Rebel News Podcast - Our latest book hits #1 on the best-sellers list. I’ll show you the Media Party’s reaction!

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I've got an interesting story for you. As you know, on Friday,

00:00:04.280 we published our latest book by Coach Linda Blade and Barbara Kay called Unsporting. It's

00:00:09.320 about transgenderism in sports. And the book went to number one on Friday. Well, I looked at some 0.97

00:00:15.580 of the reaction to it online, including by the media party. I'm going to take you through,

00:00:19.360 I don't know, about half a dozen really revealing tweets. I just, very interesting,

00:00:24.520 the reaction to that book, hitting number one, published by us. Just, boy, I think you'll

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00:01:26.560 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:27.840 Tonight, our latest book hits number one on the bestsellers list. I'll show you the media party's

00:01:48.920 reaction. It's May 31st and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:52.360 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:58.300 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:02:02.360 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's

00:02:06.760 my bloody right to do so.

00:02:13.040 Hello, my friends. Friday was very exciting. As you saw, we released our latest book called

00:02:18.580 Unsporting by Coach Linda Blade and Barbara Kay. I sure had fun chatting with them. Well,

00:02:25.580 that was literally the day we announced the book. I think we made the announcement public

00:02:30.180 actually mid-afternoon, like 3.30 or something. But by that evening, the book had literally hit

00:02:36.940 number one on the Amazon bestseller list for all of Canada. I think that might actually be the

00:02:43.200 fastest we've ever had a book at Rebel News go to number one. I think it's just incredible. Now,

00:02:48.860 knock on wood, as I told you on Friday, my book China Virus was an instant bestseller too. But then

00:02:54.520 the Chinese embassy or whoever started a pressure campaign to have Amazon ban the book, which they

00:03:00.380 did. And after we made a fuss, they unbanned it. I think there's a real chance that could happen to

00:03:05.880 this book too. Because we've seen it happen to others. But also because we see the campaign to ban

00:03:12.600 us starting online already. But not from everyone. Interestingly, there are plenty of people who I think

00:03:20.640 traditionally would be called on the left who support the book. I mean, pretty much anyone who would be

00:03:26.260 called a feminist, until about five minutes ago, they would be concerned about the effect that trans 0.98

00:03:32.060 women are having on biological women in sports. How can you see these images of big, burly, 200-pound-plus, 1.00

00:03:40.500 six-foot guys who have transitioned to call themselves girls? How can you see them physically 0.99

00:03:45.680 dominating women and girls and say, yeah, that's good sport. That's good sportsmanship. 0.65

00:03:52.060 That's why the book's title is so great, Unsporting. It's against fair play. And in this case,

00:03:59.220 this particularly kind of bad sportsmanship will have the effect of driving out women and girls

00:04:04.720 from sport altogether. How can any feminist be fine with that? And this book, after all, 1.00

00:04:10.620 is written by two women who care about women in sports. Look at this. This is from the LGB

00:04:16.160 Alliance. That stands for Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals.

00:04:20.660 Thrilled to see that the number one best-selling book in Canada right now is Coach Blade and Barbara

00:04:26.980 Kay's book, Look at Gender Ideology's Destruction of Women's Sport. The tide is turning quickly now.

00:04:32.840 Canadians aren't buying this nonsense anymore. Hmm. But then a hard left-wing journalist named

00:04:38.880 Omar Mualim says, it doesn't bother you, the Rebel News and Ezra Levan are the publishers.

00:04:44.980 Isn't that something? It may be a great book. It may be a book that stands up for girls. It may be the

00:04:52.460 best-selling book in Canada, but some hard left-wing journalist who allegedly believes in free speech,

00:04:58.180 I think, is chiding the gay and lesbian group, not with any real argument. It's assumed everyone

00:05:04.740 knows why it's a bad thing to be published by Rebel News and Ezra Levan. You're associated with

00:05:11.020 Ezra Levan or Rebel News. Not even an argument. I mean, you either know or you don't know. You

00:05:16.160 either get it or you don't get it. Don't you get it? You're not supposed to read anything published

00:05:20.020 by Ezra Levan or Rebel News. There's no argument there. By the way, I didn't write the book. I did

00:05:26.380 read it before it was published, but I wasn't even the editor of it. My role was encouraging Coach

00:05:31.280 Linda and Barbara to write it and to make sure some of the wheels were set in motion. But imagine just

00:05:37.360 because I helped move this book along. Really, I arranged for the cover and I arranged for people

00:05:42.200 to edit and things like that. I didn't touch on the content. Imagine because I was near it.

00:05:49.120 That's a reason to blacklist it. That's the implication here. You're supposed to be bothered

00:05:54.520 by the fact that we published it. Forget about what the book says. I mean, Omar Mualim obviously hadn't

00:06:00.620 read the book by then. It just came out. I don't think he plans to. He just knew he was against it.

00:06:06.180 Don't bother him with the facts. Talk about judging a book by its cover.

00:06:09.900 Well, look at all the replies to him. The first from that lesbians and gay group again. 1.00

00:06:16.480 No, because I know how to read words and evaluate ideas on their own merits because I'm an adult.

