Rebel News Podcast - How Rebel News will cover the Canadian election PLUS New book： The Libranos!

00:00:00.000 Hey there, I got a humdinger of a podcast for you today.

00:00:05.300 I am telling you my not-so-secret campaign plan for the rebel in this election.

00:00:10.240 It is not a political campaign plan.

00:00:13.140 It is a journalistic campaign plan, and I hope you'll like it.

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00:00:36.980 All right, here's the podcast.

00:00:39.020 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.

00:00:42.240 Tonight, finally, the Canadian federal election is upon us,

00:00:46.180 and we've been planning for it here at the Rebel for months.

00:00:48.920 I'll tell you what we're going to do and how you can help.

00:00:51.960 It's September 9th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:54.660 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:00.460 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:04.520 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.

00:01:10.400 Any day now, the liberals will formally call the election, but who's kidding whom?

00:01:20.200 It's been on for months.

00:01:22.400 In recent weeks, liberal MPs have been making dozens of spending announcements,

00:01:26.940 totaling billions of dollars.

00:01:28.400 I mean, they don't even try to hide it.

00:01:29.900 They're doing what liberals do, diverting taxpayer dollars to their friends,

00:01:33.700 to people they want to make their friends.

00:01:35.380 So the electoral districts they're worried about losing and the few they think they can pick up.

00:01:40.560 And, of course, the most important Liberal Party handout is to the media party,

00:01:45.060 Trudeau's $600 million bailout.

00:01:46.700 Just to take the Toronto Star, for example,

00:01:48.580 that one newspaper receives $115,000 a week from Trudeau a week.

00:01:55.540 That helps to understand why there's these insanely pro-Trudeau reports,

00:02:01.000 even worse than normal.

00:02:02.180 A more ethical newspaper would have a disclaimer underneath any story

00:02:05.900 touching on federal politics,

00:02:07.360 disclosing that they receive money from Trudeau while they report about Trudeau.

00:02:11.600 Of course, it's not just the newspaper publishers who are partisan.

00:02:14.280 Now, most working journalists are, too.

00:02:16.820 Unifor, the giant union that represents thousands of journalists,

00:02:21.280 has set up a third-party campaign group,

00:02:23.440 and they're going to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars

00:02:25.200 of their own journalist money into anti-conservative campaigns.

00:02:30.160 In one way, I guess it's better than using taxpayers' dollars.

00:02:34.280 They're using their own money.

00:02:35.580 But in another way, it's worse.

00:02:37.240 Every journalist you see on TV reporting on the campaign

00:02:39.820 has taken money from their own paycheck,

00:02:42.080 given it in Union News, to campaign against the conservatives.

00:02:45.480 That's not disclosed after their reports either, is it?

00:02:49.060 But come on, by far the biggest contribution any journalist makes to Trudeau

00:02:52.440 isn't their own cash.

00:02:53.780 It's their embarrassingly fawning questions of him,

00:02:58.240 or their lack of questions.

00:02:59.300 Here's my favorite example from the last campaign.

00:03:02.240 And remember, this was before the bailout.

00:03:05.140 Take a look.

00:03:05.560 The one that the entire country wants to know.

00:03:09.180 What shampoo do you use?

00:03:12.020 What a disappointing answer this is going to be.

00:03:14.680 Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.

00:03:19.100 Oh, that is so embarrassing.

00:03:20.480 But not as embarrassing as this.

00:03:23.860 Last book you've read or the book you're reading?

00:03:25.780 I just finished The Patch,

00:03:33.680 which was Chris Turner's history of The Oil Patch.

00:03:38.440 But I'm also about to start the new Ken Fowler,

00:03:43.160 the third book that is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth.

00:03:49.300 That's your nerdy side.

00:03:50.680 No, that's my...

00:03:53.180 Your sci-fi nerdy side.

00:03:54.200 No, no, it's not sci-fi.

00:03:55.640 It's just a sweeping historical epic, I'm sure,

00:03:58.740 but I haven't started it yet.

00:04:00.360 What kind of music are you listening to right now?

00:04:03.360 If you have time.

00:04:04.200 Or podcasts.

00:04:05.180 Podcasts?

00:04:05.600 No, I don't.

00:04:06.440 I've tried.

00:04:07.160 I run regularly,

00:04:08.560 and I've tried to do the podcast thing,

00:04:11.700 but it doesn't really say.

00:04:13.500 I don't like people talking in my ears

00:04:15.060 when I'm trying to run.

00:04:15.920 I like to sort of vibe out.

00:04:18.320 That's Rosemary Barton of the CBC State Broadcaster.

00:04:21.000 She couldn't be more in love.

00:04:22.340 I swear, the way she looks at Trudeau is embarrassing.

00:04:26.260 I mention this because not only is Barton a CBC government journalist,

00:04:30.140 she's on the panel of debate moderators 0.71

00:04:32.200 in the only English language debate that Trudeau has agreed to do.

00:04:35.840 You know how bad Trudeau is at public speaking, right?

00:04:39.120 I mean, when he's off script, he's awful, like this monstrosity.

00:04:43.480 What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?

00:04:47.640 We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of,

00:04:54.340 water out of, when we have water bottles,

00:04:57.080 out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper,

00:05:02.860 like drink box water bottles sort of thing.

00:05:06.400 Or this.

00:05:07.060 I don't know if he was high.

00:05:08.620 Remember this?

00:05:09.140 We need to ensure that we are working together with our allies

00:05:15.060 to find a path forward there,

00:05:17.620 because a nuclear power like North Korea

00:05:21.860 that has shown a level of irresponsibility and...

00:05:27.980 fundamental irresponsibility to not use a word like crazy,

00:05:44.860 which I will not use,

00:05:47.060 is of real concern.

00:05:51.460 Yeah, no, Rosemary Barton thinks Justin Trudeau,

00:05:55.080 Mr. Um, and uh, is the reincarnation of Winston Churchill.

00:06:00.540 I think the Liberals feel like they,

00:06:03.360 after a pretty tough spring,

00:06:05.140 have got themselves into a place

00:06:06.820 where they've got the momentum.

00:06:09.140 Polls are showing them tied or slightly ahead

00:06:11.200 with momentum behind them.

00:06:12.740 Some pretty good numbers in Ontario and Quebec showing up.

00:06:16.200 So on balance, I think they're saying,

00:06:17.940 the shorter this thing is, the better,

00:06:19.860 the fewer debates there are, the better,

00:06:21.360 the faster we can get this thing over with, the better.

00:06:23.500 But he's good at that stuff.

00:06:25.280 Like, that's the part I don't understand.

00:06:26.560 He's a good campaigner.

00:06:28.140 He's shown he's a pretty good debater.

00:06:29.960 Why not leave him the time to demonstrate that?

00:06:34.540 Yeah, so that's one of the media party moderators

00:06:37.620 of the only English language debate.

00:06:39.160 Here's another one, Althea Raj.

00:06:41.120 Are you starting to get a feeling

00:06:42.400 for how this election coverage is going to go?

00:06:44.500 The only person they all love more

00:06:46.180 than Justin Trudeau is Elizabeth May.

00:06:47.860 And I think there's a contest on who they hate more.

00:06:52.140 Do they hate Andrew Scheer more than Maxime Bernier?

00:06:54.920 They hate Bernier because he speaks bluntly

00:06:57.280 about the issues they don't want anyone to talk about.

00:06:59.780 Immigration, global warming, political correctness. 0.67

00:07:02.820 So they hate Maxime Bernier's candor.

00:07:05.880 But they hate Andrew Scheer because he's the one

00:07:08.400 whose party could actually beat Trudeau in the election.

00:07:12.140 Here's an aggregation of all the publicly available

00:07:14.820 opinion polls in the election done by Eric Grenier

00:07:17.440 for the CBC.

00:07:18.800 As you can see, Andrew Scheer is just slightly ahead of Trudeau,

00:07:21.480 33.8% to 33.5%.

