Rebel News Podcast - November 12, 2020


Remembrance Day： They hate poppies, because they hate us and our country


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It's Remembrance Day, and Whole Foods has banned the wearing of poppies in their stores because they hate us and our country. Here's Ezra on why they don't like us and why they're anti-American.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. It's Remembrance Day today.
00:00:02.280 It's a day to remember, and my tradition is to read
00:00:04.840 Tommy Atkins, a wonderful, powerful, and sad poem
00:00:08.380 by Rudyard Kipling. I do it every Remembrance Day.
00:00:11.320 Maybe you know that.
00:00:12.680 But I also look at the world around, and I saw a shocking video
00:00:16.440 out of London today.
00:00:18.580 Extinction Rebellion actually had a climate stunt photo op
00:00:24.120 at a war memorial, stepping over the Remembrance Day wreaths.
00:00:30.560 For their photo shoot, it was the grossest thing
00:00:32.800 I think I've ever seen.
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00:01:17.960 Okay, here's today's podcast.
00:01:24.420 Tonight, they hate the poppies because they hate us and our country.
00:01:39.260 It's Remembrance Day and you're watching the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:41.760 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:47.540 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:51.620 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:01:55.120 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:57.480 Why did Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man who owns the grocery store called Whole Foods,
00:02:08.720 why did he ban the wearing of poppies by staff at his Canadian outlets?
00:02:13.880 And they sure dug in on that.
00:02:16.260 Our own David Menzies went to one of these overpriced grocery stores in Toronto
00:02:19.800 and they told him to shut up and get out.
00:02:22.580 You can't do that in the grocery store.
00:02:25.900 Oh, we can't do it inside? Is that part of the Whole Foods policy?
00:02:29.320 You know what we're doing?
00:02:30.240 I'm not going to talk to you.
00:02:31.580 You know how you can do it on the grocery store?
00:02:32.900 This is private property.
00:02:34.060 We made a big donation to the Legion
00:02:36.500 and we'd like to hand them out to nice ladies like you that, you know. 1.00
00:02:40.780 But I need to not do this stuff like it's in the store.
00:02:42.600 It's a private property.
00:02:43.620 Okay.
00:02:44.000 You can totally do it outside, but you can't do it inside the store.
00:02:46.040 I'm really sorry.
00:02:46.840 Can somebody come outside with me and interview me?
00:02:49.720 If you would like to do something outside the store, you can do it,
00:02:51.780 but we're not doing it inside the store.
00:02:53.080 Oh, okay, because I was hoping to interview customers of Whole Foods.
00:02:57.000 No, I'm inside the store.
00:02:57.900 What do you think of the poppy ban?
00:02:59.700 I'm talking about it with you.
00:03:00.740 You know, you need to go outside the store to do stuff like this, okay?
00:03:03.200 I'm really sorry.
00:03:03.660 Don't you think it's disrespectful to the veterans?
00:03:06.080 I can't really discuss that with you on television.
00:03:07.620 I need you to go outside, okay?
00:03:09.080 Well, she's not interested in talking, so we'll make our exit to wherever the exit is.
00:03:17.060 Whole Foods finally buckled under political pressure and reversed their ban, I think.
00:03:22.840 But I think it could have gone the other way just as easily.
00:03:25.120 I mean, Jeff Bezos and Amazon are regarded with plenty of justification as oligarchs and corporate predators,
00:03:32.160 but they're very woke.
00:03:34.720 They're very anti-American.
00:03:37.020 Remember, it was Jeff Bezos who banned my book, China Virus,
00:03:40.760 and then unbanned it for a week and then re-banned it with the official excuse both times
00:03:45.680 that my book simply contradicted official sources, as in it criticized China,
00:03:50.840 it criticized the China-controlled World Health Organization.
00:03:53.380 So, yeah, Jeff Bezos doesn't really care about freedom.
00:03:56.480 He cares more about money and power.
00:03:58.560 He doesn't really believe in nation-states at all.
00:04:01.680 He's bigger than most countries, just himself.
00:04:04.480 And I say, it could have gone either way, this poppy thing.
00:04:07.540 Bezos' staff blinked in this case, but Don Cherry, who, unlike Bezos, is 100% Canadian,
00:04:14.500 well-loved, decades of fans, he was fired in the blink of an eye for telling people just to wear poppies.
