Rebel News Podcast - Is the CBC taking secret payments to give out special favours？

00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels. Today, my show is about lobster bisque.

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00:00:41.020 Tonight, is the CBC taking secret payments in return for special favors?

00:00:46.200 It's June 17th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:50.980 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:54.560 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:58.900 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.

00:01:04.760 I saw a strange story out of the UK the other day about their BBC state broadcaster.

00:01:14.860 Believe it or not, they're actually worse than our CBC in terms of their bias.

00:01:19.520 Here's the story I saw.

00:01:21.060 It's in the Daily Telegraph.

00:01:23.000 BBC admits receiving millions in grants from European Union and councils.

00:01:30.200 I'll read a little bit.

00:01:30.760 The BBC received millions of pounds from the European Union and local authorities over the past four years.

00:01:35.800 The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

00:01:38.420 Here's some more.

00:01:39.100 Look at these details.

00:01:40.740 The news prompted MPs to raise questions about the BBC's impartiality when its journalists report on events in the EU.

00:01:48.460 The BBC admitted in a letter to a Tory MP that it has received nearly £3 million in grant money from the European Union over the past four years.

00:01:57.200 Other grants, totaling £16 million, came from local authorities across the UK.

00:02:03.680 The money was spent on research and development projects.

00:02:06.000 The broadcaster also disclosed that its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, borrowed over £141 million from the European Investment Bank since 2003.

00:02:18.500 Of that figure, £30 million is still due to be repaid by the end of May this year.

00:02:22.480 These figures are disclosed in the commercial arm's annual report,

00:02:25.900 while the BBC's annual report does not make clear where the grant money comes from.

00:02:29.720 Now, holy cow, I did not know that the BBC borrowed £141 million.

00:02:37.480 That's almost a quarter of a billion dollars in Canadian money.

00:02:40.600 Now, of course, I didn't know this. How would I know that?

00:02:42.760 I'm a Canadian.

00:02:43.500 But it looks like most Brits didn't know it either, because it looks like the BBC tried to hide it.

00:02:48.700 But not completely, of course, but as you can see, it was tucked away in an obscure financial document,

00:02:53.920 not the BBC's main disclosure.

00:02:55.180 And the Telegraph story goes on a fair bit, but they make the obvious point.

00:02:58.340 If you borrow a quarter of a billion dollars, pounds, dollars, from the European Union,

00:03:04.900 and the number one political story in the UK is about the European Union,

00:03:09.320 and politicians who want to leave it in a Brexit, it's fair to say that you're compromised.

00:03:15.340 You've got a quarter of a billion reasons to like the EU.

00:03:18.840 And even if you're not explicitly running favours for the people who have bailed you out year after year,

00:03:24.140 the people who are paying your salary, of course it's going to be subconscious.

00:03:27.860 It's part of your total package of knowledge and feelings about anything.

00:03:33.020 The EU likes you.

00:03:34.960 They like you so much they're lending you a quarter bill.

00:03:37.460 They like you so much they're making everything in your life possible.

00:03:40.540 Your paycheck, your company, your office, a career that lets you chase your political dreams.

00:03:46.100 Yeah, that's a bribe, people.

00:03:48.600 There's a reason why, for example, we require politicians to register any outside interests,

00:03:53.340 gifts, or businesses, and we limit those, because who pays the piper calls the tune.

00:03:57.780 It's why Justin Trudeau was convicted of four counts of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act

00:04:02.360 when he took a secret $200,000 vacation on Billionaire's Island in the Bahamas and then lied about it.

00:04:08.900 We need to know who's paying the prime minister on the lowdown,

00:04:11.640 because, as it happens, the billionaire in question, the Aga Khan,

00:04:14.880 he applies for massive grants every year from the Canadian government.

00:04:19.040 The public needs to know about secret deals like that.

00:04:21.780 So I saw that incredible news.

00:04:24.820 The BBC took a quarter billion dollars in credit from the European Union,

00:04:28.360 and a whole bunch of things suddenly made sense to me,

00:04:31.560 such as why the BBC is so hostile to Brexit,

00:04:34.200 why they are so bitterly opposed to Nigel Farage of the Brexit Party,

00:04:37.520 why they stack all of their TV panels in favor of the EU.

00:04:40.800 I mean, I'll be honest, if you gave me a quarter of a billion dollars,

00:04:44.040 I might be persuaded to say those things, too.

00:04:46.660 And so I immediately thought, does our CBC in Canada do the same thing?

00:04:52.120 And how would we ever know?

00:04:56.460 They routinely black out access to information requests.

00:04:59.260 They outright refuse to divulge anything touching on their editorial work,

00:05:02.780 as if that's some sort of state secret or something.

00:05:05.240 For example, they refuse to even just divulge the salaries

00:05:08.080 of all the government journalists who work there.

00:05:10.180 They know Canadians would be appalled.

00:05:12.460 Back when Jian Ghomeshi, when that whole scandal broke,

00:05:15.260 and it came to light that the CBC had been actively protecting Ghomeshi,

00:05:19.300 and they'd actually set up a war room of senior managers

00:05:21.760 with the express purpose of discrediting Ghomeshi's many accusers,

00:05:26.680 we made a request to find out how many other sexual predators were at the CBC,

00:05:30.800 how many settlements of sexual misconduct for their staff.

00:05:33.640 Countless pages all blacked out.

00:05:37.740 If Harvey Weinstein had worked at the CBC,

00:05:39.680 he'd simply have used taxpayers' money to fight off his accusers,

00:05:42.600 and the whole thing would have been covered up, kept a secret.

00:05:46.000 Now, we know about some of the secret deals that go on at the CBC.

00:05:50.940 We know that David Suzuki, obviously,

00:05:53.260 has turned his access to the CBC's megaphone

00:05:56.000 into a multi-million dollar a year machine,

00:05:58.760 using the state broadcaster to promote his own businesses,

00:06:02.580 including his multi-million dollars a year foundation.

