Rebel News Podcast - SCOOP： Trudeau’s best friend Gerald Butts is in the centre of another ethics scandal, involving hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, we talk about a big scoop from Sheila Gunn-Reed. Oh, she nailed it this week. 0.70

00:00:08.020 And the scoop scooped Gerald Butts up, and he don't like it much. He's just having a little

00:00:12.960 tantrum. He's having a tantrum. The story's moved on since then. Actually, there's new chapters

00:00:20.000 in the story. Kian Bextie was down in New York chasing the story down a bit. We'll show you that.

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00:00:58.520 Tonight, Trudeau's best friend, Gerald Butts, is the center of another ethics scandal involving

00:01:04.200 hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars. It's August 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:09.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:14.840 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:18.920 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:23.800 right to do so.

00:01:30.040 Hey, did you see Sheila Gunn-Reed's huge scoop the other day? Turns out that Justin Trudeau sent

00:01:35.160 a huge soul-sourced contract. That means a contract that no other companies were even

00:01:41.760 allowed to bid on. Trudeau sent it to the Eurasia Group. Who's that? Well, what a coincidence.

00:01:48.540 That just happens to be the New York City lobby group that gave Gerald Butts, Trudeau's disgraced

00:01:55.580 advisor and best friend, a soft landing after he was forced to resign in disgrace after the

00:02:02.660 SNC-Lavalin fiasco this year. Here, let me play a few minutes of Sheila's exclusive video for you.

00:02:09.640 It's her story, so I'll let her tell it. But stick around, because since she broke the news

00:02:14.620 a couple days ago in this video, a whole bunch of other very interesting things happened. So

00:02:19.660 this video from Sheila is just part one of the story. Watch this.

00:02:26.100 Breaking news. Gerald Butts' new company just received a soul-source contract from the federal

00:02:32.020 government totaling nearly $200,000 Canadian. And only the rebel is bringing you all the details.

00:02:43.340 So we don't think that, we think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly

00:02:47.540 without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place.

00:02:52.620 So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another

00:02:57.500 route for a pipeline. Because the real alternative is not an alternative route. It's an alternative

00:03:04.700 economy.

00:03:05.760 That video, of course, is Justin Trudeau's best friend, former chief advisor, and now current

00:03:12.440 campaign worker, Gerald Butts. Way back when he was with the World Wildlife Fund in a rare moment of

00:03:18.540 complete and total honesty about how the Liberals truly feel about Canada's oil and gas sector.

00:03:24.380 According to Butts, it just shouldn't exist at all. Which now begs the question,

00:03:30.080 why is Gerald Butts' new employer getting a $150,000 US sole-source contract from the Canadian

00:03:37.460 government to provide expertise on the energy sector? Let's go back a little though.

00:03:43.520 Butts joined the Eurasia Group shortly after he resigned in disgrace amidst the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

00:03:51.280 That's the scandal where Justin Trudeau was just found guilty of his second ethics violation while

00:03:56.880 in office for putting unlawful pressure on Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada's first Aboriginal female

00:04:02.840 attorney general, to cut a sweetheart deal with the corrupt Quebec-based company for deferred

00:04:08.520 prosecution. Butts has since then quietly rejoined the federal liberal campaign. But despite Butts

00:04:17.420 being elbows deep in an ethics scandal, and despite Butts also being part of the official liberal war

00:04:23.260 room, and despite Butts saying many, many times over that oil and gas should be phased out altogether,

00:04:31.040 Gerald Butts' brand new New York-based employer just got a $200,000 Canadian, or $150,000

00:04:38.200 US sole-source contract from Natural Resources Canada to give advice on energy markets. Here are

00:04:46.020 the full details from the Government of Canada procurement website of the sole-source contract

00:04:52.260 we uncovered just this morning. Now Sheila reads some of the document in question. I'll skip that in

00:04:58.980 the interest of time. But you can see Sheila's full video elsewhere on our website. But check out this

00:05:04.280 part. Why was no one else allowed to be part of the bid process for this contract? Well, it's right

00:05:10.040 here under Section 6D. According to the federal government, only one person is capable of performing

00:05:15.740 the work. Apparently, the Prime Minister's best friend, former chief advisor, and current campaign

00:05:21.500 worker is the only guy for the job. What a happy coincidence. And the total cost of the contract,

00:05:27.180 as I said earlier, is here under Section 9. Estimated cost. The estimated maximum value of the contract

00:05:34.940 for one year is $149,940 US. Tax is not applicable. And here is how we know it went to Gerald Butts' new

00:05:44.380 company, hand-selected by the Liberal government without any competition from anyone else in the

00:05:50.500 country. Section 10, name and address of the proposed contractor. Eurasia Group, 149 Fifth Avenue, 15th

00:06:00.260 floor, New York, New York, 10010. Now the rest of Sheila's video shows you what an idiot Gerald Butts 1.00

00:06:08.420 is. I mean, he's very smart IQ-wise, but he's what the scholar Nassim Taleb would call an idiot yet, 1.00

00:06:16.440 sorry, intellectual yet idiot. That's a funny phrase. I love it. As someone who is book smart, 1.00

00:06:22.580 but has no clue about how things actually work, because he's never actually done anything,

00:06:27.580 Taleb's phrase is no skin in the game. You can tell that by all the kooky schemes Gerald Butts

00:06:33.800 supports. I mean, he's the nut who said the answer to what practical route should a pipeline take is,

00:06:40.000 no, no, no, no, no. Just ban pipelines altogether and just, you know, just create a whole new economy

00:06:47.500 that doesn't need oil. You know, just poof, magic wand. Just do it already, guys.