00:06:21.520 Ha! Good for them. So that no is in reply to Omar Mualim asking if they were bothered. And here's

00:06:26.500 the next reply in a row. It bothers me that Levant and Rebel publish the book. And it bothers me even

00:06:34.420 more that when we had a situation in Vancouver where a person was grifting immigrant women 0.99

00:06:39.400 of color using the Human Rights Tribunal, the same news outlets were covering it because

00:06:43.580 the mainstream outlets refused. There's a void here. Isn't that interesting? She's talking

00:06:48.020 about Jonathan Yaniv, who went by Jennifer Yaniv, who booked himself in to get bikini waxes

00:06:54.480 by estheticians around Vancouver, most of whom were new immigrants. And Jonathan Yaniv wouldn't 0.97

00:07:00.840 say that he actually has, you know, male parts, twig and berries. And so when he would show

00:07:05.980 up and they would refuse, he would take them to the Human Rights Commission claiming they

00:07:09.040 were transphobic. And this person on Twitter is saying, yeah, it does bother me that the

00:07:13.460 only people talking about that in the news were Rebel News. No one else was talking about

00:07:17.480 these crazy things. That's a good answer. Here's another one. I'm just going through these.

00:07:22.780 Exactly. The mainstream media have abandoned this issue out of fear, misogyny, willfully ignorance.

00:07:27.820 Who knows? But people are starting to wake up from their wokeness. Personally, I think it's fear.

00:07:32.540 Fear of being deplatformed, fear of fancy people saying, oh, you're not bothered that it was published

00:07:36.020 by them. As in being socially marginalized, politically marginalized, commercially marginalized,

00:07:41.240 maybe deplatformed on Twitter, companies not giving you a credit card, whatever. Yeah, it's fear.

00:07:48.460 Fear of little thugs like Omar Mualim saying, oh, you don't want to be associated with them.

00:07:53.520 You don't want to do business with them, do you? Here's another reply.

00:07:57.820 It doesn't bother you that male cheats try to destroy women's sports? Well, there you go again. 1.00

00:08:03.760 Don't you understand? It's more important to de-platform conservatives or whatever.

00:08:08.220 Here's the next reply. I'm just going through the list because I thought it was a very,

00:08:10.920 very interesting line of conversation.

00:08:13.700 I'm no fan of Rebel News, Ezra Land, and I'm politically on the left, but most media and

00:08:18.500 publishers are too cowardly to address the conflict between the rights of women and girls

00:08:22.120 and the rights of trans people for fear of being labeled transphobic. 0.90

00:08:26.120 It's true. Name me another book publisher in Canada that would have published this.

00:08:31.440 Here's the next one.

00:08:32.700 Rebel News, Ezra Levant, reports stories that the mainstream media won't cover but need to be told.

00:08:36.700 It shows the gritty goings-on that the insipid CBC deemed too tawdry beats being subjected

00:08:42.660 to unreasonable rejections over months by less brazen publishers.

00:08:46.060 Lots of fancy words in there. Another way of saying, why not be published by Rebel News?

00:08:49.820 They'll talk about it. Now, I'm not just reading these to praise Rebel News.

00:08:55.860 But there is a problem when only dissidents like us dare to criticize the establishment.

00:09:00.900 All right, last one. Here's the very last one.

00:09:03.660 Does something stop being true when a person that you don't like says it?

00:09:07.500 That's a good point, eh? Now, I note that many of these comments are written anonymously.

00:09:12.800 Someone not using their real name. That could mean a number of things, including theoretically,

00:09:17.760 they're all written by the same person. There's a chance of that. But more likely,

00:09:21.660 it could mean that if you talk about these issues using your real name, you will be smashed and

00:09:28.700 smeared. And if you have a job where your boss can be pressured, you can literally be fired for

00:09:34.660 saying the wrong thing. I mean, imagine if you were a bank teller and you wrote some of those comments

00:09:39.940 and someone identified that you worked at the Royal Bank, you'd be fired that hour.

00:09:45.640 That's how it is these days. So I'm not surprised that these are written pseudonymously.

00:09:52.780 There was so much going on in that thread, but here's what I know. And I said this before.

00:09:57.120 I remember I did a show where I gave advice to Aaron O'Toole, the Conservative Party leader,

00:10:01.460 where I suggested some issues where he can be conservative and controversial in the sense that

00:10:06.760 the media party will write about him. They won't be able to help themselves, but that the controversy

00:10:11.860 will break in his favor. Like the issue of Omar Khadr. The media party loves him, but Canadians

00:10:18.200 were appalled when he got the $10.5 million payout. That's an example of zigging where the media

00:10:23.780 political industrial complex said, Zach, same with trans women driving out biological women in sports. 1.00

00:10:29.700 What's the split on that? If you ask your average mom and dad in the suburbs, what's it, 70-30, 80-20?

00:10:37.560 If you just show some courage on this issue, people will flock to you. That's what Coach Blade and Barbara

00:10:43.360 Kaye did, and they got a national number one bestseller out of it. Any other publisher could

00:10:48.780 have done this. Any other politician could still do it. Just a bit of courage, folks. That's all it takes.

