Rebel News Podcast - Justin Trudeau admits to using pandemic to launch “Great Reset” of the world

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I saw a little clip circulating on YouTube of Justin Trudeau talking about the

00:00:05.260 great reset of Agenda 2030 and using the pandemic as an excuse to obtain both. Well, I tracked down

00:00:12.560 the original press conference where Trudeau said those things, and I'll take you through it.

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00:00:59.260 Tonight, the mask slips, and Justin Trudeau admits he wants to use the pandemic as an excuse to

00:01:12.300 reset the world and remake it in the image of the United Nations. It's November 16th,

00:01:18.020 and you're watching The Answer LeVant Show.

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00:01:25.220 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:29.300 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:33.900 bloody right to do so.

00:01:39.840 I saw a slightly grainy video on Twitter like someone had recorded a TV show from their cell phone.

00:01:45.680 It was very short, just 30 seconds long. Here, take a look.

00:01:49.760 Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum

00:01:54.740 on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs. Canada is here to

00:02:01.380 listen and to help. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to

00:02:08.340 accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global

00:02:14.140 challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.

00:02:18.360 That's incredible, isn't it? It's almost like a conspiracy theory about Justin Trudeau,

00:02:23.440 except it was said by Justin Trudeau. Here's what I tweeted about it.

00:02:28.940 I thought this was supposed to be a conspiracy theory, but here it is, straight from Trudeau's

00:02:32.580 mouth. The pandemic is the excuse for a great reset of the world led by the UN. As of mid-afternoon

00:02:38.660 today, that tweet had nearly three million impressions. That's the number of people who looked at it.

00:02:43.980 More than two million people stopped to actually play the video. Millions. It was retweeted by

00:02:49.940 all sorts of people in Canada and abroad. Why? Well, it's sort of obvious. He admits that he is

00:02:56.820 exploiting the crisis of the pandemic for other political purposes. I mean, we know that. He took

00:03:03.760 the pandemic as an excuse to shut down parliament, to shut down press conferences, to keep journalists

00:03:09.440 away from him, to pass a budget. What am I saying? Without passing a budget, he borrowed more and

00:03:15.980 spent more money than Canada did to fight both world wars combined. His public health officer

00:03:22.480 issues a series of ever more bizarre edicts, whipping up fear and panic, demonizing anyone

00:03:28.320 who disagrees with her as racist, and generally keeping people in a state of submission, confusion,

00:03:33.240 worry. You're locked down. National unemployment is a staggering 9%, but Trudeau thinks this is the

00:03:40.900 perfect moment to announce that he's raising immigration to record levels. 1.2 million

00:03:45.220 foreigners coming, half of whom Trudeau admits will be uneconomic, will immediately go on social 1.00

00:03:50.180 services and welfare. And those who do work, well, they'll be driving down wages as they compete for

00:03:56.080 Canadians already desperate for work, and they'll drive up housing prices too. So yeah, we already knew that

00:04:02.640 Trudeau was exploiting the crisis for his political ends. We just never knew that he thought about it in

00:04:09.500 those terms also, that he was consciously sneaking through whatever he could as fast as he could in the

00:04:15.740 name of the pandemic. Now a lot of things make more sense, don't they? Well, it was pretty easy to find the

00:04:21.960 original source video that had been clipped to a 30-second cut for that tweet. It's from this. The United Nations

00:04:28.680 itself, the actual name of the event that was filmed there was hybrid press briefing by the Secretary

00:04:34.940 General, along with the Prime Ministers of Canada and Jamaica, Justin Trudeau and Andrew Holness.

00:04:41.140 They briefed reporters on the meeting of financing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in the

00:04:47.960 era of COVID-19 and beyond. So you got it right there, what they were doing. And the thing about Trudeau,

00:04:53.980 when he's giving speeches to foreign audiences, there's two things about it. First, he thinks probably

00:04:59.880 accurately that no one overseas knows how much he's despised here at home. So for example, he can go to

00:05:06.100 Davos to the World Economic Forum to talk about what a feminist he is, while back at home we all know that he

00:05:13.080 sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, B.C.

00:05:16.320 Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly in a

00:05:25.440 professional context, can experience it differently, and we have to respect that and reflect on that.

00:05:30.300 He can hold himself out as a great white hope for all the third world, whereas here at home we know he 0.98

00:05:37.440 casually wore his racist blackface costume so many times, he lost count of it so many times. It literally

00:05:43.940 happened in three different decades of his life so many times, he literally had a costume kit

00:05:48.960 at home, ready for use on a moment's notice. Like some people, I don't know, have a tuxedo in the

00:05:54.660 closet just in case. Trudeau has a blackface costume just in case. I wonder if he's ever even thrown it

00:05:59.700 out. So some foreigners might actually believe him, though come to think of it, I'm not sure anymore.

