Rebel News Podcast - April 21, 2021


Justin Trudeau brings in the worst budget in Canadian history


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Justin Trudeau's Budget is over 700 pages long, and over $30 billion in the price tag is for a state-run daycare center. I take you through it a bit, and then I do some word searches. Can you guess which one?

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00:00:00.620 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:00:04.280 Hello, my Rebels.
00:00:05.340 Today, I take you through Justin Trudeau's budget.
00:00:08.740 I don't think Justin Trudeau read it.
00:00:10.500 It's over 700 pages long, and he's more a comic book kind of guy.
00:00:14.800 Christian Freeland might have read it.
00:00:16.040 She certainly didn't write it.
00:00:17.680 And I really don't think it's a budget.
00:00:19.540 A budget implies a balance, something that's planned.
00:00:22.520 This is just everything.
00:00:24.980 It's everything they ever wanted to spend, regulate, tax.
00:00:27.640 It's really a great reset, things that have nothing to do with the pandemic,
00:00:31.940 being excused by the pandemic, like a $30 billion price tag for a state-run daycare.
00:00:38.700 It's all in there.
00:00:40.140 I take you through it a bit, and then I do some word searches.
00:00:43.480 You know how you can do that with a big document?
00:00:45.560 Find the number of occurrences of the word, let's say, Saskatchewan,
00:00:49.440 and compare it to the number of the instances of the word gender.
00:00:53.520 I won't give it away, but can you guess which appears in the budget more often?
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00:01:39.500 Tonight, Justin Trudeau brings in the worst budget in Canadian history,
00:01:44.100 replacing his father, Pierre, for that dishonor.
00:01:46.960 It's April 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:50.580 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:55.120 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:59.200 The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher
00:02:02.540 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:02:11.060 Pierre Trudeau devastated Canada's culture.
00:02:13.860 He destroyed so much of our history and our customs.
00:02:16.540 I mean, just look at what he did to the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:02:19.820 For an obvious example, look at how he inflamed both Western and Quebec separatism.
00:02:25.480 That takes some doing.
00:02:27.240 Look at how he realigned our country away from the United States during the Cold War
00:02:32.400 and towards the Soviet Union, Cuba, and even Communist China.
00:02:36.100 I think Justin Trudeau has followed his father's footsteps in all of those things,
00:02:40.920 but I think one of the most lasting legacies of Pierre Trudeau
00:02:44.140 was the staggering debt and permanent tax burden,
00:02:47.940 the regulatory burden, the National Energy Program being just one example,
00:02:53.240 a regulatory burden that is with us still,
00:02:55.840 a perpetual permanent impoverishment of Canada
00:02:58.980 as compared to our closest friends and neighbours and trading partners in the United States.
00:03:03.500 It's been more than 50 years since Trudeau went to work on us, the Trudeau senior.
00:03:09.480 But since then, we've always been poorer than Americans.
00:03:14.600 And it traces back to Trudeau.
00:03:16.080 It wasn't always our way.
00:03:17.500 I'd have to check the stats right now,
00:03:19.680 and I'm sure the pandemic has skewed things a bit,
00:03:22.220 but it was recently true that Canadians on a purchasing power basis
00:03:27.980 were as poor as the poorest U.S. states, like Mississippi,
00:03:32.960 that the average Canadian had the same per capita spending power
00:03:37.540 as the average African American.
00:03:41.120 We mock income inequality in the U.S.
00:03:43.960 We mock how they treat their poor.
00:03:46.100 It's part of our superiority complex, but we're quite simply poorer,
00:03:51.820 even though you'd think, given all of our natural resources,
00:03:54.360 including oil and gas and mining and timber,
00:03:56.740 that we'd be richer than anyone.
00:03:59.740 Then again, I'm sure Venezuelans would think the same thing.
00:04:03.100 Justin Trudeau aims to remake Canada in all the ways his father did.
00:04:06.520 He certainly tried to realign us away from Trump's America
00:04:10.220 and towards Xi Jinping's China.
00:04:12.300 I think China just didn't take yes for an answer, 1.00
00:04:16.000 and they pushed too far.
00:04:18.460 Trudeau Sr. pitted English Canada against French Quebec.
00:04:21.740 He pitted the East against the West. 0.91
00:04:24.440 Trudeau Jr. kept those fault lines and added several more.
00:04:27.940 He pits men against women in the name of feminism.
00:04:30.740 He pits races against each other.
00:04:32.660 He actually accuses Canada of genocide.
00:04:35.360 I don't think even Pierre Trudeau would have said that.
00:04:38.040 I don't think Pierre Trudeau believed that.
00:04:39.940 But Justin Trudeau is not as smart as Pierre Trudeau was.
00:04:45.440 But both of them had an authoritarian dream
00:04:47.720 of remaking society in their own image.
00:04:50.900 That's the communist way.
00:04:52.560 They both admired strongmen like Mao and Castro.
00:04:56.340 Trudeau doesn't quite have the motivation or the brains of his dad.
00:04:59.860 He doesn't have the work ethic or the vision.
00:05:02.380 But he's happy to put himself to the service of others who do,
00:05:06.460 who can fill in those gaps for him
00:05:07.880 and make him just the public face of things.
00:05:10.460 He's always been more of a mascot than a leader.
00:05:13.660 Like when Justin Trudeau first took office,
00:05:16.400 and he bizarrely outsourced Canada's immigration policy
00:05:20.640 to George Soros' Open Society's Foundation.
00:05:24.980 Soros has no connection to Canada. 0.57
00:05:27.080 He's based in New York.
00:05:28.420 Why would the Canadian government outsource our immigration policy
00:05:31.900 to an activist lobby group in a foreign country
00:05:34.660 instead of our own civil service?
