Rebel News Podcast - Justin Trudeau says he is fine with free speech

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through what Salman Rushdie calls the butt brigade.

00:00:05.620 People who say, I believe in free speech, but, and then have a list of exceptions. They're not

00:00:10.560 really for free speech, are they? I'll show you an example in our own country, a very sad example.

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00:00:52.260 Tonight, Justin Trudeau says he is fine with free speech, but,

00:00:56.640 Always ignore everything before the word but. It's December 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:03.020 You're ready for freedom! 0.57

00:01:05.900 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.97

00:01:09.040 Very exciting day today. Our friends at the Democracy Fund are having a town hall meeting with Dr. Jordan Peterson

00:01:23.960 about the state of civil liberties in Canada. Huge event. Almost 2,000 people signed up, most in person,

00:01:32.420 some watching online. It's being hosted at the Canada Christian College, which is about 30 minutes

00:01:37.320 outside Toronto, which is a bit of a schlep, though anything in Toronto is inconvenient from anything

00:01:42.580 else. That's just how traffic is. But I tell you about its location for two reasons. To show that

00:01:48.480 Jordan Peterson fans are a dedicated bunch, and we'll go to meet him pretty much wherever he is. And also

00:01:54.100 to remind you that not everywhere is a place of free speech and discourse in this country.

00:01:59.620 You could hardly find a more august event than this one. Peterson is a PhD, a professor, a best-selling

00:02:06.720 author. The evening is being hosted by Conrad Black, the former newspaper tycoon, author, historian,

00:02:14.900 Barron. Rex Murphy will be there, too. These are serious men of ideas, public intellectuals, but

00:02:20.460 each one of them in their own way has been blacklisted, deplatformed, canceled. In some ways,

00:02:25.860 the worst of the three is what happened to Rex Murphy, whose own newsroom in the National Post

00:02:30.860 newspaper had a petition signed literally by the majority of journalists there calling for him

00:02:37.240 to be silenced about issues of race and multiculturalism. It was in response to this

00:02:42.520 opinion article. Let me read the headline of it. Canada is not a racist country, despite what the

00:02:49.560 liberals say. To any fair mind, Canada is a mature, welcoming, open-minded, and generous country

00:02:55.560 it would be helpful if these liberals kept the full story of this country in mind when discussing

00:03:00.280 racism. So he's not denying racism. He's just saying we're not inherently essentially racist.

00:03:05.900 It was a wonderful article. First of all, imagine disagreeing with Rex on that. Second, imagine saying

00:03:13.880 that he shouldn't be allowed to publish such an opinion because he's a white male. Third, imagine that

00:03:20.820 all happening in the supposedly conservative newsroom of the National Post, founded by Conrad Black,

00:03:25.380 by the way. Fourth, imagine the vast majority of signers of that censorship demand from the newsroom

00:03:31.180 were white themselves. What an utter disgrace that whole thing was. So yeah, free speech and the 1.00

00:03:38.620 threats to it, we don't even know the half of it. We're learning so much more about how censorship

00:03:43.940 really goes on in the 2020s, though. It's done by woke activists embedded within big companies,

00:03:49.000 like yesterday's story we did on Yoel Roth, the chief censor at Twitter, until Elon Musk took over

00:03:54.640 the place. What an extreme and weird activist he is. And now we can guess why he banned conservatives,

00:04:02.040 but not child pornography from the app. It's just creepy. I hope Elon Musk releases the Twitter files,

00:04:08.520 as they're being called, about their Canadian operations, too. I'm interested in how we at Rebel News

00:04:13.080 were censored or throttled or whatnot, but I'm even more interested in who contacted Twitter to get

00:04:18.860 that done to us. Who was it? What did they say? What did they threaten or promise Twitter in return?

00:04:25.360 I bet they don't have to pressure too hard to get the woke Twitter staff to do what they wanted to do

00:04:31.080 to us, but I bet they pressured them anyways. That's how governments censor. They outsource it,

00:04:36.840 though. They contract it out. They do it quietly, sneakily. I hope we see those documents one day.

00:04:43.980 But look at this. This is a story, as usual, from Black Locks, one of the few independent news

00:04:48.540 sources in Canada. Here's the headline, Free Speech is OK, But... I really don't need to read

00:04:54.280 any more, do I? Here's my point. It was actually made wonderfully by Salman Rushdie, the author,

00:05:00.900 as you know, of a book banned by the Ayatollahs in Iran. Take a listen.

00:05:04.540 And now, the moment somebody says, yes, I believe in free speech, but... I stop listening.

00:05:09.880 You know, I believe in free speech, but people should behave themselves. I believe in free

00:05:23.980 speech, but we shouldn't upset anybody. I believe in free speech, but let's not go too far.

00:05:29.820 The point about it is the moment you limit free speech, it's not free speech.

00:05:34.260 The point about it is that it's free.

00:05:37.860 The Butt Brigade. You knew that Justin Trudeau would be a free speech kind of guy, but, right?