00:06:06.500 Trudeau was so certain that he was going to win the corrupt election to get Canada a temporary seat on

00:06:11.900 the United Nations Security Council, but he just didn't. He was a total flop, despite probably

00:06:17.420 spending about a billion dollars on his vanity campaign when you add in all his foreign aid

00:06:21.840 spending. So maybe they're wise to him overseas after all. Or maybe black leaders in Africa just 0.96

00:06:27.900 don't like a racist in blackface. Just a hypothesis there. But there is something else whenever Trudeau 0.99

00:06:33.180 speaks to the foreign press. Whether it's that he's trying to impress them, or that he somehow

00:06:39.040 thinks we back home won't hear him, Trudeau gets weirder than normal, more extreme than normal.

00:06:47.040 It was that way in this super gross article in the New York Times shortly after his election

00:06:52.040 that Trudeau said, quote, there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. Yeah, go to hell, buddy. 0.99

00:06:59.580 Was he trying to impress New Yorkers about how cosmopolitan he was? Was he telling them what 1.00

00:07:04.520 he thought they wanted to hear? Or was he finally free of mere Canadians who he weirdly thought 0.98

00:07:11.280 wouldn't read his comments, so he was just truly being himself? Who knows? But that's, I think, what

00:07:17.240 we had here again in his pandemic press conference at the United Nations, trying to please foreigners 0.98

00:07:23.420 and feeling unfettered by mere Canadian citizens. Let me show you a few more clips from that same

00:07:28.460 press conference. What you saw in that Twitter video was just 30 seconds. Here's more. I'm going to cut

00:07:33.840 out the parts in French where he basically repeats his English points. And I'm going to cut out the

00:07:38.420 other participants. Here are some key Trudeau clips. The fight against COVID-19 is far from over.

00:07:46.000 In many parts of the world, including Canada, the number of new cases is rising and quickly. We must do

00:07:52.560 everything we can to flatten the curve as much as possible. That means following public health

00:07:58.300 recommendations and using all the tools available, from wearing masks to social distancing, too,

00:08:04.260 in Canada, downloading the free COVID alert app. So far, so boring. Of course, he himself doesn't

00:08:10.760 follow those rules. Here he is at a Black Lives Matter protest on Parliament Hill. I mean, look,

00:08:16.780 if there's a woke photo op, he's not going to miss it because of some social distancing rule,

00:08:21.900 Lizzie. I'll skip to his boring boilerplate and I'll just go to the new stuff here.

00:08:29.360 Around the world, the pandemic has worsened longstanding challenges of poverty, inequality,

00:08:35.740 and climate change. Last spring, Canada convened a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Holness of

00:08:41.560 Jamaica and the Secretary General to discuss a global response as we build a better, more equitable

00:08:48.020 system. In May, we agreed to look at six urgent areas of action to mobilize financing, and today,

00:08:54.920 with over 60 international partners, we've continued that important work. Hey, did you know that, did you

00:09:00.740 know that Trudeau, instead of focusing on Canada and the crisis here, and I don't just mean the health

00:09:06.340 crisis, if it even amounted to that, but I mean the economic crisis that he and the rest of the political

00:09:11.140 class caused. Did you know that he was actually instead working with foreign leaders to put together a

00:09:17.040 bailout for foreign countries? What, the CBC didn't bring that to your attention? I mean, it's been five

00:09:23.760 years since Trudeau promised clean water on Canadian Indian reserves, but hey, they don't get a vote for

00:09:29.660 the who, they don't get a vote to decide who's on the UN Security Council, do they? They don't vote for

00:09:34.780 who gets a Nobel Peace Prize, do they? So instead, Trudeau spent his time and our billions on foreign

00:09:40.620 schemes like that. And none of it worked. He did not get on the Security Council, but everyone took his

00:09:45.940 money. A fool and his money are soon parted, the saying goes. Trouble is, he's the fool, but it's 0.99

00:09:50.940 our money. All right, here's the next clip. From ensuring equitable access to vaccines, to providing 1.00

00:09:57.260 more time for distressed countries to make bilateral debt payments, including Caribbean and small island

00:10:03.140 states, we're working on concrete options that will help build a more resilient world for the short,

00:10:08.780 medium and long term. The global community must not give up on the 2030 agenda for sustainable

00:10:15.560 development and the SDGs. In fact, we should seize this opportunity to do even more. Earlier this

00:10:23.360 morning, I announced that Canada will invest an additional $400 million in humanitarian and

00:10:29.620 development funding to fight COVID-19, with even more in the years to come. We will make sure that

00:10:35.980 women and girls who've been disproportionately impacted by the consequences of COVID-19 benefit

00:10:41.220 from this new funding. We must listen to the needs of small island developing states and other

00:10:46.720 vulnerable countries and help carry their voices to the World Bank, the G7, the G20, and other

00:10:52.980 organizations this fall. Did you know that? Did you know that Trudeau was prioritizing, what was that,

00:10:59.100 small island countries? Is he vulnerable? What about our own vulnerable communities? His own province,

00:11:06.420 Quebec, where 61% of all Canadian deaths from the virus have happened, including in his own riding,

00:11:12.420 why is he taking our money and spending his time worrying about small island countries that are

00:11:17.780 vulnerable? Quebec has had more COVID deaths than all other provinces combined, even though Quebec only

00:11:24.440 has a quarter of the population. Why? And why hasn't a single reporter even asked him that question?

