Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID： The Russian scare of the Freedom Convoy is debunked again, this time by the Justice Department

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00:02:18.320 The Liberals' claims about the Freedom Convoy being some sort of Kremlin operation continue

00:02:25.080 to be debunked, this time by the government's own bureaucrats.

00:02:29.780 It's December 14th, 2022.

00:02:32.220 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:02:35.420 We're fighting for freedom!

00:02:38.520 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:02:50.440 Another lie about the Freedom Convoy falls apart, and with it, yet another excuse to invoke

00:02:56.500 the Emergencies Act falls apart simultaneously, too.

00:03:00.540 I will never not use this next clip at every opportunity I have.

00:03:06.680 It's of a CBC tinfoil hat kook accusing the working-class uprising of the anti-vaccine mandate

00:03:13.360 Freedom Convoy of being some sort of Kremlin operation, and as always with the CBC, you paid

00:03:19.560 for it all.

00:03:20.360 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with

00:03:27.140 Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors

00:03:33.800 could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating

00:03:39.940 it from the outset.

00:03:41.580 Now, that CBC contributor, Wackadoo, made that allegation up out of whole cloth, and the

00:03:47.560 CBC had to retract not one, but two stories accusing the Freedom Convoy of being foreign-funded,

00:03:54.120 but still it was, the insane groundwork the Trudeau Liberals needed to invoke a counter-terrorism

00:04:00.360 law, the Emergencies Act, on the truckers and supporters of the Freedom Convoy last February

00:04:06.240 after the Liberals ran out of patience with the boisterous, weeks-long demonstration against

00:04:12.040 COVID restrictions.

00:04:13.460 But let's just stop here for a quick second.

00:04:16.140 Because the Liberals, as I'll inform you here, aren't actually against foreign funding of

00:04:22.580 activism.

00:04:23.640 They're against foreign funding of activism for causes they don't like.

00:04:28.200 The Liberals put a stop to the audit of environmental charities who were credibly accused of taking

00:04:34.980 American money to block Canadian pipelines.

00:04:38.460 The Liberals did that in 2017.

00:04:40.280 And it's something the Allen Inquiry in Alberta was able to confirm, that foreign-funded activism

00:04:46.200 was harming the Canadian economy.

00:04:48.580 But now, even the Liberals' own government bureaucrats admit there was no substantial Russian funding

00:04:56.060 to the Freedom Convoy.

00:04:57.580 Look at this.

00:04:58.200 It's from Black Locks.

00:05:00.240 On the government's submissions to the Public Order Emergency Commission, and that is the

00:05:05.500 official examination into the government's use of that counter-terrorism law.

00:05:09.480 The Emergencies Act.

00:05:11.500 The Department of Justice yesterday acknowledged Russia had no involvement in the Freedom Convoy.

00:05:17.960 False claims of large amounts of foreign funding and disinformation by Russian agents were

00:05:24.500 not supported by any proof.

00:05:26.800 Government lawyers wrote the Public Order Emergency Commission.

00:05:31.360 There was no evidence foreign state actors or foreign governments were conducting any disinformation

00:05:38.500 campaign against Canada in relation to the convoy.

00:05:41.800 Federal lawyers wrote, in closing submissions to the commission, multiple messages in support

00:05:48.880 of the Freedom Convoy emanated from individuals believed to be located outside Canada, wrote lawyers,

00:05:55.680 as though that's some kind of crime.

00:05:57.780 Certain sectors of the American political sphere amplified elements of the convoy emergency.

00:06:03.920 Cabinet had repeatedly pointed to foreign involvement as justification for invoking the Emergencies

00:06:10.300 Act against Parliament Hill protesters.

00:06:13.140 CBC reported, I believe, on the 14th of February or the 13th of February, that there was foreign

00:06:19.340 funding.

00:06:20.400 Attorney General David Lamedi testified April 26th at the Joint Committee on the Declaration

00:06:26.200 of Emergency.

00:06:27.200 But the thing about the Emergencies Act is that you just can't whip it out for bouncy

00:06:33.380 castles, extended traffic snarls and peaceful anti-regime protesters who are committing the

00:06:39.880 crime of embarrassing you internationally and ultimately inspiring the world to do the same

00:06:44.740 with their own tyrannical governments.