00:06:05.220 Suzuki's foundation is literally a registered lobbyist,

00:06:09.680 taking foreign funds to lobby the Canadian government,

00:06:12.620 while Suzuki uses his platform in the Canadian government.

00:06:15.740 So, just like Trudeau, he's in a blazing conflict of interest,

00:06:19.480 but like I say, he's at the CBC.

00:06:21.360 So, like Jian Ghomeshi did for so many years,

00:06:23.400 he's getting away with it.

00:06:24.380 By the way, Suzuki got away with being a creepy old lech, too, 1.00

00:06:28.580 a little bit like Jian Ghomeshi, as far as I know,

00:06:31.100 and didn't punch anybody.

00:06:32.260 But, as you know, when he would do speaking engagements,

00:06:35.020 he would have what's called a rider on the contract,

00:06:37.040 all these little rules.

00:06:38.160 So, he would call his female,

00:06:39.980 get his female assistant to call in advance 0.99

00:06:42.260 and lay down the rules.

00:06:43.680 And in the case that I discovered

00:06:45.640 of a junior college in Quebec,

00:06:47.980 I'm talking teenage girls, 0.96

00:06:49.540 David Suzuki had this really pervy demand

00:06:51.720 that all his bodyguards be teenage girls.

00:06:55.900 I swear to God, he had a female assistant. 0.98

00:06:58.580 And that's the move that Harvey Weinstein did.

00:07:01.080 He had his female assistant set up his encounters. 0.99

00:07:04.880 David Suzuki had a female assistant contact the school

00:07:07.800 and demand only girl bodyguards. 0.99

00:07:10.920 And so gross, that school complied

00:07:14.400 because, like Jian Ghomeshi,

00:07:15.780 no one challenges a creepy CBC perv.

00:07:18.420 The school literally told the girls what to wear.

00:07:22.280 They literally inspected how they were dressed that day.

00:07:26.060 And they had to impress the dirty old man himself.

00:07:29.020 And then after the speech, I swear to God,

00:07:31.180 it's right there in the records of the school,

00:07:33.700 the girls were invited to go up to the penthouse 0.98

00:07:36.500 to spend some quality time with the great man

00:07:39.080 after it's all over.

00:07:40.500 Everything I've just shown you

00:07:41.740 is from access to information documents

00:07:43.240 to that Quebec school, John Abbott College.

00:07:45.800 The CBC would never show you

00:07:48.340 all of Suzuki's pervy demands.

00:07:51.120 It's not just insiders like Jian Ghomeshi and Suzuki

00:07:53.920 who rung out the CBC for their private game.

00:07:56.800 Word gets out that if you're in the Canadian government

00:07:59.100 and you want positive coverage,

00:08:01.240 take your money and divert it to the CBC

00:08:03.920 and they'll basically read out whatever script you hand them.

00:08:06.520 But they'll keep it a secret from viewers

00:08:08.300 as in they're not going to call it an ad.

00:08:11.460 They'll actually accept cash to do the kind of news

00:08:14.140 that you pay for, but they won't label it an ad.

00:08:17.640 Look at this.

00:08:18.340 This is in a story in McLean's magazine a few years back

00:08:20.900 showing that a government agency

00:08:22.600 literally paid cash to the CBC and got in return,

00:08:26.140 they got news segments on the nightly news,

00:08:29.020 not ads, news.

00:08:30.360 Let me read a few lines from the contract

00:08:32.040 that the CBC signed with the government.

00:08:33.860 This is from McLean's.

00:08:34.600 It is CBC's intention, but not guarantee,

00:08:38.700 to produce a documentary segment for The National,

00:08:42.100 an online component on cbc.ca,

00:08:44.720 segments, plural, for nightly news on CBC.

00:08:48.380 Parks Canada shall pay to CBC

00:08:50.160 a cash contribution of $65,000.

00:08:53.280 Now, Parks Canada isn't the most partisan

00:08:55.940 of government agencies, but it's still political.

00:08:57.940 I mean, these days, it's run by Catherine McKenna,

00:09:00.980 one of the most extreme partisan in Trudeau's government,

00:09:03.640 and they literally paid cash

00:09:05.240 to order up nightly news coverage,

00:09:07.460 called news, not called ads.

00:09:08.800 And how did they know they could do that?

00:09:10.600 I mean, how did word get around?

00:09:12.100 It would be like going up to a cop and saying,

00:09:13.820 hey, can I pay you?

00:09:14.860 You would never do that unless you knew in advance

00:09:17.100 you wouldn't be arrested for that.

00:09:19.560 How did they know they could do that?

00:09:20.940 What other government agencies have paid

00:09:22.660 for positive news that we don't know about?

00:09:24.860 Does the finance minister do that?

00:09:26.720 Does the defense minister, does the immigration?

00:09:28.640 How often does this happen?

00:09:31.520 And by the way, is it just Canadians

00:09:32.840 or like that BBC story,

00:09:34.860 does our CBC take foreign money too?

00:09:37.360 Because it sure looks like it.

00:09:39.220 It sure looks like the CBC's coverage

00:09:40.780 of the oil sands could have been written

00:09:43.080 by any one of the OPEC countries,

00:09:46.760 bashing our Canadian oil sands at every term

00:09:50.100 because we're competitors to them,

00:09:51.660 bashing our pipelines,

00:09:52.680 but not saying a word against Saudi Arabia

00:09:54.680 or Iran or Venezuela

00:09:55.620 or any conflict oil countries in OPEC.

00:09:57.880 Isn't that funny?

00:09:58.620 I wonder if we'll ever know.

00:10:01.060 We know that liberal affiliated companies

00:10:03.780 like Bombardier and SNC-Leveland

00:10:06.120 routinely pay bribes secretly.