00:04:20.600 Downtown Toronto, forget it, downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy.
00:04:23.900 You people love, you, they come here, whatever it is, you love our way of life,
00:04:28.580 you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that.
00:04:34.240 These guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada.
00:04:38.500 These guys pay the biggest price.
00:04:41.460 So, Cherry was knocked out by a woke mob that corporate Canada came into.
00:04:46.580 I tell you, the Whole Foods ban on poppies could just as easily have gone the other way.
00:04:52.000 Because the ban on the poppy really means a ban on remembering soldiers
00:04:56.360 and remembering why they fought and died and why we love them for it.
00:05:00.480 Remembrance, remember what?
00:05:02.300 Well, remember freedom versus tyranny.
00:05:03.940 Remember national pride and sacrifice.
00:05:06.140 Even the concept of a nation-state with an army at all.
00:05:09.480 All of these things are remembered when we remember fallen soldiers.
00:05:12.540 Even the wars themselves.
00:05:14.440 And so, every piece of that is now under attack.
00:05:17.200 Even masculinity itself.
00:05:19.780 Even the fact that they were overwhelmingly young men
00:05:22.360 who engaged in a form of controlled patriotic violence against an enemy.
00:05:27.140 That's sort of what a war is.
00:05:29.020 That itself is anathema today.
00:05:31.600 So, yeah, Remembrance Day will not be remembered.
00:05:34.580 Or it will be transformed into something unrecognizable.
00:05:38.000 It will be denatured.
00:05:39.260 Just like the NFL, the National Football League,
00:05:42.080 was once the most patriotic place in America.
00:05:45.340 NASCAR 2.
00:05:47.140 NFL is destroyed by a blizzard of anti-American wokeness.
00:05:50.500 Taking a knee.
00:05:51.520 Hating police.
00:05:52.640 Hating America.
00:05:53.400 The NBA.
00:05:54.020 The Basketball League.
00:05:55.740 Praising Communist China. 0.76
00:05:57.260 These institutions have been transformed.
00:06:00.580 I think they're going to do the same to Remembrance Day.
00:06:03.120 They'll change the poppy itself. 0.84
00:06:04.560 They already have white poppies for surrenderism. 0.54
00:06:07.840 Rainbow poppies.
00:06:08.900 Whatever that means.
00:06:10.580 If they can't destroy Remembrance Day,
00:06:12.640 they will transform it into something different,
00:06:14.760 something diabolical,
00:06:15.800 so that in the end,
00:06:17.760 I think everyone will hate it.
00:06:18.940 The left has always hated it.
00:06:20.800 And they'll make it so that the right walks away from it,
00:06:22.980 as the right has walked away from woke professional sports,
00:06:26.660 to keep that analogy.
00:06:27.540 Look at this disgrace from London today.
00:06:31.900 Greta Thunberg's street gangs actually took today, 1.00
00:06:34.820 Remembrance Day,
00:06:35.820 as the day to have their global warming protest
00:06:37.660 at a war memorial.
00:06:39.560 To use the fallen soldiers as a human backdrop
00:06:42.420 for a photo shoot.
00:06:43.960 To literally walk into the sacred granite of a memorial
00:06:46.760 and to step over, on this special day,
00:06:49.980 to step over real wreaths laid for real casualties of war
00:06:53.620 and put their political stunt wreath
00:06:55.760 right on top of them all.
00:06:57.140 Take a look at this.
00:07:27.140 How gross is that?
00:07:41.740 How disgraceful.
00:07:42.800 As my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed says,
00:07:44.260 it's like the Westboro Baptist Church,
00:07:46.780 that, you know,
00:07:47.840 they have political protests
00:07:49.200 at other people's funerals.
00:07:52.300 Kooks who go to family funerals 0.52
00:07:54.200 with signs that say insane things at funerals.
00:07:58.220 That is the league Greta Thunberg is in now. 1.00
00:08:00.900 And so David Suzuki and the CBC
00:08:02.880 and every leftist who has ever supported
00:08:04.900 Extinction Rebellion,
00:08:06.220 that's on you.
00:08:07.780 Well, to hell with them.
00:08:08.960 Remembrance.
00:08:09.960 I'll long remember this.
00:08:12.220 And I hope you do too.
00:08:13.560 Anytime anyone ever talks about Extinction Rebellion,
00:08:16.200 remind them of this disgraceful day.