00:11:29.840 I think we would ask him that question, but Trudeau has the RCMP frog march our reporters away from

00:11:34.960 press conferences, and the rest of the media gets the message pretty quick. Here's some more.

00:11:39.980 Thank you very much. Just briefly to add, we know that in a time of crisis, it is a natural human

00:11:46.900 inclination to want to hunker down and look inward and protect each other and protect ourselves.

00:11:52.960 And you think later about your neighbors and other countries around the world. Well,

00:11:57.880 this particular crisis requires us to make sure that we are working together as a global community,

00:12:04.820 because no country can eliminate the COVID-19 virus until all countries eliminate the COVID-19 virus.

00:12:12.680 No country can come out and restore economic prosperity unless we also have a global restoration

00:12:19.560 of economic prosperity. Canada has long understood that, and that's why we're continuing to step up

00:12:25.100 with hundreds of millions of dollars towards COVAX, towards global financing, towards debt relief,

00:12:31.340 towards all the things that we can do. But we also know that we need to include more countries in that.

00:12:36.780 And that's why this initiative with Jamaica and the Secretary General is all about convening

00:12:42.480 decision-making bodies from G7 to G20, from the World Bank to the IMF, to be part of understanding

00:12:50.520 exactly how we can best make sure that we all get through this and to the other side as quickly as

00:12:57.020 possible. Lots in there that's just not true. China, the source of the virus, the source of virus

00:13:02.160 information, they're booming again. They don't have 9% unemployment like we do. They're going full tilt.

00:13:07.980 And they did something interesting. When the virus hit them in Wuhan, they banned flights from Wuhan to

00:13:13.500 other Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai. They quarantined Wuhan as regards to the rest of

00:13:18.680 China. But they never stopped flights from Wuhan to the rest of the world, including to Canada.

00:13:23.300 And neither did Trudeau. Trudeau waited months after Trump restricted China flights before Trudeau did the

00:13:29.360 same. And Trudeau never actually closed the flights from China. We tracked them every day during the

00:13:34.760 pandemic. Same thing with Roxham Road. As Kee and Bextie found out, they're operating as normal there.

00:13:39.840 Anyone can walk right over, even if they have a virus, especially if they have a virus.

00:13:45.140 But the bigger point is one Trudeau glossed over. He talks about totally eradicating a virus.

00:13:51.160 That just doesn't happen. It won't happen. It can't happen. Flu viruses always come and go.

00:13:57.440 There are always places where they are infectious. If your plan is to wait until the entire world is at

00:14:03.920 zero flu viruses, instead of living normally, protecting the vulnerable, but letting the

00:14:08.900 rest of us live our lives, if your mindset is a forever lockdown, well, that's nuts. But I guess

00:14:15.360 it also suits the crisis opportunism of Trudeau, doesn't it? There's a deep state when it comes to

00:14:21.520 the military-industrial complex, isn't there? The generals, the defense contractors. And we saw in the

00:14:27.020 case of Trump, there's the FBI and the CIA in the deep state too. But there's also a deep state when it

00:14:32.380 comes to the public health officials. They love this pandemic. They're having the time of their

00:14:36.480 lives. Bill Gates is positively giddy about his plans to jab everyone in the world, every one of us.

00:14:43.100 Here's Anthony Fauci on how he wants masks to continue, how he wants the restrictions in life

00:14:49.620 to continue, even if there is an alleged vaccine. He loves this. But once the process is complete,

00:14:57.500 does that mean they can take off their masks? They don't have to social distance?

00:15:01.640 They can just go about their lives as before?

00:15:05.140 You know, I would recommend that that's not the case. I would recommend you have an added

00:15:09.260 area of protection. Obviously, with a 90 plus percent effective vaccine, you could feel much

00:15:15.760 more confident. But I would recommend to people to not abandon all public health measures just because

00:15:22.500 you've been vaccinated. Because even though for the general population, it might be 90 to 95 percent

00:15:29.320 effective, you don't necessarily know for you how effective it is.

00:15:33.920 What's this agenda 2030 business that Trudeau mentioned? What's this great reset business?

