Rebel News Podcast - Our plan to fight Trudeau's online censorship law Bill C-11

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Last night, Bill C-11 passed the Senate and was given royal assent. That means

00:00:07.240 it is so close to becoming law, they just have to proclaim it. I'll read to you the government's

00:00:13.040 statement on that news, as well as the CRTC, and I'll show you the warnings embedded in their

00:00:19.380 statements. This is it. They are coming to censor the internet, to promote their friends and silence

00:00:25.240 their enemies. I'll take you through it in great detail. But first, let me invite you to become

00:00:29.960 a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast. Just go to

00:00:34.800 rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get all the video content and

00:00:41.100 you get the satisfaction of helping Rebel News stay strong. You know, we don't get any money from

00:00:45.060 Trudeau, obviously. We wouldn't take it if it was offered. So we need your help to keep the lights

00:00:50.560 on. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:59.960 Tonight, Trudeau rammed his censorship law through Parliament last night. Let me tell

00:01:13.720 you what I'm going to do about it. It's April 28th. This is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:17.460 He's ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:32.400 2022 was the year of the trucker, wasn't it? They were the heroes who broke the official

00:01:38.060 establishment narrative, proved that no, we didn't all love the lockdowns and the forced

00:01:42.940 vaccines and our civil liberties being violated and our democracy being truncated. And no,

00:01:48.180 even though government workers all got paid to stay home, real people still had to pay the bills.

00:01:52.400 The truckers saved us. They captured the imagination of the whole world.

00:01:58.920 They embarrassed Trudeau on the global stage. He panicked and he overplayed his hand, including

00:02:04.520 martial law. When he invoked that, I tell you, the mask slipped.

00:02:09.280 We saw the tyrant underneath the sociopathic smile. The truckers were the story of 2022. The convoy was

00:02:16.720 the greatest civil liberties campaign in a generation. And it was led, as George Orwell said

00:02:22.140 it would be in his book, 1984, it was led by the working class. But it almost wasn't so because you'll

00:02:27.920 recall every part of the establishment, the entire regime was told to fight the truckers. I don't know 0.99

00:02:35.060 if you remember this. I sure do. It's hard to believe this now, but the CBC actually ran a bunch

00:02:40.240 of stories about a trucker convoy in January 2022. But they claimed that the truckers were mad about

00:02:48.180 driving conditions on British Columbia's Coquihalla Highway. I am dead serious. From the very beginning,

00:02:54.500 they were under marching orders. Ignore the truckers. Do not give them any coverage at all.

00:02:59.340 Distract. Talk about road conditions, I swear to God. And when that became impossible and

00:03:06.140 untenable, their mission changed, again, so predictable, towards smearing the truckers.

00:03:12.780 If you saw my interview the other day with Tamara Leach, you'll remember what I thought was the

00:03:16.280 most interesting anecdote she said. She was the newsmaker of the year at the heart of the story

00:03:20.760 of the year. But do you remember what she told me? She was never once approached by the CBC,

00:03:26.460 not once other than towards the end when a muckraker from the Fifth Estate asked her some

00:03:30.820 bad faith questions for a gotcha story. But not a single reporter, not a single panel discussion,

00:03:35.980 not one even bothered to talk to her about the trucking convoy itself. How is that even possible?

00:03:45.460 Well, because it was a strategy. It was not an accident or an oversight or a coincidence.

00:03:50.500 As you may remember, the government literally put the mainstream media on the payroll. I mean,

00:03:54.900 they did that years ago. The CBC has always been a creature of the state. The newspapers have been

00:04:00.480 on the take for half a decade now. But even the TV and radio stations were getting huge

00:04:04.840 payouts, especially over the last few years. I mean, just a plain old $104 million gift

00:04:10.800 in one single instance. How can you take $104 million from Trudeau and then report a news story

00:04:16.800 about Trudeau without disclosing that conflict of interest? That is a form of corruption.

00:04:20.760 And that's just government money. Forget about Pfizer money. Frankly, that's what Tucker Carlson

00:04:26.760 talked about in his last monologue before he left Fox. Remember this?

00:04:32.180 Well, here's one measure of their badness. You can try this at home. Ask yourself,

00:04:35.840 is any news organization you know of so corrupt that it's willing to hurt you on behalf of its

00:04:41.660 biggest advertisers? Anyone who do that is obviously Pablo Escobar level corrupt and should not be trusted.

00:04:48.600 What would that look like? That level of corruption? Well, imagine that the Trump administration

00:04:54.540 had made it mandatory for American citizens to buy MyPillow. That's one of Fox News' biggest advertisers.

00:05:01.340 Imagine the administration declared that if you didn't rush out and buy at least one MyPillow,

00:05:05.260 and then at least another booster pillow, you would not be allowed to eat out. You couldn't re-enter

00:05:11.080 your own country. You couldn't have a paying job. MyPillow, they told you with a straight face,

00:05:16.380 was the very linchpin of our country's public health system. Now imagine as they told you that,

00:05:22.600 that Fox, as a news organization, endorsed it, amplified the government's message.

00:05:28.940 Imagine if Fox News attacked anyone who refused to buy MyPillow as an ally of Russia,

00:05:33.920 as an enemy of science. And then imagine that Fox kept up those libelous attacks,

00:05:39.140 even as evidence mounted that MyPillow caused heart attacks, fertility problems, and death.