00:08:18.260 Now in a moment I'll play for you an interview.
00:08:20.120 I recorded with Lee Humphrey,
00:08:21.380 an outspoken veteran political activist.
00:08:23.540 But first let me do what I do every year on this day
00:08:26.220 and read to you
00:08:27.500 Rudyard Kiplum's great poem called Tommy Atkins.
00:08:31.480 Ready?
00:08:31.720 I went into a public house
00:08:35.000 to get a pint of beer.
00:08:36.840 The public any up and says,
00:08:38.720 we serve no redcoats here.
00:08:40.860 The girls behind the bar,
00:08:42.280 they laughed and giggled,
00:08:43.240 fit to die.
00:08:44.420 I out into the street again
00:08:45.780 and to myself says I,
00:08:47.640 oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:08:49.300 and Tommy go away.
00:08:50.920 But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins,
00:08:52.760 when the band begins to play.
00:08:54.660 The band begins to play, my boys.
00:08:56.240 The band begins to play.
00:08:57.320 Oh, it's thank you, Mr. Atkins,
00:08:59.000 when the band begins to play.
00:09:00.100 I went into a theater
00:09:02.080 as sober as could be.
00:09:03.600 They gave a drunk civilian room, 0.96
00:09:05.340 but had none for me.
00:09:06.980 They sent me to the gallery
00:09:08.220 around the music halls,
00:09:09.400 but when it comes to fighting, Lord,
00:09:11.240 they'll shove me in the stalls 0.98
00:09:12.580 for it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:09:14.580 and Tommy wait outside,
00:09:15.700 but it's special train for Atkins
00:09:17.480 when the trooper's on the tide.
00:09:19.720 The troop ship's on the tide, my boys.
00:09:21.620 The troop ship's on the tide.
00:09:23.460 Oh, it's special train for Atkins
00:09:25.120 when the trooper's on the tide.
00:09:27.420 Yes, make and mock of uniforms
00:09:29.040 that guard you while you sleep
00:09:30.600 is cheaper than them uniforms
00:09:32.800 and they're starvation cheap.
00:09:35.080 And hustling drunken soldiers
00:09:37.020 when they're going large a bit
00:09:38.660 is five times better business
00:09:40.580 than parading in full kit.
00:09:42.460 Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:09:43.800 and Tommy, how's your soul?
00:09:45.360 But it's thin red line of heroes
00:09:46.940 when the drums begin to roll.
00:09:49.200 The drums begin to roll, my boys.
00:09:51.100 The drums begin to roll.
00:09:52.120 Oh, it's thin red line of heroes
00:09:54.580 when the drums begin to roll.
00:09:57.340 We aren't no thin red heroes.
00:09:59.800 No, we aren't no blackguards too,
00:10:01.360 but single men in barracks
00:10:02.460 most remarkable like you.
00:10:04.300 And if sometimes our conduct
00:10:05.580 isn't all your fancy paints,
00:10:07.720 why single men in plericks 0.99
00:10:09.060 don't grow into plaster saints.
00:10:11.360 While it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:10:12.880 and Tommy fall behind,
00:10:13.980 but it's pleased to walk in front, sir,
00:10:16.060 when there's trouble in the wind.
00:10:17.840 There's trouble in the wind, my boys.
00:10:19.180 There's trouble in the wind.
00:10:20.040 Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir,
00:10:21.680 when there's trouble in the wind.
00:10:23.980 You talk a better food for us
00:10:25.340 and schools and fires and all.
00:10:27.160 We'll wait for extra rations
00:10:28.420 if you treat us rational.
00:10:30.220 Don't mess about the cookroom slops,
00:10:32.080 but prove it to our face.
00:10:33.780 The widow's uniform 0.90
00:10:34.700 is not the soldier man's disgrace.
00:10:37.060 For it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:10:38.780 and chuck him out the brute. 1.00
00:10:41.160 But it's savior of his country
00:10:42.680 when the guns begin to shoot.
00:10:44.180 And it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:10:45.760 and anything you please.
00:10:47.120 And Tommy ain't a blooming fool.
00:10:48.880 You bet the Tommy sees.
00:10:50.160 Well, I read that every year
00:10:52.100 and I well up a little bit
00:10:53.940 when those last line gets me every time.
00:10:58.020 I think there is a cultural war
00:10:59.580 against Remembrance Day
00:11:00.820 for all the reasons I said earlier.
00:11:02.220 By the way, I'm about to play for you
00:11:04.720 an interview I did with Lee Humphrey.
00:11:07.880 I recorded it yesterday
00:11:09.320 when we did not know
00:11:10.500 if Justin Trudeau would attend
00:11:11.940 a Remembrance Day event at all.
00:11:13.800 And I can tell you that he did.
00:11:15.460 Thank goodness for small mercies.
00:11:17.040 So I should add that
00:11:19.480 this interview you're about to see
00:11:21.200 is recorded yesterday.
00:11:23.020 All right.
00:11:23.420 Stay with us.
00:11:24.080 That's ahead.
00:11:28.980 Welcome back.
00:11:37.180 Well, this footage
00:11:38.080 is of Justin Trudeau,
00:11:39.760 the Canadian Prime Minister,
00:11:41.000 attending a Black Lives Matter rally
00:11:44.780 and taking a knee on Parliament Hill.
00:11:48.680 This was at the height of the pandemic.
00:11:50.860 As you can see,
00:11:51.660 there was no social distancing at all.
00:11:54.540 But it was very important
00:11:56.020 for Trudeau to prostrate himself
00:11:58.520 before a U.S.-based Marxist organization
00:12:02.680 called Black Lives Matter
00:12:04.520 that really has no meaning up here.
00:12:06.280 We did not have slavery.
00:12:08.180 We did not have a civil war over slavery.
00:12:10.420 In fact,
00:12:10.700 we were the Underground Railway's destination
00:12:13.860 for slaves who ran away from slavery.
00:12:17.480 Trudeau nonetheless thought
00:12:18.640 it was important enough
00:12:19.500 that he make a personal appearance.
00:12:21.960 I raise all this with you
00:12:23.400 because the government of Canada
00:12:25.220 has asked that Remembrance Day ceremonies
00:12:28.980 around the country
00:12:30.280 not be attended in person.
00:12:33.800 In fact,
00:12:34.500 we won't know
00:12:35.400 as of the moment we're filming this,
00:12:37.080 but I understand
00:12:38.240 that Trudeau himself
00:12:39.300 does not plan
00:12:40.280 to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony.
00:12:44.140 I stand to be corrected
00:12:45.660 if that report is inaccurate.
00:12:48.140 I find this typical.
00:12:50.160 Trudeau, of course,
00:12:51.240 stopped the annual commemoration
00:12:53.160 of the murder of Nathan Cirillo,
00:12:55.820 the Canadian soldier
00:12:57.380 who was murdered
00:12:58.180 at the National War Memorial.
00:12:59.860 That was a tradition
00:13:00.960 that Stephen Harper started
00:13:02.980 and Justin Trudeau stopped.
00:13:05.880 Is this just another case
00:13:07.780 of the Liberals
00:13:08.520 not giving a damn
00:13:09.800 about our veterans?
00:13:10.840 Well, joining us now
00:13:11.480 to talk about it
00:13:12.420 is our friend Lee Humphrey,
00:13:14.520 who is the founder
00:13:15.960 of Veterans for the Conservative Party
00:13:17.900 of Canada,
00:13:18.960 the director
00:13:19.900 of James International Security,
00:13:22.040 and, of course,
00:13:22.640 a military veteran himself.
00:13:24.180 Great to see you again, Lee.
00:13:25.680 Yeah, good to hear your voice,
00:13:26.820 sir.
00:13:26.860 Well, likewise.
00:13:28.040 Nice to have you here.
00:13:29.820 Remembrance Day,
00:13:31.460 when I was a kid,
00:13:33.520 was about the Second World War
00:13:35.860 and Korea.
00:13:36.940 It felt very old time.
00:13:39.100 But these days,
00:13:40.240 veterans are often my age
00:13:42.220 or, frankly, much younger,
00:13:44.280 having fought in Afghanistan
00:13:46.580 and paid a terrible price there.
00:13:48.940 It's very relevant.
00:13:50.260 It's very modern.
00:13:51.000 And the fact that
00:13:52.600 we're forgetting it so soon,
00:13:54.280 I think,
00:13:55.340 is a terrible statement
00:13:57.640 of the fact that
00:13:58.360 we're not living up to the name.
00:14:00.680 We are not remembering
00:14:01.640 what we should.