00:07:23.480 Really, it's a statistical time.

00:07:25.720 So that's an average of all the polls.

00:07:27.420 But if you scroll down a bit, you'll see how Grenier

00:07:29.200 predicts it will convert into seats

00:07:31.000 because the liberal vote is more efficient, as they say.

00:07:34.360 Trudeau's 33.5% will likely translate

00:07:36.660 into many more seats than Scheer's 33.8%

00:07:39.980 because whether, I don't know, 60, 70, 80, 90%

00:07:43.400 of people in any given Saskatchewan

00:07:45.600 or Alberta rioting vote conservative,

00:07:47.680 they still only get the one seat.

00:07:49.600 Liberals, by contrast, will likely sneak through

00:07:52.300 a lot of seats with just 35 or 40%.

00:07:54.860 Obviously, these poll numbers are about to change

00:07:57.780 in the campaign.

00:07:58.420 But right now, it's looking like a Trudeau minority.

00:08:01.740 If I'm reading his numbers right,

00:08:03.140 it looks like he's predicting 162 seats

00:08:05.760 for the liberals and 140 for the conservatives.

00:08:08.260 That's out of 338, so that's not a majority.

00:08:11.800 It's close.

00:08:13.600 But can you see what I see?

00:08:14.700 This election is volatile.

00:08:16.040 If you flip just one seat per province

00:08:18.200 from the liberals to the conservatives,

00:08:20.360 it's pretty much a perfect tie, isn't it?

00:08:22.320 That would be 152 for the liberals,

00:08:24.520 150 for the conservatives.

00:08:26.480 That's just flipping one seat per province

00:08:28.620 from liberal to conservative.

00:08:30.820 We haven't had an election that close

00:08:33.140 in more than a generation.

00:08:35.340 If something were to boost one party

00:08:37.960 or reduce one party by just a couple

00:08:39.400 of percentage points, it could make the difference

00:08:41.100 between a Trudeau majority and a Trudeau minority,

00:08:44.380 or between a Trudeau minority and a Scheer minority,

00:08:47.260 or between a Scheer minority and a Scheer majority.

00:08:50.000 It's possible.

00:08:51.000 I like Maxime Bernier's policies a lot,

00:08:53.380 and I like his style, I like his courage.

00:08:55.740 I wish Andrew Scheer was a lot more like him.

00:08:57.980 Hopefully Bernier will make Andrew Scheer

00:09:00.220 find some courage on at least a few key conservative issues

00:09:03.540 just to stop those votes from splitting off

00:09:05.980 on Scheer's right.

00:09:07.300 But really, there are only two parties

00:09:08.960 that can win on October 21st,

00:09:13.620 and that's Trudeau's liberals or Scheer's conservatives.

00:09:16.620 And it's so close, wouldn't you say?

00:09:18.340 I mean, the polls are essentially tied.

00:09:19.940 Now, we haven't seen the brutal ads

00:09:22.860 from the liberal campaign yet,

00:09:24.660 or more likely, from their third-party surrogates,

00:09:27.020 including American surrogates,

00:09:29.160 including Unifor, the journalism union.

00:09:31.460 And the 100-plus left-wing third-party campaign groups,

00:09:35.280 like the 100 that campaigned for Trudeau last time,

00:09:37.880 they'll do the nastiest work against Scheer

00:09:40.400 on behalf of the liberals,

00:09:42.180 so Trudeau can himself pretend to be positive.

00:09:44.920 But of course, the nastiest work will come,

00:09:47.180 not from any campaign group,

00:09:48.180 but from the media party itself,

00:09:50.500 from Rosemary Barton, from Althea Raj,

00:09:53.180 from the Toronto Star,

00:09:54.260 from all the U.S.-funded gutter media.

00:09:57.060 Like the three worst media in Canada are American, 0.93

00:09:59.640 Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vice.

00:10:03.020 They're all hard left-wing.

00:10:04.920 Each of them has been disgraced in their own way.

00:10:08.240 It's bizarre to me that Althea Raj,

00:10:09.960 of that U.S.-based gutter site, Huffington Post,

00:10:12.800 will be on the one English-language debate panel

00:10:15.700 that Trudeau does, but Bob Fyfe of The Globe and Mail

00:10:18.900 will not be.

00:10:21.520 But that's easy to understand.

00:10:22.980 Bob Fyfe isn't trustworthy.

00:10:24.580 From Gerald Butt's point of view,

00:10:26.220 he dared to break the news about Trudeau firing Jody Wilson-Raybould

00:10:29.320 over the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

00:10:31.020 So Bob Fyfe cannot be trusted,

00:10:32.860 and so Fyfe and The Globe are banned from participating in the debates.

00:10:37.080 Can you name a single scandal or piece of accountability journalism

00:10:41.260 from the Huffington Post or the CBC that they've ever done about Justin Trudeau?

00:10:46.860 Yeah, me neither.

00:10:48.240 There are literally hundreds, I don't mean dozens,

00:10:50.600 I mean hundreds of stories in the Huffington Post

00:10:54.040 about how sexy Justin Trudeau is.

00:10:57.740 It's like reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

00:10:59.540 Hundreds of stories.

00:11:01.160 Here's just a sample.

00:11:03.720 Just one quick mention, and never again, though,

00:11:06.600 of Trudeau sexually assaulting Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.

00:11:10.280 A hundred about how sexy Trudeau is. 0.86

00:11:13.320 Just one story quickly buried about his sexual assault.

00:11:17.480 So yeah, get ready for seven weeks of shampoo questions,

00:11:21.540 and isn't he hunky?

00:11:23.840 So what should we do here at Rebel News?

00:11:26.440 What should we do?

00:11:27.320 Should we campaign against Justin Trudeau?

00:11:31.160 There are a few registered third-party campaign groups out there on the right.

00:11:35.380 They'll be outnumbered 10 to 1 by the left.

00:11:38.400 They'll be outspent 100 to 1 by the pro-Trudeau super PACs.

00:11:43.100 But should we do that?

00:11:45.720 Well, no.

00:11:47.220 Because we're not a political party.

00:11:48.760 We're not a political campaign group.

00:11:50.560 We're not members of any party here.

00:11:52.000 We're independent.

00:11:52.740 We criticize any and every party when we think they're wrong,

00:11:55.980 and we praise any party when we think they're right.

00:11:58.240 Andrew Scheer, ask him.

00:12:01.020 He stopped coming on my show after I grilled him a little bit too hard

00:12:04.400 about his support for mass immigration.

00:12:06.940 Yeah, I'm not a member of any party.

00:12:09.000 Our role is not to campaign as a party or like a lobby group like Unifor.

00:12:14.040 Our role is to report the news and give you our opinion on the news.

00:12:19.080 That's what journalism is.

00:12:20.680 And like most Canadian media, we champion causes we like.

00:12:23.620 I mean, the CBC, for example, their main causes are transgender, 1.00

00:12:28.220 including for kids, and marijuana use, just going by what they publish.

00:12:34.140 The Toronto Star has socialist views hardwired right into their newspaper.

00:12:38.980 They even believe in the state control of the means of production

00:12:41.820 that's right in their corporate bylaws in their manifesto

00:12:45.060 called the Atkinson Principle.

00:12:46.760 So we're a little bit like the Star and the CBC,

00:12:49.160 but we're less extremist than the Star or the CBC,

00:12:52.820 partly because we have to earn our support from Canadians every day.

00:12:55.980 The political extremism of the CBC or the Star

00:12:58.980 would mean they don't have real public support.

00:13:01.960 They would go out of business without Trudeau bailing them out.

00:13:04.540 They'd just be gone.

00:13:05.840 So I guess I come back to the question,

00:13:08.440 what are we going to do during this election?

00:13:09.740 We're not going to be a third-party campaign group.

00:13:11.660 That's not our style.

00:13:13.800 I think we've got a better plan, though.

00:13:16.240 We're not going to take on the Liberal Party.

