Rebel News Podcast - September 14, 2018


Here's what would happen if Trump put a tariff on Canada's auto industry


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What would happen if Donald Trump slapped a 35% tax on all Canadian-made cars imported to the U.S. if he threatened to slap a similar tax on American cars made in Mexico? What would Canada do in the event of such a scenario?

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, what would happen in the hours and days after Trump puts a tariff on our auto industry?
00:00:06.900 It's September 13th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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00:00:25.840 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:36.800 Yesterday, I asked Manny Montenegrino, our in-house NAFTA negotiations commentator,
00:00:42.920 what he thought would happen if the NAFTA negotiations fail.
00:00:46.540 It's the realm of hypothetical situations and guesswork scenarios,
00:00:50.080 but when major companies enter into major complex negotiations,
00:00:54.080 they surely map out different scenarios, right?
00:00:57.260 Worst case scenario, best case scenario, most likely scenario.
00:01:01.300 When military plans are drawn up, different scenarios are war-gamed.
00:01:05.280 Same thing for banks, especially national banks.
00:01:08.440 Economists model the future, make predictions.
00:01:11.240 I suppose in a way that's what all of us are trying to do in our own ways.
00:01:14.980 Figure out the future and then figure out what to do to make the future as good as we can.
00:01:19.200 Maybe that's even a kind of description of life itself.
00:01:21.920 So will you permit me if I engage in some guessing, some brainstorming?
00:01:27.040 I'm not an economist.
00:01:27.840 I'm not an expert in any particular discipline,
00:01:30.200 but I want to think it through at least a little bit politically.
00:01:33.620 Let's start with what experts have already said in public.
00:01:37.500 They are testing Donald Trump's main threat of putting a 20% tariff
00:01:42.940 on all Canadian-made cars imported to the United States.
00:01:46.440 I mean, think about it. If a new vehicle in Canada was going to cost $50,000
00:01:50.500 and you slap on a 20% tariff, now it's going to cost $60,000 for the same thing.
00:01:56.520 Well, obviously an American would buy the same or similar car made in the USA instead and save 10 grand.
00:02:02.260 Or put it another way, since there are only a few different car companies in the world,
00:02:06.320 they maybe would just move their factories to America.
00:02:09.460 So the cars from them would not be subject to the tax.
00:02:12.640 They might choose to leave enough factory capacity behind in Canada to service the Canadian market.
00:02:17.400 It's a respectably sized market, one-tenth that of the United States.
00:02:21.180 This is as big as California.
00:02:23.360 But they pull any excess capacity that right now is being used to export almost a million cars to the U.S. duty-free.
00:02:29.600 They just move that all down to Michigan or Ohio, which is exactly what Trump wants.
00:02:36.180 It's exactly what he's been talking about for years, decades, in fact, by American, hire American.
00:02:41.360 It's what he stands for.
00:02:42.620 I mean, for a lot of pundits, the 2016 election was about gossipy things, fun things, ideological things, emotional things,
00:02:48.880 aesthetic and stylistic things, Trump's vulgarity, Hillary Clinton's dishonesty.
00:02:53.500 And for millions of Americans in the Rust Belt, though, it was only about jobs.
00:02:58.060 Of course, I've shown you this clip before.
00:02:59.760 I'll never stop showing it.
00:03:01.740 Michael Moore, of all people, said it the best.
00:03:05.520 Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said,
00:03:15.760 if you close these factories, as you're planning to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico,
00:03:21.080 I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back, and nobody's going to buy them.
00:03:28.060 It was an amazing thing to see.
00:03:31.180 No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives.
00:03:38.640 And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the Brexit states.
00:03:48.820 That's what it was about for so many people.
00:03:53.100 What if Trump does that, that stuff?
00:03:57.360 I think he wants that.
00:03:59.200 I think he wants to bring the factories back.
00:04:02.580 And I'm starting to agree with Manny that Trudeau, well, that Trudeau actually wants the tariffs, too.
00:04:09.380 I think he wants a fight over NAFTA, too.
00:04:11.660 We showed you yesterday, proof of this.
00:04:13.040 This is what made me ask Manny.
00:04:15.940 Chrystia Freeland came back from NAFTA negotiations in Washington to appear on a panel discussion about how to deal with international tyrants.
00:04:22.320 This video we're showing on the screen again right now, this was the video that started her talk.
00:04:28.900 It demonizes Donald Trump as a tyrant, and it compares him to Vladimir Putin and China's dictator Xi.
00:04:40.180 And when the video ended, Chrystia Freeland, our foreign minister, basked in applause and smiled with approval.
00:04:47.440 So you don't do that if you're negotiating in good faith with Donald Trump to get a deal.
00:04:51.940 So let's assume both sides want NAFTA to fail.
00:04:56.140 Trump wants to do what Michael Moore hoped he would, bring the factories back.
00:04:59.900 Trump wants to bring the jobs to the American heartland.
00:05:02.800 That's who votes for him.
00:05:04.080 He believes in it economically and strategically, and it would certainly lock up the 2020 election for him.
00:05:09.300 Trudeau wants NAFTA to fail.
00:05:11.120 Why?
00:05:11.680 It's harder to understand.
00:05:14.000 So he can portray himself as the great defender of Canadian honor against the evil Donald Trump.
00:05:18.540 That's what he wants domestically, because the Canadian media party will love him even harder if he fights Trump so openly.
00:05:26.040 And Trudeau has always preferred foreign countries to his own, so he wants the love of every disgruntled leftist in Europe and every tinpot dictatorship in the third world.
00:05:35.220 What's ironic about that is that most of the world has actually already readjusted themselves to Donald Trump.
00:05:41.000 Whether it's North Korea or Israel or Saudi Arabia or Italy or Japan, they're over any aesthetic qualms they have with him.
00:05:47.820 They've decided it's in their interest to work with America, no matter who America's president is.
00:05:53.420 And, in fact, if they can crack the code for how to work with Donald Trump, maybe things can even be better for them.
00:05:58.620 I think Japan has done that.
00:05:59.780 I think the most amazing result is Mexico, of all the countries.
00:06:04.220 Mexico that Trump used to bash, they just got to deal with Trump.
00:06:08.620 But Trudeau still wants to be the world's anti-Trump personality.
00:06:13.480 And Trudeau's circle of friends, his staff, his cabinet, his media party chums, they all agree with him.
00:06:17.460 Okay, enough preamble.
00:06:18.800 Let's get to my predictions.
00:06:20.000 And I'd like your thoughts about whether or not you agree with me, you think I've forgotten certain things.
00:06:24.240 Let's start with the experts, okay?
00:06:26.200 I've shown you this document a few months ago from Scotiabank that looks at several scenarios, including this one.
00:06:32.360 Canada, the 20% tariff on trade with the U.S. causes an economic recession in Canada.
00:06:37.820 Canada output shrinks by 1.8% in 2020, which would mark the first annual GDP contraction in Canada since 2009.
00:06:48.200 So the worst recession in a decade.
00:06:50.120 I believe it.
00:06:51.100 Here's TD Bank.
00:06:52.340 Here's what they say would happen.
00:06:54.680 Given the concentration of the auto sector, Ontario bears the brunt of the impact.
00:06:59.060 With growth reduced by as much as two percentage points, significant job losses also occur.
00:07:03.420 Up to one in five Ontario manufacturing jobs could be at risk.
00:07:06.740 This analysis includes only direct impacts.
00:07:10.400 Supply chain and income shocks could magnify the economic impacts.
00:07:14.160 So one in five manufacturing jobs, just gone.
00:07:18.700 That's devastating.
00:07:19.660 By the way, it's not going that great right now.
00:07:22.140 Anyways, I don't know if you saw this the other day.
00:07:23.720 Here are the latest figures from just last week.
00:07:26.580 You know, every month the jobs report comes out for the previous month.
