Rebel News Podcast - Smoking out the lockdown politicians who left Canada for Christmas (and tried to hide it)

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, a bit of a surprise. Well, not a surprise, really. We knew it was coming.

00:00:04.780 Jason Kenney wiped out all the lockdown cheaters in his caucus. He tried to avoid it. He had a

00:00:11.620 press conference where he took an enormous amount of heat, and he knew he had to scorch the earth

00:00:16.800 to get out of it. He fired so many cabinet ministers, caucus members, and even his own

00:00:21.360 chief of staff. We'll tell you how it happened, and we'll show you what we're up to next,

00:00:25.460 because we've got a naughty and nice list, and there's still a lot more politicians on the naughty

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00:01:04.700 Tonight, the people turn against the lockdown bullies. It's January 4th, 2021, and you're watching

00:01:27.640 the Ezra LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:34.860 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:40.460 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:44.800 Hello, and welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas or Hanukkah vacation. It was very

00:01:56.420 stressful for many people, but I put it to you that whatever you did over your lockdown Christmas,

00:02:03.040 it wasn't as stressful as this. Take a look at this two-minute video clip from Gatineau, Quebec.

00:02:10.680 Hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't come on! 0.79

00:02:24.740 You can't breathe, chain away.

00:02:29.140 Try it.

00:02:32.440 Don't come on.

00:02:33.720 Check it out, check it out.

00:02:37.900 Don't come on.

00:02:39.280 Okay, calm down, calm down.

00:02:45.280 Okay, we're calm.

00:02:49.280 Don't do that.

00:02:51.280 We're people.

00:02:55.280 Hey, hey, hey.

00:02:57.280 Hey, hey, hey.

00:02:59.280 Get inside.

00:03:01.280 Get inside.

00:03:03.280 Get inside.

00:03:05.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:03:07.280 Hey, let's go.

00:03:09.280 Oh, no, no, no.

00:03:11.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:03:13.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:03:15.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:03:17.280 Hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:03:25.280 It's worse.

00:03:27.280 No. Yes.

00:03:29.280 Then what are you going to do now?

00:03:31.280 Stay there.

00:03:33.280 I have a shoe!

00:03:35.280 I have a shoe!

00:03:37.280 I have a shoe! 1.00

00:03:39.280 Hey, you are so dumb! 1.00

00:03:41.280 Come on, George! 1.00

00:03:43.280 Hey, you have no right to shoot from the house!

00:03:45.280 You have no right to shoot!

00:03:47.280 Yes, I'm right, Sergeant!

00:03:49.280 No, I haven't shot!

00:03:51.280 No, I haven't shot!

00:03:53.280 Don't give me that!

00:03:55.280 Don't give me that!

00:03:57.280 Antoine, Antoine!

00:03:59.280 Antoine, Antoine, Antoine!

00:04:01.280 Do you have a mandate?

00:04:03.280 Yes, I'm going to have a mandate.

00:04:05.280 No!

00:04:07.280 Hey, what? You have taken me to the door!

00:04:09.280 We have taken the camera in the tabernacle!

00:04:11.280 You have taken your children!

00:04:13.280 Excuse me, Madam.

00:04:15.280 If you have a problem, your job is on the road.

00:04:17.280 It's better!

00:04:19.280 You don't agree with the police?

00:04:21.280 You have the resources you want to take?

00:04:23.280 Close the door! 0.99

00:04:25.280 Just a shocking video.

00:04:27.280 According to the Journal de Montréal,

00:04:29.280 it was a neighbor who snitched on this family

00:04:33.280 for having a quiet dinner in

00:04:35.280 with a grand total of six people in the house.

00:04:39.280 Well, there were six police dispatched to the scene,

00:04:42.280 violently pulling a man out of the building,

00:04:45.280 forcing him face down in the snow and the asphalt.

00:04:48.280 You'll notice the police themselves were not all wearing masks.

00:04:51.280 The shouting, the screaming, literally pulling a man out of his house.

00:04:56.280 They did not have a search warrant, if you wonder.

00:04:59.280 I put it to you that if that video were not in French and English as it was,

00:05:03.280 but rather if it were in Chinese or the Persian language Farsi,

00:05:07.280 if that video came to us from China or Iran,

00:05:10.280 we would call it evidence of a police state of brutality.

00:05:15.280 Well, my friends, this wasn't from there.

00:05:17.280 This was from Canada.

00:05:19.280 It's now January 4th.

00:05:21.280 That video came out on New Year's Eve

00:05:23.280 and I have yet to see a single politician speak out against this.

00:05:27.280 Granted, I'm not following the French language politicians,

00:05:30.280 but where is the rest of the civil libertarians?

00:05:34.280 Where are the opposition parties whose duty it is to oppose?

00:05:38.280 I grant you that this happened in Gatineau, Quebec,

00:05:41.280 but it's similar things across the country,

00:05:43.280 whether it's threatening to taser a young man on a skating rink in Calgary

00:05:48.280 or simply slapping a company-destroying fine on a small business.