00:13:17.880 That's the job of the other parties.

00:13:20.500 We're going to take on something far, far worse,

00:13:23.080 something that's going to be much more vicious

00:13:24.920 and much less honest than Trudeau.

00:13:28.400 We here at Rebel News are going to take on the media party,

00:13:32.880 the CBC, the Toronto Star, all the bailout media,

00:13:35.460 all of the cat ladies of Canadian journalism

00:13:38.040 who wish they were Justin Trudeau's girlfriends,

00:13:40.820 all of the U.S. clickbait gutter sites.

00:13:43.320 That's our job.

00:13:45.400 And we're going to do it by living up to our motto,

00:13:47.420 telling the other side of the story.

00:13:48.660 That's our motto at Rebel News.

00:13:49.920 So what does that mean?

00:13:51.100 Well, it means we're going to do actual journalism,

00:13:52.880 in the field, on the street journalism.

00:13:55.320 We're going to cover up to 100 different writings

00:13:58.360 over the course of the next seven weeks.

00:13:59.500 We're not just going to give you our opinions

00:14:01.420 from here in our studio.

00:14:03.760 We'll be out where the candidates are,

00:14:05.340 asking them real questions.

00:14:06.840 It's something we're getting pretty good at,

00:14:08.580 or more to the point the media party's getting pretty bad at

00:14:11.420 from lack of practice for them.

00:14:13.160 Let me show you a couple of examples.

00:14:14.840 This is an example from the Alberta election campaign

00:14:17.520 this spring.

00:14:18.260 In this case, our reporter, Kian Bexte,

00:14:21.320 was doing some real accountability journalism

00:14:23.220 with an NDP candidate named Anne McGrath.

00:14:26.060 Take a look at this.

00:14:26.740 This is just a part of his video.

00:14:28.200 Hi, Anne.

00:14:29.920 Hi.

00:14:30.620 Would you mind if I asked you a quick question?

00:14:32.580 Who are you?

00:14:33.360 My name's Kian.

00:14:34.080 I'm with the Rebel.

00:14:34.960 Oh, no, I'm not talking to the Rebel.

00:14:36.280 I'm wondering if you can tell me,

00:14:37.300 do you regret running as a communist?

00:14:39.380 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:14:41.100 So you don't regret running as a communist?

00:14:42.880 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:14:44.280 Can you tell me why you ran as a communist?

00:14:46.220 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:14:47.660 Do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity

00:14:49.800 know that you're a communist?

00:14:51.120 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:14:52.480 Do you think it should be treasonous

00:14:53.740 to run as a communist during the Cold War?

00:14:55.260 I think that you should be registered as a third party

00:14:57.600 because you're not an actual media outlet.

00:14:59.780 So I'm not talking to you.

00:15:01.420 So you don't want to tell the residents of Calgary Varsity

00:15:04.060 why you ran as a communist candidate?

00:15:05.280 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:15:06.780 The Rebel is not a media organization.

00:15:08.980 Okay.

00:15:09.280 Well, I think that communism isn't a reasonable ideology

00:15:14.680 to run under.

00:15:15.780 Do you think the capitalists should all burn still?

00:15:17.380 Please go away. 0.84

00:15:17.660 Please go away. 0.97

00:15:18.400 Do you think the capitalists should all burn? 0.97

00:15:20.240 Please go away.

00:15:21.480 I just want to know the answer.

00:15:23.060 Go away.

00:15:23.120 It's simple questions.

00:15:23.800 Go away.

00:15:24.040 Do you think that the media has given you reasonable scrutiny

00:15:26.180 for your past?

00:15:27.260 Go away.

00:15:29.220 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:15:32.340 Has any other media organization asked?

00:15:34.320 I'm going to call the police.

00:15:35.440 Okay.

00:15:35.780 We're in public.

00:15:36.340 So I'm allowed to ask you these questions.

00:15:37.580 You're not.

00:15:38.240 I'm not allowed to ask you questions.

00:15:39.640 Not on a sidewalk when I've told you I'm not talking to you.

00:15:43.460 This is harassment.

00:15:44.200 It's not harassment.

00:15:45.280 You're a public figure and a communist who wants to represent Albertans.

00:15:50.120 This is harassment.

00:15:51.520 It's not harassment.

00:15:52.560 It's reasonable questions.

00:15:53.540 I just want to know why you're a communist.

00:15:56.560 No, I'm just going to call the police.

00:15:57.700 You're calling the police because I'm asking you why you're a communist.

00:16:00.200 Because you're harassing me on the sidewalk.

00:16:02.180 You can go to your car.

00:16:03.880 You can leave.

00:16:07.120 Police, please.

00:16:08.440 So what happened there?

00:16:10.080 She freaked out after he asked her one question.

00:16:13.460 And I don't know if you were timing that, but it took her only about 90 seconds to go

00:16:17.840 from hello to literally calling the police.

00:16:23.440 He didn't swear at her.

00:16:24.980 He didn't shout at her.

00:16:26.160 He didn't threaten her.

00:16:27.420 He didn't touch her or block her.

00:16:30.700 He just asked some accountability questions of a public person on a matter of public interest

00:16:35.220 on a public sidewalk.

00:16:36.320 And she just lost her cool. 0.98

00:16:39.300 You know, I think she went a bit crazy, actually.

00:16:42.480 It is a little bit crazy to call the police on someone for doing journalism.

00:16:47.000 Some might say that's actually a little bit communist.

00:16:49.600 By the way, the police actually did come and they agreed. 0.70

00:16:52.840 Anne McGrath was a bit of a kook. 1.00

00:16:54.200 I mean, obviously, if you are following her, right, it could potentially be construed as

00:17:00.980 harassment.

00:17:01.920 Potentially.

00:17:02.900 I'm just saying.

00:17:03.640 Right.

00:17:03.940 I'm not charging her or arresting her like that today.

00:17:06.420 Right.

00:17:06.880 Obviously, if somebody asks you to leave their property and stuff like that, you have to

00:17:09.440 comply and do that.

00:17:11.200 Other than that, there is nothing else.

00:17:13.580 But we just said we'd come talk to you.

00:17:15.620 Understood.

00:17:16.260 You were obviously down here when we drove over and they were down there.

00:17:19.140 So that's a little fun.

00:17:20.500 Yeah, that video blew up in the election so much.

00:17:23.720 It was the number one most watched video in the entire Alberta election of any media outlet.

00:17:28.140 So much so that Anne McGrath felt compelled to renounce her communist past at the next

00:17:33.220 all candidates debated had become such an issue.

00:17:36.040 I want to acknowledge also something that's come up about my youth.

00:17:41.080 And I want to assure you that I am not a communist.

00:17:50.500 Four decades ago, when I was a young student, I was a member, and I deeply regret that.

00:17:58.480 It was a mistake, and I'm very sorry.

00:18:01.080 Incredible.

00:18:01.700 Of course, we had a little bit of fun with it, too.

00:18:04.460 Of course, I was a soldier.

00:18:34.180 So I'm in the billboard truck. I'm very excited still. And we just left the University of Calgary. Campus Security came and kicked us off. Not much of a surprise. I guess they told us that we needed to book the space. I didn't know that you needed to book roads. But whatever. It was kind of expected. We're on our way to Rachel Notley's campaign stop now. It's just outside of Calgary Varsity but it's being co-hosted with the Communists and McGrath. So we're going to go park outside of the event and see if we can catch some Notley or some Notley supporters looking at the board. 0.62

00:19:04.780 So I'm standing right outside of the bread line at Rachel Notley's campaign stop here with Anne McGrath.

00:19:09.840 Oh my God that was so much fun. Anne McGrath in the end lost by just a few hundred votes on election day. Did we do that to her? No. She did that to herself by being a Communist, by calling the police on a journalist. She did that. 0.78

00:19:28.720 We just did, what's that old word again? It's so rare these days. That's right. We just did some journalism. We just asked some questions. We told the other side of the story. Not one single media party reporter had ever asked her about her Communist past. Not one. Voters really, really wanted to know about that.

