Rebel News Podcast - May 12, 2020


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


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

159.00447

Word Count

6,146

Sentence Count

400

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

A harmless man was arrested for sitting by himself on a public plaza in front of Alberta s legislature. Why? Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? Ezra takes you through the video of the whole thing.


Transcript

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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00:01:15.060 Thanks. Here's today's podcast.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.