00:10:09.060 The CBC is weird that it actually made up a contract

00:10:11.740 to be bribed to give coverage.

00:10:14.860 Do you think they've ever taken cash on the side

00:10:17.280 like SNC-Leveland or Bombardier pays?

00:10:20.400 Do you think we'd ever find out?

00:10:22.060 I started poking around on the CBC's website

00:10:24.000 and I see that they're still selling access.

00:10:26.360 They actually advertise that they're doing this

00:10:29.180 if you look hard enough.

00:10:30.220 Let me give you a really trite example.

00:10:31.900 I just found this poking around today.

00:10:33.820 It's a show a little while back on the CBC television

00:10:36.680 called Recipe to Riches.

00:10:38.880 So it is a game show for amateur chefs or whatever

00:10:42.480 and the CBC ran this everywhere.

00:10:44.480 They ran the game show itself

00:10:45.460 and then they put outtakes of that game show elsewhere

00:10:48.520 into the CBC.

00:10:49.880 Like here it is on a CBC daytime talk show

00:10:52.980 a few years back called Steve and Chris.

00:10:54.840 I'll just show you the first minute.

00:10:55.920 So they had the show

00:10:57.460 and then they turned it into news on this other show.

00:11:02.220 Well, Christopher and I were glued

00:11:03.480 to Recipe to Riches last night.

00:11:04.860 Where'd we, Christopher?

00:11:05.320 Oh, I was.

00:11:06.520 It's a new show right here on CBC, guys.

00:11:08.160 I know you guys loved it.

00:11:09.320 Tell me, oh, hello.

00:11:10.540 Absolutely, right?

00:11:11.180 This show is rocking my world.

00:11:12.660 Totally.

00:11:13.380 Well, the episode was all about entrees last night

00:11:15.680 and it came down to two contestants.

00:11:17.240 There's Winslow and Melissa.

00:11:18.660 I was so stressed out.

00:11:20.260 Stressed.

00:11:20.780 Take a look, guys.

00:11:21.480 Have you reached a decision?

00:11:25.500 I think we have.

00:11:26.860 I think we have.

00:11:31.760 Winslow, Melissa, one of you will be crowned the winner.

00:11:37.740 The other will be going home.

00:11:41.000 Arlene.

00:11:42.180 Melissa, you are an inspiring competitor.

00:11:45.480 But, Winslow, you are the winner of this week's Recipe to Riches.

00:11:51.420 Everyone, please welcome last night's winner, Winslow Taylor.

00:12:03.080 Hello, everyone, my friends.

00:12:04.500 How are you, Winslow?

00:12:05.320 Welcome.

00:12:06.600 Get over here. 0.99

00:12:07.300 Come on.

00:12:07.720 Yeah, you wouldn't know it, but that whole thing was bought and paid for.

00:12:13.280 That whole thing, it wasn't real.

00:12:14.820 I mean, it was fake.

00:12:16.700 Fake's not the right word.

00:12:17.740 It was bought and paid for by Loblaws, but it looked like a show, right?

00:12:22.840 Loblaws.

00:12:23.320 You know who I'm talking about.

00:12:24.200 That crooked, liberal-connected company that got $12 million in free fridges from Catherine McKenna.

00:12:30.200 Loblaws.

00:12:31.140 You know, the crooks.

00:12:32.560 The crooked, liberal company that illegally engaged in price-fixing of bread for more than a dozen years,

00:12:40.420 colluding with other retailers to artificially jack up the price of bread.

00:12:45.040 Literally stealing money, stealing food from the mouths of the poor.

00:12:50.180 Obviously, they can spot a fellow crook when they see one, so like Parks Canada, they cut a deal with the CBC.

00:12:58.660 Now, we don't know how much Loblaws paid the CBC, and we don't know for what.

00:13:03.720 For the show, of course.

00:13:05.780 Did they also pay to push that show onto other shows in the CBC and pretend that it was news?

00:13:10.300 Probably.

00:13:12.060 Here's a copy of the CBC release.

00:13:14.680 This is what people like that friendly chef there from Jamaica had to sign.

00:13:18.700 It's a very long document.

00:13:20.380 I'm not sure how many contestants would have read the whole thing word for word.

00:13:24.020 It's very lawyerly.

00:13:25.060 I read the whole thing.

00:13:25.980 Let me show you a couple parts of this agreement.

00:13:27.800 This is the CBC document.

00:13:30.180 This is Section 12 here.

00:13:31.460 I understand that in addition to the above, the participant's release form will require me to grant the following rights to the producer,

00:13:40.460 which rights may be licensed to Loblaws and its licensees, assignees, parent-affiliated and subsidiary companies,

00:13:47.520 and authorized representatives, and which will require me to agree to certain conditions, obligations, and limitations,

00:13:53.840 on my ability to use my recipe, other recipes, and my name, image, personality, and likeness.

00:14:00.780 As in, if you go on the CBC show, if the CBC lures you onto the show with the promise of fame, guess what?

00:14:09.820 You just sold all your rights to Loblaws for everything.

00:14:13.400 Oh, and they get it for free from you.

00:14:15.940 Let me read.

00:14:16.960 For greater certainty, during such 18-month exclusive period, I will agree not to license, assign, or grant any right, title, or interest in the recipe,

00:14:26.000 or a modified version to a Loblaws competitor, as defined by producer in its sole discretion,

00:14:31.000 such definition to be said in the participant release form,

00:14:33.900 whether in association with my name, image, or likeness, or otherwise.

00:14:36.800 I also agree to restrictions on my ability to appear on television and other entertainment media,

00:14:42.320 and to restrictions on my right to sell license under grant rights to any other recipes within the same category to a Loblaws competitor.

00:14:50.120 So, Loblaws takes your recipe, gets to sell it, keeps the profits from it,

00:14:56.880 they get to use you and your photo, and you can't, not only do you not get paid,

00:15:02.080 you can't do anything for 18 months after the show.

