Rebel News Podcast - If not one person in PEI has the virus, why are they — and most of Canada — still under lockdown？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you on a journey across Canada, starting with Prince Edward Island,

00:00:06.840 which has not a single case of the virus and not a single person passed away.

00:00:11.240 Good for them. So why are they still on lockdown?

00:00:15.420 We talk about Newfoundland and Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Ontario.

00:00:21.560 We go across this great land and I say, why are we still on lockdown?

00:00:25.860 And I give you the data to prove we shouldn't be. I think you'll like the show.

00:00:31.780 It's better in video format, though, and I say that because we show a lot of graphs.

00:00:36.380 I got a lot of graphs for you today, all of them provided by the government,

00:00:39.940 showing we can flatten that curve. There is no curve anymore to flatten.

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00:00:59.020 I hope you do. Okay, here's the podcast version.

00:01:16.620 Tonight, if there's not a single person in Prince Edward Island with the virus,

00:01:20.580 why is the whole province still on lockdown?

00:01:23.020 It's June 17th. This is the S World Advantage Show.

00:01:25.860 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:31.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:35.260 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it

00:01:38.780 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:41.140 Prince Edward Island, like any small island, is a good place to be if a pandemic breaks out.

00:01:52.660 As in, it's surrounded by a kind of moat.

00:01:55.340 It isn't a global hub with an international airport like Toronto or Vancouver.

00:01:59.440 So as long as you can stop people from coming onto your island, you're set. 0.98

00:02:03.200 It's a small place, too, to begin with, just about 150,000 people.

00:02:07.160 You know, Taiwan is an island, too, but with more than 23 million people on it.

00:02:12.120 And hundreds of daily international flights.

00:02:14.620 You know, last year, 14 million passengers flew between Taipei, the capital of Taiwan,

00:02:20.880 and China, including Hong Kong and Shanghai.

00:02:22.940 So pretty much the opposite of PEI in terms of being an international hub, right?

00:02:27.800 And yet Taiwan managed to avoid the virus almost completely also.

00:02:31.220 They had a grand total of just seven deaths from the virus.

00:02:35.040 They never shut down their entire society because they didn't trust the garbage advice

00:02:39.680 from the World Health Organization.

00:02:41.940 They were kicked out of the World Health Organization by Communist China that hates Taiwan. 0.93

00:02:45.980 So they had to use their own brains.

00:02:47.580 So they put in tough quarantines for people flying into Taiwan from China, but they let 1.00

00:02:53.840 the rest of the island population live freely.

00:02:57.360 They quarantined the sick and the risky, and they let everyone else go about their lives.

00:03:02.040 Taiwan's sort of crowded, certainly more than Prince Edward Island.

00:03:05.020 The idea of social distancing doesn't really work there.

00:03:07.520 So they wear masks, clean, inexpensive masks made in Taiwan, not junky, cheap, worthless masks

00:03:12.940 imported from China.

00:03:14.060 Anyways, I tell you that to point out the borders work, and that even a country is integrated

00:03:18.140 with China in terms of travel, did great.

00:03:20.120 They just ignored the World Health Organization, and they focused on people at risk.

00:03:25.040 Unlike our foolish governments here that have cracked down on moms at the playground. 0.99

00:03:28.880 So back to Prince Edward Island.

00:03:31.040 Key word, island.

00:03:32.800 No huge international airport connected directly to Hong Kong and Shanghai and the like.

00:03:37.300 So they were spared the ravages of the virus.

00:03:39.300 No one in the province died.

00:03:41.700 Not one person.

00:03:42.880 And that is great.

00:03:45.160 Here is the simple one-page virus details status page for the province.

00:03:50.640 There are no fancy graphs because no one died.

00:03:53.760 A grand total of 27 people got the cough, but all of them got better.

00:03:58.840 You really can't make a lot of charts and graphs with just 27 little points.

00:04:02.780 So they tell us what they get.

00:04:04.180 11 were women and 16 were men.

00:04:06.740 And they're almost running out of things to talk about, aren't they?

00:04:09.400 There's really not a lot to say.

00:04:10.800 27 people got sick, they all got better, no one died, and there is currently not a single

00:04:16.340 case on the island.

00:04:17.620 But look what their official public health predictions were just two months ago.

00:04:21.000 Here's their April modeling done by all the smartest people they could find.

00:04:26.080 Look at page 11 here.

00:04:27.380 They predicted a best-case scenario.

00:04:29.040 Best-case scenario of 120 people in the hospital and a worst-case scenario of 14,000 people in the hospital.

