do you know why they are not ready?
00:57:19.300 Yeah, you don't know why, but I'll tell you why.
00:57:22.020 It's because they are too busy and they are still doing polls and focus groups.
00:57:30.180 They are too busy to do polling and focus groups.
00:57:33.300 That's why.
00:57:34.580 It's not about principle.
00:57:35.980 It's about pandering.
00:57:38.620 They are trying to determine.
00:57:44.320 You know, I thought he made a strong case.
00:57:47.660 There are flaws to his case that I pointed out before, but he went into that room of Conservative supporters and I think he won people over.
00:57:56.200 And I see that he is leading, at least in terms of tweets and questions and question period or written questions or petitions.
00:58:07.440 I believe that it was his opposition to the Global Pact for Migration that caused Andrew Scheer to do that.
00:58:12.680 A few weeks ago, it became apparent that Andrew Scheer has a new Twitter team because, lo and behold, Andrew Scheer says a lot more like Maxime Bernier on Twitter these days than he did before.
00:58:24.760 And I think Andrew Scheer's weird meeting with Kevin O'Leary was an attempt to show that he's really tough, just like Maxime.
00:58:33.980 By the way, all of these things I think are good.
00:58:37.180 Maxime is actually changing the Conservative Party from without.
00:58:41.440 I had hoped that he would change it from within, but he is shaping it.
00:58:45.200 And I can tell that Gerald Butts and Justin Trudeau hate it.
00:58:49.260 All right, well, I've gotten through the clips that I wanted to get through, and we had one or two extras that was fine-tuned.
00:58:56.220 I want to thank you for being super chatters with me throughout the year.
00:59:00.120 It's something we started, and we'll try new things in 2019.
00:59:06.060 I mean, I've got about a minute left, so let me tell you what I expect to happen in 2019.
00:59:10.680 I think the biggest thing in 2019 will be the deployment of Justin Trudeau's $595 million slush fund for a journalist that he can trust.
00:59:20.720 And as Paul Godfrey, the CEO of Post Media, the largest publisher of dailies in Canada, said,
00:59:25.480 every Post Media journalist should do a victory lap around the office.
00:59:28.820 I don't know if that was an instructional memo to staff or aspirational or just symbolic,
00:59:33.880 but if you work at Post Media, you know what you think about Justin Trudeau now.
00:59:39.140 You love him.
00:59:41.100 So that's the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Sun, the Saskatoon Star, Phoenix, the Regina Leader Post,
00:59:45.100 the Montreal Gazette, the National Post, the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, just a few papers.
00:59:51.100 And, of course, the CBC was already all in, and now the Global Mail and the Toronto Star and CTV and Global, they're all in.
00:59:58.140 There is no one left unbought except for us.
01:00:01.460 That's the first thing you're going to see in the year 2019.
01:00:04.020 The second, that's the carrot, but we ain't taking the carrot.
01:00:07.820 We're not taking the slush fund bailout.
01:00:09.480 So now comes the stick.
01:00:10.660 Can you call it up quickly, the Toronto Star front page of Sheryl Sandberg and Justin Trudeau?
01:00:16.700 There was a story almost a year ago now that I think was the story of the year,
01:00:22.260 but it was reported just once in the Toronto Star.
01:00:25.420 And it was leaked to the Toronto Star by the Prime Minister's office, so they wanted it published.
01:00:30.600 They wanted to scare Facebook.
01:00:33.620 Isn't that weird?
01:00:35.000 Justin Trudeau wanted to pressure Facebook, so they leaked this story.
01:00:41.180 The Justin Trudeau, here we go, Trudeau to Facebook, fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations.
01:00:47.480 So this was leaked in February of 2018.
01:00:49.860 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned social networking giant Facebook it needs to fix its, quote,
01:00:55.060 fake news problems or face stronger regulation from Ottawa.
01:00:57.680 Well, Trudeau told Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in November he was concerned the company wasn't doing enough
01:01:04.040 to stop the spread of misleading information on their platform, the source with direct knowledge of the conversation told the Star.
01:01:10.220 Scroll down just a tiny bit more.
01:01:12.400 Facebook has been under intense, blah, blah, blah, a little bit further.
01:01:15.460 And here's what's so terrifying, the last paragraph there, as Canadian political parties prepare for the 2019 federal election,
01:01:25.400 the source said Trudeau suggested Ottawa could intervene if Facebook doesn't adequately address the issues.
01:01:33.500 So the source is obviously Trudeau's communications director or even more likely Gerald Butts, the principal secretary.
01:01:39.960 So he's saying, all right, for those people who don't take the carrot, there is the stick.
01:01:44.300 And he specifically said in 2019, I want to weed out any untrustworthy news that I can't trust.
01:01:52.060 That's the second part of 2019.
01:01:54.880 You'll see attacks on the only independent media in this country.
01:01:58.360 It may come directly from the liberals.
01:02:01.320 It may come in the form of nuisance suits, for example.
01:02:04.480 But I think much more likely we'll just wake up one day and our Facebook will be gone.
01:02:09.840 Maybe our YouTube will be gone.
01:02:12.160 Maybe our Twitter will be gone.
01:02:13.480 No fingerprints, no appeal, no lawsuit, no process, no transparency.
01:02:18.300 It'll just happen.
01:02:20.840 And you saw Trudeau himself wanted it to happen.
01:02:23.960 Well, we'll do our best to fight.
01:02:26.420 2019 is going to be a very exciting year for Canada, for Alberta, which has an election, for the world.
01:02:32.300 Will Tommy Robinson be arrested again?
01:02:34.500 What will happen in Europe?
01:02:36.200 What will happen in the United States with Congress now in the hands of Democrats?
01:02:39.880 We'll be there to cover it all.
01:02:41.260 And I hope you'll be there with us.
01:02:43.480 Until the new year, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, goodbye.
01:02:49.200 Goodbye.
01:02:49.560 Goodbye.
01:02:50.080 Goodbye.
01:02:52.080 Bye-bye.