Rebel News Podcast - May 07, 2020


Justin Trudeau loves them, but China still calls Canada a “giant baby”


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For all of Justin Trudeau's simping, China still calls Canada a giant baby. What does that mean, and why does it matter to them? Ezra Levenveen explains in this episode of The Ezra LeeVant Show.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I follow a lot of communist Chinese propaganda accounts online.
00:00:06.020 And you might think, why are you doing that?
00:00:08.300 Well, partly because I'm curious what they think our soft spots are.
00:00:13.960 You can sort of reverse engineer their propaganda to figure out what they're actually concerned about.
00:00:20.400 And it's also interesting who they praise.
00:00:22.800 Today, I talk about an essay in Global Times, their English language foreign policy propaganda mag,
00:00:31.080 that calls Justin Trudeau, you're going to laugh, a giant baby.
00:00:36.480 What does that mean?
00:00:37.720 Well, I'll take you through the essay. I read it and I've got some thoughts on it.
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00:00:56.880 Okay, here's the podcast.
00:01:12.600 Tonight, for all of Justin Trudeau's simping, China still calls Canada a giant baby.
00:01:19.080 It's May 6th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:24.140 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:27.820 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:31.900 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:37.760 The funny thing about China's Communist Party is that, like, say, a wild animal, it can sense fear.
00:01:49.700 As in, if you bend the knee, if you appease it, if you pay the Danegeld, as Rudyard Kipling wrote about another international bully centuries ago, the Vikings, 0.60
00:01:58.880 well, they'll just take and take and take the classic proof of that is nicknames, the most personal expression of admiration or contempt.
00:02:08.540 I mean, compare how the Chinese treat Donald Trump, the most vocally anti-China president in history, surely.
00:02:16.700 They gave him the red carpet, honor guard, the works.
00:02:19.060 And I never get tired of this article in nothing less than the New York Times, of all places.
00:02:24.900 They call him Donald the Strong.
00:02:28.160 That's what they call him in China.
00:02:29.660 Compare that to our widow guy. 1.00
00:02:31.880 We're quite proud the prime minister has been given a fond nickname in China.
00:02:37.800 He is called Pudo, which I believe means potato.
00:02:42.180 And he is, I can't say the Chinese word, it's sian, pudo, little potato, because his father, Pierre Elliott, pudo, was senior potato.
00:02:52.720 So we feel we are off to a great start.
00:02:56.460 Hey, here's a question.
00:02:57.820 We all know that China is really, really mad at Trump now.
00:03:01.140 Trump just cut off funding to China's World Health Organization.
00:03:03.920 Trump is pressing countries to bring back their companies, to bring back their factories from China to America.
00:03:09.020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is repeatedly blaming the Chinese government for releasing the virus from a lab.
00:03:16.020 Pompeo says it's an accident, but he clearly blames the Wuhan Virology Institute, not bat soup. 0.81
00:03:22.380 And yet, here's my question.
00:03:25.500 Could you even imagine for one second China taking two U.S. citizens hostage, like they took two Canadian citizens hostage 17 months ago? 0.62
00:03:34.640 What? Trudeau sending 16 tons of masks to China in February didn't change their mind and release the kidnapped hostages?
00:03:43.280 Are you kidding?
00:03:44.360 That just confirmed for the Chinese who Trudeau was.
00:03:48.060 Someone who would give his bullies his lunch money voluntarily and say thank you to them with a smile.
00:03:53.960 It just doesn't stop.
00:03:55.760 I see that the liberals have nixed a proposed farm aid proposal of $2.6 billion.
00:04:00.380 Trudeau will give them $252 million, less than one-tenth of what was required.
00:04:07.100 And a lot of that has to go to things like buying Chinese-made face masks for the farm.
00:04:11.780 Got it.
00:04:12.280 So $252 million for all of Canada's farm sector.
00:04:17.120 All right.
00:04:17.820 Maybe, if it even happens.
00:04:20.040 But same week, more than $800 million gifted by Trudeau for China's World Health Organization,
00:04:27.060 announced by China's man himself, Dr. Tedros.
00:04:30.820 Oh, my God.
00:04:31.980 So what does China's Communist Party think of all this?
00:04:34.980 Well, let's go to their premier English-language foreign affairs publication, Global Times.
00:04:39.300 It's where the Communist Party of China publishes their state-of-the-art propaganda for foreign diplomatic consumption.
00:04:45.660 I have to tell you, I find it mildly unsettling that their editor, Hu Xijin, personally follows me on Twitter.
00:04:53.300 Only one of a couple hundred people he follows in the world.
00:04:56.940 In a way, I'm glad.
00:04:58.460 I want him to get an earful of our point of view.
00:05:00.680 It's ironic.
00:05:02.120 China's Canadian prince, Justin Trudeau, blocks and censors Rebel News whenever he can.
00:05:08.620 But Trudeau's Chinese bosses make a special point of listening to what we're saying.
00:05:15.660 Following us sounds a bit more ominous.
00:05:17.900 I just want to tell you that, for the record, I'm in good health, other than being fat.
00:05:22.460 And I have never contemplated suicide in my life.