00:06:46.860 The Emergencies Act has never been used before, not even for 9-11, not for mass murders or killings,

00:06:52.940 not for even attempted terror plots.

00:06:56.100 It has a very high bar for invocation.

00:07:00.140 And that's by design.

00:07:01.720 The threat to Canada to invoke the Emergencies Act has to rise to Section 2 of the CSIS Act.

00:07:07.400 And Section 2B reads that a threat to Canada can mean foreign-influenced activities within

00:07:15.620 or relating to Canada that are detrimental to the interests of Canada and are clandestine

00:07:22.360 or deceptive or involve a threat to any person.

00:07:27.160 I guess there was none of that, though, and the government knew it.

00:07:30.620 David Lamedi's own people knew it, even though he was saying something totally different in

00:07:36.700 public and basing his speculation on CBC's flawed reporting.

00:07:40.080 And let's not forget about how extreme that non-existent foreign threat was beyond the 0.83

00:07:46.860 alleged foreign financing and alleged foreign manipulation and alleged foreign organizing

00:07:53.120 of the convoy that did not whatsoever exist.

00:07:56.380 If you asked the Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and his equally inept colleague,

00:08:02.220 the Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, the man who actually oversaw the explosion

00:08:07.260 of illegal gun violence during his tenure as Toronto Police Chief, the Border Guards.

00:08:12.160 The CBSA, those two guys said they needed additional tools to be able to stop, I guess,

00:08:19.060 a reverse war of 1812 from happening.

00:08:22.560 You see, instead of Canadians rushing the White House to burn it down like what happened two 0.87

00:08:26.860 centuries ago, Americans, drunk on January 6th frenzy, would be coming here to join the

00:08:34.460 Freedom Convoy to cause mayhem in the streets of the orderly nation's capital. 0.58

00:08:39.620 Those streets are normally occupied by civilized, boring, work-at-home federal bureaucrats who 1.00

00:08:45.280 value their peace and quiet, so I'm told.

00:08:48.020 Except that also was not true.

00:08:51.680 Look at this again from Blacklock's reporter.

00:08:54.400 Only two Freedom Convoy sympathizers were intercepted at the border under the Emergencies Act, according

00:09:03.180 to Secret Cabinet Committee Minutes.

00:09:06.700 The Canada Border Services Agency, that's the CBSA, claimed it needed emergency powers to

00:09:12.160 keep out American neo-Nazis.

00:09:15.540 Canada Border Services Agency reported they have had limited use of the Emergencies Act,

00:09:21.780 having only turned two individuals away from ports of entry under the new authority to

00:09:28.820 do so, read confidential minutes of a February 20th meeting.

00:09:33.980 Canada has 117 land crossings.

00:09:37.160 The Act allowed the agency to prohibit Americans from crossing the border into Canada to attend

00:09:43.300 what became the illegal assembly under the Act.

00:09:46.980 It is unclear police have these powers under common law, the Department of Public Safety

00:09:53.080 wrote in a March 24 memo.

00:09:55.620 The Emergencies Act provided additional authority that had a direct influence on protest participants,

00:10:02.220 although I guessed just two of them.

00:10:04.220 Neither the Public Safety Department nor Border Services Agency publicly disclosed only two American

00:10:11.420 protesters were intercepted.

00:10:12.920 John Ozoski, now retired agency president, avoided mention, isn't that convenient, of details

00:10:20.060 in November 16th testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission.

00:10:24.880 Was it your understanding many U.S. or foreign nationals were coming into the country to participate

00:10:30.720 in the protest, asked lawyer Alexander Hine, counsel for the commission.

00:10:35.660 We turned away people that intended to come and participate in the protest, replied Ozoski.

00:10:43.040 There was no ability for us to stop people from coming in and foreign nationals from coming 0.98

00:10:49.540 in to participate in that protest if they were otherwise able to enter, if they met all other

00:10:55.440 Quarantine Act requirements, testified Ozoski.

00:10:59.000 We identified that as a gap, he said.

00:11:01.140 Except there were just two people, just two people, not people, only two.

00:11:07.100 That information probably would have been relevant to his testimony, to the size of that so-called

00:11:14.360 gap in powers, to use his language, right?