00:05:45.040 Free speech, but. You just knew it, didn't you?

00:05:47.900 What's so sad is that 90% of the media is that way now, too. They're for free speech, but.

00:05:53.720 I remember when I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the Western Standard magazine a

00:05:57.660 decade and a half ago. I was interviewed maybe 100 times about it. 98 of those interviewers

00:06:03.120 supported me, which was surprising. Even at the CBC, they supported me. Even them.

00:06:07.460 A polling company called Compass interviewed dozens of working journalists for a special survey

00:06:12.020 about that case. I remember that 70% of working journalists back then said that not only was I right to

00:06:17.340 publish those cartoons, but they said that every media in the country ought to have published them

00:06:21.160 also. To stand with me and to stand against terrorists. That was just 17 years ago, to be

00:06:28.520 precise. We're in a different world now, aren't we? The journalists are the censors now. No need to

00:06:33.780 blow up editorial cartoonists to silence your critics. The editorial cartoonists will silence your

00:06:39.480 critics for you. Here's the story in Black Locks to which I refer. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:06:44.420 believes in free speech, but is upset by social media content that is, quote, difficult to counter,

00:06:50.920 he said. Trudeau's remarks follow a proposal to regulate legal internet content deemed hurtful.

00:06:58.640 Listen to Rushdie. Remember, ignore everything before the word but.

00:07:03.420 The remarks are detailed in an interview summary of a September 9th meeting between Trudeau and six

00:07:07.620 lawyers with the Public Order Emergency Commission. The summary said Trudeau was upset by unregulated

00:07:12.800 internet content. The poor dear, he's upset. The prime minister emphasized the need for governments

00:07:19.320 to take online rhetoric seriously, read minutes of the interview. He noted we are living in a very

00:07:25.040 difficult time right now, said the summary, adding the problem arises when disagreements are built on

00:07:30.260 falsehoods or wrong facts. Because then it becomes difficult to have a real debate and genuine exchange

00:07:36.920 ideas. You know, I'm so glad that Trudeau is going to relieve you and me of the burden of distinguishing

00:07:42.480 between the right facts and the wrong facts. I'm so glad he'll do that for us because he's never wrong

00:07:48.220 and his critics are never right. And don't you know, that's the reason there is no real debate.

00:07:53.320 That's the only reason. He's a guy who bans reporters he doesn't like from attending his press

00:07:57.600 conferences and he bans us from the leaders' debates in this country, speaking of debates.

00:08:02.760 But trust him. He really would like a real debate, just not with liars or people who are wrong. They're

00:08:09.300 the worst people to debate. He'll absolutely debate with people who agree with him and who are right.

00:08:15.800 Well, that's not really much of a debate then, is it? Which is how he likes it.

00:08:21.060 The government believes in free speech, said Trudeau. But with social media, there is a new way to

00:08:26.040 foment anger and hate that is different from anything we have seen before, difficult to

00:08:30.980 counter and is destabilizing our democracy. He raised the examples of spoof websites that look

00:08:36.940 real. Yeah, those spoof websites that look real, those really pull us apart as a society,

00:08:44.140 pit us versus them. Not like our prime minister who is factually right and definitely not divisive.

00:08:49.660 You deserve a government that's going to continue to say get vaccinated. And you know what? If you don't want

00:08:54.600 to get vaccinated, that's your choice. But don't think you can get on a plane or a train of

00:08:59.540 besides vaccinated people and put them at risk. Yeah, those spoof websites that look real,

00:09:05.480 that's your choice. But don't think you can get on a plane or a train besides vaccinated people and put 0.99

00:09:13.480 them at risk. Yeah, those spoof websites, they've really hurt our democracy these past years. Not Trudeau

00:09:33.800 invoking martial law and not him rolling out riot police against his enemies, not him demonizing those

00:09:40.640 who made a different medical choice than them, but those bloody spoof websites. It's always those

00:09:44.240 spoof websites, you know. The prime minister noted since the invocation of the Emergencies Act,

00:09:48.580 there have been people spreading the message. The government suspended civil liberties,

00:09:53.020 used violence against peaceful protesters, and suspended democracy, which did not happen,

00:09:58.360 said the Minutes. There are those who take this message as confirmation the government is

00:10:02.380 illegitimate or in treasonous. Did you get that? He seized bank accounts. Remember that? He deployed

00:10:07.760 riot police. He stomped on people, unarmed people, peaceful people. He literally invoked the Emergencies

00:10:14.180 Act, something not even done on 9-11. And then he looks you in the eye and blames you for claiming

00:10:19.220 he suspended civil liberties while he is suspending your civil liberties. While he's in a public inquiry

00:10:25.340 into why he suspended your civil liberties, there you go with your wrong facts again. Why can't you

00:10:30.460 just be right and say what he says and wants you to say he will gaslight you until you do?