00:07:30.500 Let me quote to you the headline here.
00:07:32.420 Canada's volatile employment report shows major job losses in August.
00:07:36.200 I'll read a little bit from the story.
00:07:37.340 The economy lost 51,600 net jobs last month in a decrease that helped drive the national unemployment rate to 6% up from 5.8% in July.
00:07:48.520 Statistics Canada reported Friday in its monthly job force survey, labor force survey.
00:07:54.280 Can I just read one more line?
00:07:55.600 Ontario lost 80,100 jobs last month after gaining 60,600 in July.
00:08:00.640 So back to the TD Bank prediction, significant job losses also result with roughly 160K net positions shed relative to status quo.
00:08:11.220 Almost all of these losses would occur in Ontario.
00:08:15.200 So let's get down to predictions, okay?
00:08:17.040 Here's how I think it'll go down if it happens.
00:08:18.860 I think Trump will just let NAFTA expire.
00:08:22.020 I think that's what Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau are on track to do also.
00:08:25.560 Just let it peter out.
00:08:26.540 Now, if getting a deal where urgent and important, Freeland would have stayed down in Washington instead of coming up to Toronto and attend that weird anti-Trump rally.
00:08:36.820 So she's not trying.
00:08:38.040 She's doing as little as possible.
00:08:39.280 She's out in Saskatoon today.
00:08:41.020 As you know, Donald Trump tried to telephone Justin Trudeau last month.
00:08:44.240 Trudeau didn't even take the phone call.
00:08:46.740 So yeah, we're just drifting now.
00:08:48.760 So the U.S. Congress has been notified of Trump's deal with Mexico.
00:08:52.500 Under the U.S. system, the president needs Congress's approval to sign a trade deal.
00:08:57.620 They've already been sent the U.S.-Mexico deal.
00:09:00.240 And it says right in it that Canada can join if Canada wants to.
00:09:04.220 That doesn't look like it's going to happen.
00:09:06.940 Now, some people think that Congress will say no to this Mexican deal.
00:09:10.280 What, to save Canada?
00:09:11.500 They're dreaming.
00:09:12.340 It's a deal that every blue-collar American can love because it limits cheap Chinese parts from being used in Mexican-made cars. 0.99
00:09:19.860 And it requires a certain proportion of Mexican autoworkers to be paid almost U.S.-style wages. 0.81
00:09:25.100 And it brings in other U.S.-style regulations that will naturally boost the cost of Mexican imports to the U.S.
00:09:30.140 So it will make them less competitive.
00:09:32.020 It will make American workers so much more competitive.
00:09:34.580 It levels the playing field between American workers and Mexican workers.
00:09:38.220 Imagine being a Democrat and campaigning against a deal that protects American workers from cheap foreign imports.
00:09:44.240 That would be suicide.
00:09:44.880 The Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrats is just as opposed to the old trade deals with Mexico and Canada as Donald Trump is.
00:09:54.120 This Mexican deal may have been struck by a billionaire Republican president, but it's actually what labor unions and working-class Americans had hoped for for a generation.
00:10:03.200 It's funny that a Republican gave it to him.
00:10:04.780 So, yeah, don't count on Congress blocking it.
00:10:07.580 Especially don't count on Democrats blocking it.
00:10:10.520 So NAFTA will expire.
00:10:13.040 Trump already pushed the button, giving notice for that.
00:10:15.240 And the U.S.-Mexico deal will come into fruition.
00:10:18.080 So what happens without a NAFTA deal with Canada and the U.S., but a Mexico deal coming into place?
00:10:23.260 Well, anything.
00:10:25.420 Anything can happen if there's no treaty, no contract.
00:10:28.720 I don't think Trump would attack Canada with a tariff on our cars out of the blue.
00:10:32.860 I think Trump would say something like this tweet earlier this year where he said, Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on dairy products.
00:10:40.940 They didn't tell you that, did they?
00:10:42.460 Not fair to our farmers.
00:10:43.980 If I recall, he was in Wisconsin at that time.
00:10:46.880 Maybe he's campaigning in Wisconsin in a few months, a dairy state.
00:10:51.160 Maybe he's there for the November midterms.
00:10:53.340 And he thinks that's a good time to give Canada a little jab.
00:10:56.340 Maybe he'll wait till later, a moment where he wants something from Canada.
00:10:59.820 And he'll say, please give it to me, and Trudeau won't take the call, or Trudeau will insult him, and Trump will slap back as promised.
00:11:09.480 Look at the promise there again.
00:11:10.720 Probably through a tweet, right?
00:11:12.060 That's how Trump does a lot of these things.
00:11:13.740 Probably written something like this one.
00:11:17.840 I love Canada, but they've taken advantage of our country for many years.
00:11:22.540 And then it'll be done.
00:11:23.840 Trump can do that.
00:11:24.740 He has the executive power to put a tariff on a country.
00:11:28.020 He doesn't need to go to Congress for that.
00:11:29.100 And anyone who thinks he's bluffing, and I think there's a lot of Canadians, oh, Trump's just bluffing.
00:11:33.840 Really?
00:11:34.300 Ask China. 0.58
00:11:35.420 The biggest rival economy in the world.
00:11:37.160 Trump doesn't seem to even be close to blinking on his tariffs against China.
00:11:43.360 Why would he blink with us when our economy is a fraction of China? 0.92
00:11:47.120 He's battering China. 0.99
00:11:48.080 He doesn't care.
00:11:50.160 Anyway, so however it happens, at whatever time, the real point is what happens next, the next minute.
00:11:56.200 Well, here's a guess.
00:11:56.820 First thing, especially if it's a tweet, shockwaves on social media, right?
00:12:01.800 I mean, the U.S. business press will be concerned.
00:12:04.340 They will be.
00:12:04.820 They will point out technical challenges.
00:12:06.800 They'll point out the fact that many cars are made literally on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
00:12:11.340 Whether an unfinished car part is taken across north or across south, there will be hiccups.
00:12:17.380 Of course, there will be a pain for the auto industry.
00:12:20.640 But Trump will, here's my guess, Trump will throw them a bone at the same time.
00:12:25.760 He's been talking about what's called CAFE standards.
00:12:28.520 Have you ever heard that phrase?
00:12:29.320 It stands for corporate average fuel efficiency standards, economy standards.
00:12:33.240 It's an awful rule brought in during the bad 1970s.
00:12:36.320 They kept making American automakers have to become more and more and more environmentally extreme,
00:12:41.740 effectively banning cars with big engines or the car companies would be punished.
00:12:45.580 They're so, it's hard for companies to make SUVs or pickup trucks that are popular, for example.
00:12:50.260 It's a punitive regulation.
00:12:51.800 It's anti-science.
00:12:52.760 It was based on the paranoia in the 70s that the world was running out of everything, especially oil,
00:12:57.580 which, in fact, the opposite has happened.
00:12:59.500 We've discovered so much more oil through fracking in the oil sands.
00:13:02.600 Now the U.S. itself is the world's biggest oil producer.
00:13:04.700 So I bet, here's my theory how it's going to go down, is simultaneously as Trump hits the auto industry with these tariffs.
00:13:13.440 And listen, the auto industry is not going to like it.
00:13:15.580 It's discombobulation.
00:13:16.780 Yeah, I'm sure they would rather patriotically have a factory in America, all things being equal,
00:13:22.460 but it'll be a hassle for them to operate and move it, right?
00:13:24.900 So Trump will throw that bone to the auto industry to smooth over any pain involved with repatriating those factories to the U.S.
00:13:31.940 He'll give them their cafe fuel standards removed.
00:13:34.700 It's a guess.
00:13:36.300 I mean, Trump's good at positive distractions, isn't he?
00:13:38.500 And he's good at negative distractions, too.
00:13:39.860 I'm sure he'll refer to some slight against him and against America by Canada.