00:05:36.100 That's weird.
00:05:37.300 It's not a conspiracy theory.
00:05:38.840 They co-hosted a conference with the Canadian government about it.
00:05:43.180 One of his first meetings after becoming prime minister
00:05:45.500 was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
00:05:48.320 You know the people who talk about how you'll own nothing,
00:05:51.300 you'll have no privacy, and you'll love it.
00:05:53.720 You know that weirdness?
00:05:54.540 Here's a photograph taken by Trudeau's own staff of Trudeau,
00:05:59.460 George Soros and Chrystia Freeland,
00:06:01.640 who was George Soros' official biographer.
00:06:04.940 That's the thing.
00:06:05.560 Pierre Trudeau was a radical in his own right.
00:06:08.440 He was a leader.
00:06:09.780 Justin Trudeau doesn't really know what to do,
00:06:12.580 but he'll take instructions,
00:06:13.700 and there are plenty of people willing to instruct him.
00:06:18.040 Look at this.
00:06:19.220 This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.
00:06:22.640 This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts
00:06:26.200 to reimagine economic systems
00:06:28.320 that actually address global challenges
00:06:30.540 like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
00:06:34.440 That's from a few months ago, but there it is.
00:06:37.340 Using the pandemic as an excuse to change the country,
00:06:40.780 to reset everything, the economy, the culture, forever.
00:06:43.820 And he decided that the UN was the best place
00:06:46.180 to make that announcement,
00:06:47.280 not some speech to mere Canadian citizens.
00:06:49.640 And here's Chrystia Freeland on the same point
00:06:52.160 just a few days ago, actually.
00:06:53.700 I really believe COVID has created
00:06:57.680 a window of political opportunity
00:07:01.700 and maybe an epiphany.
00:07:04.560 So they're doing it.
00:07:05.700 The largest debt ever racked up,
00:07:08.200 more than every previous government combined,
00:07:10.920 in their budget.
00:07:11.760 The headlines on the CBC State Broadcaster
00:07:14.840 show you a bit of what's going on,
00:07:16.300 but only a bit.
00:07:17.460 The pandemic as an excuse,
00:07:18.940 as a crisis to be milked.
00:07:21.060 If you're wondering why you'll never get out
00:07:22.780 of this lockdown,
00:07:24.260 why it'll always be extended,
00:07:25.760 new variants, whatever,
00:07:27.500 this is why.
00:07:28.760 They need a permanent crisis,
00:07:30.100 a permanent emergency,
00:07:30.920 to justify their emergency spending
00:07:33.200 and regulating and terrifying you.
00:07:35.420 If you're being told that you are in a crisis,
00:07:38.320 maybe you'll put up with things
00:07:39.540 that you would normally not accept.
00:07:42.000 Spending, policing, taxing, regulating.
00:07:46.580 Look at this laundry list of socialist dreams
00:07:48.760 that are being stowed away
00:07:50.440 in the name of the crisis.
00:07:53.280 Highlights of Budget 2021,
00:07:55.120 billions for green economic growth,
00:07:57.040 healthier indigenous communities.
00:07:58.980 Federal spending plan includes
00:08:00.240 more than $101 billion
00:08:01.480 to kickstart post-pandemic economy.
00:08:04.760 Kickstart the post-pandemic economy?
00:08:06.880 How about just take the handcuffs off it?
00:08:09.160 How about just let people work?
00:08:10.880 Let people travel?
00:08:11.560 Let people go outside?
00:08:14.000 Go to the restaurant?
00:08:15.880 How would $101 billion
00:08:17.720 help the restaurant industry kickstart
00:08:20.280 or help the travel and tourism industry kickstart
00:08:23.620 if the government still bans those industries?
00:08:27.620 You don't need to stimulate them with cash.
00:08:29.580 Just let them live.
00:08:31.300 I'll read some more from the state broadcaster.
00:08:33.000 $30 billion over five years
00:08:34.560 and $8.3 billion per year after that
00:08:36.320 to create and sustain
00:08:37.340 a national child care program.
00:08:38.980 Goal is a $10 day child care service by 2025.
00:08:42.680 Just out of the blue.
00:08:44.400 Just unconnected to the pandemic.
00:08:46.080 Just a $30 billion nationalization of health care.
00:08:50.020 Sorry, of child care.
00:08:51.300 Which means transferring money
00:08:52.680 from stay-at-home moms 0.59
00:08:54.140 to working moms who need a daycare. 1.00
00:08:57.420 Listen, I'm pro-mom whatever the mom is.
00:08:59.880 But I don't think the state should prefer
00:09:02.160 moms who use daycares 0.99
00:09:04.140 over moms who stay home. 1.00
00:09:06.800 $17.6 billion for a green recovery
00:09:11.120 to conserve 25% of lands and oceans by 2025
00:09:14.860 and put Canada on course
00:09:16.160 to exceed climate change targets
00:09:17.700 by cutting emissions to 36% below 2005 levels by 2030.
00:09:22.080 What does that mean?
00:09:23.420 Conserve land and oceans?
00:09:25.540 What does that mean?
00:09:26.900 Ban fishing?
00:09:27.840 Ban logging?
00:09:28.700 Ban mining?
00:09:29.360 It obviously means ban oil sands.
00:09:32.020 I'll read more.
00:09:32.880 Extension of pandemic business
00:09:34.260 and income support measures
00:09:35.300 such as wage and rent subsidies
00:09:37.120 through the fall.
00:09:38.060 But again, you wouldn't need pandemic welfare
00:09:40.580 if you simply let people work, would you?
00:09:43.540 I went through the monstrous budget document itself.
00:09:46.180 I didn't just trust the CBC state broadcaster.
