Rebel News Podcast - April 29, 2021


Iā€™m suing Catherine McKenna and Steven Guilbeault ā€” and I'll take you through the lawsuit


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Rebel News is suing Catherine McKenna and Stephen Gilboom in federal court for censorship and corruption, and we think we're going to win. Here's a clip of the document we're using to argue our case.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I'm pretty excited about this podcast today. I'm going to be reading from a
00:00:04.940 document. I know that's not very sexy, but the video version of it, I'll show you the document.
00:00:09.540 The document is a lawsuit. Sheila Gunn-Reed, Rebel News, and me personally are suing Catherine
00:00:16.180 McKenna and Stephen Gilboa. We're suing them in federal court. In fact, we filed a lawsuit a few
00:00:20.860 weeks ago. I just haven't had a chance to tell you about it. I'm going to take you through it.
00:00:24.540 I think you're going to like it. I think we're going to win. So that's ahead. Do me a favor and
00:00:33.000 become a subscriber to what we call Rebel News Plus. It's a video version of this podcast.
00:00:38.660 Get my show, Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies' show, Andrew Chapitre's show,
00:00:41.980 and the satisfaction of helping us fight against government corruption or government censorship.
00:00:48.720 You can't really do that if you're taking money from Trudeau, can you? So I think this is our time.
00:00:53.500 So just do that at rebelnews.com and click subscribe. Okay, here's today's podcast.
00:01:12.740 Tonight, we're suing Catherine McKenna and Stephen Gilboa. I'll take you through the lawsuit.
00:01:18.500 It's April 28th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:20.840 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:26.640 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:30.720 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
00:01:35.300 bloody right to do so.
00:01:41.380 We're suing Catherine McKenna and Stephen Gilboa. We're suing the government, and I'll tell you why.
00:01:45.780 Stop and think about how important it is to get information from the government.
00:01:50.200 I mean, just think about your taxes.
00:01:52.480 Well, what's the deadline? What are the rules? What are the special rules for the pandemic?
00:01:57.880 Or think about all the government rules around getting a job or losing a job.
00:02:01.120 Or just think about all the rules about garbage pickup on your street.
00:02:04.920 What can go in which bin? What days the pickup are, etc.
00:02:07.540 You could apply this for any conceivable activity regulated by government.
00:02:12.440 I mean, don't get me started on the bizarre, unscientific, punitive, and ever-changing rules
00:02:17.280 about the pandemic.
00:02:19.020 I think we all hate rules a bit, but we need to know what the rules are.
00:02:24.340 Even the dumb ones.
00:02:26.060 And especially the ones that really impact our lives.
00:02:29.780 I mean, I don't plan on being a beekeeper, so I won't study those rules,
00:02:33.840 but I'm in the media business, so those are pretty important to me.
00:02:38.540 But now imagine if the government officials in charge of my industry,
00:02:43.440 an industry that you care about,
00:02:45.240 had banned me from receiving news and updates and announcements and information
00:02:51.120 from that government department.
00:02:54.260 I'm banned.
00:02:56.060 Just me.
00:02:56.820 Not the whole world.
00:02:58.600 Just me.
00:03:00.860 Because I am.
00:03:02.540 I am specifically blocked from following the official government Twitter account
00:03:06.260 of the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
00:03:09.580 As you'll know, that's the Ministry of Media Bailouts
00:03:12.580 and the Ministry of Censorship.
00:03:14.480 I'm not kidding.
00:03:14.980 Those are literally the first and second items
00:03:16.820 on the Minister's job description in his official mandate letter from Trudeau.
00:03:22.120 This government department, more than any other,
00:03:24.720 affects how we operate at Rebel News
00:03:26.680 and indeed if we can even still exist.
00:03:29.600 As we showed you last week,
00:03:31.520 Gilboa has personally threatened to come after anyone who even taunts him.
00:03:36.800 We've seen too many examples of public officials
00:03:39.780 retreating from public service due to the hateful online content
00:03:43.740 targeted towards themselves or even their families.
00:03:47.700 Gilboa says he might even go so far as to use the, quote,
00:03:50.800 nuclear option, banning entire websites.
00:03:53.860 Could we envision having blocking orders?
00:03:57.360 I mean, that's, that, maybe.
00:04:01.500 It's not, you know, it's a, it would be,
00:04:05.080 it would likely be a last result,
00:04:09.600 last result nuclear bomb in a toolbox of mechanism for regulators.