00:13:44.160 Perhaps he will, I don't know, he'll refer to Trudeau's decision to withdraw Canada's CF-18 jets from the war against ISIS.
00:13:51.480 I don't know what he'll do.
00:13:52.380 Maybe he'll talk about how Canada isn't lifting its load in NATO.
00:13:55.940 I don't know.
00:13:57.000 Something to put Trudeau on the back foot, but something that is true enough to resonate with American pride.
00:14:03.260 Of course, the immediate reaction in Canada will be rage and fury at the evil Trump.
00:14:10.880 Every left-wing activist and pundit will go full Trump derangement, including half of Trudeau's own MPs and cabinet and staff.
00:14:17.700 They'll be unable to control themselves, and I don't think Trudeau will try to control them either.
00:14:21.560 And I think a lot of bad things will be said and written in those first few hours that those people will regret,
00:14:26.920 but the Internet never forgets, I think a lot of damage will be done to the Canada-U.S. relationship by these tariffs, obviously.
00:14:35.060 But I think the insanity of the Canadian establishment's reaction will be just as bad.
00:14:41.560 I think you will see physical violence.
00:14:43.360 I know that sounds nuts, but I think you will.
00:14:46.240 You'll see violence from Toronto's alt-left, the anti-foot types.
00:14:50.400 I mean, they smash things up now with no cause.
00:14:53.080 They'll have a violent protest outside the U.S. consulate.
00:14:55.840 They'll get all whipped up.
00:14:56.620 They'll smash things.
00:14:58.040 You know, the Trump Tower in Toronto has been renamed.
00:15:00.500 It's not called Trump Tower anymore, so maybe they won't smash its windows.
00:15:03.880 But there's still a Trump Tower in Vancouver.
00:15:06.600 I'm absolutely sure it'll be attacked either in a riot style or some vandalism stunt style.
00:15:13.060 You'll see weird protests, but they won't be in support of the auto industry.
00:15:17.100 That's the thing.
00:15:18.240 They won't be pro-jobs.
00:15:20.160 We don't have pro-jobs protests in Canada.
00:15:23.320 We didn't really have any pro-jobs protests for the pipelines that were killed, for the
00:15:26.700 oil sands that were killed.
00:15:27.760 There's not going to be any pro-jobs protests.
00:15:29.760 They'll just be anti-Trump protests.
00:15:31.360 It's different.
00:15:33.020 If the left actually cared about jobs, they would have said so by now.
00:15:38.440 They would be lobbying Trudeau to get NAFTA done.
00:15:40.940 Weirdly, Jerry Diaz, the head of Canada's Unifor Union that claims to represent auto workers
00:15:46.720 here, he hasn't fought for a deal.
00:15:48.780 He's fought against one.
00:15:50.460 So no, you're not going to see anyone suddenly caring about auto workers.
00:15:54.320 They don't care about auto workers now. 0.99
00:15:56.180 They'll just be bathing in anti-Trump hatred.
00:15:59.800 I'm sure you'll see the craziest stuff from Elizabeth May.
00:16:04.040 I mean, she's crazy as it is.
00:16:06.780 She'll be the most anti-American, even though she was born in America herself.
00:16:11.220 You'll see full tilt crazy from the NDP.
00:16:13.060 I mean, they love to bash America.
00:16:16.040 But don't think for a moment that you won't have Andrew Scheer and the weak wing of the
00:16:21.520 Conservative Party join in, too.
00:16:22.800 They will probably portray themselves as sticking up for Canadian jobs.
00:16:26.120 And I think they'll mean it, too.
00:16:27.740 But I know they won't be able to help themselves.
00:16:30.300 They'll poke at Trump personally just so the CBC isn't mean to them.
00:16:34.600 The CBC will put a camera and a microphone in Andrew Scheer's face and basically say, denounce
00:16:40.780 Trump on our command, or we will say you are anti-patriotic and you're a Trump lover.
00:16:47.860 Well, we know what he does when he's put on the spot by the media like that.
00:16:51.000 I mean, he threw the rebel under the bus just so they weren't mean to him.
00:16:54.080 They will turn him into a Trump hater or they'll call him a Trumpist.
00:16:58.640 And you know he's going to cave.
00:17:00.580 For some reason, Jason Kenney of Alberta routinely pokes at Donald Trump in a weird way also.
00:17:05.680 I don't think he's going to be able to keep quiet, even though Donald Trump is the only
00:17:09.120 political leader right now building a pipeline to Alberta these days, the Keystone Excel pipeline.
00:17:13.360 I just don't think Jason Kenney is going to be able to let a shot pass by.
00:17:17.700 I think he's going to take a shot.
00:17:19.700 You'll see the left-wing globalists from around the world send their love and affection
00:17:24.600 to Trudeau for being the anti-Trump leader.
00:17:26.840 That will include every European leftist loser, of course, but it will mainly include American 0.85
00:17:32.720 leftists.
00:17:34.400 And don't forget how connected Justin Trudeau is and the liberals are with Hillary Clinton
00:17:39.920 and the Democrats.
00:17:40.720 Not just Trudeau himself, but his staff.
00:17:43.580 And remember, Democrat staffers came up to Ottawa to help run Justin Trudeau's campaign
00:17:47.320 too.
00:17:47.800 So you'll have all the U.S. Trump haters who will have a new hero.
00:17:52.340 It'll be interesting to see where Michael Moore stands, but not really that interesting.
00:17:57.040 I mean, it's just Michael Moore.
00:17:58.340 The Michigan dream will be coming true.
00:18:00.120 Factories will be coming back to Michigan.
00:18:02.040 People will be hired.
00:18:03.060 But I think Michael Moore and most of the left hate Trump more than they love Trump's jobs.
00:18:09.320 I think the Canadian stock market obviously will be slaughtered.
00:18:12.520 And the Canadian dollar will be slaughtered.
00:18:14.180 I mean, do you know one way the Canadian cars with a 20% tariff on them could still be
00:18:18.940 affordable in the U.S.?
00:18:20.020 How could that possibly be?
00:18:21.160 Well, what if the Canadian dollar fell by 20 cents in a week?
00:18:28.340 I know that sounds devastating, but think about it.
00:18:30.460 If you just discounted everything in Canada by 20%, 20% off sale, then that car would cost
00:18:39.100 the same as it did before the tariffs, right?
00:18:41.260 Americans could still afford it because they would be using American dollars.
00:18:45.020 They would be buying with their real greenbacks are mini bucks. 0.98
00:18:48.980 It's a tiny version of Venezuela where currency is worthless.
00:18:54.520 If you make money worthless enough, if you make your currency worthless enough, you can
00:18:59.020 sell anything to the world.
00:19:00.220 It just makes you poor because you're really not getting a lot for it because anything we
00:19:04.380 import, well, now we've got to pay 20% more with our cheap currency, whether it's fruit
00:19:09.680 or electronics or obviously foreign travel.
00:19:13.820 I don't think that can happen to wealthy countries.
00:19:16.280 Remember, Detroit, Michigan used to be the highest paid city in terms of the industrial
00:19:21.240 wage in all America.
00:19:22.480 Now it's an unemployed black hole.
00:19:24.560 Venezuela, as we learned the other day with Daniel Pripes, used to have a higher GDP per
00:19:28.840 capita than Canada.
00:19:29.960 Look at it now.
00:19:30.500 I'm not saying Canada will go that way or go the way of Argentina, but it is not impossible
00:19:35.560 for countries to rise and then to fall.
00:19:38.380 It's not just the auto sector that the banks all talked about in their studies because this
00:19:43.020 NAFTA fiasco, it wouldn't happen in a vacuum.
00:19:45.800 Remember, it's happening at the same time that Justin Trudeau was destroying the oil and gas
00:19:49.740 and pipeline industries and we can't get anything built and the courts and he's bringing
00:19:53.600 in Bill C-69 to make it even harder.