00:09:49.040 It's the longest ever published as a budget.
00:09:51.860 Of course, you need all those pages
00:09:53.260 for all that spending they came up with.
00:09:55.720 It's hard to swallow a 724-page budget.
00:09:59.360 I don't think Chrystia Freeland herself even read it all.
00:10:02.980 She certainly didn't write it all.
00:10:04.320 I don't think Justin Trudeau even cares what's in it.
00:10:06.680 I mean, that's what lobbyists are for, right?
00:10:09.080 Gerald Butts will explain the hard parts to him.
00:10:11.860 But I like doing word searches sometimes on big documents
00:10:14.800 to sort of get the feeling for what a document is about,
00:10:17.780 for what the government cares about.
00:10:18.900 So I mentioned that one question,
00:10:22.700 what does it mean to knock 25% of the country off of development?
00:10:27.360 So I typed in the word forestry, for example.
00:10:30.920 The word forestry appears six times,
00:10:33.880 half of which are in a gender analysis on the industry.
00:10:37.680 Apparently, forestry is a little bit too pro-male for the liberals.
00:10:42.140 Same thing with the word mining.
00:10:43.480 The industry that built Canada, especially Ontario,
00:10:47.060 11 times, mainly, again, to show how unfeminine it is.
00:10:51.180 What do they hate more than logging and mining?
00:10:53.140 Of course, I don't know, Saskatchewan.
00:10:55.740 Eight times, mainly to talk about how the carbon tax is going to wring it out.
00:10:59.540 But look at the words they love.
00:11:02.200 Gender.
00:11:05.500 727 times.
00:11:07.440 727 times the word gender is in a budget.
00:11:10.200 Do you see that?
00:11:12.980 Racialized. 0.96
00:11:13.900 That's such a weird word, isn't it?
00:11:16.100 That's a new way of saying visible minorities, I think.
00:11:19.220 114 times in there, plus 43 more times for racist and racism.
00:11:23.560 You see that?
00:11:24.020 It's pretty clear what the liberals think of you, eh?
00:11:27.100 Oh, they're not talking about Trudeau's blackface, I can assure you that.
00:11:30.020 Look, this is not a budget.
00:11:32.820 A budget implies a balance.
00:11:35.240 Your family budget, your expense budget.
00:11:38.560 You earn something, you spend something, you try and keep things under control.
00:11:41.620 This is not a budget.
00:11:43.080 This isn't even a wish list.
00:11:45.100 This is the Great Reset, using the pandemic as an excuse to nationalize swaths of the economy,
00:11:51.000 to demonize and eradicate other industries,
00:11:53.960 and to divide us based on things like race and sex.
00:11:57.140 So, yeah, that's your Great Reset right there.
00:12:01.680 Even worse than anything Pierre Trudeau could do.
00:12:05.160 Stay with us for more.
00:12:06.140 We're asking for items.
00:12:18.360 We're asking for items.
00:12:21.140 What the fuck are you doing?
00:12:34.140 He's 12 years old.
00:12:37.140 They're asking for items.
00:12:42.140 A beautiful spring day, kids outside exercising,
00:12:55.140 finally putting down their cell phones, turning off the Netflix,
00:12:59.140 going to get some fresh air and exercise.
00:13:03.140 There was a 12-year-old boy there,
00:13:06.140 and apparently an OPP, Ontario Provincial Police Officer,
00:13:10.140 didn't like the cut of his jib.
00:13:12.140 From what I can read, the child did not properly and speedily enough
00:13:17.140 identify himself as if a 12-year-old has a driver's license
00:13:22.140 or is even equipped to interact with a big bully cop.
00:13:25.140 So what did the cop do?
00:13:28.140 The cop with the gun in his holster?
00:13:30.140 He lost control of himself.
00:13:32.140 He pushed the child down.
00:13:34.140 He flattened him.
00:13:36.140 And you could hear the other children saying,
00:13:38.140 what are you doing?
00:13:40.140 He's only 12 years old.
00:13:41.140 What are you doing?
00:13:42.140 Shocking video, but it shouldn't be surprising
00:13:45.140 because haven't politicians turned police
00:13:48.140 into their pandemic order enforcers?
00:13:51.140 That kid was committing no crime,
00:13:53.140 and yet you send a crime fighter with a gun to, what,
00:13:57.140 ask him why he's not wearing a face mask in a park
00:14:01.140 while he's exercising?
00:14:03.140 What an unbelievable situation.
00:14:05.140 I learned from Joe Warmington at the Toronto Sun
00:14:07.140 that that officer has been identified and put on administrative leave
00:14:10.140 while a neighboring police force, the Peel Police Force,
00:14:13.140 Peel Regional Police, investigate the misconduct.
00:14:16.140 Obviously, he'll get a slap on the wrist
00:14:18.140 because really, was he not just doing what the province ordered him to do?
00:14:24.140 Here's a quick reminder of what Doug Ford's cabinet ordered every police department in the province to do.
00:14:33.140 Here's a clip of that.
00:14:34.140 We have made the deliberate decision to temporarily enhance police officers' authority
00:14:39.140 for the duration of the stay-at-home order.
00:14:42.140 Moving forward, police will have the authority to require any individual
00:14:47.140 who is not in a place of residence to, first, provide their purpose for not being at home,
00:14:53.140 and provide their home address.
00:14:56.140 Police will also have the authority to stop a vehicle,
00:14:59.140 to inquire about an individual's reason for leaving their residence.
00:15:03.140 How is that cop not doing exactly what Doug and the thugs have told her to do?
00:15:08.140 Our friend Andrew Lawton did something interesting.
