Rebel News Podcast - April 17, 2020


The Liberals propose to tackle coronavirus by bringing in a new censorship law


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Justin Trudeau's Liberals propose a new law that could censor the internet in order to fight a pandemic that threatens to spread across the globe. Ezra and his co-hosts discuss why this is a bad idea, and what it could mean for the fight against the spread of the Global Flu.

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00:00:00.000 Well, wouldn't you know it, my rebels, after sputtering around a bit, Justin Trudeau's
00:00:05.260 liberal government has found out what they really need to do in this pandemic, and that
00:00:08.580 is to censor the internet.
00:00:11.340 Not sure how it fights the virus, but it certainly achieves the censorship goals of squashing
00:00:16.840 anyone who disagrees with Trudeau.
00:00:18.380 I'll give you the details about that.
00:00:19.680 But before I do, let me invite you to become a paying subscriber to our paywall, which
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00:00:31.220 All right, here's today's podcast.
00:00:39.340 Tonight, the liberals propose to tackle the virus by bringing in a new censorship law.
00:00:53.160 It's April 16th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:57.440 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:01.360 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:05.420 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it, is because it's my
00:01:10.000 bloody right to do so.
00:01:11.280 You'll remember the first thing the Communist Party of China did when the Wuhan virus started
00:01:21.140 to spread.
00:01:21.680 They arrested eight medical doctors in Wuhan who were concerned about it, and we're talking
00:01:26.500 about their concerns in public, or at least on the Chinese social media app called WeChat.
00:01:32.020 Here's a translation of the Xinhua story that says the police arrested the eight doctors
00:01:38.620 for spreading rumors.
00:01:40.800 And the police denounced those rumors as untrue, because who would know more about complex
00:01:46.220 virus epidemics than some Chinese cops?
00:01:49.280 So, yeah, that's how China rules when it comes to talking about viruses.
00:01:54.260 They send the cops in to arrest and censor the doctors.
00:01:59.280 It's a huge reason why the virus spread, because instead of fighting the virus, they were fighting
00:02:02.980 the doctors.
00:02:03.560 Instead of warning the world, they lied to the world.
00:02:06.200 However, the virus actually started, and it's increasingly looking like it came from the
00:02:10.020 Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese government research station in the city.
00:02:14.580 However it actually started, it spread, precisely because the Communist Party took steps to let
00:02:21.000 it spread, mainly censorship and lies.
00:02:25.000 Fast forward three and a half months to Canada today.
00:02:27.600 The virus is here now in part because Canada's foolish leaders trusted the Communist Party 0.56
00:02:31.660 of China and the UN agency they dominate, namely the World Health Organization.
00:02:37.120 I remind you that Theresa Tam doesn't just work for us. 1.00
00:02:40.300 Right now as we speak, she sits on a senior committee at the World Health Organization.
00:02:44.220 itself, you can see here, her name is on the bottom right.
00:02:49.640 Quick question, who is she politically loyal to in the case of a disagreement, the World 0.95
00:02:54.080 Health Organization or Canada?
00:02:56.260 You can't serve two masters.
00:02:58.780 The WHO is dominated by China, including through the Secretary General, they installed a non-doctor
00:03:03.760 named Tedros Adhanom.
00:03:05.320 If a WHO executive, even a doctor, is torn between their doctor's oath, do no harm, or loyalty
00:03:12.680 to China, would they have to choose?
00:03:16.160 Which one would they choose?
00:03:18.180 There's no need to guess.
00:03:19.160 Here's another Canadian doctor who serves the WHO, Dr. Aylward from Newfoundland.
00:03:24.180 Watch him in real time.
00:03:25.600 Would the WHO consider Taiwan's membership?
00:03:38.420 Hello?
00:03:40.160 I couldn't hear your question.
00:03:43.040 Okay, let me repeat the question.
00:03:45.680 Let's move to another one then.
00:03:47.580 Right.
00:03:47.980 Because I'm actually curious on talking about Taiwan as well, on Taiwan's case.
00:03:52.660 We decided to give Dr. Aylward another call to follow up.
00:04:04.580 And I just want to see if you can comment a bit on how Taiwan has done so far in terms
00:04:09.380 of containing the virus.
00:04:12.000 Well, we've already talked about China.
00:04:14.300 And, you know, when you look across all the different areas of China, they've actually all
00:04:19.800 done quite a good job.
