Rebel News Podcast - June 23, 2018


Media uses HOAX photo of crying girl to bash Trump： Here's the REAL story


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The crying girl on the cover of Time Magazine is a fake. So is the crying baby on the front page of the New York Times. It's not real news, it's fake propaganda. And it's not just fake news that a kid would cry.

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, that story the media is telling about the crying Honduran girl
00:00:03.900 separated from her mom by Donald Trump, it's a hoax.
00:00:07.960 It's June 22nd, and you're watching The Ezra LeVance Show.
00:00:16.180 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:20.000 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:23.720 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
00:00:26.700 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:00:30.660 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:37.540 Look at this crying girl, a little girl, so young.
00:00:42.940 A thousand media stories about her in the last 48 hours,
00:00:46.180 of course because she's a child of tender years,
00:00:48.680 ripped away from her mother by the evil Donald Trump.
00:00:52.440 Time magazine put her on the cover, juxtaposed with her tormentor, Donald Trump,
00:00:59.280 just in case you needed help to make the connection between good and evil.
00:01:04.200 There has been a lot of news in Canada these days.
00:01:07.420 Just for example, did you see the news that Justin Trudeau broke the Conflict of Interest Act again?
00:01:13.320 That's the fifth time now.
00:01:15.040 He took a luxury gift, and he didn't report it,
00:01:17.280 and so he had to pay a fine, but it was a joke, just a hundred bucks.
00:01:20.700 The gift was worth much more than that,
00:01:23.100 but only an obscure online newspaper called Black Locks even reported it.
00:01:27.340 The state broadcaster went wall-to-wall with the crying baby story.
00:01:31.660 They even interviewed the photographer,
00:01:34.460 because apparently he's newsworthy too, I guess?
00:01:38.680 I was on the embankment of the river with a border patrol agent
00:01:44.060 as rafts of people came across the river,
00:01:48.160 across the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.
00:01:51.080 People were very scared.
00:01:52.840 They had come to turn themselves in for asylum,
00:01:55.780 but it was the middle of the night.
00:01:57.440 One by one, they were frisked, patted down,
00:02:00.660 and everyone had to turn in all their personal items,
00:02:03.360 and their shoelaces as well.
00:02:05.060 I noticed a mother was unlacing the shoes of her daughter,
00:02:11.300 a little girl, I didn't know how old.
00:02:14.860 The mother was one of the last people to be body searched. 0.88
00:02:20.900 The officer asked her to set her...
00:02:22.680 You don't need to see anymore.
00:02:24.760 I don't think they covered the moon landing
00:02:27.540 with such flood-the-zone coverage as they did.
00:02:30.900 Maybe they can interview the photographer's mechanic for his views too.
00:02:35.060 Look, it's not real news.
00:02:37.100 Two-year-olds cry,
00:02:38.800 especially if they're out at 11 p.m.
00:02:41.300 in the middle of the desert,
00:02:42.840 and then there are police around.
00:02:45.020 It's not news that a kid would cry.
00:02:46.940 It's fake news, actually,
00:02:49.080 which should not surprise you given that the contract
00:02:51.340 Trudeau signed with George Soros' lobby group
00:02:54.540 to promote the migrant narrative.
00:02:57.260 This fake news on the CBC,
00:02:59.020 where law enforcers are evil,
00:03:01.480 but lawbreakers are noble,
00:03:02.600 that's manufactured.
00:03:03.640 It's not just in the CBC.
00:03:04.500 It's everywhere.
00:03:04.980 But what can you do?
00:03:07.480 It's a gripping image.
00:03:09.560 It's emotional.
00:03:11.660 Rachel Maddow, not the most maternal of women,
00:03:13.760 was positively brought to tears
00:03:15.260 by the story of migrant children,
00:03:17.200 and you know she would never fake it for fake news.
00:03:21.240 Here's footage of children separated from their parents
00:03:22.960 during the Obama administration.
00:03:24.780 But that wasn't sad,
00:03:26.200 or at least not sad enough to talk about,
00:03:27.520 because it was Obama.
00:03:28.720 But Trump, he is a bad man.
00:03:31.840 The Canadian Border Services Agency
00:03:33.340 separates children from parents, too, you know,
00:03:35.760 on occasion when the parents do something illegal.
00:03:39.400 Here's a chart from the government of Canada
00:03:41.060 showing dozens of kids
00:03:42.260 held up for six months in detention.
00:03:45.220 But I guess that's different, too,
00:03:46.100 because it's done by a woke male feminist. 1.00
00:03:48.520 What's going on in the United States is Rome.
00:03:53.720 I can't imagine what the families
00:03:56.140 living through this are enduring.
00:03:59.500 Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada.
00:04:03.660 Imagine smearing Trump for doing the same thing you're doing.
00:04:06.500 Do you think Trudeau just doesn't know
00:04:08.580 what the Canadian government's border police do?
00:04:12.120 It's always a very real possibility
00:04:13.720 he's as shallow as a finger bowl, as someone once said.
00:04:16.760 Or maybe Trudeau knows that he jails kids, too.
00:04:20.180 He knows all governments do.
00:04:21.920 You don't put children in the same jail with their parents.
00:04:24.000 It's just not done.
00:04:26.100 Maybe Trudeau knows that he does what Trump does, too.
00:04:29.880 He's 100% rock solid.
00:04:31.120 Sure, he's not going to be called on it by the Canadian media.
00:04:34.620 Anyways, back to that little girl.
00:04:35.500 She's a propaganda tool. 1.00
00:04:36.460 Not the first time that George Soros
00:04:38.040 has used a little girl for migrant propaganda. 0.98
00:04:41.220 More than three-quarters of all the Muslim migrants to Europe
00:04:43.660 have been single, military-aged men,
00:04:46.200 not women, not children.