00:10:55.140 Hey, you want to see proof that America, or at least large parts of it, are done, and I mean fed up

00:11:14.940 with the lockdowns? Well, check out this. This is the Indianapolis 500, the Indy 500, a raceway.

00:11:23.020 Nearly 100,000 people together. Now, some people were wearing masks. It's true,

00:11:31.940 but there was no obligation. And here, a few weeks ago in Jacksonville, Florida, tens of thousands

00:11:38.080 jammed together for the ultimate fighting UFC battle, and I don't think there were many masks there.

00:11:47.280 These folks are just done. And you know what? The virus rate in these jurisdictions is plunging

00:11:54.820 close to zero. Texas, which, as you know, is the second largest state in the Union, actually has days

00:12:01.840 where not a single person passes away from the virus. They are so over it. Whereas Toronto,

00:12:07.860 Canada's largest city, well, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation,

00:12:11.580 it is the most locked-down city in the world. Measured by the strictness and the duration of

00:12:20.500 the lockdowns, joining us now to talk about how Canada just is not being freed is our friend

00:12:26.580 Andrew Lawton from The Andrew Lawton Show and TNC.News. Great to see you, Andrew. We really are in the

00:12:33.600 worst situation. I wouldn't have guessed this a year ago. We're the laggards. We're the authoritarians.

00:12:41.000 We're the lockdownists. I didn't see that coming.

00:12:44.500 No, and I remember when we were complaining about some of the measures we had while looking at

00:12:50.160 other jurisdictions like Victoria in Australia and parts of the UK and seeing the people were

00:12:56.180 being fined for going out for walks and going to a park to, you know, just get some exercise,

00:13:02.160 what was seen as a criminal act or an act of defiance. And a lot of that caught up to Canada

00:13:07.500 and ended up lasting a lot longer than it did in a number of those other jurisdictions. You're right

00:13:12.900 that around the world, we're getting a bit of freedom envy in Canada, seeing mass gatherings of

00:13:17.520 people in the UK, in the US, and in Canada, not an end in sight. And, you know, not that haircuts are

00:13:24.840 the most pressing thing, but, you know, if you're someone in Toronto, you've basically not been able

00:13:29.960 to get a haircut for most of, well, the last six months, with the exception of maybe a couple of

00:13:35.180 weeks, unless you went out of the jurisdiction. Toronto has been locked down with the exception

00:13:40.640 of that little brief reprieve where you could have gone to a patio, for example. And this is not

00:13:45.900 normal. This is not the way a functioning society works. And that we went from two weeks to flatten the

00:13:51.860 curve to six of the last 14 months in lockdown is egregious.

00:13:56.680 Yeah. And by the way, it's not giving the health outcomes that's promised. I remember last summer,

00:14:02.220 I mean, there were problems, but we were sort of looking at Australia and the UK and these parts

00:14:07.380 of the world and saying, oh, look at them. Boy, they fell quickly. Well, we are there. Let me just

00:14:11.360 show you this quick clip. Andrew, you're not going to believe this. Our head of video, Efron Monsanto,

00:14:16.640 he goes out to cover the Hamilton protest. They literally, this is from a week ago, they literally came

00:14:21.960 out. And Efron, by the way, was wearing a mask. They came out and gave him a fine for shaking

00:14:30.160 someone's hand. Take a quick look at this.

00:14:37.300 Hey, Efron.

00:14:38.520 How's it going, man?

00:14:39.540 Officer DeFrick, city of Hamilton bylaw. I have you here in violation of the reopening of Ontario Act,

00:14:45.680 gathering with a crowd of more than five people.

00:14:47.460 So that's a pre-written ticket again, just for the record.

00:14:50.280 I had the ticket made up inside when I saw you out here.

00:14:53.500 So what were they doing exactly when I was talking to one of the protesters here?

00:14:55.980 I saw you walking around, getting within three meters.

00:14:57.940 Oh, that's how it is. So if I just talk to someone, that's within two meters?

00:15:00.860 I also watch you shaking their hand.

00:15:02.840 Oh, that's, that's, oh, I guess I'm breaking a lot of there. Okay, you got me there.

00:15:05.900 So, this is the ticket, provincial offense notice.

00:15:08.920 Yeah.

00:15:09.260 And the reopening of Ontario Act for pending a gathering with more than five people.

00:15:12.580 Thank you.

00:15:13.460 Dropsons are on the back. Dropsons are to either pay it, 1.00

00:15:15.740 an early resolution with a prosecutor,

00:15:17.900 or you can have your day in court if you choose to.

00:15:21.880 Yeah.

00:15:22.660 You understand your options?

00:15:23.640 I understand my options, man.

00:15:24.860 There's your provincial offense.

00:15:26.060 Thank you.

00:15:26.660 Now, this is an administrative penalty notice.

00:15:28.660 Oh, for what?

00:15:30.080 Yeah.

00:15:30.600 This is for shaking hands with the public.

00:15:33.600 No way.

