Rebel News Podcast - How the Trudeau government is rigging the leaders' debates in the upcoming federal election

00:00:00.200 Hello, Rebels. Today I talk about something that I haven't seen criticized anywhere in the media party.

00:00:05.680 It's a bizarre new decision that Justin Trudeau and his hand-picked staff will run the election debates in Canada this fall.

00:00:17.380 In the past, it was a voluntary agreement between the media and the political parties.

00:00:21.660 Everyone was equal, and they haggled over the rules and who was where and what the subjects would be.

00:00:26.180 No, no, not anymore. Justin Trudeau has taken over that and has hand-picked his lefty journalists,

00:00:33.100 and they will set the rules whether you like it or not.

00:00:36.320 I think it's insane, and I haven't seen a single criticism of it by the media party.

00:00:41.560 I'll show you all the details in a moment.

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00:01:10.820 All right, here's my podcast about just another way that Trudeau has his thumb on the scale of this upcoming election.

00:01:18.440 You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast.

00:01:21.060 Tonight, is there anything in the upcoming federal election that is not being rigged by the Trudeau government?

00:01:27.360 This is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:28.640 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:34.420 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:38.500 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.

00:01:44.360 We're less than 90 days away from the 2019 Canadian federal election, but it is summertime for another month, and most Canadians aren't really paying attention, I don't think.

00:01:57.720 But after Labor Day, it's going to be a quick sprint to October 21st.

00:02:01.420 One of the moments that sort of wakes everybody up to the fact that an election is imminent is the leaders' debates.

00:02:06.380 They usually don't contain any decisive moments these days, but there are a few.

00:02:10.820 Remember this one, Jack Layton skewering that American tourist named Michael Ignatieff who very, very briefly visited Canada and became liberal leader.

00:02:18.620 He said before you have to walk the walk, and you have to be a strong leader and respect parliament.

00:02:23.200 I've got to ask you then, why do you have the worst attendance record in the House of Commons of any member of parliament?

00:02:29.180 If you want to be prime minister, you better learn how to be a member of parliament first.

00:02:32.880 You know, most Canadians, if they don't show up for work, they don't get a promotion.

00:02:37.140 Mr. Layton, I don't surrender to anybody in my respect for the institution of parliament and my obligation to the people who put me there.

00:02:44.260 So don't give me lessons about respect for democracy.

00:02:46.620 Well, where were you when I was there standing up to Mr. Harper and voting against his policies, and you weren't in the chamber?

00:02:53.720 You missed 70% of the votes.

00:02:57.400 I think you need to understand a little bit more about how our democracy works.

00:03:00.520 That's my only point.

00:03:02.740 I don't know, maybe it wasn't a killer moment, but I thought it was pretty good.

00:03:06.420 And that was a question put by one political party leader to another, not by a journalist.

00:03:12.040 But in the main, it's not the political candidate to control the debate.

00:03:15.000 It's the main organizers.

00:03:17.320 Here's what I mean by that.

00:03:19.100 I like that exchange I just showed you, but what if the rules were a little bit different?

00:03:23.640 What if those candidates couldn't ask each other questions?

00:03:26.940 What if they weren't allowed to follow up with a supplemental question like Jack Layton was?

00:03:31.540 What if they just let the other candidate wriggle out of it?

00:03:34.100 What if that was the rules?

00:03:35.180 I don't think any journalist would have put that question to Ignatius that way.

00:03:38.720 I'm glad Layton did.

00:03:39.960 How much time did the various candidates get?

00:03:42.500 Who will cut them off and how forcefully?

00:03:44.940 Even just the fact, just notice it there, the studio was all orange.

00:03:50.440 That's the NDP color.

00:03:52.280 Who's in charge of that?

00:03:54.140 Could it be conservative blue or liberal red instead?

00:03:57.760 Maybe green party green?

00:03:59.860 All those things make a little difference.

00:04:01.620 But I think by far a more important decision about the formats of these debates are the

00:04:07.340 rules played by the journalists who moderate them, because often those moderators are so

00:04:12.840 political.

00:04:14.200 And 100% of the time, if they're political, they're on the left, by the way.

00:04:18.180 And they often just can't help themselves.