00:14:02.920 Am I being too pessimistic here?
00:14:06.120 Boy, it's hard not to be pessimistic.
00:14:09.500 It was only, you know,
00:14:11.480 a little bit more than a year ago
00:14:13.160 that we had a famous voice
00:14:17.120 in Canada
00:14:17.800 kicked off the air
00:14:20.340 because he didn't use
00:14:22.240 politically correct speech
00:14:24.060 when he was talking about
00:14:25.260 the decline in the wearing of poppies.
00:14:28.000 Today, the CDC is reporting
00:14:29.880 another decline
00:14:31.640 is expected in the wearing of the poppy.
00:14:35.380 We have a prime minister
00:14:36.580 that can wade into some social settings
00:14:40.500 and express his views
00:14:43.720 but can't go to the war memorial
00:14:46.460 and take a knee
00:14:47.420 where it's really, truly appropriate
00:14:50.780 because at the end of the day,
00:14:52.960 the people that allowed,
00:14:54.880 whether it's Black Lives Matter
00:14:56.300 or whether it's any other entity in Canada,
00:14:58.960 to express their views,
00:15:00.860 to protest, if you will,
00:15:03.020 it's the soldier
00:15:04.040 that ensured that right live on today.
00:15:06.980 So we have to remember
00:15:08.880 that soldiers of all colors,
00:15:11.220 creeds, sexual orientations,
00:15:14.520 anything you want to come up with
00:15:16.280 to distinguish them,
00:15:18.300 they all served together
00:15:20.460 under one banner.
00:15:22.100 They all fought for us
00:15:23.620 under one banner.
00:15:25.340 They all fought for freedom
00:15:27.040 from oppression.
00:15:28.420 And the idea
00:15:32.140 that we can't
00:15:33.720 at least
00:15:35.240 have folks out
00:15:37.720 at every single cenotaph
00:15:39.460 doing their part,
00:15:41.780 you can wear masks if you want,
00:15:44.120 you can social distance if you want,
00:15:46.560 you can do it throughout the day,
00:15:48.480 you can do it in your own way this time,
00:15:50.760 but please, for the love of God,
00:15:52.700 get out there tomorrow
00:15:53.860 and spend a couple of minutes.
00:15:55.900 You know, I'm worried
00:15:58.480 about the state
00:15:59.300 of the legion itself.
00:16:01.800 I understand that
00:16:02.420 because of the various
00:16:03.280 pandemic lockdowns,
00:16:05.220 legions that survive in part
00:16:06.920 based on serving food
00:16:09.020 and beverages
00:16:10.100 and having events,
00:16:12.220 that a large number of legions
00:16:15.320 are facing closure.
00:16:17.500 Now, if they were,
00:16:18.580 I don't know,
00:16:19.320 a multi-billion dollar automaker
00:16:22.040 or, I don't know,
00:16:23.080 SNC-Lavalan,
00:16:24.180 and they'd get a massive shot
00:16:26.020 in the Bombardier,
00:16:27.500 but these legions,
00:16:29.040 have you heard anything
00:16:30.020 about the fate of the legions?
00:16:31.520 I've read reports that,
00:16:33.780 I mean, a number of them in Alberta,
00:16:35.300 a number of them across the country,
00:16:36.980 for want of maybe $100,000 a pop,
00:16:40.840 are risking being shut down forever.
00:16:44.600 Just the physical place,
00:16:46.160 which is also all the memories
00:16:47.480 and the place where veterans get together.
00:16:49.720 Do you have any news on that?
00:16:51.140 Yeah, so if I understand it correctly,
00:16:55.340 legions do not qualify 1.00
00:16:57.000 for any of the aid programs
00:16:59.660 that have been put forward
00:17:00.860 by the federal government.
00:17:02.640 Some provinces,
00:17:03.920 if I understand it correctly,
00:17:05.660 have stepped up,
00:17:06.620 I believe Saskatchewan has.
00:17:08.960 Some private donors
00:17:10.580 have stepped up
00:17:11.740 with some really large donations this year,
00:17:15.320 but unfortunately,
00:17:16.680 a lot of those donations
00:17:17.700 go to the most famous piece,
00:17:20.480 which is the Poppy Fund.
00:17:22.340 And the Poppy Fund
00:17:23.180 has severe limits
00:17:24.360 on what it can do
00:17:25.580 with that money.