00:05:53.280 People are starting to get upset.

00:05:55.280 This video from Gatineau was so shocking, I tweeted it.

00:06:00.280 And take a look at this.

00:06:01.280 This may not mean anything to you,

00:06:02.280 but according to Twitter analytics,

00:06:04.280 my one tweet was seen more than 10 million times in my 10 years

00:06:11.280 on that time-wasting social app.

00:06:14.280 I've never had a tweet seen by 10 million people before.

00:06:18.280 Even Donald Trump Jr. retweeted it as a cautionary tale.

00:06:23.280 Imagine that.

00:06:24.280 Well, the Gatineau police, they made excuses for their officers.

00:06:29.280 That's the instinct of all police.

00:06:31.280 And their excuses falling apart saying that,

00:06:34.280 well, they didn't have time to put a mask

00:06:35.280 and their police were assaulted so badly they had to fight back.

00:06:38.280 No, people weren't buying it.

00:06:43.280 And so during this period,

00:06:45.280 when we were watching these shocking videos that had come home,

00:06:49.280 people started to ask,

00:06:51.280 where are our politicians?

00:06:53.280 Has anyone seen Justin Trudeau lately?

00:06:56.280 Has anyone seen Jagmeet Singh lately?

00:06:59.280 Has anyone seen any of the fancy people

00:07:02.280 who were part of the ruling class locking us down lately?

00:07:05.280 The police chief that ordered this police misconduct,

00:07:09.280 where's he over this cold, dreary Christmas?

00:07:13.280 Christmases in Canada can be cold and dreary anyways,

00:07:17.280 but add the lockdowns, not able to visit family,

00:07:20.280 not able to go to restaurants.

00:07:23.280 And people started making inquiries

00:07:25.280 about what politicians were traveling where.

00:07:28.280 Not because we're anti-travel,

00:07:30.280 but because as the politicians always said,

00:07:33.280 are we really all in this together?

00:07:37.280 And names started to be smoked out from people

00:07:40.280 who were perhaps careless about their sneaky plans.

00:07:43.280 And that's the first thing I want to tell you.

00:07:45.280 Every politician who left Canada during the lockdown,

00:07:49.280 these are the lockdown implementers,

00:07:52.280 every single one of them themselves

00:07:55.280 tried to misdirect or fake the fact,

00:07:59.280 fake that they were still here where they were gone.

00:08:01.280 Rod Phillips, the former finance minister of Ontario,

00:08:04.280 did that with a deceptive broadcast pretending

00:08:07.280 that he was in Canada on Christmas.

00:08:09.280 And so it was with Tracy Allard,

00:08:12.280 the municipal affairs minister of Alberta,

00:08:15.280 someone with very little political track record,

00:08:18.280 a first term MLA from Grand Prairie.

00:08:21.280 She thought she's had such an exhausting year

00:08:24.280 that she jetted off to Hawaii.

00:08:27.280 I have no problem with jetting off anywhere or to Hawaii.

00:08:31.280 I do know that we're told not to engage in, quote,

00:08:34.280 non-essential travel by both provincial and federal governments.

00:08:37.280 And from a practical point of view,

00:08:39.280 even if I chose to go to Hawaii,

00:08:41.280 I'd have to quarantine for two weeks upon my return.

00:08:45.280 Who could afford a vacation plus a two-week quarantine

00:08:49.280 other than the ruling class that gets paid no matter what?

00:08:53.280 The political class, the bureaucracy class.

00:08:55.280 I'd love to go to Hawaii myself,

00:08:57.280 but I can't take a vacation plus a two-week added-on vacation.

00:09:02.280 No one real can do that.

00:09:04.280 Imagine a cabinet minister enforcing an emergency lockdown,

00:09:10.280 thinking things were so non-emergent

00:09:13.280 that she could just scupper off to Hawaii. 0.97

00:09:16.280 Well, pressure started to build.

00:09:19.280 And on New Year's Day,

00:09:21.280 Jason Kenney, the premier himself, did something quite odd.

00:09:24.280 He had a press conference where he was the star,

00:09:28.280 not Tracy Allard, the disgraced cabinet minister,

00:09:32.280 whose excuse was,

00:09:33.280 well, it's a family tradition.

00:09:35.280 Don't you see how important this family tradition is?

00:09:37.280 We all have our family traditions, Tracy.

00:09:39.280 And we've all had to give quite a few of them up.

00:09:41.280 For some reason, Jason Kenney,

00:09:44.280 rather than putting out a press statement firing her,

00:09:46.280 rather than making her face the cameras,

00:09:49.280 as Rod Phillips did in Ontario,

00:09:51.280 Jason Kenney himself had a press conference.

00:09:54.280 Now, the first thing he said was quite thoughtful.

00:09:56.280 He said,

00:09:57.280 we shouldn't lock down the travel industry.

