Rebel News Podcast - Peaceful protester arrested for sitting alone in front of Alberta’s Legislature. Why？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. In today's show, I take you through a disturbing video recorded yesterday

00:00:04.640 in Edmonton, Alberta. You know, Edmonton is the capital of what's supposed to be the

00:00:09.100 freest province. Even its motto, Fortis et liber, means strong and free. And yet I saw

00:00:14.820 police grabbing a peaceful protester, three of them, grabbing him by his legs and arms

00:00:20.480 and pulling him out of there just because. He wasn't breaking social distancing rules.

00:00:25.820 He wasn't doing anything threatening. They just shut him down. I'll show you the video

00:00:31.900 and I'll tell you why I think it's so wrong and why I think this pandemic has been an excuse

00:00:36.540 by police to way overstretch. And I don't know, I guess I wish you had the video version of

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00:01:22.960 Tonight, a peaceful protester is arrested for sitting by himself on the large plaza in front

00:01:37.740 of Alberta's legislature. Why? It's May 11th. This is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:42.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500

00:01:48.980 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:53.640 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:03.180 I'm really mad a harmless protester sitting in front of the Alberta legislature on the big

00:02:07.980 public plaza was physically picked up by police by his arms and legs and detained and hauled off

00:02:14.020 for what? For hollering at an empty government building on a Sunday afternoon for rambling on a bit

00:02:20.600 about his own theory of the Constitution and government legitimacy or whatever. Here, see for

00:02:25.760 yourself. I'll spare you listening too much of his homemade theories, but I'll play a full minute of

00:02:30.380 it for you because I want you to understand how harmless and banal and actually, in its own way,

00:02:35.040 how touching it was what he said, as in he actually still believes enough in democracy that he'd go to

00:02:41.020 a nearly empty plaza in front of a legislature because he thinks he can convince the world

00:02:45.580 through his arguments to see things his way. He might be wrong, but he's a lot less cynical than

00:02:50.600 most people and a lot more politically active, wouldn't you say? I don't even know what he was trying

00:02:54.980 to say, really, but apparently the police didn't think it was legal. Take a look.

00:03:00.120 Note that the Constitution is created first, then the government. To create a democratic nation for

00:03:06.420 the people, by the people, of the people, it cannot be any other way. No, no foreign government

00:03:12.680 can formulate the Constitution of another country. And as a matter of fact, ours was done exactly like

00:03:21.200 that when Pierre Elliott Trudeau went to the British monarchy and had them draft our Constitution,

00:03:28.200 the Charter, as it is known today.

00:03:31.200 No foreign government has formulated to create the Constitution of another country. It has to be created by the people themselves, and becomes thus, for all intents and purposes, their protected property. Not only the law, but is the Constitution, which subjugates the government to the people.

00:03:38.200 So there was no violence, no call to violence, just his own theories about the world. No one crowding around him from a health

00:04:08.180 point of view, except the cops, that is funny, how they're always the ones doing all the social distancing violations when they arrest people for not social distancing.

00:04:17.180 Now, right at that point, the camera points to another guy who's being arrested too. Not sure why. Doesn't seem violent either. This guy's just being walked away by half a dozen riot cops. Not sure why. Watch for 20 seconds.

00:04:32.180 The government. What's this? No, look. He's getting arrested. Over there. Jesse.

00:04:39.180 In violation of our freedom! In violation of our freedom! In violation of our freedom! Because he's native? 1.00

00:04:51.180 I don't know, could be. Maybe not. I think these cops were doing what the cops across Canada have been doing, just capriciously and whimsically applying laws that are surely unconstitutional, absolutely vague, and will be thrown out by the time they get to court in 6 or 12 months if they ever do get to court.

00:05:10.900 But in the meantime, the police are literally ordering the country to remain under a form of house arrest and cracking down on peaceful protests. That's what we're looking at here.

00:05:19.920 So that guy walked out by the police, and then a guy with an upside-down Canadian flag. You know what an upside-down flag means, right? It's a sign of distress. It's what ships do when there's something amiss. It's not a sign of disloyalty or rebellion.

00:05:33.020 It's a sign of pain of grievance. Well, you can't have that. So watch that guy being walked out, again, by a cluster of cops, who seem to be the only ones breaking the no-crowding rules.

00:05:45.040 Thank you! I'm here independently, but at the same time, they're going to do this to all of you.

00:05:50.840 I have none.

00:05:51.420 No, no, no.

00:05:53.040 No, no.

00:05:53.980 Another one with the megaphone will be next, because you can speak the loudest.

00:05:58.620 Anybody can read the loudest.

00:05:59.780 And indeed, that heckler was correct. 0.89

00:06:03.400 The guy with the megaphone was next, the guy with his theories about vaccines and globalism and constitutionalism in the charter.

00:06:11.640 They tried to card him, to sweep him up, but he said, what have I done? Take a look.

00:06:16.440 I have not committed any offense today.

00:06:18.380 No, he has not.

00:06:19.980 As far as I am concerned, you are trying to abridge my unalienable rights, and I do not consent.

00:06:29.780 I am being charged.

00:06:31.300 I am being charged.

00:06:31.360 I am being charged.

00:06:31.420 I am being charged.

00:06:35.420 So now I am being charged.

00:06:36.740 So tell me exactly what I am being charged with.

00:06:38.640 I am being charged under section 71-1 of the Public Health Act.

00:06:42.860 So first it was being detained and now I am being arrested.

00:06:45.400 So why am I being charged when there is a whole other group of people here, and yet you are going to come and pick on me?

00:06:52.980 Do you guys have a problem with the things that I was discussing here today?

00:06:57.360 Did he say what 71-1 is?

00:06:57.940 73-1.

00:06:58.960 Well, he said 71-1, so make up your mind.

00:07:01.900 71-1, 73-1.

00:07:03.080 I am here peacefully.

00:07:04.440 I am not doing anything wrong.

00:07:06.040 I am not in a group.

00:07:07.500 It's not something to be helpful.

00:07:09.400 It's not.

00:07:10.300 It's not.

00:07:10.800 71-1, 73-1, and they'll figure it out eventually.

00:07:16.560 I don't have ID.

00:07:19.260 You guys took that from me last year.

00:07:23.520 So he didn't want to give his ID to the cops, and he says they took it from him last year anyways.

00:07:27.960 I have no ID.

00:07:28.880 I don't know who he is, really.

00:07:30.500 I didn't listen to his whole manifesto.

00:07:33.180 I just don't care enough to listen to the whole thing, and it feels pretty homemade and uninteresting to me,

00:07:37.700 but I think there's probably a grain of truth to what he's saying.

00:07:40.800 If the cops didn't actually take his ID from him last year, they'd probably know who he is.

00:07:45.580 It seems like he's a bit of a fixture there.