00:04:16.840 So wouldn't you say I have to pay pretty close attention to this guy?
00:04:20.300 But I can't because he has blocked me, banned me.
00:04:25.340 I can't go there.
00:04:26.800 When you go to his Twitter account, you see this.
00:04:30.600 But when I go there, I see this.
00:04:34.680 Even though he specifically says it's a government account,
00:04:38.540 I guess I have to pay for it through my taxes.
00:04:40.840 I just can't read the news.
00:04:43.600 But just me.
00:04:45.600 Sorry, if it was his personal account, that's fine.
00:04:48.320 I don't care if it was his family account,
00:04:50.260 like a Facebook page where he shares his home movies or his dogs or whatever.
00:04:55.720 That's fine.
00:04:56.340 But I'm talking about his government account,
00:04:58.560 which means it's not really his account, is it?
00:05:01.420 It's ours.
00:05:02.260 It's for all Canadian taxpayers, really.
00:05:05.000 And all people he seeks to regulate and censor.
00:05:07.560 So I have an interest in learning what he plans to do as a minister.
00:05:11.560 But I also have the right to clap back at him online because,
00:05:14.980 of course, he's a bit of a bully himself.
00:05:17.260 For someone who says he doesn't believe in taunting people,
00:05:19.920 he's pretty vicious.
00:05:22.040 He had no compunction about implying that I'm a Nazi,
00:05:25.640 even though he surely knows how outrageous that is to say to a Jew.
00:05:30.460 So he can smear me on Twitter, but I can't reply to him.
00:05:34.360 I can't respond to him.
00:05:35.760 I can't even see what he says.
00:05:36.960 That's what it means to be blocked.
00:05:38.860 I can't see what he says about me, about our company, Rebel News,
00:05:42.180 about our industry, about our government, about our laws,
00:05:44.800 even though it's a government account.
00:05:46.480 And the same thing goes for our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed. 0.64
00:05:49.660 In her case, she is personally blocked by a very vengeful Catherine McKenna, 1.00
00:05:55.900 the former environment minister who actually not only banned Sheila,
00:05:59.800 blocked her, same thing, but more.
00:06:02.340 I'll get to that in a minute.
00:06:02.960 And the reason it's particularly important is because Sheila reports on McKenna's scandals. 0.99
00:06:09.260 That's a public service, of course, to the country.
00:06:12.100 Sheila is the number one critic of McKenna.
00:06:14.320 So McKenna obviously wants to cut off Sheila from knowing what McKenna's up to. 1.00
00:06:19.080 But it's not just a war of words.
00:06:20.860 Here was what I meant before.
00:06:22.740 McKenna is vicious.
00:06:23.560 She's got a vendetta, and she took an extreme approach against Sheila. 1.00
00:06:29.780 You know Sheila goes to those United Nations global warming conferences every year 0.51
00:06:33.140 to report on them for us?
00:06:35.280 Well, McKenna told the United Nations to ban Sheila, not to let her in. 0.99
00:06:41.700 McKenna told them that.
00:06:42.780 How do we know about this?
00:06:43.980 Because the UN told us.
00:06:45.660 They accredited us one year, but then after McKenna complained, the UN banned us for asking
00:06:53.460 questions McKenna didn't like.
00:06:54.920 Sorry, you can't do that.
00:06:57.840 You can't ban Canadian citizens and taxpayers from having access to government services,
00:07:03.020 at least not in Canada.
00:07:03.960 Put the UN aside for a moment.
00:07:06.260 Banning Sheila Gunn-Reed from having access to critical information about the government
00:07:11.400 just because you're a liberal with a thin skin and you're a censor and you have an irrational
00:07:16.040 hatred for rebel news.
00:07:17.440 It just doesn't work that way in a democracy.
00:07:19.760 Two generations ago, the premier of Quebec named Maurice Duplessis, who was a bit authoritarian,
00:07:25.180 he hated this one particular restaurateur named Roncarelli because he was the owner of a restaurant
00:07:32.160 and he just happened to post bail for Jehovah's Witnesses who were arrested by police.
00:07:39.000 And Duplessis hated Jehovah's Witnesses.
00:07:42.060 And so he's really mad at this restaurant guy for posting bail.
00:07:45.240 So he ordered that this restaurant lose its liquor license.
00:07:52.360 So you can't do that.
00:07:54.100 You can't run the government like it's your personal property, like you can use it for purposes of vengeance.
00:07:59.120 You just can't.
00:08:00.280 It's not legal.