00:04:37.620 And on an island of just 150,000.

00:04:39.840 On page 14, they predicted as many as 900 deaths from the disease, and certainly no less than

00:04:47.120 nine in their absolute best-case scenario.

00:04:49.780 Like I say, no one died.

00:04:51.320 Only 27 people got the cough.

00:04:53.240 They're all better now.

00:04:55.420 So it's done, right?

00:04:56.540 I mean, it is done.

00:04:58.620 No one has the virus.

00:05:00.620 You can't travel to PEI.

00:05:02.000 They put a ban on outsiders, by which they mean fellow Canadians from other provinces.

00:05:06.240 But look at this.

00:05:08.620 Here are their restaurant rules.

00:05:11.840 Maximum 50 people in a restaurant.

00:05:14.100 People at a bar have to sit six feet away from each other. 0.52

00:05:18.100 No more than six people at a dinner table together, even on a patio.

00:05:21.940 And my favorite, music volume should be kept low.

00:05:26.420 They're still banning any indoor gatherings of 15 people or more, even banning 20 people

00:05:30.780 or more outside.

00:05:32.000 This would apply to personal gatherings, large families having visitors or playing frisbee

00:05:36.000 in the park, and organized gatherings such as worship services, organized sports and

00:05:40.300 recreation, day camps, events including weddings, funerals, burials, and graduations.

00:05:46.940 So I say again, just in case you didn't hear me, there is not a single person on the entire

00:05:53.000 island with the cough.

00:05:55.100 Not one case.

00:05:57.340 But you can't have a funeral with more than 20 people at it.

00:06:00.540 And if you're in a church service, so it's indoors, lower that number to 15 people if

00:06:04.760 I'm reading this, right?

00:06:05.460 I guess 16 people if you include the recently departed.

00:06:08.880 So why?

00:06:10.420 Why?

00:06:11.240 Because some professor says so?

00:06:13.600 Some bureaucrat says so?

00:06:14.720 Some pundit says so?

00:06:16.620 You are hiding under the bed, but the monster is gone and the lights are turned on.

00:06:21.540 The monster was never even there, but you literally have an army of bureaucrats checking how loud

00:06:26.640 the music is in restaurants, bringing a tape measure to bars, going to churches to threaten

00:06:31.320 people.

00:06:33.080 It's over.

00:06:34.820 It actually isn't over because that implies it was here to begin with.

00:06:37.540 There never was, at least not in PEI.

00:06:40.300 The same number of people died in PEI from Ebola.

00:06:44.400 Same number of people died from the bubonic plague, died from leprosy, as in no one did.

00:06:49.320 But they're still living like they're in a bomb shelter.

00:06:52.780 Now, that's just one example of one province.

00:06:54.200 I could do this for every province.

00:06:55.700 Let's look at friendly Manitoba.

00:06:57.600 Population, 1.3 million.

00:06:58.920 Again, the data also shows no individuals in hospital or intensive care.

00:07:06.380 Five active cases and 292 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, and the number

00:07:13.340 of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at seven.

00:07:15.340 So, in Manitoba, almost ten times the population of PEI, they did have seven people pass away,

00:07:21.200 and I'm sorry for that.

00:07:23.140 But there are only five people in the whole province who have the virus now, and none

00:07:27.160 of them are in the hospital.

00:07:28.000 They're just at home, watching Netflix.

00:07:31.100 Five people in the whole province.

00:07:32.400 A very big province.

00:07:33.200 The entire province is still on lockdown, though.

00:07:35.260 Here's a fun map I found on Reddit.

00:07:37.300 It has various European countries transposed over the map of Canada.

00:07:40.960 Manitoba is so huge.

00:07:43.680 Not even most Manitobans really know how huge it is, because they're mainly in the city of

00:07:47.260 Winnipeg, and they don't venture to the farthest flung regions of that massive province.

00:07:51.400 Imagine the entire province still being on lockdown, because five people are sick at home with

00:07:55.380 a cough.

00:07:55.920 Here's neighbouring Saskatchewan.

00:07:59.740 There are three people in the hospital in that entire province.

00:08:03.460 Two in Saskatoon and one in the north.

00:08:05.900 Three people in a huge province.

00:08:08.900 It's bigger than France or Spain or Japan or Germany by size.

00:08:14.120 Three people in the hospital.

00:08:15.640 By the way, on their darkest day, back on May 8th, there were a grand total of 19 people

00:08:22.240 in the hospital.