00:07:47.080 They were just sweeping him up, as police do, to the lonely sometimes.

00:07:50.840 I don't know if you could hear it, but it was a bit muffled.

00:07:54.160 When he asked what he actually did wrong, what offense, what crime,

00:07:57.700 as opposed to the process crime of not giving your ID to a cop, they got it wrong.

00:08:01.700 They said Section 71-1 of the Public Health Act.

00:08:05.080 Well, I checked.

00:08:06.040 There is no Section 71-1.

00:08:07.980 And they corrected themselves and said 73-1.

00:08:11.520 Okay.

00:08:12.360 Well, here's what that part of the law says.

00:08:15.520 A person who contravenes his act, the regulations, an order under Section 62,

00:08:21.100 or an order of a medical officer of health or physician under Part 3 is guilty of an offense.

00:08:25.920 So Section 73-1 is what gives the police the power to arrest someone for breaking a health order,

00:08:34.600 but only for someone who breaks an order.

00:08:37.220 It's for people who break a specific section of the Health Act or a specific order.

00:08:41.660 And those cops didn't cite the section that guy broke because they couldn't think of one,

00:08:49.140 because they didn't need one.

00:08:51.680 They were just going to arrest him no matter what, because they wanted to,

00:08:54.760 because he's obviously a pain in the neck.

00:08:56.780 And they seem to know him from before, and they're just sick of him.

00:09:01.540 Citing Section 73-1 is like saying, I'm arresting you because I'm arresting you.

00:09:06.200 Yeah, but for what?

00:09:07.100 Well, I'm arresting you because I'm arresting you.

00:09:09.420 No, no, that's not how it works.

00:09:11.000 But you saw, that's how it did work.

00:09:14.540 I'm going to show you the next part from two different camera angles,

00:09:17.460 and we'll try to clean up the audio a bit.

00:09:18.940 They basically tell him to leave, and he says he won't.

00:09:22.560 It's his right to stay.

00:09:24.720 And so they pick him up, three cops holding him,

00:09:27.900 another ten cops watching him, and just take him away.

00:09:30.320 I'm sorry, these are unlawful orders.

00:09:47.000 You are infringing on my unalienable rights,

00:09:49.900 my God-given rights that are endowed upon me by my Creator,

00:09:53.380 and I am not going to comply.

00:09:54.360 Now, the jacket said sheriff,

00:10:23.540 so I think that means they work for the Alberta legislature itself,

00:10:27.200 so they work for Jason Kenney, really.

00:10:29.720 Funny, it feels like they're still working for Rachel Notley and the NDP, don't you think?

00:10:34.280 You heard the cops, they just didn't care.

00:10:36.600 They said he could fight it in court or fight it legislatively, I think one of the cops said.

00:10:40.740 What does that mean?

00:10:42.160 That this rough protester could become a lawmaker?

00:10:45.780 It sounds like the protester wasn't the only homemade law talking crank out there yesterday.

00:10:50.440 The cop was, too, fight it legislatively.

00:10:52.940 But the cop was the only crank with a gun, wasn't he?

00:10:56.700 So he won.

00:10:59.140 I accept, just based on the style and the sound,

00:11:03.240 and not without actually going through the details of his speech,

00:11:05.280 I accept the proposition that that protester with the megaphone is on the margins,

00:11:09.700 and that he was noisy and irritating.

00:11:14.100 But really, I shouldn't even grant that.

00:11:15.660 He's no crankier than most of the protests I've seen over the years.

00:11:19.360 Unlike the rent-a-mob protests from the left,

00:11:21.580 at least he seems to be familiar with his material,

00:11:24.120 even if his theories are unusual.

00:11:26.100 I think most protesters are noisy and irritating

00:11:28.440 to people who don't agree with them or understand them.

00:11:31.320 However, people still have the right to have their own counter-protests

00:11:34.620 or just to ignore them and stay away,

00:11:36.940 as 99.999% of the city of Edmonton apparently did yesterday.

00:11:41.340 It looks like he only had, I don't know, what, 10 friends with him

00:11:43.740 out of more than a million citizens.

00:11:45.880 So what was the problem here, exactly?

00:11:49.140 They required him to be picked up by his arms and legs

00:11:51.480 and dragged away and detained.

00:11:54.460 Merely citing the Public Health Act's arrest powers,

00:11:57.400 Section 73.1, is not a reason.

00:12:00.380 I'm not for this crank.

00:12:02.520 I'm against what the cops did to him.

00:12:05.260 And I want to know who told them to do it,

00:12:07.360 who told them to be out in massive force,

00:12:09.540 dozens of police,

00:12:10.880 to meet a handful of physically separated,

00:12:13.780 peaceful, unarmed protesters.

00:12:15.640 And you know what?

00:12:17.280 I don't care who this protester is.

00:12:18.980 I don't care.

00:12:20.020 The cops seem to know him,

00:12:21.800 just looking and listening to him.

00:12:23.020 I'm going to guess who he is,

00:12:24.700 which is not a sound approach,

00:12:26.300 but here it goes.

00:12:26.720 I'm going to guess.

00:12:27.300 I'm guessing he's a guy who,

00:12:29.460 until a few years ago,

00:12:30.500 was pretty,

00:12:31.480 we're working a pretty well-paying

00:12:32.940 blue-collar job in Edmonton.

00:12:35.160 It was really the blue-collar job capital of Canada

00:12:37.360 until a few years ago.

00:12:38.640 I don't know.

00:12:39.340 Welder, rig hand, truck driver, whatever.

00:12:41.780 Back in the day,

00:12:42.380 you can make six figures in Alberta

00:12:43.960 as a semi-skilled trade,

00:12:46.600 close to 200 grand a year

00:12:47.800 if you had some technical skills.

00:12:49.660 I'm guessing that this guy

00:12:50.900 is one of the 200,000 men

00:12:52.100 who were thrown out of work

00:12:53.420 when the oil prices fell five years ago

00:12:55.140 and kept out of work

00:12:55.960 even after the oil prices rose last year

00:12:58.660 because Rachel Notley attacked his job

00:13:01.480 and then Justin Trudeau attacked his job

00:13:03.360 and banned three pipelines

00:13:04.940 and banned an oil science mine

00:13:06.380 and put on a carbon tax

00:13:08.280 and then jacked up that carbon tax some more

00:13:09.960 and killed $100 billion worth of oil construction.

00:13:12.780 So yeah, that's my guess.

00:13:13.940 I'm stereotyping,

00:13:14.860 but I know what Alberta was

00:13:16.960 and I know what it is now.