00:09:59.280 We can travel safely.

00:10:00.280 There are ways to do it.

00:10:01.280 And it's so important for our Alberta economy,

00:10:03.280 because of WestJet.

00:10:04.280 Here's part of that.

00:10:05.280 All of this is to say that Alberta has sought to support

00:10:08.280 and facilitate safe travel during the COVID era.

00:10:12.280 We've done so as part of our effort to protect

00:10:15.280 both lives and livelihoods.

00:10:17.280 Completely shutting down travel would result

00:10:20.280 not only in tens of thousands of more job losses,

00:10:24.280 but would likely result in the financial collapse

00:10:27.280 of Canada's airline industry,

00:10:29.280 which is essential,

00:10:31.280 an essential part of a modern economy.

00:10:33.280 For Alberta, that is particularly the case for WestJet.

00:10:38.280 If all or almost all travel was to be suspended,

00:10:42.280 I do not believe that WestJet could survive.

00:10:45.280 And the failure of that company would, frankly,

00:10:48.280 be a catastrophe for Alberta's economy

00:10:51.280 and for our prospects of recovery

00:10:53.280 and economic diversification in the future.

00:10:56.280 I agree completely.

00:10:58.280 In fact, I think that there are too many restrictions on travel.

00:11:01.280 There's no need for many of the rules against planes.

00:11:05.280 And by the way, once you're on a plane,

00:11:06.280 you can take your mask off and have a drink of water

00:11:09.280 or coffee or peanuts or whatever.

00:11:11.280 I mean, the idea that you have to go through social distancing

00:11:14.280 and wear masks, but then you take it off for an hour. 0.97

00:11:17.280 It's ridiculous.

00:11:18.280 But I agree with him on the travel, 0.78

00:11:19.280 but that really wasn't the point.

00:11:22.280 No one's against Hawaii.

00:11:23.280 No one's against travel.

00:11:24.280 People are against lockdown brutalizers,

00:11:28.280 then skipping town to avoid their own lockdown.

00:11:31.280 They're against ministers who shut down restaurants in Alberta

00:11:35.280 going to restaurants in Waikiki instead.

00:11:39.280 And here's where Jason Kenney went off the rails.

00:11:42.280 He said it was sort of his fault

00:11:45.280 that he didn't make this clear enough to his own people.

00:11:49.280 Here, take a look.

00:11:50.280 This past Tuesday afternoon,

00:11:52.280 I became aware that Minister of Municipal Affairs Tracy Allard

00:11:56.280 had traveled to the United States before Christmas.

00:11:59.280 I immediately contacted the minister

00:12:01.280 and asked her to return to Alberta,

00:12:03.280 which she did immediately, arriving back yesterday morning.

00:12:06.280 I should be clear that while away,

00:12:09.280 Minister Allard continued to work on her important responsibilities.

00:12:13.280 I was on calls and participated in virtual cabinet committee meetings

00:12:17.280 in recent days in which she was an active participant.

00:12:20.280 I've also become aware that a few MLAs, political staff,

00:12:25.280 and senior government officials have traveled abroad in recent weeks.

00:12:29.280 In doing so, I'm assured that they have complied

00:12:33.280 with all relevant public health orders and legal requirements.

00:12:36.280 Nevertheless, I recognize that those of us in positions of public trust

00:12:41.280 must maintain a higher standard in our personal conduct

00:12:46.280 than is expected of the folks in the general population,

00:12:50.280 in the general community.

00:12:52.280 And here I take responsibility for not having clearly set out

00:12:56.280 or communicated a policy against international travel

00:13:00.280 for senior decision-makers in government.

00:13:03.280 I should have done so.

00:13:06.280 To be blunt, I'm not in the habit of tracking or regulating

00:13:10.280 what the people who work for me do on their personal time.

00:13:14.280 I believe that these individuals acted in what they believe to be good faith,

00:13:19.280 have complied with the legal requirements,

00:13:21.280 including the COVID public health orders.

00:13:24.280 But for those of us in leadership, I acknowledge that is not good enough.

00:13:29.280 We should be here at home, plain and simple,

00:13:34.280 if we carry a position of public trust.

00:13:36.280 Oh, the press were enraged.

00:13:39.280 Not just the leftist media party that always hates Jason Kenney,

00:13:43.280 but conservatives like our friend Rick Bell of the Calgary Sun.

00:13:46.280 No one could believe the tone deafness to it.

00:13:49.280 And in my mind, it's because even the United Conservative Party,

00:13:53.280 which I put it to you as Canada's most conservative provincial government,

00:13:56.280 even they live in a capital city surrounded by the ruling class,

00:14:01.280 by government bureaucrats, by people who love the lockdown.

00:14:04.280 At worst, they just stay home and watch Netflix while collecting their paychecks.

00:14:09.280 So I think that there is a disconnect between the rage felt by small businesses,

00:14:14.280 working class people, people whose lives have been negatively impacted by the lockdown,

00:14:19.280 and the ruling class that said, oh yeah, go off to Hawaii. 1.00

00:14:22.280 We had set up a website called fireallard.com, and we were making campaign plans.

00:14:29.280 In fact, over the weekend, I reached out to the largest radio station in Grand Prairie, Alberta,

00:14:34.280 where we happened to have more than 3,000 rebel supporters.

00:14:37.280 We were going to get radio ads, we were going to get billboards,

00:14:40.280 we were going to do lawn signs.

00:14:42.280 I thought that Jason Kenney was going to pull the plug on Tracy Allard on January 1st, but he didn't.

00:14:47.280 He let the wound fester for three full days.

00:14:52.280 And then today, a bloodletting of the sort I haven't seen, well actually in memory,

00:14:59.280 Jason Kenney sacking every single one of his caucus who took foreign trips.

00:15:06.280 Tracy Allard was just the beginning of it.

00:15:08.280 Others were stripped of their cabinet and even committee positions.

00:15:13.280 And most stinging of all, Jason Kenney sacked his own chief of staff.

00:15:19.280 Let me read a little bit from his release.

00:15:21.280 And this time, Kenney wisely put out a statement in writing

00:15:24.280 rather than subjecting himself to the punching bags of the media.

00:15:27.280 Kenney said,

00:15:29.280 Albertans have every right to expect that people in positions of public trust

00:15:32.280 be held to a higher standard of conduct during COVID-19.

00:15:35.280 Over the weekend, I have listened to Albertans who are sending a clear message

00:15:39.280 that they want real consequences to these actions.

00:15:42.280 Oh, and I have not seen consequences like these in a long time.

00:15:46.280 Sacking a cabinet minister, sure.

00:15:48.280 Demoting more than half a dozen, that's quite something in one move.

00:15:52.280 But losing his own chief of staff,

00:15:54.280 that's the one painful part of this for Jason Kenney.

00:15:57.280 But I think he's proven that he will not accept this lower ethical standard.

00:16:01.280 I say again, there's nothing wrong with going to Hawaii.

00:16:03.280 Nothing wrong with wanting a vacation.

00:16:05.280 Nothing wrong with wanting to go to a restaurant.

00:16:06.280 I want all those things too.

00:16:08.280 The difference is when you are the jailer of the community,

00:16:11.280 you can't then escape from your own jail and go off to some paradise.

00:16:16.280 Over the weekend, it was made even more difficult for Jason Kenney

00:16:19.280 by the fact that Justin Trudeau,

00:16:21.280 well, he took a bit of a different media management approach.

00:16:25.280 He found out which of his MPs had been traveling overseas,

00:16:31.280 and he made them resign, not in press conferences,

00:16:35.280 but in little statements on Facebook and Twitter.

00:16:38.280 Trudeau didn't get involved with the mess of it.

00:16:41.280 He put the mess on the MPs.

00:16:43.280 One after the other, they all resigned.

00:16:45.280 He let the air out of the balloon first,

00:16:47.280 before the media could do it to him.

00:16:49.280 Kenny knew he had to act if corrupt Libranos like Justin Trudeau

00:16:53.280 do the right thing on this.

00:16:55.280 Well, Jason Kenney certainly had to, and that's what happened today.

00:16:58.280 I should tell you, at the same time we put up a website for fireallard.com,

00:17:03.280 we heard about another cabinet minister, this one in Saskatchewan,

00:17:07.280 the Minister for Highways, Joe Hargrave,

00:17:10.280 who had an even more laughable excuse.

00:17:12.280 Tracy Allard said, well, it's a family tradition to go to Hawaii.

00:17:15.280 We've been doing it for 17 years.

00:17:17.280 Well, Joe Hargrave didn't even come up with that.

00:17:20.280 He said he went down to Palm Springs over Christmas

00:17:23.280 to do an important business deal, selling his property.

00:17:26.280 But already there's cracks forming in that story,

00:17:29.280 and CTV today shows that, in fact, when he went down to Palm Springs,

00:17:33.280 his house was not yet even for sale, according to public records.

00:17:37.280 I think Joe Hargrave is telling a porky. 0.88

00:17:40.280 It'll be interesting to see if he sticks around.

00:17:42.280 If you want to sign our petition, go to firehargrave.com.

00:17:45.280 If he's not sacked by Premier Scott Moe by tomorrow,

00:17:49.280 we're going to ramp up our campaign that was aimed at Tracy Allard,

00:17:52.280 and we're going to deploy it to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

00:17:55.280 By the way, for those of you who follow us closely,

00:17:57.280 you'll know that the church in Prince Albert,

00:18:00.280 the big church that ministers especially to Aboriginal people,

00:18:03.280 that does some incredible social work, that church has been hit with a $14,000 lockdown fine,

00:18:11.280 the largest in Canada.