00:15:39.720 Did you ever hear about it on the campaign trail either in this last Canadian election or the one

00:15:43.620 before it? I don't think you did. Partly and unfortunately, because Stephen Harper himself

00:15:48.420 signed on to it in 2015. Take a look at this. September 2015, last months of the Harper campaign,

00:15:56.620 let me read this. In September 2015, Canada and all other 192 United Nations member states adopted

00:16:03.300 the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the UN General Assembly. This initiative is a global call

00:16:10.020 to action to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

00:16:15.640 A lot of code words there, but my point is Harper signed on to this. Climate action,

00:16:22.640 responsible consumption and production. What does that mean? It means globalism. It means socialism.

00:16:29.260 It means open borders. It means replacing local sovereignty with supranational organizations. It

00:16:34.940 means more of the UN and less of Canada. It's exactly what the World Economic Forum talks about too.

00:16:40.520 You heard Trudeau use that word reset. That's their phrase, the Great Reset. Use the crisis to level down

00:16:48.320 the capitalist democracies. Remember I showed you that creepy World Economic Forum video the other week?

00:16:53.460 That's part of the Great Reset. Look at this headline. I own nothing. Have no privacy. And life has never been

00:17:02.440 better. No privacy. You own nothing. Come on, guys. Get to loving it. Look, this is the sort of thing

00:17:09.920 that used to be spoken about only by conspiracy theorists. One world governments, the UN, not local

00:17:14.880 parliaments, making decisions. Open borders migration, global reset, no privacy. You'll own nothing.

00:17:22.500 I sort of like the 30-second version that I found on Twitter. It really sums it up well. Here,

00:17:26.480 take a look at it one more time. Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable

00:17:32.220 while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.

00:17:39.200 Canada is here to listen and to help. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our

00:17:46.700 chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global

00:17:53.080 challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change. I think that's what Justin Trudeau

00:17:59.240 is really about. Disappointingly, it's what Harper was about, too, at least enough to sign on to it

00:18:04.660 back in 2015. I have no reason to think that the new conservative leader, Erin O'Toole, is against it

00:18:11.640 either. I think this is the ruling class versus the people, just like always, just like this whole pandemic is,

00:18:21.280 don't you? Stay with us for more.

00:18:35.680 Justin Trudeau has cracked down on independent journalists like no other prime minister in

00:18:40.820 recent memory. In fact, not since the War Measures Act and Trudeau's appointed censors in the media

00:18:47.620 has there been a government so hostile to contrary points of view. We learned that firsthand at last

00:18:54.700 year's Media Freedom Conference in the United Kingdom. I attended, along with Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:18:59.780 and her friend Andrew Lawton from True North. And Sheila and Andrew were actually blocked from a press

00:19:08.640 conference at the Media Freedom Conference by Chrystia Freeland, the co-chair of the conference. Here,

00:19:15.440 take a quick look at that.

00:19:16.820 Okay, so, um, Glover Mail, um, Global, um, CTV, Al Jazeera, CBC, and the National Conference.

00:19:27.860 And the others?

00:19:28.520 What about the rest?

00:19:29.260 The rest of us?

00:19:30.200 The rest of us have to stay back.

00:19:31.480 No, I think we all go.

00:19:32.760 No, no, no, no, no.

00:19:34.220 That is not, I'll go.

00:19:35.760 That's, let's take us to the room and we can see if we can go.

00:19:38.520 No, we're not going, Brittany, we're just not. We're all going.

00:19:40.480 This is a Media Freedom Conference. 0.98

00:19:41.820 Yeah, this is ridiculous. 0.72

00:19:42.640 Well, thankfully, and perhaps miraculously, the other journalists there were so stunned 0.75

00:19:51.100 by this censorship at a Media Freedom Conference that they actually refused to go in without

00:19:57.700 Sheila and Andrew. A rare moment of solidarity, perhaps because the journalists there were

00:20:03.400 not from the Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal Mean Girls Media Party.

00:20:08.380 Well, it's been a year, actually more, and there is a sequel to that Media Freedom Conference.

00:20:15.100 Instead of being held in London, England, Canada is co-sponsoring it with the African country 0.98

00:20:20.780 of Botswana. Now, I'm not making fun of Botswana. I happen to know that it is one of the most

00:20:26.620 successful countries in Africa in terms of the rule of law and the Western values like freedom

00:20:35.820 and speech. So although they're perhaps not up to our Western levels, they are probably

00:20:39.480 the best of the bunch. The question is, is Chrystia Freeland up to Botswanan standards 1.00

00:20:46.660 of freedom? Well, this year, the conference is not being held in person because of the coronavirus.

00:20:51.560 So instead, journalists around the world are participating via Zoom. Our own Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:20:57.560 is. But now we go to our friend Andrew Lawton, who attended with Sheila and I last time in London,

00:21:04.200 England. And he joins us now via Skype. Andrew, great to see you again. How's the conference so

00:21:09.140 far? You're not in sunny Botswana. You're in your own home. But is it worth attending so far?