00:15:34.140 You fail to maintain a distance of at least two meters from another person.

00:15:37.540 Section bylaw 2164, Section 2.1.

00:15:41.180 Once again, your options are on the back.

00:15:44.400 Voluntary payment.

00:15:45.940 Or you have the option to be with a, with an officer and you can argue.

00:15:52.080 Okay?

00:15:52.460 So, that's purpose, that's strictly just for shaking hands with someone?

00:15:54.900 For shaking hands, not maintaining two meters from the public.

00:15:58.180 Okay, so for the record, can I get your name and badge number?

00:16:00.060 Officer Decker, number 370.

00:16:01.540 370, thanks.

00:16:02.760 Lee, supervisor here, guys, as always.

00:16:04.760 Yeah, I mean, if you would have shown me that video a year ago of someone who was wearing a mask, getting a nearly $1,000 fine for shaking hands, I'd say, no.

00:16:14.220 No, I don't believe it.

00:16:15.120 That's too crazy.

00:16:15.980 But, indeed, there was.

00:16:17.340 Well, let me ask you, we're in this mess.

00:16:20.260 Is there a path out?

00:16:21.680 I don't see one.

00:16:23.600 No, and I don't mean that just in a conjecture way.

00:16:27.100 I don't mean that in an exaggerating way.

00:16:28.780 Ontario literally has no path whatsoever that's leading to a point without restrictions.

00:16:35.400 Ontario has once again ripped up its previous so-called reopening plan and replaced it with another one.

00:16:40.800 This one has three stages that we are supposed to so-called upgrade ourselves up through based on which percentage of the population is vaccinated.

00:16:50.020 And it's in three steps, and you get to the third step, which requires 70% to 80% of the population having at least one dose of a vaccine, 25% of adults having two doses.

00:17:02.620 And even this third step, which is the final step in the roadmap, has gatherings with larger limits, indoor dining with capacity limits, sports and recreational fitness facilities open with limits, indoor meeting and event spaces with limits, all of these things.

00:17:19.180 And they don't say what the limits are, by the way, that can be done with some unspecified limit.

00:17:25.220 And that's the point that we're working towards.

00:17:27.440 There's no point beyond that.

00:17:29.040 Whereas just by contrast, Alberta, whatever you might think of its handling of this, has put a roadmap forward that at the end has no restrictions whatsoever.

00:17:38.280 That's a lot more aspirational than Ontario, where the best thing you can hope for is a life with just maybe some fewer restrictions than there are now.

00:17:46.780 You know, there's one more thing, and we just showed those two different roadmaps of Ontario and Alberta.

00:17:52.020 Another thing that I find quirky is the Ontario system has different measurements, this many people getting a vaccine, that many people getting a vaccine.

00:18:01.260 But that's not the thing we're trying to fix.

00:18:03.080 We're trying to fix, are you sick?

00:18:06.160 Are you filling up hospital rooms?

00:18:07.760 Are you dying?

00:18:08.820 That's what public health is about, you know, helping people stay healthy.

00:18:12.460 The number of people getting a jab in the arm may or may not be related to the number of people who are sick or dying.

00:18:19.640 But if the death, like Texas, I mentioned the other day they had a massive state of Texas, I think they've got 30 million people there now.

00:18:27.760 Not a single person died from the virus.

00:18:30.420 So you would say, and Australia, they really, I think in all of Australia they have maybe a dozen cases.

00:18:37.640 They are not saying, well, you must still be locked down until you all get a jab because the health crisis is over.

00:18:45.200 I find it odd that getting the vaccine is now the test of whether or not you're free.

00:18:50.160 Rather, is anyone actually sick?

00:18:52.020 There's one more thing I'll throw at you.

00:18:54.740 Even in addition to those vaccine rates, they have this arbitrary 21 days per phase.

00:19:01.100 I mean, I've heard of two weeks to flatten the curve, but this 21 days business, they just made it up.

00:19:05.940 So they, you know, 21 days is arbitrary.

00:19:09.400 The vaccine rate is arbitrary because neither of those things has anything to do with how many people are actually sick or in a hospital.

00:19:16.380 You could have empty hospitals, not a single person sick, and you'd still be under lockdown under these rules.

00:19:23.160 Well, the 21-day measure is a particularly insidious one because that's actually proof that they're just trying to delay reopening.

00:19:32.140 And I'll give you a very concrete example of this.

00:19:34.720 Step one, which we're not in yet, so we're at step zero, I guess, right now.

00:19:38.580 Step one allows easing of some of the restrictions, not many of them, but some of them.

00:19:43.360 And it requires 60% of the population to have had at least one dose.

00:19:47.780 Last week, Ontario passed 65, 5% higher than the minimum standard, and they still have not flipped the switch to say that we are in Ontario in step one.

00:19:59.180 And the reason is because they have that arbitrary delay that they're putting in so that we will not get to that point earlier than June 14th.

00:20:07.320 And then to get to step two, we have to wait 21 days beyond that.

00:20:12.400 We'll actually be at the government's vaccination threshold for stage two, likely before we are even in stage one.