00:17:27.460 That money can only go
00:17:28.780 directly to help veterans,
00:17:30.160 so it cannot help
00:17:31.320 local legions stay in business,
00:17:33.880 if you will.
00:17:34.880 And as you said,
00:17:35.640 one of the greatest problems
00:17:37.840 that we'll see
00:17:39.280 if a local legion shuts down
00:17:41.100 is what happens to the history,
00:17:43.380 the memorabilia,
00:17:44.780 the art,
00:17:45.400 all of it that's been collected
00:17:47.400 for the generations,
00:17:49.640 where does it go?
00:17:50.720 Will it just disappear?
00:17:52.460 And if it does,
00:17:53.660 there goes our history
00:17:54.720 and our remembrance.
00:17:56.600 You know,
00:17:56.920 I remember I was speaking
00:17:57.660 a couple of years ago
00:17:58.820 at the wonderful Legion Hall
00:18:01.180 in Mississauga,
00:18:02.840 right on the river,
00:18:04.160 and it was a gorgeous building,
00:18:06.040 but it had fallen
00:18:06.840 into some disrepair.
00:18:08.160 The location was incredible,
00:18:09.920 the architecture was incredible,
00:18:11.460 but that place needed a reno, 0.64
00:18:14.280 and I'm not saying
00:18:15.680 that out of any aesthetic sense,
00:18:17.860 it was getting run down.
00:18:19.280 And we had this meeting there
00:18:20.640 and I said to folks,
00:18:21.420 you know what?
00:18:22.540 Omar Khadr got $10 million
00:18:24.920 from Justin Trudeau.
00:18:26.880 That would be enough
00:18:27.500 to redo,
00:18:28.680 I don't know,
00:18:29.940 50 Legion Halls.
00:18:31.880 I was very frustrated by it.
00:18:35.100 But I think it's
00:18:36.100 the popular culture.
00:18:37.160 I mean,
00:18:37.940 Whole Foods,
00:18:39.060 which is a fancy grocery chain
00:18:41.720 bought by Jeff Bezos
00:18:43.140 and Amazon,
00:18:44.400 they said that they weren't
00:18:46.060 even going to allow
00:18:47.280 their employees
00:18:48.500 to wear a poppy.
00:18:49.680 Now,
00:18:49.820 they backed down
00:18:50.580 under withering criticism,
00:18:52.400 but the fact that
00:18:53.380 the big brains over there
00:18:55.180 who are so in touch
00:18:56.220 with, you know,
00:18:57.260 the zeitgeist
00:18:58.080 and the social media,
00:18:59.360 the fact that this
00:19:00.260 went through
00:19:00.920 all their internal checks
00:19:02.420 and no one in the company
00:19:04.180 said,
00:19:04.560 no,
00:19:04.680 that's a bad idea
00:19:05.400 to ban poppies.
00:19:06.920 I mean,
00:19:07.100 yeah,
00:19:07.280 they got an attitude
00:19:08.000 adjustment from the public,
00:19:09.820 but,
00:19:10.440 you know,
00:19:11.120 Amazon,
00:19:11.980 Whole Foods,
00:19:12.500 these are very savvy,
00:19:14.700 sophisticated customers.
00:19:17.020 For them to think,
00:19:18.840 no,
00:19:18.980 no,
00:19:19.060 no,
00:19:19.580 poppies are old,
00:19:20.760 that's,
00:19:21.340 that's,
00:19:21.740 as Don Cherry,
00:19:22.560 that's Don Cherry,
00:19:23.760 Canada,
00:19:25.340 we're a more woke Canada.
00:19:26.940 That's scary to me.
00:19:27.980 I'm glad they backed down,
00:19:29.020 but the fact that they thought
00:19:29.820 that was a good idea
00:19:30.680 to begin with
00:19:31.440 shows that we've really lost
00:19:33.420 the universality
00:19:34.660 of Remembrance Day.
00:19:36.620 You know,
00:19:37.160 I,
00:19:37.600 you know,
00:19:38.100 I was stunned
00:19:39.020 to wake up to that.
00:19:40.040 I was thrilled
00:19:41.460 before the day ended
00:19:43.360 to see them
00:19:44.280 reverse their decision.
00:19:47.000 As per typical lefties,
00:19:48.980 though,
00:19:49.220 they couldn't even say sorry.
00:19:50.740 It's a simple
00:19:51.880 friggin' five-letter word.