00:08:01.260 It went all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:08:02.440 Where if Gilboa or McKenna don't want to read what Sheila or I have to say, that's fine.
00:08:09.220 You know, there's even a function on Twitter called Mute, where we can still read them,
00:08:14.360 but they don't have to read what we say.
00:08:16.860 But they didn't use that because they actually want to suppress us, to hurt us, to ban us,
00:08:22.540 like Duplessis did.
00:08:24.900 Well, we're going to court.
00:08:25.720 You can see our lawsuit in full at twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:08:33.220 Let's go through a bit of a now.
00:08:34.680 I want you to go read the whole thing in twitterlawsuit.ca, but you can see it here.
00:08:38.580 Federal courts between Rebel News Network, Ezra Levan, and Sheila Gunn, applicants, and Canada.
00:08:45.240 Stephen Gilboa and Catherine McKenna, and the Attorney General of Canada, the respondents.
00:08:49.960 That's how you style a lawsuit.
00:08:52.160 And then right at the beginning of the lawsuit, here's our summary of what it's about.
00:08:56.520 This is for the judge.
00:08:58.480 This is an application for orders declaring that the respondents, Stephen Gilboa and Catherine
00:09:05.420 McKenna, violated the constitutional rights under Section 2b of the Canadian Charter of
00:09:10.840 Rights and Freedoms in blocking access to official government Twitter accounts and thereby
00:09:16.020 limiting the applicant's ability to, among other things, access and communicate important
00:09:20.480 information, participate in public debate, and express views on matters of public concern.
00:09:27.140 And here's what we're asking for from the court.
00:09:30.800 The applicants make application for, A, an order declaring that Gilboa has violated the
00:09:37.080 constitutional rights of the applicants, Rebel News and Ezra Levan, under Section 2b of the
00:09:41.880 Charter, in blocking Mr. Levan's access to his official Twitter account and thereby limiting
00:09:46.420 Rebel News and Mr. Levan's ability to, among other things, access and communicate important
00:09:50.460 information, participate in public debate, and express views on matters of public opinion.
00:09:54.180 B, exact same thing for Sheila Gunn-Reid, so I won't read through it, but it's the same
00:09:59.980 language for Sheila, who was banned by Catherine McKenna.
00:10:04.740 D, sorry, C, an order directing the respondents to unblock us from their official Twitter accounts
00:10:13.280 and to refrain from further blocking for so long as they hold elected public office.
00:10:17.840 That's important.
00:10:18.560 I don't care what they do on their home accounts.
00:10:20.560 D, the costs of this application, if opposed.
00:10:25.260 That is, if they are actually going to fight this and we win, they shouldn't fight this.
00:10:29.360 They should have to pay our costs.
00:10:30.400 And E, such other relief as counsel may advise in this honorable court deems just.
00:10:35.740 So you can see there's a little bit of legalese and I translated some of the Latin, but that's
00:10:39.500 pretty simple, isn't it?
00:10:41.340 And then we explain who we are a little bit.
00:10:43.240 I'll skip over that because you know who we are.
00:10:44.760 And we explain Gilboa a little bit.
00:10:47.060 Let me read what we say about him.
00:10:49.980 Gilboa oversees the Department of Canadian Heritage, an umbrella organization that has
00:10:54.220 one of the largest portfolios in the Canadian federal government.
00:10:57.220 In addition to the Department of Canadian Heritage, which is charged with the development
00:11:00.880 of laws and policies, the Canadian Heritage Portfolio comprises organizations active in
00:11:06.980 the fields of arts, culture, heritage preservation, and conservation, as well as human rights.
00:11:10.880 The portfolio oversees media organizations and tribunals, including the Canadian Radio, Television,
00:11:16.760 and Telecommunications Commission, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and it's
00:11:20.780 involved in distributing massive bailout funds to media organizations.
00:11:25.640 Now, I mentioned the mandate letter before.
00:11:27.720 Here's some more from it, as is relevant to this lawsuit.
00:11:30.780 The Prime Minister's 7-12-2019 mandate letter to Minister Gilboa emphasizes the importance
00:11:37.600 of Canada's media and Minister Gilboa's engagement with SAIM, as follows.
00:11:42.840 So this is his job description.
00:11:44.900 Canada's media and your engagement with them in a professional and timely manner are essential.
00:11:49.500 The Parliamentary Press Gallery, indeed all journalists in Canada and abroad, ask necessary
00:11:54.340 questions and contribute in an important way to the democratic process.