00:10:35.240 The document reviewed by Black Locks today is not a secret document. It, in fact,

00:10:40.420 was published by the Emergencies Act Commission of Inquiry a couple of weeks ago.

00:10:44.840 The fact that it was not front page of every newspaper in the country tells you a lot now,

00:10:48.580 doesn't it? Let me quote just one more extract from this statement to show you what a madman leads us. 0.89

00:10:55.720 When asked, the prime minister advised that the situation that was unfolding in the Ukraine

00:11:00.080 at the same time did not have a direct bearing on the government response to the convoy situation.

00:11:05.140 He reflected, however, that there were many commonalities between the two events,

00:11:10.920 such as the role of misinformation and disinformation, the amplification of rhetoric

00:11:15.100 through social media, and the exploitation of division. Got it, got it, got it. So the truckers

00:11:20.480 are comparable to a brutal military invasion that's killed tens of thousands. Got it.

00:11:25.740 And both situations were based on wrong facts. Yeah, those spoof websites caused the invasion

00:11:31.960 of Ukraine. Got it. And for him, the should we even tolerate them guy, for him to say that others 0.95

00:11:39.100 exploit division, that is quite something. So yeah, Trudeau, he's not even part of Rushdie's

00:11:45.880 butt brigade. See, the butt brigade at least pretends to care about free speech. They say it first 0.85

00:11:51.260 and then pull back from it with a butt. I don't think Trudeau even pretends. I mean, seriously, 0.98

00:11:56.560 have you ever, ever heard him even mention the concept of freedom of speech proactively,

00:12:01.380 positively, ever? He never thinks about it. He never talks about it because he doesn't believe in it.

00:12:05.900 He just, he just doesn't. What we do over here, and we're not going to be gaslighted by him.

00:12:14.060 Stay with us for more.

00:12:21.260 Well, millions of parents in Canada have kids who play hockey, and up to a certain age, girls can

00:12:36.320 play on boys' teams before they go through puberty, before they change. You often see an excellent

00:12:43.000 girl keeping up with the boys, skating just as hard, and there really is no difference. You wouldn't

00:12:48.900 know it was a girl, but for the long hair sometimes sticking out from underneath the helmet. But things

00:12:54.320 change. Oh, I don't know. Early teens, and suddenly it's no fun for girls to play with the boys. In fact, 0.62

00:13:01.540 it's a little bit dangerous as the boys suddenly get stronger, faster, harder, and body checking is

00:13:08.140 not just for fun. It can injure someone, and that's when the sexes are segregated. It's not discrimination.

00:13:13.980 It's just common sense. It's the reason why we have different weight classes in boxing. You don't

00:13:20.720 put a flyweight up against a super heavyweight. And so I was sort of surprised when I saw a tweet from

00:13:27.380 the National Hockey League a few weeks ago. Just apropos of nothing, trans women are women. Trans men 0.99

00:13:35.620 are men. Non-binary identity is real. That's a bit of a weird thing for a hockey league to say,

00:13:43.400 but I guess they're part of this whole woke world we're in, and you've got to fly the rainbow flag

00:13:48.640 or whatever colors are in it today. Except I didn't know this. There is an NHL-supported

00:13:55.720 trans hockey league just for trans folks. And my first reaction, frankly, was, well, that's a good

00:14:03.440 idea. So if that's men who identify as women, let them play against each other rather than cracking 0.99

00:14:10.440 skulls of actual biological women. But then I learned that, in fact, it was trans men and trans

00:14:16.540 women all playing together. And actually, it was a lot more dangerous than the NHL let on. Joining us 0.84

00:14:22.080 now via Skype from Edmonton to talk about this and other things about trans in sports is our friend,

00:14:28.680 Linda Blade. And she is the co-author of Unsporting, a book that we published a few months ago about

00:14:35.280 how trans ideology is colonizing women's sport. Linda, great to see you again. Thanks for taking

00:14:40.620 the time. Thank you, Ezra. Great to be here. Well, I was shocked. I saw that tweet and I didn't

00:14:47.760 really understand. I just thought, OK, it's like, you know, every once in a while, Canadian banks

00:14:52.560 change their logos to the rainbow and they, you know, then they'll change it to the Ukraine flag and

00:14:58.620 then they'll do something else. It's just part of virtue signaling. I thought that's all that was going

00:15:03.120 on with the NHL. But they actually have this trans hockey league. What can you tell us about that?

00:15:10.720 Well, I only heard about it when I was reading it on Twitter, more or less like everybody else did.