00:04:21.560 So with that, I'd like to thank you very much for inviting us to participate.
00:04:25.540 And good luck as you go forward with the battle in Hong Kong.
00:04:29.700 Yeah, so the WHO is turning doctors into liars.
00:04:32.840 I don't think Dr. Aylward would be arrested like the eight Chinese doctors would, but he'd 1.00
00:04:36.980 be fired probably.
00:04:38.100 So he's chosen political obedience to China over his medical duty.
00:04:41.920 What a disgrace.
00:04:42.480 So back to social media, because that's what those eight doctors in Wuhan did last year.
00:04:48.420 They were concerned about the virus.
00:04:49.900 They could tell something was different.
00:04:51.180 They were concerned.
00:04:52.140 They were talking to their fellow doctors on WeChat.
00:04:54.620 Again, that's like a Chinese Facebook or Twitter app.
00:04:56.920 And they were censored because what they said was inconvenient or embarrassing.
00:05:01.360 Well, fast forward to now in Canada and look at this.
00:05:03.820 Federal government opened to new law to fight pandemic misinformation.
00:05:11.740 It's one of several measures the government is considering to counter fake news about the
00:05:15.920 virus online.
00:05:17.240 Just to be clear, they're talking about the Canadian government, not the Chinese government,
00:05:21.460 even though they're doing the same thing.
00:05:23.320 The government is deciding what you can or can't say about the virus.
00:05:26.600 They're fighting rumors, they say, just like the Wuhan police said.
00:05:30.460 I've checked, and I don't see anything from all the usual suspects.
00:05:35.780 Penn International, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Journalists for Free
00:05:41.180 Expression, Canadian Association of Journalists, they're all fine with this.
00:05:45.100 Of course they are.
00:05:46.120 They're all part of the establishment.
00:05:47.300 Same general worldview.
00:05:49.420 Government knows best.
00:05:50.520 The UN knows best.
00:05:51.400 Globalism makes sense. 0.80
00:05:52.640 Anyone who doubts the public health deep state is probably a crank or a kook.
00:05:56.840 More to the point, all the journalists are on Trudeau's bailout payroll now, so it's
00:06:00.400 hard for them to pretend to be independent.
00:06:03.700 The federal government is considering introducing legislation to make it an offense to knowingly
00:06:08.440 spread misinformation that could harm people, says Privy Council President Dominique LeBlanc.
00:06:13.680 LeBlanc told CBC News he is interested in British MP Damien Collins' call for laws to punish
00:06:19.520 those responsible for spreading dangerous misinformation online about the pandemic.
00:06:24.700 LeBlanc said he has discussed the matter already with other cabinet ministers, including Justice
00:06:29.160 Minister David Lomendi.
00:06:30.640 If the government decides to follow through, he said, it could take a while to draft legislation.
00:06:34.500 Oh, okay.
00:06:36.060 So, no bothering with bills in Parliament or debates in Parliament.
00:06:39.200 He just chatted about it with David Lomendi, the Justice Minister, the crooked Justice Minister
00:06:44.040 who took over from Jody Wilson-Raybould because she was too honest for Trudeau.
00:06:49.100 And Lomendi said he was totally fine with Trudeau interfering in the SNC-Lavalin case, the prosecution
00:06:54.500 of therefore corruption.
00:06:55.900 We're in the best of hands, aren't we?
00:06:57.840 Let me read some more.
00:07:00.340 Legislatures and parliaments are meeting scarcely because of the current context of the pandemic,
00:07:04.420 so it's not a quick solution, but it's certainly something that we could be open to as a government,
00:07:08.980 said LeBlanc.
00:07:09.820 NDP MP Charlie Angus said he would support legislation to fight online information.
00:07:14.980 Yeah, you don't say.
00:07:16.640 An NDP-er wants to censor you.
00:07:18.220 And look at this little headline in the middle of the story.
00:07:20.640 Cranks wreaking havoc.
00:07:23.280 They're not talking about themselves and their bizarre advice over the last few months
00:07:27.540 to not close borders to the virus, to not put on masks.
00:07:32.300 No, they're not the cranks.
00:07:34.120 They say you're the cranks.
00:07:35.600 Let me read some more.
00:07:37.640 Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures.
00:07:39.980 And it is about protecting the public, he said.