00:19:46.940 I mean, don't you think if someone is a Communist or a Nazi or some cult member, something like that, it's in the public interest to know. It's journalism to ask about it. No other media did. We did. We told the other side of the story.

00:19:59.300 I think that's why Anne McGrath freaked out. She had literally never been asked a tough question before by a journalist ever. So two things happened. She was personally insulted by it and got emotional.

00:20:10.720 She was outraged and entitled that a mere journalist dared to ask her, the princess, a question. So she didn't control her emotions. And second of all, she simply had no practice answering tough questions because she had never been asked a tough question before.

00:20:24.060 Now, if you're thinking that's not journalism, oh, yes, it is, my friends. It's standard form journalism for any political figure on the right. Think about it. The late Rob Ford, his brother Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, heck, Donald Trump, anyone on the right. That's how the media is towards them.

00:20:41.900 I remember during the fake Mike Duffy scandal, when an enterprising CTV reporter got up in the dead of night to go downtown in Ottawa to catch Nigel Wright, who always went jogging at like 4 a.m. That was great journalism.

00:20:56.340 But it never happens to journalists on the left, does it? We never have tough questions put in tough situations to them. And the jumbotron truck that we use there, that's just having some fun. It's like an editorial, but it's on a truck, not a newspaper. It's fun.

00:21:12.200 The CBC does this all the time to candidates on the right. They had a whole campaign against Stockwell Day, calling him Doris Day, remember? The CBC even set up a fake website using Jason Kenney's own name. It's fun when the left does it. It's cute. It's journalistic humor.

00:21:28.960 It'll be fun when we do it to tell the other side of the story in this upcoming campaign, won't it? That's journalism.

00:21:33.600 As in, we're going to provide in this election the most useful thing you can imagine. Balanced coverage. We won't be asking Trudeau to go out on any dates with us. That's already being well covered by Rosemary Barton and Althea Raj.

00:21:49.220 You know, another one of those debate moderators, Susan Delacorte, her brother was actually a Liberal Party campaign worker.

00:21:55.800 Yeah, so we'll let those Liberal gals cover the Liberal angle, and we'll tell the other side of the story. 1.00

00:22:02.840 Through accountability journalism, on the street, not just giving our opinions from the studio, not just by analyzing the events of the day that someone else covers, but by going out and putting a microphone to politicians who've never been asked a tough question before in their lives.

00:22:16.220 Remember when our Kian Bexty asked Selena Cesar-Servan a basic, friendly question?

00:22:22.060 It took her 90 seconds to go from hello to dropping F-bombs at him. Take a look. 1.00

00:22:26.900 Are you serious, the rebel? You're going to come talk to me?

00:22:30.020 Why not? I'm happy to speak with you.

00:22:34.500 I mean, the report said that there was genocide happening. Should we prosecute world leaders who oversee genocide?

00:22:39.680 I'm going to leave you and the rebel to come up with your own dissertation about what you did.

00:22:44.920 Well, we'd love to hear a comment from you.

00:22:47.000 I'm sure you'll take it and you'll twist it in any way possible, but the absolute truth.

00:22:52.780 Whatever you say, I'll publish the whole thing.

00:22:54.780 I'm sure. I'm sure you will.

00:22:57.460 Should we prosecute world leaders if they oversee a genocide?

00:23:01.360 I think you should be looking in your own house before looking in other houses. How about that?

00:23:05.920 I'm not committing genocide. Do you think I'm committing genocide?

00:23:09.240 I think you do a lot of other stuff of perpetrating lies, doing whatever you want, inciting hate, inciting misinformation.

00:23:18.420 I don't think that helps at all either.

00:23:20.400 How did Justin Trudeau bring you back on board after he yelled at you?

00:23:25.960 What do you mean he brought me back on board?

00:23:28.660 You seem quite happy with him. Are you expecting some sort of an appointment?

00:23:32.540 Nobody brought me back on board.

00:23:34.420 You just speak with a prime minister and let him touch you after he verbally assaults you?

00:23:38.820 I decide what I do when I decide to do it.

00:23:43.600 And do you forgive Justin Trudeau for yelling at you?

00:23:46.400 I decide what I decide to do when I decide to do it.

00:23:49.900 And do you forgive him?

00:23:51.540 I decide what I decide to do and when I decide to do it.

00:23:54.640 Why can't you tell me if you...

00:23:55.820 We could do this all day, but I really...

00:23:58.820 Until he gets your office.

00:24:00.340 No, we could...

00:24:01.680 You could keep going.

00:24:03.520 You could keep going.

00:24:03.900 So do you forgive him?

00:24:04.560 I just...

00:24:04.820 I really have nothing good to say to the rebel.

00:24:07.540 So I'm not sure why you're entertaining this line of questioning, but you could go ahead.

00:24:13.600 Just wondering if you forgive someone who verbally assaulted you.

00:24:17.360 Anyways, have a good night.

00:24:18.360 Thanks for chatting with me.

00:24:18.980 Are you done?

00:24:19.540 Oh, the big guy's here and you're done.

00:24:20.980 I can...

00:24:21.340 I mean, I can keep coming.

00:24:22.800 Oh, what? 1.00

00:24:22.900 Did you just call me a pussy? 1.00

00:24:24.680 You're not right, I did. 1.00

00:24:26.240 Wow.

00:24:26.660 Now, she's out of politics.

00:24:28.260 She was fired by Trudeau. 0.99

00:24:29.460 So she's a lame duck. 1.00

00:24:30.880 But imagine if in the middle of the campaign, some other liberal candidate, someone just totally 0.99

00:24:35.240 lost their mind like that.

00:24:36.620 Swearing, shouting, abusing, whatever.

00:24:39.500 Imagine if Trudeau himself did that.

00:24:41.040 You don't actually have to imagine.

00:24:42.560 He loses his cool all the time.

00:24:44.640 People in Rassi Naira are suffering from mercury poisoning.

00:24:48.360 You committed to addressing this crisis.

00:24:50.920 Thank you for being here.

00:24:52.100 Thank you very much for your donation tonight.

00:24:54.380 And I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:24:58.680 Kian's great at asking those questions.

00:25:00.580 And he's not the only one on our team who does.

00:25:02.840 Here's my friend David Menzies.

00:25:04.860 Just by chance, he bumped into a Liberal MP.

00:25:08.140 Just a deer in the headlines. 0.99

00:25:10.000 Look at this dopey guy. 0.94

00:25:11.840 What brings you out to the Walk with Israel, Mr. Levitt? 0.97

00:25:16.840 Yep.

00:25:17.420 Not interested in doing media at this point, but thank you.

00:25:20.040 How do you feel about the fact that Justin Trudeau made two commemorations about the Holocaust

00:25:24.400 and never mentioned the Jewish victims of it?

00:25:26.980 Do you stand by your Prime Minister?

00:25:36.020 We're here today celebrating Canada-Canada-Israel relationship,

00:25:40.500 and that's what we're going to do proudly and strongly.

00:25:43.200 Ouch, that was cringeworthy.

00:25:44.760 So here's what I mean.

00:25:46.540 Here's what we're going to do.

00:25:48.240 Our five journalists, we're all going to hit the road and the airways.

00:25:53.980 We're going to cover candidates across the country, even in the far north.

00:25:58.580 We're going to show up for Trudeau events and for his cabinet ministers

00:26:02.500 and for his no-name backbenchers,

00:26:05.300 and we're going to ask accountability questions that they have never been asked before.

00:26:10.400 It's journalism.

00:26:11.200 It's not campaigning.

00:26:12.820 But no one's ever done that kind of journalism before.

00:26:16.160 Now, some will answer well.

00:26:18.180 Some will run away, and some will lose their cool.

00:26:21.420 Outrages that anyone dare ask some questions.