00:05:25.780 Just want to let you know, because the Chinese are following me.
00:05:29.360 So what does China's foreign policy establishment think of Trudeau?
00:05:32.280 Well, Patty Hajdu, you'll recall they tweeted high praise for her, for her passionate defense of Chinese propaganda.
00:05:40.040 Even China has admitted they fudged their numbers of deaths in Wuhan, like they've revised their numbers.
00:05:45.420 But Peking Patty is still defending their lives. 1.00
00:05:48.880 It's so embarrassing.
00:05:49.940 Even CTV couldn't stomach it.
00:05:51.840 February 17th, you said that the suspension of flights from, to and from China and closing the borders, and I'll quote you, was not effective at all in controlling the spread of the disease.
00:06:00.880 You also said in the long term, they create a greater risk to public health.
00:06:05.080 You also praised China as being very open.
00:06:08.160 I'm just, were you wrong about that, Minister?
00:06:10.540 And I think it's important to know that, because we've still got a long road ahead.
00:06:14.300 Well, I think, you know, the praise that I offered China in the early days was based on their historic containment efforts.
00:06:20.840 Don't forget, there were, you know, multiple, millions and millions of Chinese people under, essentially, confinement, if you will, for a very long time.
00:06:31.020 In fact, in some of those cities, people are just getting back to normal.
00:06:33.860 And that was a public health measure that had never been seen before.
00:06:37.160 Those containment efforts ultimately failed.
00:06:39.860 And, you know, I will point to the fact that I stand by the remarks that I made.
00:06:46.720 But the thing about bullies stealing your lunch money is that you have to do it every day or they punch you again.
00:06:52.700 That's that Dane Guild thing.
00:06:55.060 So take a look at this.
00:06:56.220 Canada should end travesty of WHO bashing campaign.
00:07:02.480 This is in Global Times.
00:07:05.040 Editors note, Canada recently joined a chorus initiated by the U.S.
00:07:09.160 questioning the WHO's role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:07:13.520 The Canadian House of Commons Health Committee on Thursday decided to issue a formal summons to Bruce Aylward,
00:07:18.220 one of the WHO's Canadian senior advisors, to testify on the group's contested response to COVID-19.
00:07:25.220 The move comes after U.S. Senator Todd Young sent a letter to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
00:07:31.040 to express deep skepticism about the WHO's guidance and COVID-19 and concern of China's influence in the organization.
00:07:39.600 What do the summons issued by Canadian MPs mean?
00:07:42.500 Two experts shared their insights with the Global Times.
00:07:44.540 Okay, so just to remind you what they're talking about here, Bruce Aylward is this man,
00:07:49.720 the disgraced Canadian doctor who put his political loyalty to Communist China above his loyalty to public health.
00:07:57.560 Remember this weirdness?
00:07:59.140 Would the WHO consider Taiwan's membership?
00:08:11.540 Hello?
00:08:12.140 I couldn't hear your question.
00:08:16.280 Okay, yeah, let me repeat the question.
00:08:18.400 No, that's okay.
00:08:19.040 Let's move to another one then.
00:08:20.800 Right.
00:08:21.220 Because I'm actually curious on talking about Taiwan as well, on Taiwan's case.
00:08:33.500 We decided to give Dr. Aylward another call to follow up.
00:08:37.260 And I just want to see if you can comment a bit on how Taiwan has done so far in terms of containing the virus.
00:08:45.520 Well, we've already talked about China.
00:08:47.560 And, you know, when you look across all the different areas of China, they've actually all done quite a good job.
00:08:54.800 So with that, I'd like to thank you very much for inviting us to participate.
00:08:58.660 And good luck as you go forward with the battle in Hong Kong.
00:09:02.320 Oh my God, what a little sellout.
00:09:05.860 He'd rather disparage Taiwan or even deny its existence, not even say the word Taiwan, than talk about the most successful country that fought the virus and upset his Communist masters.
00:09:16.280 Taiwan is the role model.
00:09:18.640 It's so pitiful that he hung up like that.
00:09:20.520 So Canada's parliament wants to hear from this guy, and he has repeatedly refused to attend an invitation, so they have summoned him.
00:09:28.020 That's how parliaments in free countries work.
00:09:30.000 But let me read a bit from the Chinese Communist mouthpiece.
00:09:32.820 It's just gorgeous.
00:09:33.900 And I bet it really hurt Justin Trudeau's feelings.
00:09:36.940 This is from, let me quote,
00:09:39.000 Shen Yi, director of Fudan University's Research Center for Cyberspace Governance.
00:09:44.020 I don't know what that means.
00:09:44.980 But like I say, this is an official Communist Party org on this website.
00:09:47.960 So this expresses Beijing's view.
00:09:51.580 Canada is again becoming an accomplice in the U.S. buck-passing campaign and scapegoating either WHO or China for its flawed handling of the epidemic to cover up its systematic loopholes.
00:10:03.420 By exerting pressure on high-level medical expert Bruce Aylward, some Canadian politicians fawned on the U.S.
00:10:09.040 by expressing their dissatisfaction with the WHO and expressed doubts about China's dealing of the epidemic in the earlier stages.