00:15:15.840 I didn't realize the NHL was supporting a trans hockey league. And I think it's sort of just an

00:15:21.160 idea and principle that they seem to be trying. But this is like a, you know, a tournament where you

00:15:26.340 get a bunch of your friends together and then you pick teams. And what they did was apparently,

00:15:30.820 from what I've read, was they just mixed the trans men and trans women. And we can talk about what

00:15:39.400 that means. But they've mixed basically people identifying as trans, no matter whether you

00:15:44.820 actually were born female or male. And they mixed them all into one big group and then they picked

00:15:49.420 teams. And so teams were, you know, it's very possible in that particular tournament that there

00:15:55.200 could have been male bodies colliding with female bodies. 0.97

00:15:59.640 Well, and that's the thing. I mean, I can understand if there was a different category,

00:16:05.400 just like there's different weight classes in boxing, as I alluded to. If you had a category of

00:16:11.440 men to women transgender and they were all competing against each other, I would think that there's a 1.00

00:16:19.000 sort of fairness there that there isn't if they're competing against men or women without qualifiers

00:16:26.960 or adjectives. But if you're combining women transitioning to men with men transitioning to

00:16:34.280 women, you are not categorizing them by strength and power. And it turns out, I'm reading in this

00:16:42.660 article by Jonathan Kaye, published in Quillette, that there were some injuries. Because some of these

00:16:47.220 teams, they picked just male to female trans athletes. So obviously they were bigger, stronger,

00:16:57.440 tougher, and they just smashed to pieces the female to male trans athletes. Let me read a little bit 0.99

00:17:04.380 from Jonathan Kaye's article here. As the Vice crew continued to film, so I guess Vice magazine was

00:17:09.600 there because, of course, they're very progressive. Players clustered around the seemingly knocked out

00:17:14.220 number 91. Shortly thereafter, a panicky voice booms out from amid the scrum, get a stretcher,

00:17:19.740 get a medic. And the audience, which had formerly been burbling enthusiastically in response to the

00:17:24.600 arena announcer's transpositive patter, fell silent. It would take more than 17 minutes for the head

00:17:31.120 injured player to be placed on a stretcher and wheeled off the ice. When the game eventually restarted,

00:17:36.340 a subdued mood persisted till the final buzzer. So I think that what was designed to show that trans 1.00

00:17:46.020 athletes could play, and it actually was a terrible, horrible experiment that proved the opposite. I take

00:17:52.360 absolutely no joy in reading this. I'm shocked that they would allow that to happen. If the idea was to

00:17:57.740 have a safe place, it doesn't just have to be an emotionally safe place, it has to be a physically

00:18:04.060 safe place. And having someone born female rush up against someone born male is not a safe thing to

00:18:10.420 do. Well, that's very true. And in particular, if they're all adults, what we see sometimes is

00:18:19.420 Team Canada Hockey, the women's hockey, sometimes plays male teams that are sort of the midget level

00:18:25.940 or something, and then they take it easy on the contact, and they're careful, and so they don't

00:18:31.240 want to injure anybody. But when it's outright adults, adult females, no matter how you identify, 0.77

00:18:38.060 going up against high speed, you know, on the ice, adult males, no matter how they identify,

00:18:44.460 you're really asking for trouble. When World Rugby did their analysis back in about two years ago,

00:18:51.680 they actually found that even just with running speed, the chance of injury, if there's even one

00:18:58.920 male born hockey, sorry, rugby player on the pitch with female teams, the chance of head and neck and 0.99

00:19:06.280 back injury to the female players will go up 30% or more. And you can imagine what that number is 0.69

00:19:12.340 going to be like when you're skating around on a hockey skate, which is a lot faster.

00:19:17.640 Yeah, it's incredible. Are there sports that are pushing back against us? It sounds like the NHL

00:19:23.900 is, like, I mean, I see their ads on TV, they're extremely woke. You know, I'm all for people of

00:19:30.520 all backgrounds enjoying skating. Absolutely. Doesn't care what your race, gender, etc. All of

00:19:37.220 that's irrelevant to having fun playing hockey. I get it. But there's something extremely different

00:19:44.680 when you're comparing, well, a black person and an aboriginal person and a Chinese person

00:19:50.100 by ethnicity can all play hockey. Well, of course, none of that affects hockey playing ability. None

00:19:56.560 of that, none of those things are relevant to playing the game. Of course, we should look past

00:20:00.960 that. And I really don't think that, I mean, maybe that's a hidden problem in Canada, of which I'm

00:20:07.000 unaware. But, you know, here, at least in Toronto, a very multiracial city, you look at the kids hockey

00:20:12.080 leagues, they're as diverse as the city. I just don't even, you know, I think they're 30 years behind

00:20:17.200 the scenes in terms of solving a problem that I don't detect. Maybe I'm wrong. But when you say

00:20:22.620 let people born genetically female play against people born genetically male, that's not an irrelevant

00:20:30.620 classification. That's not unfair discrimination any more than protecting a 110-pound guy from

00:20:38.340 Tyson Fury is unfair discrimination. It's not even sport, as that victim of that trans hockey league 1.00

00:20:44.520 shows. I just find it creepy. Has any, has any sport pushed back against this coach blade?