00:07:42.200 This is not a question of free speech.
00:07:44.560 Why would you say that?
00:07:46.280 This is a question of people who are actually actively working to spread disinformation
00:07:49.580 whether it's through troll-bought farms, whether it's state operators,
00:07:53.000 or whether it's really conspiracy theorists, cranks,
00:07:55.080 who seem to get their kicks out of wreaking and creating havoc.
00:07:58.200 Really?
00:07:59.240 It's not a matter of free speech, eh?
00:08:02.220 When a censor tells you that, you know it precisely is a matter of free speech,
00:08:06.580 or why else would they have mentioned it?
00:08:09.080 I'll read some more.
00:08:09.700 The comments from LeBlanc and Angus come as governments around the world
00:08:12.400 struggle to curb dangerous misinformation and disinformation circulating about the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:08:18.280 More recently, said Collins, the misinformation has shifted to conspiracy theories about what
00:08:23.660 triggered the pandemic, claims that it was cooked up in a lab, for example.
00:08:28.060 Hang on, is that really fake news, though?
00:08:30.100 I mean, that's what China says, but it's pretty much accepted as fact now that it has something
00:08:36.400 to do with the official government virus labs in town.
00:08:40.020 I mean, we all know that's where it came from in one way or another, whether it was an accident
00:08:44.680 or a weaponized virus, that's not really in doubt anymore.
00:08:50.640 And even if it was, how does that in any way stop the virus or not stop the virus?
00:08:57.840 Why would a government care if you hold a wrong opinion about where the virus came from?
00:09:03.300 How is that any of the government of Canada's business?
00:09:07.660 You want to see some fake news?
00:09:08.880 Check out this fake news.
00:09:11.200 Look at this.
00:09:12.160 1% of British Columbians have COVID-19.
00:09:14.820 Have all the physical distancing measures brought in been worth it?
00:09:18.040 Wow.
00:09:18.740 1%?
00:09:19.840 That's worse than I thought.
00:09:23.060 There's just over 5 million BCers, about 5.1 million British Columbians.
00:09:28.340 So 1% is 51,000 cases.
00:09:33.220 It's almost as much as the United States.
00:09:34.960 Yeah, no, they only have just over 1,500 cases.
00:09:41.840 So by my math, out of 5.1 million citizens, that is 0.03%.
00:09:48.480 Not 1%.
00:09:50.780 The CBC was off by 30-fold.
00:09:57.020 That's fake news.
00:09:58.060 Do they have to go to jail?
00:10:00.820 So Trudeau's police will censor news they don't like, opinions they don't like.
00:10:04.960 For it's a matter of opinion, who caused the problem.
00:10:07.940 And Trudeau's state broadcaster will tell you what to think and what to tell your family members what to think.
00:10:12.880 This is from CBC's The National.
00:10:14.540 Take a look at this.
00:10:15.480 So what do you do when this happens?
00:10:17.020 A loved one, let's say it's your dad, drops into the family group chat with something he thinks is real.
00:10:23.620 It's something about China manufacturing the coronavirus. 1.00
00:10:27.120 There's a link to a site you've never heard of with a message calling it scary stuff.
00:10:32.480 So what do you do with this?
00:10:33.800 Do you ignore it?
00:10:34.880 Do you call him out saying how ridiculous you think this is?
00:10:38.080 If you do that to your dad, you've actually shamed him.
00:10:40.820 My name is Claire Wardle and I'm the U.S. Director of First Draft.
00:10:43.900 And we are a non-profit that we help people navigate the challenges of misinformation online.
00:10:48.420 What happens is that your dad doubles down on his view and he dismisses what you're saying.
00:10:53.240 Use language that's empathetic and to say we're all in this together rather than you're wrong, I'm right, here are the facts.
00:10:59.420 Because that does not work.
00:11:00.660 So hold back on all that reactive talk.
00:11:03.660 Maybe try something like this.
00:11:05.440 Yeah, these are scary times.
00:11:07.000 We're all a bit afraid, but let's be careful.
00:11:09.240 What you're sharing is inaccurate and it feeds into that fear we all feel.
00:11:13.760 Everybody's anxiety is so heightened right now.
00:11:17.360 People are sharing this stuff not for any malicious reasons, but because they're scared too.
00:11:21.400 Sending more context could also be a good move, but don't drown him in evidence.