00:11:57.540 So that was his job description given to him by Trudeau.
00:12:02.720 The Prime Minister's January 15, 2021 mandate letter to Minister Gilboa reiterated the importance
00:12:08.040 of journalists in his role as follows.
00:12:10.180 Now more than ever, Canadians are relying on journalists and journalism for accurate and
00:12:13.960 timely news, especially in the face of concerning spread of misinformation.
00:12:18.440 I expect you to foster a professional and respectful relationship with journalists to ensure that
00:12:22.960 Canadians have the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe.
00:12:27.540 12th, Minister Gilboa has repeatedly emphasized his commitment to press freedom and the importance
00:12:33.720 of media to Canada's democratic stability.
00:12:37.080 Ha ha! 0.86
00:12:37.680 So does he mean it?
00:12:38.620 That's really what we're coming down to here.
00:12:40.480 Or is it all just a lie?
00:12:42.640 And here's why it's important to me.
00:12:44.640 Here's a reason we have standing to sue amongst others.
00:12:47.440 Ready?
00:12:47.560 Canadian media, including the applicants, are under the auspices of Minister Gilboa, the
00:12:52.820 cabinet minister responsible for the laws, regulations, and policies in respect to Canadian
00:12:56.240 arts, culture, and press.
00:12:59.040 We also note this.
00:13:01.220 Minister Gilboa has a long record of public animus towards the applicants.
00:13:04.720 Yeah, he bet he does.
00:13:05.580 He hates us.
00:13:06.280 He called us Nazis.
00:13:08.320 Then we talk a bit about Catherine McKenna.
00:13:09.840 Same way.
00:13:11.220 Minister McKenna is the member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre, Ontario.
00:13:14.060 Minister McKenna was appointed Minister of Environment and Climate Change in November
00:13:17.720 2015, and in November 2019, was appointed as Minister of Infrastructure and Communities,
00:13:23.800 which is responsible for national infrastructure, working directly with provincial, territorial,
00:13:27.960 and municipal governments, as well as Indigenous communities.
00:13:31.780 The Prime Minister's mandate letter to Minister McKenna stated the importance of journalists
00:13:35.320 in her role as follows.
00:13:37.660 Now more than ever, Canadians are relying on journalists and journalists.
00:13:40.080 So same quote to McKenna that he gave to Gilboa.
00:13:45.020 But is she doing it?
00:13:48.280 No, she's not.
00:13:50.560 She banned us from reporting at the UN.
00:13:54.020 Now I'm not going to read this whole thing to you.
00:13:55.700 You can see it for yourself at twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:13:58.840 Check it out.
00:13:59.780 But here's one point we say, we make it in different ways.
00:14:02.440 The government says they love free speech and journalists.
00:14:05.820 So do they really mean it?
00:14:08.400 Look at this.
00:14:10.580 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated the following at
00:14:14.060 the inaugural Global Conference for Media Freedom in July 19th.
00:14:17.520 I was there with Sheila, by the way.
00:14:19.820 We need to defend our independent press, even, and perhaps especially, when it criticizes
00:14:24.040 us as a central institution of democracy.
00:14:26.340 We need to fight for the open society against the closed one.
00:14:29.460 We need to fight for the complexity of democratic truth, rather than the beguiling simplicity of
00:14:33.820 authoritarian rhetoric.
00:14:34.700 That is what we have done at this conference, and what we have committed to doing with our
00:14:38.620 like-minded partners in the days ahead.
00:14:40.800 Wow, that sounds pretty good.
00:14:42.680 I wish we could get some of it in reality.
00:14:45.100 Here's what we argue.
00:14:47.340 Twitter is the modern public square.
00:14:50.480 But they have banned us from it.
00:14:52.240 Let me read just a little.
00:14:52.940 I'm almost through it.
00:14:54.140 The respondents' Twitter accounts are presented and operated as official government accounts
00:15:00.060 and are used as official government communication channels for official purposes.
00:15:04.280 The public presentation of the respondents' Twitter accounts bear all the trappings of
00:15:08.520 official, state-run accounts, and the content is public in nature.
00:15:12.560 Content and interactions are carefully considered, developed, prepared, reviewed, and approved by
00:15:17.240 government staff in consultation with the respondents.
00:15:19.340 I like these three points.
00:15:21.160 Let me just zip through them.
00:15:23.500 The respondents also use their accounts to retweet tweets from federal officials, institutions,
00:15:28.820 and services, and other elected officials.