00:26:23.660 I mean, the CBC never does.

00:26:25.580 It's outrageous anyone would.

00:26:26.820 Didn't we buy you off?

00:26:27.840 Hey, didn't we pay you off?

00:26:29.200 Isn't $600 million enough?

00:26:30.860 Of course, we're not just grilling the liberals.

00:26:32.600 Don't you think that kooky Green Party?

00:26:35.300 Need some questions asked of them?

00:26:37.420 Do you guys remember the Steve song?

00:26:38.780 Welcome back.

00:26:39.500 Who knew Khadr was spelled K-H-A-D-R?

00:26:43.200 Welcome back, Omer Khadr.

00:26:46.460 It matters to say it.

00:26:48.240 Welcome back, Omer Khadr.

00:26:50.040 You're home.

00:26:52.520 Doesn't it strike you?

00:26:57.460 There's a lot unusual about your speech, Liz, but we're going to take off. 0.95

00:27:00.280 Omer Khadr, you've got more class than the whole f***ing cabinet. 0.58

00:27:05.800 Thank you. 0.56

00:27:07.120 Yeah, not her finest moment.

00:27:08.720 Elizabeth May herself, but also her insane candidates. 1.00

00:27:13.160 They're never scrutinized by the media.

00:27:14.640 Never.

00:27:15.620 It's almost cruel to scrum Jagmeet Singh.

00:27:18.660 Other than a pretty face, there's not a lot of there, there.

00:27:22.400 But that's the point.

00:27:23.200 Other than that one interview that Terry Malevsky once did with him asking about his support for Sikh extremists,

00:27:29.340 I've never seen him asked a tough question ever.

00:27:32.900 I think he should be.

00:27:34.920 As should Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier.

00:27:38.020 We'll ask everyone tough questions.

00:27:40.160 We always do.

00:27:40.880 But look, asking Scheer and Bernier tough questions is pretty well covered by the media party right now, don't you think?

00:27:49.420 I mean, they scrum Bernier and Scheer all the time with gotcha questions, with personal attacks, with smears, with digging up things they said 20 years ago.

00:28:00.000 I mean, look, we'll put real questions to those guys, too.

00:28:04.080 I have myself.

00:28:05.500 But the real void in this election isn't going to be a lack of questions for the candidates on the right.

00:28:13.520 It's going to be a lack of accountability questions for candidates on the left.

00:28:18.540 We, at The Rebel, tell the other side of the story.

00:28:21.180 That's our motto.

00:28:22.040 And we will fill in those gaps in this election.

00:28:25.940 So that's the biggest part of our plan.

00:28:27.360 I expect in the next seven weeks, our journalists will collectively cover up to 100 ridings across the country.

00:28:35.500 I expect we will make up to 100 flights amongst all of us.

00:28:41.480 From Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, from Whitehorse to Montreal, everywhere in between.

00:28:45.740 Real questions looking for real answers.

00:28:48.860 Look at this one.

00:28:49.940 Look at this one.

00:28:51.900 Minister, could I grab you for a quick question, please?

00:28:55.020 David Menzies, Wearable Media.

00:28:57.200 Minister?

00:29:00.360 Sir, can I just grab you for a quick question on a clarification point?

00:29:05.500 Just trying to find out, does it mean that the legal rights of migrants that are being given in the compact are already in...

00:29:14.380 Well, sir, we actually tried to...

00:29:17.980 It's a private room, sir.

00:29:19.060 Private room.

00:29:21.540 Well, we tried.

00:29:23.200 Oh, that was embarrassing.

00:29:24.560 I think Ahmed Hassan is generally, genuinely terrified of David Menzies.

00:29:28.620 Well, who could be scared of David Menzies?

00:29:30.320 What's he going to do?

00:29:31.140 Give me a big old hug to death?

00:29:33.380 Come on.

00:29:34.400 Oh, look at this. 1.00

00:29:35.580 Kent Hare, the sexual predator, the liberal in Calgary, Trudeau's sexual predator, liberal. 1.00

00:29:40.840 I'm serious. 1.00

00:29:41.740 He was kicked out of the cabinet for sexual misconduct.

00:29:45.320 He's still running for the liberals.

00:29:46.800 Look at him trying to speed away from Key in his wheelchair.

00:29:50.820 Oh, that's cringeworthy.

00:29:52.080 Or here's my friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who followed Chrystia Freeland all the way to London, England, to ask this question.

00:29:58.120 Minister Freeland, all of our reporters have been blocked by the United Nations,

00:30:03.640 preventing us from reporting at any of their conferences,

00:30:07.840 both the climate change conferences and at the Migration Pact conference.

00:30:13.980 We know, through writing, the UN confirmed to us that that was done at the request of the Canadian government.

00:30:22.280 We also know that your government has met with our competitors in the Parliamentary Press Gallery

00:30:27.060 to block our organization from reporting on events organized and managed by the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:30:33.740 Your government has also been admonished by the Information Commissioner, the Privy Council Office in particular,

00:30:42.040 for blocking our access to information requests into the Prime Minister's office.

00:30:47.960 What are you going to do, tangibly, to change that when you get home?

00:30:53.780 Yeah, that's the stuff.

00:30:55.620 That's the stuff.

00:30:56.420 Have you ever seen Chrystia Freeland ask the tough question before?

00:30:59.340 You have not.

00:30:59.900 I want our reporters to travel nonstop, a seven-week sprint.

00:31:06.520 Nobody working from the office.

00:31:07.780 Everyone working from the hustings.

00:31:09.320 Like the candidates, that's where they are.

00:31:11.700 I want us to be the most interesting journalists in the campaign.

00:31:15.140 I don't want our people riding the official campaign bus for any party.

00:31:19.400 Why?

00:31:19.800 So we can be spoon-fed, talking points in a controlled situation by Gerald Butts

00:31:24.760 or whoever the equivalent of Gerald Butts is on the Conservatives and the NDP.

00:31:28.260 I want the authenticity of asking real questions when we want to ask them, not when Gerald Butts approves.

00:31:34.900 And I want to hear the raw answers, whether it's calling the police or calling us names.

00:31:39.820 And I want Canadians to see that.

00:31:41.860 What do you think?

00:31:43.420 Do you think that'll be valuable?

00:31:45.280 Five rebels asking questions every day.

00:31:47.820 And I mean real questions, not the kind of, what kind of shampoo questions that we've been getting lately.

00:31:53.740 And I want to talk to Canadians, too.

00:31:55.740 I don't want to just talk to the pundits.

00:31:57.120 I want to talk to real Canadians to hear from them, to do streeters, as we call them, asking the man on the street what they really think.

00:32:03.060 I don't care what the left-wing pollsters and pundits on the CBC and CTV lobbyists panel think.

00:32:08.960 I know what they think.

00:32:10.420 They all agree.

00:32:11.740 Omar Khadr's the real victim.

00:32:13.240 A carbon tax is a good idea, at least for the little people. 1.00

00:32:16.560 If you oppose open borders immigration, you're probably a racist, et cetera, et cetera.

00:32:21.240 No, no, no, no.

00:32:22.440 I also want to talk to real Canadians, severely normal people.

00:32:26.020 So I want to roll out more of those Jumbotron trucks to get the conversation going.

00:32:30.120 We love doing those.

00:32:31.520 And I want to do something that should have been done four years ago but wasn't.

00:32:36.540 I want to vet Canada's prime minister.

00:32:40.060 And I have.

00:32:41.320 I've vetted him and his whole team through the lens of corruption.

00:32:47.980 And so I'm pleased to announce to you, my friends, a new book called The Libranos, What the Media Won't Tell You About Justin Trudeau's Corruption.

00:32:58.280 It's a quick read.

00:32:59.780 The paperback version is only 138 pages.

00:33:02.540 Or you can get the e-book if you prefer.

00:33:05.120 Read it on your Kindle, whatever.