00:15:10.140 He contacted all 45 of Ontario's provincially mandated police forces,
00:15:17.140 so not the RCMP, but all the municipal and regional police forces,
00:15:21.140 the Toronto Police Service, and the OPP, which is the province-wide force,
00:15:25.140 and he asked them if they were going to enforce the police state-style demand
00:15:34.140 of any citizen minding their own business to show their papers and explain themselves.
00:15:39.140 And very interesting results.
00:15:41.140 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Andrew Lawton.
00:15:43.140 Andrew, great to see you again. Sorry for the long opening there.
00:15:46.140 I just wanted to show how the OPP is enforcing the stop-and-frisk carding order
00:15:53.140 against a minor child.
00:15:55.140 Tell me what you found when you contacted all 45 police forces.
00:15:59.140 What did the other police forces say?
00:16:02.140 Thanks, Ezra. And I should say that I actually started doing this tracking project
00:16:07.140 on the weekend or on Friday night when some police forces themselves
00:16:11.140 started proactively saying to the community that they had no intention
00:16:15.140 of doing this arbitrary stopping and questioning.
00:16:18.140 And I actually said detention and interrogation, which is what it is.
00:16:21.140 If you are being stopped from going about your day by police,
00:16:24.140 that is being detained. That is a detention.
00:16:27.140 And the first, I think, was the Waterloo Regional Police,
00:16:30.140 which is a fairly large police department in southern Ontario.
00:16:33.140 There were a couple of others.
00:16:35.140 And I started really amassing this list of police agencies.
00:16:39.140 And I was wondering, okay, how many are there?
00:16:41.140 And you're right in your intro to point out there are 44 municipal
00:16:44.140 and regional forces plus the OPP.
00:16:47.140 And when all is said and done, by Saturday evening, when the province had backtracked on this,
00:16:54.140 43 of the 45, or I should say 42 of the 45, had said they were not going to enforce this.
00:17:01.140 Of the three remaining, two were smaller rural forces that hadn't yet responded,
00:17:06.140 one in eastern Ontario and one in southwestern Ontario.
00:17:10.140 And the 45th was the OPP, which enthusiastically said, yes, it would be enforcing this.
00:17:15.140 And the next day, the remaining two, the Chatham-Kent Police and the Deep River Police,
00:17:21.140 said they would not be doing any random stops.
00:17:23.140 So just to understand the magnitude of this, with the exception of the OPP,
00:17:27.140 every single police force in Ontario told the province it had no interest
00:17:34.140 in availing itself of these so-called special authorities that were granted.
00:17:39.140 And the one asterisk I would put beside the OPP,
00:17:42.140 I heard from a number of OPP officers in local detachments
00:17:46.140 who said they wanted nothing to do with this.
00:17:49.140 So there was even within the OPP a divide between the brass sitting at their desks
00:17:53.140 in Toronto and Aurelia and the actual officers operating in various communities around Ontario.
00:17:59.140 Yeah. You know, you've got to shake your head.
00:18:01.140 What kind of cop would go up to a 12-year-old child?
00:18:03.140 I'm sorry, a 12-year-old is a child.
00:18:06.140 You can argue 14, you know, that's a teenager, 16.
00:18:10.140 You can do a lot of things at 16, 18 for sure you're an adult.
00:18:13.140 But a 12-year-old child, to push him off his scooter or his skateboard,
00:18:20.140 shove him down because he's not quickly identifying himself,
00:18:24.140 because he's not wearing a mask when he's outside doing sports.
00:18:27.140 What kind of cop is that?
00:18:28.140 Well, the answer is an OPP cop.
00:18:30.140 And maybe he was a little bit excited about being the bouncer for Doug Ford.
00:18:34.140 I don't know. I'm just so angry about it.
00:18:36.140 I take your point that all these police forces saw that grotesque demand of them
00:18:41.140 by the Doug Ford government and rejected it.
00:18:44.140 But I have to say, Andrew, I have observed police in Toronto, police in Peel, in York,
00:18:51.140 all these areas in Ontario, and police across the country,
00:18:56.140 and although they're saying that they're not part of Doug Ford's detention and interrogation strategy,
00:19:03.140 I've seen them assault protesters.
00:19:05.140 I've seen them handcuff people for not wearing masks.
00:19:08.140 I've seen them throw people in the back of police cars just for standing on the sidewalk and not moving on.
00:19:13.140 So I have to tell you, I take with a grain of salt this newfound belief in civil liberties.
00:19:19.140 Here at Rebel News, we're actually suing the Toronto Police Service for assaulting our reporters downtown.
00:19:26.140 So I'm glad they're maybe finally joining the civil liberties chorus,
00:19:29.140 but I'm not going to give them a pass for the last 14 months of their misconduct.
00:19:33.140 You know, the thing that I would add to this is that in some cases it may be a civil liberties mindset.
00:19:40.140 In other cases, it may be a decision that police agencies are reaching
00:19:44.140 when they take stock of the esteem in which they're held in their communities
00:19:48.140 and saying, listen, we've been told for the last however many years
00:19:51.140 that we need to be mindful of how we're interacting with minorities in our cities
00:19:56.140 and how we're doing this, and all of these people that railed against us for carding
00:20:00.140 are now saying that we have to start doing random spot checks of citizens.
00:20:04.140 And I think there were a lot of police departments that were very uncomfortable
00:20:08.140 with what it would mean to their legitimacy in communities if they were forced to do this.
00:20:13.140 And I will say in the OPP's defense here, I mean, I'm always reticent when I see videos
00:20:19.140 that start midway through an altercation, and this is not to justify what happened in any way.
00:20:24.140 It's just to say that I don't know what happened in these situations.
00:20:27.140 I can't imagine what a 12-year-old was doing that put himself in a position
00:20:31.140 that was deemed to be a threat that justified pushing them over,
00:20:35.140 and I think it looked like grabbing the scooter or something.