00:20:20.880 And they won't let us go through because they're putting these 21-day buffers between.

00:20:26.640 And one of the reasons that the U.S. has had success in reopening is because they understand that vaccines are not the only way to immunity.

00:20:34.400 There's also acquired immunity from people who have had COVID.

00:20:37.700 And you're right, that is kind of an aggregate measure they can look at as far as how many people are in hospitals, irrespective of the specific percentage of people that have been vaccinated.

00:20:48.740 In Canada, there's a contradiction on here.

00:20:51.460 If you want to come into the country and you're a Canadian citizen, you still have to quarantine for two weeks, even if you've been fully vaccinated.

00:20:58.440 But if you have a negative COVID test, you've got an old COVID test that says you have the antibodies, basically, you've still got to quarantine, but you don't need to do a test on entry.

00:21:10.040 And then you flip that around, you've got Ontario initially saying that it was not even safe for fully vaccinated health care workers to go to a hockey game before they reversed that.

00:21:19.600 Well, if vaccines are so transcendent and they are the be all and end all of this, why is the government not actually pegging any of these reopenings to vaccine rates in some areas?

00:21:31.600 And then on the other hand, why are they?

00:21:33.480 It's about picking and choosing based on the desired outcome, which seems to be at this point keeping people locked down for longer.

00:21:39.900 You know, with the summer here and the weather is nice and people don't want to be cooped up and they're going to go out.

00:21:47.100 I mean, Montreal is finally getting rid of its absurd juvenile, you treat juveniles with a curfew.

00:21:55.240 It infantilizes people to give them a curfew.

00:21:58.360 I fear that their goal is to let people have a summer because there would be no way there's enough police and prosecuting resources to arrest everyone who goes out on the summer on a patio.

00:22:11.380 You're just not going to stop barbecue season in Canada where the summer is so short.

00:22:16.240 But my also when the days are longer.

00:22:18.000 So a curfew when it's still sunny outside is very difficult to get people to buy into.

00:22:22.760 Yeah, I think this is the authoritarian state saying, all right, there's no way that people are going to obey these laws during the summer.

00:22:30.700 And we'll be in disrepute because everyone will not follow them.

00:22:33.980 Let's grant people a summer to remember.

00:22:37.680 And then in September, October, when it gets chilly, flu season is coming around again.

00:22:43.160 Let's lock it down.

00:22:44.340 Maybe let's ban schools again. 0.99

00:22:45.720 I know the teachers union wants to do that.

00:22:47.520 Now, I fear that since we're not going full tilt freedom like the Indy 500 or Jacksonville or most American places, that the government doesn't want to get out of it.

00:22:58.720 Because if they finally say it's over, it's harder to get back in than if they just say we're taking the boot off your neck a little bit, but you're still under it.

00:23:08.120 So I don't think Doug Ford or most of the other premiers want to say it's over because I think they want to have that tool to ratchet it back up again if they need to later.

00:23:17.360 That's my thinking.

00:23:18.640 Well, the idea of three or four week emergency measures that can be renewed without term limits is a big part of the problem here.

00:23:26.040 You look at the border closure.

00:23:27.260 The so-called longest unprotected border in the world has been closed for about 15 months now because they keep renewing that closure over and over.

00:23:35.200 And we know going back to over a year ago, that was at Canada's behest.

00:23:40.320 It wasn't the U.S. that wanted to close the border to leisure travelers.

00:23:43.560 It was Canada that wanted to.

00:23:45.340 And the country is still, I mean, with some exceptions, of course, still by and large closed.

00:23:49.980 So that's going to be a big, big problem here.

00:23:53.000 If people are not buying into the rules anymore, as you've indicated, Ezra, the government loses legitimacy.

00:23:58.600 So they have to relent and make it look like they're giving us this gift of freedom when in actual fact they just are aware that they're going to have this massive countrywide rum spring on their hands and won't be able to enforce it once the weather starts getting nicer.

00:24:14.820 Yeah, I think, I mean, I'm here in Toronto and, of course, it's slightly different in different provinces and cities.

00:24:20.380 I think that Toronto being, I would say, the worst lockdown in, I mean, through the BBC says, I think there are people and institutions and businesses that if this lockdown goes for yet another cycle, another quarter, another season, I think you're going to see the Detroitification of Toronto.

00:24:39.760 I'm not saying it's going to be over like that, but you're going to see more and more people and companies and families just saying, we're going to leave this crazy place for a more sane place, whether that's America or another province.

00:24:53.120 Because I think there's only so long you can justify living in an expensive, crowded, traffic-y, drug-infested, you know, crime-ridden city if you don't have the pluses of the city, the pluses of the city, the restaurants, the shops, the theatres, the action, the being able to socialize.

00:25:13.160 I mean, it's one thing to be in a prison, but why would you be in the most expensive, slummiest prison in the country?

00:25:19.060 I think that Toronto is teetering on the edge of becoming an ex-great city, and I say that with some sorrow. Last word to you, Andrew.

00:25:27.500 Yeah, and I think that actually underscores what's been, I think, one of the big injustices of the lockdowns is that they disproportionately affect people who don't have the means to avoid them.