00:04:20.500 Can I show you an example from the American 2012 campaign?

00:04:24.660 Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

00:04:26.460 And they were talking about the Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi just

00:04:32.140 a month earlier.

00:04:33.720 Now take a look at this.

00:04:35.500 There weren't two debaters on the stage.

00:04:39.540 There were three.

00:04:41.200 Take a look.

00:04:42.080 It took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

00:04:46.740 Get the transcript.

00:04:47.640 He did, in fact, sir.

00:04:49.400 So let me call it an act of terror.

00:04:51.260 Can you say that a little louder, Candy?

00:04:52.480 In other words, he did call it an act of terror.

00:04:56.700 It did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there

00:05:04.900 about this tape to come out.

00:05:06.780 You're correct about that.

00:05:07.800 The administration indicated that this was a reaction to a video and was a spontaneous

00:05:15.220 reaction.

00:05:16.000 It did.

00:05:16.080 That was Candy Crowley, a CNN journalist.

00:05:20.800 But she really, really wanted to be a debater, didn't she?

00:05:24.720 Mitt Romney had given an answer that happened to be right, actually.

00:05:28.720 Obama and his team had lied about the terrorist nature of that attack.

00:05:34.100 For weeks they lied.

00:05:36.080 Natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video.

00:05:40.920 There was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video.

00:05:46.520 We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that

00:05:53.960 we had nothing to do with.

00:05:56.520 That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks.

00:05:59.920 It was a crude and disgusting video that sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. 1.00

00:06:04.860 So Romney was right, but even if he wasn't right, it's up to Barack Obama to point that

00:06:13.500 out or to tens of millions of Americans at home judging for themselves, not for a left-wing

00:06:18.660 journalist in the moment to interfere with the debate, to say to the candidates whether

00:06:23.980 their answer was or wasn't correct in her opinion.

00:06:26.760 That's nuts.

00:06:28.120 And like I say, she was wrong factually, by the way.

00:06:31.180 Do you see my point?

00:06:31.780 So who's going to be the moderator of Canadian debates?

00:06:35.260 And what questions do they get to ask?

00:06:38.420 The Democrats in the United States right now are having their presidential nomination debates

00:06:42.440 at the presidential primary, and it's a hoot to watch.

00:06:44.720 But look at this question from Don Lemon, of course, from CNN again.

00:06:48.040 He states as fact, not as opinion, but as a premise that we can all agree on, that Donald 0.97

00:06:53.420 Trump is a racist. 0.91

00:06:54.860 We want to turn now to the issue of race in America. 0.99

00:06:57.420 Congressman O'Rourke, President Trump is pursuing a re-election strategy based in part

00:07:02.300 on racial division.

00:07:03.980 How do you convince primary voters that you'd be the best nominee to take on President Trump

00:07:08.960 and heal the racial divide in America?

00:07:12.580 Now, they're all Democrats, so they all agree with that, I think.

00:07:15.660 And like I showed you from that Romney-Obama debate, CNN is pretty much partisan left-wing.

00:07:19.800 I'm not sure how many Republicans or independents we're even watching.

00:07:22.480 But who writes the questions?

00:07:25.080 Who chooses the themes?

00:07:27.320 Often debates are split up into different chunks, different sections, based on different

00:07:32.860 topics.

00:07:33.380 You might have a section on foreign affairs.

00:07:35.880 You might have a different one on health care, just for example.

00:07:38.480 But who chooses?

00:07:40.040 I know one thing.

00:07:40.920 Justin Trudeau would love a half hour in the debates about the climate crisis, climate emergency.

00:07:48.180 And you know that's what the media actually calls it these days, a crisis.

00:07:51.240 It's not a crisis.

00:07:54.000 There's no objective measurement by which it could possibly be called a crisis.

00:07:57.640 It is objectively true, by contrast, that we do have an immigration crisis in Canada,

00:08:02.420 50,000 illegal entries at that Roxham Road ditch on the Quebec-New York border.

00:08:06.880 All of them fake refugees, by the way. 1.00

00:08:08.480 You cannot be a refugee from America. 1.00

00:08:10.360 That's not a thing.

00:08:11.600 There's now, what, a 10-year backlog for reviewing those bogus refugee claims?