00:05:44.480 If Fox News did that, what would you think of Fox News? Would you trust us?

00:05:49.800 Of course you wouldn't. You would know that we were liars.

00:05:53.040 Thank heaven, Fox News never did anything like that. But the other channels did.

00:05:57.620 The other channels took hundreds of millions of dollars from big pharma companies,

00:06:01.540 and then they shilled for their sketchy products on the air. And as they did that,

00:06:05.760 they maligned anyone who was skeptical of those products.

00:06:08.820 At the very least, this was a moral crime. It was disgusting. But it was universal. It happened 0.82

00:06:15.460 across the American news media. They all did it. So at this point, the question isn't who in public

00:06:20.860 life is corrupt? Too many to count. The question is, who is telling the truth?

00:06:26.320 So yeah, and here's my whole point. The trucker convoy was the story of the year in 2022. And Tamara

00:06:31.840 Leach was the newsmaker of the year in 2022. Even though the mainstream news never actually put her

00:06:36.660 on her shows, I've been to demonize her. But I think the understory of 2022 was that the conspiracy

00:06:43.700 to smear the truckers and keep the false unanimity about the lockdowns, it failed because of citizen

00:06:50.820 journalism. Mainly, if I may say so, by us at Rebel News. Here's a tweet I wrote on February 12th,

00:06:57.660 2022. 17 Rebel News reporters are in nine cities today covering the convoys. Don't miss a thing.

00:07:05.180 Go to our compilation page at convoyreports.com. If you like our work, please consider chipping in

00:07:10.680 a few bucks. We don't take any money from the Canadian government, which is rare. And I wrote that

00:07:15.940 to show off how much work we were doing, how much coverage we were doing with our citizen

00:07:18.940 journalists compared to the CBC or the mainstream media. There were a few exceptions, but too few

00:07:24.000 to mention. Rupa Subramania was one example of a mainstream media reporter who would actually talk

00:07:28.780 to the truckers. I was writing tweets like that to drum up support for Rebel News, but don't think

00:07:34.020 Trudeau and his cronies didn't know this also. Of course they did. How could they not? Like I said,

00:07:40.320 the truckers were the greatest embarrassment Trudeau, frankly, has ever faced in his career. And for some

00:07:44.780 reason, they didn't respond to his drama teacher soliloquies. You just can't stand the fact that

00:07:51.320 blue-collar truckers embarrassed him. They have contempt for him. And citizen journalists told that

00:07:57.100 story, even if the mainstream media wouldn't. He had all the big shots in the palm of his head. CBC,

00:08:01.860 CTV, Global, all the newspapers. But there was that pesky internet, those pesky citizen journalists

00:08:07.360 on social media. Don't think Trudeau didn't notice. You don't spend billions of dollars a year buying

00:08:15.900 and renting and corrupting the mainstream media to support your agenda without noticing the holdouts.

00:08:21.940 And that is why the big story of 2023 is actually linked to the big story of 2022. 2023

00:08:29.300 is the year of Trudeau's revenge. The empire strikes back. Social media videos were the poor

00:08:35.820 man's broadcasters. But Trudeau didn't control them. Well, enter Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act,

00:08:44.860 as it's known. It is one simple thing and sets the table for many complex things. It gives Trudeau's

00:08:50.660 hand-pick CRTC regulators jurisdiction over the internet in the same way that they have

00:08:55.760 jurisdiction over old-fashioned TV and radio. It's Trudeau's revenge on the internet. Well,

00:09:01.760 it passed last night in the Senate by a vote of 52 to 16. It won't surprise you that China's two

00:09:08.540 favorite senators, Peter Harder of the Canada-China Business Council and the disgraced

00:09:14.480 Yuen Pao Wu, the pro-communist propagandist, both of them love C-11. It reminds them of China's 0.95

00:09:20.460 censorship regime. 52 to 16. How embarrassing for Canada. Even more embarrassing. Patrick

00:09:26.740 Brazo abstained. How do you abstain? I mean, either have the courage to stand for freedom.

00:09:32.380 And why not? You're a senator. You can't be fired. Or have the courage to admit you're a censor.

00:09:37.260 How embarrassing to abstain. Anyways, the bill received royal assent last night, too. So it now

00:09:43.380 only awaits being proclaimed before it is active law. Here's the government's press release last night.

00:09:49.400 Let me read it to you. The new law will help ensure Canadian stories and music are widely available

00:09:56.300 on streaming platforms and will help to reinvest in future generations of artists and creators in

00:10:01.540 Canada. Oh, really? For decades, Canadians thrived on the internet without the CRTC interference. But

00:10:07.700 now the CRTC is here. The government's here in 2023 in the era of HBO and Disney and Netflix and

00:10:14.860 Crave and YouTube and Facebook and Rumble and a thousand other online services. Hey guys, Trudeau's

00:10:20.340 here to save artists and creators. Yeah, right. Let me read some more. The Online Streaming Act requires

00:10:26.540 streaming services to contribute to the creation, production, and distribution of Canadian stories

00:10:31.200 in a way that is flexible and fair. It's that last part, though, isn't it? Fair.

00:10:37.540 However, Trudeau will demand internet companies and their unfairness, you see, as judged by Trudeau.