00:20:37.140 But I will say that I heard from a number of individual police officers,
00:20:41.140 including in the OBP, throughout the course of these lockdowns that have said
00:20:45.140 that they want nothing to do with this.
00:20:47.140 So I do think we are still seeing a divide between the people
00:20:51.140 that are making the decisions and giving the directions to these
00:20:54.140 and the actual people on the front lines in these departments across Ontario.
00:20:59.140 Yeah, I know that no one hates a bad cop more than a good cop,
00:21:03.140 but also bad cops drive out the good cops, and there's almost a self-selection.
00:21:09.140 I mean, if you like cracking down on peaceful protesters,
00:21:13.140 if you like bullying people for, you know, tiny social interactions,
00:21:19.140 as opposed to, say, chasing murderers and rapists and robbers,
00:21:23.140 then you're going to be thriving now.
00:21:25.140 If you don't like the idea of storming into churches,
00:21:29.140 you're probably asking to be reassigned,
00:21:31.140 or maybe you're looking at retiring early.
00:21:33.140 Let me show you a quick clip.
00:21:34.140 Here's some police outside a church service at Grace Life Church.
00:21:38.140 This is when the church service was on.
00:21:41.140 Here's some armed cops saying,
00:21:43.140 why can't I go in and interrupt the service?
00:21:45.140 Here's a quick clip of that.
00:21:47.140 You're saying that the public health orders override criminal code 176?
00:21:54.140 I'm not saying that either.
00:21:55.140 But that's why we can't let you in then,
00:21:57.140 because the code 176 makes it illegal for you to interrupt a worship service,
00:22:01.140 and our worship service has begun,
00:22:03.140 and we're stating that to you very clearly,
00:22:05.140 that your presence in this building will be interrupting our worship service.
00:22:09.140 How so?
00:22:10.140 Because your presence intimidates our people.
00:22:13.140 That's your perception.
00:22:15.140 Like I said, it's not that we're here to interrupt anything.
00:22:18.140 But you will be.
00:22:20.140 And it's not an interpretation.
00:22:21.140 You will be.
00:22:22.140 It's a fact.
00:22:23.140 You will be interrupting.
00:22:24.140 We are standing firm on the criminal code 176 that protects these rights.
00:22:28.140 Yep.
00:22:29.140 So at the end of the day,
00:22:30.140 the public health act says we have access to go in the building.
00:22:32.140 Okay.
00:22:33.140 If you don't want us to go in the building, that's fine,
00:22:34.140 but you're accepting the fact that you're denying us access to the building.
00:22:36.140 And of course, the very famous video that went viral around the world
00:22:40.140 is when five people, including police, sheriffs, by-law enforcement,
00:22:46.140 five or six of them, attempted to go into a church on Easter weekend in Calgary.
00:22:51.140 Take a look at this.
00:22:53.140 Please get out.
00:22:54.140 Get out of this property.
00:22:55.140 Immediately get out.
00:22:57.140 Okay.
00:22:58.140 Get out of this property.
00:23:00.140 Immediately.
00:23:01.140 Out.
00:23:02.140 I don't want to hear anything.
00:23:03.140 Out of this property.
00:23:04.140 Immediately.
00:23:05.140 I don't want to hear a word.
00:23:06.140 Out.
00:23:07.140 Out.
00:23:08.140 Out.
00:23:09.140 Out of this property.
00:23:11.140 Immediately until you come back with a warrant.
00:23:14.140 Out.
00:23:15.140 Out.
00:23:16.140 Out.
00:23:17.140 Out.
00:23:18.140 Out.
00:23:19.140 So that's Alberta, whose motto is strong and free.
00:23:23.140 I don't know.
00:23:24.140 I just find it incredible and incredibly demoralizing.
00:23:27.140 Listen, I want to hope for the best.
00:23:29.140 For the vast majority of my life, I've been a super booster of cops.
00:23:33.140 I have not been able to be that for the last year.
00:23:36.140 I have not changed, Andrew.
00:23:37.140 It's the cops who have changed.
00:23:39.140 If there's any way forward, what is it?
00:23:42.140 How do these police forces pull back from the authoritarianism they've embraced?
00:23:47.140 How do they regain the trust, respect, and even the love of their communities?
00:23:51.140 Because by the way, they're going to, the reputation they're earning will last them for decades.
00:23:56.140 That kid pushed off his scooter will always remember what the OPP mean to him.
00:24:02.140 How do these cops pull back from the brink?
00:24:04.140 Well, I think you touched on something important there, which is that police have been saying throughout the course of the pandemic that their goal is to make enforcement the last resort.
00:24:14.140 And this was something that I was getting from police services when I was doing my roundup over the weekend, is they have these four E's educations there and enforcement is the last one.
00:24:24.140 They're saying, on the surface, they don't want to be laying tickets for these restrictions.
00:24:28.140 And the problem that we have is that politicians are enforcing or imposing, rather, this culture of enforcement.
00:24:36.140 We played a clip from Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones earlier.
00:24:40.140 In that same press conference, she made a comment that was egregious in nature.
00:24:45.140 She was asked by a reporter whether people should basically be snitching on their neighbors.
00:24:50.140 And her only concern with that was that we might overburden government phone lines. 0.98
00:24:55.140 This was it.
00:24:56.140 The only issue she raised was that, well, you know what, it might overburden emergency services, but if you can save a life, you have to wonder about your social responsibility or something to that effect.
00:25:05.140 And this is now a snitch culture that the government is heaping on its citizens.
00:25:12.140 And there's no coming back from that.
00:25:14.140 I mean, this is the culture that drives things in former Soviet bloc countries where the word snitch means something very real to people.