00:11:25.660 Maybe send an article from a legitimate source quoting credible scientists on why the virus wasn't manufactured.
00:11:33.580 Conspiracies can be just as infectious, just as dangerous as a virus, so you have to guard against them.
00:11:39.840 Really, so speak in an infuriatingly condescending tone to your father or your uncle.
00:11:46.140 So is this message directed at kids?
00:11:48.220 I'm not sure.
00:11:49.200 And tell him, well, we're all scared, Dad.
00:11:52.200 Don't get so emotional.
00:11:53.520 Well, here, read a story from Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster.
00:11:57.220 Stop being so emotional, Dad.
00:11:59.660 Yeah, no, thanks.
00:12:00.640 The CBC itself is a major source of propaganda.
00:12:03.040 I don't think showing your dad a CBC article is going to stop the conspiracies.
00:12:06.720 Can you imagine if Stephen Harper had CBC journalists out there telling you how to rebut kooky liberal conspiracy theories?
00:12:13.120 It's unthinkable.
00:12:13.860 And the entire establishment would call it an outrageous abuse of the press.
00:12:18.920 And by the way, the virus did come from the lab.
00:12:20.760 It's not really in doubt now.
00:12:24.300 Unless, like the CBC, you trust the Communist Party of China.
00:12:28.100 But here and now, yeah, no problem.
00:12:32.700 Trudeau has always admired China's basic dictatorship.
00:12:35.020 And you don't expect the bailout media to argue with him on this censorship now, do you?
00:12:39.720 Stay with us for more.
00:12:40.620 Welcome back.
00:12:53.480 Well, last night, Sheila Gunn-Reed had a scoop.
00:12:56.480 And when I watched it, I thought, holy moly, this is a big story.
00:13:02.360 Instead of letting me retell it to you, let me play a clip for it so you can hear it in Sheila's own words.
00:13:09.800 Take a listen.
00:13:10.780 Okay, so this is a lab that collects deadly viruses that have already caused problems in the world, like SARS.
00:13:17.620 And the Americans were so concerned about the shoddy conditions at this lab that deals with highly infectious and dangerous diseases in Wuhan, China,
00:13:26.640 that they dispatched two science diplomats, which is something I've never even heard of before.
00:13:32.360 And then these science diplomats were sending warnings back to Washington about the potential for this lab to cause a plague.
00:13:40.140 So naturally, Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is now engaging in a research project with this dangerous Chinese laboratory 1.00
00:13:47.800 and relying on scientists on the ground in Wuhan, China, to do all the research.
00:13:52.700 But don't take my word for it.
00:13:54.640 Let me show you.
00:13:56.020 This is from the Canadian government website that lists a series of grants to study this new coronavirus.
00:14:03.520 To contribute to global efforts to address the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak,
00:14:09.500 on February 10, 2020, the Government of Canada launched a rapid research funding competition.
00:14:15.780 Canada's researchers were quick to respond, submitting hundreds of applications in just a week.
00:14:22.040 It looks like the Canadian government, in an effort to move fast instead of smart,
00:14:29.040 seems to be giving Canadian tax money to, well, possibly the bad guys of the outbreak.
00:14:35.400 Here's this grant headed by a researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
00:14:41.180 The grant itself is to develop a form of rapid testing for the virus in places where resources are limited, like poor countries.
00:14:49.580 It's a noble idea, but unfortunately, it includes collaboration with what is possibly the researchers who are the source of the coronavirus disease.
00:15:00.040 Look at this.
00:15:01.000 This research addresses the urgent need of rapid point-of-care diagnostics of COVID-19.
00:15:06.860 The collaborative research is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of virologists, chemists, infectious disease specialists,
00:15:15.020 frontline practitioners, and public health researchers from the University of Alberta,
00:15:20.220 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
00:15:26.400 Now, here's the grant value.
00:15:27.500 $828,000 and change.
00:15:31.340 One more thing.
00:15:32.200 Look at this.
00:15:33.400 Our team members in Wuhan, who currently perform the standard diagnostic tests, will lead this effort.
00:15:41.240 So did you get that?
00:15:42.780 The very same Wuhan Institute of Virology that caused this pandemic, 0.82
00:15:51.040 Trudeau sent them nearly a million bucks after the pandemic.
00:15:58.320 This wasn't sending money there beforehand, before we knew.
