Rebel News Podcast - Scheer tables non-confidence vote： Does it stand a chance？

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00:01:08.640 Tonight, Canada inches towards an economic recession.

00:01:22.380 Andrew Scheer makes a bid to lead the CPC in the next election.

00:01:25.920 And Trudeau's Alberta senator pushes to get pedos out of prison.

00:01:30.440 And Kian Bextie, well, I'm hijacking The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:33.820 It's February 19th.

00:01:34.960 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:40.600 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:44.640 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:50.500 Blockades have gridlocked this country for weeks now, and there's absolutely no sign of them letting up.

00:02:00.460 Canada has been negotiating with Indians for centuries.

00:02:03.180 Historically, we've always known whose side everybody is on.

00:02:06.860 We've had the political class negotiating on behalf of the crown, and across the table from them is tribal leadership.

00:02:12.860 Canada has always met somewhere in the middle, and that's how we've gotten things done. 0.89

00:02:16.520 But this time, that won't be the case.

00:02:19.280 The negotiations once were taking place in public, and Canadians knew what was going on.

00:02:24.160 Now, that's not the case, and recordings are being kept secret between the two parties.

00:02:29.600 The fate of Canada's economy is being debated by a prime minister who has already declared his loyalty to Indians before the crown.

00:02:37.780 Trudeau was elected to govern on behalf of the crown, a duty he has brazenly abandoned.

00:02:42.520 But that farce doesn't even come close to the illegitimacy of the bad actors that he is negotiating with.

00:02:49.480 The people cutting off the arteries of our nation are not representing any band, tribe, or anything of the sort.

00:02:56.700 The people extorting our country on behalf of supposedly the Wet'suwet'en are all gringos. 1.00

00:03:03.120 How could that be?

00:03:04.240 It's almost like this chaos is being caused by opportunists.

00:03:08.260 Environmentalists who put on moccasins for the first time just yesterday, for the first time in their lives, are trying to take advantage of Trudeau's weaknesses.

00:03:17.220 This is Emma Jackson.

00:03:18.400 She's Alberta's resident criminal environmentalist. 1.00

00:03:21.300 She is the OG oil tanker bowling pin. 0.67

00:03:24.860 She's been hanging off of bridges for so-called climate justice since before I was even in the reporting business.

00:03:30.220 All of a sudden, guess who's been organizing rail blockades in Alberta?

00:03:34.360 Oh, this has nothing to do with her climate activism.

00:03:37.440 Remember that.

00:03:38.080 This is all to do with the Wet'suwet'en. 1.00

00:03:40.780 Of course, not the 85% who voted in favor of coastal gasoline.

00:03:45.020 Just the 15% who agree with her radical agenda.

00:03:48.660 I was tipped off that this whole national hostage situation wasn't authentically Indian when I traveled up to the Crown Land just south of Smithers, B.C., west of Houston, B.C., the area that these Caucasian blockaders call traditional Wet'suwet'en territory. 0.64

00:04:04.920 Yeah, what I would suggest is you guys just go and then maybe come back later and fight.

00:04:13.720 Okay, it's quarter after 12 now.

00:04:16.000 You know what?

00:04:16.560 Do some investigating and I'm sure you'll come across.

00:04:28.880 Oh, okay.

00:04:29.580 Yeah.

00:04:30.140 Okay.

00:04:30.980 All right.

00:04:31.880 Okay.

00:04:32.340 All right.

00:04:32.980 Could I ask one question before we go?

00:04:35.940 You guys are using tires and gasoline.

00:04:39.280 Is that hypocritical at all given that you want to stop a pipeline?

00:04:42.080 No.

00:04:42.260 We're going, uh, we're, we're directing you to the hereditary chiefs now so you can go.

00:04:48.440 Isn't that weird?

00:04:49.660 When a decision needed to be made, whether they would talk to me or not, they consulted with the white people running the show in the teepee.

00:04:57.360 Not a surprise though, climate activism is disproportionately white.

00:05:02.320 Given this cause has been orchestrated by white girls around the globe, it was only a matter of time before Greta co-opted the cause. 1.00

00:05:10.040 She's pledged support, her support, and the four million people who are following her to the rail blockades here in Canada.

00:05:16.800 Of course, she's pretending like she has been concerned with the plight of indigenous people for some time.

00:05:21.760 But we all know that this sick 17-year-old just enjoys watching developed countries freeze in the dark.

00:05:27.840 I can just picture her face when she hears that there are pipeline shortages.