00:15:05.940 So, you got this fame for being on the CBC?

00:15:08.260 Sucker! 1.00

00:15:08.980 You can't even sell it on TV.

00:15:10.560 See, Loblaws gets it for free.

00:15:13.180 Let me just read one more.

00:15:14.180 Here's what they sign.

00:15:15.560 I acknowledge that no fees, royalties, residuals, or other consideration will be payable to me

00:15:21.420 in respect of any broadcast, subsequent rebroadcast, or retransmission,

00:15:25.700 or any other use by the producer, or any assignees or licensees of the series, the materials,

00:15:30.960 or my likeness, or any part thereof, in any manner, or media now known or hereafter invented.

00:15:35.880 So, yeah, I know, you're shocked, right?

00:15:38.620 This multi-billion dollar company that steals bread money from the mouth of the poor.

00:15:46.200 That's, well, guess what?

00:15:47.100 They're also stealing recipes from up-and-coming chefs with no compensation.

00:15:51.720 That recipe and any others.

00:15:53.420 And they're not allowed to go on TV.

00:15:56.160 Yeah, I'm shocked that a company that knows how to rig the rules to get what they want from the liberals,

00:16:00.760 free fridges, get out of jail free for price fixing.

00:16:03.940 I mean, I'm shocked that they know how to rig the rules to get what they want from the CBC.

00:16:07.500 But what exactly did Loblaws want from the CBC?

00:16:10.460 I mean, slow down just for a second.

00:16:13.100 Did Loblaws really need some recipes?

00:16:17.000 Do you think they're short of recipes?

00:16:19.660 I'm pretty sure Loblaws doesn't need more recipes.

00:16:22.320 They've got thousands of recipes.

00:16:24.440 I'm pretty sure they have all the recipes they need.

00:16:25.740 I'm pretty sure they have their own professional kitchens.

00:16:27.520 I'm pretty sure they sell products from a thousand different food manufacturers,

00:16:31.240 each of whom has represented.

00:16:32.980 I'm pretty sure that's not what was actually for sale here.

00:16:36.940 I mean, yeah, they took it.

00:16:38.040 Of course they're going to take it.

00:16:38.880 They're not dummies.

00:16:40.640 What was really for sale was the CBC itself.

00:16:46.440 How much money did Loblaws give to the CBC?

00:16:48.800 Was it $100,000 for this?

00:16:50.520 Was it a million dollars?

00:16:54.960 I don't know.

00:16:55.720 Was it $10 million?

00:16:56.640 $10 million?

00:16:58.140 And do you think like that secret Parks Canada deal,

00:17:01.280 that it gave Loblaws the right to inject little pro-Loblaws stories into the evening news?

00:17:07.040 Because that's what Parks Canada bought.

00:17:09.440 Into the evening news.

00:17:12.160 Or more to the point,

00:17:14.140 not necessarily pro-Loblaws stories,

00:17:16.460 because that might look weird,

00:17:17.420 but to smother anti-Loblaws stories.

00:17:22.380 Loblaws doesn't need another recipe for lobster bisque.

00:17:27.100 They got one.

00:17:29.000 Loblaws needs a recipe for how to avoid a PR black eye after stealing bread from the poor for more than a decade.

00:17:36.000 Loblaws needs a recipe for how to not look like crooks when they get $12 million in free fridges from Ole Yeller.

00:17:43.360 That's what Loblaws is buying in their secret deals with the CBC.

00:17:49.060 Loblaws is buying fake news from the CBC,

00:17:52.840 just like the EU is buying fake news from the BBC.

00:17:56.360 And the prostitutes at the CBC are more than happy to rent themselves out by the hour. 1.00

00:18:05.520 Stay with us for more.

00:18:06.580 Welcome back.

00:18:21.400 Well, if you've been following my show for any amount of time here at The Rebel

00:18:24.780 and for years before that at the Sun News Network,

00:18:27.520 you'll know that I have a tradition on Remembrance Day to do two things.

00:18:31.080 I read Rudyard Kipling's poem about Tommy Atkins,

00:18:35.620 the soldier who is taken for granted by his countrymen,

00:18:38.540 and I lament the fact that you can set your stopwatch that for 24 hours precisely,

00:18:45.140 the media party pretends to care about veterans,

00:18:48.620 and then once that duty's done, they forget about them for the next 364 days.

00:18:56.040 I suppose this year there was an extra day when thinking about veterans

00:19:01.820 and respecting them was in vogue again,

00:19:04.240 namely June 6th, the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord,

00:19:11.940 where the combined Allied armies invaded Normandy,

00:19:15.600 liberating France and the rest of Europe from the Nazi grip 0.70

00:19:19.020 as the Red Army marched in from the east.

00:19:22.160 But wouldn't you know it, doing two days of quiet contemplation

00:19:26.800 was too much for some leftists in Canada,

00:19:29.300 and particularly that of the Victoria, the disgraceful Victoria City Council.

00:19:36.220 I think you've heard the news that on D-Day itself,

00:19:41.020 a Vancouver City Councilor named Ben Izzett moved a motion

00:19:44.800 demanding that the city no longer pay for memorial events such as Remembrance Day,

00:19:52.020 and that soldiers or the military itself should.

00:19:57.160 This he timed for D-Day.

00:20:00.120 Well, I have some news, as you may have heard,

00:20:02.720 the national shaming of Ben Izzett, turning him into a pariah.

00:20:07.500 Well, let me read the headline from this story.

00:20:11.120 Counselor sorry for causing offense with motion seeking federal money for military events.

00:20:16.220 Victoria Councilor Ben Izzett has apologized for the unfortunate timing of a motion amendment

00:20:23.160 seeking federal money for policing local military events such as Remembrance Day,

00:20:27.680 but said he's not sorry for bringing it up, whereas the kids say sorry, not sorry.

00:20:32.680 So he's sorry for offending you, as in he's not sorry for what he did.

00:20:37.500 He's sorry that you have such a thin skin.

00:20:40.480 And as he made it clear, he's just sorry for the timing.

00:20:43.420 He didn't mean for it to be on D-Day, but he did mean the motion.

00:20:48.120 One more line before I introduce our guest.

00:20:51.220 The comment he had, listen to this guy.

00:20:54.700 I'm not sorry for standing up for taxpayers.

00:20:58.760 I'm laughing because short weeks earlier,

00:21:01.200 this same counselor along with other counselors voted to give themselves

00:21:06.140 $10,000 worth of taxpayers' money for free meals,

00:21:12.340 because unlike you and me, they can't pack their own lunch to work.

00:21:15.600 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Lee Humphrey,

00:21:19.100 who is the founder of Veterans for the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:21:23.640 Lee, I wish that this were a rare, isolated incident,

00:21:28.980 but I see this sort of thing happening all too often.

00:21:32.320 Sadly, it seems like we've been through a period of time where we have a federal government

00:21:42.280 giving veterans benefits to a cop killer who was never a veteran.

00:21:47.740 We have city council making ridiculous decisions about supporting Remembrance Day events

00:21:55.820 and then timing it with a D-Day celebratory anniversary.

00:22:02.260 We have a federal government that rolls out an Afghan memorial in secret

00:22:09.600 and doesn't allow veterans or the families of the fallen to even know about it or attend.

00:22:16.340 It just seems like we have this dual message in Canada where, as you allude to in your intro,

00:22:23.180 you know, typically once a year, we see Canadians really consider and think long and hard

00:22:31.480 and remember what veterans have done for this country.

00:22:36.100 And it seems incredibly genuine.

00:22:38.040 But, you know, it's so quickly forgotten and we're back to these silly politics

00:22:43.740 and foolish games being played on the backs of veterans for no discernible reason.

00:22:52.000 You know, on D-Day, I remember doing my research for the monologue,

00:22:56.300 the staggering scale of the Canadian commitment to the Second World War,

00:23:01.500 I don't have the stats in front of me, but if I recall,

00:23:04.180 there were more than one million who served in uniform out of a total population at the time

00:23:08.700 of just over 10, 11 million.

00:23:10.860 So that would be like three and a half million Canadians today

00:23:13.880 were going to a war effort.

00:23:16.200 Just unbelievable.

00:23:18.540 A large loss of life, of course.

00:23:21.080 But talk about disproportionate service.

00:23:23.140 Like by the end of the war, depending on what source you look at,

00:23:26.580 we were the third, fourth or fifth largest Navy, Air Force.

00:23:30.040 Like we were in the first rank.

00:23:32.360 And we were there for the First World War, disproportionately.

00:23:36.980 And we were even there in the Boer War.

00:23:38.620 There were Canadians.

00:23:39.960 And many Canadians, and we served in Korea.

00:23:43.480 And many Canadians volunteered to serve in Vietnam, of course, in modern engagements too.

00:23:49.420 Afghanistan was a huge effort.

00:23:50.760 I guess by listing all these things, Lee, I'm saying,

00:23:53.420 I think there really is a Canadian tradition of military service,

00:23:59.040 even if the pop culture does not celebrate it the same way they do in the States.

00:24:04.780 Absolutely.

00:24:05.600 I mean, there's a quiet level of patriotism here.

00:24:08.680 We're not as overt in our patriotism.

00:24:11.120 And, you know, rarely at one of those events am I not thanked for my service

00:24:17.420 while I'm thanking those veterans that came before me.

00:24:21.580 So I do get the sense that, as a whole, Canadians,

00:24:25.920 and even the response to the city council, the Victoria City Council's decision,

00:24:31.700 was overwhelmingly anti-decision, their decision, sorry.

00:24:38.220 And you had a commercial entity, London Drugs,

00:24:40.900 stuffing up saying, you know,

00:24:42.500 if you guys are foolish enough to go forward,

00:24:44.680 but this will fully fund the $15,200 you need for Remembrance Day.

00:24:49.840 So, you know, there was an outpouring of support.

00:24:53.340 Now, this councilman, of course, initially labeled it as the alt-right.

00:24:57.380 And even in his apology, he suggested this was a perversion

00:25:01.640 of their ability to do their jobs as council

00:25:07.020 and that it was a smear campaign of the organized conservative groups.

00:25:12.800 And, you know, so there was no sorrow in his apology.

00:25:17.820 There was no actual apology.

00:25:19.840 But by and large, Canadians rose up

00:25:22.780 between D-Day and their decision to revoke this motion

00:25:28.200 on the 13th of June yesterday.

00:25:32.060 Canadians rose up as a whole, I think, in huge numbers

00:25:35.660 and said, no, this is wrong.

00:25:37.260 Yeah.

00:25:38.240 You know, I think that Canadians love it.

00:25:41.440 I mean, whenever I see even cadets on the street

00:25:45.060 or whenever I see people in uniform,

00:25:46.760 I sort of straighten up and I think, wow, there's someone.

00:25:51.420 The first thought I have is there's someone doing the right thing.

00:25:53.980 And my second is there's someone doing more than me.

00:25:56.920 And I don't know, maybe I'm projecting,

00:25:59.340 but I think a lot of people feel that way.

00:26:01.640 But obviously, there's the Ben Isitz of the world.

00:26:07.140 And I'm not going to get too partisan right now,

00:26:09.660 but I think the federal liberals have taken advantage.

00:26:13.000 Well, I mean, Justin Trudeau himself said

00:26:14.760 that veterans are asking for more than we can give,

00:26:16.980 he said, as he gives money to the likes of Omar Khadr.

00:26:21.380 I don't know.

00:26:22.000 I just would like to think that we love our vets

00:26:25.920 as much as the Americans do.

00:26:26.840 Let me give you a little anecdote.

