Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte, Sheila Gunn Reid

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00:01:21.740 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back

00:01:26.580 on the very best commentaries of the last week from our favorite rebels. I'm your host, Sheila

00:01:33.280 Gunn-Reed. I'm filling in for the ever-intrepid David Menzies as he's out on the road chasing

00:01:39.740 all the election and campaign news wherever he might find it. Tonight's Rebel Roundup, well,

00:01:45.620 it's a bit of a Frankenstein monster of clips and interviews we've stitched together

00:01:51.740 over the past very eventful week here at The Rebel. Everyone in the company was just so busy this

00:01:57.680 week that it was hard to nail anybody down for a sit-down interview, including myself. So you'll

00:02:02.960 see my hair change, my clothing change, and even the location change over the course of this week's

00:02:09.760 Rebel Roundup. But we're giving the subscribers the show they paid for. We're not letting you down.

00:02:16.220 Our Rebel team went to federal court to fight the government for access to the leaders

00:02:21.600 debate, and we won that David and Goliath battle for free speech. Kian Bexty joins me to talk about

00:02:28.240 his question to Trudeau that was eventually seen around the world. Then the outrage mob tried to

00:02:35.040 shut down Ezra LeVant's book signing in Edmonton this week. However, two dozen or so cranky losers and 0.97

00:02:43.920 their high-profile slacktivist enablers were unable to metaphorically burn the boss's book. Ezra joins me 0.94

00:02:50.900 tonight in an interview we filmed right after our guerrilla book signing. Then, finally, your comments

00:02:58.160 on Ezra's live stream from outside the Princess Theatre in Edmonton, where he announced our legal plan

00:03:04.940 to fight back against the deplatforming bullies. Those are your Rebels. Let's round them up. 0.95

00:03:10.820 Hi, Mr. Trudeau. Since your multiple use of blackface became an international scandal, Canada's

00:03:24.460 international reputation has been irreparably harmed. Have you reached out to any African 1.00

00:03:30.580 leaders or any leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your conduct?

00:03:34.080 Canada will continue to engage in a positive, constructive way around the world, standing

00:03:39.260 up for human rights, engaging with leaders right around the world, because we know that

00:03:45.140 promoting our values and prosperity for everyone around the world is good for Canadians and creates

00:03:52.360 better opportunities for everyone.

00:03:53.680 So that didn't answer the question at all. Have you spoken to any African leaders or leaders

00:03:58.080 from the Middle East to apologize for your personal conduct?

00:04:01.080 I have continued to engage with leaders around the world in a responsible way during an election

00:04:07.640 campaign. My focus is connecting with Canadians, as I was able to tonight. And I was very pleased

00:04:12.560 to see so many of the questions turned to the environment. In all sections, there was a clear

00:04:17.640 contrast between those on stage who don't think we should be fighting climate change and those

00:04:22.560 of us who do. And again, we are the only party with a clear plan to fight climate change.

00:04:28.200 And that journalistic axe murdering of the most powerful man in Canada was done by my friend

00:04:33.240 and colleague, Kian Bextie. It's exactly why the Liberals worked so hard to keep him and David

00:04:38.760 Menzies out of the debates and out of the post-debate scrums like what you saw right there. I predict

00:04:44.840 that clip will be the most viral video, the most viewed exchange between the Prime Minister and a reporter

00:04:50.760 in this entire election. That is, if it isn't already. Now joining me now is our top gun, Kian Bextie.

00:04:57.800 Hey Kian, I wanted to ask you, besides having that opportunity to ask the Prime Minister a question,

00:05:07.160 I wanted to ask you, it's a strange question, but about the social dynamics of being allowed in.

00:05:12.760 How were you treated by the other journalists? I know when I sometimes go to press events, they sort

00:05:19.240 of treat you like the turd in the punch bowl, they tolerate your presence, but they're not making idle

00:05:23.640 chit-chat with you and they'd prefer if you didn't ask a question. How were you treated by the other

00:05:29.800 journalists? So when I got there, they didn't want to let me in. They didn't want to let David, myself,

00:05:37.240 and Andrew Lawton in. The security guard said, do you have your accreditation? And we said, no,

00:05:42.760 we have a court order. And they'll be printing our accreditation when we get inside and show them

00:05:47.400 the court order. And they said, well, unless you have your accreditation in hand, you're not coming

00:05:52.600 in. So we needed to work with the PPC staff who were there to go in, grab our badges, come out to