00:05:32.860 But don't worry, even though the country's facing fuel shortages, farmers are getting turned away at grain elevators because they are at capacity due to rail closures.

00:05:41.560 And premiers are facing threat of citizens' arrest at their houses from terrorist groups like Extinction Rebellion.

00:05:48.220 Rest assured because Prime Minister Blackface is working extra hard today. 0.97

00:05:52.060 Extremely hard, actually.

00:05:53.560 Extremely, extremely hard.

00:05:54.700 Too bad he's not working super-duper ultra-hard because maybe then we'd see some Mounties doing their job for once.

00:06:01.560 He has been meeting with his like-minded friends, so I guess we shouldn't worry.

00:06:06.000 They had a teepee talk in Ottawa yesterday, excluding anyone with a brain from offering an opinion.

00:06:11.880 This really made conservatives mad, understandably, and Scheer has finally been able to show some strength for once.

00:06:17.940 See, Quebec is upset already.

00:06:20.020 They're talking to provincial police, instructing them to remove blockades.

00:06:23.200 That gave Harper with a smile the go-ahead to put on a serious face and fill up the leadership vacuum left by all of the other incompetents running the House of Commons.

00:06:32.660 As Prime Minister, as I said, I would direct the ARCMP to enforce the law to ensure that our railway system can operate.

00:06:39.620 I mean, we have a situation.

00:06:40.640 We have ideologically motivated protesters and activists who have, in many cases, have no connection at all with the First Nations community.

00:06:50.360 And they are threatening the jobs of thousands.

00:06:53.980 These protesters, these activists, may have the luxury of spending days at a time on a blockade, but they need to check their privilege.

00:07:02.600 They need to check their privilege and let people whose job depends on the railway system, small business, farmers, do their jobs.

00:07:11.320 After seeing Scheer act like a leader for once, his loyalists were kicking it into high gear.

00:07:16.380 Now, I can't tell if they are actually seriously this desperate to save and defibrillate their dairy defender, but they sure seem serious.

00:07:25.980 A non-confidence motion was added to the House of Commons order paper earlier today.

00:07:32.140 After announcing his resignation, Andrew Scheer has just made a bid to lead the party again into the next election.

00:07:38.620 This wasn't just any old member of parliament putting forward a motion of non-confidence.

00:07:43.020 This was Andrew Scheer himself saying that the government needs to fall, and it needs to fall right now before he leaves the party.

00:07:49.180 The party put forward a motion of non-confidence, and just like we expected, Andrew Scheer himself was the one behind it.

00:07:57.880 We knew that this was going to happen.

00:07:59.680 Where have I heard this before?

00:08:01.020 I want to tell you a story from 1979.

00:08:04.040 It's when Joe Clark defeated Pierre Trudeau, and Pierre Trudeau announced his resignation.

00:08:09.260 In late November of 79, Pierre Trudeau said that he would be stepping down as leader, and it seemed like it was to bide his time.

00:08:17.400 It was to take the heat off of him after the disastrous election of Joe Clark.

00:08:21.480 After the liberals lost an election, they thought that they could win.

00:08:25.300 After Trudeau announced his resignation, his caucus voted unanimously to keep him on.

00:08:30.720 Hmm, I wonder where I've heard that before.

00:08:33.400 That's the exact same thing that happened to Andrew Scheer.

00:08:35.420 He announced his resignation amid scandal, and, well, his caucus said, you should stay on.

00:08:40.320 It would be a shame, just as they said to Pierre Trudeau, it would be a shame to lose someone of such high-quality leadership

00:08:47.240 in a time when the Prime Minister is so incapable, just like Joe Clark was, just like Trudeau was.

00:08:53.980 Joe Clark had a minority government, and Trudeau had a minority government.

00:08:57.640 Well, just after Pierre Trudeau announced his soon-to-be resignation, guess what?

00:09:01.780 Pierre Trudeau orchestrated a vote of non-confidence, and Joe Clark's government collapsed.

00:09:06.000 And wouldn't you know it, the liberals, amid Trudeau's sagging popularity, well, they ran the campaign without Trudeau really at the forefront of it.

00:09:13.140 They more ran the campaign against Joe Clark, rather than running it with Pierre Trudeau on the masthead.

00:09:18.640 They won that election, and they formed Pierre Trudeau's last-majority government.

00:09:23.000 Just after Scheer's resignation, I went to his writing to ask people if they even knew who he was.