00:33:06.360 It has the collected facts about Trudeau and his corrupt team, from corrupt Bill Morneau to corrupt Gerald Butts to corrupt Dominique LeBlanc.

00:33:16.300 All the crooks, all the Libranos, as we call them, all the facts the CBC doesn't want to tell you because they're worried if they tell you they'll have their subsidy cut off. 1.00

00:33:26.640 And, you know, I want to spread the word about the book through these lawn signs.

00:33:32.300 We've ordered lawn signs, folks.

00:33:34.460 Just like we did for Sheila Gunn-Reed's book about the Alberta election called Stop Notley.

00:33:39.540 Look, when I used to write books like Ethical Oil, every media outlet in the country interviewed me about the book.

00:33:46.020 My books were reviewed widely.

00:33:47.680 That's not going to happen here.

00:33:50.920 If any media party journalist were to review my book, even negatively, even to mention my book, they would risk losing their bailout subsidy.

00:34:01.980 It's just a fact.

00:34:04.160 So we need a 100% grassroots, citizen-based marketing strategy to spread the word about Trudeau and his Libranos.

00:34:10.940 That's where the lawn signs come in.

00:34:12.940 They're not party ads.

00:34:14.480 They don't promote one party or another.

00:34:16.220 They promote the book.

00:34:18.440 But they're perfect for anyone who wants to show their opinions about the first prime minister in Canadian history to be convicted of breaking the law not once but on five counts.

00:34:27.780 So that's our campaign plan.

00:34:29.600 Not a political campaign.

00:34:31.480 It's a journalistic campaign.

00:34:33.740 A plan to tell the other side of the story.

00:34:36.480 Our competitors are not the liberals.

00:34:39.460 Our competitors are the media party.

00:34:41.520 And our advantage is we are not bought off by any of the political parties like they are.

00:34:48.460 We can be honest.

00:34:49.680 We can be independent.

00:34:51.240 And so we are going to swarm the campaign trail.

00:34:55.120 We're going to crisscross the country.

00:34:56.520 We're going to scrum politicians on the streets, at the doors.

00:34:59.580 We're not going to be managed and scripted like the government journalists at the CBC.

00:35:04.300 And I promise you, I will not go on any dates with Justin Trudeau like Rosemary Barton did.

00:35:11.240 Boy, she's in love.

00:35:13.580 I think we'll make a big difference, don't you?

00:35:16.220 Dozens of great in-the-field reports.

00:35:19.320 Jumbotron billboard trucks to build buzz about our coverage and to stimulate a national conversation like Jessica Svintonevsky did. 0.97

00:35:27.240 Here with our fake feminist billboard. 1.00

00:35:29.920 She parked it right outside a liberal party fundraiser.

00:35:32.500 That's a good idea, right?

00:35:34.160 And the book.

00:35:35.680 We've published, I don't know, about five books so far here at The Rebel.

00:35:38.620 Every single one of them has been a bestseller despite none of them being reviewed by the fancy media.

00:35:44.760 We actually don't need their help.

00:35:46.620 We'll promote the book ourselves.

00:35:48.320 And we have lawn signs promoting the book.

00:35:50.200 It's a real book, real journalism.

00:35:52.360 There are other books out there about Justin Trudeau right now.

00:35:56.280 Did you know that the CBC's government journalist named Aaron Wary has just pumped out a book about Trudeau?

00:36:02.960 I thought it would actually be called Fifty Shades of Grey or something, giving Wary's affection.

00:36:08.700 I'm serious.

00:36:09.140 Remember Aaron Wary?

00:36:10.180 He was the actual CBC journalist who flew to Davos on the taxpayer's dime with the CBC to write stories about Justin Trudeau's socks.

00:36:19.760 I'm not kidding.

00:36:21.160 Aaron Wary was the sock journalist.

00:36:23.960 So there's a bunch of Trudeau books out there by the bailout media.

00:36:29.020 My book, The Libranos, is the only one not subsidized by the subject of the book, Trudeau himself.

00:36:37.620 I predict we will sell more copies of The Libranos without any government subsidies than those love letters published by the media party.

00:36:47.600 That's my prediction.

00:36:48.220 So that's our plan.

00:36:51.740 Flying and driving journalists around the country nonstop for seven weeks, but not telling the political parties where we'll be on any given day.

00:37:00.660 Jumbotron trucks.

00:37:02.060 They get the conversation going on main streets across the country.

00:37:06.280 A 138-page book with everything you need to know about Trudeau that the CBC won't tell you.

00:37:11.760 And thousands and thousands of fun lawn signs that you can put right on your own front step.

00:37:17.800 That's the Rebels campaign plan.

00:37:19.860 Not a political campaign plan.

00:37:21.540 A journalistic campaign plan.

00:37:23.660 Our budget is just over $100,000.

00:37:26.680 And we're quietly raising that throughout the summer from Canadians who want to help us.

00:37:32.420 We still need to raise close to six figures for the lawn signs, for the Jumbotron trucks, mainly, though, to help cover the cost of crisscrossing Canada.

00:37:43.340 I mean, besides the airfare, our journalists on the road need car rentals, motels, things like that.

00:37:48.640 Five journalists, seven weeks, 20 Jumbotron trucks, one best-selling book, 20,000 lawn signs, if we need that many.

00:37:56.580 And 37 million Canadians sick not only of Canada's political establishment, but the suck-ups in the media party, too.

00:38:02.860 Do you like the plan?

00:38:04.600 Do you like that campaign plan?

00:38:06.420 That journalistic campaign plan?

00:38:09.380 If so, I'd appreciate your help.

00:38:11.000 We'll publish our final budget after the campaign is over for full disclosure.

00:38:17.960 The main cost will be travel.

00:38:20.880 Look, if you donate your money to a political party, you're limited in what you can give.

00:38:26.000 And only individuals can give.

00:38:27.760 Companies can't donate.

00:38:29.140 We're not a political party.

00:38:30.500 We're not a super PAC.

00:38:32.280 We're just journalists.

00:38:34.440 We won't be campaigning politically.

00:38:36.820 We'll be journalism-ing.

00:38:38.260 We'll be asking accountability questions of all the parties.

00:38:41.860 We'll be talking about all the issues.

00:38:43.880 And we'll be having a lot of fun.

00:38:46.120 We can't give you a political party tax receipt, but we can promise you we'll make more of a difference dollar for dollar than any other group out there.

00:38:54.520 Because we are 100% independent.

00:38:59.140 So help us out if you can.

00:39:01.180 We need around $100,000.

00:39:03.080 The reason I'm not being precise is because if we don't raise at all, we'll do less.

00:39:06.940 But if we raise more, we'll do more.

00:39:09.800 I'd like to raise $100,000 for our full Tilt campaign.

00:39:13.900 We sure could use your help.

00:39:15.740 We'll publish the full budget afterwards so you can inspect it.

00:39:19.680 Look, you already pay for the CBC and the Toronto store unwillingly.

00:39:24.440 Trudeau forces you to through your taxes.

00:39:27.220 If you want to voluntarily help us out, I'd be grateful.

00:39:32.240 And in return, I promise you the best journalism in Canada.

00:39:38.260 Thanks.

00:39:39.660 Please go to campaign2019.com to help.

00:39:44.100 Welcome back.

00:39:58.960 Well, speaking of elections, there's something that I think every one of the parties,

00:40:03.660 except perhaps Maxime Bernier's People's Party, wants to tamp down.

00:40:09.400 And that's populism.

00:40:10.640 People who reject the entire system, the entire game, not just a player in the game.

00:40:17.740 And joining us now to talk about it is the author of a column in the Edmonton Sun called

00:40:21.660 Political Correctness is More Fuel for Populism, our friend Lauren Gunter, who joins us now via Skype. 1.00

00:40:28.520 Great to see you again.

00:40:30.120 Good to see you.

00:40:31.040 Well, thanks very much.

00:40:31.780 Why don't you take us through your column a little bit?