00:25:22.140 And what the government is doing in Ontario is actually encouraging that.
00:25:26.140 Yeah, you're so right.
00:25:27.140 And to see a certain segment of society absolutely thrilled to be part of snitch culture.
00:25:34.140 I mean, early in the pandemic, the joke was the Karens, people who were nagging and scolding, and then they would catch you on video and upload the video. 0.93
00:25:46.140 There is a depressingly large chunk of society that loves snitch culture, that loves peeping through their curtains of what the neighbors are doing, that would love to phone authorities if you had an extra person in your house.
00:26:01.140 I think that what the last 14 months has revealed to me, Andrew, is that we may think we're so much morally superior to the societies that allowed communism or Nazism or other authoritarian regimes to take over.
00:26:15.140 But it is a thin, thin line, and too many people would embrace that society.
00:26:21.140 Andrew, you're one of the few good guys who's fighting for freedom every day.
00:26:25.140 I think it's partly because you and True North do not take government money so you can speak honestly and from the heart.
00:26:30.140 Thanks for being here today.
00:26:32.140 Give us 30 seconds to tell us what you're cooking on The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:26:37.140 Give us a quick update of what you're working on.
00:26:39.140 Well, we're going to be talking about the weekend that the police fought back in Ontario,
00:26:44.140 but also delving into some of these issues a bit more on an episode that is coming out tonight,
00:26:49.140 taking a look at what's happening in Ontario and why on earth Doug Ford,
00:26:54.140 who is supposed to be the saviour of the Canadian Conservative movement, is going down this road.
00:26:58.140 So that will be on The Andrew Lawton Show tonight.
00:27:00.140 Well, that's great. Thank you very much.
00:27:02.140 We love The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:27:03.140 For folks who don't know, Andrew has a podcast.
00:27:06.140 Of course, he's with TNC.news, that's True North.
00:27:11.140 A lot of great talent over there, including, of course, Candace Malcolm.
00:27:14.140 They are one of the good guys.
00:27:16.140 And if you're not already a subscriber, I would ask you to consider joining them.
00:27:21.140 And if you can, supporting them financially.
00:27:24.140 You know, you can count on one hand's fingers the number of independent journalists in Canada.
00:27:30.140 And if you want Andrew and Spencer Fernando and the new Western Standard Online and groups like that to stay strong,
00:27:38.140 if you don't want them to have to take that Trudeau money, then if you can pony up a few bucks yourself, please do.
00:27:44.140 And I say that. I know I'm always asking for support, but we've got to support Andrew.
00:27:48.140 Thanks, my friend. Great to see you again.
00:27:50.140 Anytime, Ezra. Thanks for having me.
00:27:52.140 My pleasure. There you have it, Andrew Lawton. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:27:55.140 Hey, welcome back. You know, the rebel is a living, breathing organism.
00:28:11.140 People come and go and we have alumni and we're always looking for new talent.
00:28:16.140 Let me show you a new reporter who just joined our team from Calgary.
00:28:20.140 His name is Adam Sose.
00:28:21.140 And his very first assignment was to go up to Mirror, Alberta, where the Whistle Stop Diner had a guest from out of town.
00:28:30.140 Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbecue from Toronto.
00:28:34.140 So here's a little bit of our newest recruit, Adam Sose, at an interesting anti-lockdown beef protest.
00:28:42.140 I'll say goodbye to you now, but enjoy Adam Sose.
00:28:46.140 So my business is down over 90%. We've gone from 60 employees down to 6.
00:28:50.140 It's terrible what's happened. The whole business has been destroyed over this.
00:28:53.140 I could save you some time.
00:28:54.140 I know you can. Go ahead.
00:28:57.140 We're not spaced. There's nothing in the order besides the original health procedures that are being followed.
00:29:05.140 Okay, well, I'd like to check it out.
00:29:09.140 You're more than welcome.
00:29:10.140 So I'm going to post, because you know you're not supposed to have dying in.
00:29:12.140 And that's what this order is.
00:29:14.140 I need you.
00:29:15.140 Oh, hey guys. Thanks for watching this video.
00:29:20.140 However, I don't know how long you'll be able to do that.
00:29:23.140 You see, Rebel News is in an emergency, and I'm not exaggerating.
00:29:27.140 Time is running out for us on YouTube.
00:29:29.140 Could be today.
00:29:30.140 Could be tomorrow.
00:29:31.140 Could be two weeks from now.
00:29:32.140 But we will be completely disappeared from YouTube and cut off from our nearly 1.5 million subscribers,
00:29:39.140 which is exactly what Big Tech wants, to cut us off from you.
00:29:42.140 Can you do us a favor?
00:29:43.140 We want to be able to let you know where we've gone when YouTube completely deplatforms us.
00:29:48.140 Please go to afteryoutube.com.
00:29:50.140 Just give us a little bit of information about you so that we can stay in touch and let you know what YouTube has done to us.
00:29:56.140 And, of course, where we've gone so that we can keep on fighting for freedom.
00:30:01.140 Thanks again.
00:30:05.140 We are joining you today from the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta,
00:30:10.140 where, despite government orders to shut down, the whistle stop remains open.
00:30:15.140 You may remember owner Chris Scott has received quite a bit of attention from AHS and the Government of Alberta
00:30:21.140 because of his opposition to these lockdown measures.
00:30:24.140 He's joined today by special guest Adam Skelly.
00:30:27.140 You may recall Adam Skelly from Adamson Barbecue in Ontario, Toronto.
00:30:32.140 Unlike Alberta, where we had a significant movement of restaurants and businesses refusing to shut down,
00:30:37.140 Adam Skelly and Adamson Barbecue virtually stood alone in their resistance to government protocols.