00:08:15.140 We're at the point where we're warehousing refugees in urban refugee camps, including

00:08:20.640 in entire hotels in Toronto.

00:08:23.160 Yeah, that is objectively a crisis.

00:08:25.100 But what are the odds that there would be a 30-minute segment on the immigration crisis,

00:08:31.180 the bogus refugee crisis?

00:08:33.340 And that word crisis would be used there as opposed to a climate crisis.

00:08:37.260 Yeah, you know that.

00:08:37.880 It just wouldn't happen.

00:08:38.700 Now, in the past, anyone could theoretically host an election leaders debate.

00:08:43.500 Of course, all you have to do is convince the leaders to show up.

00:08:45.840 So you'd have to be able to produce it successfully.

00:08:47.900 You'd have to be reliable technically.

00:08:50.000 You'd have to be able to bring an audience.

00:08:51.900 You'd probably have to have some reputation for non-partisanship.

00:08:55.520 So that limits it to probably a dozen different groups, including, I don't know, Facebook,

00:08:59.680 for example, universities.

00:09:02.600 Remember last time there was one of the monk debates at the University of Toronto?

00:09:05.620 But like I say, there would be a choice in the past.

00:09:08.120 And so the groups pitching the debates to the parties would have an incentive to be fair,

00:09:12.300 I think, to make it palatable to all the party leaders if they wanted them to participate.

00:09:17.220 Or maybe they don't want all the leaders to participate.

00:09:20.040 Elizabeth May loves being in these leaders' debates,

00:09:23.480 even though she has no chance of becoming prime minister.

00:09:25.840 Zero chance.

00:09:27.240 She just really uses it as a fundraising opportunity for her party, a PR opportunity, 0.95

00:09:31.360 and to bash the conservative candidate.

00:09:33.360 In the last election, she literally never once attacked the liberal candidate.

00:09:38.120 She just didn't.

00:09:39.000 I watched all of her interventions.

00:09:40.740 All of her attacks were on Trudeau's opponents, especially the conservative who was running Stephen Harper.

00:09:48.280 That's not normal.

00:09:49.720 That's not natural.

00:09:51.480 That's a County Crowley problem.

00:09:53.740 That's a two-on-one problem.

00:09:55.760 Elizabeth May historically has been the liberal party's wingman, Trudeau's little buddy.

00:09:59.760 So obviously the left want her in there to double the amount of bashing on Andrew Scheer this time. 0.94

00:10:05.240 But this time, given just how far Trudeau has collapsed in the British Columbia because of his mistreatment of Jody Wilson-Raybould,

00:10:12.520 I actually think the Green Party, if they do well, might steal maybe even a couple of seats out there,

00:10:17.060 and more importantly, split the liberal NDP vote out there.

00:10:19.680 So paradoxically, having a wingman like Elizabeth May might actually help the conservatives this time.

00:10:24.500 But my point today is, if there were freedom in who arranged these debates and how you could have some people offer to host a debate with her in it and see who comes,

00:10:33.080 and someone would offer to host a debate without her in it and see who comes, and it would be whatever. 1.00

00:10:37.420 It would be free.

00:10:37.860 But, you know, I mean, for contrast, what do you think about Maxine Bernier?

00:10:42.800 The left-wing media love having Elizabeth May in these debates, but they despise Maxine Bernier. 0.80

00:10:48.660 Would they keep him out?

00:10:52.020 Well, yes, it's going to happen this time.

00:10:54.120 Look at this, from the liberal government press release announcing the rules for debates.

00:10:59.400 In the interest of time, and as a starting point for the upcoming 2019 debates,

00:11:04.220 the government has established clear criteria for participation by political party leaders.

00:11:09.540 In 2019, debates would include leaders of political parties that meet two of the following three criteria.

00:11:15.840 At the time of the general election in question is called,

00:11:18.660 the party is represented in the House of Commons by a member of parliament who is elected as a member of that party.

00:11:25.740 That's one of the criteria there.

00:11:27.040 That's a rule written to address precisely one person, Maxine Bernier.

00:11:30.280 That's the rule now.

00:11:31.580 Now, there's two other criteria.