00:15:30.860 The respondents also use their accounts to retweet or respond to tweets from members of the public
00:15:36.240 on issues of public concern regarding the policies or political stances taken by themselves
00:15:40.620 and other elected officials or candidates.
00:15:42.080 The respondents' Twitter accounts are a public forum for the expression of views on public
00:15:47.900 matters by the respondents and others who wish to comment or express their opinions to
00:15:52.460 others who read the respondents' tweets on matters of public concern.
00:15:56.040 Okay.
00:15:57.520 Now, here is really why we're suing.
00:15:59.000 Take a look.
00:16:00.420 Violating the applicant's free expression.
00:16:04.380 Minister Gilboa blocked Mr. Levant from viewing, interacting with, or responding to his tweets.
00:16:08.180 Minister McKenna blocked Ms. Gunn from viewing, interacting with, or responding to her tweets.
00:16:13.660 And this.
00:16:15.260 The respondents' Twitter accounts are a public digital space where individuals can express
00:16:19.560 and disseminate their views on public matters.
00:16:22.020 And the respondents' actions to prohibit the applicant's access to their respective Twitter
00:16:26.160 accounts infringes the applicant's right to freedom of expression as protected by Section
00:16:31.920 2B.
00:16:32.480 Because we can't get into this national discussion, let alone find out what the rules are.
00:16:40.340 So what do you think?
00:16:42.400 I think we have to start pushing back against the censors.
00:16:44.800 They're too comfortable banning and canceling and silencing.
00:16:48.420 They're on the precipice of doing much more, as you know.
00:16:50.760 And Gilboa and McKenna are the most vicious censors out there.
00:16:53.920 If you want to read this whole lawsuit, go to twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:16:56.780 I think I'm going to put up a couple of affidavits there, too, because the case is really starting
00:17:00.040 to move.
00:17:01.360 And if you think this lawsuit is a good idea, just to push back at this censorship, which
00:17:06.540 is like the nose in the tent, like here they come, feel free to chip in there to help us
00:17:12.800 cover the cost of this litigation.
00:17:14.740 Obviously, we're up against the unlimited resources of the government.
00:17:18.620 We just got a letter from the Attorney General saying they intend to fight like hell.
00:17:22.880 Trudeau will spare no expense to destroy us.
00:17:25.040 So we are going to fight.
00:17:27.340 I think we'll win.
00:17:28.440 I think we've got a real chance.
00:17:31.760 What do you think?
00:17:33.560 Go to twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:17:47.440 It seems like the list of people who knew about concerns about General Vance in your government
00:17:52.080 is growing longer.
00:17:53.340 We had Minister Sajjan, his chief of staff, senior advisor in your office.
00:17:57.880 And now we're hearing that your closest advisor, Katie Telford, knew.
00:18:01.060 Should she have told you about these concerns about the top soldier in our military?
00:18:06.660 When an allegation, a complaint concerning General Vance was brought forward to the minister,
00:18:13.360 he forwarded it to the appropriate authorities at the PCO to follow up on it.
00:18:21.880 It is not appropriate for politicians to be the ones following up on these.
00:18:26.600 The minister, my office, knew there was a complaint against General Vance.
00:18:35.340 Nobody knew that it was a Me Too complaint.
00:18:40.240 We did not have information on what was the nature of that complaint.
00:18:45.580 I don't know about you, but I simply do not believe him, especially when he uses that voice he uses.
00:18:52.420 I feel like he's, I don't know, saying that Jody Wilson-Raybould lied and the Globe and Mail lied
00:18:58.520 about the story that was, of course, proved completely true about corruption.
00:19:04.120 That's Trudeau on the defensive.
00:19:05.700 And I don't believe a word of it.
00:19:08.460 And I would ask you to compare Trudeau's treatment of Vice Admiral Mark Norman,
00:19:13.280 who Trudeau regarded as a political enemy who he had falsely prosecuted for criminal offenses
00:19:20.080 until a judge finally threw it out as just too absurd.
00:19:24.340 Compare the treatment of a political enemy with a political ally, General Jonathan Vance.
00:19:30.500 Do you really believe that the most feminist prime minister in Canadian history 1.00
00:19:36.040 did not know the charges against him?
00:19:38.260 Well, I don't know what to think myself.
00:19:39.820 I'm just skeptical of anything Justin Trudeau says.
00:19:42.560 But joining us now to talk about this is someone who knows the system
00:19:47.240 and knows the culture better than most.