00:13:18.080 If I were unemployed

00:13:20.180 and had no job prospects

00:13:22.040 and if I was being bossed around by politicians

00:13:24.960 and my hopes were being cancelled,

00:13:27.640 first by Trudeau's anti-oil policies

00:13:29.180 and then by federal, provincial

00:13:30.380 and municipal pandemic politicians

00:13:32.180 and bureaucrats,

00:13:33.900 but all those fat cats

00:13:35.760 were still getting paid

00:13:37.060 and then I heard

00:13:38.460 there might be some mandatory UN vaccine

00:13:40.680 that I have to take

00:13:41.800 before I can do anything,

00:13:43.080 even go out and about.

00:13:45.220 That was one of the things

00:13:46.160 he was talking about.

00:13:46.880 Yeah, I'd be cranky too.

00:13:49.740 You know, you're allowed to be cranky.

00:13:51.920 It's one of your rights.

00:13:54.140 He's not a threat.

00:13:55.040 He's not even armed peacefully

00:13:56.280 like some of those U.S.

00:13:57.800 back-to-work protests I've seen.

00:13:59.320 From what I saw,

00:14:00.000 he was just noisy.

00:14:01.040 It doesn't mean he needs to be dragged off

00:14:02.560 by police or maybe

00:14:04.320 10 minutes in the future,

00:14:07.400 he'll be dragged off,

00:14:08.280 you know,

00:14:09.500 by a robot.

00:14:10.220 Let's keep Singapore healthy.

00:14:17.500 For your own safety

00:14:19.360 and for those around you,

00:14:21.260 please stand at least one meter apart.

00:14:23.540 Thank you.

00:14:24.080 Yeah, that's from Singapore.

00:14:37.520 A robot dog

00:14:38.720 walking through a park

00:14:40.040 scolding people

00:14:41.560 if they get too close.

00:14:43.900 Or remember that New Jersey cop

00:14:45.680 who was using

00:14:46.660 made-in-China drones

00:14:48.740 for surveilling people

00:14:50.760 to see if they were too close

00:14:51.740 to each other

00:14:52.160 in their backyards.

00:14:53.380 Mayors need to be creative. 1.00

00:14:55.140 We have to figure out a way

00:14:56.340 to get to people

00:14:57.540 that police cars can't get to.

00:14:59.700 Elizabeth City Police

00:15:00.900 shot this video for us

00:15:02.340 to show us how drones work.

00:15:04.500 The drones make it easier

00:15:05.840 for police to see

00:15:06.900 into certain areas

00:15:08.080 where access by patrol cars

00:15:10.400 is more difficult.

00:15:11.780 That includes tight spaces

00:15:13.380 between buildings,

00:15:14.800 behind schools,

00:15:15.840 and in backyards.

00:15:16.920 Failure to comply

00:15:21.140 could lead to a summons

00:15:22.340 or a $1,000 fine.

00:15:24.380 You think the drones

00:15:25.020 watching over people

00:15:25.940 is a good idea or a bad idea?

00:15:27.620 I think at any,

00:15:28.880 at this point,

00:15:30.360 it's worth a try.

00:15:31.300 It's just an invasion

00:15:32.080 of your privacy.

00:15:33.340 The mayor's heard it all.

00:15:35.160 My answer to those people are,

00:15:37.140 if these drones

00:15:38.280 save one life,

00:15:40.080 it is clearly worth

00:15:41.260 the activity

00:15:42.360 and the information

00:15:43.820 that the drones are sending.

00:15:45.360 The drones donated by DJI,

00:15:48.080 a Chinese company,

00:15:49.240 have gone to 43 agencies

00:15:50.820 in 22 states,

00:15:52.200 all to help enforce

00:15:53.760 social distancing rules.

00:15:55.560 Yeah, it's getting creepy, isn't it?

00:15:57.600 And here's Teresa Tam

00:15:58.800 talking about tracking bracelets

00:16:00.660 and prisons

00:16:01.960 if you don't take her vaccine.

00:16:04.500 If there are people

00:16:05.400 who are non-compliant,

00:16:06.820 there are definitely laws

00:16:08.480 and public health powers

00:16:11.820 that can quarantine people

00:16:13.820 in mandatory settings.

00:16:16.980 It's potential.

00:16:18.100 You could track people,

00:16:19.160 put bracelets on their arms,

00:16:22.140 have police and other setups

00:16:24.180 to ensure quarantine

00:16:25.420 is undertaken.

00:16:27.140 There are countless people

00:16:28.200 who are being ground

00:16:28.960 into dust by this pandemic.

00:16:30.660 There are more homeless people

00:16:31.720 out there than I've ever seen

00:16:32.780 before.

00:16:33.100 Yesterday,

00:16:33.760 I went through a drive-thru

00:16:34.520 near Toronto for lunch

00:16:35.540 and there was a gaggle

00:16:36.680 of homeless people

00:16:37.400 begging for food

00:16:38.120 from the cars going through.

00:16:39.360 Have you ever seen that

00:16:39.940 before in Canada?

00:16:40.920 I haven't.

00:16:41.800 Maybe I live a sheltered life.

00:16:43.040 It's everywhere.

00:16:45.120 Here's eight police,

00:16:46.300 no masks,

00:16:47.720 harassing a homeless woman

00:16:48.740 for being in a park.

00:16:49.620 That's in Australia.

00:16:51.260 You think that's only

00:16:52.260 in foreign countries

00:16:53.080 that happens?

00:16:54.240 Well, remember our first case

00:16:55.420 at fightthefines.com

00:16:56.580 was a pastor who was fined

00:16:58.100 for literally feeding

00:16:59.140 the homeless.

00:16:59.620 We are providing necessities

00:17:02.320 of life

00:17:03.020 to those that you

00:17:04.780 and your bosses

00:17:05.980 refuse to provide.

00:17:07.740 Do you guys do

00:17:08.580 that?

00:17:08.940 I respect the social

00:17:09.780 community.

00:17:09.880 He's allowed to get it.

00:17:10.420 Stand back from me a little bit.

00:17:11.540 I need eight feet.

00:17:12.380 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:17:13.180 I need eight feet.

00:17:14.040 Stand back.

00:17:15.080 Or what?

00:17:15.780 You're going to f***ing threaten me

00:17:17.160 and f***ing abuse me. 0.96

00:17:18.420 Hey, guys.

00:17:19.680 Do not do that.

00:17:20.600 Tell him not to touch me.

00:17:22.240 Six feet away for everybody.

00:17:23.760 Back up now.

00:17:24.380 That's for everybody.

00:17:25.620 Look, the pandemic itself

00:17:27.040 was past its peak.

00:17:28.900 It wasn't a general threat.

00:17:30.840 82% of its victims

00:17:32.020 in Canada

00:17:32.480 were in nursing homes.