00:18:13.280 Imagine the disconnect between Prince Albert and the church getting hit with a $14,000 fine,

00:18:20.280 while the cabinet minister enforcing the lockdown jets off to Palm Springs.

00:18:25.280 That cannot stand.

00:18:27.280 And if Scott Moe doesn't do the right thing by tomorrow,

00:18:30.280 we're going to deploy on the ground there.

00:18:32.280 We have lots of supporters in Prince Albert,

00:18:34.280 who I think will see the irony here, even if Joe Hargrave doesn't.

00:18:39.280 I note that Doug Ford still has a few lingering problems.

00:18:43.280 His deputy chief of staff was in Miami over the lockdown.

00:18:46.280 His spokesman was traveling within Canada.

00:18:49.280 I wonder if he will be held to a higher account.

00:18:52.280 I note that in Manitoba, Brian Pallister, his right-hand man,

00:18:56.280 well, he made the front page of the Winnipeg Free Press today

00:18:59.280 because he went to visit his family across the country.

00:19:02.280 Look, rules for me and not for thee,

00:19:04.280 I'm fine with visiting family and friends

00:19:06.280 and doing whatever you want in your private time.

00:19:08.280 But don't throw the rest of us in jail for him.

00:19:12.280 The Liberals, they're smarter than these Conservatives.

00:19:15.280 They're getting out of it quickly, aren't they?

00:19:18.280 They're not having splashy press conferences to be eaten alive.

00:19:21.280 But let me leave you with this.

00:19:24.280 If you are a small business person or just a private citizen anywhere in Canada,

00:19:29.280 and from now forward, well, in the past as well,

00:19:33.280 if you have been hit with a fine, an arrest, a ticket,

00:19:37.280 for breaking the lockdown while one after the other politician confesses to breaking the lockdown,

00:19:45.280 I hope you'll go to fightthefines.com.

00:19:49.280 Just today we had a big meeting with a bunch of lawyers and paralegals and journalists,

00:19:54.280 and we're going to ramp up our campaign because for any Canadian to be hit with a lockdown fine,

00:20:03.280 after what we've seen from Tracy Allard and Joe Hargrave and Ron Phillips and the rest of them,

00:20:10.280 for any ordinary citizen to be slapped with a $1,000 fine is an outrage,

00:20:16.280 and we will defend them all.

00:20:20.280 Go to fightthefines.com if you have one, or if you know of someone,

00:20:24.280 go to fightthefines.com and have them fill out our form.

00:20:27.280 All right.

00:20:28.280 That's my monologue for today.

00:20:30.280 Up next, my friend, Spencer Fernando.

00:20:32.280 Now you're going to notice something.

00:20:34.280 I recorded this interview with Spencer earlier today before I had a haircut.

00:20:38.280 So please forgive my bushy hair for the next 15 minutes.

00:20:43.280 Here's Spencer.

00:20:56.280 Well, there's so many levels to what's wrong about these lockdown cheaters.

00:21:02.280 And by the way, if you have your family over, if you want to live your life,

00:21:05.280 if you want to open your business, I do not consider you to be a lockdown cheater

00:21:10.280 because you did not impose these brutal lockdowns on the community.

00:21:16.280 They were done by the ruling class, by politicians claiming there to be an emergency.

00:21:22.280 So if your jailer, if your prison warden, if the one who is using these emergency powers

00:21:29.280 in an unprecedented way to stop you from traveling, visiting people, going to a restaurant,

00:21:35.280 if that person who wields that weapon then gives themselves a secret get-out-of-jail-free card,

00:21:45.280 a secret excuse to go to Hawaii or Las Vegas, to go to restaurants, to live life on a beach

00:21:52.280 while jailing the rest of us, that is a lockdown cheater.

00:21:57.280 And let me now bring in our friend Spencer Fernando, who has an excellent article about this.

00:22:01.280 I encourage you to visit SpencerFernando.com.

00:22:04.280 Here's the headline.

00:22:05.280 While politicians travel the world on the taxpayer's dime,

00:22:09.280 police acting on political orders raid home where family was gathered.

00:22:15.280 And joining us now is Spencer Fernando.

00:22:18.280 When I saw that video, Spencer...

00:22:21.280 Well, first of all, Happy New Year. Good to see you.

00:22:24.280 And I know you're joining us from snowy Winnipeg and not some gorgeous beach in Costa Rica.

00:22:29.280 When I saw that video of the house raid in Gatineau, Quebec,

00:22:34.280 I thought if that were in the Chinese language or in the Persian language,

00:22:39.280 we would be outraged at how they do things in China or Iran or under Vladimir Putin's Russia.

00:22:46.280 But that was in Gatineau, Quebec. That was in Canada.

00:22:49.280 That's happening here.

00:22:51.280 Police, without a warrant, busting in someone's home because there's six people,

00:22:55.280 dragging them out on the street, putting them on the ground, arresting them.

00:22:59.280 That is happening here.