00:04:47.880 So it's important to rebrand the image as little kids,
00:04:52.220 like little Aylan Kurdi, found face down on the beach.
00:04:55.180 A horrific tragedy, of course, but also a miracle
00:04:57.820 that a professional news media photographer from Reuters
00:05:00.820 just happened to be there to capture that moment.
00:05:04.640 Aylan Kurdi was not, in fact, fleeing Syria.
00:05:07.200 He was already safe with his family in Turkey.
00:05:10.660 He was put on an inflatable boat by his father.
00:05:13.060 And here is the boy's aunt in Canada.
00:05:16.720 She says they were not fleeing for their safety.
00:05:18.860 She says they were going to try to get free dental care in Germany.
00:05:23.600 The situation is Abdullah does not have any teeth.
00:05:29.980 He has a story about it.
00:05:32.680 So I've been trying to help him fix his teeth.
00:05:38.500 But it's going to cost me $14,000 and up to do it.
00:05:43.920 He needs denture.
00:05:45.320 He needs teeth, implant.
00:05:47.540 So when I told him there is no way I can get you the money in one time
00:05:54.520 because dentists need to get payment right away.
00:05:58.020 So I said to him, actually, my dad, he came up with the idea.
00:06:04.240 He said to me,
00:06:05.000 I think if they go to Europe for his kids and for a better future, 0.93
00:06:13.340 I think you should do that.
00:06:16.100 And then we'll see if we can fix his teeth.
00:06:20.160 Yeah, not quite the story that was sold to the world.
00:06:23.120 The excuse for Trudeau to ship 50,000 unvetted Muslim migrants here from Syria 1.00
00:06:27.200 because of that poor boy.
00:06:29.160 I'm not disputing that Aylan Kurdi died
00:06:31.000 and that it's a tragedy when a child dies.
00:06:32.600 I'm disputing that it had anything to do with Syria or refugees or Canada,
00:06:36.760 which is why and how he was weaponized by the left.
00:06:40.460 Here's another little baby.
00:06:41.500 We don't know the name of the baby.
00:06:42.820 We don't know the face.
00:06:44.120 We don't know much about the baby.
00:06:46.080 This is a baby that was killed by a Muslim terrorist in Nice, France,
00:06:49.660 when that terrorist drove a massive truck down the promenade,
00:06:52.820 murdering more than 80, wounding nearly 500.
00:06:56.300 We don't know this kid's name.
00:06:58.540 Her image will not be politicized or weaponized.
00:07:01.320 Unlike Yanela Hernandez, two-year-old girl, 0.88
00:07:06.580 her picture has been everywhere, front page of the New York Times,
00:07:09.080 front page of countless papers, especially those on the left.
00:07:11.880 Here, the New York Daily News calls Trump an animal for abusing this little girl.
00:07:19.100 Half a million people on Facebook crowdfunded a campaign to fight against this racism.
00:07:23.900 They've raised almost 20 million bucks so far.
00:07:25.840 That evil Donald Trump.
00:07:26.800 I mean, who is so evil that he separates a crying child from her own parents?
00:07:30.440 Well, not Trump, actually, and not Trump's police.
00:07:33.820 The girl was, in fact, never separated from her mom.
00:07:37.460 And the story is almost as weird as Aylan Kurdi's dad going for free dental work in Germany.
00:07:43.100 Here's the first fact, a statement by ICE that stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Police.
00:07:48.520 This is a note that they sent to journalists yesterday.
00:07:52.280 On June 12, 2018, Sandra Maria Sanchez, 32, a previously deported woman from Honduras,
00:07:59.500 illegally re-entered the United States.
00:08:02.120 She was arrested by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Border Patrol near Hidalgo, Texas,
00:08:07.700 while traveling with a family member.
00:08:09.360 On June 17, 2018, Sanchez was transferred to ICE custody
00:08:13.840 and is currently housed at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
00:08:18.800 Her immigration proceedings are ongoing.
00:08:21.740 But look at this.
00:08:23.760 On July 3, 2013, Sanchez was encountered by immigration officials in Hebronville, Texas.
00:08:29.380 On July 9, 2013, she was transferred to ICE, ERO custody.
00:08:33.220 On July 18, 2013, Sanchez was removed to Honduras under expedited removal.
00:08:39.360 Oh, so she hasn't been separated from her daughter.
00:08:45.680 They're together in a family facility, after all.
00:08:48.180 And not just that, the mom, Sandra Maria Sanchez,
00:08:52.260 she's illegally entering America for a second time,
00:08:55.860 having been caught and deported five years ago by Barack Obama.
00:09:00.780 But the story gets weirder.
00:09:02.000 Dental trip type weird, even weirder than that.
00:09:04.720 The father of this two-year-old Honduran girl,
00:09:08.740 he's got something to say about this.
00:09:11.380 He was interviewed at length by the Daily Mail, a UK-based newspaper.
00:09:14.560 He says Sandra Sanchez, his wife, the girl's mother,
00:09:18.560 basically kidnapped her.
00:09:20.960 He says he disagreed with her decision to try to sneak into the U.S. illegally.
00:09:24.540 Again, he disagreed with her taking their daughter on such a dangerous trip.
00:09:27.960 He disagreed with her paying $6,000 to a human trafficker called a coyote,
00:09:33.400 surely a gang member.
00:09:34.600 Remember that up to 60% of women and children smuggled across the border
00:09:37.640 are sexually assaulted, including by their human traffickers.
00:09:41.380 And the evil Donald Trump, yeah, no, he saved them.
00:09:45.940 Here's the father in that exclusive interview at Daily Mail,
00:09:49.300 Hernandez, who lives in Puerto Cortes, Honduras,
00:09:52.860 says that he was told yesterday that his wife and child are being detained
00:09:56.360 at a family residential center in Texas,
00:09:58.240 but are together in doing fine.