00:30:42.140 So we will be heading in, checking out the event, hopefully talking to Chris as well as Adam,
00:30:47.140 and we're looking forward to a wonderful day.
00:30:49.140 So what brought you out to Mirror, Alberta today?
00:30:52.140 Just trying to show support for something I believe in.
00:30:56.140 Trying to make a difference, trying to say that, you know, everything matters.
00:31:02.140 People's livelihoods matter.
00:31:05.140 We can't just focus on COVID.
00:31:08.140 We have to focus on everything, jobs, mental health.
00:31:11.140 Support local businesses.
00:31:14.140 We just wanted to come out and support the small business and help bring light to the fact that this has got to end.
00:31:21.140 And as soon as we stand up and say no, it ends.
00:31:23.140 So that's what we're doing here today.
00:31:25.140 And so do you have any thoughts or messages for AHS or the governments that are dealing with this crisis in your words?
00:31:46.140 I think that, you know, again, I'm not saying that COVID doesn't exist, but from a health perspective,
00:31:52.140 there's people battling depression, people battling drug addiction, people battling domestic violence.
00:32:00.140 Like, take a look at all of that, not just COVID, because I believe that the numbers of all these other things exceed that of COVID.
00:32:08.140 And there has to be a solution for everybody, not just one side or the other.
00:32:15.140 So I'm going to post another order for closing time.
00:32:22.140 And then I'm going to take a look around and talk about the event or whatever.
00:32:27.140 Check table space there.
00:32:29.140 You know, things like that.
00:32:30.140 I could save some time.
00:32:32.140 I know you can.
00:32:33.140 Go ahead.
00:32:35.140 We're not spaced.
00:32:37.140 There's nothing in the order besides the original health procedures that are being followed.
00:32:43.140 Okay, well, I'd like to check it out.
00:32:46.140 You're more than welcome.
00:32:47.140 So I'm going to post, because you know you're not supposed to have dine in.
00:32:50.140 And that's what this one is.
00:32:52.140 I'm going to do.
00:32:57.140 Sir.
00:32:58.140 Okay.
00:32:59.140 Sorry, pardon me.
00:33:00.140 Sure.
00:33:01.140 So you want to get that piece of tape because his fingerprints are on it.
00:33:04.140 Alright, he's giving me the thumbs up.
00:33:07.140 So at least he's smiling about it.
00:33:09.140 I'm here with Chris Scott from the Whistle Stop Cafe.
00:33:13.140 Chris, how did this all come together?
00:33:15.140 What motivated you to have this event today?
00:33:18.140 The motivation for this was going back to phase 0.75 of the garbage restrictions.
00:33:25.140 Yeah, completely understandable.
00:33:27.140 And we have a special guest here today, is that right?
00:33:29.140 Can you tell us a little bit about who's joining us today?
00:33:31.140 We have a couple special guests.
00:33:32.140 We have Natalie Klein is here.
00:33:34.140 Adam Skelly is here.
00:33:35.140 Wes from Mom's Diner is here.
00:33:37.140 And we got a whole bunch of really awesome musicians.
00:33:39.140 Wonderful.
00:33:40.140 That's exceptional.
00:33:41.140 So what's on the menu?
00:33:42.140 One of the questions that everyone's asking is, who's got the better barbecue?
00:33:45.140 Ontario or Alberta?
00:33:46.140 Adam, hands down.
00:33:48.140 That's amazing.
00:33:49.140 Yeah, wonderful.
00:33:50.140 Okay, that's really good to hear.
00:33:51.140 So do you have any messages for any other business owners or people who might be struggling
00:33:55.140 through these times?
00:33:56.140 I've been asked that question a lot.
00:34:00.140 So the only thing I can say to other businesses is, if you're going to do something like this,
00:34:05.140 it's very important that you commit 100%.
00:34:07.140 And if we do, the more people that do, the easier it gets for all of us.
00:34:12.140 Everyone's been saying that if we all push back together, they can't stop us.
00:34:17.140 And that's true.
00:34:18.140 But the problem we have now is, it's like the authorities are doubling down on their efforts.
00:34:22.140 They're using crazy tactics that I never would have thought would happen to us in Alberta,
00:34:28.140 let alone Canada.
00:34:29.140 So yeah, you're probably going to get in trouble.
00:34:32.140 It's not going to be easy.
00:34:33.140 As you can see from me, I haven't really been sleeping very much, but it's worthwhile.
00:34:37.140 It's something worth fighting for.
00:34:38.140 So I encourage you, if you're going to do it, just go 100% and give her.
00:34:42.140 And do you have any messages directly for AHS or the Government of Alberta?
00:34:46.140 Yeah, wake up.
00:34:47.140 Wake up.
00:34:48.140 We are part way through the day here at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
00:34:52.140 AHS and the RCMP have arrived.
00:34:55.140 They were very respectful.
00:34:56.140 They put up a closure order similar to that already received by the Whistle Stop Cafe.
00:35:01.140 But they didn't shut the event down.
00:35:03.140 The barbecue is still going.
00:35:05.140 People are eating, having a good time.
00:35:06.140 There's music.
00:35:07.140 See where things go from here.
00:35:09.140 But so far, so good.
00:35:11.140 I'm here with Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbecues.
00:35:14.140 Hard at work because we've got a massive lineup outside.
00:35:17.140 So we're not going to take too much of his time.
00:35:19.140 Very important question I have to ask you, first of all, and then we'll get into the other stuff.
00:35:22.140 But who has better barbecue, Ontario or Alberta?
00:35:25.140 Well, I would say before that was Ontario.
00:35:28.140 But now that I'm here with a bunch of my crew from Adamson, Ontario, I'd say Alberta.
00:35:33.140 Awesome.
00:35:34.140 That's great news.