00:19:56.160 Look, Justin Trudeau really doesn't want any industry in this country.
00:19:58.900 So you layer this new auto tariff on top of what he's doing.
00:20:03.540 And really, would you invest in Canada's economy if you were an international company?
00:20:11.600 Not in the energy industry, that's for sure.
00:20:14.080 Not in manufacturing, for any kind of manufacturing.
00:20:18.280 And if a trade war is on, then maybe it's really on, the war.
00:20:23.440 I mean, maybe it escalates.
00:20:25.480 Trump does that sometimes.
00:20:27.060 Maybe Trump, while he's at it, wants to add, oh, access to our banking industry.
00:20:33.280 Wants to add access to our cell phone industry.
00:20:35.700 What I mean by that is that you could go and open up an account with Wells Fargo downtown
00:20:41.040 or Citibank or whatever.
00:20:42.720 I don't know what the American banks are.
00:20:44.240 That's the thing.
00:20:44.640 We don't know.
00:20:45.100 We have another choice.
00:20:46.640 What Canadian would be upset by that?
00:20:50.280 If Trump wants access to our cell phone industry, I think Canadians would love, I think Canadians
00:20:56.120 should hope we get American competitors for both.
00:20:59.240 Wouldn't you like to be able to get better interest rates, lower fees at your bank, even
00:21:03.500 if it were owned by American shareholders?
00:21:05.560 Wouldn't you like cheaper cell phone service?
00:21:07.740 Who wouldn't?
00:21:08.420 Does any real Canadian actually love our cable or bank companies or cell phone companies?
00:21:14.280 I don't think so.
00:21:15.520 Again, if a trade war is on, just like it is in dairy prices, maybe Canadians could wind
00:21:20.620 up the winners after all if Canada finally agrees to do a deal.
00:21:26.240 But in the meantime, expect every single thing to become more expensive.
00:21:29.460 So to recap, if that tariff comes on, you got a plunging dollar, you got a plunging stock
00:21:38.820 market, you got auto factories getting ready to relocate to America, same thing for the
00:21:44.100 support industries for the auto industry, thinking of relocating to America.
00:21:48.300 Or frankly, New Mexico, why not?
00:21:49.960 Now that they have a deal and we don't, investment free, total investment free.
00:21:54.060 Who would put money into any part of the Canadian economy to build a factory if those factory
00:21:58.480 products couldn't enter the U.S. too?
00:22:01.540 I suppose if the whole country became cheap enough because of a low dollar and an investment
00:22:05.180 drought, maybe someone could come in and buy things that had salvaged value.
00:22:08.840 Maybe it would be Americans, I don't know, Warren Buffett, or maybe some of Justin Trudeau's
00:22:13.840 best friends in China.
00:22:15.340 Don't laugh.
00:22:16.380 They still have a lot of foreign currency just sloshing around and Canada will be on sale,
00:22:21.140 remember.
00:22:22.380 All the banks say we'll be in a recession.
00:22:24.900 You saw their studies.
00:22:25.560 Imagine how real estate prices will fall, especially in Toronto.
00:22:29.820 I'm not just talking about individual Chinese people buying up cheap real estate personally.
00:22:34.120 I'm talking about massive investments by Chinese companies, buying Canadian companies that are
00:22:39.200 damaged or underpriced.
00:22:41.200 It's just a possibility.
00:22:43.740 Now, the media party will be unanimous about all this.
00:22:47.320 It's Trump's fault.
00:22:49.160 Trudeau's the hero who bravely fought for Canada and Canadian pride.
00:22:53.360 He protected us, or at least he protected Quebec's few thousand dairy farmers and he
00:22:58.560 protected the CBC.
00:23:00.120 Those are the last two deal breakers for Trudeau in this fake negotiation, the dairy industry
00:23:04.560 and cultural industries.
00:23:06.020 For that, he'll kill the auto industry and so much more.
00:23:10.200 The media party knows it will be the right thing to do because Trump.
00:23:13.920 But for 160,000 autoworkers, that means 160,000 families.
00:23:21.140 Yeah, I don't think they'll be able to get over the fact that they're now unemployed and
00:23:24.480 anyone whose retirement savings are now worthless because of our dollar or our stock market,
00:23:29.400 that will be hard to understand.
00:23:30.960 Anyone who's socked away their life savings in their house that's now worth 30% less, that
00:23:35.560 will be hard to understand.
00:23:36.720 And the recession and the reduction in tax revenues to the government, so the government
00:23:44.420 cutbacks to social services and the higher interest rates.
00:23:48.520 That's what a trade war with Trump will look like.
00:23:51.400 If you doubt it, ask Turkey. 0.98
00:23:54.940 Trump just tweeted about a trade war.
00:23:57.000 Bam! 0.98
00:23:58.040 Their economy went into a tailspin.
00:24:00.760 I don't want any of this to happen, by the way.
00:24:03.940 I wanted the deal Trump offered Trudeau on live TV.
00:24:07.600 Remember this?
00:24:09.200 Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United
00:24:16.300 States.
00:24:17.800 A quicker-witted prime minister would have said, you've got a deal, Donald.
00:24:21.300 Now let's go play golf since we're done.
00:24:24.980 But Trudeau doesn't want a deal, does he?
00:24:26.640 He wants a hateable enemy.
00:24:29.080 And Donald Trump wants more factories.
00:24:34.360 I think they'll both get what they want.
00:24:37.880 Everyone will be happy.
00:24:40.540 Hmm.
00:24:41.440 Except Canadian workers.
00:24:43.900 Stay with us for more.
00:24:59.080 Welcome back.
00:25:02.000 Well, I have told you that in my view, scanning the world for all the issues out there, whether
00:25:07.400 it's globalism, open borders, mass migration, terrorism, taxes, trade deals, whatever the
00:25:14.200 issue is, I still believe that censorship and political bias in high-tech companies is
00:25:21.400 the number one issue of our age because it stops us from having a conversation about any of
00:25:29.040 the other issues because you're banned or unpersoned on the internet.
00:25:34.460 And people have said, no, that's not true.
00:25:38.600 That's not true.
00:25:39.260 It's not biased.
00:25:40.280 You're exaggerating.
00:25:41.420 That's fake news.
00:25:42.440 And anyone who's thrown under the bus, well, they're radical like Alex Jones.
00:25:45.740 Well, now shocking proof of the most persuasive variety comes in the form of a videotape obtained
00:25:55.160 by Breitbart.com.
00:25:56.640 This video is of a major staff meeting at Google headquarters days after Donald Trump's 2016
00:26:06.000 presidential election victory.
00:26:08.380 It's an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting led by the CEO and the senior C-suite leaders of
00:26:17.220 the company, the chief financial officer, for example.
00:26:20.200 They're all in there.
00:26:20.960 And it can only be described as a collective corporate funeral for the Democrats.
00:26:29.820 And you can watch the entire video, which was obtained.
00:26:33.900 It's a confidential internal video of this staff meeting.
00:26:37.580 It was obtained by Breitbart.
00:26:38.500 You can see the whole video on their website.
00:26:40.260 But without further ado, let me introduce to you, again, my favorite reporter at Breitbart
00:26:46.340 who got this tape, and then we're going to go through four highlights from the video together.
00:26:51.640 Alan Bakari joins us now via Skype.
00:26:53.840 Alan, welcome to the show.
00:26:54.940 Did I properly explain the nature of this video, more or less?
00:26:58.340 We'll see it in a minute.
00:26:59.500 But is that what happened?
00:27:03.700 Yeah, Ezra, that's pretty much what happened.
00:27:06.340 So Google held these all-hands meetings.
00:27:09.020 They're called TGIFs.
00:27:11.200 They held them every week.
00:27:13.920 And this was the one right after the election.
00:27:16.620 And as you said, they're essentially a funeral atmosphere.
00:27:22.780 Hannity on Fox News yesterday described it as a funeral for America.
00:27:26.520 And this is the company that claimed they're not biased, that claimed they're welcoming to
00:27:30.520 all opinions, and at the same time, they've got top executives going on stage and comparing
00:27:35.160 Trump voters to xenophobes filled with hatred, motivated by fear.
00:27:40.500 Sergey Brin says Trump voters share the same motivations as fascists and communists and extremists.
00:27:47.740 There's so much material in this one-hour video.
00:27:52.020 I strongly recommend that all your viewers go and watch it in its entirety on Breitbart.com.
00:27:55.680 Absolutely.
00:27:56.880 And this videotape, it's marked private for internal use only.
00:28:03.040 It's amazing and so important that it was revealed.
00:28:06.780 You'll see not only the entire leadership of Google there.
00:28:10.460 Sergey Brin, the name you mentioned, he was the mathematical genius behind the Google algorithm
00:28:17.280 that got it all started 20-odd years ago.
00:28:20.160 Other senior leaders.
00:28:21.240 And you can see there's a point where the camera pans to the crowd.
00:28:25.900 It's basically their staff gathered in their large theater to get an indoctrination.
00:28:33.040 Without further ado, we have four clips, and I'm going to try and get through as many of them as we can.
00:28:37.440 Here's a first one that just sets the tone.
00:28:41.200 These are corporate leaders, and you're right.
00:28:43.840 It is like they're at a funeral for a loved one.
00:28:46.600 The loved one, in this case, being Hillary Clinton.
00:28:48.940 Here, take a look.
00:28:49.500 Most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election.
00:28:56.700 I'm glad we're getting together at a moment like this.
00:28:59.900 And I think it's a very stressful time.
00:29:02.400 It's been an extraordinarily stressful time, I'm sure, for many of you.
00:29:07.100 There is a lot of fear within Google.
00:29:09.020 I'm seeing Googlers who are full of fear.
00:29:11.220 There are people who are very afraid.
00:29:13.400 They're full of fear about the future.
00:29:15.040 They're full of fear about what the uncertainty means for them and their families.
00:29:19.120 It's uncertain for many of us here, you know, especially immigrants or minorities, women.
00:29:26.880 Women, blacks, you know, people who are afraid based on religion.
00:29:32.040 The LGBTQ community.
00:29:33.420 I would just advise us all to be calm.
00:29:36.060 You know, there's a G-Calm place that you can go to and just take a breath.
00:29:41.180 Healing is a process.
00:29:42.380 It does take time.
00:29:43.800 As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive.
00:29:49.600 It did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest.
00:29:52.580 Trump specifically, who I know many of us find very offensive.
00:29:55.340 And I've had a chance to talk to a lot of fellow Googlers, and people have said different words, similar concept.
00:30:01.760 How painful this is.
00:30:03.300 Just incredible.
00:30:04.520 The fellow with the beard is Sergey Brin, who I refer to as the mathematical genius.
00:30:08.460 But the other staff there, they're all very, very senior executives.
00:30:12.060 You know, it's one thing, Ellum, for people at a company to go out to a bar after work and shoot the breeze about the election.
00:30:18.320 And we all talk about this momentous election.
00:30:21.900 Every American, everyone around the world has an opinion on Donald Trump.
00:30:25.420 That's fine.
00:30:26.460 But this was an official staff meeting on company time at a company office with a company imprimatur.
00:30:34.640 This wasn't just some people bantering over beer and chicken wings.
00:30:38.800 This is the official corporate view.
00:30:41.960 Go ahead.
00:30:42.740 And you have to remember that this company claims to be welcoming to diverse viewpoints.
00:30:47.320 They're currently fighting a lawsuit against former employees who were discriminated against on the basis of political viewpoint.
00:30:55.300 And you can see why when Google executives are going up on stage, breaking down in tears because, you know, because of the Democratic election,
00:31:03.980 promising to use the company's resources to prevent future outcomes, brainstorming ways to make that happen,
00:31:10.540 talking about history being on their side, comparing Trump voters to xenophobes.
00:31:15.960 I mean, the list goes on.
00:31:17.560 There's just so much material here.
00:31:19.380 Well, we'll get to clips that show those very things you say.
00:31:23.460 You know, calling Trump offensive, saying these things are devastating and hurtful and a ton of bricks.
00:31:28.980 If there was a Trump supporter in that room, and out of the hundreds of people in that room, there probably was one or two.
00:31:34.240 You wouldn't dare let everyone know.
00:31:38.120 I mean, you saw the executives, if you're an immigrant, a minority, LGBT, all of those minorities are safe at Google.
00:31:45.540 They even have a Google Calm place, like a yoga Zen place.
00:31:49.660 But imagine someone standing up in that meeting and saying, well, actually, I love Google.
00:31:54.580 I'm a very hardworking person at Google and loyal employee.
00:31:58.180 But I exercise my Democratic right to vote for Trump.
00:32:01.440 The screams, they would have been fired that second.
00:32:04.760 Obviously, no one did that.
00:32:05.960 They would be too terrified.
00:32:07.060 It's like they were talking about Nazis.
00:32:10.700 You saw one guy at the end of the video ask the executives, do you see any positive outcome from the election?
00:32:18.380 And the entire audience burst out laughing.
00:32:21.300 Yeah.
00:32:22.260 I mean, the group thing is insane.
00:32:25.360 It would be like standing up and saying, I'm a Nazi.
00:32:29.000 Is that OK?
00:32:29.600 They were talking about Donald Trump and more than 60 million Trump voters as if they were Nazis.
00:32:37.320 Here, let's play the second clip.
00:32:38.860 This is from when I think the chief financial officer is very interesting here.
00:32:44.700 She talks about a conversation she had with someone in the Hillary Clinton victory night party that turned, of course, into a defeat.
00:32:52.920 She doesn't say the Democrats or Hillary Clinton or they.
00:32:59.640 She says we.
00:33:01.580 First person plural.
00:33:02.900 And she's a Google executive at a Google meeting talking to Googlers and says we lost.
00:33:08.520 We.
00:33:09.440 So it couldn't be clearer that it was just assumed that Google was part of the Democrat machine, which they were.
00:33:16.960 Take a look at the CFO named Miss Porat.
00:33:19.680 Take a look.
00:33:20.120 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday night, I was at home with friends and family watching the election returns.
00:33:27.120 And as we started to see the direction of the voting, I reached out to someone close to me who was at the Javits Center where the big celebration was supposed to occur in New York City.
00:33:40.380 Somebody had been working on the campaign.
00:33:42.880 And I just sent him a note and said, you know, are you OK?
00:33:46.040 It looks like it's going the wrong way.
00:33:48.660 And I got back a very sad, short text that read, people are leaving.
00:33:55.920 Staff is crying.
00:33:57.280 We're going to lose.
00:34:00.660 That was the first moment I really felt like we were going to lose.
00:34:07.580 And it was this massive, like, kick in the gut that we were going to lose.
00:34:11.520 And it was really painful.
00:34:13.280 It did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest.
00:34:16.340 And I've had a chance to talk to a lot of fellow Googlers and people have said different words, similar concept.
00:34:22.360 This how painful is it?
00:34:24.100 How painful is it?
00:34:25.300 She said we were going to lose.
00:34:28.140 And she's crying.
00:34:30.640 Yeah.
00:34:30.840 And, you know, actually, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Alphabet, Google's, formerly the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, who was CEO during the 2016 election.
00:34:40.440 He attended Hillary Clinton's victory party.
00:34:44.780 And he was wearing a Clinton staff badge.
00:34:48.340 That's how seriously he took it.
00:34:50.280 Yeah.
00:34:50.520 And he was offering to help the Clinton campaign win as early as 2014.
00:34:54.060 Yeah.
00:34:54.520 Incredible.
00:34:57.640 They really, I mean, the tears, the crying, the maudlin, over-the-top emoting.
00:35:04.580 There's funny memes on the Internet about people crying and shrieking at Trump's result.
00:35:12.440 And those are taken as radical examples of social justice warriors.
00:35:16.040 That is company practice at the highest levels of the executive suites in Silicon Valley.
00:35:22.760 What we laugh at as over-the-top social justice warriors, that's normal in Silicon Valley.
00:35:28.960 That's crazy to me.
00:35:30.800 Yeah.
00:35:31.460 And, yeah, at one point, the same executive, Ruth Porat, advises everyone in the audience to do a group hug.
00:35:39.380 Yeah.
00:35:41.580 You'd consider this to be like a weird, over-the-top reaction just if it was like a regular adult.
00:35:46.040 You know, just breaking down at an election result.
00:35:49.020 But, you know, these are the executives and the co-founders of the most powerful technology company in the world.
00:35:54.580 So we should all be very worried that, you know, you've got this mass hysteria at the top of this company.
00:35:59.340 You know, if there had been a death of Sergey Brin or the other Larry Page or some of the inspiring founders of the company,
00:36:09.000 I would imagine, you know, there would be tears like that and hit, like, in a gut and hug each other.
00:36:14.220 If it was actually a funeral for someone they knew personally and had an emotional, lifelong investment in,
00:36:22.460 that's how you talk at a funeral for a loved one.
00:36:25.980 That's their emotional reaction to an election defeat of a party candidate.
00:36:33.200 It's not normal, but it's normal there.
00:36:35.980 I want to show, I want to get through two more clips because you and I, it's fun to talk about it,
00:36:42.660 but people have to see the clips for themselves.
00:36:44.400 And I reiterate your invitation to our viewers to go to Breitbart.com, watch the whole vid in its entirety.
00:36:51.160 Check out this one when another senior executive says that Google, in the wake of this loss,
00:36:59.180 has to get into the arena, has to become a player even more than it was.
00:37:05.500 Take a look.
00:37:07.200 Audience question, yes?
00:37:08.400 One of the main messages I've gotten from all of you today is that this election and others like it around the world
00:37:16.420 are a hiccup in history's arc towards progress.
00:37:21.320 But what makes you so sure about that?
00:37:23.840 I mean, is this a relatively new arc, or is this the same arc that has included two world wars?
00:37:35.180 Since it's my metaphor, I'll take it up.
00:37:38.400 There are no guarantees, right?
00:37:42.220 And there are, hiccup is a kind word, history is not a linear pattern.
00:37:48.080 We do everything we can to keep it moving in a good direction.
00:37:52.240 If you look over the broad reach of any 20, 50, 100-year period, there's less death, life expectancy goes up,
00:38:01.240 people are doing better, more prosperous, the arc goes like this exponentially in terms of standards
00:38:06.920 of living around the world, yes, it's not completely smooth, it goes up and down.
00:38:11.000 And I think history teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism, that rise up,
00:38:18.000 and that's all the reason we need to be in the arena.
00:38:21.040 That's why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something catastrophic,
00:38:25.680 but instead is a blip, is a hiccup.
00:38:28.000 Oh my God.
00:38:29.200 They're actually comparing Trump's victory to the causes of the First and Second World War.
00:38:35.680 And put aside their crazy analysis, it's their prescription that I'm truly worried about.
00:38:41.320 They are now in the arena.
00:38:43.240 They are determined as a company to stop what they say as an improper choice from America
00:38:49.880 that is going down the wrong path of history.
00:38:53.500 And not just America.
00:38:55.200 That executive, Kent Walker, he talks about populists rising up around the world,
00:39:01.860 nationalism rising up around the world, and that's what he wants to stop.
00:39:05.060 He wants Google to use its global influence, its global reach.
00:39:08.260 So it's not just about suppressing populist movements in America.
00:39:12.180 It's not about suppressing the Trump movement.
00:39:13.520 It's about suppressing populists everywhere.
00:39:16.380 You know, that's a great point because, of course, shortly after the American election,
00:39:19.620 there was the French election, there was elections throughout Europe
00:39:23.000 that have similar nationalist or populist or conservative points of view.
00:39:28.300 And we saw the tech companies take a very heavy hand there.
00:39:31.720 I want to play another one, and this is what's interesting.
00:39:35.180 We saw Sergey Brin, that's the mathematical genius,
00:39:38.580 who claimed that he was an immigrant and a refugee.
00:39:41.200 And indeed, when he was a very little boy, I think he was six or seven,
00:39:45.620 he came with his family.
00:39:47.220 They emigrated from the Soviet Union.
00:39:49.600 And we all know the former Soviet Union was a terrible place. 0.85
00:39:52.760 It was a communist.
00:39:53.820 It was not a democracy.
00:39:55.380 I just want to say, Alan, because I think it's sort of funny,
00:39:58.400 I would never want to have lived in the Soviet Union.
00:40:01.740 And I think it was very farsighted of Sergey Brin's parents to apply to leave the Soviet Union in the 70s,
00:40:11.440 which when there was a brief period of time detente between Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev,
00:40:16.740 where mainly Jews said, we want to get out of Russia.
00:40:20.620 They applied for an exit visa.
00:40:22.300 They were almost always fired from their jobs right away.
00:40:24.860 But they did, in fact, get out.
00:40:27.520 And they moved to the West.
00:40:28.860 And thank God that happened for Sergey Brin's parents.
00:40:32.040 And they were free.
00:40:33.220 Their son was free and Google was created.
00:40:35.000 But that's not actually a refugee.
00:40:38.300 I mean, that's someone, I mean, if simply being born in the Soviet Union or a dictatorship like China is being a refugee,
00:40:45.820 then you've got billions of refugees.
00:40:48.420 I think he's hamming, I mean, I'm not saying that living in the Soviet Union was good. 0.89
00:40:52.240 I'm glad they left.
00:40:53.640 I'm not saying it was easy to leave.
00:40:55.380 But he was not in imminent danger, as the term refugee under the UN definition implies.
00:41:00.620 I think he's trying to ham it up.
00:41:02.420 I think he was trying to say that he was a victim, too,
00:41:07.220 instead of actually being the world's 10th richest man with a bit of a messiah complex about changing how people think.
00:41:13.720 I think there was just the cult of victimology and other people in that room had it.
00:41:18.020 Sergey Brin, who's a billionaire white guy, was sort of saying, no, no, no, no, I'm with you.
00:41:23.660 I'm a refugee.
00:41:24.700 I'm just like you.
00:41:25.700 I'm in danger.
00:41:26.220 There was something weird there about him calling himself a refugee.
00:41:29.080 Am I overstating the point there, Alan?
00:41:32.420 Yeah, I mean, the left overuses the term refugee in general.
00:41:36.960 They've used it to describe economic migrants in the European migrant crisis.
00:41:43.080 So the left overuses the term, too.
00:41:45.460 I think Sergey Brin probably has more right to claim that title than, say, the economic migrants who are flooding into Europe at the moment.
00:41:52.360 But, yeah, you're right.
00:41:54.100 They're absolutely hamming it up.
00:41:56.440 These guys are not victims.
00:41:57.760 They're the most powerful company in the world.
00:42:00.600 And, you know, we should be asking questions about whether this company requires oversight, given the amount of influence they have.
00:42:08.420 Well, perhaps I've overstated that refugee point, but I just thought you're worth $50 billion, mate.
00:42:16.060 You're not weak and vulnerable.
00:42:18.540 And if you're feeling scared and terrified, that's because you're an emotional, you lack emotional self-control.
00:42:25.120 But it feeds into the fourth and final clip.
00:42:28.140 Here is a straight white male. 0.71
00:42:30.960 And I got nothing against straight white males being one myself, who stands up at this Maoist meeting in Google and engages in some self-denunciation and calls on all others in the room to denounce themselves.
00:42:44.980 And Sergey Brin and the other leaders cheer him.
00:42:46.880 Take a look at this, Alan.
00:42:47.780 I'd like your thoughts on it.
00:42:49.200 Yes.
00:42:49.480 Or, sorry, I'll take one at each mic.
00:42:51.720 Sorry, sir, maybe.
00:42:52.940 Speaking to white men, there is an opportunity for you right now to understand your privilege in the society.
00:42:58.840 Take the opportunity to go through the bias-busting training, read about privilege, read about the real history of oppression in our country, and tomorrow night, watch 13th, the movie that is here.
00:43:08.720 If you can't watch it here, watch it on Netflix.
00:43:11.360 Discuss the issues you are passionate about during Thanksgiving dinner, and don't back down and laugh it off when you hear the voice of oppression speak through metaphors.
00:43:18.800 And I promise to do this.
00:43:25.120 Woo! 0.99
00:43:27.900 Self-denunciation, that is a...
00:43:29.760 They're applauding racism.
00:43:30.940 Sorry, go ahead.
00:43:31.520 What did you say?
00:43:33.580 They're applauding racism.
00:43:35.380 He's calling for discriminatory measures against white men.
00:43:39.160 He says white men have to take the special bias-busting force.
00:43:42.740 And instead of calling him out on, you know, clearly radical Maoist race-baiting rhetoric, all the Google executives give him a standing ovation.
00:43:56.100 That's bizarre.
00:43:57.140 And remember, Google is facing a lawsuit that says they discriminate not just on the basis of political view, but also on the basis of gender and race against white and Asian males.
00:44:06.080 And, you know, I think that's a clear example.
00:44:09.200 You've got Google executives applauding a radical race-baiting speech about white privilege.
00:44:13.340 Now, I've got to say that if there was some company, like there are little coffee shops here and there that are really political coffee shops.
00:44:22.580 I'm sure that's the same in your neighborhood, too.
00:44:24.700 They probably have a, you know, a Marxist theme, and everyone there is a vegan activist, and it's a real left-wing hangout.
00:44:31.820 But I think that's part of the coffee shop culture has been for centuries, even, probably.
00:44:38.340 And if you don't like it, you don't go to the coffee shop.
00:44:40.680 You go to the corporate Starbucks, I guess.
00:44:44.500 Google is not some corner coffee shop where you expect everyone to be a brooding, emo, left-wing, goth socialist.
00:44:54.220 Google is not just a company.
00:44:56.420 It's the most important company that can control our perception of the world because they can delete you, and you're never found again.
00:45:04.380 They can un-person you.
00:45:05.680 They can bias.
00:45:06.560 They can tilt things.
00:45:07.640 Google owns YouTube, for example, and we've suffered their demonetizations.
00:45:12.740 They've simply decided.
00:45:14.040 One of the outcomes of this meeting was they decided to demonetize any conservative social media sites, including The Rebel.
00:45:22.240 And it happened in January, two months after this meeting.
00:45:25.040 Suddenly, they turned off the taps.
00:45:26.920 They refused to give us advertising access on our millions of views.
00:45:32.100 They cut our income by 85%.
00:45:34.000 That's what happens when it's not just some corner coffee shop that's gone full social justice warrior, but the largest tech company in the world.
00:45:43.800 That's what scares me, Alan.
00:45:45.980 It's not just that these are laughable freaks, harmless in a coffee shop, sort of harmless in a university.
00:45:52.840 This is the company that controls everything we see and hear and even think.
00:45:57.780 Yeah, and it's time for Republicans to wake up and get moving on this issue because midterms are less than two months away.
00:46:08.480 This might be their last chance to fix the problem.
00:46:10.640 And we did see Brad Parscale tweeting about it, saying there needs to be an investigation.
00:46:19.940 Ronald McDaniel, the RNC chairwoman, tweeted about it.
00:46:23.140 But, you know, they've got to go beyond tweets and start taking action now if they want to avert disaster because this is a crisis for democracy.
00:46:30.120 These companies have vast, unaccountable power over the flow of information on the Internet and the decisions we make.
00:46:40.660 And it's time to address that, I think.
00:46:43.220 Yeah.
00:46:43.660 When you mentioned Brad Parscale, that's Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign manager.
00:46:49.300 One last question for you.
00:46:50.300 I've been very generous with your time, Alan.
00:46:51.640 Thank you.
00:46:52.020 I found this video riveting in its substance.
00:46:56.980 You have world-famous tech tycoons engaging in extremist behavior that you would expect from pink-haired wackos, you know, in first-year university. 1.00
00:47:09.280 Like, it's so weird to me to see billionaires acting like spoiled brat leftist trust fund kids at, you know, some Ivy League school.
00:47:19.680 That's what's substantively crazy.
00:47:22.880 It informs the discussions about bias.
00:47:25.320 But just from a sheer gotcha point of view, you got a secret internal video of a private meeting stamped confidential.
00:47:35.340 That in itself is a blockbuster.
00:47:37.360 If this were an internal, imagine if you got the ExxonMobil internal staff video after Obama's election in 2008.
00:47:47.820 I'm just making something up.
00:47:48.860 If you had a politically charged mega company that was engaging in hysterics so totally partisan, I mean, imagine if you got the Smith & Wetson or the AR-15 company video about Hillary.
00:48:06.360 It's newsworthy on the face of it.
00:48:08.600 It's newsworthy in substance.
00:48:10.580 It's newsworthy in its scale.
00:48:12.620 It's newsworthy by every measure.
00:48:14.400 Have you seen this video, your scoop here, picked up on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, our Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, your British Broadcasting Corporation?
00:48:29.360 Well, it obviously hasn't.
00:48:34.640 It's not leading those shows.
00:48:37.340 They're not going to do that.
00:48:39.480 You know, they'd rather talk about Stormy Daniels and, you know, fake Russian conspiracy theories, obviously.
00:48:44.320 But, you know, there's actually been a surprising number of mainstream reporters who, you know, admitted.
00:48:49.620 I've seen, like, more than one mainstream reporter on Twitter saying, well, I'd never link to Breitbart, but this is a good story.
00:48:55.660 Oh.
00:48:55.760 You know, the New York Times did write a piece about it.
00:49:00.160 They tried to make Google look good a little bit, but it was a fairly good write-up.
00:49:06.200 Business Insider admitted it was a good scoop.
00:49:08.980 Financial Times reporter admitted it was a good scoop.
00:49:12.460 CBC did something.
00:49:15.020 Yeah, it's not leading their coverage, but even they can't ignore it completely.
00:49:19.740 I'm very glad to hear that.
00:49:21.160 It's one thing for someone on Twitter to say, attaboy, as opposed to if they put it on TV, because I think our viewers would agree.
00:49:29.840 It's one thing for you and I to banter about this, but seeing the video yourself, you can't unsee it.
00:49:35.440 You won't unremember it, and you know how bad it is.
00:49:39.520 And I think until this video becomes as famous on TV as Donald Trump's pussy grab video, let's say,
00:49:46.900 it won't have its proper place in media coverage.
00:49:50.160 Alan, it's great to talk to you.
00:49:51.400 Thanks for spending so much time with us, and congratulations again on this international scoop.
00:49:57.420 Thanks, Ezra.
00:49:58.140 All right.
00:49:58.660 There you have it.
00:49:59.160 That's Alan Bocari, one of our favorite guests.
00:50:01.500 He's a senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.
00:50:04.820 Stay with us.
00:50:06.020 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:50:16.900 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about one of Trudeau's Syrian migrants getting 1.00
00:50:24.020 charged with murdering a 13-year-old Vancouver girl, Liza, writes, Christian refugees just 0.92
00:50:28.500 aren't in this year.
00:50:31.120 You know, I try not to criticize the Pope.
00:50:34.000 I just don't feel comfy criticizing Christians because so many leftists do so.
00:50:38.640 I don't want to pile on, and I'm Jewish myself, so I don't have the inner knowledge of things.
00:50:42.460 But I just wish the Pope would fight for Christians who were being targeted.
00:50:47.980 I mean, I saw with my own eyes what was going on in Iraq, and I know that's just Iraq. 0.97
00:50:53.000 That's how Christians all over the Muslim world are treated.
00:50:56.500 In Egypt, the president of Egypt is sympathetic to the Coptic Christian minority, but they're 0.99
00:51:01.880 attacked all the time there.
00:51:04.280 Obviously, Saudi Arabia is horrific for Christians.
00:51:07.000 I don't even think there really is a Christian population there anymore.
00:51:09.900 China, terrible for Christians. 0.99
00:51:12.080 They have an official state church that really puts communism above God.
00:51:16.440 Pakistan is a horrible place for Christians. 0.96
00:51:18.300 Nigeria, where the terrorist groups kidnap en masse Christians and force them to convert
00:51:25.140 or kill them. 0.69
00:51:27.340 I don't think I've ever heard the Pope talk about that.
00:51:31.600 Why?
00:51:32.820 Why?
00:51:33.640 I just wish he would.
00:51:37.200 Maybe it's too much to think Justin Trudeau would stand up for Christian minorities in 1.00
00:51:45.560 peril, but I just wish more Christian leaders would.
00:51:48.720 And when I saw that that left-wing church in Vancouver had sponsored this single male migrant 0.89
00:51:55.560 Muslim of military age, I was thinking, of all the seven billion people in the world, this
00:52:02.520 guy was the most deserving of your Christian charity?
00:52:06.040 I just don't get it.
00:52:09.800 All right.
00:52:11.180 Ted writes, Trudeau's actions as prime minister are putting Canadian lives at risk and, in this
00:52:15.760 case, have destroyed a Canadian life.
00:52:17.600 Well, of course, we must wait for the court to weigh the evidence and convict or acquit.
00:52:24.000 But if the police, after their massive investigation—I've never heard of an investigation that big.
00:52:29.420 If the police have charged this guy with first-degree murder, it sounds to me like they believe they
00:52:34.520 have enough to make the case.
00:52:35.840 Otherwise, I don't think they would have laid the charge.
00:52:37.520 I'm not saying he's guilty, but I'm saying I bet he's going to be convicted just based
00:52:43.320 on the amount of investigation done and the level of the charge, the first-degree murder
00:52:49.920 charge.
00:52:50.520 You don't put a charge like that if you're not confident.
00:52:53.980 On my interview with Manny Montenegreno about Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland sabotaging
00:52:58.680 NAFTA negotiations, Paul writes,
00:53:01.240 Picking a fight with Trump as a means to get re-elected is a very stupid strategy.
00:53:05.020 I don't know why we're supposed to believe that the disaster will be limited to the auto
00:53:08.800 sector.
00:53:09.420 I wouldn't assume that.
00:53:10.840 Banks, telecom, etc.
00:53:11.940 I wouldn't assume anything would be off the table.
00:53:15.380 You know, isn't it funny you say that?
00:53:16.460 I did not read this letter before I said my monologue, and I brainstormed about those very
00:53:21.760 subjects.
00:53:22.260 Now, again, it was Manny who pointed those things out.
00:53:25.160 I mean, think about the size of the cell phone cable business.
00:53:30.100 It's huge, right?
00:53:31.340 I mean, maybe cultural industries just means the CBC, but communications, I think, I don't
00:53:39.240 have the stats at my fingertips, but I think Canadians pay amongst the highest cell phone
00:53:43.480 bills in the developed world per minute for data, things like that.
00:53:49.120 And we don't have a lot of competition.
00:53:50.800 What is there?
00:53:51.160 Maybe four companies of any note.
00:53:53.620 Wouldn't it be something if Verizon and other U.S. companies came in?
00:53:58.100 And you don't have to switch if it's really important to you to give your money to the
00:54:03.280 billionaire named Rogers as opposed to the billionaire named Shah or whatever.
00:54:08.140 You know, I mean, if you really feel emotional about your cell phone company, I've never met
00:54:13.160 anyone who doesn't hate their cell phone company.
00:54:15.420 Stay with them.
00:54:16.120 But wouldn't you love it if some foreign cell phone companies came in and said, we'll give 1.00
00:54:19.760 you half price data, half price calling.
00:54:21.660 You know, that's not a special deal.
00:54:22.800 That's just how it is.
00:54:24.180 How can you say no to that?
00:54:25.420 Same with the banks.
00:54:26.440 Imagine if they said no service fees on our ATMs or any other ATMs and, you know, we're
00:54:30.840 open.
00:54:31.380 I don't know what they would say.
00:54:32.800 But wouldn't you, even if you stayed with your current bank, the introduction of foreign
00:54:38.140 competitors would make your bank get its act together.
00:54:41.220 By the way, banks and cell phone companies are very profitable in Canada.
00:54:45.020 I think competition wouldn't put them out of business.
00:54:47.820 My point is exactly how ironic it would be that Donald Trump, in fact, is the one that
00:54:53.760 actually fights for Canadian consumers.
00:54:56.980 He's the one building the Keystone XL pipeline to Alberta.
00:54:59.800 Thank you, Donald Trump.
00:55:01.240 He could be the one to bust up the dairy cartel and make food cheaper for all Canadians.
00:55:06.220 Thank you, Donald Trump.
00:55:07.240 And he could be the one to give us cheap cell phone and cheap banking.
00:55:12.100 I just don't want to pay the price of losing our auto industry.
00:55:16.100 And for the life of me, when the president of the United States says we're willing to
00:55:20.360 say goodbye to all tariffs, how could any person in the world not say, please, me now?
00:55:28.700 Is there any country out of the 200 or so countries in the world that wouldn't swap positions with
00:55:35.080 us to be geographically neighboring, culturally, linguistically, historically so tied with
00:55:40.740 America, and then to have America's president say, all right, we can just do away with all
00:55:44.960 tariffs.
00:55:46.340 Thank you.
00:55:47.380 That's the best of all worlds.
00:55:49.360 You get full access to the American economy, but you still have a border, so you don't have
00:55:53.580 to take Americans you don't want. 1.00
00:55:55.440 In Europe, the EU, they have no economic barriers, but they have what they call the Schengen
00:56:01.820 zone, where Europeans can move from Germany to France and all around, and that's what's
00:56:07.140 caused the great dislocation.
00:56:08.580 Imagine if you have full access to the American economy, no tariffs, but you still have a border,
00:56:14.280 so you could still run Canada as Canadian.
00:56:16.420 Oh my God, that's the dream of generations.
00:56:19.400 But Trudeau loves his dairy farmers, or more likely just wants to fight.
00:56:23.000 Don't get me started again, folks.
00:56:25.000 All right, well, that's our show for today.
00:56:26.280 What do you think?
00:56:26.760 I tried sort of an artistic performance art experiment of brainstorming what would happen.
00:56:31.820 If the tariffs were brought in, who knows, maybe after a few days they would be so devastating
00:56:37.100 that some grown-up would tap Trudeau on the shoulder and say, buddy, don't go forward
00:56:43.180 with this.
00:56:43.820 We've had a week of pain just from the shock of it, but there will actually be factories
00:56:49.400 shutting down in a matter of weeks if you don't pull back.
00:56:52.700 So maybe he would pull back from death's door.
00:56:55.620 But I have yet to see that grown-up figure in the liberal circles after three years.
00:57:02.000 I don't think he exists.
00:57:03.840 All right, folks, let's leave it there.
00:57:04.900 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and
00:57:09.000 keep fighting for freedom.
00:57:09.860 We'll see you soon.
00:57:23.280 Bye.
00:57:24.860 Bye.
00:57:25.780 Bye.
00:57:34.820 Bye.
00:57:35.840 Bye.