00:21:14.400 Yeah, last year it was in London, England. This year I'm celebrating it in London, Ontario. So not

00:21:18.900 quite the same backdrop for the conference. But nonetheless, it's amazing how in the last year and four

00:21:25.120 months or so, so little has changed. I think the big takeaway that I experienced, I know from talking

00:21:30.340 to you and Sheila, you had the same experience last year, was that it really seemed to be about

00:21:35.220 window dressing, not about an actual tangible effect on free speech. And so far, that's the

00:21:40.680 exact experience. I mean, just take a look at the very first session this morning. Now, this was going

00:21:45.840 to be and I still think is the most important session of the conference. It was where the representatives

00:21:51.160 of the various countries were getting together to talk about what they see as the key issues for

00:21:55.880 media freedom and how they're going to address them moving forward. And it was closed to the media.

00:22:02.040 The very first session of the media freedom conference in which politicians talk about what

00:22:06.180 they're going to do for media freedom. And I still don't know what happened behind those doors,

00:22:10.380 with the exception of a press release from the foreign ministry, from Francois-Philippe Champagne's

00:22:16.100 office. So a lot of the same problems that we had last year, which was, you know,

00:22:20.260 Western governments like Canada and the UK wanting to focus only on the issues taking place in the

00:22:25.780 third world and not their own violations of press freedom on home soil.

00:22:31.060 Yeah. And I'm so glad you're there because you have been personally banned by Justin Trudeau from

00:22:38.260 attending the federal leaders debate. You were in court alongside our own David Menzies and Kian Bexte.

00:22:43.540 All three of you were banned from the federal leaders debate. So yeah, I'm sure Botswana has 0.99

00:22:50.060 things to work on. And I'm not trying to pick on them. I actually, from what I understand from both

00:22:54.800 reading and also people who know Africa, Botswana is one of the better places if you believe in

00:23:00.800 freedom. I'm not picking on them. Canada is the one that's falling down, that's sagging. Let me ask you

00:23:06.920 this. One of the things I found odd about last year's Media Freedom Conference that I attended

00:23:12.960 with you in London, England, was that they had lots of little secret back doors for censors.

00:23:18.240 Like I accidentally bumped into the foreign minister of Pakistan, who is one of the most

00:23:24.000 censorious bullies around. And he bullies Twitter to censor people in the West. And he cracks down on

00:23:29.920 dissidents in Pakistan itself. I literally bumped into him by accident. Let me just show people,

00:23:35.200 I try to tear a strip off him. This is me from last year. Take a look.

00:23:38.760 Shorty. I see there are lots. There is one. Yes. Very quick one. Thanks. Actually,

00:23:44.040 I'm not going to be directed by you. I'm going to ask a question to the Pakistani gentleman.

00:23:48.040 No, you're not. Yes, I am. Because it's a Media Freedom Conference and you're not going to shut down

00:23:52.100 questions about a censor. You censored me, sir. I have a Twitter account in Canada. And because I

00:23:58.680 wrote something that introduced some Pakistani blasphemy law, you complained to Twitter,

00:24:04.600 which took down my tweet in Canada. So can you explain why your Islamic supremacy in Pakistan 0.96

00:24:12.740 is silencing my personal and journalistic freedom in Canada? And I know it happens in the United

00:24:18.620 States, too. And frankly, you sure should be embarrassed to invite a censor like this.

00:24:22.600 But back to the thug. Who the hell are you to censor me in Canada? Answer. 0.99

00:24:26.720 Now, I don't like... I know you don't because you don't like free speech.

00:24:31.260 I don't like... You don't like free speech.

00:24:33.360 Now, okay. Would you like to not say free speech?

00:24:35.240 Now, I'll just respond to you, sir. First of all, do you want your sentiments to be respected?

00:24:42.540 Now, just look at the tone and the tarot of the doctor. Is that the correct way?

00:24:48.660 You have a right last question, sir.

00:24:50.260 Well, then why did you censor me?

00:24:51.840 Did I censor you?

00:24:52.740 You shut down my Twitter tweet.

00:24:54.160 I did not.

00:24:54.840 Don't lie.

00:24:56.440 How can I... How am I responsible for that?

00:24:58.880 Because the government of Pakistan did.

00:25:00.860 The government of Pakistan.

00:25:02.420 I did not censor you.

00:25:03.640 No, you were not. You censored me.

00:25:05.620 I did not censor you.

00:25:06.520 Don't lie.

00:25:07.160 All right.

00:25:07.540 Why would I lie?

00:25:08.420 Because that's what you do.

00:25:09.400 I think you're saying you don't.

00:25:11.060 I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

00:25:12.740 Shame on you and shame on you. 0.72

00:25:14.300 You have...

00:25:14.840 Shame on you and shame on you for inviting him. 0.89

00:25:18.300 Shame on you. 1.00

00:25:19.340 You censorious thug. 1.00

00:25:21.920 You censorious thug. 0.97

00:25:23.980 All right, Andrew, I just wanted to show you that because I had fun mouthing off to them. 0.93

00:25:27.880 Reliving the glory.