00:19:49.360 I'm talking about our friend T. Lee Humphrey, founder of Veterans for the Conservative Party,
00:19:54.360 and he's with James International Security Consulting.
00:19:57.960 Lee, it's great to see you again.
00:19:59.040 It's been too long.
00:19:59.700 Thanks for taking the time to be with us today.
00:20:02.040 Well, I appreciate you calling us.
00:20:03.580 Well, help me work through this because I'm always loathe to jump on a criticism of the armed forces
00:20:10.320 because I think it's beat up too easily.
00:20:13.680 I think it's criticized too easily.
00:20:15.580 Charges of sexism or racism ought to be taken seriously.
00:20:19.320 But I think with the military, it's a punching bag.
00:20:21.940 So I don't want to pile on, but it seems like there really is smoke and fire here.
00:20:29.780 Am I right?
00:20:30.960 Yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:20:32.840 You know, politicians love, as you say, to use the Canadian armed forces as a punching bag.
00:20:40.580 You know, a huge number of journalists from the mainstream media love to pile on and amplify incidents and turn them into, you know, huge, huge things when they're frequently not.
00:20:55.040 But this is, and it's a story as old as time, where senior officers get away with committing sexual misconduct.
00:21:05.200 They get away with all kinds of things when the junior ranks and junior officers are held to a very different standard.
00:21:12.960 And I think we're seeing this play out at the highest possible levels at this point.
00:21:18.800 Can you give our viewers a bit of a factual update?
00:21:21.740 I've read about this, but I don't know what to believe.
00:21:26.620 Do we yet know the exact details of the allegations?
00:21:31.840 Well, there's two sets of allegations against General Vance.
00:21:35.520 The first was an inappropriate email he sent to a corporal who is now a reservist lieutenant, where he had been requested to provide some career advice and instead suggested that the two take a trip to a nude beach, if you will, a clothing-free environment where they could discuss her career in great detail.
00:22:04.200 And then there's a second allegation, which is far more out there in that we know a great deal of detail, and that is that he had a long-running, sometimes affair, sometimes he was single, but a sexual relationship with a young junior officer,
00:22:30.700 while he, being a senior officer, at times was not only in her chain of command, but was having influence either positively or negatively over her career.
00:22:46.300 And that, you know, is a huge no-no in the Canadian forces.
00:22:51.380 There are relationships between juniors and seniors.
00:22:54.180 It happens all the time, but there can be no interaction career-wise.
00:23:00.400 In other words, you don't want somebody senior either using sex or obtaining sex by promising career-enhancing moves or by punishing someone by hurting their career if they don't engage in a sexual relationship.
00:23:21.360 And it's a very, very clear advance over a period of more than a decade did that and fathered two children with the woman, which he's denied.
00:23:32.240 I read, that was the allegation I read, and I thought, that's a heck of a thing.
00:23:38.320 You know, I simply don't believe most male feminists. 1.00
00:23:43.160 Whenever someone says they're a male feminist, I think, well, who says that? 0.88
00:23:47.240 And it's typically someone like, oh, I don't know, Harvey Weinstein, or someone who wants to, or Gian Gomeschi, who actually got a degree in women's studies in college.
00:23:58.840 I think that they say they're a male feminist to preempt people saying, well, hang on, aren't you a bit of a lech yourself? 1.00
00:24:07.200 Aren't you a bit of a Lothario?
00:24:09.960 And when Justin Trudeau says he's a male feminist, I think it's to cover up for things like when he groped Rose Knight in Creston, B.C. that time.
00:24:21.680 Well, people often overcompensate for it.
00:24:24.700 I think that's what it's overcompensating, and it's trying to beat you to the punch.
00:24:28.340 And so that couldn't be me because I'm a male feminist. 0.98
00:24:30.980 But Trudeau and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, claim that their feminism has imbued the entire government. 0.99
00:24:40.000 In fact, in their latest budget, the word gender appears more than 700 times.
00:24:47.240 So these are the folks who say they really, really, really, really care.
00:24:50.540 And I think they knew, but just didn't care because it was politically inconvenient for them to fix the problem.
00:25:00.060 I think they knew about it, but didn't act.
00:25:03.100 Is there any evidence to back up my thesis?
00:25:06.680 Yeah, I think there is.
00:25:08.440 I think one of your peers at the Globe and Mail got some emails that showed directly.