00:10:17.960 Yeah, I think it was in a unanimous vote by that parliamentary committee to summon that little weasel, Aylward.
00:10:23.980 So Trudeau's liberals, the China simps, they actually all agreed.
00:10:28.220 The socialist NDP agreed.
00:10:30.240 The even more socialist bloc and the conservatives.
00:10:32.860 Hardly a pro-Trump outfit, to be frank.
00:10:36.160 Pretty sure it wasn't pro-U.S. fawning.
00:10:38.740 It was the disgust of every party at the misconduct of Bruce Aylward.
00:10:43.200 But let's continue reading.
00:10:46.220 Like the U.S., Canada acts like a country with a self-centered giant baby mentality who refuses to accept the fact which it is unwilling to believe.
00:10:55.860 The coronavirus had struck a blow to their once-vaunted superior capabilities.
00:11:00.140 In responding to public health crises, the death rate from the coronavirus in Canada, higher than that of China, crushed their illusions and sense of superiority. 0.99
00:11:07.480 Now, here I am of two minds, folks.
00:11:08.800 It's true, Trudeau is a giant baby.
00:11:11.460 He hasn't gone into work in nearly two months.
00:11:13.900 And while Canadian hospitals have managed just fine to handle the virus, thank God no hospital has been overrun.
00:11:19.340 There's a very high recovery rate, etc.
00:11:21.340 It's true that Trudeau's federal response has been a laugh.
00:11:24.980 Especially Theresa Tam, Trudeau's bungling public health officer who has got literally everything wrong. 1.00
00:11:30.420 From her advice not to wear masks.
00:11:33.140 Her advice not to close the borders.
00:11:35.420 Calling everyone who's worried about the pandemic a racist.
00:11:38.200 She was wrong on everything, but frankly, she was just parroting the Chinese Communist Party's own talking points since she works for the WHO directly.
00:11:45.860 So I think there's some truth in this criticism. 0.95
00:11:48.020 My main observation is, it's funny that Trudeau gives China literally everything.
00:11:52.900 He rushes to give the bully their lunch money.
00:11:55.880 He sent them 16 tons of face masks and still they mock him as a giant baby.
00:12:01.300 That's even worse than nickname, the little potato, the giant baby.
00:12:05.360 See, Canada's deep skepticism reflects its extreme ideological anxiety and frustration, they continue.
00:12:12.200 I don't think so.
00:12:12.980 I think it just projects, you know, with the Chinese thesis here, just pretends that Justin Trudeau is a thinker.
00:12:19.940 I don't think he, I think he's just at home smoking a bong and playing video games all day.
00:12:25.640 The essay here goes on with a weird rant that has that clunky dictatorship vocabulary.
00:12:31.120 It's clearly written to win approval in Beijing, not to change any minds in the West.
00:12:35.680 But it's accidentally revealing here.
00:12:38.860 They are pointing a finger at a renowned epidemiologist who led a group of WHO experts to China for a joint mission on COVID-19 in February because Ailward revealed some facts those politicians long balked at.
00:12:50.460 Ailward praised China's coronavirus prevention work, saying potential patients were well organized and tested quickly at a press conference in Beijing in February.
00:13:00.760 But some in Canada continue to hold on to their prejudice against China, ignoring some of the key elements of China's success in fighting the epidemic, which Ailward summarized and applauded.
00:13:10.860 Canada should invite Ailward back to the country for more experience sharing and consultations, but not for being blamed for its own mismanagement.
00:13:19.560 So the Chinese communists love this Ailward guy.
00:13:23.000 He's their man.
00:13:24.640 I mean, take it from them.
00:13:26.760 He praises China.
00:13:28.120 He obeys China. 0.90
00:13:29.660 Canada should hang on his every word.
00:13:31.500 That's pretty much what they're saying.
00:13:33.000 If I had COVID-19, I want to be treated in China. 1.00
00:13:36.040 Oh, my God.
00:13:37.020 Do you think that's true?
00:13:37.840 Would you really want to be sick if you had anywhere in the world to be sick?
00:13:41.200 Would you choose China if you could be sick anywhere?
00:13:44.500 Do you think Ailward actually believes that himself?
00:13:47.800 Yeah.
00:13:48.400 It's a weird look into the mind of the Communist Party reading this essay.
00:13:51.900 That's why I read the Global Times.
00:13:53.800 That's why I follow Chinese outlets.
00:13:55.800 A small part of me is glad they read me in return, but it's also something that Bruce Ailward should read.
00:14:01.640 And Trudeau and Patty Hajdu and Teresa bracelets Tam.
00:14:04.680 If there are people who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.
00:14:17.340 It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken.
00:14:27.260 Yeah, I think all of Canada's public health elite and political elites should read this article in the Global Times because if China's Communist Party is praising you, you're being a Canadian wrong.
00:14:41.100 Stay with us for more.
00:14:42.140 Welcome back.
00:14:54.840 Well, I remember it wasn't that long ago when Tony Clements, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister, mused that Justin Trudeau had a scheme to seize guns without passing it through Parliament.
00:15:08.020 But, oh, he was mocked and ridiculed.