00:08:22.900 That was how bad it got on the worst day.

00:08:25.880 The whole point was to flatten the curve, flatten the curve.

00:08:29.060 That's what they kept saying.

00:08:30.000 There is no curve.

00:08:31.220 It's three guys at home, and they're probably going to be fine.

00:08:36.040 Sorry, three guys in the hospital.

00:08:37.580 They're probably going to be fine.

00:08:39.400 Three people.

00:08:40.740 Here's Newfoundland stats.

00:08:42.780 There is one active case in the entire province.

00:08:45.560 One guy.

00:08:46.180 And he's not bad.

00:08:48.420 He's just at home.

00:08:51.340 No one's in the hospital.

00:08:52.340 They had a grand total of three people pass away across the province of 520,000 people.

00:08:57.120 I mean, it's not good.

00:08:57.920 I don't want anyone to die, though I know that we all are going to die one day of something.

00:09:02.380 It's not good to die from this virus or from anything else.

00:09:05.240 But three people in a province of half a million is not a public health crisis.

00:09:09.940 One of the nerve-wracking things about Newfoundland, if you ever go on their highways, is how many moose there are.

00:09:15.280 There are more than 100,000 moose in Newfoundland, and they wander around, and they wander onto the roads.

00:09:20.960 They're not really scared.

00:09:22.800 And every year, people die when they run into a moose because the moose's center of gravity is high enough that, you know,

00:09:28.400 your car knocks out their legs, but their massive bodies just crash right through your front windscreen.

00:09:32.920 It's awful.

00:09:33.700 Here's a story in the National Post.

00:09:35.720 This Newfoundland driver hits moose while looking at another driver who hit moose, and three other moose crashes.

00:09:43.040 I won't read that story to you, but you get my point.

00:09:45.980 I'm not making light of things.

00:09:47.500 I'm just trying to put things in a statistical perspective.

00:09:50.300 Hitting a moose is a greater threat to Newfoundlanders than this virus.

00:09:54.100 So like I said, there's one guy at home.

00:09:56.100 Just one guy.

00:09:56.800 I'm going to call him Frank just because it seems a bit impersonal to describe one individual person in a statistic.

00:10:04.360 So let's say Frank's at home in St. John's, just watching some TV and ordering in takeout and passing the time.

00:10:11.860 Just one guy in the whole massive province.

00:10:15.620 It's huge.

00:10:16.320 Newfoundland is huge.

00:10:17.660 It's bigger than Poland. 1.00

00:10:19.760 It's twice the size of Greece.

00:10:21.100 It's got that whole Labrador part.

00:10:23.080 So according to the government, the one guy who's at home in bed, he's in eastern region.

00:10:29.060 That's the part that includes St. John's.

00:10:31.340 So look at how huge that province is.

00:10:33.500 You've got one guy at home in St. John's.

00:10:35.680 One guy.

00:10:36.840 Frank.

00:10:37.960 So Frank's at home in St. John's.

00:10:39.320 And you've got people in Labrador on lockdown.

00:10:43.900 You've got people in Cornerbrook and Gander and Twillingate in a lockdown.

00:10:48.160 Because Frank might sneeze over there in St. John's at home or something.

00:10:53.020 So here's what everyone in the whole province has to do until Frank gets better.

00:10:57.200 Actually, that's not true.

00:10:57.960 Like I say, no one in PEI has the cough anymore.

00:11:00.920 But they're still under lockdown anyways.

00:11:02.640 But in Newfoundland, where Frank is, there's gatherings, including funerals, burials, and weddings are expanded to, oh, 20 people.

00:11:11.480 As long as physical distancing can be maintained, visitations are permitted with restrictions.

00:11:16.620 Wakes remain prohibited.

00:11:19.020 So no wakes, guys.

00:11:20.340 Sorry, you know, because of Frank.

00:11:23.420 Large playgrounds in municipal parks must not be used.

00:11:27.260 Why?

00:11:27.640 Is Frank there?

00:11:29.560 Gym and fitness facilities, yoga studios, tennis and squash facilities, arenas, dance studios, and performance spaces remain closed.

00:11:37.960 Because I guess Frank is still sick.

00:11:42.800 But the good news is he's finished Tiger King on Netflix and he's moving on to the new Marvel movie.

00:11:48.100 I'll keep you posted on Frank, guys.

00:11:49.880 Bars, lounges, cinemas remain closed.

00:11:52.060 You know, it's Frank.

00:11:53.860 He's got the cough.