00:11:17.100 You know, just suspend all the civil liberties of all Canadians, seize bank accounts of protesters,

00:11:23.380 and for what?

00:11:24.760 Two Americans with obviously no criminal records because they otherwise met all the entry requirements,

00:11:30.840 to come into Canada, and who were coming here to what?

00:11:34.500 Look upon a street party?

00:11:36.300 Gee, thanks.

00:11:37.500 Thanks for stopping that terrorism from happening, guys.

00:11:40.660 Now maybe, maybe, I can direct you people to do something to deal with the constant influx 0.98

00:11:46.420 of illegal border crossers just walking into the country at Roxham Road?

00:11:50.980 Maybe?

00:11:51.700 The government never has its priorities straight, do they?

00:11:56.220 Stay with us.

00:11:57.020 True North's Cosmin Georgia joins us after the break.

00:12:00.840 Go broke, as they say, but that's not entirely true if you're a member of the mainstream media

00:12:15.760 here in Canada.

00:12:16.500 You can go as woke as you want and as broke as you want, and you can just go jangling hat

00:12:21.080 in hand to Justin Trudeau's Liberals.

00:12:22.920 Chorus Entertainment last week published a sustainability report, and it's not just sustainability with

00:12:31.180 regard to environmentalism and those goals, but also with regard to diversity.

00:12:37.360 And this company, Chorus, it's been going broke for a very long time, but that's fine because

00:12:42.800 Justin Trudeau has all of your money to give them.

00:12:45.520 Joining me now to discuss his expose into Chorus Entertainment's new woke policies is Cosmin Georgia

00:12:54.360 from True North.

00:12:55.980 Cosmin, thanks for joining us, and thanks for your careful eye to these sorts of crazy stories.

00:13:02.840 What does their sustainability policy, what does it entail?

00:13:08.040 Well, thanks for having me, Sheila.

00:13:11.920 So this report, it's an annual report that Chorus Entertainment has produced, I think, for

00:13:18.960 a few years now.

00:13:20.620 Now, for those of you who don't know, Chorus Entertainment owns a bunch of media companies,

00:13:26.780 both in terms of producing TV shows, but they also own Global News, which is a major news

00:13:33.640 provider here in Canada.

00:13:34.940 Now, this report essentially sets out to align all of these subsidiaries of Chorus along what

00:13:45.980 are called Environmental Social Development Goals.

00:13:50.260 Now, these are closely borrowed from the United Nations, which has SDG goals, and they've promoted

00:13:57.940 that worldwide, both in the private and public sector.

00:14:00.960 So this is an attempt to essentially align behind this ideological perspective.

00:14:08.080 Now, what does that mean in practice?

00:14:09.820 That means giving employees diversity, equity training, inclusion training, subjecting them 1.00

00:14:17.560 to carbon tracking, etc.

00:14:20.520 So it's a sort of grab bag of this environmental progressive left ideology subjected on what

00:14:30.780 is a private company from the top down.

00:14:33.980 Yeah, this is really just, you know, the, I don't want to say the CBC-ification of Global

00:14:40.080 News, but really that is what it is at the end of the day.

00:14:42.860 And I don't think people really understand just how big Global News is.

00:14:48.740 They are very difficult to avoid if you're consuming any sort of Canadian media, because

00:14:53.820 not only do they own Global News, but they also own so many of the local news stations

00:14:59.480 that are on old-fashioned terrestrial radio.

00:15:02.520 That's for sure.

00:15:05.400 I believe media in Canada is owned, 80% of the media in this country is owned by a handful

00:15:12.220 of companies, very wealthy Canadian families and individuals control most of the media narrative

00:15:19.400 in Canada.

00:15:21.420 So it's concerning to see when you have all of these companies uniting under this umbrella

00:15:28.420 and going in the exact same direction, which is a progressively woke direction, and you

00:15:35.440 see it in their reporting.

00:15:37.200 I mean, we saw it with coverage from Global News on the Freedom Convoy.

00:15:41.940 We see it with their coverage of conservative leader Pierre Polyev.

00:15:47.020 It's very troubling from a media observation perspective to see this monopoly that's being formed

00:15:56.300 in this country.

00:15:57.140 Yeah, it's almost like a re-education camp for the employees of Global News so that their

00:16:05.500 viewpoints are nearly completely homogenous if they know what's good for them.

00:16:09.820 Now, I want to talk to you about just how diverse Global News really is, because when I saw your

00:16:16.220 article, it just piqued my curiosity because they have this focus on diversity.

00:16:20.580 And so I thought, who's running the show down there?

00:16:24.960 Definitely not a person that the mainstream media or the wokesters would consider a diversity

00:16:33.000 hire.

00:16:33.760 The CEO of Global News is Doug Murphy.

00:16:36.040 And it's my understanding he's a middle-aged white guy based on what I can find out about

00:16:42.940 him on the news.

00:16:45.440 But at the end of the day, regardless of his ethnic background, and I don't really care 0.96

00:16:52.260 about those things, but the left tells me they do.

00:16:54.160 I care about his success.

00:16:58.620 And as it would turn out, he's overseen the decrease in stock value over at Chorus of about

00:17:07.260 80 percent over the past five years.

00:17:09.860 And so instead of focusing on fixing that and making this a profitable company, that doesn't

00:17:14.560 really seem to be the focus of what's happening at Chorus whatsoever.

00:17:17.700 And it's interesting that it's called a sustainability report, but the question remains, what are they

00:17:26.400 actually sustaining here?

00:17:28.200 Are they sustaining their business practices, their profitability, you know, their responsibility

00:17:35.900 to shareholders?

00:17:37.680 Are they sustaining their responsibility to Canadian viewers who need quality journalism?

00:17:45.100 And look, you know, Global News has produced some very fine journalism.

00:17:50.280 I know here in British Columbia, they covered the money laundering situation.

00:17:56.460 They've recently done some great reporting on the Chinese interference.

00:18:01.520 So I feel really bad for some of the journalists there who have veteran journalists, quite frankly, who

00:18:07.960 have spent their careers putting out excellent work.

00:18:11.320 And now this company is getting them tangled up in, you know, Stalinistic ideological sweat

00:18:18.780 sessions instead of letting these very brave journalists do their work, do the reporting

00:18:24.320 that this country needs and hold the government to account.

00:18:27.660 You know, that is true that there are some really great journalists left in mainstream media.

00:18:31.460 When I hear about Chorus, I always think, how do we get Roy Green out of there?

00:18:35.420 How do we airlift that poor man out of that company?

00:18:38.260 But the remaining good journalists there, their good work is tainted by these policies, but

00:18:46.300 also the bailouts.

00:18:47.940 So, you know, that was one thing you noted in your piece was this company is losing money

00:18:52.920 instead of focusing on fixing that problem.

00:18:56.440 The guy who's responsible for the loss in share price seems to not be facing any consequences.

00:19:03.360 In a normal company, that guy might get fired.

00:19:05.300 But instead of fixing it, they just go hat in hand to the federal government and demand

00:19:12.140 more money.

00:19:12.880 And they will get it as long as they publish news that is favorable with regard to the liberals.

00:19:20.660 Right.

00:19:21.300 It's an interesting situation because global news, well, Chorus is essentially going to the

00:19:28.840 government right now asking to be included in the $600 media bailout.

00:19:35.760 Now, that bailout was some adjustments to the Income Tax Act, which allowed print publications

00:19:44.520 to tap into that taxpayer funding.

00:19:48.040 Now, that excludes broadcasters like Global News and various radio subsidiaries, of Chorus.

00:19:56.740 So now they want to get in on that party.

00:20:00.460 So it makes me wonder, are these sustainability reports a means for them to curry favor with

00:20:07.100 the government, saying, look, hey, we're making these changes that are obviously very much endorsed

00:20:15.800 and loved by the liberal government.

00:20:19.600 Can you let us in on this big cash grab?

00:20:23.160 You know, that's a great point that, you know, it appears as though Chorus is aligning themselves

00:20:30.480 or their company goals with that of the government, as you say, to, you know, be able to prove

00:20:38.460 to the government, give us some money.

00:20:40.640 We're doing all these good things that you really like and we're reporting favorably on

00:20:44.640 you and not your scandals.