00:23:02.280 Yeah, again, you know, it's one of the many things that if you told people a year ago

00:23:06.280 what was going to happen, I don't think people would believe it.

00:23:09.280 It would have sounded crazy.

00:23:10.280 But yeah, this is something you expect to see in an authoritarian state, not a democratic country.

00:23:15.280 And it's made all the worse by the fact that these politicians are flying around the world

00:23:19.280 on the taxpayers' dime and they're living it up.

00:23:22.280 And then they impose these orders on us and say,

00:23:24.280 oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to send the police after you.

00:23:26.280 We're going to punish you.

00:23:27.280 We're going to fine you. 0.99

00:23:28.280 We're going to insult you.

00:23:29.280 We're going to talk down to you.

00:23:30.280 And then they go fly away to places where many of those lockdowns don't really exist the same way.

00:23:35.280 Yeah.

00:23:36.280 I mean, in Alberta, where I'm originally from, Tracy Allard said, well, we have a wonderful

00:23:41.280 tradition of going to Hawaii every year.

00:23:44.280 It wouldn't be so nice if police busted into her Hawaiian home and did that to her. 1.00

00:23:50.280 So she, now I know that she's not responsible for the police in Gatineau, but every province

00:23:55.280 and territory in Canada has a similar approach to lockdown.

00:23:59.280 It's the ruling class. 0.90

00:24:00.280 Let me throw one more thing at you, Spencer.

00:24:02.280 There's a two week quarantine when you get back.

00:24:05.280 So anyone who can go on a vacation, let's say you go for one week to Hawaii or one week

00:24:10.280 down to Florida.

00:24:11.280 It's a nice vacation.

00:24:12.280 Well, now you've got to spend two weeks at home when you get back.

00:24:15.280 So you've got to be part of that ruling class because most people don't have an extra two

00:24:20.280 weeks of vacation time they can burn up to go on a vacation.

00:24:25.280 So it truly is this ruling class of politicians and bureaucrats who are loving the lockdown.

00:24:33.280 They're actually in many ways the only ones who can go on vacation while the rest of us can't.

00:24:39.280 Yeah.

00:24:40.280 And you know, it's, you know, you know, talk about Tracy Allard talking about her tradition.

00:24:45.280 Well, the government has told everyone to give up all their traditions, right?

00:24:48.280 Oh, you meet every year for Christmas.

00:24:50.280 Well, sorry, Christmas is canceled this year.

00:24:52.280 You can't do that.

00:24:53.280 The tone deafness of all of this.

00:24:55.280 And then you see, I mean, this is, you know, I think we'll probably talk about it, but we

00:24:59.280 saw in Manitoba, here in Manitoba, you know, with a top bureaucrat, David McLaughlin, or top

00:25:04.280 advisor to Pallister.

00:25:06.280 He was given permission to travel to Ottawa during the Christmas break and then an exemption

00:25:11.280 from quarantine requirements when he comes back home.

00:25:14.280 So these are supposedly conservative governments that are supposed to be limited government,

00:25:20.280 respect individual rights, respect taxpayers, and they're acting just as bad as liberals.

00:25:24.280 Well, that's the crazy thing is I was completely certain in my bones that when Jason Kenney

00:25:31.280 had his New Year's Day press conference to address the case of Tracy Allard jetting off

00:25:36.280 to Hawaii.

00:25:37.280 And by the way, she posted a deceptive Christmas video of herself that was tagged as if she

00:25:44.280 was still in Alberta.

00:25:45.280 I don't think that was a coincidence.

00:25:47.280 So Jason Kenney having this.

00:25:49.280 Who among us has not made the mistake of accidentally tagging a preloaded tweet while we're off in

00:25:54.280 the Caribbean or somewhere else?

00:25:55.280 I mean, it happens to everybody.

00:25:56.280 Yeah, you're right.

00:25:57.280 I was so certain that Jason Kenney, who I know pretty well, who used to be the head of

00:26:02.280 the Taxpayers Federation, who used to take on, you know, politicians for living that lifestyle.

00:26:08.280 Mm-hmm.

00:26:09.280 I was sure he was going to sack her.

00:26:11.280 And the thing is, Spencer, Justin Trudeau has sacked a number of MPs from positions.

00:26:21.280 Jagmeet Singh has fired Nikki Ashton, who's an opposition NDP MP from a critic portfolio.

00:26:29.280 So the parties of the left, who I think are ethically challenged, even they know that they

00:26:37.280 have to show some remorse here.

00:26:40.280 They have to discipline their world travelers.

00:26:44.280 If Justin Trudeau is making a junior cabinet minister resign and Jason Kenney doesn't, that's

00:26:51.280 what's boggling to me.

00:26:53.280 I thought he would be cleaner than clean on this stuff.

00:26:56.280 I don't know why he's incurring this PR wrath.

00:26:59.280 It's not his fault.

00:27:00.280 He didn't go to Hawaii.