00:35:35.140 So can you tell us a little bit, how's your story coming along?
00:35:38.140 What's happening with you?
00:35:39.140 What's happening with your restaurant?
00:35:40.140 Well, my restaurants are basically a smoldering pile of ashes back in Ontario.
00:35:44.140 That's why I've abandoned ship, headed out to Alberta until we get some serious change happening over in Ontario.
00:35:49.140 Two of my three restaurants aren't able to operate at all.
00:35:52.140 One of them is under lockdown provisions, takeout only.
00:35:55.140 So my business is down over 90%.
00:35:57.140 We've gone from 60 employees down to six.
00:35:59.140 It's terrible what's happened.
00:36:00.140 The whole business has been destroyed over this.
00:36:03.140 So have you had a more welcome reception here in Alberta overall?
00:36:06.140 Well, I think you saw it for yourself outside.
00:36:07.140 We might get a dozen customers at our locations in Ontario.
00:36:11.140 And out here, you can see there's a lineup.
00:36:13.140 We've got over 100 people probably outside waiting to get food.
00:36:15.140 Yeah, it's beautiful.
00:36:16.140 So in Alberta, we had something of a restaurant rebellion.
00:36:19.140 Numerous businesses were in it together.
00:36:21.140 In Ontario, it was a bit of a different situation.
00:36:23.140 Can you tell us what it was like to face that somewhat on your own?
00:36:26.140 Well, I knew I was going to be facing it by myself.
00:36:28.140 For several months, I reached out to several business owners, including some famous chefs from Toronto, and none of them would even approach this topic.
00:36:36.140 They were too much of cowards to even speak about it over the phone or in person.
00:36:42.140 It was such a sensitive topic because you'll get destroyed by the, I don't know, the radical left in Toronto if you speak out against this narrative at all.
00:36:50.140 They just appeal to authority.
00:36:52.140 Anybody who goes against the authorities, no matter what it is, if you go against the authorities, they will try to crush you.
00:36:58.140 And out here, we don't seem to have that kind of spirit.
00:37:00.140 Maybe that's because of the experience that Alberta's suffered with bad government for the last few years.
00:37:05.140 It makes them more awake to these ideas.
00:37:07.140 I'm not quite sure.
00:37:08.140 But in Toronto, you still see not a single restaurateur has defied the orders yet in Toronto.
00:37:13.140 There's a few that are happening in the small towns.
00:37:15.140 So I hope a movement's coming.
00:37:17.140 And I hope it comes soon, man, because Toronto will be lost if they don't stand up soon.
00:37:20.140 Do you have any direct messages to business owners in Toronto?
00:37:23.140 Yeah.
00:37:24.140 The $187,000 invoice that they sent me, they will never collect on.
00:37:29.140 They said if I didn't pay it by the end of December that they would seek a court order to demand payment.
00:37:34.140 They never did because they'll never get a court order from a judge about that.
00:37:37.140 All of the fines and all the garbage that I've gone through, none of it has stuck yet.
00:37:42.140 We will be successful in the constitutional challenge, even if it takes all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:37:46.140 It's not as bad as the media has made it out to be.
00:37:49.140 And if you have any questions about that, please give me a shout.
00:37:51.140 I'd be happy to break it down with you about everything I've experienced.
00:37:54.140 I'm here.
00:37:55.140 I'm free.
00:37:56.140 I'm still getting paid.
00:37:57.140 So there's really nothing to fear.
00:37:59.140 So how does it feel to be among other business owners who've opened despite the lockdowns
00:38:04.140 and are standing up against what can be claimed to be unjust regulations?
00:38:08.140 I think it's wonderful.
00:38:10.140 I think more businesses need to open and stand their ground and push back the government.
00:38:15.140 I mean, after we've seen the fences go up at Grace Life Church here, I think many are rallying together to make a stand.
00:38:25.140 I mean, it's time to push back, you know, this dictatorship of government that we have.
00:38:33.140 I mean, democracy is gone here.
00:38:35.140 So I'm really happy that these restaurants are pushing back.
00:38:39.140 And Chris, he's been a warrior since the beginning, and I fully support everything he's doing here.
00:38:46.140 Do you have any messages directly for AHS or the government of Alberta in this time?
00:38:53.140 Well, my personal opinion is Alberta Health should check their role because they are way outside their parameters.
00:39:05.140 If you'd like to help people like Natalie or other small business owners in Alberta who are just standing up,
00:39:11.140 you can go to fightthefines.com and help wonderful people like this just keep their businesses afloat.
00:39:35.140 Thank you very much.
00:39:37.140 Thank you.
00:40:05.140 Thank you.
00:40:35.140 Thousands of tickets are being handed out to folks who are just trying to make ends meet.
00:40:44.140 For every whistle-stop, cafe and Adamson barbecue, there are hundreds of business owners struggling and at risk of losing their lives' work due to ever-shifting lockdown rules.
00:40:56.140 Fines are being handed out for absurd so-called offenses, like the Montreal man who was fined for removing his mask in order to unlock his phone with facial ID.
00:41:08.140 Chris and Adam are not alone in fighting these types of fines.
00:41:11.140 Countless Canadians are facing serious challenges.
00:41:13.140 And if you want to know how to help them fight these fines, we're kindly asking you to go to fightthefines.com.
00:41:22.140 We've hired a team of lawyers and we're going to defend the first thousand tickets, at least the first thousand tickets, from people receiving these unjust tickets.
00:41:31.140 Thanks for tuning in.
00:41:32.140 We'll see you out there.
00:41:33.140 For Rebel News, I'm Adam Sos.
00:41:52.140 Next screen's thanks for coming.
00:42:04.140 Since February 21st, we've got an incredible open of fear for us.
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