00:10:44.280 He will command them to promote things he feels are underpromoted and command them to censor things

00:10:49.820 he thinks are too widely available. That's what fairness means. This will all be done in the name

00:10:55.160 of fairness, of course. It's not fair that these internet companies give people what they want to see.

00:11:01.780 That's just not fair. They have to give people what Trudeau wants them to see. That's fair.

00:11:08.860 The law will give Canadians more opportunities to see themselves in what they watch and hear under a

00:11:14.200 new framework that will lead to a modern definition of Canadian content that better reflects our

00:11:18.800 country's diversity. Canadian artists, producers, creators, and our cultural industry can now count

00:11:23.760 on a fair shot at success in the digital age. Hey guys, did you know that Canadians couldn't have 1.00

00:11:28.940 enough, didn't have enough opportunities to see themselves until today? And now Trudeau is here

00:11:34.980 to give them a fair shot. Does anyone believe this crud? I'll read more. The act aims to level the

00:11:42.820 playing field. Whoa, really? Really? That means if you level a playing field, you lower those who are

00:11:48.580 high and raise up those who are low. Imagine if the government leveled the playing field in any other

00:11:54.120 field of endeavor, say professional sports. I mean, everyone needs a fair shot. I mean,

00:12:00.560 it has to be fair. Just because a team's better doesn't mean they should have better results. And

00:12:06.600 the government regulator will determine what fairness means. This is insane if you look at it from the

00:12:13.040 point of view of the consumer, from the public, or creators, or journalists, or companies. But it is

00:12:18.800 completely sane when you look at it from Trudeau's point of view. He wants to control everything you

00:12:23.960 see or hear. Of course he does. He's a sociopath. He is a tyrant. Look at this. Next steps. Now that

00:12:33.540 the Online Streaming Act has passed, the government will need to provide direction to the Canadian Radio,

00:12:38.640 Television, and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC, which will be responsible for the implementation of

00:12:44.440 the act. A draft of this policy direction will be published in the Canada Gazette, Part 1, for public

00:12:50.160 consultation, which will include input from anyone who wishes to participate, such as stakeholders,

00:12:54.980 artists, businesses, digital creators, and Canadians. Information about how to participate will be

00:13:00.400 available on the Canadian Heritage website. Following the public consultation, the final policy

00:13:04.960 direction will be published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2. So now that the law is passed,

00:13:11.020 we will finally find out what the government actually intends to do with it. Isn't that funny?

00:13:18.020 Pass the law first, then tell the public what the government plans really are. Let me guess,

00:13:23.460 let me guess, let me guess. Wild guess, more current control for Trudeau, more money for his friends,

00:13:29.060 more penalties for his critics. Remember the other day I told you that this is just the first domino to

00:13:36.120 follow the, that's exactly what the government is admitting now too. Here, look at this. The Online

00:13:41.620 Streaming Act is one of three legislative projects that are a key part of the government's digital

00:13:46.140 agenda. Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, makes Canadian stories and music widely available to

00:13:52.860 Canadians. Hey guys, as if it wasn't. Online News Act, Bill C-18, requires large digital platforms to

00:13:59.580 bargain fairly with news businesses over news content. No, it censors independent journalists

00:14:05.280 like us. Online safety in development promotes a safer and more inclusive online environment. That's

00:14:12.200 their heavy censorship. C-11 gives the government the power to regulate the internet and to alter who

00:14:17.180 can be seen. C-11, C-18 shakes down Facebook and Google. They have money to Trudeau's approved

00:14:23.020 journalists. And the Online Safety Bill, they used to call the Online Harms Act, that allows for websites

00:14:28.800 to be blocked or shut down by Trudeau's hand-picked digital safety commissioner. I'm not making that

00:14:34.720 up. That's actually the name they chose. Just a reminder of what that's about.

00:14:38.540 We envision having blocking orders. I mean, that's, that, maybe. It's not, you know, it's a, it would be,

00:14:48.800 it would likely be a, a last result, last result, uh, nuclear bomb in, in a, in a toolbox of, uh,

00:14:58.760 of mechanism for, for a regulator. Oh, really? When would the government use that nuclear option?

00:15:04.720 We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful

00:15:10.580 online content targeted towards themselves or even their families. Oh, really? Well, don't say you

00:15:17.840 weren't warned. They mentioned C-11, C-18, and the Online Harms Act, but they also have a fourth

00:15:24.000 one, as I've told you before, C-36, which brings huge fines for anyone, any ordinary person, you,

00:15:31.540 who writes something offensive on Facebook or Twitter, or even if you did it years ago, even

00:15:35.340 when you were a kid, $20,000 fines for ordinary people who write mean tweets. The CRTC regulator

00:15:42.580 couldn't be happier with all this. They now went from irrelevant dinosaurs yesterday to masters of

00:15:49.240 the universe today, the most important people in the entire industry today. They were a laughing

00:15:53.680 stock. Now they're a laughing stock with the power to regulate and destroy. They put out a statement

00:16:00.240 too. They're very excited. Let me read it to you. A statement by the CRTC chairperson and chief

00:16:04.620 executive officer, Vicky Eterdees, if I'm saying that right, on the Online Streaming Act. Today,