00:10:02.000 You can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter.
00:10:05.640 It broke my heart.
00:10:07.440 It's difficult as a father to see that,
00:10:08.980 but I know now they are not in danger.
00:10:10.800 They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border, he said.
00:10:15.880 Let me read some more.
00:10:16.760 I'm not sure if this is mother of the year material here.
00:10:21.140 Dennis, that's the dad,
00:10:22.860 said that his wife had previously mentioned her wish to go to the United States
00:10:26.320 for a better future,
00:10:27.180 but did not tell him or any of their family members
00:10:29.380 that she was planning to make the trek.
00:10:30.860 I didn't support it.
00:10:32.160 I asked her why.
00:10:33.540 Why would she want to put our little girl through that? 0.99
00:10:36.700 But it was her decision at the end of the day.
00:10:39.860 And this,
00:10:40.680 I don't have any resentment for my wife,
00:10:42.500 but I do think it was irresponsible of her to take the baby with her in her arms 0.99
00:10:46.260 because we don't know what could happen.
00:10:49.100 The couple has three other children,
00:10:50.560 son, Wesley, 14,
00:10:52.220 daughter, Cindy, 11,
00:10:53.340 and Brianna, 6. 1.00
00:10:55.600 So we have a mom who basically walked away from her family, 1.00
00:10:58.300 her husband, who has a respectable job,
00:11:00.500 and her three other kids.
00:11:02.040 She wants to be a big star in America,
00:11:04.120 and she literally took a two-year-old through a coyote smuggler 1.00
00:11:06.800 to break the law and sneak into America again
00:11:09.800 after Barack Obama deported her.
00:11:11.880 And she was captured and is in a family facility now.
00:11:15.420 Every single thing about the story that was reported in Time Magazine
00:11:19.240 and in the New York Times and on Canada's CBC,
00:11:22.680 every single thing they said about it was fake news.
00:11:27.500 She's not a refugee. 0.96
00:11:29.460 She's not poor.
00:11:31.200 She's not legal.
00:11:33.040 She's a serial lawbreaker. 1.00
00:11:35.320 Obama deported her five years ago.
00:11:37.560 She was captured again.
00:11:38.800 She was not separated from her daughter in America.
00:11:42.320 Actually, she separated herself and her daughter
00:11:44.380 from the rest of the family.
00:11:46.120 She abandoned them back in Honduras.
00:11:48.660 She's a liar, 0.99
00:11:49.980 which isn't surprising given that she's also a criminal.
00:11:53.320 We know all about her now,
00:11:54.580 but we also know a bit more about our own lying media too,
00:11:58.700 don't we?
00:12:00.000 We don't hesitate for a second
00:12:01.700 to use a child to make their propaganda point.
00:12:05.360 Whether that child is crying or actually dead,
00:12:09.860 I say it again,
00:12:10.660 you just can't trust the mainstream media.
00:12:14.960 Stay with us for more.
00:12:15.860 Welcome back.
00:12:33.320 Well, $4.5 billion has fled from the federal treasury
00:12:36.600 to a Texas-based company called Kinder Morgan.
00:12:39.860 They are the company that owns the Trans Mountain pipeline
00:12:42.880 from Alberta to British Columbia
00:12:44.300 that has been happily and safely pumping away
00:12:47.020 for the better part of a century $4.5 billion
00:12:50.480 to buy the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline.
00:12:53.260 But that's not the controversial one.
00:12:55.340 The one that we need to get built,
00:12:57.100 that Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley,
00:12:59.020 and the entire oil patch want built,
00:13:00.880 is the expansion,
00:13:02.320 which would cost a further $7.4 billion.
00:13:05.200 That's the one that BC's premier is holding up
00:13:07.900 politically, legally, and in every other way he can.
00:13:11.180 So what's happening?
00:13:12.800 What do we spend that $4.5 billion for
00:13:15.200 if the pipeline's actually not moving forward?
00:13:17.940 Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton
00:13:19.620 is our friend there.
00:13:21.960 He's a senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun.
00:13:24.580 I'm talking about Lauren Gunter.
00:13:26.960 Lauren, great to see you again.
00:13:28.200 I have in front of me your column called
00:13:29.640 Lack of Liberal Action Makes Trans Mountain Purchase
00:13:33.660 Look Like Hush Money.
00:13:34.880 What do you mean by that?
00:13:36.380 Well, I think that the $4.5 billion
00:13:38.360 was spent largely to keep everybody quiet,
00:13:40.860 to make this issue go away,
00:13:42.740 to say, hush up, Alberta.
00:13:45.040 Look, we're keeping this pipeline alive
00:13:47.060 even if Kinder Morgan was going to kill it.
00:13:49.060 And sort of a nudge, nudge, wink, wink
00:13:51.160 to environmentalists, too, with their inaction.
00:13:53.900 Not with the $4.5 billion purchase,
00:13:55.960 but the fact that they're not doing anything
00:13:57.300 with this pipeline that they just bought.
00:13:59.420 It's kind of a, hey, hush up, environmentalists.
00:14:01.360 Environmentalists, we are on your side
00:14:03.780 and we're not going to move on this pipeline.
00:14:06.580 So the other day, Shannon Stubbs,
00:14:09.720 who is the natural resource shadow minister
00:14:12.520 for the Tories in Ottawa,
00:14:14.540 asked Jim Carr, who is the natural resource minister
00:14:18.020 for the Trudeau government,
00:14:19.460 hey, how's that pipeline coming?
00:14:21.800 You know, you bought this pipeline.
00:14:23.440 You said you were going to go ahead with it.
00:14:24.880 One of the reasons you bought it
00:14:26.460 was Kinder Morgan said
00:14:27.700 it couldn't stand another,
00:14:30.620 missing another construction season.
00:14:33.060 Construction season's underway.