00:16:02.740 Trudeau sent them nearly a million bucks afterwards, and I can't even believe it.
00:16:10.380 And that scoop was brought to you by our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, who joins us now.
00:16:14.680 Vice guy from Edmonton.
00:16:15.480 Sheila, how are you doing?
00:16:17.280 Hey, I'm really good.
00:16:18.520 Just before I jumped on camera with you, I found out that Fox News linked back to my work,
00:16:22.940 which is very exciting.
00:16:24.360 It's interesting how quickly our American friends will see an enormous story breaking right in front of them,
00:16:31.800 while our Canadian colleagues, I suppose, might be the right word,
00:16:36.960 they're sort of doing their best to ignore this international story.
00:16:41.040 Yeah, that's a point.
00:16:42.460 You're so right on that.
00:16:43.840 I mean, it is, objectively speaking, a shocking story.
00:16:46.760 I know that the United States put some money into handling that virus center,
00:16:53.580 but that was, if I'm not mistaken, before things went sideways.
00:16:57.960 And you go into that in your video about how the U.S. sent diplomats,
00:17:02.540 and they were worried that it wasn't up to snuff, and they sent science diplomats.
00:17:07.480 So I think that was all beforehand.
00:17:08.840 And only Trudeau would send money to China, as if they need our money, after the pandemic,
00:17:17.660 and as if any Chinese science can be trusted.
00:17:21.340 It's crazy.
00:17:23.440 Yeah.
00:17:23.600 I mean, the whole point of how this became a pandemic that is shutting down entire national economies,
00:17:32.480 separating us from our loved ones, and causing our municipal governments to act like tyrants
00:17:38.680 and strip us of our civil liberties.
00:17:40.100 It's directly due to the fact that the Chinese government actively muzzled scientists and doctors
00:17:50.040 who were trying to warn the world.
00:17:52.940 And those doctors were working in hospitals.
00:17:55.280 They were, you know, seeing the first patients and seeing the spread as it was spreading from person to person
00:18:02.520 while the Chinese government was saying, oh, no, no, no, it's not spreading person to person.
00:18:05.760 And then the Canadian government was also repeating that Chinese propaganda.
00:18:10.740 So how are we, first of all, to trust any research coming out of the very lab that likely birthed this virus?
00:18:19.500 But also, where's the oversight?
00:18:21.700 How do we know that this is even going to the thing that they say it's supposed to go to?
00:18:26.100 And that's rapid testing, which incidentally already exists.
00:18:29.440 But how do we know that it's not going to fund some sort of biological weapon research?
00:18:35.040 We really don't know.
00:18:36.340 We're just supposed to trust the Chinese communist government when they say they're doing with our money 0.96
00:18:41.580 that they don't need what they say they're going to do with it.
00:18:44.380 Yeah, it's really crazy.
00:18:46.160 You know, you said something earlier about how Americans pick up our story faster than our Canadian,
00:18:52.740 I think you said colleagues, I think rivals or competitors might be a different word.
00:18:56.640 It's funny because every day Justin Trudeau has a very softball press conference.
00:19:02.600 It couldn't be more opposite from the Trump press conference every day where basically journalists line up trying to outdo each other in insulting or gotcha-ing him.
00:19:14.140 I don't think they succeed, but they obviously do since they keep doing it.
00:19:18.060 Compare that to the absolute tongue bath that Trudeau gets because he shuts out rebel news reporters.
00:19:26.600 I would send you or Kian or David Menzies or even go myself in a second.
00:19:31.860 He won't let us there.
00:19:33.120 And my point being, all right, fine, so let's find the news where it is.
00:19:37.200 The news actually is probably not going to be broken by Justin Trudeau because he's not really in the driver's seat.
00:19:43.000 He's sort of lazing about at home for the last month.
00:19:45.760 So it's not like those press conferences, there'll be any source of news there.
00:19:49.560 So the fact that we're banned from his press conference, it's like when we're banned from those global warming UN events that you always go to.
00:19:57.940 In a way, I mean, I'm not going to say it's good to be banned, but it forces you to do some real reporting.
00:20:03.040 Same here.
00:20:03.860 We've done some real reporting.
00:20:05.140 I should tell you, Sheila, that I've had two private contacts from rival journalists who talk to me privately, but I don't want to name them publicly because they'll get in trouble with their bosses.