00:17:33.660 That's a real problem,

00:17:34.860 possibly related

00:17:35.620 to temporary foreign workers

00:17:37.320 mixing between seniors' homes

00:17:39.560 and living together

00:17:40.420 in low-rent bunkhouses,

00:17:42.180 super spreaders,

00:17:43.460 just like in the Alberta

00:17:44.700 foreign worker

00:17:45.500 meatpacking plants.

00:17:46.680 That's not a nationwide crisis.

00:17:48.920 That's not a problem

00:17:50.680 for all of us.

00:17:51.420 Not a single Canadian 0.90

00:17:52.400 under age 20 has died.

00:17:53.960 Not one.

00:17:54.920 Not one single person

00:17:56.440 under age 20.

00:17:57.300 The virus crisis,

00:17:58.680 it's pretty much over.

00:18:01.280 The economic crisis is here.

00:18:04.160 And as people

00:18:04.940 who are down in the dumps,

00:18:06.200 down on their luck,

00:18:07.460 down and out,

00:18:08.440 are picked on

00:18:09.060 and bullied

00:18:09.500 and arrested

00:18:10.080 and silenced

00:18:10.940 by the well-paid,

00:18:12.360 well-fed elite,

00:18:13.700 that class that's just

00:18:15.120 had a ball

00:18:15.700 during the lockdown,

00:18:17.800 I fear we are entering

00:18:18.840 the worst part of it

00:18:19.960 just now.

00:18:22.020 Stay with us for more.

00:18:23.000 Thank you.

00:18:26.440 Welcome back.

00:18:36.160 Well, as you know,

00:18:37.580 the world continues

00:18:38.960 even though we've been gripped

00:18:40.400 with the pandemic crisis.

00:18:42.460 The Conservative Party of Canada

00:18:44.020 is still proceeding

00:18:45.480 with its leadership race.

00:18:47.240 In fact, this Friday

00:18:48.180 is the cutoff

00:18:49.840 for new membership sales

00:18:51.220 if you want to vote

00:18:52.500 in that process.

00:18:53.840 We've had the pleasure

00:18:54.620 of interviewing

00:18:55.140 several candidates

00:18:56.180 for the leadership

00:18:57.120 and the first candidate

00:18:58.620 to sit down with me

00:19:00.500 has joined us again.

00:19:02.680 Her name is Dr. Leslyn Lewis

00:19:04.500 and she joins us now

00:19:05.920 via Skype from her home

00:19:07.280 in the Greater Toronto Area.

00:19:09.040 Dr. Lewis, welcome back.

00:19:10.240 Nice to see you again.

00:19:12.540 Yes, likewise, Ezra.

00:19:14.060 Well, you've been so busy.

00:19:15.660 I've been following you

00:19:16.800 in the media

00:19:17.580 and I've been following

00:19:19.240 your fundraising

00:19:20.380 because that's a measure

00:19:21.820 of your success.

00:19:22.760 I have to say

00:19:23.860 very strong fundraising numbers.

00:19:26.520 Tell me about

00:19:27.400 how the campaign

00:19:28.920 has gone for you

00:19:29.680 because just from

00:19:31.020 seeing your media coverage

00:19:32.380 and the fundraising reports,

00:19:35.500 you put in a pretty strong

00:19:36.720 showing how you're feeling

00:19:37.820 about it.

00:19:39.360 Oh, it's great, Ezra.

00:19:40.560 And we were one of the last

00:19:41.980 to start fundraising

00:19:43.620 off of the list.

00:19:44.720 So our numbers

00:19:45.980 are not even

00:19:46.820 for the full period

00:19:47.960 as the other candidates.

00:19:50.660 And we've just been

00:19:52.380 doing phenomenally well.

00:19:54.120 And it's largely

00:19:55.000 a grassroots-based movement

00:19:57.240 where people,

00:19:58.220 even, you know,

00:19:59.120 elderly people

00:20:00.440 in their 80s

00:20:01.320 are sending $25

00:20:02.480 and it's just

00:20:04.580 the sheer numbers

00:20:06.080 that we're bringing in

00:20:07.100 and just the fact

00:20:08.480 that people are seeing me

00:20:10.140 as a very refreshing candidate.

00:20:12.360 Well, I think

00:20:12.820 that's outstanding.

00:20:13.760 Listen, I want to talk to you

00:20:14.660 about the issues

00:20:16.400 of the era.

00:20:17.520 I mean, I think

00:20:18.620 this pandemic

00:20:19.240 came out of the blue.

00:20:20.240 I don't think anyone

00:20:20.880 was expecting it.

00:20:22.180 How would you rate

00:20:23.560 the response to it

00:20:25.120 by Justin Trudeau

00:20:26.800 and the federal government?

00:20:29.340 What do you think

00:20:30.360 they've done wrong

00:20:31.480 and what, if anything,

00:20:32.860 do you think

00:20:33.220 they've done right?

00:20:35.040 Well, to be honest with you,

00:20:36.540 like, we could always

00:20:37.200 look backwards

00:20:38.000 and hindsight is 20-20.

00:20:39.840 But I think

00:20:40.320 from the outset,

00:20:41.560 early on,

00:20:42.360 I was very,

00:20:43.360 very concerned

00:20:45.020 about some of the

00:20:46.120 approaches that we were taking.

00:20:48.420 I would have closed

00:20:49.340 the borders earlier,

00:20:50.900 repatriated Canadians

00:20:52.360 back home,

00:20:53.440 and then put them

00:20:54.360 in quarantine.

00:20:55.740 And I actually

00:20:57.020 was the first candidate

00:20:58.460 to voice concern

00:20:59.820 over the fact

00:21:00.740 that when we were

00:21:02.600 urging our government

00:21:05.240 to close the borders,

00:21:06.560 that they responded

00:21:07.820 by saying that it was racist.

00:21:09.860 And so I actually

00:21:10.920 was the first

00:21:11.620 to come out and say,

00:21:12.460 no, this is not racist.

00:21:14.040 This is public safety.

00:21:15.160 We have to put

00:21:15.960 Canadians first. 0.88

00:21:17.580 And we need to instill

00:21:19.060 mechanisms that will

00:21:20.140 make sure that Canadians

00:21:21.800 are safe and that

00:21:22.800 the virus is not spread.

00:21:25.120 I think one of the

00:21:26.620 broader questions,

00:21:27.640 and you see it

00:21:28.200 in other countries too,

00:21:29.360 particularly Australia

00:21:31.020 and the United Kingdom,

00:21:32.720 is that other

00:21:33.520 Western democracies

00:21:35.280 are reassessing

00:21:36.440 their approach

00:21:37.400 to China,

00:21:38.180 whether it's

00:21:38.720 to allow China 0.78

00:21:39.580 to put in

00:21:40.520 5G technology

00:21:42.640 from the Huawei company,

00:21:44.220 or even just,

00:21:45.960 I don't know,

00:21:46.840 talking about Taiwan

00:21:48.360 as a closer ally

00:21:50.640 in the region

00:21:51.260 as opposed to

00:21:51.920 just communist China.