00:14:35.280 Is the pipeline underway?
00:14:36.500 And Carr said, well, no,
00:14:38.160 there's some problems with the permitting process.
00:14:40.520 It's been a lot slower than we thought.
00:14:42.700 Not sure when the pipeline's going to get started.
00:14:47.320 So that makes it, to me,
00:14:49.680 look like they're really not that serious
00:14:51.040 about making, about building this pipeline.
00:14:53.120 Why did they buy it?
00:14:54.920 You know, there's been discussion
00:14:56.180 about whether or not they overpaid for the pipeline.
00:14:58.540 And Kinder Morgan's existing pipeline,
00:15:02.040 the company valued at $2.5 billion.
00:15:04.140 We paid $4.5 billion as taxpayers.
00:15:07.220 In their most recent regulatory filings,
00:15:10.000 Kinder Morgan Canada listed their assets
00:15:11.680 as $4.6 billion.
00:15:13.140 So that we got all those assets.
00:15:15.600 Maybe we didn't overpay.
00:15:17.100 But the point is,
00:15:18.520 we bought the pipeline to make sure
00:15:20.280 it was going to get built
00:15:21.040 so that we wouldn't miss this construction season.
00:15:23.980 And we're going to miss this construction season
00:15:26.340 because the liberals are too timid
00:15:28.280 to actually do anything concrete
00:15:30.500 with this pipeline.
00:15:33.320 Well, Lorne, I have a slightly different take on things.
00:15:35.880 Like I say, the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline,
00:15:38.760 which I put it to you that most
00:15:40.380 British Columbia environmental protesters
00:15:44.180 aren't even thinking about.
00:15:45.940 Like, they think we're going to stop a pipeline.
00:15:48.180 There is a pipeline, and it's buried, of course,
00:15:51.180 so no one sees it.
00:15:55.060 That's the one that taxpayers bought.
00:15:57.700 So I was never tricked in the first place
00:16:01.120 when Justin Trudeau said,
00:16:02.980 we're going to take $4.5 billion
00:16:05.000 for the existing pipeline
00:16:06.720 that no one is trying to stop,
00:16:08.740 that can't be stopped,
00:16:09.880 that's happily pumping away.
00:16:11.300 That was never the problem.
00:16:12.700 The problem is the addition,
00:16:14.220 the $7.4 billion one,
00:16:16.020 that requires the construction.
00:16:17.300 So I don't even know, Lorne,
00:16:21.300 if that is owned by the government of Canada.
00:16:23.880 I don't think there's anything to own
00:16:25.920 because it's not built yet.
00:16:28.240 So it's a promise of $7.4 to be spent
00:16:31.560 on top of this $4.5 that's already in the ground.
00:16:35.060 My understanding from looking at all
00:16:36.880 of the regulatory documents,
00:16:39.080 as much as I could around Kinder Morgan,
00:16:42.600 was that Kinder Morgan had already put
00:16:44.500 about $1.1 billion into the new pipeline.
00:16:46.860 Mostly in planning and in regulatory compliance.
00:16:50.280 So for instance,
00:16:51.440 you know,
00:16:52.200 the hearings on the twinning of this pipeline,
00:16:56.720 the commission or the energy board would say,
00:17:00.400 well, we're not sure whether or not
00:17:02.180 this is going to have a bad influence,
00:17:05.860 any bad outcomes on the butterflies
00:17:08.420 in the Smilkameen Valley.
00:17:10.700 Please go and do a study.
00:17:12.260 And they'd spend $400,000,
00:17:14.240 you know,
00:17:14.360 and things like that.
00:17:15.040 You know,
00:17:15.160 there's $200,000 here,
00:17:16.440 $400,000 there.
00:17:17.560 Adds up to a billion dollars in a hurry.
00:17:19.540 Yeah.
00:17:20.740 Complying with all of these,
00:17:22.000 these regulatory matters.
00:17:25.260 And we paid them back for that.
00:17:27.160 We paid them the $1.1 billion.
00:17:28.600 Now,
00:17:28.840 private buyer for this,
00:17:30.520 all of these assets would not have paid them
00:17:32.820 for the $1.1 they'd already sunk in.
00:17:35.080 You write that off,
00:17:36.260 Kinder Morgan,
00:17:37.160 U.S.,
00:17:38.180 you eat that.
00:17:39.740 That's not ours.
00:17:40.500 We did pay them for that.
00:17:42.120 But the point is,
00:17:43.820 they could have,
00:17:44.700 as you know,
00:17:45.680 from April on,
00:17:47.140 Trudeau kept saying,
00:17:47.920 they were going to pass this law
00:17:49.140 that would assert the Fed's
00:17:50.820 constitutional authority
00:17:52.020 over the building of pipelines,
00:17:55.780 period,
00:17:56.180 building of this pipeline in particular.
00:17:58.640 And they never did that.
00:18:00.400 They never got around to passing the law.
00:18:02.220 So Doug Black,
00:18:03.120 who is an independent,
00:18:04.840 kind of red Tory senator from Alberta,
00:18:07.440 but a senior oil and gas lawyer
00:18:09.960 who knows this inside out,
00:18:12.320 he put in a bill in the Senate,
00:18:13.960 which passed overwhelmingly,
00:18:16.360 that outlined the federal authority
00:18:19.240 to build this pipeline.
00:18:21.680 Had the federal government
00:18:23.180 simply allowed that bill
00:18:25.220 to be passed in the Commons,
00:18:27.900 they would then not have had to worry
00:18:29.680 about this permitting process
00:18:31.020 because the law would have said,
00:18:33.400 we, the federal government,
00:18:34.860 have the authority
00:18:35.840 to override local
00:18:37.520 and provincial concerns
00:18:38.740 now that this pipeline
00:18:39.920 has been approved
00:18:40.840 and we're just going to start building it.