00:06:51.680 We think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly without a serious plan for environmental

00:06:58.040 remediation in the first place. So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there

00:07:03.740 should be another, another route for a pipeline, because the real alternative is not an alternative

00:07:10.140 route. It's an alternative economy. Yeah. Idiot, intellectual yet idiot, as Taleb would say. So

00:07:16.420 that was Sheila's blockbuster video this week. I showed you the substance of it, but maybe I told you

00:07:22.340 too many details because the headline is really this. Gerald Butts, the disgraced Trudeau staffer and his

00:07:30.760 best friend went to a fancy New York consulting firm that just happened to get a sole source 200 grand

00:07:37.980 contract. Yeah, I think I've seen this movie before. It's how the liberals do everything, especially Butts 0.64

00:07:44.520 himself. You will recall that Gerald Butts, when he moved to Ottawa from Toronto, he billed taxpayers six

00:07:50.960 figures just to move down the road, just to move down the highway from Toronto to Ottawa. He billed taxpayers six

00:07:58.940 figures and then he tried to hide it. And it was only after it was revealed that he grudgingly paid back a small

00:08:07.160 portion of it. I'm sorry, that's padding your expenses. That's a fraud thing or embezzlement. That's the firing

00:08:15.080 offense in the real world. But in Trudeau land, the only thing they were mad at him for was that he got caught. I remind

00:08:21.780 you, Butts personally signed off on Trudeau accepting the illegal gift of a vacation on the Aga Khan's

00:08:28.140 billionaire island in the Bahamas. Butts was behind that too. And Butts tried to keep that secret too.

00:08:33.700 That was illegal too, according to the ethics commissioner, but Butts wasn't fired for that.

00:08:38.120 Of course. You see a pattern here? Yes, you do. But Butts wasn't fired for his key role in the illegal

00:08:44.800 misconduct for SNC-Lavalin either. He was never fired for his role in breaking those laws. He resigned to take the

00:08:53.780 heat off of Trudeau. But then he slinked back to work for the liberals again. He's working for them now, as you

00:09:00.060 know. Anyway, Sheila broke this news the other day, and it went huge online. But only one other media outlet

00:09:06.980 followed Sheila's scoop, the post-millennial. And they basically just rewrote Sheila's news, copying it in some

00:09:14.720 places, almost word for word, actually. But at least they gave Sheila credit for breaking the story. 0.99

00:09:21.040 But look, like us, the post-millennial is an alternative media, and it's looked down on by

00:09:25.260 the fancy parents at the media party. So the story was, so far, contained from the liberal point of

00:09:32.220 view to the right wing. But then, Brett Wilson, the successful financier and former Dragon's Den star,

00:09:39.100 well, he was furious about it. He tweeted his outrage. And in fact, he was outraged to the point

00:09:48.120 of swearing, which he doesn't often do. Now, that's a fancy guy, Brett Wilson. He's conservative,

00:09:54.680 sure, but he's part of the jet set himself, A-list kind of guy. He's someone that Gerald Butts

00:10:00.140 obviously respects, or at least fears a little bit. So Butts just finally lost it. He went nuts a little

00:10:06.760 bit. He said, it's a lie. This is a lie. You can see he's responding directly to Brett. It's a lie. 0.94

00:10:12.700 And the lying lie was told by liars. And we're all liars. It's a right wing echo chamber. Consider 0.98

00:10:18.180 this public notice, Brett. Now, I'm not sure what that last part means. Notice for what, buddy? Do you

00:10:25.380 mean like a defamation notice, like a legal document? But what do you mean? Do you deny that the contract

00:10:32.100 was given to the Eurasia group? I mean, we showed the document. It came from the government's own

00:10:38.020 website. You could find it yourself. You could watch Sheila's video. It's there. And what exactly

00:10:43.100 was he threatening? Notice of what, buddy? Butts was so upset. He started making weird threats all

00:10:50.260 over the place. Look at this. He's threatening a former ambassador, Vivian Bercovici. It's just all

00:10:56.380 like, no, flat out lie. Ah, the rebel. Ah, they told me I haven't retracted. Notice number

00:11:03.100 two. Notice, what is this, like an auction? 25, 25, going once, going twice, see $30 bid.

00:11:10.620 Going once, going twice. Notice for what? Are you going to sue us for mentioning this? You

00:11:21.360 can sue us for mentioning the fact that shortly after you decamped Ottawa in disgrace for the

00:11:26.460 Eurasia group, a $200,000 sole source contract was sent over there? You're going to sue us

00:11:32.980 for telling people that? Sure you are, buddy. Just like you told Justin Trudeau to threaten

00:11:39.880 to sue Andrew Scheer for criticizing you over the SNC-Lavalin scandal. You still haven't followed

00:11:47.240 through on that lawsuit because you'd lose and because you'd have to disclose all your internal

00:11:52.000 memos and emails and other documents that you are currently hiding. So sue us for reporting on

00:11:59.180 the fact that we got from a government website. Oh, please don't throw me into the briar patch.

00:12:04.620 Please don't do that. Now, Butts was clearly coordinating his response with his friends at the Eurasia

00:12:10.820 Group because we received this email from them. It was written by Irina Oyama, and the subject line

00:12:19.960 was correction requested. They said, hello, this is a request to correct the record regarding

00:12:27.260 yesterday's article about Gerald Butts, Eurasia Group, and Natural Resources Canada. Natural Resources

00:12:32.240 Canada has been a Eurasia Group client since 2017, and Gerald Butts has not been involved in that

00:12:39.940 relationship. At any stage, Eurasia Group is an independent, nonpartisan research firm that

00:12:45.460 employs senior advisors from across the political spectrum and has worked with global investors,

00:12:49.200 multinational corporations, and governments, including Canada, since 1998. In short, the

00:12:54.460 basis of this article is inaccurate, and we ask you to please retract it accordingly. Irina Oyama,

00:13:01.460 Director of Communications, Eurasia Group, 149 5th Ave, 15th floor, New York.

00:13:09.940 Okay, so what was the error that needs correcting? You saw Sheila's video. She said they got a sole

00:13:19.620 source contract for about 150 U.S., which is about 200 Canadian. So we have the primary document.

00:13:27.020 We have a copy of it, right? Are they saying that's not true? Now, we know it's true. We all know it's true.

00:13:37.240 We got it from the government website. You, dear viewer, can go to the government website and get

00:13:41.620 it. And they didn't deny it was true. They didn't say it was like a forgery or something. That would

00:13:46.840 be weird. In fact, they told us something that we didn't know that was pretty incredible. They said

00:13:53.380 this isn't their first payment from the liberals. They told us, I think by accident, that they'd been

00:14:00.520 getting contracts from Trudeau. Did you catch that part? Since 2017. I think that's what's called an

00:14:09.060 unforced error. They just sort of blurted that out. They told us more of what they're doing,

00:14:16.200 something we didn't know. We didn't know that. At least I didn't. But they literally told us about

00:14:20.840 more scandals. That not only did they get a sole source contract about global warming or whatever

00:14:27.080 once Butts went to work for them, but they got a contract before when Butts was still working for

00:14:35.240 Trudeau. So in 2017, Butts and Trudeau approve a contract to this New York lobby group that hates

00:14:42.860 oil. I mean, who knows? We're trying to find out more details about it. I hope they'll tell us.

00:14:47.820 It's for 200 grand. Well, actually, the new one was for 200 grand. What was the 2017 one? Hundreds of

00:14:54.720 thousands? Millions? Who knows? With these drunken sailors, the way they spend money. So Butts hires 1.00

00:15:01.240 a Eurasia group back in 2017. They get paid in 2017 from taxpayer money. Then Butts resigns in disgrace

00:15:10.000 and gets a soft landing at that same Eurasia group. And then surprise, they get a sole source payment

00:15:17.260 from Justin Trudeau after that. Yeah, no wonder Butts is freaking out at Sheila's report. This wasn't

00:15:24.360 supposed to come out until after the election. Who released that contract? They're fired.

00:15:29.920 But the funny thing, if you read the replies to Butts's tweet, a lot of people, well, they're laughing

00:15:36.720 at him because his denial of the facts that we knew and the new ones that they just told us,

00:15:42.560 it's so laughable. And we all heard Butts's lies to Parliament just a few months ago regarding the SNC-Lavalin

00:15:49.360 scandal. And we all learned from the ethics commissioner about how he corrupted the justice

00:15:53.760 system by trying to undermine Jody Wilson-Raybould. So no one believes him anymore. He's known as a liar.

00:16:00.400 It's quite something. Now, by chance, our Kean Bexte was in New York City yesterday on a different

00:16:07.260 matter. And as I just showed you, that's where the Eurasia group is headquartered. So I said,

00:16:13.500 why don't you pop by? Why don't you pop by? So he did. But they wouldn't let him up to the office.

00:16:19.420 We just got an email from that Miss Oyama. We just got it. And what better way than just to show up 1.00

00:16:25.400 and say, hey, I'm here to talk. Thanks. You want to make a correction? What's going on?

00:16:29.040 But they claimed she wasn't there. Then they said she couldn't even take a phone call. Really?

00:16:36.380 It's a busy workday. You're the communications director for a big company, but no one can find you

00:16:40.880 or your deputy. And then they literally stopped answering their phone at all. They would hang

00:16:44.780 up, hang up, hang up. It was like they were in panic lockdown mode just because Kean was there.

00:16:50.140 And they wouldn't let Kean come up to their office to talk. They have a media relations officer.

00:16:55.840 That's who this Arena Oyama is. It's right in their title there. That's all we wanted to do,

00:17:00.120 to talk to the person whose job is to talk to us, the person who wrote us a letter saying they had

00:17:05.880 something to say to us. Okay, great. We're very interested in what you have to say. But they started

00:17:10.400 hiding from us and they even wouldn't even let him up the elevator. Here, just watch a few minutes

00:17:15.640 of Kean's video yesterday. So I want to ask a few questions and they're quite obvious. Did Gerald

00:17:20.720 Butts have anything to do with those contracts? Was that original contract in 2017 sole sourced

00:17:27.540 or not? When was the first time that Eurasia Group dealt with Gerald Butts? Was it after he left

00:17:33.480 politics and then they hired him? I kind of doubt it. I imagine it was closer to 2017. We know Gerald

00:17:38.720 Butts is the one running the government. He's the brains behind Justin Trudeau. I would be very

00:17:44.200 surprised if Eurasia Group had no contact with him prior to when they started dealing with him

00:17:49.720 after politics. So I'm here waiting outside of this building. I've called them several times. I've

00:17:55.240 called both their New York office and their DC office. Yeah, something fishy is going on here.

00:17:59.800 They don't want to answer any questions. Even after they told us to retract our article,

00:18:03.780 they're not explaining why. They're not giving us any information. I'm going to go walk in there

00:18:08.260 and see if I can go up to their floor and talk to them. Let's see if I can get through.

00:18:12.560 Hi. To sign in as a visitor for Eurasia Group. Just on here. You have women today? 1.00

00:18:27.420 No. I'm a reporter. Let me speak with them in regards to a story we're running.

00:18:33.540 Would you be able to ring them?

00:18:36.840 No. We don't have telephone number.

00:18:41.440 No, I guess I'm not surprised. I am, however, disappointed. We're not going to quit digging on

00:18:46.780 this file. This story is huge. Even though the liberal elite don't want us reporting on it,

00:18:53.060 they put us on public notice. I don't know what that means. Gerald Butts tweeted this earlier this

00:18:58.480 week. Just yesterday, actually, I think it was. I don't know what public notice means. I don't know

00:19:01.800 if it's a threat for a lawsuit or if this was just a dog whistle to the liberal party's leashed and

00:19:07.460 collared mainstream media. We all remember when Telford said that she could get anyone to write

00:19:12.800 any helpful office that the prime minister's office needed. Something fishy is going on here

00:19:18.700 at the Eurasia Group in New York. We're not sure what extent the relationship goes to with Gerald

00:19:24.760 Butts, but we're going to keep digging. We're going to keep filing ATIPS and we're going to get

00:19:28.700 to the bottom of this. Holy moly. So what do we know?

00:19:34.580 Well, we know that a group of New York consultants are getting rich off Canadian taxpayers. They

00:19:39.140 started getting rich off us in 2017 when Gerald Butts was in the PMO. Then Butts went to join them

00:19:45.780 for a soft landing when he resigned in disgrace. And the money kept coming. And you know what sole

00:19:50.840 source means, right? It means that no one is even allowed to say, oh, hi, we're a company in Canada

00:19:55.340 and we can do a better and cheaper job. No, no, no, no, no. This was going to the Eurasia 0.91

00:20:00.000 Group no matter what. It was going to them.

00:20:03.700 So we know they hate our report that Sheila did. We know they're issuing veiled threats.

00:20:07.420 I think that's what Butts is doing. We're not scared. We know our facts. In fact, we want

00:20:12.840 more answers to the questions that Kean was asking.

00:20:15.620 But that veiled threat? First notice. Second notice. I think that's enough to keep the media

00:20:23.840 party away from our story. Do you really think that Rosemary Barton of the CBC, look at the love

00:20:31.020 in her face. Do you really think she's going to ask Justin Trudeau about it? I mean, here she is

00:20:37.120 taking a photo with her platonic boyfriend. He's just not that into you, Rosemary. I'm sorry to tell

00:20:43.660 you. And here he is with Althea Raj, who's also taking a selfie with Trudeau with his tongue out.

00:20:51.680 He does that tongue out thing a lot. You know, I've got little kids. They do that too.

00:20:57.280 Now, I show you Rosemary Barton and Althea Raj because those two tough, hard-hitting journalists 0.57

00:21:04.580 are going to be amongst those moderating the leaders' debates. Yeah. They know not to misbehave

00:21:11.720 now that Gerald Butts has issued two public notices or they won't get to do fun things like

00:21:16.600 moderate the leaders' debates anymore. Bob Fyfe made the mistake of asking tough questions of

00:21:21.160 Trudeau about SNC-Levelin. And not only is he banned from moderating the debates, but so is the

00:21:26.140 Globe and Mail. Here's what the CBC has chosen to focus on. Instead, I'm not even kidding, as Sheila's

00:21:33.320 story was just tearing up the social media. CBC News Alert. I swear to God, look at that.

00:21:38.360 It's called a news. It's not just news. Alert, alert. Ga-goo-ga. Ga-goo-ga. Everybody,

00:21:44.300 battle stations, we have a news alert. Marriott International, the world's largest hotel chain,

00:21:51.880 will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and bath shell from its hotel

00:21:57.280 rooms worldwide by December 2020. They'll be replaced with larger bottles or wall-mounted

00:22:03.580 dispensers, depending on the hotel. This has been a public service emergency announcement

00:22:09.040 from CBC News. Ga-goo-ga. I swear to God, that is not a... We didn't make that up. That's not

00:22:17.280 Photoshop. I swear to God. Ga-goo-ga. Give me a big siren. 1.00

00:22:21.680 Okay. Warning. Warning. Ladies and gentlemen. Like, that's like, you know, on your cell phone

00:22:27.320 when you get those amber alerts, like everyone, oh, bam, bam, bam. Marriott Hotels has decided

00:22:34.300 that they're replacing little bottles of shampoo with big bottles of shampoo. We now return

00:22:38.780 you. That's CBC News, I swear to God. Hey, thanks, CBC News Alerts. I am glad you're alert

00:22:48.480 to what a U.S. hotel chain will do next year with their shampoo bottles.

00:22:56.380 But I get it. I absolutely, totally get it because they're not going to get in trouble

00:23:01.160 with Gerald Butts by reporting on shampoo bottles. Will they? Hey, guys, just don't call yourself

00:23:07.620 journalists anymore. You can use that adjective, government journalist, but please never, ever,

00:23:15.160 ever, ever, ever call yourself a journalist again, okay? Just be honest.

00:23:21.700 Hey, remember what Gerald Butts told Jody Wilson-Raybould? Remember when she said,

00:23:27.340 we can't have interference with the law? I'm sorry. I know you love that corrupt company

00:23:33.160 that paid bribes to Muammar Gaddafi. And there's a question. I mean, if SNC-Lavalin pays bribes

00:23:39.480 everywhere they go, like everywhere, I wonder if they ever paid a bribe to Gerald Butts, because

00:23:45.940 he sure likes taking money. I wonder if we'll ever know the answer to that. Anyways, so Jody

00:23:52.200 Wilson-Raybould said, no, no, no, I'm sorry, you can't interfere. And he said this, and I'm

00:23:55.940 quoting here, this is word for word what he said in reply. He told Jody Wilson-Raybould,

00:24:02.480 quote, there is no solution here that doesn't involve some interference, unquote. That's what

00:24:09.240 he said to Jody Wilson-Raybould. So the guy who pocketed more than a hundred grand just to move

00:24:14.760 down the road, the guy who okayed Trudeau's illegal secret vacation, the guy who quarterbacked the

00:24:23.460 illegal SNC-Lavalin campaign, he just happened to land himself at a consulting firm that just

00:24:30.840 happened to receive lavish payments from Trudeau's government both before and after he went there. 0.99

00:24:35.560 He's, he's corrupt. He's a Librano. And we're only starting to ask questions. I guess you could 1.00

00:24:43.860 say this video, that's my public notice to Gerald Butts. Stay with us for more.