00:20:46.860 Wouldn't that be great if you would give us some money?

00:20:48.420 But, you know, this is just the media bailout for print, but there are other ways that broadcasters

00:20:56.280 in this country get their hands on federal cash.

00:20:59.300 And some of it was through the COVID bailouts.

00:21:02.260 You know, they got wage subsidies to support themselves during COVID as though the news ever

00:21:08.100 stopped.

00:21:09.020 You know, that was a little strange.

00:21:10.820 And, you know, there are also grants that are given to publishers for things like climate

00:21:20.720 change journalism.

00:21:22.020 You know, it's funny you see this climate change journalism shoehorned into your local

00:21:28.040 news and you wonder why that is.

00:21:30.380 Well, it's because a lot of times these publishers are given grants to publish beats that the government

00:21:37.020 cares about and then they say it's supporting local journalism.

00:21:40.820 Yeah, and, you know, a former CRTC vice chair, Peter Menzies, put it perfectly to me when

00:21:48.780 I asked him about all these subsidies going on from the government.

00:21:55.160 It creates a situation where these media companies rely on the liberals remaining in power.

00:22:02.180 Now they have a codependent relationship, as he explained it.

00:22:07.100 And, you know, to discuss that local journalism stuff, what you're talking about with the

00:22:13.720 climate reporters, that's the local journalism initiative.

00:22:18.560 As I mentioned earlier, around 80 percent of the media, including local news outlets, are

00:22:25.880 owned by a handful of mega conglomerate media companies.

00:22:31.660 So what local journalism are we saving here?

00:22:35.800 There's no ma and pa newspapers anymore.

00:22:38.980 You know, there might be some small community prints, but these are all corporate news, which

00:22:44.500 all have the same sort of message.

00:22:47.000 They all have the same agenda at the editorial level.

00:22:50.540 So it really astounds me when the government tries to claim that they're saving local journalism.

00:22:56.760 Well, local journalism has been gone for a very long time, whether we like it or not.

00:23:01.400 We live in a completely different media ecosystem today.

00:23:05.240 So that's just an excuse for them to put money in the pockets of their friends who own these

00:23:11.580 companies.

00:23:12.720 You know, that's never been more true than it is in Alberta.

00:23:15.800 If you look at the we have you know, we have the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Sun and

00:23:21.360 the Calgary Herald.

00:23:22.260 Those are our local journalism, and they're all owned by the same company, publishing the

00:23:27.540 same version of the same article.

00:23:29.440 And the paper continues to shrink and shrink and shrink and shrink because nobody's advertising

00:23:34.400 in it and nobody's buying it.

00:23:36.760 And instead of fixing the problem, I think that's the problem with the media bailouts is

00:23:42.740 these companies are never going to get what's coming to them and they're never going to fix

00:23:46.440 the problem because they are protected from the market correction they so rightly deserve.

00:23:52.260 And to point to another story I recently did, the Saltwire Network, which is one of the

00:23:59.920 major media companies out on the East Coast, similar thing happened, right?

00:24:05.040 They took money from the local journalism initiative and they've all just recently announced that

00:24:11.760 they're cutting newspaper deliveries to rural communities in Nova Scotia, I believe.

00:24:18.500 So it makes me question, what was that money for?

00:24:21.360 I thought you're supposed to sustain local journalism, but these companies, these communities

00:24:26.160 that are so cut off from everybody else, whether because they have, you know, bad internet service,

00:24:32.820 now they're not even getting their daily or weekly paper.

00:24:35.940 So it's just a total sham and they're cutting jobs, yet they're taking all of this money.

00:24:42.660 It's quite incredible.

00:24:44.780 Now, Klausman, you are an independent journalist.

00:24:47.080 You work for one of those companies that does not take any money from Justin Trudeau, True

00:24:51.920 North.

00:24:52.500 How do people find your work?

00:24:53.660 How do they support your work?

00:24:54.720 Because you do some of, I think, the best investigative journalism in the country.

00:24:59.780 And besides keeping a careful eye to what the other media is doing, you also do, I think,

00:25:06.140 some of the Lord's work, paying attention to what's happening at the school board level

00:25:10.860 and the educational level.