00:16:10.860 the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, received royal assent. The CRTC can now begin building the

00:16:17.560 broadcasting system of the future. Oh, so a government bureaucrat is going to build the

00:16:26.120 broadcasting system of the future, not companies like Netflix or Crave or HBO, not creators like,

00:16:32.620 you know, J.J. McCullough or Mr. Beast or even Rebel News, not artists, not journalists,

00:16:37.760 not music or movie makers. The government is going to build it. That's so gross, but it's

00:16:44.340 actually accurate, isn't it? The CRTC will establish a modernized regulatory framework

00:16:49.640 where all players contribute equitably. Oh, that word. You know what equitably means,

00:16:55.240 right? It doesn't mean equally. It means leveling the playing field. It means equality of outcome

00:17:00.660 or whatever outcome the CRTC or Justin Trudeau want. Creators will have opportunities to tell

00:17:07.620 their stories and Canadians will have access to a greater variety and diversity of content.

00:17:12.920 Do you believe that? Do you believe that there have been a lack of opportunities to do things

00:17:17.500 on the internet so far? Do you believe there really will be greater variety and diversity in the future

00:17:21.260 on anything that matters? Will there be really more diversity of opinion on, say, vaccines or the

00:17:27.880 pandemic or the war in Ukraine or global warming and the carbon tax or on transgenderism and men

00:17:35.000 competing in women's sports and going to women's bathrooms? Do you really think with Trudeau

00:17:39.820 regulating the internet there will be more diversity or more censorship? The CRTC has no intention

00:17:48.060 to regulate creators of user-generated content and their content. That, my friends, is what we call

00:17:55.180 a lie. Here's the author of the law, just in case you missed it a minute ago. We've seen too many

00:18:00.940 examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful online content

00:18:06.800 targeted towards themselves or even their families. And as we just showed you, Trudeau hasn't even sent his

00:18:12.820 instructions to the CRTC yet. They don't even know what they're going to be told to do.

00:18:16.880 We will adapt our approach in light of any future policy direction. Yeah, of course you will. You

00:18:23.400 will be censors. And they will come for us because we hurt Trudeau's feelings, because we criticize him.

00:18:32.060 We don't cheer him. We didn't take the carrot. We didn't take the payoff. We weren't in on the

00:18:37.820 104 million. So now here comes the stick. The views of all Canadians will be important at every step.

00:18:45.840 Yeah, do you do you really believe that? Do you believe that even conservatives, even people who

00:18:50.120 disagree with Trudeau, do you believe they will be treated with respect? Really?

00:18:53.840 Mais il y a aussi des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.

00:18:57.420 Qui sont extrémistes. Qui croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes,

00:19:01.600 qui sont souvent racistes aussi. C'est un petit groupe, mais qui prend de la place. Et là,

00:19:08.660 il faut faire un choix en tant que leader, en tant que pays. Est-ce qu'on tolère?

00:19:13.780 So this has passed Parliament and it will be turned into law very soon. They just have to

00:19:17.440 proclaim it. This is Trudeau's top priority, not the economy, not solving the national strike,

00:19:22.840 not the cost of living or the cost of housing or immigration or taxes. This is censoring us. And

00:19:29.160 by us, I mean you and me, not the CBC or other government propagandists. They'll be getting rich

00:19:34.760 off this. So what can I do? I'll tell you more on Monday. But as you know, every once in a

00:19:43.680 while, Rebel News stops just talking about something, talking about the news, talking about a crisis.

00:19:51.680 And from time to time, we stop and we actually do something. On Monday, I'll take you through

00:19:59.320 our plan in detail. Our battle plan. Because it's not enough just to report this and to give our

00:20:08.280 opinion on it. That is important to let people know, to ring the alarm, to spread the word. But as

00:20:13.200 we showed during the pandemic, we have to do things too. During the pandemic, we crowdfunded

00:20:19.760 the legal defense of a great number of ordinary Canadians because we just had to do something

00:20:26.560 about it. We couldn't just watch the voyeurs. We had to help fix the world. I believe we are in the

00:20:33.080 same position now. If anyone is going to do something about this, I think it has to be us. Us. Me,

00:20:45.240 Rebel News, and you. I'll tell you more on Monday.

00:20:50.160 A key player in Justin Trudeau's regime is Brenda Luckey, the commissioner of the RCMP.

00:21:08.000 I knew something was amiss when I saw this unseemly kiss and hug. That's Trudeau's move

00:21:15.840 on any female appointees. When Trudeau was under various investigations, not just for conflict of

00:21:22.480 interest, but for the SNC-Lavalin scandal. It was a signal of just who was boss. Remember this,

00:21:29.580 this public kiss and hug. Yeah, I think it's dangerous to have the head of the RCMP so closely

00:21:37.520 and personally aligned with the prime minister. There has to be an arm's length separation.

00:21:43.340 Unfortunately, in recent years, the police have become more politicized, not just the RCMP,

00:21:48.580 although I do note it was the RCMP who shot our reporter, Alexa Lavoie, in Ottawa,

00:21:56.040 the only person during the entire trucker convoy. Over the course of weeks, thousands of people,

00:22:02.420 only one person was shot, and only one person pulled the trigger. It was the Ottawa RCMP

00:22:08.040 shooting our reporter. Remember that terrible day?