00:25:39.040 I mean, we saw stories going back the last year about this politician jetting off to St. Bart's, this guy going to another country to get their vaccine, people that have decided to take up and move to the Caribbean, which I'm all for if you can afford it.

00:25:53.180 But the reality is, it is only a narrow subset of the elites that can get out of Dodge, leaving everyone else forced to deal with the carnage that politicians have unleashed on their communities.

00:26:04.080 And that's a big part that's happening here in Toronto. We forget a lot of the time. Not everyone can work from home. I'm fortunate in that I can. A lot of people are stuck with this. And you know what? The politicians have to be held to account for that.

00:26:18.040 Yeah. You know, we've got some great videos over the weekend. Our team went down to Montreal. They allowed two NHL teams, Toronto-Montreal, to have this big battle, and 2,500 lucky folks who paid up to 10 grand a ticket could watch.

00:26:31.360 And I just thought, you know, that's the elites of the elites, the billionaire owners, and the millionaire players, and people who could afford up to 10 grand for a ticket.

00:26:40.200 They're allowed to buy their way out of the lockdown. 2,500 people in one room. But churches are under extreme restrictions. Community hockey leagues, kids' hockey leagues can't open.

00:26:52.760 That is absolutely the political elite buying its way out of the lockdown. I thought it was super gross, and I thought it was tone-deaf of the NHL.

00:27:02.420 Andrew, keep up the fight over True North. We love your work, and thanks for taking the time to be with us today.

00:27:07.980 Anytime, Ezra. Thanks.

00:27:08.980 All right. There you have it. Andrew Lawton of The Andrew Lawton Show at TNC.new. Stay with us more.

00:27:13.720 Hey, welcome back. Instead of letters, I want to show you what is just such an outstanding video, in my view.

00:27:31.660 And you can tell me what you think. We've done, I don't know, 20,000 videos since Rebel News was born.

00:27:36.100 This next video, I think, shows journalistic courage, a command of the facts and the law, excellent videography and editing, and an amazing ending.

00:27:49.680 There's everything I like about this. It's nine minutes long, but when I watched it, it felt like it flew by in 30 seconds.

00:27:55.900 Let me show you why Avi Yamini won our Viewer's Choice of the Year Award.

00:27:59.760 Let me close today's show, instead of with letters, with one of the best videos we've ever made. Take a look.

00:28:05.100 How are you going?

00:28:06.580 Thanks.

00:28:07.320 Hi.

00:28:08.420 All right, so come here.

00:28:09.840 Do you have a mask?

00:28:10.580 Yep, yep. There you go.

00:28:11.640 Can I put it on, please?

00:28:12.100 But while we're talking on this, you don't have to...

00:28:13.620 No, put it on, please.

00:28:14.520 The rule with...

00:28:15.620 Put it on, please.

00:28:16.520 So, hold on. Can I just clarify the rule for...

00:28:19.100 Wear your mask. You wear all the rules. Put your mask on.

00:28:20.880 No, no, but the rule for media, while they're talking on the microphone...

00:28:24.620 I'm doing this, but you need to clarify the...

00:28:28.940 Over your nose and your face, thank you.

00:28:30.060 Like yours.

00:28:30.760 Your nose and your mouth. There we are. Thank you.

00:28:32.340 Like his?

00:28:33.780 Like his one?

00:28:35.100 I think if we can check...

00:28:36.920 Want to hold it for you?

00:28:37.660 No.

00:28:38.020 Okay.

00:28:39.300 The virus, I'm worried.

00:28:40.700 Thank you.

00:28:41.400 So, hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:28:43.300 So...

00:28:43.560 No, no, the rule's here.

00:28:45.660 So, let's just clarify.

00:28:46.700 The rule here for media is while you're talking on the microphone, you don't actually...

00:28:50.680 Cover your nose and your mouth.

00:28:52.140 Okay.

00:28:52.580 You are not accredited media.

00:28:54.260 Sorry?

00:28:54.780 You are not accredited media.

00:28:57.080 I'm not...

00:28:57.720 You're saying I'm not accredited media.

00:28:59.700 Show me your accredited media pass issued by Victoria Police.

00:29:02.980 Victoria Police actually told us that they've cancelled...

00:29:05.800 Can you produce your accredited media pass...

00:29:08.780 Come around here.

00:29:09.340 ...issued by Victoria Police.

00:29:11.360 So, Victoria Police told us...

00:29:12.920 Cover your nose and your mouth.

00:29:14.280 No, no, no.

00:29:14.660 So, wait.

00:29:15.160 So, you're saying if I have an accredited media pass by Victoria Police, I don't have to cover my nose and mouth while talking on the microphone?

00:29:20.700 I'm saying is you are not accredited media.

00:29:22.900 By Victoria Police.

00:29:23.820 I am accredited media, not by Victoria Police.

00:29:26.080 Victoria Police told us they cancelled...

00:29:27.660 Victoria Police told us they cancelled the program.

00:29:30.440 You are accredited media by Victoria Police.

00:29:32.840 Put your mask over your nose and your mouth.