00:11:55.200 Better not open any bars in a province literally built on sitting around a bar talking with friends.

00:12:01.160 There's no rhyme or reason for this.

00:12:02.760 There's no science here.

00:12:04.020 There's no evidence, no policy.

00:12:05.220 I can go through every single province the same way, including the biggest ones.

00:12:10.800 I'm in the city of Toronto here.

00:12:12.840 Here's the information for the greater Toronto area.

00:12:15.140 There's more than 6 million people in Canada's biggest city.

00:12:18.040 Look at that graph called cases by episode date.

00:12:22.640 It peaked on April 13th with 303 cases.

00:12:27.480 Now, there's some delay in reporting statistics.

00:12:29.460 But the numbers for the last four days have been 41, 25, 8, and 6.

00:12:38.160 Look at this chart, which is actually more important.

00:12:41.060 Number of COVID-19 cases that ever resulted in hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, intubation, and deaths by age groups.

00:12:49.900 So that's actually really the chart that counts.

00:12:53.060 No one under 20 has died in this big city.

00:12:57.000 Zero.

00:12:57.240 Now, one person aged 20 to 29 passed away.

00:13:01.360 I'm very sorry to hear about that.

00:13:03.420 One person aged 30 to 39.

00:13:05.960 Sorry to hear about that.

00:13:07.680 And seven people between the ages of 40 and 49.

00:13:10.500 So a grand total of nine people under the age of 50 have died in the greater Toronto area throughout this whole thing.

00:13:23.700 No restaurants have been allowed to open.

00:13:27.820 No barbers, no gyms, no schools, no playgrounds.

00:13:31.420 Everything's literally under lock and key.

00:13:33.220 Why?

00:13:34.420 Flatten the curve, they said.

00:13:36.000 That didn't mean you wouldn't get sick, by the way.

00:13:38.820 Flatten the curve just means, all those models I've shown you,

00:13:41.760 so that the peak number of people who would need a hospital bed on the worst day would not exceed the number of hospital beds.

00:13:48.320 That's what flatten the curve means.

00:13:49.420 That's why the U.S. Navy sailed a hospital ship to L.A. and New York, so they could take the overflow of patients, so that hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed.

00:13:57.640 Those boats were never even used in province after province in Canada.

00:14:01.620 There was not a single person in the hospital.

00:14:03.920 The curve isn't flattened.

00:14:05.980 There is no curve to flatten.

00:14:07.800 There's no curve anymore.

00:14:08.920 The whole premise for the lockdown, which we were told would be two weeks, was to not overwhelm the hospitals.

00:14:15.060 Hospitals are so empty.

00:14:16.320 Bored nurses and doctors have taken to making little TikTok videos in empty hospital hallways, 0.57

00:14:22.500 while you and your life are shut down.

00:14:24.840 Look, I know why politicians love this.

00:14:26.500 It makes them feel important.

00:14:28.080 They can take credit for the low death toll, saying that it was their decisions that saved your life.

00:14:32.860 No.

00:14:33.600 By their own models, they clearly admit they have nothing to do with it.

00:14:36.820 They have no clue what's going on.

00:14:38.220 They love the limelight and the importance.

00:14:40.520 Public health officials love being able to treat Canadians as guinea pigs for their plans.

00:14:44.840 Public health doctors are the authoritarians of the medical profession.

00:14:49.120 The disgraced Theresa Tam says what so many of them secretly think. 0.63

00:14:52.820 I think the public has to know this is one of the worst-case scenarios in terms of an infectious disease outbreak,

00:14:59.960 in that their cooperation is sought.

00:15:02.960 If there are people who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.

00:15:13.920 It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken.

00:15:25.140 Yeah, not today, Commie.

00:15:28.060 There's no medical reason for the country to be in shutdown.

00:15:30.940 There is no medical reason for Parliament not to be sitting.

00:15:33.960 There is no medical reason for why the civil service is still being paid but not working.

00:15:39.420 Just getting a huge bonus springtime vacation.

00:15:42.600 There is no medical reason why working-class Canadians are being banned from earning a living.

00:15:48.000 Oh, yeah, there's also no medical reason why Trudeau has ordered 37 million syringes for a rushed, hasty Bill Gates United Nations vaccine.

00:16:03.560 Other than, they're listening to Theresa Tam, who works for the UN's World Health Organization.

00:16:09.340 Yeah, there is devastation here and there is sickness here, but it is not caused by the virus.

00:16:13.400 It is caused by politicians.