00:20:16.640 I believe that at least two other journalists in Canada are following up on your scoop.
00:20:21.820 Now, whether or not they'll give you credit for breaking it is a completely different matter.
00:20:25.460 But both of them told me they're following you, which is, I think, their way of saying good on Sheila.
00:20:30.740 Well, we do something that other journalists generally don't do.
00:20:35.400 So when we have access to information documents or we find documents that are sitting on a government website somewhere, which is how we got this, it was out there.
00:20:45.480 It wasn't something that we had to ask for.
00:20:47.880 We just had to be curious enough to find it.
00:20:50.840 And that's how we came across it.
00:20:53.100 But when we have documents or when we find these things on these government websites just hanging to be plucked off the information tree, we link back to it.
00:21:02.200 We show everybody our source documents so that they can check for themselves.
00:21:08.720 And I don't just mean the public check for themselves.
00:21:11.460 I think this information is important information that all Canadians should have so that they can make appropriate decisions about the competency of our government.
00:21:21.100 And I'm I'm I'm happy and I don't need the credit.
00:21:26.280 I'm happy that there are other journalists, rival journalists willing to take the information we found and the sources we link to and run with it.
00:21:35.660 The more eyeballs that get on this work, I think the better it is for the Canadian public.
00:21:41.300 So I don't get too uptight about the fact that they don't link back to my work the way the world's largest cable news network did for me today, which is kind of personally exciting.
00:21:54.940 And I wish I had spent more time on my appearance now that that video is going to go viral.
00:22:00.220 But whatever, live and learn, live and learn.
00:22:02.700 You know, the fact that Trudeau would send this much money to a Chinese government institute that created or at least released this virus shows that there is no change in worldview, no change in ideology, no change in foreign policy stance whatsoever. 0.88
00:22:22.800 Despite the biggest calamity one could imagine, Trudeau is still thinking about, oh, shovel money to foreign countries, including countries richer than us.
00:22:34.360 China can be trusted, including their militarized virus lab. 1.00
00:22:39.960 There's so many embedded assumptions that would and how many people would have been involved with that grant?
00:22:48.020 You've got the people who proposed it, the people who reviewed it, the people who approved it, the people who announced it.
00:22:53.520 I think altogether there were probably 20 or 30 different pairs of eyes looking at that grant.
00:23:00.800 And none of them said, guys, this might be a bad idea.
00:23:05.360 And that tells me that the entire culture of the Canadian government and academia is still so totally beholden to China, to communist China and to communist Chinese science, despite everything.
00:23:22.760 That is shocking to me.
00:23:24.680 I did a little bit of an Internet experiment for myself in all of this.
00:23:30.360 And I haven't seen the Canadian government say anything critical of the Chinese government's handling of the virus at all.
00:23:38.600 You would think now, especially since American intelligence has weighed in with what they think has gone on in Wuhan and specifically at this virus lab,
00:23:48.460 you would think that the Canadians would just follow along, but they haven't said anything.
00:23:52.840 And there's another layer in all of this.
00:23:55.680 Do we even know if the two Michaels being held by the Chinese government are still alive?
00:24:01.600 Did they contract the coronavirus?
00:24:03.540 We don't even know.
00:24:04.840 And while the Chinese government is, for all intents and purposes, completely responsible for this plague and still holding two Canadian political prisoners, 0.86
00:24:14.920 why the heck are we giving them a dime to do any sort of research?
00:24:19.240 Struggling Canadian taxpayers out of work because of the Chinese government should not be giving a penny to the Chinese government. 0.95
00:24:29.040 Yeah.
00:24:29.320 Let alone this militarized institution that caused it all.
00:24:32.820 It is so upside down.
00:24:35.080 It is so upside.
00:24:35.800 It would be like after Pearl Harbor sending a bucket of money to Japan and say,
00:24:40.600 hey, let's study how, you know, something aeronautical or something just crazy, crazy, crazy.
00:24:47.900 And I am worried about it.
00:24:50.820 I don't think that the rest of the world will tolerate the communist Chinese abuses of the world. 1.00
00:24:58.000 I think the United Kingdom may pull back.
00:25:01.960 Boris Johnson himself getting quite ill over this.
00:25:05.140 I think that you will see, I'd like to see public opinion from Spain and Italy and Korea and other places and even in Iran.