00:20:52.300 Yes. Well, it has begun because we would say these big sports, starting with the International Olympic

00:20:58.820 Committee, for a while were kind of fooled into believing that it didn't matter and a man should

00:21:04.900 be able to self-identify, a male person should be able to self-identify into female sports. And so

00:21:09.360 what happens is these sorts of injuries have accumulated, unhappiness, it's in the women's 1.00

00:21:16.580 ranks. And, you know, frankly, last year in 2021, the IOC finally relented and said, well,

00:21:22.720 it's up to each individual world sport to figure out what their policy is. And so now we're all over

00:21:28.080 the place. So you have like world swimming that allows, that says zero males, you know, after the 1.00

00:21:33.960 Leah Thomas affair, zero male born athletes in women's elite competition, but it's okay to do 0.99

00:21:39.700 it at the kids level. And then you have British volleyball saying only, you know, female only

00:21:48.160 games and, and leagues. And then in world athletics, we're waiting for the world track and field to

00:21:57.480 update a new policy. And they've had to change their testosterone levels. I mean, every sport governing

00:22:02.860 body right now in the world has its own unique approach and the policies are all over the

00:22:08.740 place. So we're in this transition period for want of a better word, where all the sports are pushing

00:22:14.240 back in different ways, but some more extreme are more strict than others. Well, it sounds like maybe

00:22:19.500 the pendulum is swinging back because at least you're allowed to talk about it now. Whereas before you

00:22:23.960 even mentioned the issue and you're deplatformed, I think, by the way, social media was part of the

00:22:29.420 problem. We're learning now just how insane the censorship was on Twitter. I think that that

00:22:34.740 deliberately flowed into all aspects of life. You know, it's funny because I wanted to talk with

00:22:40.680 you about something else that you brought to our attention. There is a committee and in fact, a

00:22:47.740 cabinet minister in this country in charge of the status of women. And I think nothing has eroded the

00:22:54.420 status of women more in the last decade than the adding an adjective in front of the word women, 0.92

00:23:01.900 trans women. Like either you're a woman or you're not a woman. And this degradation and this watering 1.00

00:23:08.100 down of what it means to be a woman, that is an absolute attack on what it means to be a woman.

00:23:12.940 It's in the very literal sense of it. So the, let me just read a press release put out by our

00:23:19.540 government just a few weeks ago. Status of women committee invites the public to submit written 0.64

00:23:24.640 briefs for its study on the participation of women and girls in sport. Well, could there be a more

00:23:30.320 acute and topical issue than what we've just been talking about? Let me read just the first paragraph

00:23:36.820 of the release. As part of its study, the House of Commons standing committee on the status of women 0.97

00:23:42.180 will be examining the factors that affect the physical and emotional health of women

00:23:46.380 and girls in sport, as well as their safety. The objective of the study is to identify ways to

00:23:51.800 ensure a safe and inclusive sport environment and to encourage women and girls to participate

00:23:55.980 in sport in Canada. There is literally nothing else on the radar, on the horizon, in the environment

00:24:01.980 that comes close to it. It's not just the violence and the threat of harm that you've described,

00:24:08.040 but it's just not fun anymore. If the loser from the male team comes over and says,

00:24:12.300 I'm a girl now, and, you know, comes in sluggish for a man, but good enough to beat the women 1.00

00:24:20.980 physically, it just takes all the fun out of it. There is nothing more relevant. And yet, when you

00:24:25.700 applied to submit a brief, I'm just shocked by this. The committee clerk, Alexi Labelle,

00:24:35.220 of course, her pronouns are in her signature, she, her, L. I just want to read this. This is

00:24:42.060 incredible to me. And then I'll ask for your response. Good morning, Dr. Blade. On behalf

00:24:47.740 of the standing committee of the status of women, I thank you for your interest in the committee's

00:24:50.560 work. The committee's study on women and girls in sport seeks to examine the physical, emotional

00:24:54.240 health and safety of women and girls in sport and invites the public. Yes, we know all that.

00:24:58.600 Unfortunately, and following consultation with the committee, I cannot accept your brief as it

00:25:03.780 falls outside the scope of the study. Once again, thank you for your interest in the committee's

00:25:07.980 work. So they, they would not accept you, a Canadian citizen, former coach, you know, history

00:25:17.200 in this, they just would not accept your point of view. They just refused it. You're a citizen,

00:25:22.100 they're the parliament, they work for you, they're having consultations, and they simply refuse to hear

00:25:28.240 what you're saying. And I'm also the president of a provincial sports association in Alberta.

00:25:36.220 I'm a professional coach. And I spoke specifically to this kind of danger that you're talking about in

00:25:42.920 hockey, about male bodies colliding with female bodies, about like in track and field, a man

00:25:48.800 curling a spear, a woman's weighted spear, and it could go way beyond the bounds of the field and 0.99

00:25:54.280 impale somebody. I was actually talking about these issues. And they said it falls outside the scope

00:25:59.160 of their study. And so they refused my brief. Well, I mean, a committee has members typically of

00:26:06.640 every political party, if the parties have any, any size. So you're going to have more liberal MPs than

00:26:12.480 conservative MPs, but not too many more. You're going to have NDP MPs, and you might have, you know,

00:26:18.160 I don't know if you would have a block MP on there or not, but you're going to have conservatives on

00:26:23.140 every single committee. In fact, the vice chair of most committees would be a conservative. Did the

00:26:29.060 conservative members of this House of Commons committee have any dissent? Were they open to it,

00:26:36.180 or did they say, no, no, we don't want to hear from Linda Blade either?