00:21:53.460 Do you think

00:21:54.240 that Canada

00:21:54.920 should reassess

00:21:55.940 our foreign policy

00:21:57.240 towards China?

00:21:59.300 Should we reassess,

00:22:01.400 as the Americans are,

00:22:03.260 reshoring industries

00:22:04.860 that had put

00:22:05.460 their factories there?

00:22:06.800 What would you do?

00:22:08.020 Let's say we're

00:22:08.800 out of this pandemic

00:22:09.920 6, 12,

00:22:10.840 24 months

00:22:11.600 into the future.

00:22:12.240 What do you think

00:22:13.220 Canada's stance

00:22:14.140 towards China

00:22:14.960 itself should be?

00:22:17.260 Well, I mean,

00:22:17.820 we really haven't

00:22:18.640 reassessed our

00:22:19.720 foreign policy

00:22:20.540 in over 50 years,

00:22:22.200 so I think that

00:22:22.700 we do need

00:22:23.380 a comprehensive

00:22:23.940 reassessment

00:22:24.940 because we're now

00:22:27.520 in adversarial

00:22:28.820 trade relationships

00:22:29.860 with countries

00:22:30.580 like China, 0.69

00:22:31.920 and so it's changed

00:22:33.060 from an amicable

00:22:34.420 trade relationship

00:22:35.680 to an adversarial one,

00:22:37.600 and so we really

00:22:38.200 have to start

00:22:38.920 reassessing

00:22:40.060 how we relate

00:22:40.860 to these countries,

00:22:42.260 and we've learned

00:22:43.480 that transparency

00:22:44.640 is not always there.

00:22:46.240 We had some

00:22:46.920 very serious concerns

00:22:48.280 about the slow reporting

00:22:49.580 and the transparencies

00:22:50.920 and just China's

00:22:52.720 connection with the WHO,

00:22:54.360 and so we have

00:22:55.500 to start making sure

00:22:57.240 that we have

00:22:57.840 our own policies

00:22:58.740 in place,

00:22:59.440 that we could

00:23:00.220 check numbers

00:23:01.220 and that we could

00:23:01.880 make sure that

00:23:02.720 the information

00:23:03.300 that we're getting

00:23:04.160 does not put

00:23:05.460 Canadians at risk.

00:23:06.540 I have a question

00:23:08.500 for you about

00:23:08.900 one of Trudeau's

00:23:09.840 moves that he did

00:23:11.980 sort of taking

00:23:12.820 advantage of the

00:23:14.480 pandemic crisis,

00:23:15.640 I think,

00:23:16.580 and I'm talking

00:23:17.400 about his gun

00:23:18.780 control initiative

00:23:19.620 to ban about

00:23:21.260 1,500 particular

00:23:23.620 types of firearms.

00:23:25.420 Now, some of the

00:23:27.280 types he was banning

00:23:28.200 were so obscure,

00:23:29.300 I don't even know

00:23:29.880 if they exist in Canada,

00:23:31.180 but still,

00:23:32.280 putting through

00:23:32.920 firearms legislation

00:23:34.140 without a vote,

00:23:35.460 without a debate,

00:23:36.280 in the House of Commons

00:23:37.240 without committing

00:23:38.000 studies.

00:23:39.220 Do you have

00:23:40.280 a reaction to that?

00:23:42.280 Does this strike

00:23:43.720 at your views

00:23:44.620 on firearms?

00:23:45.840 I don't think

00:23:46.280 we talked about

00:23:46.920 this in our

00:23:47.420 first conversation.

00:23:48.860 Do you have any

00:23:49.140 thoughts about

00:23:49.620 either the substance

00:23:50.740 of Trudeau's

00:23:51.740 gun control

00:23:52.420 or the manner

00:23:53.440 in which he

00:23:54.100 pushed it through?

00:23:56.400 Absolutely.

00:23:57.000 I do feel that

00:23:57.700 he was capitalizing

00:23:58.780 on the Nova Scotia

00:24:00.120 tragedy,

00:24:00.900 and it's very

00:24:01.500 disconcerting

00:24:03.120 because we've

00:24:04.200 seen that the ban

00:24:04.960 was enacted

00:24:05.580 through regulation

00:24:06.920 and not legislation,

00:24:08.740 and the latter

00:24:10.400 would have required

00:24:11.300 a debate,

00:24:12.080 and so they've

00:24:12.820 foregone that debate,

00:24:14.140 and because of it,

00:24:15.260 many law-abiding

00:24:16.620 citizens are now 1.00

00:24:17.660 criminalized,

00:24:18.700 and we have,

00:24:19.700 you know,

00:24:20.440 really interrupted

00:24:21.560 many small businesses

00:24:24.140 who are now

00:24:25.500 stuck with ammunition

00:24:26.640 and sporting facilities

00:24:28.820 who no longer

00:24:29.920 can have individuals

00:24:31.180 trained for international

00:24:32.460 competitions,

00:24:33.240 and it's just,

00:24:34.740 and it was just

00:24:35.440 with a sweep

00:24:36.120 of regulation

00:24:36.880 which I felt

00:24:38.100 was an infringement

00:24:41.020 of the democratic

00:24:41.780 process.

00:24:43.340 I want to talk

00:24:44.460 about another issue.

00:24:46.080 Thank you for that.

00:24:47.120 Over the last few months,

00:24:48.540 we've talked to a few

00:24:50.140 of the candidates

00:24:50.760 running for the

00:24:52.340 conservative leadership,

00:24:53.820 and one,

00:24:55.380 and maybe two of them,

00:24:56.840 maybe three,

00:24:57.580 I guess,

00:24:57.940 have faced

00:24:58.520 a vetting

00:25:01.460 not by the

00:25:02.300 conservative party

00:25:03.280 membership,

00:25:03.840 I'm switching gears

00:25:04.600 here a bit,

00:25:05.080 Dr. Lewis,

00:25:05.820 but rather by

00:25:07.020 the party's

00:25:07.820 leadership

00:25:08.540 executive

00:25:10.660 decision makers.

00:25:11.980 Here's what I mean.

00:25:12.940 Jim Carajalios,

00:25:14.120 who we interviewed,

00:25:15.600 sent out some

00:25:17.140 mailing to party

00:25:18.100 members,

00:25:18.800 and he was

00:25:19.820 suspended as a

00:25:20.780 candidate not by

00:25:21.640 party members,

00:25:22.280 but by the

00:25:22.780 party executive.

00:25:24.200 Derek Sloan

00:25:25.940 facing

00:25:26.560 similar criticism,

00:25:29.160 and there was

00:25:30.360 another candidate

00:25:31.020 who didn't really

00:25:31.700 get out of the

00:25:32.300 gates.