00:26:28.760 Lee, last time I was down at SeaWorld in the United States,

00:26:32.560 before the big show,

00:26:35.120 every single time they say,

00:26:37.760 would every serving member of the forces or veterans

00:26:41.380 stand up for a ploy?

00:26:42.600 Like, they don't, that wasn't on any special day.

00:26:45.180 Every single show at the big killer whale tank there,

00:26:49.300 they start with a shout out to veterans

00:26:52.000 at so many of their amusement parks,

00:26:54.900 so many restaurants.

00:26:57.520 There's this, if you're a veteran,

00:26:59.380 you get a discount at the very least.

00:27:02.220 Airlines in the United States,

00:27:03.800 I was flying, I think it was United.

00:27:06.480 Veterans in uniform get to board the plane first,

00:27:09.960 no matter what class.

00:27:10.880 So it's just so ubiquitous,

00:27:13.320 this love and respect for veterans.

00:27:15.360 I don't think we have that here in Canada.

00:27:18.100 I think if someone were to start being that way,

00:27:21.140 a lot of people would join the parade.

00:27:24.780 Yeah, you know, it is different.

00:27:27.500 And I do remember in the mid-2000s,

00:27:29.700 being on vacation in Florida with my family,

00:27:33.500 and whether it was SeaWorld,

00:27:35.500 whether it was Disney, Universal Studios, etc.,

00:27:38.800 they all followed that same path, if you will,

00:27:42.720 and did a salute to serving members, veterans, etc.

00:27:47.240 And as I said, the Americans are somewhat more overt 0.99

00:27:54.040 in their patriotism and their support.

00:27:56.820 Canadians are quietly proud of their Canadian forces.

00:28:00.300 But if you remember back to the Yellow Ribbon campaign 0.99

00:28:03.720 and the Wear Red to Work on Friday's campaign

00:28:06.720 during the Afghan conflict,

00:28:08.980 it was wildly popular,

00:28:10.380 and we saw a huge upswing

00:28:12.080 in the number of civilians

00:28:13.720 attending Remembrance Day services.

00:28:16.100 So, you know,

00:28:17.920 I don't think you'll ever see the rah-rah 1.00

00:28:20.820 of the United States

00:28:22.080 as it relates to the military or veterans,

00:28:24.280 but you certainly see a level of support,

00:28:27.940 a subtle level of support,

00:28:29.460 whether it's a yellow ribbon on a car

00:28:31.080 wearing red to work,

00:28:33.020 support the troops'

00:28:35.160 loops on people's wrists,

00:28:37.160 that do say that Canadians,

00:28:41.040 by and large,

00:28:42.800 support veterans,

00:28:44.180 and the Izzets of the world, 1.00

00:28:46.540 the Izzets of Canada, 1.00

00:28:48.280 are a tiny minority

00:28:49.820 of people that,

00:28:52.500 I think,

00:28:53.220 truly hate the concept

00:28:55.220 of Canadian military history.

00:28:58.700 They want to erase Canadian military history

00:29:01.200 just as they erased

00:29:02.260 Sir John A. MacDonald's statue.

00:29:04.440 Yeah, you know,

00:29:05.080 it's that same town.

00:29:05.900 Yeah, it's that same town council.

00:29:08.880 They're so crazy,

00:29:10.520 which is funny

00:29:11.220 because, of course,

00:29:11.900 the Navy has a strong presence

00:29:14.260 in Victoria

00:29:15.260 and elsewhere on the island,

00:29:16.920 Nanus Bay.

00:29:17.600 I'm not sure if they're still

00:29:18.500 using that as a testing ground.

00:29:20.360 Like,

00:29:20.460 that's where the western coast

00:29:23.140 of our Navy is based.

00:29:24.620 You'd think they would just

00:29:25.560 have more respect

00:29:26.240 from just seeing

00:29:27.320 the activity

00:29:28.540 of their local,

00:29:30.000 you know,

00:29:30.980 city friends and neighbors.

00:29:32.940 Yeah,

00:29:34.280 approximately 40%

00:29:35.340 of the entire

00:29:35.980 Royal Canadian Navy

00:29:37.140 sits just opposite,

00:29:40.320 you know,

00:29:40.680 that little bottom piece

00:29:42.360 of Victoria Island.

00:29:44.140 And even closer to the city,

00:29:46.340 for close to three decades,

00:29:49.000 the 3rd Battalion

00:29:49.980 of the Princess Patricia's

00:29:51.180 Canadian Light Infantry

00:29:52.360 was located

00:29:53.620 at a place called

00:29:54.440 Workpoint Barracks

00:29:55.340 and we used to run

00:29:56.220 the boardwalk

00:29:57.080 almost daily

00:29:58.620 into Victoria

00:30:00.280 and back

00:30:01.100 and we interacted

00:30:02.220 with the citizens

00:30:03.000 and when we came back

00:30:04.260 from Croatia

00:30:05.000 in 1993,

00:30:06.960 veterans

00:30:07.820 and everyday citizens

00:30:09.480 had a lovely

00:30:10.560 welcoming home ceremony

00:30:12.040 for us

00:30:12.740 at the grounds

00:30:14.180 of the parliament.

00:30:14.740 So there's a long

00:30:16.340 military tradition

00:30:17.400 in Victoria City

00:30:19.680 and in that corner

00:30:21.380 of the island

00:30:22.100 that somehow seems,

00:30:25.000 you know,

00:30:25.920 to be forgotten

00:30:26.660 as if they want

00:30:27.780 to pretend

00:30:28.800 that the military

00:30:30.220 and the families

00:30:31.260 of the military

00:30:32.160 don't pump millions

00:30:33.840 of dollars

00:30:34.340 into that city

00:30:35.320 every year.