00:26:40.720 Here's what happens is the clerk that's unelected, unknown, sits at the desk and actually screens,

00:26:46.880 does the gatekeeping. So the MPs don't even see my brief. So what we have is some woke

00:26:53.840 individual who went through and got gender ideology, you know, status, and now they're the

00:27:00.340 screen. So they don't let the MPs see what the sports experts in women's sports on safety and 1.00

00:27:08.680 emotional health, they're not letting that through if it has anything to do with transgender.

00:27:13.940 Well, but this clerk specifically said, unfortunately, and following consultation with

00:27:20.900 the committee, that implies that she checked with the MPs. Like if she just said, I won't accept it,

00:27:27.100 or I cannot accept it. But she prefaced that by saying, following consultation with the committee,

00:27:33.380 I cannot accept your brief. Have you followed up with at least the conservative MPs? Because I think

00:27:38.520 you should. Because I would very much like to know if members of Pierre Polio's Conservative Party of

00:27:45.480 Canada refuse to even hear the other side of the story on transgender athletes in women's sport. And

00:27:55.480 if that's the case, I'm shocked. And if it's, if it's the case, we have a problem. And if it's not the

00:27:59.900 case, then we have another problem. We have a clerk who's out of control. Either way, we've got a

00:28:03.900 problem, Linda. Big problem. And I've actually sent emails twice now to members of that committee

00:28:10.260 have had no response. And they're including the conservative one. Well, I am. I mean, I'm not

00:28:15.340 surprised by that. But I'm very disappointed if those if those conservatives on the committee are

00:28:19.440 going along with this. Well, I'm glad you're keeping up the fight. And I'm glad that there are

00:28:24.040 some journalists who talk about this. Your co author of Unsporting, Linda, pardon me, Barbara Kaye.

00:28:28.860 Yes. Just does a great job of this. Her son, Jonathan Kaye, wrote this article in Quillette

00:28:34.060 about the Trans Hockey League. There are, you know, this is what they, what Mickey Krause calls

00:28:40.060 the under news, which is it's the news that people are talking about, you know, water coolers and over

00:28:46.760 coffee that's underneath the mainstream media. The mainstream media won't talk about it, but real

00:28:52.900 people want to talk about it. They're interested in it. Moms and dads whose daughters play sports,

00:28:58.840 are very, extremely interested in it. And just because the Toronto Star and the CBC are thrilled

00:29:05.120 with this new Trans Hockey League, the under news, the undercurrents, people are furious, terrified,

00:29:12.360 scared, and repulsed, not for a sexual reason, but for a safety reason. And by trying to cast critics

00:29:22.120 as bigots, they only, they only show that they're not acting in good faith. It's not bigoted to say,

00:29:29.500 I don't want my daughter to be smashed up by a 200 pound teenage boy who just wants an easy win.

00:29:37.360 That's not bigotry. That's in fact, to deny the threat to women is bigotry. Last word to you, Coach Blade.

00:29:42.400 Yeah, I just, we're just asking for the conversation and to actually listen to the constituency that is

00:29:50.140 probably 80% of the public, because that's what we find all the time. We have about 80% support

00:29:54.980 of people who just want sex-based guidelines. We don't care. Like, we don't pick athletes on the 0.91

00:30:00.420 basis of religion or ideology. We've never asked somebody their religion when they come to our sport.

00:30:04.840 Why would we ask them what, what, you know, how they see themselves or whatever? You compete on the

00:30:09.800 basis of your biological sex because you're competing with your body. The more that we can

00:30:14.840 say that respectfully and then respect identities within the sex-based boundaries, the safer we're

00:30:19.840 going to be. Yeah, this is incredible. I was just glancing at that story about this trans hockey

00:30:26.500 league. In time, I don't know if it'll be two years, five years, or 50 years, people will look back at it

00:30:34.020 and marvel at the insanity that we accepted, not just accepted, that we obeyed. Coach Linda Blade,

00:30:40.280 great to catch up with you. Thanks for your time. Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it. Thank you.

00:30:44.380 My pleasure. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:30:46.060 You know, we did a great job of covering the Trucker Commission here at Rebel News. You can

00:31:01.000 go to truckercommission.com and see our work. I think there's still more work to do. My monologue

00:31:06.480 today was about a document that I had not really tucked into before. It was the prime minister's

00:31:10.660 summary of things he told lawyers before his actual testimony. Just incredible there.