00:15:12.380 And then it happened.
00:15:14.340 Justin Trudeau taking advantage of two crises, one of them a national, international pandemic, the other the personal tragedy of the largest mass shooting in Canadian history.
00:15:26.300 Piggybacking on top of both of those crises, Justin Trudeau made his move to ban what he called 1,500 different types of firearms.
00:15:38.240 Our next guest thinks that it was not only useless, it's chaotic and illogical.
00:15:43.540 That's the title of his column in the Edmonton Sun.
00:15:46.960 Trudeau's ban on so-called assault rifle is not only useless, it's chaotic and illogical.
00:15:51.120 And joining us here to make the case in person is our friend, Lorne Contra.
00:15:55.160 Lorne, great to see you again.
00:15:56.880 Good to see you.
00:15:58.240 I'm not an expert in firearms.
00:16:00.420 I know other rebel reporters like Sheila and Kian are stronger on the subject.
00:16:04.800 They've got a petition, by the way, handsoffourguns.ca.
00:16:08.460 But I'm not as well versed in it.
00:16:10.620 I just read your article and you obviously have a very strong command of the situation.
00:16:16.320 Why don't I just sort of get out of the way and let you teach our readers, our viewers.
00:16:20.180 Tell me why is it chaotic and illogical?
00:16:22.860 Well, my interest really is only on the political and legal side.
00:16:28.020 I have never owned a gun.
00:16:29.360 I have never fired a gun.
00:16:31.420 And I don't expect I ever will.
00:16:33.560 They interest me, though, because I have said over and over and over again for 25 years covering
00:16:38.700 this file, I refuse to trust any government that does not trust my law-abiding neighbors
00:16:44.780 to own guns.
00:16:47.120 This is a two-way street.
00:16:48.500 It's not just a privilege to own a gun.
00:16:52.400 It's a symbol of how much in control people are rather than government.
00:16:58.840 But beyond that, this new Ordering Council, the power to do this, and you talked about
00:17:05.000 Tony Clement's warning that Trudeau was going to do this by fiat rather than by act department.
00:17:11.140 The power to do that, though, goes back to C-68 back in the 90s.
00:17:15.320 That's when the government, the cabinet, granted itself the power to outlaw models of guns by
00:17:22.520 Ordering Council.
00:17:23.480 And they've done it a few times over the intervening years.
00:17:27.120 But this is by far the biggest single outlawing of guns.
00:17:32.060 There are really only about a dozen models of guns that have been banned.
00:17:37.780 But there are variations, you know, the look of them, the stock size, the barrel, whatever
00:17:42.960 variations there are.
00:17:45.140 It comes to about 1,500 different models and variations that were outlawed just with the
00:17:51.780 signing of Ordering Council last Friday.
00:17:55.540 But it's useless.
00:17:57.980 I mean, let's start with that.
00:17:59.620 It's useless because this ban would not have stopped the École Polytechnique in the 80s.
00:18:09.740 It would not have stopped the Quebec mosque shooting a couple of years ago.
00:18:13.700 It would not have stopped Gabriel Wartman from shooting 22 people, killing 22 people in
00:18:20.060 Nova Scotia last month.
00:18:21.920 It's just, from that standpoint, Trudeau comes out and he says, well, we're so traumatized
00:18:28.820 as a nation by these mass killings that we have to do something.
00:18:33.240 And then something he says he's doing wouldn't have stopped any of those.
00:18:37.500 Because what you need to stop mass shootings, and unfortunately, I'm not sure you can actually
00:18:42.800 stop them.
00:18:43.880 What you would need would be tighter control against people with mental illness having access
00:18:50.840 to firearm.
00:18:51.920 But nonetheless, so it's useless.
00:18:54.760 But then when you start to look at the details of this, it's crazy.
00:18:58.420 It really is crazy.
00:18:59.660 So as of last Friday, if you own one of the banned firearms, and there are about 250,000
00:19:07.240 of them in Canada.
00:19:09.060 250,000 individual guns in these 1,500 categories.
00:19:13.700 Is that what you're saying?
00:19:14.260 250,000 individual guns owned legally in Canada out of a total of about 7 million estimated
00:19:23.920 legal guns.
00:19:26.140 So 250,000.
00:19:27.860 As of last Friday, you cannot shoot them.
00:19:30.760 You cannot sell them, except to the government.
00:19:35.480 You cannot transport them, not even to a registered gun ring.
00:19:41.040 You cannot, of course, trade them with any other gun owner.
00:19:45.080 They are now completely useless to you.
00:19:47.300 They might as well be table-legged for all the worth they are to you.
00:19:52.720 But you can keep them for the rest of your life.
00:19:56.500 That was one of the ridiculous things that this ordering council said.
00:20:00.940 So you can't do anything with them.
00:20:02.900 You should leave them locked in your gun safe.
00:20:05.660 Because if you have them, you already have to have them in the government-approved gun safe.
00:20:09.840 You can leave them in your gun safe until you die.
00:20:12.620 If you're 22 years old and you've got some of these banned firearms, it could be 70 years you could have them.
00:20:19.300 But you can't use them.