00:25:33.020 I wonder if you

00:25:33.680 have any thoughts

00:25:34.400 on what I

00:25:36.840 regard as

00:25:37.560 cancel culture

00:25:38.520 or

00:25:39.680 knee-jerk

00:25:41.040 censorship.

00:25:42.000 I'm certainly

00:25:42.880 not asking for

00:25:43.640 you to praise

00:25:44.500 your competitors

00:25:46.180 or your opponents

00:25:46.880 in this race,

00:25:47.960 but I wonder

00:25:49.400 how you would

00:25:50.780 deal with

00:25:52.180 fellow conservatives

00:25:53.760 being a little

00:25:54.420 bit prickly,

00:25:55.560 offending this

00:25:56.320 or that

00:25:56.660 sensibility.

00:25:58.020 How would you

00:25:58.960 balance freedom

00:25:59.980 of speech and

00:26:00.680 allowing other 1.00

00:26:02.380 members of the

00:26:03.180 conservative party

00:26:03.820 to express

00:26:04.380 themselves versus

00:26:05.640 party discipline?

00:26:06.840 Because it's

00:26:07.800 something that's

00:26:08.300 concerned me,

00:26:09.420 and I wonder if

00:26:10.720 you have any

00:26:11.840 thoughts on that

00:26:12.500 subject or if

00:26:13.340 you've just sort

00:26:13.940 of focused on

00:26:15.160 your own

00:26:15.740 campaign.

00:26:16.660 Do you have

00:26:16.800 any thoughts on

00:26:17.480 Jim Carajalios,

00:26:18.400 Derek Sloan,

00:26:18.900 or others?

00:26:20.840 Well, I think

00:26:21.300 it's important that

00:26:22.320 the party allows

00:26:23.400 the democratic

00:26:24.060 process to

00:26:24.780 unfold, and so

00:26:25.820 in such a

00:26:27.140 situation, it's

00:26:27.860 the members that

00:26:28.620 really should be

00:26:29.380 deciding on who

00:26:30.980 they want to

00:26:31.700 represent them,

00:26:32.800 and unless

00:26:33.480 something egregious

00:26:34.600 was done, I

00:26:35.920 don't believe that

00:26:36.660 it's the party's

00:26:37.560 place to intervene

00:26:39.480 with that

00:26:40.360 democratic process.

00:26:42.060 Have you had

00:26:42.740 any conversations

00:26:43.620 with your fellow

00:26:45.200 candidates, either

00:26:46.040 Carajalios or

00:26:47.300 Sloan or Peter

00:26:48.560 McKay or Aaron

00:26:49.380 O'Toole?

00:26:49.720 I know campaigning

00:26:51.440 has really been

00:26:52.020 shut down for a

00:26:53.440 month or two

00:26:53.880 because of the

00:26:54.440 pandemic.

00:26:54.800 I'm just curious

00:26:55.580 if you've had any

00:26:56.420 friendly interactions

00:26:57.700 or maybe unfriendly

00:26:58.960 interactions on the

00:27:00.240 hustings.

00:27:00.700 Have you bumped into

00:27:01.300 them or talked to

00:27:01.900 them?

00:27:03.200 Well, actually, no,

00:27:04.240 because we've done

00:27:04.980 everything has been

00:27:06.280 via Zoom, so we've

00:27:07.640 all been focused on

00:27:08.860 our own campaign and

00:27:10.740 just reaching members

00:27:12.260 on our own, but we

00:27:13.960 do, I mean, the

00:27:14.800 campaigns do speak

00:27:16.040 amongst each other

00:27:17.000 about various issues.

00:27:20.020 I remember when we

00:27:21.500 first met, and I

00:27:22.160 very much enjoyed your

00:27:23.740 visit to our office

00:27:24.800 here, you felt like

00:27:27.800 you were ready to

00:27:28.480 rumble, but it

00:27:29.120 certainly did feel

00:27:29.980 like your first big

00:27:30.760 political fight.

00:27:31.540 It's been a couple

00:27:32.020 months now.

00:27:32.840 I'm just curious how

00:27:34.000 you felt about the

00:27:35.200 experience.

00:27:36.220 Is there something

00:27:36.660 that surprised you?

00:27:37.660 Is there something

00:27:38.140 that has been a

00:27:40.880 positive surprise or

00:27:42.100 has been tougher in

00:27:43.220 some ways than you

00:27:44.020 expected?

00:27:44.900 You're a little bit

00:27:45.420 more seasoned now.

00:27:46.360 You've been roughed

00:27:46.920 up a little bit by

00:27:47.620 the campaign trail.

00:27:48.840 What are your

00:27:49.280 thoughts now, having

00:27:50.440 been through it for

00:27:51.120 a while?

00:27:53.200 Well, you know, the

00:27:54.300 funny thing is that

00:27:55.280 people who you expect

00:27:56.600 to be your allies,

00:27:57.800 people who likely

00:27:59.140 have the same

00:28:00.020 policies as you, you

00:28:01.360 feel that you see

00:28:02.220 that they're the ones

00:28:02.980 who are trying to

00:28:03.580 destroy your reputation

00:28:04.680 and undermine you,

00:28:05.920 and then the people

00:28:06.960 who you thought would

00:28:07.760 be your opponents

00:28:08.500 are somewhat more

00:28:10.140 respectful of you,

00:28:11.840 so that became a bit

00:28:13.480 of a surprise.

00:28:14.180 Let me ask you a

00:28:16.580 question about what

00:28:17.220 I regard as the

00:28:18.080 toughest party in

00:28:19.720 Canada.

00:28:20.220 Of course, the

00:28:20.700 Liberals have been

00:28:21.480 successful two

00:28:22.500 elections in a row,

00:28:24.240 but I've always used

00:28:25.400 the phrase the media

00:28:26.600 party to describe the

00:28:28.740 establishment legacy

00:28:29.980 journalists who

00:28:31.600 typically support the

00:28:32.680 Liberals, who have a

00:28:34.820 uniform point of view

00:28:35.960 on a lot of issues,

00:28:37.140 whether it's social

00:28:37.800 conservatism or global

00:28:39.640 warming or even

00:28:40.920 firearms, as we talked

00:28:42.060 about, do you have

00:28:43.760 any thoughts on your

00:28:44.800 experience dealing

00:28:46.260 with the mainstream

00:28:47.580 media?

00:28:48.680 Did you find that they

00:28:49.800 were more open to you

00:28:50.920 because you don't fit

00:28:52.120 the conservative mold?

00:28:54.020 You're a black woman 0.99

00:28:55.940 in the conservative

00:28:56.900 party that perhaps

00:28:59.120 dashes their stereotypes

00:29:00.560 of the party.