00:22:10.540 Ah!

00:22:11.600 Ah!

00:22:13.460 Hey! 1.00

00:22:14.100 Shut up! 1.00

00:22:14.520 Shut up! 1.00

00:22:15.480 Watch this! 1.00

00:22:16.420 You just tried to throw this!

00:22:18.600 You just tried to throw this!

00:22:19.940 Ah!

00:22:21.280 Oh! 0.60

00:22:22.840 Ah!

00:22:23.920 Ah!

00:22:24.360 Ah!

00:22:24.480 Ah!

00:22:25.200 Ah!

00:22:25.760 There you go.

00:22:29.460 You all right?

00:22:30.160 Got shot.

00:22:32.500 Take care.

00:22:33.820 Bring her out. Bring her out. Come on. 1.00

00:22:35.980 Oh my God!

00:22:38.200 Ah!

00:22:42.720 Ah!

00:22:44.800 Bring her down there. 1.00

00:22:46.840 Well, I'm making some criticisms of the RCMP. Maybe you can guess where I'm going on this.

00:22:52.120 Was I ever delighted to see the following article in the C2C Journal headline, Crime and Mismanagement,

00:22:59.220 Why It's Time to Drop the RCMP and Create an Alberta Police.

00:23:05.400 Written by Doug Furby, former editorial pages editor of the Calgary Herald, now a freelance writer.

00:23:10.580 I'm delighted that Doug joins us now via Skype from Calgary.

00:23:13.960 Now, Doug, you can see I've got a bit of a personal beef with the RCMP.

00:23:18.480 I want to tell you, I grew up, and for the first 45 years of my life, there was no one who was a more back-the-blue guy than me.

00:23:26.520 And of course, I do back-the-blue against real criminals, but more and more I find police forces run political errands.

00:23:33.540 And that's one of my criticisms with the RCMP.

00:23:36.520 What are your reasons why Alberta should opt out of its contract with the RCMP and do what Ontario and Quebec do?

00:23:47.120 Create a provincial police force.

00:23:49.580 Yeah, I mean, I think your first point is really an important one, Ezra.

00:23:53.120 We all back-the-blue.

00:23:54.140 We believe in having a strong, ethical, reliable police force that can take care of public safety.

00:24:02.600 The question really is, is the RCMP the right force to do that job?

00:24:08.120 There was a day that I think the RCMP was considered one of the best police forces in the world.

00:24:15.540 Remember the old slogan, the Mounties always get their man?

00:24:18.500 Yeah.

00:24:19.480 Well, that was, you know, a Hollywood creation, but it was true, too.

00:24:23.820 They were a very, very effective police force.

00:24:27.280 But as you say, there's been a politicization.

00:24:30.640 There's been an erosion of the service.

00:24:32.720 Part of that was the fact that police officers could get paid better working for provincial police forces, like Ontario and Quebec, than they could with the RCMP, or working for municipal police forces.

00:24:46.340 So the best officers tended to be attracted to the higher-paying jobs.

00:24:50.680 The argument in Alberta for a provincial police force is really very simple.

00:25:00.420 Two reasons.

00:25:02.420 Number one, the political reason.

00:25:05.420 Alberta is trying to assert its rights in the Constitution, and this is a relatively easy way for the province to cut one of its apron strings to the federal government.

00:25:21.740 This is something that we could have complete control over, the people of Alberta could hold this police force accountable, set the priorities, and so on.

00:25:33.540 That's reason number one.

00:25:35.580 Reason number two, as we've seen, is the RCMP are not doing as good a job as they might have in the past, if, you know, if we're to believe the historical records.

00:25:46.980 I talk to people in rural communities around Alberta, and there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the level of crime in rural areas in particular, and the RCMP's seeming inability to respond to that crime, or worse, in some cases, kind of a nonchalant attitude.

00:26:11.420 One person I talked to, he had thousands of dollars' worth of gear stolen from his property.

00:26:18.300 There were beer cans strewn around the property, clearly, that would have had fingerprints from the thieves that came in there and ripped them off.

00:26:26.540 They didn't even bother to take fingerprints.

00:26:28.780 Why is that?

00:26:29.680 I mean, have they just given up?

00:26:31.900 Yeah, that's a good question.

00:26:32.620 In your article, and we'll show it on the screen here, you have a chart showing the growth of rural crime.

00:26:40.560 I really didn't know it was so rampant, and you gave an example, and, I mean, you hinted at the question there, why?

00:26:48.500 I mean, why wouldn't they?

00:26:50.020 And, by the way, that's where the RCMP in Alberta really are deployed.

00:26:53.580 You have the Calgary Police Service.

00:26:55.980 You have the Edmonton Police Service.

00:26:57.580 So those big cities have their own police force.

00:27:00.060 The RCMP have some jurisdiction over some things, but just your regular, you know, police station, beat cop, traffic cop, in a lot of Alberta, that's the RCMP.

00:27:11.340 And if I understand, that's a contract, actually, like a business contract signed between Alberta and the RCMP.

00:27:17.000 So it's not that it's a constitutional natural state.

00:27:23.240 It is not natural for Ottawa to run a police force in Stetler, Alberta or Cardston, Alberta.

00:27:32.180 It's just that's not the default state.