00:20:21.360 But we were told again and again and again and again and again by the liberals that these guns are so dangerous that we cannot have them in our society.
00:20:31.760 And yet, in the same order where they banned them, they let existing owners keep them for their lifetime.
00:20:38.740 So, as I said, you know, if you're young, it could be 70 years.
00:20:42.120 In many cases, it'll be 30 or 40 years that people get to keep these guns.
00:20:47.560 And law-abiding gun owners won't shoot them. 0.85
00:20:50.840 Absolutely, they won't shoot them.
00:20:52.560 They won't sell them.
00:20:53.500 They won't transport them.
00:20:55.240 So they're going to say after a while, you know, what is the point?
00:20:59.560 I might as well get my money out of them.
00:21:01.480 Because some of these guns are worth a considerable amount of money.
00:21:04.660 $2,000, $3,000, $5,000, more dollars.
00:21:09.800 And they'll say, well, I might as well get my money out of them.
00:21:12.640 So let me sell them to the government, which then intends, once it buys them, to destroy them.
00:21:18.800 Well, the government isn't ready to buy guns.
00:21:20.960 It can't be ready for at least two years for its buyback program.
00:21:27.800 So part of the Order in Council is an amnesty for all existing owners of these two dangerous guns, an amnesty for two years at least, until a government can get its act together to start its buyback.
00:21:40.440 So this is purely symbolic bollocks, is what this is.
00:21:45.400 There's no use to it.
00:21:47.420 It hasn't made Canada one iota safer.
00:21:50.580 Even if they had seized all of the guns on Saturday, they still wouldn't have made the country any safer.
00:21:55.560 But nonetheless, the guns are in the possession of the people we were told it's too dangerous to give them to.
00:22:01.460 And the government has no way of buying them from you, which is the only thing you can do if you want to get rid of them.
00:22:08.460 So it is complete progressive symbolism.
00:22:12.800 It's just one of these make nice things that the Truro government does over and over and over again.
00:22:20.320 For instance, banning plastic straw is not going to save a single turtle because Canadian straws don't get in the ocean to choke turtles.
00:22:27.680 But those are one of the things that we're going to do.
00:22:29.780 They're just so big on woke symbolism to show how passionate they are, how concerned they are, how intelligent they are, that they do these useless things over and over again.
00:22:42.160 But this is probably the worst of all the things that they've promised to do.
00:22:46.640 Yeah.
00:22:46.880 I mean, to me, a perfect symbol of that was in the depth of the pandemic panic, Justin Trudeau celebrating Earth Hour when we're all basically under house arrest.
00:22:58.060 He just had to let you know, as if he turned off the power in his little 22-room mansion.
00:23:04.980 I do note that not only do we have the quirks that you just mentioned, the buyback's not ready, there's an amnesty for those two years, those guns will still be around for decades.
00:23:15.520 I read that Aboriginal people, First Nations, are just exempt altogether.
00:23:22.720 So these evil assault weapons, like I saw Ahmed Hassan, the cabinet minister, tweeted a picture, a terrifying looking picture of an AR-15.
00:23:33.600 There's no room for this gun in Canada, he said, well, if it's that deadly, that dangerous, why is there a specific exemption for First Nations?
00:23:45.920 Are they not worthy of our protection?
00:23:48.900 Are they not entitled to Justin Trudeau's loving care?
00:23:52.780 I mean, it's, but I think you're right that this is absolutely targeted at low information CBC and Toronto Star journalists who will then publish it to their low information viewers.
00:24:07.840 I mean, the amount of, I mean, if you ask your average Toronto Star or CBC journalist, can you please define an assault weapon?
00:24:16.800 They wouldn't know, they wouldn't know what it means.
00:24:20.140 Can you tell me the difference between...
00:24:21.700 And they have so much blind faith in government to make those kind of definitions for them.
00:24:27.200 But the ironic thing is that in most of these bans, either this current one or ones that they have done since 1998 under the same legal authority,
00:24:37.080 there are often civilian variations of these firearms that have the same muzzle velocity, the same firing speed.
00:24:46.340 You know, you can put the same number of cartridges in them.
00:24:49.680 They are virtually the same gun, but they don't look like a military weapon.
00:24:54.860 And so they have the same killing power as the military variant, but people use them to hunt, just as they use the military variant.
00:25:04.280 I mean, it's not as though people are going around having fun war games using live ammunition with these assault weapons.
00:25:11.540 It's just they like the look of it better than the other model.
00:25:14.240 And so Canadians are using them legitimately, legally, safely, smartly, all those things.
00:25:22.400 But the government can't let that sit, can't let it sit.
00:25:26.300 One of the things that, one of the guns that's listed in this is a hundred-year-old elephant gun.
00:25:32.460 So how many times has a convenience store in Canada been held up with a hundred-year-old elephant gun?
00:25:39.520 Oh, that's funny.
00:25:40.740 Well, you know, it's, I think Ron Ambrose was making the point the other day,
00:25:46.320 this is a liberal, Canada Liberal Party reaction to a USNRA issue.
00:25:51.640 Like AR-15s, the civilian version of the former US military standard issue M-16 gun.