00:11:33.660 Do they have a certain number of candidates or are they at a certain level in the polls?

00:11:37.560 But all of a sudden, the government has just said there are official government rules written by Trudeau now

00:11:45.100 that will determine who gets to debate him.

00:11:47.720 Trudeau says so.

00:11:49.300 It's the law now.

00:11:52.000 Even if the media wanted otherwise, even if all the party leaders wanted otherwise,

00:11:55.120 that's what Trudeau wants and what he wants is what he gets.

00:11:58.360 In the past, these were all private decisions between the political parties and the media,

00:12:02.280 but now they're not.

00:12:03.360 Now there's actually a government commission that makes the decisions for these debates appointed by Trudeau.

00:12:08.700 Why?

00:12:09.980 Why is this a government matter?

00:12:11.660 Decided by people who work for Justin Trudeau and the establishment.

00:12:14.340 Since when does the government regulate that?

00:12:17.160 And extra gross, they've appointed former Governor General David Johnson to run it.

00:12:20.980 Why is he doing errands for Trudeau now?

00:12:23.920 And look at the news today.

00:12:24.980 Look at this.

00:12:26.620 Who will be shaping the reporters, shaping the questions, shaping the themes?

00:12:32.180 It's Trudeau's pets.

00:12:34.960 This is from a CBC story.

00:12:36.420 Here's the government's list of approved journalists for these debates.

00:12:40.140 Only these media are allowed to participate in the debates.

00:12:43.420 CBC News, Radio Canada, that's the French, Quebec wing of CBC.

00:12:47.900 Global News, CTV News, the Toronto Star.

00:12:50.760 Huffington Post, Canada.

00:12:51.680 Huffington Post, Quebec.

00:12:52.840 They get two slots, I guess.

00:12:54.880 La Presse, Le Devoir, and Lectualité.

00:12:56.680 So the Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal establishment.

00:12:58.960 Nothing from the West, of course.

00:13:01.160 They're just reformers out there.

00:13:03.140 Five out of the ten of the institutions are in Quebec.

00:13:05.480 That's weird.

00:13:06.160 Quebec has less than a quarter of Canada's population.

00:13:08.980 Two of them are state broadcasters.

00:13:10.320 The newspapers from the bailout media.

00:13:13.120 This is Trudeau's $600 million election bribe.

00:13:15.020 They're obviously there.

00:13:16.140 The Toronto Star.

00:13:18.040 I saw this headline in Black Locks, the great independent news outlet in Ottawa.

00:13:22.360 Bailout worth $115,000 a week to the Toronto Star.

00:13:26.920 Let me read a little bit.

00:13:27.720 The largest daily newspaper in Canada, the Toronto Star, yesterday estimated its take of federal money,

00:13:32.620 federal media bailout money is worth the equivalent of $115,385 a week.

00:13:38.420 Payroll rebates will see publishers awarded up to $13,750 per newsroom employee.

00:13:43.960 That's called a bribe, folks.

00:13:45.200 Gee, do you think they're going to have a theme or a section of the debate about the carbon tax and its cost to business?

00:13:52.500 Or Trudeau's war against pipelines and industry?

00:13:55.960 Do you think they're going to talk about the foreign policy mess Trudeau's created with China, India, Saudi Arabia, everyone?

00:14:01.100 Or do you think Trudeau's hand-picked bailout media will talk about the climate crisis?

00:14:08.640 Hey, Andrew Scheer, let's talk about the climate crisis.

00:14:10.940 Look at this.

00:14:11.660 Look at page A3 in the Star.

00:14:13.160 So this is page three of the Toronto Star.

00:14:16.520 It's a whole page called A Fight for the Future.

00:14:18.820 The Star asked the same two questions of the five Canadians who are making climate change a top priority.

00:14:23.620 I'm sorry, that is not news.

00:14:24.860 That's bought and paid for Liberal Party propaganda.

00:14:27.860 And I mean, listen, what they put on page three of their own newspapers, their business.

00:14:31.420 But these people are legally appointed to run the debate.

00:14:33.900 So Justin Trudeau says they're going to shape the debates.

00:14:37.700 Them, the state broadcaster, and the Huffington Post.

00:14:39.940 They make me laugh so hard.