00:06:02.040 give them to us so that we could get in. It seemed like totally needless bureaucracy as it tends to

00:06:08.120 be with government. And maybe it was to just make our lives a little bit difficult or maybe this is

00:06:14.360 how they actually operate. Either way, it was annoying. We got inside. A lot of folks just kind

00:06:20.920 of looked up, didn't recognize us, I think. But a few people gave us those glances where they're like,

00:06:27.000 do I know you? Like, have I seen you somewhere? Evan Solomon from CTV, he kind of stared at me for

00:06:32.440 a second, squinted, and then he looked away. Andrew Lawton, he got a really warm reception from

00:06:38.280 conservative spinsters who were there to, spin doctors who were there to react in real time to

00:06:47.160 the debate. They were hugging him and all that. They kind of just ignored us, David and I, but whatever.

00:06:53.080 There was a weird dynamic there because I think everyone sort of knew that we weren't going to be

00:07:00.440 pushed around anymore. Everyone knew that we were there because the judge said, David Keehan,

00:07:07.000 you have a constitutional right to be allowed into this room. So here we were.

00:07:12.440 Yeah, I thought, I heard that there was some, a little bit of friendly reception for Andrew,

00:07:20.520 but not for you. And I think maybe, and I'm not speaking that this is not a critique of Andrew's

00:07:26.600 work. He's a great journalist, but we have no problem firing on our own team if our own team,

00:07:32.760 our own team, isn't doing things that are conservative. I think we serve as like a gut check

00:07:39.560 for the conservative movement when they sort of stray towards Alison Redford country.

00:07:47.240 And I fully believe that when you went to get into the event, they had to absolutely know who

00:07:55.080 the heck you were. You guys were in federal court in the morning. They should have been

00:07:59.080 ready and waiting to deal with you. The fact that you had to get the PPC people to help you out

00:08:03.720 just speaks to how spiteful and malicious the debate organizers are that they just pushed it

00:08:09.720 right to the very last limit. I wanted to ask you, you were so calm when you were asking Trudeau that

00:08:17.880 question. You didn't stumble, your voice didn't break. I would be full of nerves just because of

00:08:25.240 all the pressure that was on you. I mean, all the journalists are looking at you eating their lunch.

00:08:31.160 You're looking at the most powerful man in the entire country. And you're going to ask him a

00:08:36.040 question. This is really your one shot. I mean, if he loses, this is your one shot to ask him a

00:08:40.600 question as a prime minister. What was that like for you? My heart was racing. I mean, it has been in the

00:08:52.360 works for months, right? Like we've had me and David flying across the country following his campaign

00:08:59.240 for months, dozens of flights, hundreds of hours of work. We fought a federal court case. We paid

00:09:06.040 thousands and thousands of dollars to be able to get there. And finally, everything worked out. I was

00:09:12.200 at the front of the line. I had my bags sniffed by RCMP sniffer dots. And I skipped questions from

00:09:18.280 leaders before Justin Trudeau so I could stay at the front of the line so I could be there to ask him a

00:09:23.240 question. And everything just lined up perfectly. Don't get me wrong. I wasn't super calm. Maybe my

00:09:29.880 voice sounded like that. And I'm glad it came across that way. But my heart was certainly pounding

00:09:35.880 outside of my chest. It's kind of funny. It was in the same way as when I confronted that ISIS terrorist 0.65

00:09:41.160 in Enderby. My phone was in my breast pocket recording the confrontation. And if you go watch that video

00:09:47.400 again, it sounds like post-editing was done to add a heartbeat to make the sound effects super,

00:09:54.680 like to make it really, you know, intense. But no, that was actually just my heart racing.

00:09:58.520 And it seemed, it was sort of similar asking a question of our prime minister as it was confronting

00:10:04.840 an ISIS terrorist. They were both equally as hard to get to. Um, yeah. The faces of the journalists,

00:10:13.080 I don't know if you've closely examined that clip of you, the faces of the journalists behind you,

00:10:19.640 you can tell they're pissed off. And you know, I've seen online people saying, well, how the heck did

00:10:26.280 Rebel get the first questions? I don't know. Hustle and hard work. The same way you get all of our

00:10:32.600 stories. I left the debate early. Uh, like I quit live tweeting halfway through. Well, not halfway through,

00:10:39.160 maybe three quarters of the way through so that I could get in line first, get my bag stamped,

00:10:42.760 get everything ready so that I could go up those escalators in the Canadian Museum of History.