00:31:16.880 Incredible, but not surprising that other media have basically ignored it. The prime minister's

00:31:21.420 saying, sure, sure, sure, yeah, free speech, but, and then pages of but this, but that. I'm a bit

00:31:27.620 worried about it, you know. I think that's going to be the big civil liberties battle of 2023.

00:31:34.340 That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:31:39.020 to you at home, good night.

00:31:40.660 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:31:41.940 We're here for all Albertans. Canadians, we're here fighting for the freedoms of not us,

00:31:49.160 but our kids, our grandkids, the future of this province, this country.

00:31:54.500 Three Albertans could now face a collective 30 years behind bars for their alleged involvement

00:31:59.620 in the unwaveringly peaceful Coutts blockade. This demonstration was part of a decentralized

00:32:05.940 movement across Canada against COVID health regulations and vaccine mandates from all levels

00:32:11.700 of government. Coutts blockade events saw COVID restrictions lift in Alberta and catalyzed

00:32:17.820 former Premier Jason Kenney's stepping down as the province's United Conservative Party's leader.

00:32:24.220 This movement forever altered the course of politics here in Alberta and showed the importance

00:32:28.240 of peaceful demonstrations against government overreach. Months later, the RCMP alleged three

00:32:34.920 individuals, Alex, Marco, and George, to have been key participants of the blockade.

00:32:40.520 All three were consequently charged with mischief over $5,000.

00:32:44.020 And each could now face 10 years behind bars, separating them from their families for what

00:32:50.840 could be a decade. And we think there's something not right about these men potentially having to

00:32:56.180 face this life-altering sentence. That's why we're doing everything we can at Rebel News to help.

00:33:01.580 At no cost to them, we have Williamson Law fighting for these men tirelessly in the courts,

00:33:06.540 made possible because of your donations at truckerdefensefund.ca.

00:33:10.240 If you'd like to help offset the massive legal undertaking these men now face,

00:33:14.940 I encourage you to go to truckerdefensefund.ca.

00:33:19.120 Tens of thousands of Albertans and even more Canadians across the country stood up

00:33:24.160 over the last two years to voice their concerns of health regulations gone too far.

00:33:28.980 Still, out of spite, the government continues to punish those who saw faults with their draconian

00:33:34.220 health measures. On February 14th, after 18 days in Coutts,

00:33:39.160 demonstrators decidedly ended the blockade to emphatically express that this was a peaceful

00:33:44.960 movement.

00:33:45.500 After the events of yesterday and the news released that the RCMP made arrests and come

00:33:55.340 forward with, and the arrests resulted in long arms, firearms, handguns, and protective equipment

00:34:03.320 being unearthed, we as the Coutts Convoy have decided that as a peaceful protest and to maintain

00:34:12.160 that narrative, we will be rolling out tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.

00:34:16.120 At their last court appearance on November 4th, we spoke with Alex, Marco, and George directly

00:34:20.680 to find out how they felt about this situation they've now been thrown into.

00:34:25.600 We also spoke with Chad Williamson of Williamson Law, who is being crowdfunded through truckerdefensefund.ca.

00:34:32.540 He gave us a little more insight into the case that lays ahead.

00:34:35.840 So the prosecutors have decided to proceed by indictment, which gives Mr. Van Herc, Mr. Jansen,

00:34:44.440 and Mr. Hugobos the right to be tried by a jury of their peers.

00:34:49.260 We believe that 12 randomly chosen representative jurors reflect the common sense, the values,

00:34:56.840 and the conscience of this community, and is very important in this case.

00:35:02.520 Once disclosure has been properly received, we'll proceed to trial by jury immediately.

00:35:09.560 There will be no deals and no concessions of any kind.

00:35:17.820 You were just inside the courthouse.

00:35:19.460 What was your takeaway from today's events?

00:35:21.420 Well, I mean, it was very straightforward.

00:35:22.940 There's not much that was discussed, but I mean, it's just one further step to going further

00:35:27.320 in the whole jury trial.

00:35:29.740 Because they didn't have the disclosure available for us to look at, so we weren't able to plea,

00:35:35.440 they had to do an arraignment to postpone it to December 12th.

00:35:39.360 When you tie up logistics assets and things like that for technical and procedural things

00:35:47.880 to this extent, I think, what's the point?

00:35:51.340 Can we just get on with this?

00:35:54.360 Nobody's saying we're not looking to go to trial, etc.

00:35:58.080 But the back and forth is employing tens and tens of individuals on both sides of these charges.

00:36:06.800 And to me, that's completely unnecessary.

00:36:09.440 When it comes to Williamson Law, are they doing their due diligence in helping you?

00:36:12.720 Absolutely.

00:36:13.120 We're very thankful for the support that we're getting from them.

00:36:16.760 I don't know who else I would trust other than Chad and his team there, for sure.

00:36:21.040 Yes, 100%.

00:36:22.120 Yoav represents me.

00:36:23.880 He's on the ball.

00:36:25.500 He is the lawyer that I need.

00:36:28.780 I'm involved.