00:18:43.240 But the Trudeau liberals
00:18:44.340 didn't even allow that bill
00:18:45.700 to be introduced into the Commons,
00:18:47.160 much less passed.
00:18:48.220 They didn't even allow it
00:18:48.880 to be introduced.
00:18:49.840 So they are not serious
00:18:51.420 about building the twinning
00:18:53.840 or about twinning,
00:18:55.320 building the second part
00:18:56.540 of Trans Mountain,
00:18:58.080 despite the fact that they keep saying
00:18:59.620 this pipeline will be built,
00:19:00.820 this pipeline will be built.
00:19:02.160 I don't think they really intend it.
00:19:03.420 I'm thinking this $4.5 billion
00:19:05.500 was hush money
00:19:06.300 to keep this issue quiet
00:19:08.260 until after next fall's federal election,
00:19:10.760 the 2019 federal election,
00:19:12.660 and after the 18 liberals
00:19:14.800 who are elected from BC
00:19:16.960 are safely reelected
00:19:18.680 with maybe a few extras added in.
00:19:21.320 I think that's all the calculations
00:19:23.080 that are going on here.
00:19:23.940 I think you're right.
00:19:25.100 I have a slightly different spin.
00:19:26.280 Let me put it to you.
00:19:26.920 I mean, your headline in the sun
00:19:28.400 is lack of liberal action
00:19:30.160 makes Trans Mountain purchase
00:19:31.260 look like hush money.
00:19:32.120 I think it's hush money in two ways.
00:19:34.280 I did a story a few weeks ago,
00:19:36.580 Lauren, about a quarry
00:19:38.160 in Digby Neck, Nova Scotia.
00:19:41.180 American investors put in millions of bucks.
00:19:43.620 They were told it would be a fair process.
00:19:45.340 It was a rock quarry in a marine terminal.
00:19:47.500 So, I mean, it wasn't as big
00:19:51.040 or as fancy as an oil sands pipeline.
00:19:54.760 They were refused a permitting
00:19:57.120 for a made-up reason, social license.
00:19:59.840 Like, we don't like the cut of your jib.
00:20:02.920 Like, there was no technical reason.
00:20:04.900 They made a NAFTA complaint, Lauren.
00:20:07.360 They won.
00:20:08.820 The government appealed it.
00:20:10.720 The investor won again.
00:20:12.300 And they haven't finalized
00:20:14.160 the amount they're going to be paid.
00:20:15.220 But basically, they're getting 50 years' worth
00:20:18.720 of profits paid to them
00:20:20.520 under NAFTA as a penalty.
00:20:22.100 So, a rock quarry.
00:20:23.480 Just rocks, Lauren.
00:20:25.080 This American investor
00:20:26.400 is going to get half a billion dollars.
00:20:29.300 So, I saw that.
00:20:30.380 I thought, if you're getting half a billion
00:20:31.720 for some rock quarry,
00:20:33.920 imagine what Kinder Morgan could get.
00:20:36.440 They jumped through all the hoops.
00:20:38.640 They did everything they were told.
00:20:40.440 And they were told no
00:20:41.720 for goofy social license.
00:20:43.500 Get ready for billions.
00:20:44.360 I think this is the double hush.
00:20:47.520 Here's $4.5 billion,
00:20:49.720 way more than a commercial bid would be.
00:20:53.380 So, Kinder Morgan,
00:20:54.220 can you please be quiet?
00:20:55.780 We are voluntarily paying you
00:20:57.720 so much money now.
00:20:59.880 Please don't make a fuss.
00:21:01.040 Please don't sue us
00:21:01.700 and just pretend it's a pain.
00:21:03.380 We're buying this off of you.
00:21:05.860 And so, now we're the party
00:21:07.440 that is going to be damaged,
00:21:09.820 that's going to lose profits
00:21:11.340 when it doesn't get built.
00:21:12.660 So, that's hush number one.
00:21:13.720 Because we're the government,
00:21:14.640 we're going to say nothing about it.
00:21:16.380 So, here's $4.5 billion,
00:21:17.300 give us the pipeline
00:21:18.160 and we'll just stay quiet.
00:21:19.800 That's entirely possible.
00:21:21.020 So, that's hush one.
00:21:21.860 But let me,
00:21:22.200 can I put hush number two to you, Lauren?
00:21:23.700 Yeah, you bet.
00:21:24.780 Hush number two is this.
00:21:27.100 Like I said,
00:21:28.160 the expansion is,
00:21:29.360 it's not happening.
00:21:30.820 I mean, you know that,
00:21:31.900 I know that they haven't come up
00:21:33.200 with the other 7.4.
00:21:34.520 Here's what I think they're doing.
00:21:35.660 Remember, 2019 is a provincial Alberta election
00:21:39.260 and a federal election.
00:21:41.840 So, I think Justin Trudeau
00:21:43.640 is going to say to Albertans,
00:21:45.680 if you vote for Jason Kenney
00:21:48.220 and scrap the carbon tax,
00:21:52.320 well, then we're not building the pipeline.
00:21:54.580 And because the two go together,
00:21:57.940 energy and the environment,
00:21:59.440 that's buying social license. 0.89
00:22:01.120 So, he's going to say to Albertans,
00:22:03.680 it's your fault
00:22:04.820 because he knows Albertans
00:22:06.040 are going to throw Rachel Notley.
00:22:07.540 So, Justin Trudeau is going to say,
00:22:09.580 this is my theory,
00:22:11.200 if you scrap the carbon tax,
00:22:14.020 I will not build my pipeline.
00:22:15.860 Oh, you voted for Jason Kenney.
00:22:17.440 I will not do it.
00:22:19.000 I'm punishing you.
00:22:20.440 And hey, BC, look at that.
00:22:22.320 So, that's what I think he's going to do.
00:22:24.980 I think he's going to use it as a hostage.