00:19:54.140 But,
00:19:54.520 I was thrilled
00:19:55.580 that
00:19:56.600 not only politicians,
00:19:58.220 but Canadians
00:19:58.980 stood up on social media
00:20:01.220 and slapped them down.
00:20:03.640 So,
00:20:04.500 I guess,
00:20:05.140 to the broader point
00:20:06.220 of what we're talking about,
00:20:08.180 it gives me some hope
00:20:09.720 that Canadians,
00:20:12.060 by and large,
00:20:13.340 do care
00:20:14.080 about their veterans
00:20:15.900 and about our history.
00:20:17.720 While,
00:20:18.220 on the other hand,
00:20:18.920 you know,
00:20:19.200 this morning I woke up
00:20:20.360 and read online
00:20:22.240 that only 71%
00:20:24.420 of people
00:20:24.860 are expected
00:20:25.460 to wear a poppy
00:20:26.260 this year,
00:20:26.800 down from 85%
00:20:28.200 last year.
00:20:29.100 And I think 85%
00:20:30.940 was optimistic
00:20:33.000 as far as
00:20:34.860 what I saw
00:20:36.160 on the streets
00:20:36.920 and when I traveled
00:20:37.780 through Toronto
00:20:38.540 and that area,
00:20:39.720 airports,
00:20:40.480 things like that.
00:20:42.220 But,
00:20:42.960 you know,
00:20:43.240 I guess we just have to
00:20:44.260 hold on to the hope
00:20:45.200 that this one year
00:20:47.220 without,
00:20:47.800 you know,
00:20:48.500 massive celebration
00:20:49.640 of the remembrance
00:20:51.820 of what veterans
00:20:53.240 have done
00:20:53.700 for this country
00:20:54.640 doesn't sidetrack
00:20:57.500 this thing
00:20:58.040 and doesn't get it
00:20:58.860 off the rails
00:20:59.500 and it's up to you
00:21:00.440 and me
00:21:00.880 and everybody else
00:21:02.320 that has a small platform
00:21:04.120 to keep at it
00:21:06.020 and to keep reminding people
00:21:07.900 that Justin Trudeau's words
00:21:10.940 don't matter to us.
00:21:12.500 Actions matter
00:21:13.380 and when Canadians
00:21:14.260 turn out
00:21:15.040 en masse
00:21:16.080 on the 11th of November,
00:21:18.660 that's a sign
00:21:19.800 of hope for me.
00:21:20.960 Yeah.
00:21:21.360 Well,
00:21:22.020 we do a few small things.
00:21:23.820 We like to have events
00:21:24.860 at Legion Halls.
00:21:26.360 We've done that
00:21:26.880 in various cities
00:21:27.620 and a year or two ago
00:21:29.060 we bought a Legion membership
00:21:30.300 for everyone here
00:21:31.060 at Rebel News.
00:21:32.560 I'm pleased to say
00:21:33.600 that a number of our staff
00:21:34.620 had the membership
00:21:35.300 before that
00:21:36.340 but those are small things.
00:21:37.880 You know,
00:21:38.260 I like Legions
00:21:39.480 because they feel comfy.
00:21:41.260 You're not going to get
00:21:41.980 screeched at 0.52
00:21:42.860 for not being woke enough.
00:21:44.680 They always feel
00:21:45.640 like an attic
00:21:48.080 or a place
00:21:48.740 where you put on
00:21:49.260 comfy slippers.
00:21:50.860 The food and drink
00:21:52.180 are always reasonably priced.
00:21:53.960 I really like them
00:21:54.920 as like a hangout.
00:21:55.880 I mean,
00:21:56.680 I don't get a lot of chance
00:21:57.660 to go and hang out
00:21:58.820 but they just feel
00:22:00.020 comfortable and welcoming
00:22:01.320 and I love looking
00:22:03.540 at the photographs
00:22:04.280 of the young men
00:22:05.980 and thinking
00:22:07.340 of what would they
00:22:08.280 have thought?
00:22:09.340 What were they thinking
00:22:10.320 back then
00:22:10.800 and what would they
00:22:11.320 think of us now?
00:22:12.560 I love going
00:22:13.320 to Legion Halls
00:22:14.200 and I think that
00:22:15.600 you know,
00:22:17.840 the word sacred
00:22:18.620 generally applies
00:22:20.360 to holy things
00:22:21.680 but there is
00:22:22.240 something sacred
00:22:23.040 about these living
00:22:24.940 remembrances
00:22:25.680 of veterans.