00:30:36.220 Yeah,

00:30:36.400 well,

00:30:36.500 I mean,

00:30:36.640 the money is one thing,

00:30:37.500 of course,

00:30:37.900 and the activity,

00:30:38.780 but just,

00:30:39.580 you know,

00:30:39.820 friends and neighbors,

00:30:40.640 you see people,

00:30:41.400 they're not strangers,

00:30:42.860 they're not like

00:30:43.300 some fictitious

00:30:44.140 or imaginary hypothetical.

00:30:46.620 You know,

00:30:46.920 there's one thing

00:30:47.780 to be anti-war

00:30:49.120 and you know what?

00:30:50.960 I'd say there's

00:30:51.940 a not small number

00:30:53.160 of soldiers

00:30:53.780 and veterans

00:30:54.340 themselves

00:30:54.820 who are anti-war.

00:30:55.760 In fact,

00:30:56.520 a lot of

00:30:57.580 Remembrance Day

00:30:58.680 poems

00:30:59.540 could be called

00:31:00.580 anti-war

00:31:02.140 but what Ben Isidt

00:31:04.420 did wasn't anti-war,

00:31:05.920 it was anti-soldier

00:31:07.720 and that's the difference.

00:31:09.920 You can be against

00:31:11.340 a war

00:31:11.880 that people have

00:31:12.640 to fight

00:31:13.180 but the people

00:31:14.140 who did fight it

00:31:15.120 and did make

00:31:15.760 a sacrifice,

00:31:16.640 that's a whole

00:31:17.220 different level

00:31:17.980 of gross

00:31:19.080 and I find

00:31:20.300 that troubling.

00:31:21.280 You know,

00:31:21.440 I want to ask you

00:31:21.960 a practical question,

00:31:22.860 and I appreciate

00:31:23.300 you coming on

00:31:23.860 our show so much.

00:31:25.340 I remember

00:31:26.000 a year or so ago,

00:31:27.340 we had trouble

00:31:28.200 giving away,

00:31:29.560 I know this sounds crazy,

00:31:30.500 we raised over 15 grand

00:31:32.020 for veterans

00:31:33.220 because we saw

00:31:33.760 there was a need

00:31:34.420 for a food bank

00:31:35.120 and we were turned down

00:31:36.780 by a number

00:31:37.920 of veterans groups

00:31:38.840 that were instructed

00:31:40.340 by the liberal government

00:31:41.460 not to accept donations

00:31:42.700 from rebel viewers.

00:31:43.620 It wasn't my money,

00:31:44.780 it wasn't hurting

00:31:45.960 my feelings,

00:31:46.960 like I don't know

00:31:47.600 why the liberal defense

00:31:49.540 ministry was instructing

00:31:50.820 all these charities

00:31:51.840 not to take the money,

00:31:52.660 I don't know how

00:31:53.120 that hurt me,

00:31:54.640 it hurt the vets.

00:31:55.820 In the end,

00:31:56.240 you helped us find

00:31:57.100 a veterans-oriented

00:31:59.020 program in Calgary

00:32:00.720 that we gave it to

00:32:01.380 and I thank you for that.

00:32:02.220 Is there something,

00:32:04.400 is there someone,

00:32:05.240 like I mentioned

00:32:05.780 in the States

00:32:06.440 the traditions they have,

00:32:08.020 like restaurants

00:32:08.580 have discounts

00:32:09.420 and parks have,

00:32:11.060 you know,

00:32:12.400 commemoration,

00:32:13.180 like is there anything

00:32:14.460 in Canada

00:32:15.200 that we could

00:32:16.480 be a part of?

00:32:18.000 Because it's,

00:32:18.800 you know,

00:32:18.960 we're not that far away

00:32:19.940 from Christmas

00:32:20.500 by the way

00:32:21.240 and I'd love to raise

00:32:22.660 some more dough

00:32:23.420 from our viewers

00:32:24.460 like we did.

00:32:26.000 Is there something you could,

00:32:27.140 or maybe it's something

00:32:27.960 we do.

00:32:29.080 Do you have any

00:32:29.580 practical advice?

00:32:30.740 Because I'm,

00:32:31.760 you know,

00:32:31.960 I'm talk, talk, talk,

00:32:32.860 but I'd like to do something

00:32:33.980 even if it's just 15 grand

00:32:35.760 or maybe it's 150 grand,

00:32:37.220 I don't know.

00:32:38.280 Do you have any advice

00:32:38.940 or do you need to think

00:32:39.640 about that for a bit?

00:32:41.540 Yeah,

00:32:42.060 I might want to think

00:32:43.340 about it for a little bit.

00:32:44.440 I know there's

00:32:45.040 an upcoming event

00:32:46.340 that's ironically timed

00:32:48.780 near the election.

00:32:50.380 It'll be the Saturday

00:32:51.180 before the election.

00:32:52.400 It's a non-partisan event

00:32:54.180 and it's called

00:32:55.300 Walk for Veterans.

00:32:56.460 They did it last year

00:32:57.520 in about half a dozen cities.

00:32:59.700 It's going to be expanded

00:33:00.700 to at least 12

00:33:02.500 of the larger cities

00:33:03.500 this year.

00:33:04.800 And it's a non-partisan event

00:33:06.900 where veterans

00:33:07.700 will be encouraged

00:33:08.600 to walk,

00:33:09.160 civilians to join them,

00:33:10.960 to have an opportunity

00:33:12.320 just to talk about,

00:33:13.780 talk to veterans,

00:33:15.540 get to know veterans

00:33:16.680 and get to understand

00:33:18.260 that they're members

00:33:19.000 of your community.

00:33:20.800 So maybe that's something

00:33:22.460 we could talk about,

00:33:23.540 you know,

00:33:24.460 offline

00:33:24.960 and I can figure out

00:33:26.260 a way to make

00:33:27.180 that connection.

00:33:28.380 Sure, yeah.

00:33:28.880 Well, let's have

00:33:29.400 that private conversation.