00:25:28.660 That's right.

00:25:29.240 You know what?

00:25:29.520 If I was a Pakistani citizen, that would have been the last you ever seen of me.

00:25:33.500 I guess it's hard to detect if there's interlopers like that because literally the Pakistani foreign minister was on no official program.

00:25:41.820 It wasn't on the door.

00:25:42.940 I went into a room just to sit down by myself, and it was like a secret session.

00:25:48.120 I guess there's no way to find out about those secret sessions if you can only see what they show you on Zoom, right?

00:25:54.400 You can't actually go around the corridors and accidentally discover a secret censor.

00:26:00.000 Well, that's, I think, the most important point of this.

00:26:02.600 And virtual conferences really have the one thing to them that you don't really get the news value out of, which is the official program.

00:26:10.960 Whenever I've been at an actual event or summit, the real stories are the people you talk to, the things you overhear, the things you see, or, as we've learned firsthand from last year, the process of being excluded from certain things.

00:26:22.840 You know, when I got my note from the foreign office last week that I had been accredited, you know, it really isn't that big a deal when all the accreditation is, here's a link to log on from your computer.

00:26:33.760 Knowing how the government has treated us independent journalists in general in the last year.

00:26:39.560 And that's, I think, the big problem here is that Justin Trudeau spoke this morning, and he talked about his government's unrelenting commitment to free speech.

00:26:46.640 And he talked about how his government's always going to stand up for it.

00:26:50.100 No one's there to ask him about the fact that the government is fighting you and I in court ongoing against our press freedom.

00:26:59.580 No one's there to ask about the investigation into your book on the election, the Leveranos.

00:27:05.100 No one's there to ask about the time that I was literally detained at roadside by police while trying to cover a Justin Trudeau campaign event,

00:27:12.840 because they wouldn't let me on the media bus, even though I was prepared to pay whatever mainstream media reporters went.

00:27:18.660 And again, I want to stress, these are not on moral equivalence to people who are risking their lives in some parts of the world.

00:27:27.240 And I'm not saying it is, but I am saying that it's very convenient when the Canadian government is trying to get you to look at all of these things overseas

00:27:34.320 without really any introspection as to its own lack of commitment to press freedom.

00:27:39.240 Yeah, it's pretty gross that Trudeau tells a crowd in Botswana how much of a hero he is for free speech while he still has you and me in court.

00:27:48.640 They're still trying to kick us out of next election debate. 0.97

00:27:51.920 They're still fighting our judicial review of that.

00:27:54.320 And of course, they had police escort Kian out of Rideau College. 0.56

00:27:58.560 I forgot about the police pulling you over when you were trying to cover the liberal campaign last time.

00:28:03.340 It's embarrassing to me that so many Canadian journalists allow Trudeau to get away with it.

00:28:08.020 Let me ask you one more technical question.

00:28:10.580 One of the things I found most surprising about last year's Media Freedom Conference was that it was largely outsourced to a media oligarch named Pierre Omidyar,

00:28:21.340 who is sort of the Rupert Murdoch of the left.

00:28:24.400 He loves his media.

00:28:26.180 He has a very strong point of view.

00:28:27.940 And I say the more the merrier.

00:28:29.540 Like, let's have a dozen big media titans.

00:28:33.480 The more choice for readers.

00:28:35.060 But it was so weird that a government-to-government conference had delegated, had contracted out the list of speakers, the themes, to a private player who I find that very odd.

00:28:49.820 Is there that same sort of oligarchy?

00:28:52.480 Like, do they have any special favored journalists or favored companies here?

00:28:56.980 Have you detected the Omidyar group or his advocacy organization, Luminate?

00:29:04.360 Any of that?

00:29:05.660 No, nothing like that.

00:29:07.100 And in fact, from a branding perspective, it just seems like Canada, Canada, Canada.

00:29:11.460 And there's a part of me that wonders, and I want to make clear that this is a speculation in some way on my part, if Canada was really the only one that wanted this.

00:29:20.120 Because last July, it was this bilateral event pushed by the Canadian and UK governments.

00:29:25.480 This year, the UK government is involved in a peripheral sense, but is not co-hosting or co-sponsoring.

00:29:31.120 The Canadian government brought the Botswanaan government on as co-host.

00:29:34.900 But the emcee of the event was Francois-Celipe Champagne.

00:29:38.320 There was big Canada logos.

00:29:39.960 The platform it's on is the Canadian government's platform.

00:29:43.180 The branding on the video stream is Canada.

00:29:45.700 So in a lot of ways, it seems like Canada is the one pushing this.

00:29:49.600 And I'm going to certainly try to figure out what it is that Canada is really getting out of this.

00:29:54.140 But I almost think this might be, again, one of these Justin Trudeau pet projects now to try to get some cred on the international playing field.

00:30:02.760 Yeah, it's so weird.