00:27:02.280 I don't know why he's incurring such a bloody nose on behalf of some first-term MLA cabinet

00:27:10.280 minister who I don't think one in a hundred Albertans has heard of.

00:27:14.280 Why is he torching his reputation for her?

00:27:17.280 Well, now it's up to, I think, 11 who have left.

00:27:21.280 So I think it's getting to the point where, you know, people would say, okay, if you fire

00:27:25.280 her, then you've got to punish the rest of them. 0.99

00:27:27.280 Right?

00:27:28.280 So he's probably thinking, well, I can't do that.

00:27:29.280 I'll lose too much support.

00:27:30.280 He should do that.

00:27:31.280 Obviously you should punish everybody, but, uh, he's probably scared.

00:27:34.280 He's going to lose too much caucus support or something.

00:27:36.280 And then the weird thing is I'm, I'm seeing some of them talk about this almost as if

00:27:40.280 it's, it's like a principle, right?

00:27:42.280 Like, oh, well, we believe people have the freedom to travel.

00:27:46.280 Well, that's very nice.

00:27:47.280 But I mean, if you believe people have the freedom to travel, shouldn't you also be,

00:27:51.280 you know, defending the freedom to, oh, let's say, open up your business or meet with your

00:27:54.280 family or gather with people if you freely choose to do that.

00:27:58.280 So it's this double standard of, oh, we're totally defending the ironclad right to travel

00:28:02.280 around the world.

00:28:03.280 But when it comes to freedom within your own country, no, sorry, you're totally locked

00:28:06.280 down.

00:28:07.280 So again, it's a very odd that his principle only kind of rears its head when it comes to defending

00:28:12.280 the privileges of other politicians.

00:28:14.280 Yeah.

00:28:15.280 And by the way, I'm completely pro travel too.

00:28:17.280 I haven't been to Hawaii in years, but I would absolutely love to go.

00:28:20.280 I bet there's a lot of deals now because a few people are traveling.

00:28:24.280 But not only is the quarantine in effect that I mentioned, but guidance from the federal

00:28:30.280 and provincial government says, do not engage in non-essential travel.

00:28:34.280 And even one of our, two of our staff, three of our staff who traveled for work, for journalism,

00:28:43.280 they were sentenced to two weeks at home in quarantine.

00:28:45.280 So they really mean it.

00:28:47.280 So that's the thing. 0.66

00:28:48.280 It's the hypocrisy.

00:28:49.280 You can't have the person who's brutally enforcing the rules on the rest of us then avail themselves

00:28:55.280 of the travel.

00:28:56.280 I am pro travel.

00:28:57.280 I say lift more restrictions.

00:28:59.280 Don't.

00:29:00.280 But that's the thing.

00:29:01.280 These folks can't have it both ways.

00:29:02.280 Let me ask you.

00:29:04.280 Do you think that in the wake of all these lockdown cheaters, and again, I'm not calling

00:29:09.280 ordinary citizens lockdown cheaters.

00:29:11.280 I'm calling the enforcers of the lockdown who then cheat.

00:29:15.280 I'm calling them the cheaters.

00:29:17.280 Do you think that will loosen up enforcement against the regular Joe?

00:29:22.280 Like, does Jason Kenney's government or any other government really have the moral authority

00:29:28.280 to crack down on a restaurant that opens up now, now that we know that they're sneaking

00:29:33.280 off to restaurants in Vegas or Hawaii?

00:29:36.280 Well, I don't think they have the moral authority to do it, but I suspect they will

00:29:40.280 continue to do so.

00:29:41.280 I think if anything, we're seeing that, you know, across the political spectrum and including 0.79

00:29:45.280 many conservatives who we thought would be better, it's just total hypocrisy.

00:29:49.280 They're all on team politician, not team the rest of us, right?

00:29:52.280 We're all in it together.

00:29:53.280 Well, I guess they were talking about themselves and their other politicians, not us. 0.99

00:29:56.280 So, you know, I would suspect they're going to continue being hypocrites. 0.97

00:29:59.280 They haven't really faced any punishment. 0.94

00:30:01.280 They don't seem to be really afraid of what the public's going to do in terms of getting

00:30:04.280 rid of them.

00:30:05.280 I mean, you don't see the, you know, you don't see the UCP talking much about recall legislation

00:30:10.280 lately, right?

00:30:11.280 That's off their website.

00:30:12.280 They're not talking about that.

00:30:13.280 So I think they're just going to continue. 0.96

00:30:16.280 They're just going to continue being hypocrites and hope that when vaccines get rolled out 0.97

00:30:20.280 that people will forget about all this and go back to normal. 0.96

00:30:23.280 But I don't think people are going to forget, especially conservatives.

00:30:26.280 I think, I think conservative parties are really underestimating how many conservatives

00:30:31.280 in the country feel betrayed by the people who are supposed to represent them.

00:30:34.280 And I don't think that's going to be forgotten.