00:27:35.100 That's something that was chosen decades ago, and it was sort of like, you know, when you auto-renew a subscription to something, you just sort of forget about it and just rolls over and over.

00:27:45.320 Well, it used to be cheaper to have the RCMP because the federal government was subsidizing the cost of providing the police service.

00:27:58.320 Over the years, the amount of subsidy has been cut back, and the federal government is constantly making noises that they would like to eliminate the subsidy altogether.

00:28:11.180 And so it's no longer going to be cheaper for a response in any province to use the RCMP.

00:28:17.700 So once you start paying the same price that you would for any other service, or perhaps more, you start to ask yourself, well, are you getting the best value for what you're paying?

00:28:26.920 Right.

00:28:27.180 So it's almost as if the federal government bought their way into provincial jurisdiction, and now that the routes are there, they're ending the reason the provinces bought in.

00:28:39.640 But help me understand, I mean, why would the RCMP not care?

00:28:46.320 And there's a lot of examples, you gave one anecdote, but there's a lot, and, you know, the plural of anecdotes is not data, but if you look at that chart from your C2C journal, and I know that that's, you know, that's Statistics Canada data there,

00:29:02.500 why don't the RCMP seem to care, or why is crime rising under their watch?

00:29:10.820 Like, is there a, like, surely if you talk to an RCMP officer, they would say they care.

00:29:16.060 They would say they're, I mean, that is their one job in Alberta, basically fighting real crime.

00:29:21.360 Why aren't they doing it?

00:29:23.140 Well, I mean, there are larger issues.

00:29:25.120 One of the issues that comes into play is the so-called catch and release syndrome.

00:29:29.860 Police go to a lot of effort, they catch criminals, they're charged, and then they're released.

00:29:35.800 And so the people that they chase down a few days or weeks earlier are back out in the street before you know it.

00:29:42.880 So I think that all police services feel a great deal of frustration that the courts are not really helping to effectively punish the criminals who they do catch.

00:29:56.220 So there is kind of like a sense of defeatism, like why are we even bothering with this?

00:30:02.220 I think the other issue is, in a lot of small provincial communities where the RCMP operate, these are the first beats for a lot of these new grads.

00:30:17.000 They go there, they're going to put in a couple of years, and then they're hoping to get a better assignment in some bigger community.

00:30:23.300 Right.

00:30:23.920 So they're there for a couple of years, and then they're gone.

00:30:26.480 And you have to wonder, well, how much do they actually get to know that community?

00:30:30.420 How committed are they to that community?

00:30:32.840 Right.

00:30:33.260 That's a great point.

00:30:34.040 I never thought of it, because it is that national police force.

00:30:36.380 I wonder if there's other factors afoot.

00:30:38.100 I mean, to rise to certain heights in the RCMP, it's a federal institution.

00:30:44.040 That means it's a bilingual institution.

00:30:46.580 It has other political correctness and woke dogma within it.

00:30:50.140 And I mean, listen, there's woke dogma and city police forces, too, believe me.

00:30:54.880 But I don't think there's the same emphasis on being, if you're not bilingual, you're not moving forward.

00:31:00.180 That really doesn't apply to Alberta, where the second language is not French.

00:31:04.440 I'm going to guess the second language in Alberta is either Ukrainian, German, or maybe even Chinese these days.

00:31:09.860 It's got to be one of those.

00:31:11.440 Yeah.

00:31:11.800 Yeah.

00:31:13.140 That is a major problem, too.

00:31:15.380 I mean, if you're from the West and you aspire to get into senior management in the RCMP, then you have to be bilingual.

00:31:23.820 And so a lot of really qualified people don't even get the chance to get into those leadership rules.

00:31:29.260 Yeah.

00:31:29.980 Hey, I got a question.

00:31:31.460 And one thing that I maybe I knew in my bones, but I didn't know until I read it in your article.

00:31:36.240 Let me quote, it's little wonder that the Mounties have fallen far in public esteem.

00:31:42.620 And October 22nd, Angus Reid study found that fewer than half of those polled across the country had confidence in the RCMP.

00:31:51.300 That's shocking to me.

00:31:52.240 While 45 percent said they had, quote, not a lot or, quote, a complete lack of confidence, nor is it surprising that other cities and provinces are exploring the same move as Alberta.

00:32:06.300 Nova Scotia ordered a review of policing models in the wake of the mass shooting there.

00:32:11.840 New Brunswick's Minister of Public Safety has urged a hard look.

00:32:15.940 Look, I didn't know that they're I, I thought this was more a niche issue when half of Canadians like that Mountie brand.

00:32:26.380 I mean, it's so strong around the world.

00:32:28.620 It's the it really is the symbol of Canada.

00:32:30.980 When you think other than like a maple leaf itself, what is the symbol that if you show it anywhere around the world, they'd say Canada with some sort of positive feeling.

00:32:40.160 It's a Mountie.

00:32:41.120 I remember there was a show, I think it was called Due South, about a, you know, a fish out of water cop genre, about a Mountie in America.

00:32:50.380 What was he doing there?

00:32:51.420 But it was a source of a lot of gags.

00:32:54.020 I don't know if that brand holds anymore.

00:32:56.760 It's become a little tainted over the years.

00:32:59.740 Oh, terribly tainted.

00:33:01.160 And for the most tragic reasons.