00:22:26.820 Last word to you.
00:22:28.780 Yeah, well,
00:22:29.340 tomorrow,
00:22:30.360 Ezra, my wife and I
00:22:31.680 who is also a veteran
00:22:32.900 will be at
00:22:33.800 the Cenotaph
00:22:35.740 in Battalion Park
00:22:37.020 on Signal Hill
00:22:38.060 in Calgary
00:22:38.860 and I hope
00:22:40.760 that despite
00:22:41.980 not having
00:22:42.760 these formal ceremonies
00:22:44.320 all over the places,
00:22:45.840 people go to the
00:22:46.980 Field of Crosses
00:22:48.260 that's here
00:22:49.020 or to the
00:22:49.580 Military Museum,
00:22:50.520 they go to the local
00:22:52.020 Cenotaphs
00:22:52.900 in their neighborhoods
00:22:53.820 around this country
00:22:55.060 and they demonstrate
00:22:56.140 that we sure as heck
00:22:57.240 don't need the government
00:22:58.280 to run
00:22:59.400 a Remembrance Day ceremony.
00:23:01.320 We just need Canadians 1.00
00:23:02.520 to show up,
00:23:04.060 bow their heads
00:23:04.680 for two minutes
00:23:05.480 and remember
00:23:06.540 what got us
00:23:07.380 the country
00:23:07.960 we have today.
00:23:09.400 Well said.
00:23:10.180 Well, thank you,
00:23:10.640 my friend
00:23:11.100 and thank you
00:23:11.600 for your service.
00:23:12.840 We've been talking
00:23:13.260 to Lee Humphrey,
00:23:14.420 the founder of Veterans
00:23:15.280 for the Canadian,
00:23:16.200 sorry,
00:23:16.400 the Conservative Party
00:23:17.040 of Candler
00:23:17.440 and the director
00:23:18.680 of James International.
00:23:20.820 Security.
00:23:21.380 Stay with us,
00:23:21.980 more ahead.
00:23:34.000 Hey, welcome back
00:23:34.840 on my monologue
00:23:35.380 last night.
00:23:36.020 Sue Ann writes,
00:23:37.300 you will own nothing
00:23:38.120 and you will be happy.
00:23:39.540 If you show any unhappiness,
00:23:41.000 it's off to a
00:23:41.500 re-education camp for you.
00:23:43.340 Shut up and obey.
00:23:44.500 Very scary times
00:23:45.420 are heading our way.
00:23:46.540 Oh yeah,
00:23:47.080 and add to it
00:23:47.780 things that were not
00:23:48.400 in this video,
00:23:49.060 but you'll have
00:23:49.900 no privacy.
00:23:51.160 Hey, let's eat bugs.
00:23:52.600 There's these weird
00:23:53.520 things coming down
00:23:54.400 from these globalists
00:23:55.200 and they're always
00:23:55.980 creepy,
00:23:56.900 slightly diabolical,
00:23:58.980 as in slightly
00:23:59.720 anti-human.
00:24:00.740 I don't like it.
00:24:02.620 Pawn writes,
00:24:03.740 to all the psychopathic
00:24:04.660 billionaire WF
00:24:05.740 psychopaths out there,
00:24:07.180 you first,
00:24:07.800 divest all your assets
00:24:08.640 and let's see how
00:24:09.280 happy it makes you.
00:24:10.300 Isn't that the truth?
00:24:11.460 It's quite something
00:24:12.400 for the Jeff Bezos
00:24:13.640 of the world
00:24:14.440 to tell the rest of us.
00:24:15.540 You'll own nothing,
00:24:16.880 but you'll really,
00:24:17.700 really like it.
00:24:19.060 Nah, mate,
00:24:19.620 I don't think I will.
00:24:21.040 All right,
00:24:21.320 that's our show
00:24:21.760 for today.
00:24:22.200 Until tomorrow,
00:24:23.120 on behalf of all of us
00:24:24.060 here at Rebel World
00:24:24.740 Headquarters,
00:24:25.320 and you at home,
00:24:26.060 good night,
00:24:26.920 and keep fighting
00:24:27.520 for freedom.
00:24:27.980 We'll be right back.