00:16:15.460 They have become the pandemic.

00:16:18.980 Stay with us for more.

00:16:31.120 Welcome back.

00:16:32.300 Well, the Conservative Party of Canada has its leadership race underway.

00:16:38.100 It was paused, as so many things in life were, by the pandemic.

00:16:42.080 And then it was put in reverse by the party itself that kicked out not one, but two or maybe even more of the candidates who were running for it.

00:16:51.420 Just disqualifying people for some inside baseball reasons.

00:16:55.940 I say let the people speak.

00:16:57.460 Well, four people managed to get through the very odd leadership committee that really is hand-picking.

00:17:05.860 I don't like it one bit.

00:17:07.400 But four have made it this far in the Hunger Games.

00:17:10.600 And they will be debating tonight and tomorrow night.

00:17:16.940 Bizarrely, but not surprisingly, neither the CBC nor the so-called private broadcaster Global News has decided to run these leadership debates for the Conservatives,

00:17:29.540 even though they both ran the leadership debates for the Liberal Party.

00:17:33.960 Isn't that odd?

00:17:35.700 You'd think it would be an interesting political moment, especially for a political channel like CBC, but they don't really find it interesting.

00:17:42.720 In fact, as you may recall, they're actually suing the Conservative Party.

00:17:47.100 The CBC itself is suing the Conservative Party.

00:17:50.620 Why would it cover the Conservative Party and give it positive press coverage for free?

00:17:54.600 It's too busy covering Justin Trudeau's morning press conferences.

00:17:58.620 Well, it's happening tonight en français and tomorrow in English.

00:18:04.180 And tomorrow night, you can watch the live stream here at the Rebel.

00:18:08.800 And I will be here and we'll have other Rebel personalities.

00:18:11.780 And we'll sort of give you our play-by-play thoughts on the Conservative debate.

00:18:16.020 So we won't be ignoring it.

00:18:17.180 We'll just be covering tomorrow's English language version.

00:18:21.360 But joining us now from downtown Toronto, where the debates will be held, is our friend Kian Bexty.

00:18:30.020 Kian, great to see you.

00:18:31.460 You're on the street talking to me via Skype from your phone.

00:18:34.960 I can't help but notice that behind you is the Telltale building.

00:18:39.900 That's the CBC headquarters.

00:18:41.400 I can make out the logo and their Telltale red cross windows there.

00:18:47.240 You're not defecting to the CBC, are you?

00:18:49.740 They haven't hired you away from Rebel News, have they?

00:18:52.820 No, no, no.

00:18:53.940 You know, the Conservative debate was just placed directly across the street.

00:18:58.320 I thought it was a great background.

00:18:59.420 I think the Conservative Party might have just wanted to make it super easy for the CBC to make sure they had all their cameras here.

00:19:05.240 They have, and I shouldn't be too hard on them,

00:19:07.620 and they have been quite nice and gracious and sort of accommodating myself and my cameraman, Efron,

00:19:14.740 while we've been trying to ask questions.

00:19:18.260 They even gave us our own little badge, Rebel Media, for the Conservative Party Leadership Convention here,

00:19:25.100 Leadership Debate.

00:19:26.320 They've been great, so I shouldn't be too hard on them.

00:19:28.460 The only one person has been really upset that we've been here,

00:19:32.600 and it was Peter McKay and his staff.

00:19:34.280 You'll see the video, I'm sure.

00:19:36.340 He was running with his tail between his legs when we were asking very basic questions

00:19:41.780 that we asked of every other candidate, but Peter McKay was just too scared to answer.

00:19:46.160 That's really weird.

00:19:47.420 Now, you've said a lot there.

00:19:48.720 Let's watch that Peter McKay clip, and then we'll come right back to you.

00:19:51.380 Take a look at this.

00:19:52.620 Would I be able to ask you a few questions?

00:19:54.180 Derek Sloan talked to us as well.

00:19:58.420 We're just wondering if you could answer a few questions.

00:20:00.100 You've been dodging us throughout this whole campaign.

00:20:02.340 We're wondering if you could tell us, do you think the RCMP is systemically racist?

00:20:08.160 You're laughing about dodging Rebel Media.

00:20:10.000 Can I get your assistant's name?

00:20:12.300 Yeah, I'm Chisholm Pache.

00:20:15.160 Laughing.

00:20:16.040 I am indeed.

00:20:17.020 Peter, could you tell us, is the RCMP systemically racist?

00:20:26.860 Peter, on World Milk Day, you sort of giggled in a picture with you drinking milk.