00:40:33.840 You start off by referring to Sean Spear, who used to be an advisor to Stephen Harper.

00:40:38.460 And he wrote a bit of a warning.

00:40:40.680 Why don't you tell us what that warning is and how it might apply to Canada?

00:40:44.100 Well, first of all, Spear said that, you know, if you leave a whole class of people behind

00:40:49.380 economically when you expand your economy or you move your economy in a new direction,

00:40:55.520 that class of people are going to perhaps rebel.

00:40:59.200 And that's the source of an awful lot of thinking now on populism is that people who are left

00:41:05.900 behind by globalization, lots of times assembly line workers, sometimes people who work in

00:41:12.560 farming and other manual labor, they got left behind because we moved jobs overseas, we moved

00:41:20.660 production overseas to where labor was cheaper.

00:41:23.960 However, they were forgotten.

00:41:26.180 And part of Donald Trump's victory in the United States, part of the Brexit victory in

00:41:31.100 the UK, both come from people who are marginalized or dislocated by globalization.

00:41:38.940 So I think Spear is right there.

00:41:41.180 But I think another thing goes back to something that goes back to even something you wrote almost

00:41:47.960 15 years ago in The War on Fun.

00:41:49.800 It's all of this petty nagging and preaching and hectoring from elites that you don't eat

00:41:57.920 properly, you don't use the right pronouns, you aren't sensitive enough to this group or

00:42:04.640 that group.

00:42:05.760 And on, our straws are choking turtles in the ocean, on and on and on.

00:42:13.180 Nothing that ordinary people do is good enough or right for people in the enlightened elites,

00:42:21.400 the people who see themselves as benighted and above the rest of us.

00:42:26.100 And I think after a while, those drip, drip, drip messages that you don't commute properly,

00:42:33.040 you should be on transit, not in your own car, you should be on a bicycle rather than your

00:42:37.500 own pickup truck, on and on and on.

00:42:40.140 After a while, that fuels populism too, because people just get tired of being nagged and they

00:42:47.200 say, you know, enough's enough.

00:42:49.700 And I don't like the system anymore.

00:42:52.100 Yeah.

00:42:52.480 You're so right.

00:42:53.400 I just can't help notice that the latest thing from the establishment, and I'm using that

00:42:58.940 word generically, is don't eat meat, let's all become vegetarians, or even, and I know

00:43:06.220 it's insane, but I'm seeing it everywhere, this crazy call to eat bugs, to eat bugs.

00:43:13.200 And I can assure you, I mean, I have visited the United Nations in New York before.

00:43:17.780 I have never seen such a lavish, like it is exquisite.

00:43:21.580 They wouldn't eat any cut of meat other than the filet.

00:43:26.300 I mean, these are, they have five-star meals, the finest wines.

00:43:30.380 Absolutely.

00:43:31.280 And that, I think it's that we know they don't mean it for themselves, but they mean it for

00:43:36.200 us.

00:43:36.340 It was the same thing about don't fly, don't commute.

00:43:38.760 We got Meghan Markle, who took four private jet flights in 11 days, telling us that we got

00:43:45.380 to drive less or vacation less.

00:43:47.520 It's not just the insanity, it's that they're not even pretending they're doing it too.

00:43:52.020 No, exactly.

00:43:52.520 Google had a conference on Sicily, by private invitation only, to discuss the environment.

00:44:00.860 300 invitees brought 144 private jets.

00:44:06.720 Like, you know, spare me, please.

00:44:08.940 Please, just stop telling me these things.

00:44:11.380 And I think that's part of the populism too.

00:44:14.780 It is economic dislocation.

00:44:16.600 If you don't worry about your job being cut, if you don't worry about where your next paycheck's

00:44:23.560 going to come from, you're happy with your house, you're happy with your vacation every

00:44:28.900 year.

00:44:29.460 Maybe some of those other things, the political correctness things don't bother you.

00:44:33.600 But as soon as you're also being pressured on the economic side, then boy, it's extra hard

00:44:40.460 to take that self-smugness from elites that, you know, oh my goodness, well, French fries

00:44:48.580 are just off.

00:44:49.640 You know, you have a bag of fries every once in a while because it's a nice relief from the

00:44:55.420 stresses of your everyday.

00:44:56.320 You don't need some skinny dietician who thinks a rice cake is a sufficient meal to nag 1.00

00:45:04.220 at you with a little pinched face and say, oh my goodness, you're not doing the right

00:45:08.720 thing.

00:45:09.280 And after a while, being told again and again, you know, being told that your concern about

00:45:15.260 the levels of illegal immigration into the country are nothing but racism.

00:45:21.120 After a while, you just say, no, it's not.

00:45:23.220 Like, there's a legitimate reason to debate this, to talk about whether or not this is

00:45:27.840 a good idea, a bad idea.

00:45:29.360 Maybe you can convince me it's a good idea, but it's not wrong to ask the question.

00:45:35.320 I mean, another thing that came up last week, and I've written about it, it'll appear in

00:45:40.100 papers either today in some place or tomorrow in other places, is the missing and murdered

00:45:47.560 indigenous girls, women and girls.

00:45:50.140 They jiggered the numbers, right?

00:45:52.780 They said repeatedly in their report that 25 percent of murder victims in Canada were

00:45:59.080 indigenous women and girls.

00:46:01.460 It turns out it's closer to six percent.

00:46:04.340 And while that's still disproportionate because they're four percent of the population, it's

00:46:08.560 a one and a half percent disparity or one and a half times disparity as opposed to a seven

00:46:14.860 times disparity.

00:46:15.720 So again and again and again, these sorts of things.

00:46:19.680 And then when they're informed that there's this error, a huge error in their report, which

00:46:25.960 is the basis of their claim that the rest of us commit genocide against indigenous women

00:46:31.760 and girls, they say, oh, it doesn't matter because it's really an important problem.

00:46:35.660 So it doesn't matter whether the numbers are right or not.

00:46:38.400 What matters is that we've identified the problem.

00:46:40.700 That's the kind of elitist, smug thinking that I think is fueling populism.

00:46:46.220 You know, you covered a lot of ground there, but you made me for a second think about when

00:46:51.100 our young reporter, Kian Bexte, went to the opening of Chick-fil-A in Toronto late last week.

00:46:56.260 There was two competing groups protesting.

00:47:00.020 There was a vegan, like a vegetarian extremist group.

00:47:04.220 And then there was a gay, an extremist gay group because there were a lot of gay folks 0.77

00:47:08.780 in line to get their chicken. 0.77

00:47:10.440 Kian interviewed a ton of people.

00:47:12.840 It was every color, every race, every religion.

00:47:15.920 He bumped into a gay engaged couple who said, we're just here for the chicken. 0.89

00:47:20.740 And what a contrast between the severely normal people in line around the block.

00:47:26.260 And this small group of shouting, hectoring activists, by the way, at odds with each other,

00:47:35.480 the gay rights activists and the vegetarian activists, and everyone in line was sort of 0.89

00:47:41.400 saying, shut up, I'm sick of you, including people of every minority that are supposed to 1.00

00:47:47.680 be outraged by this chicken sandwich. 0.99

00:47:49.600 I thought it was a hilarious video, but I think it sort of made your point.

00:47:53.540 There's an American stand-up comedian, and I'm sorry, I don't, the name doesn't come

00:47:58.040 to me off the top of my head, but he has this thing about, well, you know, Chick-fil-A came

00:48:03.720 to my town and I decided, given their political and religious views, that I just could not put

00:48:11.980 up with their chicken sandwiches.

00:48:13.560 I vowed that I would boycott their chicken sandwich.

00:48:16.460 I still get the nuggets, of course.

00:48:20.160 That's a good one.

00:48:22.840 You know, it does come down to economics, I think, because a lot of these things, they'll

00:48:30.780 enforce through a regulation or a tax or a ban, or if you get too far off, they'll try and

00:48:37.400 hound you out of your job or boycott your company.