00:25:13.500 In Africa, where I don't think the virus has laid waste to the population,
00:25:18.500 maybe because they take a form of hydroxychloroquine and malaria meds.
00:25:22.080 I would like to see world global opinion on China.
00:25:28.380 I think in almost every country in the world, it's got to be plummeting.
00:25:34.060 And yet Justin Trudeau will probably be the last one to abandon his loyalties to communist China.
00:25:41.700 I think if he can't be phased by this, he is so deeply in the tank.
00:25:49.140 It even makes me think of that word, that old Soviet word, kompromat, that they have some compromising material about him.
00:25:56.840 Because how could he be so indifferent to what they've done, especially this virus institute?
00:26:02.880 Last word to you.
00:26:04.020 I think Justin Trudeau's love affair with China is actually going to hurt our economic recovery from what China has done to us with this virus. 0.89
00:26:10.740 I think the United States returning manufacturing to the continental United States will trigger a renaissance in American manufacturing.
00:26:24.320 And we're not going to see that happen in Canada.
00:26:27.280 We're just going to have entire industries dry up and die because we won't detach ourselves from China even after all of this. 1.00
00:26:37.000 Yeah. I think in a way, Trudeau's probably still campaigning for his UN Security Council seat.
00:26:42.860 And maybe he's too afraid to speak against China because he wants their vote.
00:26:46.420 I'm not even kidding. To him, that's more valuable than anything else we've discussed.
00:26:51.420 Sheila, congratulations again.
00:26:54.000 What a great story.
00:26:55.420 And you've got more in the pipeline.
00:26:57.680 I've seen some details of some of them.
00:27:00.260 I can hardly wait.
00:27:00.840 Folks, you've got to see that whole video.
00:27:03.180 You can find it elsewhere on our website.
00:27:04.540 Take care, my friend. Keep up the good work.
00:27:05.820 I will. Thanks, boss.
00:27:07.740 OK, there you have it.
00:27:08.780 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.
00:27:10.280 Stay with us.
00:27:11.160 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:27:20.980 On my monologue yesterday about Trump suspending payments to the World Health Organization, Paul writes,
00:27:26.040 a corrupt organization controlled by China and the UN that describes the World Health Organization and the Liberal Party.
00:27:32.280 No wonder they're so in love with each other.
00:27:33.600 Yeah, as I said to Sheila, it's incredible to me that the Trudeau government has not moved one inch away from their pro-China, globalist, deep state, public health, weird worldview.
00:27:44.720 Like, this has not shaken them in any way.
00:27:47.380 They still believe in giving foreign aid to the Chinese government at this virus lab that caused the whole thing crazy. 0.97
00:27:53.540 Neil writes, the last thing Canada needs is direction from another corrupt entity.
00:27:59.280 We already have a crippling one in Ottawa.
00:28:01.620 Yeah, well, the thing is, the theory is, at least if you have a corrupt politician in Ottawa or Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver,
00:28:10.620 at the end of the day, they're a Canadian.
00:28:12.620 But when we're taking instructions from the United Nations and its World Health Organization agency, they don't have Canada's best interests at heart.
00:28:20.800 They're pursuing China's interests. 0.65
00:28:22.540 That's the problem here.
00:28:23.320 It's a globalist interest.
00:28:24.680 You can have terrible domestic politicians, a terrible mayor, a terrible premier, for example.
00:28:30.460 But at least at the end of the day, they're part of your country.
00:28:33.020 Suzanna writes, Taiwan is not a member of the World Health Organization and has much better results in fighting this virus than the countries who are members.
00:28:41.900 The proof is in the pudding.
00:28:43.060 No World Health Organization needed.
00:28:45.380 Why are we paying them millions of tax dollars every year?
00:28:47.500 Well, exactly.
00:28:48.480 As Louie Gohmert joked, and I said this in yesterday's show, you don't have to pay people to lie to you.
00:28:54.500 They'll probably lie to you for free.
00:28:56.780 Well, I think Trudeau likes being lied to.
00:28:58.920 He likes delegating his thinking to someone else, an expert, and, of course, he still is lobbying for that U.N. Security Council seat.
00:29:06.020 That's what I think is behind this, too.
00:29:08.460 Until next time, my friends, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, stay healthy, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:29:28.920 Thank you.
00:29:30.180 Thank you.