00:20:32.580 I'm wondering if you're just trying to recreate the failed policies.

00:20:37.420 I'm just wondering, why are you trying to recreate the failed policies of Andrew Scheer?

00:20:41.360 After the debate, yeah, I believe you're accredited.

00:20:44.580 Peter, sorry, why are you trying to recreate failed policies of Andrew Scheer?

00:20:57.760 Peter, why aren't you answering basic questions?

00:21:00.100 He's going to.

00:21:00.760 Are you scared?

00:21:01.660 Oh, yeah, scared.

00:21:02.480 That's right.

00:21:03.480 I'm really not interested in you.

00:21:06.120 I'm interested in Peter.

00:21:07.000 And we're not interested particularly in you.

00:21:10.400 I should tell you that Peter McKay, I saw it with my own eyes.

00:21:14.040 In fact, you can see the background footage here.

00:21:17.360 Our friend David Menzies accosted Peter McKay months ago.

00:21:22.760 And Peter McKay was extremely nervous.

00:21:24.640 His staff tried to stop it.

00:21:26.540 And McKay did promise a proper conversation with Rebel News.

00:21:31.620 He has not kept that promise.

00:21:34.140 I mean, Kian, you can be tough and you can be a little bit of a bulldog. 1.00

00:21:37.560 But if the leader of, if the would-be leader of the Conservative Party and the would-be Prime Minister of Canada can't handle a few questions from you, how is he going to stand up to Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin?

00:21:50.580 I mean, and I don't even think your question was that surprising or that unfair.

00:21:56.060 How is he going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and how is he going to stand up to Xi Jinping?

00:22:00.520 That's a good question.

00:22:01.240 But how is he going to be able to stand up to the CBC if he can't answer straightforward, not even gotcha questions from me.

00:22:09.760 They were just very normal questions that viewers and party members want to know answers to.

00:22:14.580 How is he going to respond to the CBC when they are aggressively twisting his words and manipulating the story and the narrative to make him look bad?

00:22:24.340 He's just not going to be able to stand up to the media party if he cowers and runs like a scared dog when we ask him very basic questions.

00:22:31.940 Yeah, I don't get that.

00:22:32.980 I mean, I think I understood why Andrew Scheer didn't talk to Rebel News.

00:22:37.540 I think it's because I asked him too many prickly questions about his immigration policy.

00:22:41.540 But more than that, he just didn't want Rosemary Barton to be mean to him.

00:22:45.880 In the end, she was super mean to him throughout the campaign, including suing him.

00:22:49.560 So I don't think appeasing the CBC works.

00:22:51.920 They appease the CBC so much.

00:22:53.480 But as we just discussed, CBC can't even walk the one block from their head office to the debate to cover it.

00:23:00.800 Why are you appeasing people who hate you?

00:23:02.800 I just don't even get it, Kian. 1.00

00:23:05.520 Yeah, your guess is as good as mine.

00:23:07.160 But I mean, there's better stories here than Peter McKay.

00:23:10.140 Aaron O'Toole came out and greeted me by name, said, hello, Kian, how are you?

00:23:15.960 And then we had a conversation.

00:23:17.460 I asked him the same question.

00:23:18.700 And his answer was, I mean, as much as you could expect.

00:23:22.560 He says he supports people in uniform.

00:23:24.640 He wouldn't take a knee, that kind of thing.

00:23:26.800 Basically, the answer every conservative would have wanted.

00:23:30.120 And the answer that Peter McKay could have easily given but decided not to.

00:23:34.100 Derek Sloan gave a very similar answer.

00:23:36.740 And actually, just an hour before we asked that question, he announced that he would label Antifa as a terrorist organization if he was prime minister.

00:23:45.020 So he actually went a little bit of a step further, saying that he would never take a knee.

00:23:50.640 And on top of that, he would label Antifa a terrorist organization.

00:23:53.220 Leslie Lewis, though, she actually skipped the debate prep entirely. 0.95

00:23:57.420 So we weren't actually able to ask her questions, the same question we asked everyone else.

00:24:00.900 She just skipped it. 0.53

00:24:02.180 And we were told that she was studying at home.

00:24:04.680 She preferred that over spending time in the studio.

00:24:08.180 It wasn't an obligation.

00:24:09.940 She didn't have to show up.

00:24:11.220 It was just sort of a voluntary thing.

00:24:13.220 She just opted not to and opted to study.

00:24:15.140 So hopefully we'll be able to hear from her later.