00:22:27.440 I think that's all plausible.
00:22:29.420 I do think, though,
00:22:30.720 that most of the calculations
00:22:31.920 are much more immediate than that.
00:22:33.980 That they are worried about the 18 seats
00:22:37.600 that they have in BC.
00:22:39.720 They know the four seats
00:22:40.900 that they have in Alberta.
00:22:42.300 At least three of them are lost.
00:22:44.660 I can't imagine that any of them will win,
00:22:48.540 but at least three of the four are gone.
00:22:50.680 So, they're not going to do anything.
00:22:52.760 To try and win seats in Alberta.
00:22:55.060 Because they know there's no chance for that.
00:22:56.920 They do know, though,
00:22:57.760 that the 18 seats they have in BC
00:22:59.900 out of 43, I think it is,
00:23:02.540 they could increase that total, maybe.
00:23:05.580 But they could for sure lose
00:23:07.120 some of those 18.
00:23:08.400 And when they start looking around now,
00:23:10.460 I mean, they lost the by-election in Quebec.
00:23:12.240 That's not maybe a sign of
00:23:13.880 bad times ahead for them in Quebec.
00:23:16.620 But it's not a good thing for them either.
00:23:18.560 I mean, they're starting to do the calculations.
00:23:20.200 They're starting to count.
00:23:20.940 Oh, gosh, we're going to lose some of these.
00:23:22.740 Maybe lose some of these.
00:23:23.380 Maybe the bloom is coming off the Trudeau rose.
00:23:28.360 And so, they're worried.
00:23:29.320 And I think that the immediate electoral calculations
00:23:32.000 are the number one reason
00:23:34.000 that they're not doing anything on this.
00:23:35.900 Well, it's terrifying.
00:23:37.940 And I think it's just,
00:23:39.460 everyone's a loser, I think,
00:23:41.120 except for the foreign environmental activists
00:23:44.280 who are just getting everything they want.
00:23:46.720 And it's no coincidence that Gerald Butts
00:23:48.800 is Justin Trudeau's principal secretary.
00:23:50.500 Lauren, I know you got to run.
00:23:51.340 Thanks for your time and your views.
00:23:53.460 It's great to see you again, my friend.
00:23:55.340 Likewise.
00:23:55.860 All right, there you have it.
00:23:56.760 Lauren Gunter.
00:23:57.240 By the way, if you haven't seen this column,
00:23:58.500 it's in the Edmonton Sun.
00:23:59.640 It's called,
00:24:00.100 Lack of Liberal Action Makes Trans Mountain Purchase
00:24:02.860 Look Like Hush Money.
00:24:03.580 And by the way, Rick Bell has a great column in there, too,
00:24:07.320 in the Calgary Sun,
00:24:09.200 called Trans Mountain Pipeline Stalled Trudeau's Folks Hope.
00:24:14.120 And there's just really, really weird shenanigans.
00:24:17.740 I don't think we can trust these liberals
00:24:19.220 as far as we can throw them.
00:24:20.200 Stay with us.
00:24:20.680 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:24:21.360 Oh, folks, I think we have a bit of a contest.
00:24:34.740 I've got a question for you.
00:24:35.660 Who is a worse nanny state? 1.00
00:24:38.000 Who is more politically incorrect?
00:24:39.540 Who is fighting the war against fun more outrageously?
00:24:44.080 The city of Toronto or the city of Granby, Quebec?
00:24:47.060 Joining us now in the studio to talk about this is my friend David Menzies.
00:24:49.580 Hi, David. Nice to see you.
00:24:50.540 Good to see you, Ezra.
00:24:51.520 We've got two crazy cases.
00:24:53.140 It's a tough contest.
00:24:54.880 On the one hand, let me read a headline from the National Post.
00:24:57.780 Kids' water balloon fight lands Quebec mother with $102 fine.
00:25:01.720 Yes.
00:25:02.520 That's from Granby, Quebec.
00:25:03.600 That's a pretty good one for splashing water on the pavement.
00:25:07.180 And then we've got Ontario, movies that, Toronto, city of Toronto.
00:25:11.300 Movies that show smoking should be rated R, says health board chair.
00:25:16.940 So censorship proposals in Toronto and $102 tickets for water fights in Granby.
00:25:24.280 What do you think of this?
00:25:25.040 Well, first of all, they've dialed back the R rating.
00:25:27.580 They're now saying 18A.
00:25:29.100 So if you're under 18, as long as you have an adult, you can see, you know, Bugs Bunny or Pepe Le Pew smoking a cigarette.
00:25:35.340 So thank goodness for a little mercy.
00:25:38.100 You know, well, there are two completely separate issues, of course, Ezra.
00:25:41.760 The one in Quebec, this was, you know, they have a water restriction policy going on.
00:25:48.200 And this was kind of a cosmic coincidence.
00:25:50.600 There was a girl filling her water balloon just as a bylaw officer in training was walking by. 0.94
00:25:56.760 And some of the water splattered on the pavement.
00:25:59.280 And that was noted, I think, in the report, kind of like how Dexter, you know, the blood spatter analysis, you know, for the fictional Miami Police Department, you know, notes his evidence.
00:26:11.160 And you're not supposed to do that.
00:26:12.820 But, you know, here's the thing.
00:26:14.200 I often go to bat for the bylaw officers, Ezra, based on personal experience, because normally what happens is they hate waging war on kids, taking away a basketball net, shutting down a lemonade stand.
00:26:28.260 They are driven by complaints.
00:26:30.340 They're complaint driven.
00:26:31.520 But not in this case.
00:26:32.820 This is where somebody was walking by.
00:26:35.060 There was no complaint.
00:26:36.440 Saw, you know, what happened.
00:26:38.000 What happened to common sense?
00:26:39.720 This was a little girl of 13 trying to fill a water balloon.