00:25:00.840 Welcome back. Well, the hottest issue in the election campaign in October, it's not even

00:25:11.600 Labor Day. People are still in barbecue mode, but it inadvertently came when a social media mob led by

00:25:17.740 the CBC pressured Patterson Outdoor, that's a billboard company, into taking down signs by a

00:25:25.780 third party advertiser promoting Maxime Bernier's opposition to mass immigration. In a way, it's a

00:25:33.980 advertiser's dream come true. I don't know how many people would have seen those say no to mass

00:25:40.380 immigration billboards on their own driving by. Maybe tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands,

00:25:45.460 but surely millions saw it in the media brouhaha. But still, it's bad news to have censorship rule the

00:25:53.660 day on such an important topic. But wouldn't you know it, that there is something we need to talk

00:26:00.800 about with mass immigration. It's not just conservative pundits and conservative candidates

00:26:05.840 who think so. It seems some labor unions think so, at least the labor union representing Canada's

00:26:11.720 border police joining us now to talk about this. And a story she's written on the subject is our friend

00:26:17.160 Candace Malcolm, the founder of TNC.news. That's True North. Candace, great to see you again. How you doing?

00:26:24.400 Hi, I'm good, Ezra. Thanks for having me on. Oh, it's a pleasure. I've got your article here in

00:26:27.920 front of me from TNC.news. The headline is, Border Union Raises the Alarm on Lack of Resources to Deal

00:26:36.460 with Bogus Refugee Claims. So that's not some conservative candidate or Maxime Bernier. That's 0.59

00:26:42.100 the labor union representing the people whose job it is to stop the bad guys from coming in.

00:26:48.300 Yeah, that's right. These are the frontline workers, Ezra, that have to deal with this huge surge of illegal

00:26:53.080 immigration happening in our country every single day, day in and day out. So Jean-Pierre

00:26:57.240 Fortune, who is the union boss over there, he's flat out saying what's going on, which is that

00:27:02.600 when people enter Canada illegally, a lot of the times they simply disappear. And it's the job of 1.00

00:27:08.280 the Canadian Border Service Agency, CBSA, to track these people down and deport them. But they simply

00:27:14.460 don't have the resources. $90 million was spent in a single year back in 2015. That was before this

00:27:20.560 huge surge. We don't know what the current spending rate is, Ezra, but it's astronomical. And we just

00:27:27.540 don't have the resources to deal with the tens of thousands of people who are walking into Canada 1.00

00:27:31.720 illegally every year. Yeah, one of the startling things that I don't think most Canadians know

00:27:37.100 is that all these fake refugees, all these fake applicants, whose very first act, by the way, 1.00

00:27:43.000 is breaking the law by crossing an illegal border crossing where there's a big sign saying it's illegal.

00:27:47.900 I think one of the things that surprises people is while they're waiting for their day in court,

00:27:53.960 the Immigration and Refugee Board, they're allowed to go anywhere. They don't have to check in. They

00:27:58.380 don't have to be wearing an anklet or something. Now, some countries like Australia, if you show up

00:28:03.900 in some migrant vessel, they'll seize you, take you to an island, give you medical care, give you food,

00:28:11.280 you'll be fine. And you will not get to go to Sydney or Melbourne or Canberra. You have to stay

00:28:17.760 on this little island. They got Christmas Island. And if you're found to be a legit refugee, 1.00

00:28:23.220 they'll send you to a little country called Nauru that's safe. And they pay Nauru like 50 grand to

00:28:29.560 take you. But you will not get to go to Sydney. And everybody knows that now. You won't be thrown

00:28:35.600 back to some terrible place. Odds are you're a faker. So that's how Australia does it. We sort 0.95

00:28:40.840 of take the exact opposite approach, don't we? We let them go straight to Toronto, Montreal,

00:28:44.260 let them go straight to welfare, food banks, hospital lines, whatever, don't we?

00:28:48.140 Exactly. You couldn't have two polar opposite approaches to immigration as we're at Australia.

00:28:52.560 They put out huge posters everywhere saying you will not call Australia home. Do not make the

00:28:57.440 dangerous journey. Don't try to get here illegally. It's unsafe and there's no benefit whatsoever to 1.00

00:29:02.720 doing it. And as you just explained, they have a very restrictive protocol to dealing with these

00:29:07.660 folks. Whereas Canada literally has the opposite approach. We have our prime minister tweeting away

00:29:11.900 on social media saying, you know, come to Canada. Welcome to Canada. Canada is your home. And basically

00:29:16.840 encouraging people to take the often dangerous journey. We've had people sadly pass away in the

00:29:23.620 cold winters trying to cross illegally across border fields and ditches in Minnesota and in upstate New

00:29:30.100 York. People, as soon as they cross into the Canadian border, it's like they're home free.

00:29:34.880 They get a free card to stay. They wait in queue for that immigration hearing. Because of the huge

00:29:40.200 surge that we have experienced, thanks to Justin Trudeau on social media, it takes years, Ezra, to get

00:29:46.400 your case heard in front of an immigration judge. And then even if you're rejected, you then still have

00:29:53.600 to wait. There was a CBC report that came out a few months ago that said the majority of people who have

00:29:58.200 their applicants rejected. So these are not refugees. They're fake refugees. They don't 1.00

00:30:02.800 leave on their own. They wait for the CBSA to come and deport them. Ezra, only 900 people have

00:30:08.680 been deported in the last three years under Justin Trudeau. So it's such a small number when you compare

00:30:13.300 that to the 150 some thousand people who have come illegally. 900 have been deported. The rest of

00:30:19.240 the people, as the CBSA is declaring now, they disappear. They just, you know, get absorbed. They

00:30:25.440 go to Toronto or Vancouver and, you know, they continue to live with an illegal status.