00:30:36.280 I think you're right.

00:30:37.280 You know, I mean, I think Jason Kenney is my favorite premier.

00:30:40.280 I say that not just personally, but politically.

00:30:43.280 I think Alberta is my favorite province.

00:30:45.280 Even though I live in Ontario, it's my home.

00:30:47.280 It's where I come from.

00:30:48.280 And I like its spirit.

00:30:50.280 And I think that by criticizing Tracy Alder and the other cheaters, I think that that's

00:30:57.280 a healthy criticism that has to be brought by conservatives to parties that have the word

00:31:04.280 conservative in their name.

00:31:05.280 And I don't think the right approach, certainly not for journalists like us and for yourself,

00:31:10.280 is to bite our tongues because it's our side.

00:31:12.280 In fact, that's where we have to prove that we're principled.

00:31:15.280 You, I mean, you're one of the few independent journalists out there, and our friends at True

00:31:21.280 North, for example.

00:31:22.280 We have to be the keepers of the flame when conservative parties go off the rails.

00:31:27.280 Otherwise, we have no credibility when we go after the liberals.

00:31:30.280 And by the way, what's the point of having a conservative party that acts like a Trudeau

00:31:35.280 party?

00:31:36.280 So that's my thinking.

00:31:37.280 Last word to you, Spencer.

00:31:39.280 Yeah, I agree.

00:31:40.280 I think independent media has actually really raised its credibility in the last few days,

00:31:44.280 seeing how it's going after.

00:31:45.280 It goes after everybody, right?

00:31:47.280 I mean, that's the whole point.

00:31:48.280 I spend most of my time going after Trudeau.

00:31:50.280 But right now, Trudeau is not in the news that much. 0.99

00:31:52.280 It's, you know, conservative parties acting like hypocrites. 0.97

00:31:55.280 And that's what needs to be covered. 0.97

00:31:56.280 And that's what needs to be criticized.

00:31:58.280 So again, as you said, you don't have any credibility if you only criticize one side,

00:32:01.280 and then let other people get away with the same thing.

00:32:03.280 So I think it's been good for independent media to show that it really is credible,

00:32:07.280 unlike the establishment.

00:32:08.280 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:32:09.280 Well, Spencer, you're one of the best.

00:32:11.280 And I frequently visit your site, SpencerFernando.com.

00:32:15.280 I'd encourage all of my viewers to do the same.

00:32:17.280 Thanks for your time today.

00:32:18.280 Keep up the fight out west, okay?

00:32:20.280 All right, take care.

00:32:21.280 All right, there you have it.

00:32:22.280 Spencer Fernando.

00:32:23.280 Stay with us.

00:32:24.280 More ahead.

00:32:25.280 I believe that this lockdown is the greatest civil liberties crisis in Canada,

00:32:42.280 other than the internment camps of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War,

00:32:47.280 I think you can make the case, other than the Indian Act, which continues to violate the

00:32:52.280 civil liberties of status Indians. 0.80

00:32:54.280 Other than those two racist documents that limit people's civil rights, I think the lockdown

00:33:02.280 today is the greatest infringement on our property rights, our mobility rights, our expression

00:33:06.280 rights, our rights of assembly and association.

00:33:08.280 I think it's outrageous.

00:33:10.280 And I see that not a single opposition party in the country is standing against it.

00:33:15.280 And I see not a single civil liberties group standing up against it, other than the Justice

00:33:19.280 Center for Constitutional Freedom, our friend John Carpe.

00:33:22.280 To me, that is the issue of 2021.

00:33:25.280 Not the virus.

00:33:27.280 We'll learn to live with the virus as we do with the flu season every year.

00:33:30.280 The problem of 2021 is standing up for civil liberties when the world won't.

00:33:34.280 Our petition at FireAllard.com helped give a nudge to Jason Kenney to do the right thing

00:33:40.280 after he resisted for three days.

00:33:42.280 We have to fight for civil liberties because I believe in many ways the opposition parties

00:33:48.280 in this country, and federally too, have failed to do their constitutional job of opposing.

00:33:55.280 That's their title, official opposition.

00:33:57.280 So oppose already.

00:33:59.280 They're not opposing.

00:34:00.280 And we need opposition.

00:34:02.280 That videotape out of Gatineau, Quebec, should have turned your stomach.

00:34:07.280 For 48 years, I've been a pro-police advocate, almost fanatic.

00:34:11.280 I can't even say that anymore, because to me, I see police as the enforcers of this lockdown.

00:34:15.280 And I think that is something that is burning a century worth of goodwill.

00:34:19.280 That's my pledge to you in the year 2021, is that we will not just tell the other side

00:34:24.280 of the story, but we'll fight for the people that no one else will.

00:34:28.280 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to UNO, good night.

00:34:33.280 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:34:35.280 Be fishing for a great day.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2021

Smoking out the lockdown politicians who left Canada for Christmas (and tried to hide it)

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