00:25:58.240 That's, I mean, those guns are in Canada, but I don't think one has ever been used in a mass shooting or anything.
00:26:05.220 Like, it's just not a Canadian thing.
00:26:08.360 So for them to, I think of the 1,500 guns that were banned, a great number of them were AR-15s or variations of them.
00:26:15.620 It's pure symbolism, but you make the good point.
00:26:19.580 If a gun has a wooden stock instead of a black stock, if it looks like an old-timey grandpa gun instead of a Rambo gun,
00:26:28.600 it could be the identical working part underneath.
00:26:31.460 It's really just the paint, and is it scary?
00:26:34.720 This is the level of our public policy these days.
00:26:37.320 I mean, in the early 1960s, the first really well-publicized mass shooting in the United States
00:26:45.740 was a guy who climbed up to the top of a clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin
00:26:50.480 and picked off people from the tower for about an hour and a half
00:26:54.540 because police didn't know what was going on.
00:26:56.460 They didn't.
00:26:57.060 It was something that never happened before.
00:26:59.260 They didn't know how to deal with it.
00:27:00.460 They didn't know what, they actually didn't even really know what it was.
00:27:02.580 And he used a really old, clunky, 1930s-style hunting rifle.
00:27:11.920 I mean, it doesn't matter what the gun looks like.
00:27:15.400 Right.
00:27:15.780 But they get caught up in this symbolism.
00:27:18.660 Progressives, as you well know, are so big on being woke, so big on symbolism,
00:27:24.860 so big on showing that they care, that they don't really care whether they accomplish anything.
00:27:30.540 It's the appearance of caring that's more important than the achievement.
00:27:36.420 And so this is absolutely the best example I've seen so far from the Trudeauites
00:27:41.960 of one of those woke actions that accomplishes nothing
00:27:47.700 except it takes away private property from legitimate, legal, and responsible owners.
00:27:54.080 And that just infuriates me because, as I said, I'm not a gun owner, never have been,
00:27:59.840 don't expect I ever will be.
00:28:01.880 But if they can do that with guns, what's the next scary thing?
00:28:06.040 You used your laptop to spread fake news as they define fake.
00:28:11.440 Maybe we should seize your laptop.
00:28:13.500 That's, I mean, that's a bit of a stretch.
00:28:16.740 But that's the mentality that you're dealing with.
00:28:19.700 At some point, they might become so exercised about fake news
00:28:25.820 that they forget that they're seizing your laptop,
00:28:30.920 you know, the affront to democracy that it would be to seize your laptop,
00:28:35.460 or the affront to law that it would be, or the affront to private property.
00:28:39.820 And they'll do it.
00:28:40.900 And they'll be justified by downtown Toronto voters who say,
00:28:45.500 yes, I'm going to treat this because I'm just as woke as they are.
00:28:49.700 Yeah.
00:28:50.320 You know, and this pandemic is such a crisis event.
00:28:55.740 That's when the government makes their big moves.
00:28:57.640 If you look at all the things Trudeau has done in this crisis,
00:29:00.460 very few of them have anything to do with the actual pandemic.
00:29:03.260 But everyone is an opportunistic grab.
00:29:05.360 Hey, can I bounce one last theory off you?
00:29:07.720 And I appreciate your wisdom on the gun control stuff.
00:29:10.680 I just want to give a shout out to your article one more time.
00:29:13.120 I recommend it.
00:29:13.880 I really learned a lot from it, Lauren.
00:29:15.440 Thank you very much.
00:29:16.420 It's called Trudeau's ban on so-called assault rifle, not only useless,
00:29:19.700 it's chaotic and illogical.
00:29:21.520 And of course, it's published in the Edmonton Sun and other Sun Media.
00:29:25.780 Can I throw a theory at you?
00:29:27.160 Because it sort of clicked for me.
00:29:29.080 And so many things that I don't quite understand about Justin Trudeau,
00:29:32.820 they suddenly make sense if I accept one hypothesis.
00:29:36.160 And it's that after the 2019 federal election, Trudeau lost his mojo.
00:29:45.620 Actually, before that, when the Jody Wilson-Raybould stuff came out,
00:29:48.780 and then the blackface stuff came out, that sort of took away his superstarness.
00:29:52.700 He was no longer a feminist icon, no longer an aboriginal rights icon.
00:29:59.200 And he was no longer, I mean, the blackface thing just showed him. 0.82
00:30:02.820 In many ways, it made the job not fun anymore for him.
00:30:07.100 And then he got taken down a peg to official opposition.
00:30:09.760 And in my mind, and this is my theory, he sort of lost his mojo.
00:30:15.620 He went on a 17-day Christmas holiday.
00:30:19.040 I've never heard of such a thing for a world leader.
00:30:22.800 Then he went on a nine-day junket in February.
00:30:26.620 Now he's on a 40, 50-day self-isolation that no other world leader is.
00:30:31.920 He's still got his vacation beard.
00:30:34.580 I think he's checked out.
00:30:36.080 And so I think he doesn't like the hard work of day-to-day government.
00:30:43.340 He's delegating it either to bureaucrats or Christopher Freeland.
00:30:46.620 But there is one thing I think that motivates him.