00:30:30.840 So if I heard you right on the numbers, if you're a fake refugee, even if you're found to be fake, 0.62

00:30:36.720 even if you have your day in court years after arriving and lose, there's a 99% chance you'll stick

00:30:45.000 around if you, if I heard you right. Did I hear you right on the numbers there? 150,000, but 900

00:30:51.060 deported. Is that right? Well, so 150,000 have come into the, into Canada since Trudeau has been

00:30:57.360 prime minister. They haven't all had their day in court yet. But of the ones who have had their day

00:31:01.400 in court, only, only about 900 have been deported. So, you know, the, the, the message is really clear,

00:31:07.100 Ezra. If you come to Canada, there's pretty much nothing we can do to get you out of the country. 0.92

00:31:10.580 Once you're here, you're here and you can, you even have access to things that Canadian citizens

00:31:14.600 have access to like appeals. You can appeal the decision. You can, you can get another day in

00:31:19.120 court. You know, it's really just sort of an endless, uh, you know, conveyor belt to the

00:31:23.640 Canadian immigration system that just gives you chance after chance after chance. And then even

00:31:27.440 then you can still give a humanitarian plea saying, look, I've made a family in Canada and I have roots

00:31:32.620 here now. Don't deport me. So the chances of someone ever getting deported are just incredibly slim,

00:31:38.060 given the system that we have. We're such a nation of suckers. And it's because Justin Trudeau 0.99

00:31:42.880 wants to virtue signal, but not out of his own pocket, not out of his own bank account, not out

00:31:47.320 of his own house. He wants taxpayers to foot the, to clear the checks at his mouth. Uh, he, he, you

00:31:53.840 know, he writes a check with his mouth and we got to cash it. You know, I learned something from your

00:31:58.540 article that startled me, but I, it shouldn't have. Uh, let me read from your article on TNC.news.

00:32:05.880 It is believed that approximately 400 Mexican cartel members have gained access to the country

00:32:13.520 since prime minister Justin Trudeau lifted visa requirements for Mexico. There's a reason we have 1.00

00:32:20.800 a visa requirement from Mexico. It's, you know, because we can learn that millions of Mexicans

00:32:27.300 want to go to Canada, the United States. And if we don't have a visa, they're going to do the same

00:32:31.740 thing to Canada that they did to California. I just didn't know we had 400 cartel members.

00:32:35.720 That's like MS-13. That's like the drug gangs, right? Right. And they're making their way to

00:32:40.420 Canada. There's a huge market for selling narcotics up in Canada. And you know, it makes sense. We used

00:32:45.100 to have protocols. We used to have a system in place. So if you were coming from Mexico to Canada, 0.97

00:32:49.360 you had to apply for a visa beforehand. You had to demonstrate that you were only coming to visit

00:32:54.360 Canada, that you weren't going to stay, you weren't going to make an asylum claim and that you

00:32:57.700 weren't inadmissible for criminal reasons. So we would have data sharing with Mexico,

00:33:02.240 we would be able to look at a database and see if a person was a criminal. And Trudeau inexplicably

00:33:07.340 as a scrap that measure for no good reason, other than the fact that he was buddies with the Mexican

00:33:13.640 president down there. And all of a sudden, we had this huge surge, a huge, huge surge of Mexicans

00:33:19.640 doing just that showing up unannounced. We don't know who these folks are making asylum claims. And 0.89

00:33:24.920 you know, it's no surprise that amidst the people who are desperately trying to flee,

00:33:29.680 they're trying to escape violence in Mexico, you're also going to have some of the people

00:33:32.840 who are promoting that violence. These drug cartel members that are moving up to Canada,

00:33:36.640 they have, you know, a big audience of people who might be interested in buying drugs up there.

00:33:42.580 And, you know, it's no surprise that these people are nefarious characters are sneaking in.

00:33:47.520 And, you know, these are the worst of the worst people. We don't have the measures in place,

00:33:51.440 unfortunately, anymore to stop that. Yeah, you know, if I was a Mexican and I wanted to flee

00:33:56.420 the country and go to some rich place with lots of health care and education, I'd probably think

00:34:03.100 of California first. There's so many other Mexicans there. Lots of people speak the language. The

00:34:08.220 climate is even similar. But at least they sort of have a border force that's sort of deporting you.

00:34:15.420 Canada is colder. There's not as many Mexicans up here. But I guess what I'm learning from your 1.00

00:34:21.060 article is you get here, you're safe and sound. So if you're willing to put up with a little bit

00:34:27.400 of cold winters, basically all of Mexico would come here because, I mean, what's so incredible

00:34:32.160 about your article is that these border security agents, they can't even determine the nationality

00:34:39.980 of these people. It's just chaos and lawlessness. And this isn't a secret. This is how Trudeau wants

00:34:50.480 it to be. Like, this isn't some startling revelation. This isn't some bug. This is what

00:34:55.780 Trudeau considers to be a feature of our system. Like, this isn't an accident. This is the plan.

00:35:02.040 Right. And he's doubled down on it many, many times. You know, the day that he sent out that

00:35:05.920 welcome to Canada tweet, it was right after President Trump had issued his executive order

00:35:10.140 banning people from seven countries that were terrorist havens. And Trudeau virtue signaling

00:35:15.900 said, you know, regardless of who you are, what faith you have, you can come to Canada.