00:33:03.500 I mean, in Alberta, we are still painfully aware of the Lear Fork tragedy, which our C&P officers went to the scene of a known gunman who had a history of mental health issues and a couple of them ended up dead.

00:33:25.140 That was absolutely tragic.

00:33:27.880 And it was preventable.

00:33:29.020 But when we looked at the circumstances behind it, the RCMP in that detachment had one rifle, one.

00:33:38.720 And they had to actually ask the neighbors if they could borrow their rifles when they were engaging with this guy.

00:33:46.040 So clearly the RCMP were not equipped for something like that to happen.

00:33:50.300 But of course, the biggest, the biggest tragedy, the one that's in the front of minds of everyone is the Nova Scotia tragedy.

00:33:57.360 That one was an absolute.

00:33:59.280 And I mean, I would use the word comedy, but you can't in this circumstance.

00:34:04.420 It was just a string of horrendous errors.

00:34:07.860 The failure to inform the public about the nature of what was going on.

00:34:13.620 The confusion on the scene and the fall that came afterward, you know, when the lucky trying to use the incident to help promote the liberal government's gunman legislation.

00:34:32.320 It was just the most ridiculous, inappropriate, tragic set of circumstances and very bad for the image of the RCMP on top of it.

00:34:46.960 Yeah, just for our viewers, that's when a criminal dressed up as a cop rode in a police car, an RCMP vehicle and committed a spree of murders. 0.85

00:34:58.360 And the RCMP response, not advising people of what was going on.

00:35:02.140 It just was absolutely horrible.

00:35:04.800 Well, let me ask you this.

00:35:06.000 My Twitter feed is populated by a petition.

00:35:10.760 I mean, I don't know how I've been targeted, but there is a group of people.

00:35:14.960 I think it's the union that does not want to give up Alberta turf.

00:35:20.920 They want the RCMP to stay.

00:35:23.420 They like things just the way they are.

00:35:25.560 Thank you very much.

00:35:26.400 And so they're having a lobbying campaign to keep the RCMP in rural Alberta.

00:35:32.660 And I have no idea how big a lobby group that is.

00:35:36.660 They've certainly managed in the algorithm to find me.

00:35:40.180 I think the NDP, the official opposition in Alberta, wants the Trudeau's RCMP to stay in power.

00:35:49.600 That's not a real surprise.

00:35:50.700 Yeah.

00:35:51.300 They really do favor Ottawa over Alberta.

00:35:54.000 What is the likelihood that there will be progress on this?

00:35:58.140 Is this a niche issue that's sort of like a daydream for Alberta firsters?

00:36:04.080 Or does this have a real chance of actually happening?

00:36:08.140 If Danielle Smith wins the upcoming election in Alberta, will this happen?

00:36:13.280 Or is this just an interesting idea that will never be an idea?

00:36:17.900 That is such a great question, Ezra, because I think when you look at the logic of making the move, the logic of creating a provincial police force, it's irrefutable.

00:36:33.360 I remember talking to a councillor in the city of Grand Prairie in northern Alberta.

00:36:39.600 They spent years looking at this issue and came to the conclusion that they would be better off with their own police force than with the RCMP.

00:36:48.160 If you look at all of the factors inside and out, you will conclude quite easily that a locally controlled police force is a superior way to go.

00:37:00.580 There seems to be fairly strong resistance in some rural communities in Alberta.

00:37:07.860 I mean, polling suggests that the majority of citizens aren't comfortable with replacing the RCMP with a provincial police force.

00:37:18.280 And, you know, we're trying to understand why I think it's probably partly comfortable with the devil, you know, OK, we know what the RCMP do and we're comfortable with.

00:37:31.060 And in fact, you know, there are the local RCMP commanders who are very good at liaising with the community.

00:37:39.640 Some of them do a great job.

00:37:42.060 And so that that presents a problem.

00:37:44.360 I think the province, if they get a majority government, will move ahead with replacing the RCMP with the provincial force.

00:37:54.340 It all comes down to the outcome of that election.

00:37:57.160 Yeah. Well, a lot of things will turn on that.

00:37:59.720 That's for sure.

00:38:00.600 Well, listen, Doug, great to catch up with you again.

00:38:03.040 And thanks for this article once more.

00:38:04.760 I'd like to give it a shout out.

00:38:05.940 It's in C2Cjournal.ca.

00:38:08.640 Crime and Mismanagement.

00:38:09.900 Why it's time to drop the RCMP and create an Alberta police.

00:38:13.360 Police, I, boy, you know, it's there's a hundred things that turn on that that turn the course.

00:38:22.440 If Rachel Notley is reelected as the premier of that province, I think that's the Detroit moment.

00:38:29.620 Remember, Detroit used to be the city in America with the highest industrial wage.

00:38:34.460 It was the economic magnet of the continent.

00:38:38.660 Everyone went there for the high-paying jobs.

00:38:42.800 Detroit was the future city.

00:38:45.560 It didn't fall apart because of foreign trade deals.

00:38:48.180 That came later.

00:38:48.900 It fell apart because of left-wing big government policies.

00:38:53.640 Politicians ruined Michigan, certainly the city of Detroit.

00:38:56.800 Even a great and prosperous place like Alberta can be destroyed.

00:39:03.240 Nothing is forever.