00:26:43.740 Some of it got on the asphalt.
00:26:45.400 And suddenly that's a $102 ticket.
00:26:47.980 And the second thing, especially in this day and age of social media, Ezra, if I'm one of these bylaw officers,
00:26:53.600 I'm thinking ahead of the, you know, of the ticket and the potential fallout.
00:26:59.040 How idiotic is this going to make me and my city look once this goes, you know, on fire on social media?
00:27:06.660 Let me just read.
00:27:07.260 I'm reading from the story here.
00:27:08.700 The city's bylaws prohibit residents from washing or cleaning their driveways with potable water, potable water.
00:27:15.780 But that's not what we're doing here.
00:27:17.100 So you tell me, you say that in your own personal experience, bylaw officers generally aren't being punitive.
00:27:24.800 That may be true.
00:27:25.760 But I think there's sort of a character in certain people that they like to be authorities.
00:27:33.760 You see it sometimes in bouncers at clubs.
00:27:36.140 You see it in people who want to be a cop for all the wrong reasons.
00:27:39.540 Yes.
00:27:39.840 Because they want to be bossy and boss people around.
00:27:41.880 And maybe they weren't good enough to be a cop, so maybe they're a mall cop.
00:27:44.720 And I'm not disparaging all mall cops or bouncers.
00:27:46.720 I'm just saying there are some people that naturally enjoy writing a ticket, enjoy showing in this one area of their life they're superior to you.
00:27:58.460 They may not be superior to you in any other domain, but they have a badge that says, I can give you a ticket.
00:28:04.820 I don't know who this ticket giver was, but that's what it sounds like to me.
00:28:11.460 Well, I agree.
00:28:12.680 And I think those are the dangerous ones when it comes to law enforcement or quasi-law enforcement, someone that couldn't make the A team and is now on the B team.
00:28:20.560 But this, I think, goes against both the spirit and the letter of the law.
00:28:24.220 As you just said, Ezra, this whole bylaw is about, I guess, power washing your driveway.
00:28:29.940 And if it's good drinking water, the city deems this to be a complete waste.
00:28:35.360 And maybe they're right about that.
00:28:36.900 But why couldn't this person figure out this was an accidental spill from a hose pipe going into a balloon?
00:28:44.580 It doesn't make sense.
00:28:45.680 All right.
00:28:45.880 So, Granby makes a very good, like, great effort in the war on fun, but the contest is against Toronto.
00:28:54.880 Let me read a couple lines from the story on the Toronto Star.
00:28:57.240 And they're thrilled about this, by the way.
00:28:59.100 Movies that show tobacco use should be off limits to anyone under 18, unless they have adult supervision, says Toronto's Public Health Board chair.
00:29:06.080 Counselor Joe Mahavik wants his board to vote to lobby the Ontario government to make movies with smoking rated 18A, basically banning any classic.
00:29:14.720 Here's my thing.
00:29:16.360 I mean, so they're calling for censorship.
00:29:18.280 They're saying parents are too stupid to educate or care for their own kids.
00:29:24.420 They're saying someone who's 17 and a half.
00:29:28.540 The same people who are racing to legalize marijuana.
00:29:35.000 Yes.
00:29:35.480 Oh, my God.
00:29:36.440 They saw a tobacco cigarette.
00:29:39.580 But here's what gets me.
00:29:41.140 I mean, Toronto schools are the worst in the country.
00:29:46.000 I think it's pretty safe to say that.
00:29:48.120 And they're so insane on the ideology when it comes to sexuality.
00:29:53.120 Yeah.
00:29:53.220 Like, they're teaching six-year-olds explicit sex.
00:29:58.860 They're talking about the, is it the six genders or something in, like, grade five?
00:30:02.860 Like, so you can talk about that to children of tender years, but showing an image of someone smoking, oh, my God, you've got to be 18.
00:30:14.840 It's pretty weird.
00:30:16.540 It's pretty weird, the disconnect there.
00:30:18.720 It's preposterous.
00:30:19.960 And in the article, Joe Mahavik, and Joe Mahavik is a very left-wing counselor.
00:30:24.320 And I'll say, look, his heart is in the right place here.
00:30:27.660 I mean, he doesn't want people to get addicted to nicotine.
00:30:30.840 I think he likes being the boss.
00:30:32.520 I think he's got that inspector syndrome.
00:30:35.220 Well, maybe you're right.
00:30:36.520 But the thing is, he was justifying this in a most bizarre way.
00:30:40.560 He said, if you look at what the city of Toronto and other municipalities have done over the past, we've gone out and we've banned smoking in workplaces, restaurants, hospitals.
00:30:49.020 Joe, those were real cigarettes with real smoke involving real people in a theater, which is already smoke-free.
00:30:56.560 And I go back to the days I remember, Ezra, the first seven rows you could smoke, and that's long, long gone.
00:31:02.400 But this is just cinematic smoking.
00:31:04.800 And also, what does this mean in terms of reclassifying films?
00:31:09.020 I mean, G-rated stuff even, Ezra.
00:31:11.840 Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians is smoking a cigarette.
00:31:15.020 Does that now get an 18A rating?
00:31:16.640 Well, I mean, and if we're banning it in film, what's the difference between a film in a theater and a film on YouTube or a book or a magazine or any depiction or image whatsoever?
00:31:26.420 How about words that describe it?
00:31:28.600 This is just insane social control, social engineering censorship.
00:31:33.320 And I don't know.
00:31:35.200 I won't give this guy the benefit of the doubt.
00:31:38.360 I think, like Justin Trudeau, who's obsessed with being a male feminist, these authoritarians, they go to their touchstone to distract from other things about which they're incompetent.
00:31:49.540 Toronto is a mess.
00:31:50.400 It's a city.
00:31:51.140 So, of course, he wants to talk about banning.