00:29:01.580 Have you had any

00:29:03.120 thoughts about how the

00:29:04.520 media party has

00:29:05.400 treated you?

00:29:05.960 Well, I can see that

00:29:08.640 they don't know what

00:29:10.040 to make of me.

00:29:11.000 That's very apparent.

00:29:13.540 But to be honest with

00:29:15.300 you, the interviews

00:29:16.060 that I have had with

00:29:17.560 them, with the

00:29:18.180 mainstream media, have

00:29:19.360 been equally tough.

00:29:20.840 They've asked equally

00:29:21.780 tough questions, but I

00:29:23.600 feel that it's just a

00:29:25.420 matter of which I was

00:29:26.640 able to forthrightly

00:29:28.180 answer those questions

00:29:29.600 that they weren't really

00:29:31.480 able to trip me up the

00:29:32.640 way they may have

00:29:33.640 tripped up somebody who

00:29:34.780 they could label a

00:29:37.580 certain way that they

00:29:38.660 cannot get away with

00:29:39.800 those same labels being

00:29:41.120 attached to me.

00:29:42.420 So it's almost a form,

00:29:43.540 it's almost as if what

00:29:44.620 you're saying, it's a

00:29:45.740 reality that my presence

00:29:47.180 does serve to de-weaponize

00:29:49.840 some of the attacks that

00:29:52.020 we usually get as

00:29:53.120 conservatives.

00:29:53.920 That's very, very true.

00:29:55.880 I see in some opinion

00:29:58.240 polls that Justin Trudeau

00:29:59.520 has risen in the polls,

00:30:01.080 and I think that's just a,

00:30:02.280 my own reaction is that's

00:30:03.280 a temporary boost to

00:30:04.780 boost because there's a

00:30:05.640 feeling of national

00:30:06.500 solidarity and let's get

00:30:08.140 behind the leader.

00:30:08.960 I think we've seen that

00:30:09.780 in some other countries as

00:30:11.540 well.

00:30:11.800 I predict that'll subside

00:30:13.460 somewhat as we get

00:30:14.420 through the panic stage

00:30:17.080 and we deal with the real

00:30:17.980 problems of the deep

00:30:19.140 unemployment.

00:30:20.820 If you were successful

00:30:22.740 and became the

00:30:23.440 conservative leader,

00:30:24.700 what do you think your

00:30:25.640 main issue would be as

00:30:28.160 opposition leader, as

00:30:29.420 conservative party leader,

00:30:30.420 and if we were heading

00:30:31.940 into an election as soon

00:30:33.280 as next year, what

00:30:35.480 would your chief focus

00:30:37.380 be, taking it to the

00:30:39.100 Trudeau liberals?

00:30:39.940 Is there one thing you

00:30:40.940 think they're particularly

00:30:41.820 vulnerable on in the minds

00:30:44.180 of Canadians?

00:30:46.340 Well, I think that in

00:30:48.120 general we need to focus

00:30:49.840 on, the top three things

00:30:52.100 for me is just looking at

00:30:53.740 our economy and our

00:30:56.460 democratic values, our

00:30:58.360 sovereignty and our

00:30:59.960 Canadian identity.

00:31:01.100 Those three things I think

00:31:02.740 that we need to focus on

00:31:04.600 because there has been

00:31:05.740 fractures within our

00:31:07.500 confederation and we see

00:31:09.600 that there is a large

00:31:10.840 amount of regional

00:31:12.260 discontent that we have to

00:31:13.820 resolve and I believe that

00:31:15.060 a lot of that is

00:31:16.260 undergirded by the way that

00:31:19.260 our economy is structured

00:31:21.160 and a lot of imposition of

00:31:23.820 foreign interference on our

00:31:25.420 national sovereignty.

00:31:27.100 Let me ask you one more

00:31:27.980 question about that because

00:31:29.060 I think you're right.

00:31:29.840 Before the pandemic hit,

00:31:31.420 one of the issues that was

00:31:32.580 really acute was Alberta,

00:31:35.600 the oil patch, the pipelines,

00:31:37.880 the big oil sands mine called

00:31:39.560 the Tech Frontier mine, the

00:31:42.660 blockades of the railways.

00:31:44.220 I felt that Alberta in

00:31:45.360 particular and Saskatchewan too

00:31:46.840 was feeling very marginalized

00:31:48.500 and almost being driven out of

00:31:50.480 the country by the Trudeau

00:31:51.640 liberals.

00:31:52.360 As the pandemic recedes, I

00:31:54.180 think some of those issues

00:31:55.020 will reemerge.

00:31:55.820 Have you had any contact with

00:31:58.580 provincial leaders in Alberta

00:32:03.540 or Saskatchewan?

00:32:04.640 Have you talked to the oil and

00:32:06.060 gas industry at all?

00:32:07.840 Have you heard what their

00:32:09.660 concerns are?

00:32:10.880 Do you have a message for them?

00:32:12.900 What would you say to Albertans

00:32:14.060 and other Westerners who are

00:32:15.060 talking about a wexit to leave

00:32:17.660 Canada?

00:32:18.100 There are a lot of issues that

00:32:22.820 Albertans are very, very 0.99

00:32:24.240 concerned about.

00:32:25.920 And, you know, the issues that

00:32:27.500 they have raised to me are the

00:32:30.160 way the senators are selected,

00:32:32.200 the number of senators, the

00:32:33.860 number of individuals that are

00:32:35.840 in each riding, that, you know,

00:32:38.400 there's far more individuals in

00:32:40.000 a riding in Alberta than in other

00:32:42.060 provinces.

00:32:42.620 And equalization payments are the

00:32:45.860 three top ones.

00:32:47.320 And then the final one is just

00:32:49.200 their ability to sustain

00:32:51.120 themselves and to develop their

00:32:52.500 natural resources.

00:32:53.480 And just this undermining of their

00:32:56.000 economy.

00:32:57.060 And, you know, you have various

00:32:58.560 parties that are pit against the

00:33:01.060 development of their natural

00:33:03.240 resources.

00:33:03.980 And, you know, we had Elizabeth

00:33:06.180 May just stating that bitumen is

00:33:08.800 in oil sands are dead.

00:33:10.860 And so that industry is dead.

00:33:13.080 And and in fact, that is not

00:33:15.300 that is not factual because we

00:33:17.240 know that currently, you know,

00:33:19.960 Canadian sales are 120 billion

00:33:22.500 a year in bitumen worldwide.

00:33:26.480 And so there is a lot of

00:33:28.240 potential still left in Alberta.

00:33:29.900 And we need those resources and we

00:33:32.480 can develop them.

00:33:33.980 Well, listen, I really enjoyed our

00:33:36.280 conversation today.

00:33:37.140 And it was very nice to have you.