00:29:34.820 No, no, hold on.

00:29:35.580 Over your nose and your mouth.

00:29:36.760 Thank you.

00:29:37.200 No, no, hold on.

00:29:38.320 No.

00:29:39.080 You know what?

00:29:41.260 Come.

00:29:41.860 Arrest me.

00:29:42.600 If I'm not accredited...

00:29:43.400 If I'm not accredited, if I'm not accredited...

00:29:45.820 You must cover your nose and your mouth.

00:29:47.760 Not when you're reporting on the microphone.

00:29:49.900 If I'm not accredited media, please cover your nose and your mouth with a mask.

00:29:52.780 That is not an excuse to tell...

00:29:54.660 What is your reason for not wearing a mask?

00:29:56.300 Because I'm talking on my... doing my job as media.

00:29:59.640 Could someone grab his name and address?

00:30:01.060 My name, Avraham Yamin.

00:30:03.300 Avraham.

00:30:04.000 Okay, what's...

00:30:04.840 He's saying...

00:30:06.340 He's saying here that now I am not accredited media,

00:30:10.260 so that's why, while doing my job,

00:30:12.800 while doing my job...

00:30:14.660 Are you out there with people?

00:30:15.360 Yeah, I do.

00:30:16.380 I'm compliant, don't worry about that.

00:30:19.340 The rules are while you're talking on the microphone,

00:30:22.200 you do not...

00:30:23.760 What's your name?

00:30:25.400 Avraham Yamin.

00:30:26.540 Can you spell that for me?

00:30:27.840 A-V-R-A-H-A-M-Yamin. 1.00

00:30:31.660 How do you spell that?

00:30:32.540 I'll give you my license.

00:30:34.060 How do you spell that?

00:30:35.180 There you go.

00:30:36.580 So...

00:30:36.900 You can't really see it because of the light.

00:30:38.320 I've got another one. 0.98

00:30:39.900 Don't worry, you're not going to trip me up, you clowns. 0.98

00:30:42.800 Do you enjoy enforcing this? 0.99

00:30:44.880 Let's go.

00:30:45.720 Calm down.

00:30:47.760 We've got other jobs too, yeah?

00:30:48.860 Do you?

00:30:49.420 What?

00:30:49.860 To intimidate other Victorians?

00:30:52.800 Yeah, if you call, I'll go with your phone number.

00:30:54.900 I hope you're proud.

00:30:58.340 That's why you signed up to the police force.

00:31:00.860 Oh, I don't.

00:31:03.560 So.

00:31:06.200 17, 18, 85.

00:31:07.440 So, essentially what he's saying, which the rule is, actually, hold on.

00:31:12.400 The rule is, the rule is, when I'm talking on the microphone, I do not have, I do not

00:31:18.420 have to wear a mask while, doing my job.

00:31:22.320 What's your reason for being here today?

00:31:23.400 What's your reason for being here today?

00:31:24.460 Don't touch my microphone.

00:31:25.360 What's your reason for being here today?

00:31:26.040 Doing my job.

00:31:26.820 What's your reason here?

00:31:27.660 Okay, so he'll get a ticket in the mail.

00:31:29.000 Okay, mate, that's fine.

00:31:30.620 You're going to need to move on, yeah?

00:31:31.620 I'm getting a...

00:31:31.980 No, I'm not moving on.

00:31:32.880 I'm doing my job.

00:31:33.600 I'm media.

00:31:34.380 This is my job.

00:31:35.320 Where's your media ticket?

00:31:36.620 What do you mean media ticket?

00:31:37.580 You need to have a media pass.

00:31:38.440 No, you don't.

00:31:39.080 Yes, you do.

00:31:39.680 You actually do not need a media pass to come to protest.

00:31:43.320 No.

00:31:44.320 Victoria Police said that they're not issuing them anymore.

00:31:46.620 You're reaching the directions.

00:31:47.620 Send me a ticket, mate.

00:31:48.600 That's okay.

00:31:49.560 It's time for you to move on.

00:31:50.440 I'm not moving on.

00:31:51.460 I'm here to do my job.

00:31:53.100 You can't pick who the media is in this country.

00:31:56.260 You don't get to decide.

00:31:57.380 Not moving on.

00:31:58.400 Okay, all right.

00:32:00.600 Not moving...

00:32:01.520 Capture this.

00:32:03.180 So, they're arresting me now here because they say they don't deem me

00:32:09.360 as media because Victoria Police is saying...

00:32:12.840 Victoria Police say that they need to issue me with one of their press cards.

00:32:17.160 They get to decide who's pressed.

00:32:18.540 And the funny thing is, I'll put on the screen now,

00:32:21.460 Victoria Police Media Department said they've cancelled that program

00:32:25.760 to our lawyers.

00:32:27.560 They no longer do it, so they're not issuing it.

00:32:29.520 So, right now, these thugs, right now, they think this is communist China

00:32:36.200 where they can tell you which media is legitimate, which isn't.

00:32:40.340 Who's going to arrest me?

00:32:42.080 All right.

00:32:43.520 Wait.

00:32:44.140 No, no, no.