00:30:49.580 And this is the theory I'd like to bounce off you.
00:30:52.200 This is the first time I'm really articulating it, so thank you.
00:30:56.780 Everything he does is to get out of the job as prime minister
00:30:59.840 and get into a new job as the United Nations' next Secretary General of the UN.
00:31:09.440 So the $800 million gift to the World Health Organization.
00:31:14.000 Being very polite with China, which controls a ton of votes.
00:31:17.880 This meaningless but impressive gun ban. 0.71
00:31:21.540 Earth hour, tons of foreign aid, you know, the whole global warming thing.
00:31:30.080 None of that makes sense to me unless he's looking to get out of Canada, into the UN.
00:31:37.260 He needs those votes.
00:31:39.120 He wants to become a guy who has all the perks, all the traveling, all the fun,
00:31:44.780 but none of the day-to-day detail, accountability, electoral legitimacy.
00:31:48.920 That's my big thesis that explains everything about his funk that he's in
00:31:53.620 and the only things he's passionate about.
00:31:55.900 They're globalist things.
00:31:56.800 That's my thesis.
00:31:57.460 What do you think?
00:31:58.340 Yeah, I don't dispute that at all.
00:32:01.880 I do think that there is another parallel to that that doesn't disagree with what you've just put out there.
00:32:09.740 But you remember that before he became prime minister, or sorry, before he became an MP,
00:32:15.460 and for a few years after he'd become an MP, his biggest source of income next to the family trust was his motivational speeches.
00:32:27.140 He would go largely to public sector union conventions, social workers, bureaucrats, teachers, people like that,
00:32:36.720 at their conventions, and he would give them these rah-rah, you are the backbone of our nation,
00:32:43.060 we need our public services, you are so heroic in what you do, you make Canada as great as it is.
00:32:50.860 He'd do these speeches, he's making $400,000 a year at one point doing that.
00:32:55.180 And that's what he was doing the first four years he was prime minister.
00:32:59.480 He doesn't want to actually sit down and run a social services department,
00:33:04.240 or run a government department, or do any of the day-to-day work.
00:33:08.460 He simply wants to parachute in, give the little rah-rah speech, look good, mess with his hair, and leave. 0.52
00:33:18.140 And does that fit in with being secretary general at some point?
00:33:22.240 Sure, absolutely it does. But it's also just in his being, to do meaningless stuff.
00:33:29.540 Like, he is just the most lightweight prime minister we have ever had.
00:33:33.700 Yeah. You know, you can still find a couple of his speeches from that 10-year-ago time online,
00:33:39.660 and they are so vacuous, it's painful.
00:33:42.080 You know, when I try and be charitable towards him, I say,
00:33:47.220 he really should have been governor general instead of prime minister,
00:33:50.880 because he would travel around, have all the pomp and circumstance,
00:33:54.540 he could pretend to be the king, smile, selfies, vacuous speeches, and then he goes home.
00:34:02.020 And he would have actually done a good job of that.
00:34:04.340 He would have probably been a little too political and too much about him and not about the queen,
00:34:08.180 but he's really a mascot, and he would have done a good job as governor general.
00:34:14.100 He's a terrible prime minister.
00:34:15.080 You know, I see no reason to change that. I think that's still his job. He's the shiny pony.
00:34:23.420 He's the little unicorn who shows up, sprinkles dust and rainbows everywhere, and leaves.
00:34:29.040 And in fact, you saw that when he was, the first time he was convicted of breaking the ethics rules in the government
00:34:36.780 was when he took the holidays on the private island from the Aga Khan.
00:34:41.220 Right.
00:34:41.660 And one of the things that the ethics commissioner related that he had told her at that point
00:34:50.420 was that he wasn't in conflict of interest because he didn't know what the Aga Khan's foundation
00:34:56.480 sought from the federal government because he saw his job as coming in and making sure everyone's communicating,
00:35:03.940 everyone's happy with one another, everyone's working together on solutions,
00:35:08.700 and then he goes on to another meeting or another crisis.
00:35:12.880 He didn't have any concept of the day-to-day details of what the government does.
00:35:17.980 And I have no reason to doubt that that was sincere on his part.
00:35:21.640 It was wrong, but it was sincere.
00:35:24.500 And I think that's exactly why he likes the daily press briefings outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa
00:35:31.820 because the cameras are all on him.
00:35:33.880 There are no reporters there.
00:35:35.460 I mean, of course, some of them ask questions remotely, but the focus is all on him,
00:35:41.200 and he gets to look like he's concerned, and he gets to talk about giving things people like.
00:35:46.560 And that's the part of the job that he likes, the actual day-to-day governing.
00:35:50.400 He doesn't like it at all, which is why Freeland is really the prime minister.
00:35:54.000 Yeah, that's so true.
00:35:55.180 Well, Lorne, we covered a lot of ground today.
00:35:56.660 And it's so nice to see you again, and we look forward to getting your take on so many things in the weeks ahead.
00:36:02.840 Thanks for coming.
00:36:03.320 Well, and as of May 14th, Alberta opens up its barbershop, so next time I won't have this Bernie Sanders here.