00:33:39.100 If I recall, we were, I think,

00:33:40.940 one of your first media

00:33:42.540 interviews when you started the

00:33:43.820 campaign.

00:33:44.220 So it's nice to close the loop

00:33:46.040 with you as we head into the

00:33:47.380 final stretch.

00:33:48.440 What's your website for people

00:33:49.840 who have been wondering if they

00:33:51.620 should get involved?

00:33:52.900 Where should they check you out to

00:33:54.520 learn a little bit more and buy a

00:33:56.040 membership if they want?

00:33:58.320 Actually, Ezra, you were my

00:33:59.800 first.

00:34:01.580 Well, thank you for that.

00:34:02.760 And it was a deliberate attempt to

00:34:05.600 make sure that, you know, networks

00:34:08.460 like yours and the work that you do

00:34:11.340 is recognized and that the party

00:34:13.060 recognizes that you have done a lot

00:34:15.700 of work for the conservative

00:34:16.960 movement.

00:34:17.360 So that was very deliberate.

00:34:18.760 And I'm glad that other people felt

00:34:21.080 comfortable to come on the show

00:34:22.940 after I took that pledge.

00:34:24.480 But my website, that's enough

00:34:27.620 promotion of you.

00:34:28.620 Well, thank you very much for those

00:34:29.840 kind words.

00:34:31.660 No, I meant it.

00:34:33.620 My website is www.leslynlewis.ca.

00:34:38.060 So that's leslynlewis.ca.

00:34:40.780 Excellent.

00:34:41.260 We'll put that on the bottom of the

00:34:42.400 screen and we'll put that on the page

00:34:44.560 as well for people to click.

00:34:46.040 What a pleasure to see you again,

00:34:47.240 Dr. Lewis.

00:34:47.960 I wish you good luck and I'll watch

00:34:49.760 with interest as the leadership contest

00:34:52.480 continues.

00:34:52.980 Good luck out there.

00:34:53.560 Stay safe.

00:34:55.040 Thank you.

00:34:55.620 Take care now.

00:34:56.260 Thanks for having me again.

00:34:57.340 Our pleasure.

00:34:58.060 Thank you.

00:34:58.440 Well, there you have it.

00:34:59.020 Dr. Leslyn Lewis, a leadership

00:35:01.100 candidate for the Conservative Party

00:35:02.540 of Canada.

00:35:03.600 And you can find the link to her

00:35:05.620 website under this video.

00:35:07.680 Stay with us.

00:35:08.420 More ahead.

00:35:17.320 Welcome back on my monologue Friday

00:35:19.160 about why I think we're past the

00:35:20.440 worst of the pandemic.

00:35:21.360 Mark writes,

00:35:22.320 I agree.

00:35:24.060 At the warehouse where I work,

00:35:25.600 everyone has completely forgotten

00:35:26.860 about all the social distancing.

00:35:29.340 Everybody's in everyone else's face now.

00:35:31.680 No distancing at all.

00:35:33.300 It's over.

00:35:34.860 Well, I'm going to guess if you're

00:35:36.140 working in a warehouse, you're probably

00:35:37.300 working with younger people.

00:35:39.320 Just a stereotype, I guess.

00:35:41.600 And the fact is, younger people were

00:35:43.940 spared by this virus.

00:35:45.780 As I say again, not a single Canadian 1.00

00:35:48.440 under the age 20 died from it.

00:35:50.720 Thank God.

00:35:51.180 And even under 40s, we're virtually

00:35:54.900 immune.

00:35:56.340 I think there's two things about that.

00:35:57.960 We should focus all our resources on the 0.99

00:35:59.540 people who need it, over 70s and

00:36:01.520 especially over 80s.

00:36:02.840 And the rest of us can go back

00:36:05.820 to life as more or less normal.

00:36:08.360 As Bill Maher of HBO says,

00:36:10.480 we can return to our million year war 0.87

00:36:13.100 against microbes.

00:36:14.240 We don't have to hide in our houses anymore.

00:36:18.180 Daniel writes,

00:36:18.840 this should not have been a lockdown

00:36:20.480 in the first place.

00:36:21.600 This virus is a flu.

00:36:22.980 This is clearly a power grab by

00:36:24.360 authoritarian governments.

00:36:25.860 This lockdown has to end.

00:36:28.380 I think you're right.

00:36:29.780 I think the fact that the models

00:36:31.700 were spectacularly wrong.

00:36:34.000 In Canada, they were wrong by, I think,

00:36:36.100 70-fold, as in the worst-case scenario

00:36:39.140 was going to be 70 times worse than what

00:36:41.440 it is, and even the best-case scenario

00:36:43.460 was many times worse than what it is.

00:36:45.260 Now, thank God.

00:36:46.280 But it's also a wake-up call that we

00:36:48.740 shouldn't trust experts with models

00:36:51.280 coming from the United Nations,

00:36:53.060 which is exactly what the same sort of people

00:36:55.440 are telling us we have to do

00:36:56.880 with regards to the climate.

00:36:59.600 On my interview with Scott Hayward

00:37:01.040 from the pro-life group Right Now,

00:37:02.640 Lawrence writes,

00:37:04.460 Elections Canada ignores voter irregularities,

00:37:06.960 foreign funding, pro-liberal groups,

00:37:08.900 but have no trouble indulging in intimidation

00:37:10.900 tactics against rebel news.

00:37:12.560 And now these folks, because of their position,

00:37:14.680 methinks this doesn't pass the smell test.

00:37:17.020 Oh, you're exactly right.

00:37:18.100 I've never seen a left of center

00:37:20.520 or a liberal group being investigated

00:37:22.560 by Elections Canada.

00:37:24.740 And if you look at the sheer number

00:37:26.640 of these third-party campaign groups,

00:37:29.100 they're like 95% on the left.

00:37:31.660 Why is it that only conservatives

00:37:33.220 are being investigated?

00:37:34.620 And it sounds like these folks

00:37:35.740 did everything right.

00:37:36.580 They registered,

00:37:37.960 and yet they're being put through the ringer.

00:37:41.080 I'm worried that Justin Trudeau

00:37:42.620 has politicized this important

00:37:44.800 non-partisan institution.

00:37:46.720 It sure seems that way.

00:37:48.260 Well, folks, that's our show for today.

00:37:50.280 Until tomorrow,

00:37:51.360 on behalf of all of us here

00:37:52.480 at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:37:53.640 to you at home,

00:37:54.280 good night,

00:37:55.260 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:56.380 We'll see you next time.

00:38:03.500 We'll see you next time.

00:38:04.880 Bye.

00:38:06.640 Bye.

00:38:06.980 Bye.

00:38:07.900 Bye.

00:38:09.200 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - May 12, 2020

Peaceful protester arrested for sitting alone in front of Alberta’s Legislature. Why？

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