00:10:47.880 Uh, and, and I was there first in line because I, this is, this was our one shot, right? This was our

00:10:54.600 one opportunity to ask him a question. And although he didn't really answer very well, I'm glad that he

00:11:00.040 did answer it. There's a lot of speculation online because, uh, before him, I asked a bloc leader a

00:11:06.120 question, the leader of the Bloc Québécois. And the bloc leader was like, oh, I'm not answering you. My answer

00:11:11.800 is that I will not answer. And I was like, come on, man. Like you're not even supposed to be here.

00:11:16.600 Like answer the question. It was a simple question. Um, and then all the pundits, the lefties from

00:11:22.760 Canada land and all that were like, oh, Kian, Kian introduced himself and his publisher to the

00:11:28.920 block leader, but he didn't do it to Trudeau. If Trudeau knew who Kian was, he wouldn't have answered

00:11:33.800 a question either. Trying to like, they're trying to deal with this reality, right? That the one opportunity

00:11:39.960 that we had to do this, it just blew up, right? It blew up in the left's face. It blew up in

00:11:43.880 Justin Trudeau's face. Imagine if we were able to ask questions at every scrum, you know, like

00:11:50.600 these people would lose their minds. They wouldn't be able to handle it because we were the only people.

00:11:55.240 Andrew asked a good question too. We, uh, Andrew and I dealt with what questions we were going to be

00:12:00.920 asking the prime minister before he came so that we weren't overlapping because we wanted to make sure that

00:12:05.160 this was, uh, uh, efficiently spent question asking. Um, but besides us, nobody asked any difficult

00:12:11.960 questions. So my, my thoughts are if we were able to be at every scrum asking these questions,

00:12:17.960 they would all be blowing up in this same way. Well, and that's exactly why they continue to try to keep,

00:12:22.920 um, you and Andrew Lawton out. Now, Andrew Lawton, he really did ask a great question. He asked if he

00:12:29.320 would now with this court order in hand from a federal court be allowed to cover the liberal

00:12:35.480 campaign and Justin Trudeau refused to answer him twice. Um, I think it was a great question because

00:12:41.640 it revealed Trudeau to be someone who doesn't believe that the charter of rights and freedoms

00:12:47.560 applies to everybody equally, including conservative reporters. But I've seen some of the fallout online,

00:12:54.120 um, fallout, what a, that's not the right word to use, but I've seen some of the pushback from the

00:13:00.840 poutine press. And normally I wouldn't call David Aiken the poutine press. Um, he's pretty middle of

00:13:06.840 the road. He's fair both ways, tracks spending. But he called Andrew's question a wasted question,

00:13:13.880 implying that it was selfish and that Andrew was attacking this elite club of journalists that he wanted

00:13:21.480 to join. Um, I thought it was very telling because that's a question that they all should have been

00:13:27.800 asking since the Trudeau liberals started blocking Andrew. They have access to Trudeau every single

00:13:34.760 day and they should have been asking that question. Instead, Andrew had to go to court and spend

00:13:39.800 thousands of dollars to be able to ask that question. I think it says a lot about the mainstream media.

00:13:43.800 I said the exact same thing to Ezra. Uh, David Aiken's tweet there is spoken like someone who's

00:13:51.320 never been denied his constitutional right to do his job ever. He's never, he's never,

00:13:58.200 he's been a mainstream media journalist his entire life. I mean, I mean, even with his time with son,

00:14:03.800 he, he's a middle of the road guy. He doesn't anger anyone by stepping on anyone's toes. I think the

00:14:08.440 most out there he's gotten is when he asked Trudeau if he was going to resign that kind of blew up. Um,

00:14:14.200 but he's never, you know, he's never had to work for anything in his life. And I, I, I'm sure,

00:14:19.640 I'm sure he followed some scoops and he interviewed some people and he went to school. Maybe I don't

00:14:24.840 even know his history, but he's never been denied the right to do his job by the entirety of an industry,

00:14:33.480 two industries that both the journalist and, uh, the, the journalist industrial complex that the

00:14:39.240 parliamentary press gallery just sort of promotes. They've not denied him anything. And, uh, on the

00:14:44.760 flip side of that, politicians have never denied him. If he wanted to get onto the CPC campaign or the,

00:14:50.360 uh, Liberal Party of Canada campaign at any time in his career, he would have been able to do that.

00:14:55.240 Uh, so that's, that is why he said what he did, because he just doesn't understand what we were

00:15:01.160 fighting for. And, uh, to further that point, Andrew Lawton asking that question was entirely

00:15:07.480 valid. It was the most important issue of the day. The, uh, True North and Rebel were trending on

00:15:13.800 Twitter. Um, it, it, it was the topical political question of the day. I, I know you're not supposed

00:15:19.800 to make the story about yourself as a journalist, but the story was already about True North. It was

00:15:24.920 about Rebel. It was about Andrew Lawton and David and I not being able to get into the room, not being

00:15:30.200 able to, uh, do our jobs. That was the story and asking a question on that was totally valid. And

00:15:35.720 David Akin, um, just doesn't understand that. Well, and I thought it was strange, actually. I thought

00:15:42.520 maybe one of the journalists there might have a moment of intellectual curiosity, seeing that Rebel 0.52

00:15:49.240 and True North are literally trending online, that over three million people were following, like,

00:15:55.160 that's one in 10 Canadians, uh, were following Ezra's tweets about the federal court hearing.

00:16:02.920 And yet, not a single one of them stuck a microphone in your faces and asked you, hey, what is it like

00:16:09.080 to have to take the government to federal court to get access to a debate in a free country? That never

00:16:16.120 happened. And I was quite frankly, pretty shocked about it. Well, it's because these journalists, uh,

00:16:20.840 right there, they're in bed with the left, whether or not they are both, uh, whether or not they're out

00:16:27.160 about it or not is a different story. But Antifa's whole shtick, uh, and these like hard labor leftists

00:16:33.720 who absolutely hate us, their whole shtick is that no journalist should report on us or share our news

00:16:41.400 without also, uh, explaining how awful we are, how controversial we are. Um, Mercedes did it, uh,

00:16:48.920 with Global News. I know she apologized afterwards, which was good of her. I, I, um, but she, she,

00:16:57.320 she stopped and corrected herself to make herself wrong. That was the part that I thought was quite

00:17:03.080 interesting was she went, she said Rebel and True North were in federal court today. I mean,

00:17:08.280 True North was in federal court today. Like she stopped and made herself wrong just for the sake 0.80

00:17:15.240 of cutting us out of the fight for freedom. Yep. And then ending by saying we were controversial.

00:17:21.000 It was actually really funny because, uh, the, the anchor, the news anchor who had no idea who I was

00:17:26.200 because I didn't say hi, Kian Bexy from Rebel, uh, when I was talking to Trudeau, the anchor who was in

00:17:31.480 studio, uh, thought that this was a crazy question. She was like, oh my God, can you believe Trudeau's answer

00:17:37.080 to that? He was talking about climate change in response to black. Like it just didn't make any 1.00

00:17:41.000 sense. Uh, and then she talked, she was throwing to Mercedes. She was on the ground knowing exactly 0.97

00:17:45.800 what was going on. And Mercedes is like, oh my God, studio, like, like better quiet down,

00:17:50.760 not talk about the rebel. It was, it was pretty comical. And then she got cut off when Andrew

00:17:55.000 Cher came out. So that was, uh, good. So she couldn't go on blabbering about how awful we are.

00:17:59.640 Now, I guess my final or final couple of questions is, um, you're going to the French

00:18:07.000 language debate. Yes. I had no intention to, but the judge said, uh, we were, we had to be accredited

00:18:13.800 to go. Uh, so we will, we'll most definitely be there now that we're allowed. Um, I, I was worried

00:18:20.520 that I wouldn't be able to ask questions at the French debate, but then I realized, well, at the

00:18:25.000 English debate, um, half the questions were in French. It wasn't an English scrum. It was a

00:18:30.440 bilingual scrum. So I'm just going to go there and ask questions in, in English. And maybe I'll

00:18:36.440 have a French question in my back pocket and I'll, uh, just butcher the hell out of it and be like, 0.75

00:18:40.920 bonjour, Mr. Trudeau. Uh, and then I'll just go on and, you know, see what he, see what he has to say.

00:18:49.080 But my, my plan so right now is to ask questions in English. I already have a few that I think are

00:18:54.280 going to sting. And where can people find all of your incredible reports from the road? I know

00:18:58.920 you're briefly home today, it looks like, but you are working from the road every single day. You're

00:19:03.800 Skyping in from airports. Where can people find those reports? Uh, folks can see me on Twitter

00:19:09.960 at TheRealKeon. That's where I was live tweeting the debate and it's where I'll live tweet the next

00:19:14.920 debate, although it'll be harder with the translations that we'll have to do. So it won't be as, as frequent.

00:19:19.880 Uh, TheRealKeon on Twitter is the best place, hands down, to see things as they happen.

00:19:23.800 I upload all of our questions that we ask immediately from there. Uh, but you can also

00:19:28.200 go to campaign2019.com. Uh, that's our website. Uh, it's a great website. It's a great name.

00:19:34.120 Um, people can go there to see what we've covered, what we're going to cover,

00:19:37.240 why we're doing it, that kind of thing. So that's, uh, where I would send them.

00:19:40.920 And they can pitch in to cover the cost to send you to all these far-flung places to jump out of the

00:19:47.240 bushes and scare some liberals. Kian, here's to you making Justin Trudeau short circuit like my

00:19:54.040 Roomba robot that ate yarn that one time at the, uh, French language debate. Thanks for Skyping in.

00:20:01.000 Thanks so much, Sheila. Stay with us more up next after the break.

00:20:09.400 Well, the first thing I want to say though is that everybody here should give themselves a round of applause.

00:20:15.000 Because you all refused to be bullied by the 30 troublemakers in this city who bullied an immigrant 0.95

00:20:23.800 businessman into losing thousands of dollars tonight. It wasn't cheap for us to rent that place.

00:20:31.400 And they bullied him. And they threatened him. And by proxy, they threatened all of you. And yet,

00:20:36.760 all of you are here tonight standing up for freedom, standing up for a right to free speech,

00:20:42.600 standing up for a right to have a book signing. Isn't that a crazy thing? Those people downstairs

00:20:48.200 call themselves anti-fascists. Can you believe that? All right. And those people, those people,

00:20:56.600 the one guy who bothered to show up when it's so cold, they call themselves anti-fascists, but they came

00:21:03.320 here tonight to do a metaphorical book burning of a Jewish author. You know, give me a break. But those 1.00

00:21:12.760 are the exact same people who sent targeted complaints about my book, Stop Not Leave.

00:21:22.440 I didn't do a book signing, so they couldn't protest my book signing. So what they did was they sent

00:21:27.240 complaints to Rachel Notley's basically a hired gun. He's part of a creative bureaucracy called the

00:21:35.240 Elections Commissioner. And it was basically their job to control free speech during the election period.

00:21:40.760 And the free speech they tried to control was my book. I wrote a book called Stop Notley. It was a

00:21:44.840 bestseller. I think it went a little higher than yours. That's right.

00:21:51.240 And we have been embroiled in a battle with the Elections Commissioner. They demanded that I sit

00:21:59.160 down and be interrogated for writing a book and releasing it during an election period in a free

00:22:05.160 country. You know, it's really disgusting. And where were our so-called allies in the Civil Liberties 0.95

00:22:12.680 Association? Penn Canada takes $75 a year from me. Then they say they're supposed to defend a journalist.

00:22:20.760 I never heard from them. The Canadian Civil Liberties people. Canadian journalists for free

00:22:26.440 expression. Every time we're banned, de-platformed, our books are attacked, we become the target of

00:22:33.400 investigations. We don't hear from any of them. 600 million bucks goes a long way.

00:22:38.120 Darn right it does. But it's a lot of silence, doesn't it? So they've tried to de-platform me.

00:22:45.080 And this last attempt at de-platforming my book by using this weaponized elections,

00:22:50.840 Commissioner, it wasn't the first time. Who remembers when Rachel Notley threw me out of

00:22:55.400 the legislature using an arms chair? Who remembers how we fought back and we won?

00:23:02.680 Those are the same people who targeted Mr. Brar tonight. And they're not going to stop. They're

00:23:13.160 never going to stop until we stop them. Until we hold them legally accountable for their bad action.

00:23:22.600 And it stops now. It was a night for freedom, but it was also a night for us to finally stand up to the

00:23:29.720 bullies. And not just the bullies who are bullying us, but the bullies who are bullying small businesses

00:23:34.520 and the bullies who are bullying severely normal people. Joining me now is Canada's newest anti-bullying

00:23:41.240 activist, Ezra Levant. I'm never on this side of the microphone. Tonight, it'll be the next day,

00:23:49.640 by the time everybody's seeing this, we held our book signing, Hell or High Water?

00:23:54.920 Yeah, you know, I really like these two sort of obscure, artsy, old-fashioned theaters in Alberta.

00:24:01.880 One's in Calgary, one's in Edmonton. The Calgary one's called The Plaza. The Edmonton one's called

00:24:05.960 The Princess. They're owned by the same guy, an immigrant from India named Mike Brar. Friendly guy.

00:24:10.760 We've done events in both theaters before. We had the Climate Hustle Canadian premiere, sold them out.

00:24:15.960 And even when I lived in each city, I remember going to those theaters,

00:24:19.880 either for cheap second-run movies or for obscure movies. Like, it's fun. Everyone likes those old

00:24:25.000 theaters that are a little quirky. And because we had two successful events with them before with

00:24:30.440 The Rebel, it seemed a natural place to do the book launch for my book, The Libranos, which we talked

00:24:38.440 to Mike, the owner. He said, yeah, it sounds no problem. He doesn't take any point of view in politics.

00:24:42.760 And I said, you know, some people, you know, they might not like our criticism of Trudeau.

00:24:50.520 And he said, in 30 years, I've never canceled a show. So I thought, okay, this guy's for freedom.

00:24:58.200 You gotta be, if you run a movie theater. Like, if you're a prude or a censor,

00:25:03.240 you don't go into the movie theater business. Anyways, everything was going great. We were

00:25:08.280 selling hundreds of tickets. But then some NDP activists started bullying Mike Brar. And I say

00:25:15.880 NDP activists, I would have thought it might be pro-Trudeau activists who don't like my book. 0.99

00:25:20.360 But I think it's just Rachel Notley has-beens and losers. And when I mean losers, I mean, 0.97

00:25:25.320 for example, Jessica Littlewood, who is a MLA in your neck of the woods, and then she lost. So I think

00:25:30.920 that's technically a loser. And now she's on Twitter like shouting at Mike Brar and trying to 1.00

00:25:38.120 de-platform us. And I think her main target was us. But I mean, she shouts at us. I don't even care.

00:25:45.640 I don't even hear it. But she shouts at a severely normal businessman. He's, whoa, what's happening?

00:25:51.640 And that's the thing. These people were too cowardly to come for you and me. So they went after this Mike 0.96

00:25:58.440 Brar guy, this movie theater in Preserio. And they scared the living daylights out of him. 1.00

00:26:03.480 I talked to him on the phone last night. I said, Mike, come on, don't be worried. We'll hire a

00:26:07.160 couple of private security guards. We'll tell the cops to keep an eye peeled. These people are just

00:26:11.160 rattling your cage. Like they're not, like they're cowards. Like Antifa are, without their masks, 1.00

00:26:16.680 they're completely cowards. They're losers. And he said, Ezra, I can't even sleep at night. I'm so 1.00

00:26:21.560 stressed. And he said, his phone was ringing off the hook. I said, just don't answer your phone.

00:26:25.720 You can't, I guess you can't tell that to a guy who runs a movie theater.

00:26:30.040 So I didn't know how it was going to go down. I said, look, Mike, I got a contract with you.

00:26:35.560 Just do it. I said, dude, what's the worst that can happen? Well, I didn't know what he was going

00:26:40.440 to do. So we showed up anyways and they didn't unlock the place. And we had hundreds of people.

00:26:48.040 So we just hoofed it a couple blocks over to Rosie's Bar and Grill and they didn't care. 0.62

00:26:52.200 So we did our book signing there. Um, I'm a little bit mad at the movie theater owner,

00:26:57.960 Mike Brar for not staying true to like, if you own a movie theater, you should be a free speech guy.

00:27:04.280 Yeah. And he said to me for 30 years, he hasn't buckled and he knows us because he did events

00:27:11.560 with us before. So he has no excuse, but however mad I am at him, I'm furious for the people who bullied

00:27:19.480 him into that decision. And in his defense, he's not built for fighting. You and me are maybe.

00:27:27.640 So that's why I blame the bullies and you jokingly call me an anti-bullying activist,

00:27:31.000 but that's actually the case. And isn't it funny that the tolerant left who are so against bullying,

00:27:36.520 they're the ones who bullied. And the fact that he's Indian is, is irrelevant other than 1.00

00:27:42.360 if the shoe were on the foot, it would be super relevant to them. And you know, you remarked that

00:27:49.480 I'm Jewish and we're banning a Jewish author's books while calling yourself anti-fascist. It's a bad look.