00:35:20.100 You know, that wasn't an outlier. That wasn't just him, you know, making a mistake and trying

00:35:24.800 to get publicity. They repeated that message over and over and over again. And, you know, as a result,

00:35:30.580 people are coming to Canada. Half the people who arrive in British Columbia to make asylum

00:35:34.420 claims, they're of unknown nationalities. And so that just means that these people don't have

00:35:38.520 any documentation. They don't have passports. They say, oh, I'm from Mexico. But we don't know

00:35:43.120 that. They could be from anywhere. They could be from anywhere in Latin America or anywhere in the

00:35:46.800 world. And it happens over and over again, half the cases. And so, you know, if you were a person who

00:35:52.340 had a red flag on your file, Ezra, if you were a known, wanted criminal, war criminal, terrorist,

00:35:58.580 drug dealer, you know, we've seen all these people come to Canada. You know, you just get rid of your

00:36:02.500 passport on the way. And it's a lot harder for our officials to actually track you down and find

00:36:09.240 out who you are. Maybe give maybe that would give you enough time, a window to get out of the

00:36:14.000 holding center. And then as JP Fortune, the CBSA boss said, disappear because you know that you

00:36:20.600 wouldn't be wanted in Canada. So, you know, it really is just a chaotic mess at our borders right

00:36:25.640 now. It's taxpayers that are putting the bill. It's CBSA frontline officials that are paying the price

00:36:30.520 of having to deal with this chaos. And, you know, Trudeau is riding high, completely oblivious

00:36:35.780 or carefree. He doesn't worry about this kind of stuff. You know, it's the rest of us that have

00:36:40.700 to sit and worry about it. Yeah. You know, almost every day I see news out of the United States that

00:36:44.940 an illegal alien who was supposed to be deported commits a murder or a rape. There's so many down

00:36:50.780 there. In some counties, the majority of rape cases are illegal immigrants. It's a shocking 0.99

00:36:57.260 narrative in the United States because of the sheer number. We really haven't had a lot

00:37:02.180 of those cases in Canada yet. There's the case of Marissa Shan in Burnaby, who was allegedly raped

00:37:10.200 by one of Trudeau's Syrians, one of the Syrians who wasn't supposed to be let in. He was a single

00:37:15.200 young male who weren't supposed to be included in his refugee plans. Fortunately, we haven't had a lot 1.00

00:37:23.240 of those cases. But I fear that if we're letting in tens of thousands of people and we're not even

00:37:28.800 kicking out the ones who come and obviously lie about, oh, I don't have a passport, we're going to

00:37:34.260 start seeing those crimes, too. I tell you, I mentioned Australia before. If you were to land on a beach

00:37:39.580 in Australia with no passport, the default is send you back. It's not let you in. And they know that in 0.88

00:37:44.720 Australia. That's why they don't go there as much. But they also know we're a soft touch. I think that

00:37:49.500 I really don't know what's different between Justin Trudeau's policy and the policy of someone

00:37:55.240 who deliberately was trying to undo Canada. I don't see any difference between the two.

00:38:00.400 Yeah, I tend to agree. I think that this is sort of, you know, there's something deeper and darker

00:38:04.520 here that Trudeau doesn't really respect what it means to be Canadian. He doesn't think there's

00:38:08.420 anything special about Canada or being Canadian. And he just wants to lead this, you know, big,

00:38:13.400 diverse hodgepodge of people. He likes, you know, virtue signaling on the world stage that Canada is so

00:38:19.440 diverse and that there's so many people that live side by side. But, you know, the only reason that

00:38:23.740 works, Ezra, is because we have a social compact and we have that, you know, shared values underneath

00:38:29.020 and that unity. And when Trudeau just, you know, brazenly opens up the door and lets anyone in and

00:38:34.600 doesn't require people to learn English, to live in Canada full time, even, he gives out citizenship

00:38:40.220 very quickly, changed all those rules. You know, he's really breaking down and undermining

00:38:46.880 that Canadian unity and what it means to be Canadian. He doesn't value it. And, you know,

00:38:51.420 sooner or later, there's not going to be that glue that holds our society together when there's just

00:38:55.360 all of these isolated silo groups that don't have anything in common and they don't share a Canadian

00:39:00.140 identity. They don't even share a language. They don't know the history. It really, it's really

00:39:05.340 concerning. And, you know, what is Canada going to look like 30, 40, 50 years down the road when we have

00:39:10.500 this mentality? You know, this guy is going to continue to run our country and do this for another

00:39:15.280 four years. It's really scary to imagine what might happen to Canada.

00:39:19.820 Yeah. You know, I talk sometimes about a high trust society versus a low trust society. I've

00:39:25.660 been to Northern Iraq and I have seen firsthand what a low trust society means. It means you trust no

00:39:30.500 one. In fact, there's a saying, me versus my brother, me and my brother versus my cousin,

00:39:37.140 me, my brother and my cousin against the other family, me and that other family against the other 0.69

00:39:42.240 like, it's so you're so distrustful. Everyone's out to get everyone. As Hobbes would say, it's a war

00:39:48.340 of all against all. And that's a low trust society. That's a terrible place. Here in Canada, we're a

00:39:55.160 high trust society. We, we give food away for free because we assume you're not going to take it if

00:40:00.180 you don't, if you're not poor. But so many of our customs, so many of like the fact that we trust

00:40:06.060 that a young woman can go out on the street and ride a bus without being sexually assaulted.

00:40:10.940 That's a high trust society. You trust other people and you bring in enough low trust society

00:40:16.520 people into a high trust society. They're going to raid us clean. They're going to wring us out

00:40:24.300 and we're going to be like Sweden is. Perhaps the highest trust society in the world that has just

00:40:30.080 been overwhelmed by scammers and schemers. I'm so pessimistic, Candace. Let me ask you about the

00:40:35.500 election. Other than Maxime Bernier and his ill-fated billboard, I don't see anyone wanting

00:40:42.320 to talk about these issues. Even Andrew Scheer, the best he'll say is, oh, we should have a more

00:40:46.820 orderly system. He's not talking about any changes to the system.