00:30:03.580 I mean, how about save that money and actually give us free speech at home instead of having a foreign Potemkin village about just how free our media is here? 0.75

00:30:16.500 I can only imagine the millions they spent.

00:30:21.300 I wonder if there's any themes emerging there.

00:30:25.760 One of the things that I found most disappointing last year is that they hated fake news.

00:30:31.260 And I was thinking one man's fake news is the other man's, you know, scoop or revelation.

00:30:36.860 And the whole point of a diversity of voices is that the reader gets to decide.

00:30:41.340 That's what a campaign is.

00:30:42.900 Both politicians are calling each other liars and fakers.

00:30:46.100 And at the end of the day, it's very democratic because the voter gets to choose.

00:30:49.860 I see it the same way with newspapers.

00:30:52.160 You've got the National Post.

00:30:53.360 You've got the Globe and Mail.

00:30:54.180 You've got the Sun.

00:30:54.840 And the viewer gets to decide who's got it right or maybe a mix of all.

00:30:58.580 So this focus on fake news seemed to me to have nothing to do with freedom in the press.

00:31:03.640 In fact, sort of the opposite, because if you accept the concept of fake news, it implies that you have to do something about it.

00:31:10.700 So I think jamming fake news into a media freedom conference is actually a bit of a Trojan horse.

00:31:16.840 Are they still obsessed with that this year, Andrew?

00:31:20.240 Yeah.

00:31:20.740 And in fact, the one event that I peeled away from to come and do this was one of the panels, which was looking at the very question of disinformation.

00:31:29.500 And I will say the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression had, I thought, a very good position on this.

00:31:35.580 And what she had said, Irene Kahn is her name, is that governments should not be essentially outsourcing or privatizing these disinformation roles to tech companies,

00:31:45.540 which is something that we see happening in Canada, potentially on hate speech, where the federal government wants to put regulations in effect that will basically force social media companies to take down so-called hate speech.

00:31:57.260 And that actually really clouds your ability as an individual tech platform user to speak freely, because now the government is deputizing Facebook or Twitter or Google.

00:32:09.240 And I actually thought her position on this was a very sound one.

00:32:12.360 And conversely, there was a Facebook human rights director, which is in and of itself a bit of an odd position, a Facebook human rights director on the panel that said, no, no, no, tech companies are entirely able to deal with this.

00:32:25.220 But then actually later on in the same panel had kind of changed her mind and said that, you know, governments need to adopt universal international standards on this and adopt this international framework on regulation.

00:32:37.460 So there is really this concern that I think all roads are leading down to governments having to become the arbiters of what can be posted online and what can't be.

00:32:47.640 Yeah. You know, the idea of governments hosting a media freedom conference, because who do journalists have to be free from?

00:32:56.060 The threat of censorship. I mean, I take it that these days some of the threat is from social media companies, but generally in terms of criminal prosecutions, in terms of being banned like you and I have been, the threat is from governments.

00:33:10.980 Having governments, especially Trudeau, sponsor, convene, organize and screen a media freedom conference is like inviting your local butcher to run a vegetarian conference.

00:33:23.160 It's just you it does not work.

00:33:25.600 Well, and let me say to that point, Ezra, that, you know, the Canada-UK committee gave an award to the Association of Belarus Journalists and or the Belarus Association of Journalists, rather the UK-Canada Media Freedom Award.

00:33:40.920 And when the gentleman accepting on behalf of the organization spoke, he had, you know, some horrific things that Belarusian journalists have had to deal with trying to report on what's happening in their country.

00:33:52.200 And one of the key takeaways was saying that one of the tools that censoring governments use to deny press freedom is revocation of accreditation, of denying one's recognition or identity as a journalist.

00:34:06.980 And again, people in Belarus, again, have to deal with different stakes than we do in Canada.

00:34:10.960 I get that. But that particular tactic is exactly what's being used by Justin Trudeau's government.

00:34:16.140 And it was therefore fascinating when Francois-Philippe Champagne afterwards says it's shocking to hear of such things happening and why these Belarusian journalists need to be recognized or rewarded for their bravery.

00:34:28.620 I agree that they do, but I wouldn't be so shocked when that's a tactic that your own government is employing.

00:34:33.860 Yeah. Yeah.

00:34:34.920 Any foreign minister who for years carries over a million dollars in personal mortgages from the government of China's Bank of China is not someone I would look to for advice on freedom.

00:34:45.780 I'm referring, of course, to Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada's foreign minister.

00:34:49.700 Well, listen, Andrew, it's great to catch up with you.

00:34:51.560 I know Sheila's at the conference digitally as well, so we'll let you get back to it.

00:34:55.580 Great to see you again.

00:34:57.120 I thought they would ban you and Sheila, but like you say, it's just a Zoom link. 0.98

00:35:02.180 It's not like they're giving you inside access like we had last time.

00:35:05.700 Well, we'll keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:06.940 I know you will, too.