00:24:17.340 Well, I'm encouraged that you had a conversation with Aaron O'Toole, because until today, he, too, has been avoiding rebel news.

00:24:26.540 I look forward to seeing your full report on that.

00:24:28.920 And from what you just said, you were pleased with the answer.

00:24:31.760 And I suppose it is a small victory that you yourself have been accredited at the party event.

00:24:37.260 You're wearing an official Conservative Party lanyard.

00:24:41.060 From what you just said, I've got to admit they've been friendly to me.

00:24:44.580 I'm very glad to hear it, because I thought it was an enormous strategic mistake by the Conservative Party itself,

00:24:50.120 let alone for Andrew Scheer, to marginalize the leading independent media company in this country,

00:24:56.740 who has such an overlap.

00:24:58.960 Our viewers are Conservative supporters.

00:25:01.220 It's just probably an 80% overlap, the second probably being the PPC party.

00:25:06.620 So I take what you've said as a lot of good news today.

00:25:10.100 Good news that you're on the scene, you're flying around again, the pandemic lockdown's sort of over.

00:25:14.580 Good news in that you're getting to politicians and smoking them out.

00:25:19.340 I mean, Peter McKay, if he can't take on you, he's not going to be able to take on his real opponents.

00:25:25.640 I'm glad Aaron O'Toole met with you.

00:25:27.760 Glad Derek Sloan, we've spoken to him several times, and it sounds like he has interesting things to say.

00:25:33.600 I'm really pleased with what you've done so far, and the debates haven't even happened yet,

00:25:37.940 so I'd call it a success already.

00:25:40.840 Yes, for sure.

00:25:41.580 We'll be watching closely to see how this debate turns out, how well they can speak French,

00:25:47.540 if anyone actually cares about that.

00:25:49.540 I know lots of folks here in Ontario seem to care about whether or not a candidate speaks French.

00:25:53.100 It's a little foreign to me from Alberta.

00:25:55.000 That seems to be what everyone is interested in right now,

00:25:58.120 is how well they're going to be able to just communicate on a basic level.

00:26:02.300 So we'll see, and of course, the reports will be sure to follow.

00:26:05.800 Right on.

00:26:06.520 And just to remind our viewers, the live stream tonight is en français,

00:26:10.520 and tomorrow night they'll have the debates in English,

00:26:13.220 and we'll be doing a live stream coverage of that.

00:26:15.500 Now, Kian, be careful. 1.00

00:26:17.200 You're near the CBC there.

00:26:19.000 There are thousands of government journalists lurking.

00:26:23.820 Now, a lot of them are working from home because they're worried about the Rona,

00:26:27.200 but it wouldn't surprise me if just lurking around the corner

00:26:29.600 is some government journalist who has a love-hate relationship with you.

00:26:34.940 They're jealous that you have the freedom to be an independent reporter,

00:26:39.200 and you can say what you want about the prime minister.

00:26:40.960 They also hate you for that same reason.

00:26:43.620 So you might see some emotional outbursts there.

00:26:45.920 You might see some sort of shrieking that you haven't been deplatformed yet.

00:26:51.640 So just be careful.

00:26:52.900 You're in a really bad neighbourhood.

00:26:54.920 The one block around the CBC office is an extremely bad neighbourhood.

00:26:59.240 I rarely venture there myself.

00:27:01.060 Last word to you, Kian. 1.00

00:27:02.680 Yeah, no, you know, I was excited to see that there was one journalist there

00:27:08.380 when we were speaking to Derek Sloan.

00:27:11.800 They quickly left.

00:27:13.360 So who knows if they're actually going to show up and cover this.

00:27:17.660 I'm disappointed to hear that they're not carrying it live.

00:27:20.180 But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter

00:27:22.600 because we will be carrying the English debate live,

00:27:25.620 and who would want to watch anything else?

00:27:27.960 Yeah, it's a good point is why bother covering it.

00:27:30.000 It's not like conservatives would tune into the CBC to watch it.

00:27:34.080 You're right.

00:27:34.800 So we'll just eat their lunch one more time.

00:27:36.480 All right, Kian, thanks for joining us via Skype.

00:27:38.680 Be careful out there in the rough streets of Toronto,

00:27:41.160 and we'll talk to you again soon.

00:27:43.140 Thanks.

00:27:43.720 All right, there you have it, Kian Bextie.

00:27:45.920 Boy, it makes me nervous him standing that close to CBC World Headquarters.

00:27:51.060 What do you think?