00:36:10.120 Well, you're a lot more kemped than me. 0.98
00:36:12.060 May 14th, I might have to take a flight to Edmonton because I'm getting so shaggy it's out of control. 0.95
00:36:17.480 All right, take care, my friend.
00:36:18.420 Thank you.
00:36:18.820 Okay, you bet.
00:36:19.680 All right, there you have it, Lorne Gunter.
00:36:21.120 Well, that's good to know that Alberta is opening up again.
00:36:24.920 I think we should, too, across most of the country.
00:36:27.860 Stay with us.
00:36:29.220 More Ahead on the Rebel.
00:36:38.560 Hey, welcome back.
00:36:39.480 On my monologue yesterday about Trudeau refusing to take refugees from Hong Kong, Ron writes,
00:36:44.120 Remember when a reporter asked Trudeau when he was inviting tens of thousands of bogus Syrian refugees
00:36:49.940 whether he would give preference to the neediest victims of the Syrian civil war, the Christians
00:36:54.660 and Yazidis, who were the primary victims of Islamist aggression?
00:36:58.060 Trudeau's answer, absolutely not.
00:37:00.200 I had forgotten about that.
00:37:02.640 You're exactly right.
00:37:03.720 That was a shocking statement.
00:37:05.900 As you know, under Stephen Harper, there was preference for the lambs, not the wolves.
00:37:10.860 If persecuted groups could identify and present themselves, they would be taken.
00:37:15.520 Here's the clip of Justin Trudeau saying that's disgusting.
00:37:19.560 Remember this?
00:37:20.700 Good morning, Mr. Trudeau.
00:37:21.600 I wanted to start by asking you about the Conservatives' policy of prioritizing ethnic and religious
00:37:26.960 minorities when bringing in refugees.
00:37:28.820 Is that something that would continue if the Liberals were elected?
00:37:31.040 As we gather this weekend with our families over Thanksgiving and talk about the kind of country
00:37:39.260 we have and the kind of country we want, I think we need to think about families across
00:37:47.860 the oceans who have been desperately seeking to build a better life for themselves and for
00:37:53.580 their kids, who have gathered all of their worldly belongings on their backs, in plastic bags,
00:38:00.700 gathered their kids around them, and hope that maybe, somewhere, there is a place where they
00:38:07.420 can build a better life.
00:38:08.540 And to know that somewhere in the Prime Minister's office, staffers were pouring through their personal files
00:38:18.820 to try and see whether these families or find out which families would be suitable for a photo op
00:38:27.500 for the Prime Minister's re-election campaign, that's disgusting.
00:38:34.420 Yeah, I had forgotten about that yesterday.
00:38:35.920 Thanks for the reminder.
00:38:36.420 Bruce writes, you're right about Trudeau checking out.
00:38:39.760 His actions show that he just wanted the glamour and prestige of being Prime Minister.
00:38:44.940 Yeah, Loren Gunter made a good point.
00:38:46.380 He reminded me that Trudeau, before he became an MP, and actually for a couple years afterwards,
00:38:50.500 just loved to go to these super softball speeches where he would give sort of Oprah Winfrey-style
00:38:55.640 duck-speak new age sort of blather and get paid $10, $20, $30 grand a pop and take lots of
00:39:02.120 selfies and meet a lot of young girls.
00:39:03.720 That is sort of Trudeau's happy place.
00:39:07.900 On my interview with Sheila Gunn-Reed on our latest FightTheFines.com case, PJ writes,
00:39:12.260 wouldn't child services need to be called to separate a minor from her guardian by putting her in the back of a cop car?
00:39:17.660 Everything about this stinks.
00:39:18.600 Exactly.
00:39:20.100 I was watching the extended clip that we have on the FightTheFines.com page, and I don't think that that ticketing cop had the power to put hands on this woman, 0.66
00:39:33.080 to handcuff her, to physically search her under her clothes.
00:39:36.860 That's creepy, to put her in a car and separate her from her kid.
00:39:40.160 It would be like if you had a parking ticket, if your parking meter expired and some meter maid put a ticket under your windshield wiper,
00:39:47.540 you'd say, all right, grumble, grumble.
00:39:49.280 But for that person, they'd say, up against the car, handcuffs.
00:39:52.720 By what right?
00:39:54.280 By what right?
00:39:55.020 Oh, it makes me mad.
00:39:56.240 We've got so many more cases coming at FightTheFines.com.
00:40:00.340 I'd have to check the count.
00:40:01.600 I think we're probably up to 13 now.
00:40:03.500 It takes a little while to process them.
00:40:05.140 We've got to vet them, interview them.
00:40:06.620 The lawyer's got to talk to them.
00:40:07.660 Our journalist's got to talk to them.
00:40:08.620 We've got to produce a video.
00:40:09.740 So we have a few more in the pipeline.
00:40:12.560 It will not surprise me if we have 20 before too long.
00:40:16.260 I think we're most of the way there.
00:40:18.140 Very frustrating, but we'll do the fighting.
00:40:20.440 All right, my friends, that's our show for today.
00:40:22.000 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:40:26.960 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:40:29.800 We'll be right back.