00:31:53.260 But you know what?
00:31:53.760 There is an idea I have, and I'd like to run this by, and then we're out of time.
00:31:56.840 Sure.
00:31:59.520 Tobacco is an aboriginal discovery. 0.99
00:32:01.680 Yes.
00:32:01.940 Europe did not know about smoking until Sir Walter Raleigh brought it back from the new country.
00:32:09.680 Maybe others brought it back earlier.
00:32:15.680 Why should some Toronto politician be able to ban something that is so historically and culturally part of our First Nations?
00:32:23.320 There is not a single thing in Toronto, official thing that's not started with, we recognize that we are unceded aboriginal territory, which, by the way, is legally untrue in many occasions.
00:32:36.320 So they all BS about, oh, I'm very respectful about aboriginal traditions.
00:32:40.880 Smoking is an aboriginal tradition that came from North America to Europe. 1.00
00:32:46.500 And here's some European, Joe Mahavik.
00:32:49.060 Yep.
00:32:49.380 I'm kidding around, of course.
00:32:50.660 But here he is saying, I'm going to ban this thing that's more Canadian than he is, I guess is what I'm saying. 1.00
00:32:55.700 You know, that's a very good point.
00:32:57.160 But I'll counter it with this, Ezra.
00:32:59.200 Right now, on Native Reserves, every single rule in the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, right? 1.00
00:33:06.100 And the ostensible policy reason for the Smoke-Free Ontario Act was to keep cigarettes out of the hands of children.
00:33:11.380 Every single rule is violated, including the sale of cigarettes to minors.
00:33:16.960 We've had that, we've shown that on this, you know, another Rebel Assignments before.
00:33:22.100 So when it comes to what's happening on the Reserve, these social justice warriors and social justice engineers,
00:33:29.680 they'll turn a blind eye because they don't want to get involved in anything of white person versus native.
00:33:36.040 But when it comes to something that doesn't cause any harm, like showing cigarettes on a movie or a TV show,
00:33:42.960 then that's when they'll put down the mallet.
00:33:45.740 And also, how far do we go?
00:33:47.940 Car chases.
00:33:49.120 I mean, that's against the law.
00:33:50.600 How about obesity?
00:33:51.740 Kills as many people in North America every year as smoking does.
00:33:54.120 Yeah.
00:33:54.700 How about a documentary that is pro-right-wing or pro-Donald Trump?
00:33:57.680 Does that get 18A on it, too?
00:33:59.060 Well, absolutely.
00:33:59.780 These folks will ban anything. 0.99
00:34:00.920 David, great to see you again.
00:34:01.860 Thank you, Ezra.
00:34:02.280 All right.
00:34:02.720 Stay with us, folks.
00:34:03.620 More ahead on the Rebel.
00:34:06.040 Hey, welcome back.
00:34:16.160 I'm a monologue yesterday about Canadian media fact-checking Trump, but not Trudeau.
00:34:20.120 Harley writes, the left mainstream media should call it fact-checking.
00:34:25.480 You only get to stay fat and at the trough by not saying anything bad about the government.
00:34:31.400 Well, I should note that a CBC reporter was just appointed to the Senate.
00:34:35.200 You know, once a decade, once every five years, I don't know, liberals appoint a CBC journalist
00:34:40.240 to the Senate.
00:34:41.080 It's a way of keeping a thousand other CBC journalists chastened in the right direction,
00:34:45.560 isn't it?
00:34:47.200 Tammy writes, fact-checking is rare for mainstream media.
00:34:50.600 In Canada, the government propaganda broadcaster wouldn't dare to fact-check and report the
00:34:54.700 results.
00:34:55.360 The facts show Trudeau is the worst PM since his father.
00:34:57.660 Well, again, I'm going to say that the whole idea of fake news, one person's opinion is
00:35:02.740 another person's false fact or true fact.
00:35:05.640 I say let people sort it out on their own.
00:35:07.840 I'm smart enough to be my own decider of what I believe or not.
00:35:10.820 On my interview with Eric Duem about the conservative by-election victory in Quebec, Robert writes,
00:35:16.860 the common wisdom is not to read too much into a by-election victory, but Eric Duem really
00:35:20.920 made some good points.
00:35:21.920 After Ford's victory in Ontario and this by-election in Quebec, I am optimistic going into the next
00:35:25.940 federal election.
00:35:27.440 Now, if only we could get rid of smiling Andy Scheer.
00:35:31.680 Well, look, you're not going to get rid of Andrew Scheer.
00:35:33.400 You're just not going to.
00:35:34.080 It's not going to happen.
00:35:34.700 I don't think there's a Patrick Brown scandal waiting to emerge.
00:35:39.360 I think instead of getting rid of him, you have to improve him, try to give him a backbone
00:35:43.540 transplant or something, and make him more conservative.
00:35:46.080 Not even more conservative, just more courageous to take on the CBC and the media party.
00:35:51.780 Peter writes, it sounds a lot like Quebec might be going through a conservative wave,
00:35:55.880 both provincially and federally.
00:35:57.280 If that's the case, then that is very welcome news.
00:36:00.380 Well, let me rain on your parade just a tiny bit.
00:36:03.320 Eric was very clear that this is not all of Quebec.
00:36:06.420 It's certainly not Montreal, the largest population center.
00:36:09.280 Rural parts of Quebec, those parts near Quebec City, yes.
00:36:13.320 But I don't think downtown Montreal will ever vote anything other than Liberal.
00:36:18.820 But yeah, absolutely, it's hopeful.
00:36:21.220 And it was very interesting to me to hear how immigration was a story, if only our English
00:36:25.560 language media and politicians had that courage, too.
00:36:28.600 Well, that's our show for today.
00:36:29.900 Thanks for tuning in.
00:36:30.760 And until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night
00:36:35.020 and keep fighting for freedom.