00:25:14.420 I think you're doing work that parents can't do when you're paying attention to, you know,

00:25:18.580 these educational policies that are exceptionally woke and weird.

00:25:22.220 So where do people find your work?

00:25:23.760 How do they support you?

00:25:24.520 Well, that's very kind of you to say, and I appreciate that.

00:25:29.940 You know, I wouldn't say I'm doing the best.

00:25:32.160 Rebel does some amazing stuff as well.

00:25:34.340 But if people want to check me out, you can go to tnc.news and find my articles there.

00:25:40.320 Or you could follow me on Twitter at CosminDZS.

00:25:44.720 You also have a Substack, too.

00:25:46.840 Tell people about your Substack.

00:25:48.000 I started a Substack, which is outeredge.substack.com.

00:25:52.720 And it's a weekly newsletter that covers dissident news from around the globe.

00:25:59.600 That's great.

00:26:00.260 Thanks, Cosmin, for your great work.

00:26:03.000 You know, like I said, watching the media, but also watching those school boards

00:26:06.900 as they try to brainwash your kids.

00:26:10.480 Thank you, Sheila.

00:26:12.300 Stay with us.

00:26:13.620 Ezra's letters unceremoniously read by me up after the break.

00:26:18.220 Thank you.

00:26:22.720 Welcome back, friends.

00:26:30.960 Now, unlike the mainstream media, we actually care about what you think about the work that

00:26:34.140 we do here at Rebel News.

00:26:35.160 So we invite your comments.

00:26:37.000 And this is where Ezra normally reads your letters to him.

00:26:41.020 But he's not here, so you'll have to deal with me reading them.

00:26:44.040 Our first letter comes from Bernd Haas, and he writes to us on Ezra's show about Justin

00:26:50.660 Trudeau's attacks on Internet freedom and his pursuit of Internet censorship.

00:26:57.680 Bernd Haas writes,

00:26:59.200 We have courts to deal with harmful rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation, be it from

00:27:03.740 the Internet or any other source.

00:27:06.360 You know, that is true, that we do have courts to deal with violent rhetoric, but I don't

00:27:13.040 think we should have courts that deal with misinformation and disinformation.

00:27:19.540 As I mentioned in my monologue, there are actually provisions in the CSIS Act that deal

00:27:25.680 with foreign-influenced terrorism in Canada, although I believe the supply of that does not meet the

00:27:35.280 demand. But I don't think that we want judges telling people on the Internet that they can only

00:27:43.340 tweet true things, because as you know, over the last two years, there were a lot of people

00:27:48.860 tweeting or posting things that ultimately ended up being true.

00:27:53.060 However, they were censored by big tech along the way.

00:27:56.300 I don't think we want our legal system to become just the enforcement arm of big tech censors.

00:28:02.320 Gord Tron writes, he's, I suppose, Trudeau, he's actively working to destroy Canada and its people

00:28:10.700 while he does all he says we need to change worse than any other Canadian.

00:28:17.300 They need to live the lives to set an example of what they want onto us.

00:28:21.380 You know, that's really true. And we see this with the environmentalist movement.

00:28:24.760 They jet set around the world and then they pat themselves on the back while buying carbon offsets

00:28:31.680 that the rest of us can't afford. And they claim that they're saving the environment because of it.

00:28:38.060 And Justin Trudeau, he claims to be a male feminist, right? When somebody says they're a male

00:28:43.780 feminist, that's my cue to leave. I guess things are about to get a little handsy.

00:28:47.560 But Justin Trudeau says that he's a male feminist, but he's the guy firing powerful women 0.93

00:28:52.740 who speak truth to power to him and groping female journalists in the famous Kokanee grope. 1.00

00:29:01.660 The world's elites, they really are hypocrites.

00:29:04.440 Another great example of this is David Suzuki.

00:29:06.840 He says there are too many people on the face of the earth and that humanity were just a bunch

00:29:11.640 of maggots. But he has five kids and he lives on the beach. And so I'm going to start taking these

00:29:18.060 people seriously when they start taking themselves seriously. So I think the good news is I'll never

00:29:23.760 have to take them seriously.