00:35:07.760 We're actually still in court together fighting against the debate commission's ban.

00:35:11.840 And so this is a battle that we are still fighting, and I know you are, too.

00:35:15.440 Congratulations.

00:35:16.080 Yes.

00:35:16.500 And thank you, Andrew.

00:35:17.440 Great to see you again.

00:35:19.540 Likewise.

00:35:20.380 All right.

00:35:20.660 There you have it.

00:35:21.100 Andrew Lawton, one of our favorite guys.

00:35:24.640 He's with TNC.news.

00:35:28.600 That's True North.

00:35:30.080 He's also a member of the Independent Press Gallery, just like we are here over at The Rebel.

00:35:35.640 Stay with us, more ahead.

00:35:36.660 Hello, welcome back.

00:35:49.180 Instead of reading your letters, I want to show you a very exciting video, a new contributor

00:35:53.480 to Rebel News, Kimberly Klasick, the Republican hero who ran for Congress in Baltimore.

00:35:59.840 Now, she didn't win, but she started a whole national conversation about how black Americans

00:36:05.280 didn't have to vote Democrat because Democrats have done nothing for their communities in

00:36:10.380 decades.

00:36:11.200 She did an amazing job, and now, well, she's agreed to do videos for Rebel News.

00:36:17.400 So let me say goodbye to you now, but let me leave you with Kimberly Klasick's first video

00:36:23.920 for Rebel News.

00:36:25.540 All right, everybody.

00:36:26.280 Good night.

00:36:27.140 But take a look at this.

00:36:28.040 So Saturday started out very peacefully in Washington, D.C.

00:36:31.340 I should know I was there, but unfortunately, two unwanted groups showed up, and that would

00:36:35.440 be BLM and Antifa.

00:36:37.320 And then, of course, all hell broke loose, but we'll talk about that.

00:36:49.780 Hi, I'm Kim Klasick for Rebel News in Baltimore, Maryland.

00:36:53.420 Saturday was great.

00:36:54.360 I started out at 10 a.m.

00:36:56.580 at the Million Maga March with a bunch of Trump supporters from all over the country.

00:37:00.780 People came from California, Massachusetts, just to show their support for President Trump.

00:37:05.640 President Trump even drove through with his motorcade.

00:37:07.820 He probably didn't want to because, let's face it, that was probably a security nightmare

00:37:11.960 for Secret Service, but he did it anyways.

00:37:14.240 And then, at 2 p.m., after I left, of course, Antifa and BLM showed up to rain on everyone's

00:37:21.280 parade.

00:37:22.220 Now, we can all agree on this one thing because it's a fact.

00:37:25.140 This only happens in Democrat-controlled cities because these outside instigators, these domestic 1.00

00:37:31.300 terrorists, understand that they can only get away with this in Democrat-controlled cities.

00:37:36.460 Now, I was surprised to see President Barack Obama in a 60-minute interview actually admit

00:37:41.500 that all of this started before President Trump took office.

00:37:45.340 It started when he was the president.

00:37:46.760 I don't see him as the cause for our divisions and the problems with our government.

00:37:53.440 I think he's an accelerant.

00:37:55.420 But they preceded him and, sadly, are going to likely outlast him.

00:38:00.980 Now, people say, well, how can you blame President Barack Obama, but you don't really hold President

00:38:06.080 Trump accountable?

00:38:07.300 Because, again, it started under his reign.

00:38:09.820 He allowed to get out of control.

00:38:11.840 And the local Democrat leaders would have listened to President Barack Obama had he said,

00:38:17.740 you know what, guys?

00:38:18.560 You've got to put your foot down.

00:38:20.000 But he didn't do that.

00:38:21.120 He didn't condemn the violence.

00:38:22.760 Why?

00:38:23.360 Because, in his mind, it's all in the name of racism.

00:38:26.700 Yes.

00:38:27.400 Racism.

00:38:28.000 That's what we hear all the time in America.

00:38:29.400 Now, racism does exist, but not to the extent in which Democrats want you to believe.

00:38:34.840 But now, there are innocent families and people being caught in the middle of extremist

00:38:40.020 groups basically fighting each other over what?

00:38:43.040 I still don't know.

00:38:44.320 There's never a list of demands.

00:38:46.020 No one ever talks about what it is they need or what.

00:38:48.680 They just want to cause chaos. 0.97

00:38:50.960 So, after all the bads that we saw in Washington, D.C., as we saw all the videos come out on Saturday

00:38:55.580 night on Twitter, only 21 arrests were made.

00:38:58.760 21.

00:38:59.760 We saw way more than 21 people engage in violence.

00:39:03.640 But again, this is what happens in Democrat-controlled cities. 0.71

00:39:07.140 For Rebel News, I'm Kim Klesing.

Rebel News Podcast - November 17, 2020

Justin Trudeau admits to using pandemic to launch “Great Reset” of the world

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