00:14:41.560 I mean, I don't think I'm a snob.

00:14:45.020 I hope I'm not.

00:14:45.840 But the Huffington Post is not a newspaper of record. 1.00

00:14:48.660 They are junk. 0.99

00:14:49.560 These are stories from the Huffington Post. 1.00

00:14:52.040 If they were printed on paper, they would be called the gutter press.

00:14:55.740 They would be called, well, they would be called worse.

00:14:57.920 But they're loyal Trudeau boosters.

00:14:59.700 So, of course, they're going to run the debate.

00:15:02.620 I've said it before, under Justin Trudeau, there will only be two types of media soon.

00:15:06.800 Only two types of conversation at all in this country.

00:15:09.380 Conversations approved by the government and founded by the government.

00:15:12.640 And conversations banned by the government.

00:15:15.420 Nothing else.

00:15:16.820 Hey, how do you feel about that?

00:15:19.000 Stay with us for more.

00:15:32.620 Anyways, the question arises, how much money, in terms of dollars, is the LCBO losing on an annual basis?

00:15:44.140 We reached out to the LCBO.

00:15:46.020 They refused to give us these figures.

00:15:48.360 So we made an FOI request.

00:15:50.900 And, incredibly, our demand for a dollar figure was denied.

00:15:56.840 Now, what makes this concerning is that we're supposed to have a new government in place where there is transparency, especially when it comes to crown corporations.

00:16:06.480 Now, we reached out to the Ministry of Finance, and they basically told us that this is an LCBO internal matter.

00:16:14.640 My personal theory is that the dollar amount must be so massive.

00:16:18.160 Can you turn that off, please?

00:16:19.380 Actually, well, that would defeat the purpose of our business.

00:16:24.040 Everyone has privacy issues.

00:16:25.540 They don't want to be on a camera.

00:16:26.520 They don't have to be on a camera, okay?

00:16:27.920 Sir, can you turn it off?

00:16:28.820 You're not turning it off.

00:16:29.380 We are on camera right now.

00:16:31.020 I understand that, but this is your own personal camera.

00:16:33.340 We do not want to be on your own personal camera.

00:16:35.440 Sir, your autofocus is not going to help you here, okay?

00:16:38.720 Turn off the switch there.

00:16:40.040 That's the autofocus.

00:16:41.060 I'm not a fool.

00:16:41.980 Get out the store, guys.

00:16:42.880 You have to get out.

00:16:43.740 If she hasn't given you the go-ahead, you have to get out.

00:16:46.860 Well, there's the story in itself.

00:16:49.820 It's an incredible story, and joining us in studio is our friend, David Menzies.

00:16:53.940 David, that's incredible.

00:16:55.480 I want to make sure that I understood the premise of this right.

00:16:58.480 The LCBO, that's the Government Liquor Stores in Ontario, there's versions across the country,

00:17:05.060 their policy here is if someone shoplifts liquor, not to stop them?

00:17:11.060 Correct.

00:17:11.660 So that's an official policy.

00:17:13.200 If you steal liquor, they will not stop you.

00:17:16.780 That is correct.

00:17:17.780 The person just walks right out the store, Ezra.

00:17:20.720 And I want to be clear about something.

00:17:22.660 This is not just destitute people, you know, hobos coming in for a hit.

00:17:27.480 And there are now organized people that are stealing booze to resell it.

00:17:33.260 And, I mean, Ezra, think of that business plan.

00:17:36.240 Your cost of inventory is zero.

00:17:38.780 And, I mean, there's some cheap, you know, hooch that's a few bucks, but there are some

00:17:44.060 kinds of liquors, you know, an old whiskey, a fancy champagne that are hundreds.

00:17:49.600 There's probably even some wine or liquor that's over $1,000, and they just let people walk

00:17:55.960 out?

00:17:56.480 How?

00:17:56.980 What's the justification for that?

00:17:58.660 Like, they obviously have a security guard.

00:18:00.700 We saw a security guard touching your camera, stopping you, getting all up in your grill,

00:18:07.320 and maybe fair enough.

00:18:08.340 But you're saying they don't do that to people stealing liquor from them that they see.