00:29:25.760 Woofious, if that's even your real name, writes, speaking of blaming the victim,

00:29:30.500 my one question to Prime Minister Trudeau would be,

00:29:32.640 why did he cut the widow's pension from 66% down to 60% right before the pandemic starter?

00:29:40.140 What did he know about the virus he wasn't telling the rest of the country?

00:29:45.720 You know, the Liberals do this sort of stuff all the time. They say they care about the vulnerable

00:29:51.280 and then they do things to harm the vulnerable. And if you look at the Liberals, the only time they're

00:29:56.340 ever fiscally conservative is when it's on issues that they don't actually care about.

00:30:01.720 You see this all the time at Veterans Affairs. The Liberals spend money all over the place,

00:30:07.800 just handing out money, making it rain all over the developing world. But when Canada's veterans,

00:30:14.540 with whom we have a sacred covenant, ask for help from the Veterans Affairs, they are so often,

00:30:22.420 as we are recently hearing, either ignored or as my veterans friends say, deny, deny, deny.

00:30:29.900 I guess until they die or they're offered medical assistance in dying. The Liberals, like I said,

00:30:39.880 the only time they're fiscally conservative is when it comes to people and things that they don't care

00:30:43.740 about. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for

00:30:49.820 bearing with me as I muddled my way through hosting the show today. Thanks to everybody behind the board

00:30:55.320 in studio here in Toronto. And as Ezra always says, keep fighting for freedom. David Menzies for Rebel News

00:31:03.200 here in Toronto. And folks, I'm standing outside the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's prize

00:31:09.840 centre. But one must wonder when it comes to scratch tickets that the OLG sells, is it a matter of, well,

00:31:19.100 to paraphrase the soup Nazi from Seinfeld, no prize for you. That's because the Auditor General's report

00:31:29.020 was recently unveiled. And one of the findings by Auditor General Bonnie Lissick was the fact that the

00:31:38.200 Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation continues to sell scratch tickets even after the major prizes

00:31:47.120 have all been won. So for example, this ticket here, it's called Royal Riches. The top prize is

00:31:53.740 $75,000. And there are, I believe, five top prizes of $75,000. Or are they? Because here's the situation

00:32:04.520 in Ontario, folks, all five of those prizes could already have been won and claimed. And yet people

00:32:11.840 are still buying these tickets with the hope of buying a ticket that will give them the $75,000

00:32:18.920 when they have absolutely zero chance of that occurring. That is shameful because in other

00:32:25.220 jurisdictions, what the Lottery Corporation will do is remove all the remaining tickets from sale. But

00:32:32.540 apparently not the OLG. That's not how they roll. Indeed, Miss Lissick said in her report,

00:32:39.320 we noted that OLG is not ensuring that Ontarians are aware of whether any top instant scratch ticket

00:32:47.980 prizes are still available at the time of a purchase of open packets of scratch tickets. End quote.

00:32:55.440 Her report goes on to say, previous consumer research conducted by OLG showed that a prize amount

00:33:01.880 of $100,000 or greater was considered by the public to be a life-changing amount and that consumers

00:33:08.680 were less likely to purchase instant scratch tickets once all the top prizes have been claimed. Well,

00:33:16.520 of course. I mean, why would you buy something promising you great riches when all those prizes

00:33:22.300 have been eradicated? Now, the OLG, I love this. This is what they said in a statement. Quote,

00:33:28.300 quote, OLG is committed to openness and transparency in the sale of its products and encourages customers

00:33:35.440 to contact us should they have any questions or concerns. End quote. Yeah. So when it comes to

00:33:43.100 a lack of transparency, when it comes to selling these tickets, the OLG says they're all about

00:33:49.840 transparency and openness. Does that make sense to anyone? Now, we did reach out to OLG, but at time of

00:33:55.840 recording, they hadn't responded. No surprise there, especially when it comes to the issue of fairness

00:34:04.500 and social responsibility, which OLG bases its lotto monopoly on in the first place. But as the evidence

00:34:14.820 shows, folks, the chances of the OLG doing the right and responsible thing, well, I think the odds of that

00:34:24.720 happening would make even the most reckless gambler cringe. For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies.

Rebel News Podcast - December 15, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID： The Russian scare of the Freedom Convoy is debunked again, this time by the Justice Department

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