00:39:04.380 And I think so many things turned on that election.

00:39:06.940 Doug, we'll have to talk to you again soon.

00:39:08.460 Great to see you.

00:39:09.100 Thanks again for joining us today.

00:39:10.840 Ezra, thanks so much for giving me a chance to talk a bit about this issue.

00:39:14.100 I think it's very important.

00:39:15.480 Well, I'm really grateful to you.

00:39:16.780 And it's a very thoughtful piece.

00:39:18.000 We'll have a link to the story below this video.

00:39:21.140 Stay with us.

00:39:21.700 More ahead.

00:39:22.360 Hey, welcome back.

00:39:35.100 Your Letters to Me, Alex Carroll, writes,

00:39:36.960 Hi, Ezra.

00:39:37.800 I hope you plan to reach out to your friend Tucker Carlson immediately.

00:39:41.680 Try to get him to join your team.

00:39:43.540 He has the wherewithal to start a TV station to broadcast

00:39:45.820 our kind of right-wing truth news with rebel

00:39:48.360 and fight back against Trudeau in the CBC.

00:39:50.320 This is exactly what we need to do in Canada to save our freedom of speech

00:39:53.680 and stifle Bill C-11 in all censorship.

00:39:57.300 Well, we are in a little canoe, and Tucker Carlson is a big battleship.

00:40:03.780 I read that he was getting $20 million a year.

00:40:07.400 That's real money, U.S. money.

00:40:09.340 That's just the money side.

00:40:10.680 I mean, his audience, he was getting three, four,

00:40:13.060 sometimes five million views a night.

00:40:15.280 He's so enormous.

00:40:16.440 And he's American, by the way.

00:40:19.420 He loves Canada.

00:40:20.620 He talks about us a lot.

00:40:21.840 But the idea that Rebel News would be partners with him

00:40:25.040 is like a canoe being partners with a battleship.

00:40:29.580 That said, I can hardly wait to see what he does next.

00:40:32.600 And if there is some way for us to be involved, we certainly will try.

00:40:36.900 We were involved in his program on Fox News in one way, as you know.

00:40:42.840 He would have our reporters on from time to time.

00:40:45.420 Even myself, I was on several times.

00:40:47.440 And sometimes they would just use our footage for giving us credit,

00:40:50.240 which I really liked.

00:40:51.660 So I think that that will likely continue

00:40:54.360 with wherever Tucker Carlson pops up next.

00:40:58.620 On Tamara Leach, Fox 2021 says,

00:41:01.820 Great woman, run for PM. 1.00

00:41:03.800 We need someone that can organize for a change.

00:41:06.140 Yeah, I really enjoyed talking with her.

00:41:08.200 And I've enjoyed getting to know her a little bit

00:41:09.680 as we've worked together on publishing her book.

00:41:12.900 Bernice Snyder says,

00:41:14.040 Why is the book not available in Chapters Indigo

00:41:16.300 or even in our libraries, especially in Alberta?

00:41:19.640 Well, you'd have to ask the libraries that.

00:41:22.180 Libraries, they typically do order books.

00:41:25.040 The fact that the book is number one on the Amazon.ca bestseller list

00:41:28.440 will probably bring it to the attention of various libraries.

00:41:31.840 Chapters Indigo is just atrocious on this stuff. 0.97

00:41:34.100 You might recall that a year ago, our friend Andrew Lawton from True North

00:41:37.400 wrote his take on the Freedom Convoy.

00:41:41.040 That was the name of his book.

00:41:42.220 And it went to number one on the bestseller list, too.

00:41:44.580 And I really like Andrew, and he wrote a great book.

00:41:48.360 They wouldn't put it on the shelves in Chapters Indigo.

00:41:51.200 And Andrew, if I may, and I think he'd probably agree with this,

00:41:54.060 is one standard deviation less radical than we are here.

00:41:57.800 Like, he's easier for Chapters Indigo to embrace, but they wouldn't.

00:42:02.360 And for a while there, I would go into Chapters Indigo stores

00:42:05.260 when I would wander by them, and I would say,

00:42:08.320 where's Andrew Lawton's book?

00:42:09.820 Where's his book?

00:42:10.740 Where's his book?

00:42:12.020 You're not putting the number one book out?

00:42:13.920 So if they wouldn't put his book out on the shelves,

00:42:17.300 I don't know if they're going to put Tamara Leach's book,

00:42:19.980 because she was the center of the convoy,

00:42:21.580 not just a reporter like Andrew Lawton, but the organizer.

00:42:24.540 I'm going to go, you've planted a seed in my mind, though.

00:42:26.760 I'm going to go check online.

00:42:27.840 As far as I know, though, they do not have any books of Tamara Leach's.

00:42:34.500 What a shame, eh?

00:42:35.840 They claim to be Canada's biggest bookstore,

00:42:37.700 which they are in terms of bricks-and-mortar bookstores,

00:42:40.240 but they're not even stocking the most popular book in the country.

00:42:44.140 Well, if that's the case, Amazon's going to continue to eat their lunch. 0.94

00:42:48.700 That's our show for the day until Monday.

00:42:51.780 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:42:54.240 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:42:57.460 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - April 29, 2023

Our plan to fight Trudeau's online censorship law Bill C-11

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript