Rebel News Podcast - Hong Kong is tense and may turn violent, so here's how we plan to act

00:00:00.000 tonight justin trudeau's refugee policy has been a failure should we try bringing some 1.00

00:00:19.920 hong kong democracy activists instead it's november 20th and this is the ezra levant show

00:00:25.600 why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers

00:00:33.120 here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to the government

00:00:37.380 is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:41.320 hello i'm on the road again doing this show from well near a bunch of bushes really i'm traveling

00:00:53.040 in alberta tonight is the second of our two wexit debates last night's was great uh tonight's is

00:00:59.900 sold out it's literally sold out uh which means there's a lot of interest in it you can watch it

00:01:06.400 on youtube we're streaming it live at just after 6 p.m mountain time which is just after 8 p.m

00:01:14.100 eastern time and of course if you miss it live it'll be on our youtube page after that we've got

00:01:20.120 lauren gunter the senior columnist for the edmonton sun as well as myself kian bexty and

00:01:25.700 sheila gun reed it's going to be great lots of q a from the audience last night was a great event

00:01:30.640 um i'd like to talk about something else though because i see out of the corner of my eye things

00:01:35.200 in hong kong getting worse by the day now you might remember that a few months ago we sent our friend

00:01:42.720 avi yamini from australia to hong kong to report on the start of these democracy protests as you may

00:01:50.760 recall uh it came about from a proposed law that would allow communist china to extradite free hong

00:01:59.940 kong people to mainland china where obviously there would never be seen from again this was seen as a

00:02:05.780 great incursion on the rule of law and the separation of the communist party system in

00:02:12.860 mainland china from the rule of law independent courts system in hong kong uh it sounds rather

00:02:19.600 obscure an extradition law but everyone in hong kong knew that was the camel's nose in the tent and so

00:02:25.820 literally two million people took to the streets in a city of barely eight million imagine a quarter of

00:02:32.620 all people which is about a third of all adults protesting it was massive but china especially

00:02:38.000 under xi jinping dug in its heels um but for the first weeks maybe even months the protests in hong

00:02:45.940 kong had a celebratory feel to them almost a festival feel at least out that's how it looked like to me

00:02:52.680 here in north america let me show you some of the clips that avi yamini showed us that i think um

00:03:00.480 proved that it never nothing seemed particularly violent or dangerous it was polite hong kong

00:03:07.160 people protesting and polite hong kong police responding um there wasn't a whiff of danger rather

00:03:14.100 it felt wonderful take a look this is our duty to fight against something like something like nazi

00:03:21.120 yeah if we don't fight here now we'll lose forever it's no more hong kong there were some interesting

00:03:28.120 things that avi learned and we learned from him for example the five demands that the democracy

00:03:33.100 protesters had here they are do you know the five demands on shite so the first thing is we want the

00:03:38.860 extradition law to be completely withdrawn so kerry lam has not been promising to withdraw it so we really

00:03:44.340 want that like the government to reply to that secondly we want to set up an independent inquiry

00:03:49.840 to the police because they have been very brutal to the protester so we want an independent investigation

00:03:56.220 and then have the corresponding outcome that that is suitable in response to the police brutality

00:04:03.420 and the third thing is we want the release of all the protesters that have been arrested

00:04:09.000 fourthly we want um the uh we want uh universal suffrage should be implemented which is promised by the

00:04:16.600 basic law so our hong kong people want to choose our own chief executive the fifth one is that

00:04:22.700 we want the classification of riot to be withdrawn as well because we are not rioters and a lot of

00:04:30.460 the protests are peaceful but then they got wrongly classified as riot so we want that to be

00:04:35.780 withdrawn as well so we want at the moment what is rioters um what's it defined as um basically even

00:04:43.800 for the 12th of june protests um the government has defined as a riot but then we haven't killed

00:04:50.160 anyone we didn't do any in this indiscriminate damage or attack to civilians like the police or

00:04:56.560 the gangs did so we are simply being very peaceful sitting in or like rallying for our five demands to be

00:05:03.980 answered remember of course that hong kong was governed by the british for more than a century

00:05:09.760 and there are some hong kong people who long for those days remember this guy he wants the british

00:05:16.140 government to come back and rule us again we don't want the chinese government to rule us anymore 1.00

00:05:20.880 you you want the british to come back yes of course the chinese government is terrible what's your 1.00

00:05:27.560 message to people who who call the old british government a colonial power that used to abuse

00:05:33.580 the entire world no simply we just want the british government to come back and rule us again

00:05:40.420 is that simple okay so you think the british did well the british government did very well

00:05:46.580 of course there was a lot of talk about donald trump the only person in the world these hong kong

00:05:51.800 protesters felt could give them the hand obviously europe's not going to obviously

00:05:56.920 justin trudeau is not going to he loves communist china but there were american flags there was a little

00:06:02.880 statue of liberty there were people calling for donald trump why have we got an american flag here

00:06:07.800 today because we appreciate the american spirit we fight for freedom and democracy till death

00:06:13.560 okay um and so if if uh if you could send a message to donald trump what would it be

00:06:22.240 uh mr trump uh we are very humble and powerless people in hong kong and we know that when the

00:06:30.880 americans fight for their independence they need to pay a lot like for blood and life and we are

00:06:38.300 prepared for that and in any moment if you can help us like the american people people and president

00:06:44.960 trump please help us i would like to have this chance to thank president trump that speak uh things

00:06:52.980 in hong kong for us especially a few a few days ago he speak with a lot of uh powerful people in

00:07:00.640 different country about hong kong situation and we appreciate that and thank you for thank you for

00:07:06.600 him to help us uh speak out the the situation in hong kong my favorite moment in all of avi's

00:07:13.480 travels was when he encountered this guy and he had some advice for donald trump don't trust him remember

00:07:20.740 this china is a evil party hong kong no more to stand with china we need independence yep and what's 0.91

00:07:29.860 it what's your message to have you seen donald trump do you think he should step in donald trump don't

00:07:35.540 trust china china is asshole well that's what it was like back then there's a bit of a cat and mouse 1.00

00:07:41.140 game a lot of the protesters wore face masks and they used laser pointers to aim at police security

00:07:47.500 cameras because of course with facial recognition the chinese secret police would just harvest lists 0.93

00:07:53.280 of everyone who went there and they started cracking down on those lists i don't know if you recall but

00:07:57.660 cafe pacific which is this mighty airline based in hong kong wonderful airline always has been

00:08:03.580 its ceo was summoned by the communists and they demanded that he give them a list of every cafe pacific

00:08:13.020 employee who had ever attended a protest basically he was told to turn over his people to the communist

00:08:21.100 party and in an amazing amazing moment reminiscent of someone who saved the jews from the holocaust i

00:08:27.580 might say he gave his communist tormentors precisely one name his own what a hero obviously he resigned

00:08:36.300 but what an amazing man i see news that the hong kong and shanghai bank hsbc

00:08:40.940 is now shutting down bank accounts of democracy protesters so obviously they lack the stuff of

00:08:47.340 the cafe pacific ceo but they're starting to tighten the noose and it's not just that way the police are

00:08:54.060 getting more brutal and they're obviously mainland communist style police and even military coming across

00:09:01.180 the boundary into hong kong remember it's not a border it's just a boundary and they're doing in slow motion

00:09:09.340 what they did in the run-up to chanaman square i remind you that chanaman square started out in a

00:09:16.940 festival feeling too almost a little bit of a woodstock for freedom they too had a lady liberty statue

00:09:23.820 that is until the tanks came i fear that we're almost at that moment again well things are heating up the

00:09:30.780 hong kong's top court recently ruled in favor of the protesters and their right to cover their faces

00:09:36.460 beijing's communist party issued a directive to the court saying you can't do that anymore there's

00:09:41.740 a real standoff who gets to decide hong kong's courts or beijing and in the united states yesterday

00:09:49.020 a bill was passed with strong support from both democrats and republicans it's called the hong kong

00:09:55.340 human rights and democracy act and it's it prepares the way for sanctions against people in china and

00:10:03.020 hong kong who cracked down on freedom in hong kong and it could even take away the special trading

00:10:09.020 status hong kong has with the united states things are starting to get real and beijing seems to be

00:10:15.580 running out of patience i fear that things are going to move from tense to violence i really do and it's

00:10:22.780 a terrible feeling i've had the pleasure of visiting hong kong a couple of times and it's a wonderful

00:10:26.700 city truly in the league of london paris new york in many ways obviously it's very chinese but you have

00:10:33.420 a great history and legacy of british and you have hundreds of thousands of expats from around the world

00:10:39.340 it's an amazing cosmopolitan city a very exciting place very vibrant it's and i fear that all of those

00:10:47.740 special things are about to be taken away from him we will be doing more reporting from hong kong

00:10:55.340 itself i'll give you more details on that once our people are in place but i had an idea because

00:11:02.460 really under ahmed hassan who's now thankfully been replaced as immigration minister by another

00:11:09.020 toronto mp marco mendocino uh justin trudeau has jacked up immigration numbers to 350 000 a year

00:11:17.740 of whom less than half are economically valid migrants most of them are either refugees or

00:11:25.500 you know grandparents who are just coming here for the free pensions and health care

00:11:29.580 and i thought to myself you know we take every scruffy illiterate in the world in the name of

00:11:34.700 diversity people who for example in the case of trudeau syrians five years later still don't speak the

00:11:41.340 language they still haven't integrated they still don't have a job we take everyone like that but 1.00

00:11:47.980 what about these real refugees from hong kong i'm talking about the political refugees the dissidents

00:11:54.540 standing up to the people's liberation army i'm not talking about taking eight million people from hong

00:11:59.340 kong canada can't do that but what about taking a few hundred a few thousand some of the student leaders

00:12:06.380 who god forbid may be facing death isn't that the test and here's the thing unlike trudeau's favored

00:12:12.860 style of refugee well here's a few characteristics about these chinese democracy activists in hong kong

00:12:18.300 first of all they obviously have a deep commitment to western values the rule of law separation

00:12:24.300 of political parties from the justice system the independent courts free speech they bring those

00:12:30.700 things that trudeau's refugees from syria and somalia simply don't they speak english in fact they speak

00:12:37.180 very good english with a trace of a british accent they're well educated in fact the students who have

00:12:42.780 been leading the protests are usually university students in many cases they're wealthy or entrepreneurial

00:12:49.340 and of course hong kong has virtually no welfare state these are not people who if they came to canada

00:12:54.860 would simply go right on the dole we know they don't have the welfare mindset we know they're not

00:13:00.540 jihadists in fact it's been remarkable how peaceful and orderly these protests in hong kong

00:13:06.460 have been and finally and i don't think this is insignificant they would be a counterweight to the

00:13:12.140 communist mainland chinese immigrants in canada as we've shown you in recent weeks a great many

00:13:19.100 communist party types from the mainland china have come to canada and are you know they're having

00:13:25.900 chinese legions they're they're having communist party events in canada and i think it would be very

00:13:32.700 important and useful to have freedom loving hong kong chinese here in canada to help cauterize the 0.87

00:13:40.060 chinese community here against the excesses of beijing and to this effect i've started a petition and it's a

00:13:47.660 little bit unusual for us because of course we've been the people who've said put a pause on refugees stop

00:13:53.580 the number of refugees but i think for the reasons i've listed if we're going to be taking 340 000

00:13:59.740 migrants a year to canada and if we're setting aside some of those spaces for refugees why don't we take 1.00

00:14:06.460 these refugees vet them of course but there's no jihadists coming from hong kong make sure they speak

00:14:13.820 english of course but they all do unlike folks from syria somalia or afghanistan make sure they have

00:14:20.220 skills but they all do bring the political dissidents bring them here let them help make

00:14:27.740 canada great let them help strengthen our own resolve for freedom and democracy i don't have an

00:14:33.500 answer on the exact number that it should be if it's 10 000 or trudeau's favorite number of 50 000

00:14:39.900 that he used with the syrians i'm not saying millions but if we have to choose if justin trudeau

00:14:45.420 is saying we're going to have a third of a million a year why don't we choose some people for once who

00:14:51.660 absolutely love the canadian way of life love freedom and are actually willing to risk their own

00:14:58.300 lives for it yeah i could picture a few more of them in canada couldn't you stay with us for more

00:15:15.420 well folks thanks for your patience with me as i'm on the road here's a video that kian bexty did

00:15:21.660 yesterday he accosted ron mcclain don cherry's long time buddy on tv and handed him a petition of

00:15:30.060 almost a hundred thousand people supporting don cherry ron mcclain took uh the petition uh this was

00:15:36.700 right after ron mcclain received an honorary degree at the university of alberta which sort of boggles my

00:15:41.420 mind what did ron mcclain do to deserve an honorary degree i know don cherry did a lot of charity work

00:15:45.980 and he went to afghanistan for our troops don't know what ron did but ron mcclain was getting all

00:15:50.220 the kudos so kian waited till that event was over and as he walked off the stage after the ceremony was

00:15:56.860 done kian had actually waited two hours he presented him with the list and ron mcclain took it without

00:16:02.140 comment but kerry mcclain ron's wife oh boy did she have a comment here take a look at this kian bexty for rebel 0.98

00:16:09.340 news here at the university of alberta this is the university that gave david suzuki an honorary

00:16:15.900 degree and today it's giving trader ron mcclain an honorary law degree now ron mcclain you know who

00:16:23.500 he is he's a host with hockey night in canada and used to host alongside don cherry renowned canadian

00:16:31.180 hero don cherry is no more at least in hockey night in canada at coaches corners but ron mcclain is

00:16:37.980 still raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year this is after he failed to stand up for his

00:16:45.100 long time alleged pal don cherry now we put out a call for signatures for a petition at support don

00:16:53.820 cherry.com and we got nearly a hundred thousand signatures and we're still getting more and you

00:16:58.700 can still sign it at support don cherry.com but right now is a pretty great opportunity ron mcclain

00:17:05.900 is going to be at the u of a which is just happens to be where i am today for convocation and we're

00:17:12.300 going to be trying to give him this binder full of signatures full of supporters of don cherry the

00:17:18.780 friend that ron mcclain stabbed in the back let's see what we can get today in terms of footage and

00:17:25.580 hopefully we can find ron mcclain at least and see if he'll accept the binder mr mcclain how are you

00:17:30.780 i'm great kian how are you kian nice to meet you how was the ceremony it was lovely yeah thanks guys

00:17:38.060 thank you so awesome oh hi i uh yeah i was hoping to be able to present you with this petition okay uh

00:17:43.420 it's 90 000 folks who signed it who support don cherry great who uh they watch your show and they're

00:17:49.580 disappointed that he was fired of course for standing up they want uh they want your show they

00:17:53.820 want you yourself and don uh to be standing up for veterans and they're really disappointed that

00:18:00.300 that you didn't stand up before him right so we're kind of curious uh with this this binder we're kind

00:18:06.700 of wondering if you think don is actually racist sorry i don't know who you are do you think don is

00:18:12.700 actually racist why would you excuse me excuse me this is absolutely an educational institution okay

00:18:28.140 no that is unacceptable

00:18:32.220 you're grabbing everything today has been respectful sorry what's your name

00:18:36.860 it doesn't matter what his name is no yeah it doesn't matter are you that's his wife here 0.55

00:18:41.980 right would i be able to give this to you no okay this is a well you know what i actually i don't

00:18:46.700 mind the support okay i don't want the support what we don't mind no these are supporters these are

00:18:51.260 supporters we are also a supporter of don so i don't mind that i i we appreciate that support you

00:18:56.860 really what you're taking you are crucifying my husband as a result of that there's sides i'm sorry

00:19:03.580 i'm not very aggressive to him and in a moment where that was unacceptable do you think did you see

00:19:10.140 my husband was almost in tears do you think he wanted this to happen why didn't he stand up for

00:19:13.980 him why didn't he stand up for him wait why wouldn't he quit his job why would he quit his job well that

00:19:18.860 really makes sense because a canadian saint was fired for no reason a saint was do you think he was

00:19:24.940 sorry do you think do you think don is racist write a letter sorry what stuff do you think don is

00:19:31.900 racist i wouldn't say the word racist do i think he's a bigot possibly you think don't share is a

00:19:36.620 bigot possibly it's been widely accepted let's go let's go straight

00:19:43.900 you're done you are not shotty you are ruining her day no i'm not trust me you are 90 90 000 canadians

00:19:55.340 day days was ruined when don't share was fired this was not the point of

00:19:59.420 time for questions well 90 000 canadians would disagree now there is a ceremony going on no it's

00:20:26.460 over i waited for two hours actually i'm going to continue to ask questions unless that's illegal

00:20:32.140 now it isn't illegal it's inappropriate right now i don't think so you don't have to think so i'm

00:20:38.700 telling you your opinion doesn't really matter thank you very much we did we gave it to rogers yeah

00:20:48.220 we gave it to sportsnet uh we gave one to dawn and um and we're we're hoping that your husband would

00:20:54.060 accept it if you would take it yeah we're just hoping you'll take it because i appreciate that

00:21:02.780 are you recording i don't know yes i appreciate the support excuse me are you recording get out of

00:21:08.300 the middle of our conversation are you recording yes he's got me on all right okay mr reclean

00:21:14.700 would you take it if you give it to somebody i'll take it thank you yeah you bet

00:21:23.660 sorry what what's your name you're me got it

00:21:29.820 so i just waited two hours for ron mclean and his wife to come out of the ceremony where he was

00:21:34.140 receiving a degree just like david suzuki did uh he ended up accepting it which i was grateful for and i

00:21:41.260 think the 90 000 folks who signed our petition will be grateful for but what struck me as surprising

00:21:47.740 was even after don has effectively been redeemed after everyone has he he's come clear with what

00:21:53.420 he meant to say and even what he did say was not uh targeting immigrants in any any way in particular

00:21:58.940 that was malicious uh ron mclean's wife called don cherry a bigot a bigot do you think don cherry is

00:22:08.060 a bigot i don't i'm exceedingly disappointed in ron mclean's wife but we're not here for ron mclean's

00:22:12.460 wife we're here for ron mclean he took our petition and i'm grateful for that but he really didn't come

00:22:18.300 clean with why he didn't stand up for his longtime friend for rebel news i'm team bexty

00:22:24.700 well folks that's our show for today i will be back in the studio tomorrow we'll have a proper show

00:22:37.980 for you then thanks for your patience with me as i've been on the road i think these wexit uh panels

00:22:43.260 are important and obviously there's a huge demand for them based on the sold-out crowds i encourage you

00:22:48.860 to tune into those until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters well i guess

00:22:54.060 i'm not in the headquarters i'm in the forest good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - November 21, 2019

Hong Kong is tense and may turn violent, so here's how we plan to act

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