00:27:56.280 Yeah. I mean, obviously it's because I'm conservative and I criticized Trudeau. It's not because I'm Jewish.

00:28:02.280 And Mike Burrard just haven't known the venue. It's not because he's East Indian. But I tell you one 0.99

00:28:06.200 thing, it's like you said, it's not a good look. And the great book burners of the 20th century were

00:28:11.800 the Nazis. Mao Zedong burnt books too, by the way. So, I mean, you and I had lunch today with our

00:28:22.120 Edmonton legal eagle and we came up with a plan and I shared it a little bit tonight with the people here

00:28:29.480 and they sure liked it. And it was this. I mean, I literally brought with me the contract that we

00:28:36.120 signed with Mike Burrard and the credit card receipt showing that we paid for it. Like, I have the

00:28:42.840 proof here that I got it. This is a contract and I paid for it. In fact, I haven't even gotten a refund

00:28:48.360 yet. And so Mike Burrard breached the contract. So I would have a legal remedy to sue him for damages

00:28:58.760 or whatever. And I might do that. But like I say, he's not the worst person in this story. The worst

00:29:05.160 person are those who induced him to breach the contract. And here's the thing, Sheila, and this

00:29:10.840 is what our lawyer confirmed for us today. That's against the law. To induce someone to breach a contract,

00:29:18.600 you are now liable to the person who lost. So Jessica Littlewood, Progress Alberta,

00:29:24.600 all these lefties who were so brave on Twitter, who basically screamed at this man until he buckled.

00:29:33.480 Every one of them induced the breach to contract. And I am going to sue them all.

00:29:42.280 I don't care if there are 100 of them. I will sue all of them because I want them to have a public

00:29:52.920 education in the court of law that you cannot act that way. You cannot bully a man so bad that he

00:30:04.200 breaks his contractual obligations. That is un-Canadian. And these people don't know it. Their 0.98

00:30:09.800 mamas didn't teach them right. So we need the courts to teach them right. Now, a lot of the 1.00

00:30:16.760 threats, they were social media threats to Mike Brar. And a lot of the haranguing and harassing,

00:30:23.640 they were social media threats. But when push came to shove and when the rubber meets the road,

00:30:29.480 we had what, one loser? We had one loser show up. And we also had some of our people who actually 0.99

00:30:36.520 incidentally happened to be late. And they opened the theater at 530. Oh, there was a lot of bad

00:30:43.160 behavior tonight. You make a good observation. So all these people, I mean, Mike Brar said his phone

00:30:48.600 was hanging off the hook. They never showed up. They didn't. And the only guy who did show up was just a

00:30:53.640 perennial crank that everybody knows in town, like the village idiot. Rickshaw Dave is his nickname. 1.00

00:30:58.600 He really is the village idiot. He doesn't like me. And I've seen him. Well, you know what, if he 1.00

00:31:02.280 liked you, there would be a problem because he's so, he's a crank. And everyone in town, oh, there's

00:31:06.840 Rickshaw Dave. Like, so he was the only one. We had two private security just to, like I said to Mike Brar,

00:31:14.520 the impressorio, I said, look, you got nothing to worry about. We'll bring private security. I called the

00:31:19.000 cops. There was a whole police van, a bunch of cops there. There was nothing to be worried about.

00:31:23.720 There was one crank there. And all those tough losers on Twitter evaporated. You know what, 0.96

00:31:31.960 though? They were so brazen slash stupid to use their real names. And I got all their names. 1.00

00:31:38.120 And I'm coming from Mike Brar. He's not built for fighting. I am. And I am coming. Let me just look

00:31:43.720 right in the camera and say this. I am coming for every single person who induced this breach of

00:31:50.120 contract. I will hunt you forever. From Ezra's lips to our lawyer's ears to God's ears. 0.92

00:32:01.400 Well, I think that's a wrap. Stay with us more up next after the break.

00:32:05.000 If you and me were unafraid to stare down Justin Trudeau and make him bend the knee,

00:32:18.680 do you really think we are going to give in to street bugs like Rick Sonday?