00:09:28.320 We're wondering if you could tell us who he is.

00:09:33.000 I don't know.

00:09:34.500 Never heard of him?

00:09:35.120 No.

00:09:36.000 Of course.

00:09:36.920 Johnson?

00:09:37.760 Yeah, no.

00:09:38.500 No idea.

00:09:39.380 And I called it then.

00:09:40.440 His resignation looks like it was just a stunt.

00:09:43.040 Now, who knows if this will pass?

00:09:44.640 Likely, it won't.

00:09:45.640 The NDP are flat broke and are in no position to conduct an election.

00:09:49.140 And the Bloc, well, they have more seats than they could ever hope to get.

00:09:52.080 The only people that want this government to fall right now are the Conservatives.

00:09:55.500 And fair enough.

00:09:57.000 If Scheer couldn't win against PM Blackface, how is he going to win against PM Blackbeard? 0.97

00:10:02.360 My faith in the Canadian electorate is at an all-time low.

00:10:05.280 And my faith in Scheer successfully contesting an election is even lower.

00:10:09.100 Now, stay tuned for more.

00:10:09.940 We're bringing Andrew Lawton from True North on the show.

00:10:12.060 Now we have Andrew Lawton from The Andrew Lawton Show with True North.

00:10:28.320 He's joining us on the show today.

00:10:30.140 Andrew, how are you doing?

00:10:30.840 Hey, good to be with you, Kian.

00:10:33.120 I'm doing well.

00:10:33.620 Yourself?

00:10:34.520 Well, I'm doing well.

00:10:35.760 We're doing a story on the show on the railway blockades that have been gripping the nation.

00:10:41.820 And I want to hear from you how you think our political leadership is handling this situation,

00:10:47.760 namely Trudeau excluding Andrew Scheer from a pretty high-level meeting that he actually included

00:10:54.240 Elizabeth May in, of all people.

00:10:57.100 How do you think conservative voters are going to respond to being excluded from that meeting?

00:11:03.180 Well, I think you're being very generous when you say, A, political leadership and B, handling,

00:11:07.800 because I don't think either it's really accurate right now.

00:11:10.460 We have no leadership on this issue in Canada.

00:11:13.200 And I think it's also safe to say we have no handling of the situation right now.

00:11:18.480 I mean, these situations are so critical in Canada.

00:11:22.020 You have, forgetting about the job losses at VNCN, albeit temporary, you've got goods

00:11:28.560 that can't get across the country.

00:11:30.140 You've got people that can't do their jobs.

00:11:31.860 You've got public safety issues.

00:11:33.980 And all of this, I think, is entirely preventable if the law is enforced.

00:11:39.880 And, you know, despite the fact that I am not a great ally of Justin Trudeau,

00:11:44.180 these situations are the things that, for me, are not partisan situations.

00:11:48.340 These are areas where I think everyone should get behind the prime minister

00:11:52.020 if the prime minister is actually doing something which right now isn't happening.

00:11:57.620 So the fact that this multi-partisan meeting ends up being this mean girls routine

00:12:03.080 where Andrew Scheer has to stay on the other side of the lunchroom

00:12:05.940 while Elizabeth May and Yves-Francois Blanchet and Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau talk 0.97

00:12:11.080 is absolutely ridiculous. 0.89

00:12:12.920 And it's offensive not just to conservatives, but I think to all Canadians 0.97

00:12:16.540 because it shows that Trudeau is putting partisanship above actual solutions.

00:12:21.740 Well, Scheer's response to this has been to file a motion of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

00:12:26.280 Do you think that that is a proportionate response to pull the whole government down

00:12:29.660 as a result of these negotiations and even Scheer not being included in the meetings?

00:12:35.040 And secondarily, do you think that there's any chance that this will actually pass?

00:12:39.060 Well, no.

00:12:41.220 I think the fact that the other leaders were in the meeting and Scheer wasn't

00:12:45.100 indicates that we have a de facto coalition government here.

00:12:48.980 As far as whether it's a proportionate response,

00:12:52.180 I don't see the non-confidence motion as being justified because of the meetings

00:12:57.180 and because of the exclusion of the conservatives.

00:12:59.280 I see it as being justified because of the Liberals not wanting to enforce the law right now.

00:13:05.180 I mean, in question period today, you had Trudeau blaming the Ontario government saying,

00:13:09.580 oh, you know, that rail blockade in Ontario, that's Ontario's problem.

00:13:13.580 Well, no, this is a national crisis right now.

00:13:16.020 And when the government is talking about de-escalation instead of enforcing the law,

00:13:20.440 I think we're past that point where we can say that the government deserves anyone's confidence on this.

00:13:26.100 These rail blockades have started in British Columbia, I believe, and Ontario,

00:13:32.640 and it's started to move and spread to Quebec and Alberta.

00:13:36.460 And Quebec and Alberta is what I want to talk about because Quebec and Alberta don't like to take much.

00:13:42.220 They don't put up with much.

00:13:43.580 And the premier of Quebec, the first minister, is already speaking with provincial police,

00:13:49.340 trying to coax them into breaking up this blockade.

00:13:52.520 Now, in Alberta, the provincial police is, of course, the RCMP,

00:13:56.840 and Jason Kenney's government has already been talking about rearranging their position in Confederation.

00:14:02.600 Do you think that this is a pretty prime pedestal for Jason Kenney to launch a new provincial police force?

00:14:12.440 Well, yeah.

00:14:13.260 I mean, you have to look at this in the broader context of other issues that are going on.

00:14:17.680 Western alienation is a big thing.

00:14:19.380 I know you and I saw each other a couple of months ago in Red Deer at a conference that was focused on raising that question.

00:14:26.420 And certainly for Albertans, ultimately whose energy independence relies on a national pipeline network

00:14:33.460 and a national flow of energy from west to east,

00:14:36.760 there is a huge problem here when the government is saying that,

00:14:39.840 you know, we're going to let anyone in the country who wants to just set up camp on a rail station to make this point,

00:14:46.020 we're going to let that fly.

00:14:47.860 We're not going to stop that.

00:14:49.080 So this is, I think, a failing of the government on the First Nations file,

00:14:53.360 a fail of government on the energy file,

00:14:55.780 and yeah, a fail of the federal government on the Alberta file as well.

00:15:00.540 Well, that's about all the time we have today.

00:15:02.600 Thanks, Andrew, for joining us.

00:15:03.960 To all the viewers at home, you can catch up with Andrew Lawton's new show,

00:15:07.680 the Andrew Lawton Show at tnc.news.

00:15:11.220 Thanks for joining us, Andrew.

00:15:13.140 Hey, my pleasure.

00:15:13.960 Anytime.

00:15:14.200 Anytime.

00:15:14.320 Anytime.

00:15:19.080 Now I want to talk about Paula Simons, who has been fighting very, very hard for Canadians, 0.97

00:15:28.840 as long as you're a child pornographer or a first-degree murderer. 0.61

00:15:32.440 See, Paula, in her infinite sober wisdom, thinks that Canadians are just spending too much time in jail.

00:15:38.520 One-size-fits-all justice doesn't just undermine the essential independence of our courts and our judges.

00:15:44.740 It often leads to manifestly unjust outcomes.

00:15:48.040 What we should hope for in our Canadian democracy is that we appoint qualified, well-trained, thoughtful judges

00:15:54.280 whom we can trust to apply their legal skills, their personal morality, and their common sense,

00:16:00.320 whom we can trust to analyze both the facts of a specific case and the text of the criminal code

00:16:05.520 and pass a sentence that is just.

00:16:08.920 Who knows what the motivations are for Alberta's lone Laurentian.

00:16:13.840 Maybe getting pedophiles out of prison is just a bonus for Paula. 1.00

00:16:17.960 Maybe she's trying to create a soft landing for her railway-blockading comrades 0.95

00:16:22.260 should they ever find themselves in the business end of a cop car.

00:16:26.580 Now that's about all the time we have here on the Ezra Levant Show.

00:16:29.700 I'm Kian Bexie.

00:16:30.380 This was my first time hosting the show, and I hope that you enjoyed it.

00:16:33.200 And I know that Ezra usually ends these shows by saying,

00:16:35.880 keep fighting for freedom at the end, but I think I need my own tagline.

00:16:39.880 So I'll take suggestions at TheRealKian on Twitter, just direct message them to me.

00:16:43.680 But in the meantime, I don't know, how about this?

00:16:46.820 It's been 193 days since Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

00:16:51.460 Thanks for tuning in.

00:16:52.160 Thanks.

00:16:53.260 Bye.

00:16:54.160 Bye.

00:16:58.740 Bye.

00:17:06.380 Bye.

00:17:06.920 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - February 20, 2020

Scheer tables non-confidence vote： Does it stand a chance？

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