00:27:51.860 But he's doing the job that the government journalists won't

00:27:54.980 or are forbidden to do.

00:27:57.340 Stay with us.

00:27:57.800 Hey, welcome back to my monologue last night.

00:28:07.980 Paul writes,

00:28:09.440 Trudeau is the only one who wants this worthless UN seat.

00:28:11.760 I hope he fails.

00:28:13.760 Yeah, you know, I said before that I don't know

00:28:16.240 if Trudeau actually wanted to be prime minister.

00:28:18.340 I think he probably would have been a better fit

00:28:19.780 for something more shallow,

00:28:22.020 like the lieutenant governor or lieutenant governor,

00:28:23.800 where you just go around and cut ribbons and stuff.

00:28:25.700 Government in general, I mean.

00:28:27.780 But a lot of powerful people said,

00:28:30.160 we expect you to go all the way

00:28:31.780 because we have valuable interests that we care about.

00:28:34.680 I think it's the same thing with this UN seat.

00:28:37.080 There's a lot of extremely powerful forces

00:28:39.360 that want Trudeau in there.

00:28:41.000 Listen, he'd love it too

00:28:41.920 because it's international travel,

00:28:45.280 no accountability, huge expense accounts,

00:28:48.520 mindless applause.

00:28:49.560 He gets to play the, you know,

00:28:51.440 pick up the white man's burden, Rudyard Kipling role.

00:28:53.760 But I think it's more than that.

00:28:56.220 It's China sure wants it.

00:28:58.240 Iran sure wants it.

00:28:59.400 Russia sure wants it.

00:29:00.940 So I think there's a lot of anti-Western entities

00:29:04.400 that would love to have a dupe like Trudeau in there. 0.97

00:29:08.000 So he might not want it, but China sure does. 0.86

00:29:11.560 Anna writes, he's been a good puppet.

00:29:13.280 He'll get a seat.

00:29:14.120 He's been pushing UN values as Canadian values for years.

00:29:17.400 He denies we even have a distinct culture in Canada.

00:29:19.420 Well, that's the thing is typically, you know,

00:29:22.280 the Western blocks stands with itself

00:29:25.480 and then there's the non-aligned in the third world

00:29:28.220 and et cetera, et cetera.

00:29:29.060 So this Western block seat,

00:29:31.500 it's Canada running against Ireland and Norway,

00:29:33.680 if I'm not mistaken.

00:29:35.240 You would think the Western countries

00:29:36.660 would sort of stick together for freedom, democracy,

00:29:38.840 rule of law, stuff like that.

00:29:40.060 But I think all the bad guys in the world

00:29:42.100 are going to say, oh my God, we can infiltrate.

00:29:44.420 We can have our seats, the third world seat,

00:29:48.260 the Muslim seat, the Chinese seat, whatever,

00:29:51.460 and also get one of the democracy seats

00:29:54.400 because Trudeau will give it, it'll be an inside job.

00:29:58.600 On my interview with Andrew Lawton, Sherry writes,

00:30:01.340 I, like millions of others, grew up watching

00:30:03.100 and listening to CBC.

00:30:04.300 It was literally the only television channel

00:30:05.840 our family had for many years.

00:30:07.760 CBC was a trusted part of our lives.

00:30:10.000 It has morphed slowly and insidiously

00:30:11.680 into something else that I could not recognize any longer,

00:30:14.920 even more so since the Trudeau years began.

00:30:18.240 Oh, CBC Kids News.

00:30:19.780 There's no such thing as Kids News.

00:30:21.300 Kids News is, what's the latest cartoon?

00:30:23.380 Kids News is Paw Patrol.

00:30:25.160 Of course, Paw Patrol's banned

00:30:26.200 because it's too pro-police.

00:30:27.880 Now they're just pushing crazy stuff on kids

00:30:30.360 as we saw yesterday.

00:30:31.640 Yeah, I remember growing up in a household,

00:30:33.840 we had three TV channels, one of which was the CBC.

00:30:36.420 Even then, I could feel that condescending, sneering tone.

00:30:39.240 It's even gotten worse.

00:30:40.460 Well, my friends, that's our show for today.

00:30:43.580 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us

00:30:45.220 here at Rebel World Head Borders,

00:30:46.540 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:30:48.360 And the other day, we're going to be a

00:30:59.000 a great captain of the Ticker World Head Borders,

00:31:00.240 so we can get us all the way.

00:31:01.620 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - June 18, 2020

If not one person in PEI has the virus, why are they — and most of Canada — still under lockdown？

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