00:25:15.740 But the prime minister's office, Katie Telford specifically, received emails suggesting this was sexual misconduct.
00:25:25.460 So the idea that Trudeau's now claiming that nobody in his office knew it was a Me Too issue seems moot.
00:25:34.360 But, you know, Trudeau's inclination, like a five-year-old, when you ask them if they brush their teeth before bed to automatically lie,
00:25:42.900 well, I guess it's served him well.
00:25:46.400 I mean, he did it the day the SNC-Lavalin scandal broke.
00:25:50.920 He did it all through the WE scandal, and now he's doing it again.
00:25:54.320 So, you know, it's almost like he wants to set Katie Telford up as the fall person
00:26:01.140 and then jump to her rescue as the hero, which is something a fake male feminist would want to do. 1.00
00:26:09.600 Yeah.
00:26:10.700 Well, here's an exchange from a few weeks ago in Parliament between the conservative defence critic
00:26:16.340 and the Liberal defence, Minister Harjit Sajjan.
00:26:19.220 Here, take a quick look at this.
00:26:20.640 I've read the National Defence Act.
00:26:23.140 You know, I've been on this file for quite some time,
00:26:26.100 and I understand how the department works and what your responsibilities are and that you're failing to do it.
00:26:30.160 So, again, you know, you talk about, you know, not wanting to do any information,
00:26:35.660 but we know that PCO did get this information.
00:26:37.660 So, who did you tell about the allegations of sexual misconduct against General Vance after that meeting on March the 1st?
00:26:44.900 As I stated, I didn't accept the information from the Ombudsman,
00:26:48.500 but, however, the advice that he said that I did not, he came for advice,
00:26:53.500 I gave him the advice exactly who would he need to go to.
00:26:57.040 Did you ever follow up with...
00:26:58.140 And to make sure, and to make sure, I went back to my office, got in touch with my chief of staff,
00:27:04.320 to making sure that the appropriate authorities in this case, PCO was informed of this,
00:27:09.520 and in his own testimony, it was confirmed that they followed up with him immediately on this matter.
00:27:15.220 You know, I tell you, Lee, I wish that I could love the defense minister regardless of the party,
00:27:23.640 because I want to love the soldiers and the troops, and I want to love the institution,
00:27:28.240 and I want a defense minister that even if I'm on a different political team than him,
00:27:33.560 I can still respect him and admire him as a soldier.
00:27:36.840 And Harjit Sajjan used to be a soldier, of course, and now he's the politician,
00:27:41.120 but just like I can't really take anything Trudeau says seriously, especially when he does this voice.
00:27:48.640 With Harjit Sajjan, we know he sometimes embroiders the truth.
00:27:52.480 He talked about his role in Afghanistan, he exaggerated it.
00:27:56.180 I wish I could take him at face value.
00:27:59.260 I really want to.
00:28:00.580 I just don't know if I can.
00:28:01.880 And I think that all the cabinet ministers are in say-whatever-it-takes mode,
00:28:07.800 because this would puncture that fake feminism we've been talking about, 1.00
00:28:13.280 and everyone would know it's just another fraud.
00:28:16.420 Well, I don't think you have to worry about being upset with the,
00:28:21.540 or having soldiers be upset with you for not appreciating the defense minister in this case.
00:28:26.620 We stopped loving him a very long time ago when he repeatedly and purposefully lied about his service in Afghanistan
00:28:35.400 to embellish his own credentials.
00:28:39.060 That's, you know, there's three things an officer can do to lose credibility immediately and never regain it again.
00:28:46.880 And lying about your accomplishments is one of those things.
00:28:50.660 That clip brings up an important point.
00:28:56.440 Regardless of whether the chief of defense staff is an appointment in council by the prime minister's office,
00:29:04.760 he's also a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and subject to the Code of Service Discipline,
00:29:10.580 which falls under the National Defense Act.
00:29:13.800 And the head arbiter of the Code of Service Discipline ultimately is the defense minister.
00:29:21.560 So nobody's asking the defense minister to investigate.
00:29:25.980 They're asking him to initiate an investigation.
00:29:30.420 The defense minister in that clip used weasel words when he said,
00:29:35.840 I did not accept the allegation that the military ombudsman was presenting.
00:29:42.120 The military ombudsman went on the record again in the last 24 hours saying he read to the minister
00:29:50.920 what essentially the allegation was, that he had an allegation of sexual misconduct
00:29:57.120 against the chief of the defense staff.