00:40:52.080 Well, I like to think that, you know, one, if a conservative, either Bernier or Scheer were elected

00:40:57.840 and stepped into the immigration department and saw the sort of mess that had been created,

00:41:02.000 we know that when Syrian refugees were coming to Canada, the Trudeau government just skipped all

00:41:06.340 kinds of important integration and sort of welcome to Canada workshops that migrants are supposed to

00:41:11.440 go to, refugees are supposed to go to, you know, that kind of stuff. I think that if you had a 1.00

00:41:15.900 conservative in there that cared about Canadian values and cared about, you know, the future of

00:41:20.380 our country, they would just need to, you know, rework that and make sure that when people are coming

00:41:25.960 to Canada, they do go through that integration training and that we are more careful of who we let

00:41:30.860 into our country, who we screen, how we screen and how we vet people. Just, you know, because some

00:41:36.940 people come, like you said, these low-trust societies, if you come from a place where everyone

00:41:40.980 cheats, no one follows the rules, no one respects order or the rule of law, and you come to Canada,

00:41:46.160 you know, you can't just expect overnight for them to suddenly respect institutions and the rule of

00:41:50.440 law. You know, as far as the election goes, I think it's an incredibly important election. I think

00:41:54.860 anyone in office would be better than what the Trudeau liberals have done in their approach,

00:41:58.900 especially to citizenship and immigration. So I do believe that any other party, any other

00:42:04.480 government would be a big improvement to what Trudeau is doing here. Well, I hope you're right.

00:42:09.380 I don't see any backbone in Andrew Scheer, but my conservative, listen, I'm conservative in a small

00:42:14.180 C way, and obviously I want Trudeau out of there. I just wish we had a little more courage in our

00:42:18.720 leader of the opposition. I won't ask you that partisan question, though, my friend. Great to see you

00:42:23.480 again, and I recommend this article and I recommend everything at tnc.news. We talked to your colleague

00:42:30.660 Andrew Lawton just earlier today, and we think you're doing great work. So thanks for coming on

00:42:34.240 our show. Great. Thanks so much, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Our friend Candice Malcolm,

00:42:38.140 the founder of tnc.news and a great expert in matters of immigration. Stay with us. More Ahead on the Rebel.

00:42:53.480 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about Macron and Trudeau attacking Jair Bolsonaro Brazil

00:43:03.060 over the fires in the Amazon. Liz writes, Macron is a kook. He and Justin are trying to make hay 0.88

00:43:08.840 out of the Amazon fire season. Awesome that Bolsonaro told them to take care of their own business.

00:43:14.380 Yeah, I mean, it's so easy to be a pundit and criticize someone else's country,

00:43:23.040 that's not just for the fun of it, just for the sport of it. And I suppose some people would say,

00:43:28.660 well, that's what Donald Trump does. I don't think so. Anytime Donald Trump is jabbing or pushing or

00:43:34.280 pulling, you can sort of see he's trying to get something, trying to pursue some American interest,

00:43:39.740 I think. Maybe I'm apologizing for the guy. But if he's jabbing a country, maybe he wants them to

00:43:45.360 change their policy on something. What's the payoff for Trudeau and Macron to jab Brazil? What's the payoff?

00:43:53.420 Do they really think he's not doing everything he can do to put up the fires? So what French 1.00

00:43:58.980 interest, what Canadian interest is being pursued? When Trump roughs someone up, if it's an ally,

00:44:05.260 he's trying to get them to spend more on the military or do a trade deal. If it's an enemy,

00:44:09.320 he's trying to put them in their place, as he does with China. He's at least pursuing America's 0.95

00:44:14.200 interest. I do not understand what is in the French interest or the Canadian interest of sneering at

00:44:20.960 Brazil, other than, like I say, virtue signaling by those two losers. And he writes, 0.99

00:44:27.120 ever since the Yellow Jacket protests and Notre Dame burning on his watch, Macron has reverted to

00:44:31.640 stunts to make himself important on the world stage, like springing the Iranian minister on the G7

00:44:36.880 summit. Yeah, I wouldn't even call that a stunt. I'd call that just pure ideological leftism,

00:44:44.680 third worldism. So yeah, maybe that was a stunt to embarrass Trump. I think that's just who Macron

00:44:50.380 is. And there's a real tradition in France and other European countries of taking bribes from

00:44:55.860 third world countries. It's just a fact. Dan writes, very informative interview with Julia Song.

00:45:03.720 Hey, Dan, I'm glad you think so. I'm glad you think so. She's fairly young, which is good. I mean,

00:45:08.800 everyone's young compared to me. I like her. I mean, she's got a good attitude. She likes freedom.

00:45:14.860 I think she's getting stronger. I thought she might have had some more technical answers,

00:45:20.120 but maybe she was just speaking from the heart. I'm a fan. I'm a fan of hers. I'm glad you liked

00:45:23.740 her. It's good to get feedback. We'll have her on more. I think she could get a better webcam,

00:45:29.080 frankly, a little clearer, but I'll tell her that advice privately. But no, I'm a fan of hers too.

00:45:32.980 I'm glad you are. We'll have to have her on, especially since we care about Brazil more and more, 0.88

00:45:36.360 because we like what Jair Bolsonaro is doing. Obrigado. All right. Well, that's the show for

00:45:42.220 today. I dropped a couple of words in Portuguese there, if you didn't notice. Until next time,

00:45:48.080 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, keep fighting for freedom.

00:46:06.360 You're welcome.

00:46:12.120 You're welcome.

00:46:12.220 You're welcome.

00:46:20.160 You're welcome.

00:46:20.220 I'm glad you to be with us.

00:46:22.140 You're welcome.

00:46:23.540 It's nice to see what you say.

00:46:24.140 You're welcome.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 30, 2019

SCOOP： Trudeau’s best friend Gerald Butts is in the centre of another ethics scandal, involving hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars

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