00:18:15.400 As I understand that, in fact, later in the video, Ezra, that man's partner, another security

00:18:21.500 guard, my cameraman, Efren, and I were walking away.

00:18:25.280 And I got that, you know, that spidey sense feeling someone's following me.

00:18:29.620 And sure enough, it was the other security guard.

00:18:31.740 Now, we walked an entire city block from Queens Quay to Lakeshore Boulevard, and then

00:18:35.920 we hung a right, which is we're walking further and further away from the LCBO, and this guy's

00:18:40.440 following me.

00:18:41.100 So he's following you, so you can't film him, but they're going to creep behind you.

00:18:46.480 You know what?

00:18:47.020 Like, that is super weird.

00:18:48.180 You're not even in their store anymore.

00:18:50.020 But they won't do that to someone who's stolen $50, $100, $500, $1,000 worth of liquor.

00:18:56.720 It's almost like, yeah, go ahead.

00:18:58.680 And how, that's insane.

00:19:00.200 But what was the purpose for that?

00:19:01.760 And when I, then I start to follow him.

00:19:04.060 Now, once he realizes he's being followed, he's hot-tailing it back to the LCBO.

00:19:08.140 And the question I said to him, Ezra, is that why don't you follow the thieves out of the

00:19:13.620 store?

00:19:14.060 Why don't you make a citizen's arrest, but you're entitled to do so?

00:19:18.520 What kind of threat we are?

00:19:20.000 So shoplifting is allowed at the LCBO, but practicing journalism isn't?

00:19:25.440 You know, theft, shoplifting, theft at a restaurant, theft at any retail store, theft at a dollar

00:19:34.680 store, theft at a Walmart, theft at a Safeway, a Sobeys, is one of the big issues for an entrepreneur.

00:19:43.660 In a cash business where there's little things that can, I mean, you see this in drugstores

00:19:49.680 where small, expensive things like those razor blade packages for like a Gillette, they're

00:19:55.640 so insanely expensive.

00:19:57.100 Yes.

00:19:57.380 That you actually have to like get them unlocked or something or ask for them from the cash

00:20:03.440 because, you know, shrinkage or whatever they would call it, it's such a problem.

00:20:08.240 It's why a cash business like a bar, you have got to be there every day or you'll just be

00:20:13.120 eaten and drank out of business.

00:20:15.220 It's, it's a real burden for any retail person. 0.83

00:20:18.720 And the LCBO has just sort of said, nope, because the sucker taxpayer will cover it and 0.88

00:20:28.460 we don't care. 0.73

00:20:29.820 And I don't even understand, is it because it's too hard?

00:20:33.180 Is it because some ideological reason?

00:20:35.800 Well, they must be really thirsty and they're, but as you point out, it's not like a poor person

00:20:40.740 stealing bread.

00:20:42.000 I mean, that, that still should not be allowed, but maybe there's a real problem there.

00:20:46.700 A poor person's hungry for bread.

00:20:47.900 They're stealing booze here. 1.00

00:20:49.480 And as you point out, it's organized gangs.

00:20:51.820 I mean, I find this so perplexing.

00:20:54.020 Have you heard anything on the political side?

00:20:55.920 No, sadly, Ezra, we reached out to the Ministry of Finance and they go, well, it's an internal

00:21:01.060 LCBO thing.

00:21:01.980 By the way, when you do get people at the LCBO to talk to you, they play the role of, well,

00:21:06.180 we are merely the puppets of our ministerial masters.

00:21:09.960 So they do this Alphonse and Gaston routine.

00:21:12.540 I've reached out, sadly, I must report sadly, given how he ran on a campaign of transparency,

00:21:17.880 to Doug Ford's office.

00:21:19.480 I've been met with radio silence.

00:21:20.980 But I want to pick up on what you said just a bit earlier.

00:21:23.400 You were mentioning other retailers like Costco and Walmart.

00:21:26.400 If they have a shrinkage problem, they have a shoplift problem.

00:21:29.360 You know what?

00:21:29.880 That's their business.

00:21:31.320 The difference here is that you and I and all the other millions of people that live

00:21:35.540 in Ontario, we're the shareholders.

00:21:37.340 We have skin in the game.