00:32:24.200 Oh no. Now again, you and I, we're all here. Mike Brar came in and I'm not being too mad at him

00:32:36.040 because he's, he just wanted to rent a theater. But what happened? A breach of contract is what

00:32:45.160 happened. I have a contract for this theater tonight and it was breached by Mike Brar.

00:32:52.200 But Mike Brar wasn't the root of the problem, was he? All the people who threatened Mike Brar,

00:33:01.640 Jessica Littlewood, the failed NDP MLA, Progress Alberta, the street thugs for Rachel Notley,

00:33:10.200 they were the ones who threatened Mike Brar. I knew that because he told me.

00:33:16.600 Don't forget the mayor. So what can I do about that? I'll tell you,

00:33:20.680 I used to be a lawyer back in the day. I don't know which is more disreputable,

00:33:26.280 a lawyer or a journalist. I'm a bit of both. But I know this,

00:33:33.560 there is a civil lawsuit for a tort called inducing a breach of contract. If you know there's a contract

00:33:43.880 between two people and you interfere and you cause someone to breach the contract, you,

00:33:51.800 the interferer, have a civil action against you. 0.72

00:33:57.160 And here's the thing about those NDP. They're so stupid or brazen, whichever one, 1.00

00:34:09.720 that they thought they would do this in public on Twitter, on Facebook, in emails. 1.00

00:34:18.120 They were so proud of what they were doing that many of them did it in their own names

00:34:24.440 because they have never been held to account before. Well, guess what? That changes tonight.

00:34:36.440 Well, that's my boss, Ezra Levant, refusing to be bullied by the, like I said, two dozen or so

00:34:42.120 NDP thugs and activist losers in Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta and a city of over one

00:34:48.280 million people. We're done being deplatformed. We're taking a fight to these people and we're going 0.95

00:34:54.600 to make them pay legally. We're taking back the streets, as they say. On that video, TCZ writes,

00:35:04.920 Jason Kenney needs to fire 10,000 of these government mammary gland sucking civil servants in Edmonton 0.96

00:35:13.800 that were hired by Notley. You know, it's true. Premier Jason Kenney needs to do that for several 0.97

00:35:20.920 different reasons to trim down that Edmonton civil service that was fattened up by far left-wing

00:35:25.800 socialist premier Rachel Notley to inflate her employment numbers. Kenny needs to do it, of course,

00:35:30.760 for economic reasons, but he also needs to do it to drain the swamp or drain the muskeg in Alberta parlance. 0.99

00:35:37.640 Many of those people are activist appointees who are working within the system to sabotage

00:35:43.400 Jason Kenney's plans to get our province back on track and they've got to go. Tuggy Waffles writes,

00:35:50.520 the left is weak, perverted and pitiful, but they are cruel, deceitful and scheming. Tuggy, 0.99

00:35:57.640 I saw that happen firsthand in Edmonton. The keyboard warriors who bullied an immigrant businessman named

00:36:04.200 Mike Brar into breaching his contract with us didn't actually show up to put a face to their online

00:36:11.160 bullying and, as you put it, scheming. One probably mentally ill person showed up as cannon fodder. 0.96

00:36:18.280 He was the only person who showed up to make trouble for us last night. Jerry Berry writes, 0.71

00:36:24.520 what this deplatforming garbage proves is just how effective the rebel really is. The hard left is 0.92

00:36:30.360 afraid of the rebel precisely because they champion free speech and are good at it. Keep doing what you're

00:36:36.600 doing rebel. We absolutely will keep doing what we're doing. We're going to keep fighting for

00:36:42.200 freedom, but we can't do it without the help and support of people like you at home through your

00:36:47.480 donations to help us in our legal battles, but also through our supporters. Like last night, supporters

00:36:53.880 who were unafraid to show up to the book signing, knowing full well that Antifa had threatened to show

00:36:58.440 up and cause all kinds of trouble. Severely normal people who could have decided to do any number of

00:37:04.200 less controversial things on a cold Thursday night in the capital city said, no, we're fighting for

00:37:10.600 freedom. And for me, that was something that was incredible to be a part of. Well, folks, that wraps up

00:37:17.160 another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thank you, David, once again, for trusting me with your show.

00:37:23.480 Thanks folks at home for tuning in. Thank you, my friends in the office for stitching together this

00:37:29.560 creature of a show and bringing it to life. See you all next week. And remember, without risk, there can be no glory.

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Rebel News Podcast - October 12, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Ezra Levant, Keean Bexte, Sheila Gunn Reid

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