00:32:44.700 Am I under arrest?

00:32:45.500 Am I under arrest?

00:32:46.420 You've been given a direction.

00:32:47.840 Am I under arrest?

00:32:48.920 You have been given a direction.

00:32:50.720 Am I under arrest?

00:32:51.920 We're making some calls right now.

00:32:54.000 As soon as we find out, we'll let you know, okay?

00:32:55.940 Find out what?

00:32:57.600 We're just trying to find out some information.

00:32:59.520 I'm sure you don't mind.

00:33:00.200 And can you find out about the mask rule that you guys don't actually know?

00:33:03.720 That's what we're trying to find out right now.

00:33:05.280 You might need to learn the Nazi laws that you're trying to enforce. 0.67

00:33:09.740 This is Melbourne, Australia 2021.

00:33:12.300 Seven-day snap lockdown for your health.

00:33:14.820 For your health. 0.97

00:33:16.020 These clowns think that they can tell you which media is legitimate, 0.98

00:33:22.480 which source you can get your news from. 0.98

00:33:24.880 If it's not deemed okay by the Gestapo,

00:33:28.680 then it's got to be out.

00:33:33.720 How you going, mate?

00:33:36.440 You all right?

00:33:40.260 All right.

00:33:41.120 So we'll see how this plays out.

00:33:43.280 We're not going to be intimidated.

00:33:44.960 And this is why we do what we're doing.

00:33:48.360 We're not going to allow any authoritarian government

00:33:51.560 who think that this is communist China.

00:33:54.140 This is not.

00:33:54.480 This is Melbourne, Australia.

00:33:55.420 This is a country of the free, or it used to be.

00:33:58.240 That's why we need to stand up.

00:33:59.300 For those of you outside of Australia at the moment,

00:34:01.880 understand there is five coronavirus cases today in Melbourne.

00:34:09.020 And that's why they're detaining journalists that they don't like,

00:34:12.960 those who are critical of the government

00:34:14.480 and the police brutality we've seen over the last three lockdowns.

00:34:20.420 For your health.

00:34:21.060 As you know, we have Victoria Police in the Supreme Court

00:34:23.400 as we speak on already three,

00:34:25.000 plus the two previous unlawful arrests.

00:34:27.800 Now, today, we're possibly going to have to add another one.

00:34:30.660 But with your help, we don't care.

00:34:32.560 We'll add it on.

00:34:33.280 We'll keep fighting all the way to the High Court if we need to.

00:34:35.840 Standwithavi.com.

00:34:38.440 Help us out.

00:34:39.900 How are we going?

00:34:40.720 Good.

00:34:41.080 We've got advice from the legal department

00:34:45.080 that Rebel TV is an international company

00:34:49.080 and it is mainstream media.

00:34:54.320 The cameraman's required to wear a mask.

00:34:56.540 Your security fellow here has to wear a mask if he's not exempt.

00:34:59.520 He's exempt, yeah.

00:35:00.700 That's fine, no worries at all, and that's fine.

00:35:02.440 And do I need to wear a mask?

00:35:03.660 Not what you're talking on camera.

00:35:04.820 So can I just get that apology on camera?

00:35:07.080 Well, all I'm saying is...

00:35:07.980 Can I get that apology?

00:35:09.720 Because what you just did to me and you...

00:35:12.140 I've given you a direction.

00:35:13.780 And can you say sorry?

00:35:15.120 Say one word.

00:35:15.980 Say sorry.

00:35:17.020 I've given you the...

00:35:17.760 Say sorry.

00:35:18.940 Say sorry.

00:35:20.180 It's one word.

00:35:21.120 You were wrong.

00:35:21.660 I was wrong.

00:35:22.180 Thank you.

00:35:22.540 You can wear your mask.

00:35:23.300 Say sorry.

00:35:24.420 Say sorry.

00:35:25.540 Without wearing a mask.

00:35:27.400 There you go.

00:35:27.860 They'll never admit.

00:35:28.780 That's why we're in the Supreme Court.

00:35:30.120 Standwithavi.com.

00:35:31.020 That's why we're suing them.

00:35:32.260 Because they keep playing this power trip on civilians

00:35:35.500 that can't stand up for themselves.

00:35:37.140 But I, with your help, can stand up with myself.

00:35:39.840 Against his abuser power.

00:35:41.300 Including her.

00:35:42.400 Her.

00:35:42.640 Get her face. 0.76

00:35:43.980 Yeah.

00:35:44.560 See ya.

00:35:45.080 See ya in court.

00:35:46.460 You know what?

00:35:47.100 You can't make that stuff up.

00:35:48.660 They pick on citizens that can't fight back.

00:35:51.360 But when you fight back,

00:35:52.740 the power of the people, we win.

00:35:54.560 Well, that's the show for today.

00:35:55.800 Until tomorrow,

00:35:56.560 on behalf of all of us here

00:35:57.640 at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:35:58.760 to you at home,

00:35:59.800 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:01.140 All right.

00:36:01.500 I'll be right back.

00:36:02.380 Good night.

00:36:02.700 Thank you.

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