00:21:39.100 We can't allow this money to just go out the door.

00:21:42.980 We filed an FOI.

00:21:44.280 They gave us five intangible, bizarre reasons why they were going to keep this confidential.

00:21:49.980 Have you appealed that freedom of information?

00:21:51.420 We have appealed it.

00:21:52.480 And as I said, we're still waiting to hear back from the premier's office.

00:21:56.620 And it makes a mockery, Ezra, of the justification of the monopoly of the LCBO and other provincial

00:22:03.780 liquor bureaus as well, which is social responsibility.

00:22:08.080 You know, we can't let the private sector handle trade and something potentially dangerous

00:22:12.840 as alcohol.

00:22:13.640 I mean, there'll be kids drinking Colt 45 in the parking lot.

00:22:16.600 So we have a situation, Ezra, where you have, if it's somebody that looks like they're not

00:22:23.340 19, they'll be challenged at the cash register and refused if they're paying for the booze. 0.85

00:22:28.360 But if that miner just steals a bottle of booze, can I get the door for you, sir? 0.99

00:22:33.760 I've never heard of anything so stupid in my life. 1.00

00:22:36.040 And of course, it's going to be from a government and a unionized government bureaucracy that 1.00

00:22:39.880 unbelievable.

00:22:41.440 I think the LCBO should stop oversampling their own goods when they make business decisions.

00:22:46.140 Unbelievable.

00:22:46.860 Thanks, David.

00:22:47.340 And one last thing.

00:22:48.620 You mentioned the union.

00:22:49.840 The union estimates, this is information I just came across, that the amount of the

00:22:55.640 problem is approximately $77 million per year.

00:23:00.240 Come on.

00:23:00.840 I don't know how they got to that figure.

00:23:02.800 That's...

00:23:03.120 Oh my...

00:23:03.800 We do the update, we're going to...

00:23:04.380 Well, that's more than a million a week.

00:23:06.160 That's 150 grand a day.

00:23:09.380 I don't think let's be open seven days a week.

00:23:11.660 I think that, like, every day, every liquor store is being robbed.

00:23:18.020 And this is as if Justin Trudeau's open borders immigration policy has been applied to liquor

00:23:25.420 stores.

00:23:26.000 Yeah.

00:23:26.260 Everyone's welcome to take a bottle.

00:23:28.160 Yeah. 1.00

00:23:28.360 That's how stupid it is. 1.00

00:23:29.780 I can't believe that Doug Ford would allow this. 1.00

00:23:32.120 Something's broken there.

00:23:32.720 I agree.

00:23:33.180 You got to stay on the story.

00:23:34.540 All right, folks, stay with us.

00:23:36.040 More ahead, I'm going to go get myself a $1,000 bottle of whiskey.

00:23:40.740 Oh my God.

00:23:53.340 Well, that's our show for today.

00:23:54.560 What do you think about the slow accretion of power over our political system by Justin

00:23:59.720 Trudeau?

00:24:00.340 I mean, maybe you don't think it's a big deal who runs the election debates.

00:24:03.480 Well, will you think it's a big deal if the whole thing turns into a liberal policy platform

00:24:08.880 replica?

00:24:10.080 Let's talk about global warming.

00:24:11.180 Let's talk about feminism. 1.00

00:24:12.300 Let's talk about, like, if it's all his shtick and it's all set up to bash the conservatives.

00:24:18.880 I'm sure the left would freak out if an official Stephen Harper-appointed election debates commission

00:24:26.240 chose his favorite subjects for the entire leaders debate.

00:24:29.980 Let's talk about fiscal, you know, responsibility.

00:24:33.760 I mean, you could see how outraged the media would be if Harper picked his favorite people

00:24:39.600 to run the debates.

00:24:41.280 I haven't seen a peep against this from the bailout media.

00:24:44.100 Not a peep.

00:24:45.440 But this is just one of a hundred things that's slowly constricting our national conversation.

00:24:50.460 Sorry, I said slowly constricting.

00:24:51.720 I don't think it's slow at all.

00:24:53.360 That's our show for today.

00:24:54.320 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:24:57.960 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 03, 2019

How the Trudeau government is rigging the leaders' debates in the upcoming federal election

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