00:30:01.000 So he didn't get the details that it was this email that I had mentioned earlier,
00:30:05.780 the inappropriate email I mentioned earlier with the corporal.
00:30:08.660 He got enough information to know that the Canadian Forces National Investigative Service,
00:30:17.780 commonly referred to as the CFNIS or NIS,
00:30:22.400 should have been contacted immediately to investigate what the chief of defense staff was accused of.
00:30:30.940 Because not only is it for the sake of the corporal, but it's for the sake of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:30:37.000 Could the chief of defense staff be blackmailed?
00:30:40.940 Well, that's an interesting point.
00:30:42.860 Blackmail, just embarrassing the entire force.
00:30:47.300 But also, you know, the same problem with Trudeau.
00:30:50.160 If fish rots from the head down, if the big boss can do this,
00:30:53.820 then everyone knows, okay, well, so these rules don't really mean anything.
00:30:57.020 It's what you can get away with.
00:30:58.520 I find this very depressing.
00:31:00.600 And I don't know, there's so many crises in Canada today.
00:31:04.500 In many ways, this isn't, given the importance it deserves.
00:31:08.420 I can understand the crisis, the pandemic, the lockdowns are all more pressing in our daily lives.
00:31:13.860 But I find it very sad that Trudeau, who claims to be such a male feminist,
00:31:23.280 has allowed this to go on for years.
00:31:26.240 This has been going on for years.
00:31:27.920 I don't even know if there's a happy outcome here.
00:31:30.460 But I really appreciate you helping us walk through the details of it, Lee.
00:31:35.380 No problem, Ezra.
00:31:36.460 It's all about leadership.
00:31:37.940 When it comes to the military, when you have good, solid leadership,
00:31:43.440 these things don't happen.
00:31:45.360 And when they do happen, the people are held to account, regardless of who they are.
00:31:50.980 It is an absolute, abject failure of leadership.
00:31:54.320 And as you said, the fish rots from the head down.
00:31:59.460 Well, I think you're exactly right.
00:32:01.080 The military is all about leadership.
00:32:02.820 Thank you, my friend.
00:32:04.400 Thanks for your wisdom and your inside knowledge of how things work.
00:32:07.600 And we look forward to talking to you again soon.
00:32:09.940 Sounds good.
00:32:10.620 Take care, Ezra.
00:32:11.300 Right on you, too.
00:32:11.900 There you have it, T. Lee Humphrey.
00:32:13.300 He's the founder of Veterans for the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:32:16.100 He also is with James International Security Consulting.
00:32:19.960 Stay with us.
00:32:20.500 More ahead.
00:32:32.360 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.
00:32:33.920 Paul writes, a hate-filled, anti-hate group.
00:32:37.400 Is Team Trudeau actually using the work of Orwell as their guide?
00:32:40.080 Yeah, it's just, it was so, the crazy thing is they just admit they made it up.
00:32:46.020 Like, how do you take four months to come to that conclusion?
00:32:50.820 How do you not fire someone who lied, admits they were lying, admits the whole, like, how
00:32:57.100 do you not fire someone like that?
00:32:59.360 Lau writes, it's hilarious that this anti-hate group turns a blind eye to the fact that its
00:33:03.740 biggest cheerleader and contributor has worn blackface so often he can't even remember
00:33:07.900 how many times.
00:33:08.740 That's a great point.
00:33:09.580 They refuse to investigate hate on the left.
00:33:11.840 That tells you all you need to know.
00:33:14.120 Willow writes, so glad to see Justin putting our tax dollars to such a worthwhile purpose.
00:33:18.680 He keeps meeting my expectations.
00:33:20.860 Yeah, yeah, me too.
00:33:22.660 Well, listen, thanks everybody for your support.
00:33:24.640 It was nice to get an apology, even though it was grudging and brief, but I think that
00:33:29.020 told us a lot about the nature of our attackers, don't you?
00:33:32.580 And do check out our lawsuit against Gilboa and McKenna.
00:33:35.780 I feel like it's the right thing to do.
00:33:37.320 We have to show them that someone in this country will push back against their censorship.
00:33:41.980 You can read the whole thing at twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:33:44.000 Take a read.
00:33:44.420 It's not that long.
00:33:45.480 There's a few technical words or Latin words or legalistic words, but I think it's pretty
00:33:49.740 plain English.
00:33:50.760 I think you can get through it pretty easily.
00:33:53.260 That's our show for today.
00:33:54.720 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:33:57.980 goodnight and keep fighting for freedom.
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