00:36:29.680 I'm going to be looking over his shoulder.

00:36:31.260 And he is that kind of lawyer.

00:36:33.240 We've connected big time.

00:36:35.360 And there's nothing that I have questions on that doesn't get answered.

00:36:41.300 There's no misunderstandings.

00:36:42.620 Oh, 100%.

00:36:43.620 Williamson Law has been 100% backing us on everything we've asked.

00:36:48.920 They're fighting hard for us.

00:36:50.820 And I believe the Crown that's dealing with this case has definitely been a little hard to deal with.

00:36:55.620 But they've also added an additional amount of evidence they claim to the disclosure.

00:37:01.420 So they got more evidence coming against us.

00:37:03.860 More evidence.

00:37:04.400 Yeah.

00:37:05.460 I thought they had enough.

00:37:06.960 And the reason for this prosecution is not law.

00:37:10.920 It's politics.

00:37:11.880 It's vengeance.

00:37:12.580 It's punishment.

00:37:13.860 This was done under the former regime, Jason Kenney.

00:37:16.840 He took an extreme approach to lockdowns.

00:37:18.960 He's the one who proved Pastor Arthur Pawlowski in prison for nearly 50 days.

00:37:24.220 The prosecutor, Stephen Johnson, here was involved in that prosecution of Arthur Pawlowski.

00:37:29.760 That must be undone.

00:37:31.420 There's a presumption of innocence in this country, which is fundamental to the natural sense of justice and is fundamental to our democracy.

00:37:41.420 Obviously, these folks need to be presumed innocent until the Crown does their work to attempt to prove that they're guilty.

00:37:47.540 We think they're going to have an uphill battle in that regard.

00:37:50.160 But, you know, again, we're at the very early outsets of this matter.

00:37:53.260 The Crown is essentially, as you know, elected to have this heard by indictment rather than summary proceedings, which means that it gets elevated to the court of King's bench.

00:38:03.820 Now, obviously, that can carry more serious penalties, but it also gives these fellows the right to be tried by a jury of their peers.

00:38:12.860 So today, on the record, we entered our election on behalf of our clients to have this tried by a jury.

00:38:21.040 And we feel that, you know, the common sense, the integrity and the, you know, the overall reasonableness of a jury of their peers could bring maybe some maybe some semblance of sanity to these proceedings.

00:38:40.820 So on December 12th, we're elevating this to the court of King's bench and what's called an arraignment will take place where we essentially set the record and begin proceedings and start setting a procedure for the rest of the litigation in this matter.

00:38:57.460 So it'll be another procedural hearing, but it's going to be interesting and we'll start moving down the full course of this thing at that point.

00:39:05.360 Chad is being crowdfunded through TruckerDefenseFund.ca so that these men don't have to worry about legal financing.

00:39:12.480 If you want to help them, that's where you can go to donate.

00:39:15.400 We'll follow up with Chad after December 12th to find out how this case is unfolding.

00:39:20.200 And lastly, I'll leave you with a message from Alex, Marco and George from when we last spoke in November.

00:39:26.420 For Rebel News, Sidney Fizzard.

00:39:28.080 Don't be afraid. Stand up for truth. Do what's right. It's it's what we were made for.

00:39:35.880 You know, for an example, for our children, the future of other Canadians or across the world as well.

00:39:42.740 Stand for truth.

00:39:43.580 This is a bigger fight. This is about government overreach.

00:39:48.820 We can talk about many different avenues, but this was in relation to COVID.

00:39:54.100 Those in power made mistakes.

00:39:58.320 And it wasn't just mistakes.

00:40:02.000 There was intent.

00:40:03.380 And that has to be dealt with.

00:40:05.440 That has to be exposed.

00:40:07.320 I'm aware of a citizen's inquiry that's getting underway.

00:40:10.060 Our premier, Daniel Smith, is pushing back against the Health Act violations, etc.

00:40:17.840 The people have their their their trust has been abused.

00:40:20.760 Their health has been abused.

00:40:22.220 Their freedom has been abused.

00:40:23.860 And for us to ever trust those in authority again, that has to be dealt with.

00:40:28.420 I feel an inquiry needs to happen.

00:40:31.360 And like an independent inquiry into what happened in the last three years.

00:40:36.680 Who is responsible and who is accountable.

00:40:38.840 There's got to be accountability.

00:40:40.540 We're being held to account for the leds charges that we got charged with.

00:40:45.700 So why are they not being held to account for what was happened with them?

00:40:49.200 I mean, there's a lot of charges being dropped.

00:40:50.840 So, you know, there were things that happened unjustly.

00:40:54.400 So now let's find out who who started this and who did that.

00:40:58.140 There were things that happened.

00:41:10.900 So now let's find out who the other side is parallel.

00:41:12.000 I think so.

00:41:12.560 So now let's find out who the other side is now.

Rebel News Podcast - December 13, 2022

Justin Trudeau says he is fine with free speech

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