00:48:40.900 So even though social things have an economic angle to them, let me tell you an example from

00:48:51.120 the UK.

00:48:51.660 You mentioned the UK, and I think you're so right.

00:48:53.920 Brexit was a lot of people who were what I call the forgotten people.

00:48:57.560 I'm not the first to use that term.

00:49:00.480 There's a progressive Muslim who used to be quite radical, but now is a real liberal. 0.54

00:49:05.300 His name is Majid Nawaz.

00:49:07.220 I think he's very thoughtful, and he's sort of a frenemy of our buddy Tommy Robinson, and

00:49:13.140 he said, look, because the rest of us were so politically correct, we didn't allow anyone

00:49:19.800 to talk about these rape gangs, and so Tommy filled the void, and it's us who should have

00:49:25.780 been having a conversation.

00:49:27.640 When we shut the conversation down, why are you surprised that Tommy took it over?

00:49:32.660 And I think that's what's happening in Canada on immigration, on global warming, on carbon

00:49:38.040 taxes, on paying Omar Khadr, on a whole barrel of issues.

00:49:43.080 You're not allowed to talk about it.

00:49:44.840 You're not allowed.

00:49:45.480 Maxime Bernier, whatever else you think of him, he's been banned from the debates, but

00:49:49.120 not the Green Party or the bloc.

00:49:51.880 Everything's cut off.

00:49:52.760 And you know what?

00:49:53.340 You do that for a while, and people say, fine, then I'm going to go embrace someone who

00:49:58.540 will let me talk about it.

00:49:59.740 You're actually driving people out of the establishment towards radicalism.

00:50:04.420 I think that's true.

00:50:05.020 And unfortunately, you can do that for so long that you drive people right over to a kind 0.96

00:50:10.880 of populism or nationalism or racism that you don't want.

00:50:16.960 But because you've shut everybody else up, that's what frustrated people have left.

00:50:23.080 And that's really frightening.

00:50:24.540 You know, it's interesting in this whole globalization debate that globalization has worked in a lot

00:50:33.640 of ways.

00:50:34.060 It has worked for a lot of people.

00:50:35.960 Back in the early 90s, the G7 countries controlled about 70% of the GDP in the world and the developing

00:50:45.820 countries less than 20%.

00:50:48.120 Now the two groups are quite equal.

00:50:50.960 And so that doesn't mean that people in developing countries are as rich as people in G7.

00:50:54.640 But it really has shown that globalization has helped lift a lot of boats.

00:51:00.380 But what we forget is, in a rush to say it's a good thing, is that there are an awful lot

00:51:05.120 of really good people whose lives are not as good as they were 25 years ago as a result

00:51:11.800 of globalization.

00:51:12.520 And then to even discuss that becomes forbidden.

00:51:17.480 And that's where the frustration begins.

00:51:19.720 And it really has become an important political issue.

00:51:23.460 Yeah.

00:51:24.040 We started by talking about Stephen Harper and his staff, and I've seen Harper make this

00:51:27.840 point himself.

00:51:29.780 I'd like to close with an extended clip.

00:51:32.240 So, Lona, I want to thank you for joining us.

00:51:33.660 I really appreciated your column.

00:51:35.440 I like how you link both the economics and the social issues.

00:51:38.740 I'm going to close with a clip I've shown our viewers before.

00:51:41.300 It's from 2016.

00:51:43.200 And of all people, it's from Michael Moore, the schleppy, far-left Democrat filmmaker activist.

00:51:50.440 But here he is, before anyone thought Trump would win, outlining why he thought Trump would

00:51:57.420 win.

00:51:57.820 Not necessarily why he liked Trump, but why Trump was talking to America's forgotten

00:52:03.900 people.

00:52:04.920 And when I saw this video three and a half years ago, I thought, oh my God, this is how

00:52:10.420 Donald Trump will win by talking to the forgotten men.

00:52:14.060 So, Lona, I want to thank you here, and I want to leave our viewers with this extended

00:52:18.220 clip from Michael Moore that really opened my eyes.

00:52:20.720 So thanks for joining us today, my friend.

00:52:22.280 You bet.

00:52:22.780 All right.

00:52:23.200 Here it is.

00:52:23.600 And here's Michael Moore, which is a strange way to end, but you'll see my point.

00:52:27.720 Take a look.

00:52:28.160 Because I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump, and they're

00:52:34.100 not, they don't necessarily like him that much, and they don't necessarily agree with

00:52:40.600 him.

00:52:40.840 They're not racist and rednecks, or they're actually pretty decent people.

00:52:48.100 And so I wanted to sort of, after talking to a number of them, I wanted to sort of, I

00:52:51.580 wanted to write this, and Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there

00:53:00.820 in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, if you close these factories, as you're planning

00:53:08.180 to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars

00:53:15.680 when you send them back, and nobody's going to buy them.

00:53:18.560 It was an amazing thing to see.

00:53:21.260 No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives.

00:53:28.140 And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the

00:53:37.880 Brexit states.

00:53:41.160 You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about.

00:53:44.200 Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who

00:53:49.220 are hurting.

00:53:51.280 And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was 0.70

00:53:57.520 called the middle class, loves Trump.

00:54:00.340 He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for. 0.94

00:54:06.380 The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives 0.92

00:54:11.180 from them.

00:54:13.060 And on November 8th, Election Day, although they've lost their jobs, although they've been

00:54:19.580 foreclosed on by the bank, next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone.

00:54:24.580 The car's been repoed.

00:54:26.160 They haven't had a real vacation in years. 0.99

00:54:28.760 They're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a f***ing Percocet. 0.97

00:54:35.280 They've essentially lost everything they had except one thing. 0.98

00:54:41.900 The one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution,

00:54:50.020 the right to vote.

00:54:53.260 They might be penniless.

00:54:55.000 They might be homeless. 0.98

00:54:56.420 They might be f***ed over and f***ed up. 0.94

00:54:58.320 It doesn't matter because it's equalized on that day. 0.87

00:55:03.440 A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job.

00:55:08.720 One.

00:55:09.980 And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.

00:55:16.060 So on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, 0.97

00:55:23.820 close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touch screen and put a big f***ing 0.94

00:55:29.820 X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system

00:55:37.200 that has ruined their lives.

00:55:41.300 Donald J. Trump.

00:55:45.280 They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump.

00:55:51.260 Corporate America hates Trump.

00:55:53.680 Wall Street hates Trump.

00:55:54.940 The career politicians hate Trump.

00:55:57.900 The media hates Trump after they loved him and created him and now hate him.

00:56:05.120 Thank you, media.

00:56:06.740 The enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for on November 8th.

00:56:10.680 Yes, on November 8th, you, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow, all

00:56:22.800 the Blows, get to go and blow up the whole system because it's your right. 0.98

00:56:30.800 Trump's election is going to be the biggest f*** you ever recorded in human history. 0.99

00:56:41.460 And it will feel good. 0.96

00:56:46.420 Hey, what do you think of my campaign plan?

00:56:59.920 It's not a political campaign plan.

00:57:01.400 We're not going to be door knocking.

00:57:02.740 We're not going to be handing out leaflets for one candidate or the other.

00:57:05.740 We are going to be journalisaming.

00:57:07.920 And what I mean by that is asking accountability questions where none have been asked so far.

00:57:12.040 We tested it out in Alberta and it went great.

00:57:15.540 I want to expand that nationwide.

00:57:17.880 Instead of doing it by car, I want to do it by plane.

00:57:20.560 Instead of doing one or two roddings, I want to do dozens, maybe a hundred.

00:57:24.860 You can find out more by going to campaign2019.com.

00:57:28.380 I hope you'll help us.

00:57:29.540 Look, the race is on.

00:57:31.140 All right, that's it for today.

00:57:32.620 From all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.

00:57:37.460 And keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 10, 2019

How Rebel News will cover the Canadian election PLUS New book： The Libranos!

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