00:33:30.800 I don't want to put

00:33:31.880 a bona fide

00:33:33.120 veterans thing

00:33:34.640 in a pickle

00:33:35.900 by having

00:33:37.040 the Department of Defense

00:33:38.040 get all partisan

00:33:39.380 against them.

00:33:40.140 Like, I don't want

00:33:40.660 to cause a problem

00:33:41.760 for a group.

00:33:42.880 These guys are totally

00:33:43.720 outside of that.

00:33:44.780 All right, well,

00:33:45.340 you and me

00:33:46.080 can catch up privately

00:33:47.800 because I want

00:33:48.300 to do something

00:33:48.920 and that sounds

00:33:50.720 like something interesting

00:33:51.600 that we would film,

00:33:53.300 like interview.

00:33:54.220 It sounds like something

00:33:55.040 we could actually

00:33:55.920 participate in

00:33:56.880 as a walk ourselves.

00:33:59.200 It sounds like

00:33:59.660 it's something

00:33:59.920 we could email

00:34:00.500 our viewers

00:34:01.140 to tell them about

00:34:01.980 and I don't know

00:34:02.980 if there's something

00:34:03.480 we could do

00:34:03.960 to be part of it

00:34:04.780 but I just,

00:34:07.120 seeing this idiot, 0.93

00:34:08.280 Ben Isidt,

00:34:09.080 it's not enough

00:34:09.940 for me to get mad

00:34:11.060 at him.

00:34:11.680 I want to do something

00:34:12.900 to counter him

00:34:14.020 and I know you're

00:34:15.860 the guy to help

00:34:16.480 give me some tips

00:34:17.220 on that so I'll

00:34:17.860 follow up with you

00:34:18.380 later and maybe

00:34:18.940 when you and I

00:34:19.980 come up with a plan

00:34:20.900 and we check

00:34:21.960 all the ins

00:34:23.960 and outs of it

00:34:24.540 then we can come

00:34:25.120 back on TV

00:34:25.760 and tell our viewers

00:34:26.420 about it.

00:34:27.920 Yeah, that sounds great.

00:34:29.200 All right.

00:34:29.800 Well, listen,

00:34:30.200 great to see you again,

00:34:30.820 my friend

00:34:31.180 and I'm so glad

00:34:32.100 that you are

00:34:32.680 an advocate

00:34:33.180 for veterans

00:34:34.200 and for serving military

00:34:35.360 and just for,

00:34:36.340 you know,

00:34:36.760 it's not even that,

00:34:37.740 it's just decency.

00:34:39.060 I mean, for God's sakes,

00:34:40.500 on D-Day,

00:34:42.480 it's just unbelievable.

00:34:44.900 Well, I'm glad

00:34:45.300 you're fighting

00:34:45.740 for the good guys

00:34:46.500 and it's great

00:34:47.200 to see you again, Lee.

00:34:48.640 You as well.

00:34:49.360 Thanks, Ezra.

00:34:49.900 Appreciate all your help.

00:34:51.080 Well, it's my pleasure.

00:34:52.720 All right, folks,

00:34:53.180 there you have it,

00:34:53.620 our friend Lee Humphrey,

00:34:54.580 who is the founder

00:34:55.200 of Veterans

00:34:55.640 for the Conservative

00:34:56.240 Party of Canada.

00:34:57.660 He also has given us

00:34:58.760 interesting insights

00:35:00.600 into military conflict zones,

00:35:02.420 some of which he has

00:35:03.300 served in in the past.

00:35:05.540 Today, talking about

00:35:06.560 the treatment of veterans

00:35:07.380 and I will come back

00:35:08.560 to you

00:35:08.920 if Lee and I

00:35:10.440 can come up

00:35:10.880 with a plan

00:35:11.360 of how we rebels

00:35:12.840 can do something meaningful.

00:35:14.960 I'd love to do

00:35:15.580 something meaningful

00:35:16.360 and maybe it can be

00:35:17.800 even bigger

00:35:18.280 than the 15 grand

00:35:19.220 we gave away last year.

00:35:20.600 All right, stay with us.

00:35:21.520 More Head on the Rebel.

00:35:32.740 Hey, welcome back.

00:35:33.520 What do you think

00:35:33.800 about that story

00:35:34.360 about the CBC?

00:35:35.160 I got to tell you,

00:35:36.060 if any other

00:35:36.920 private sector newspaper

00:35:38.320 were to have been discovered

00:35:39.900 selling news stories

00:35:42.340 secretly,

00:35:44.460 they would have been

00:35:45.760 sacked from the top

00:35:46.660 to the bottom.

00:35:47.440 There would be investigations.

00:35:48.880 I don't even know

00:35:49.580 on what grounds,

00:35:50.800 but you better believe

00:35:52.040 there'd be investigations,

00:35:53.140 some sort of fraud

00:35:54.440 perpetrated on the reader.

00:35:55.640 I don't know.

00:35:56.480 But the CBC,

00:35:57.340 that's just their

00:35:58.120 business model.

00:35:59.820 It's gross enough

00:36:00.760 when it's Parks Canada

00:36:01.820 buying news segments.

00:36:03.160 I read it to you.

00:36:04.020 News segments for sale.

00:36:06.100 When Loblaws is doing it,

00:36:08.220 that's just gross.

00:36:09.900 You can't trust

00:36:11.040 a word the media party says.

00:36:13.540 All right, folks,

00:36:14.060 that's the show for today.

00:36:14.940 Until next time,

00:36:15.800 on behalf of all of us

00:36:16.680 here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:36:18.360 to you at home,

00:36:19.000 good night.

00:36:20.220 And keep fighting for freedom

00:36:21.560 while you still can.

00:36:22.340 We'll see you next time.

00:36:24.080 We'll see you next time.

00:36:25.280 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - June 18, 2019

Is the CBC taking secret payments to give out special favours？

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