Rebel News Podcast - Three lockdown stories, all connected

00:00:00.080 Hello, my friends.

00:00:01.240 I have a few things I'm going to take you through in today's podcast.

00:00:04.220 I'm going to read a few stories from CTV and Black Walks,

00:00:07.360 but I'm also going to show you what happened to a reporter in B.C., Drea Humphrey.

00:00:13.640 She was asking Justin Trudeau a question.

00:00:15.640 He didn't like it.

00:00:16.320 He brushed her off, and boom, as if on cue, two of Trudeau's bodyguards came.

00:00:21.940 One of them grabbed her, sort of like a rag doll, and wrenched her away from him. 0.99

00:00:26.960 She wasn't doing anything threatening.

00:00:30.120 She wasn't blocking him.

00:00:31.760 She wasn't aggressive.

00:00:32.640 She was just asking a question he didn't like, and he had his bodyguards throw her away. 0.57

00:00:38.160 I'm very upset by it.

00:00:39.820 We've set up a website at standwithdrea.com, and that will be at the end of today's show.

00:00:43.920 Here's today's podcast, but before I get there,

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00:00:55.740 Here's today's podcast.

00:00:56.960 Tonight, I have three lockdown stories that are connected.

00:01:14.920 It's July 9th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:17.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:23.120 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:27.180 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:33.060 Look at this story on CTV's website.

00:01:41.260 The story is called, Most Ontario Youth Experience Depression During Pandemic, Early Data Suggests.

00:01:48.020 Wow.

00:01:48.920 The pandemic causes depression, too.

00:01:51.180 I didn't know that.

00:01:51.860 I thought it only caused respiratory problems, coughs, things like that, and, you know, mainly in old people. 0.96

00:01:59.920 But this pandemic, yeah, you learn new things every day.

00:02:02.840 I'll read some more.

00:02:04.380 Preliminary research suggests the COVID-19 crisis is having sustained and significant impact on youth mental health in Ontario.

00:02:11.060 That COVID-19 again, eh?

00:02:14.000 The COVID crisis is what's hurting kids.

00:02:16.080 That's what CTV says.

00:02:17.480 Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children released initial findings Thursday,

00:02:22.080 indicating that the majority of children and teenagers saw their mental health decline during the pandemic's second wave.

00:02:28.020 Three times now, this story has claimed it's the pandemic that's doing this.

00:02:31.120 The early data, which has not been peer-reviewed, shows that more than half of 758 kids aged 8 to 12 reported significant symptoms of depression from February to March.

00:02:43.240 That's very young.

00:02:44.720 Kids that young should not be depressed.

00:02:47.540 The psychological toll was even more pronounced among teenagers,

00:02:50.640 with 70% of 520 adolescents aged 13 to 18 reporting significant depressive symptoms.

00:02:57.220 The findings draw from the responses of roughly 1,500 parents and children in Ontario as part of a series of periodic surveys tracking youth mental health during the pandemic.

00:03:08.600 Is there a word that's missing here?

00:03:11.460 We've heard pandemic, COVID, pandemic, COVID crisis.

00:03:16.080 But that's not actually what these doctors said, is it?

00:03:20.520 Dr. Daphne Korczak, principal investigator of the ongoing SickKids-led study,

00:03:24.520 says the research shows that Ontario's stringent lockdown measures,

00:03:30.140 including extended school closures in some regions,

00:03:32.840 have posed serious harms to young people that could have lasting consequences.

00:03:37.020 God, boy, I had to read a long way through this, didn't I?

00:03:40.720 So it wasn't the virus that hurt these kids.

00:03:43.540 It wasn't the virus, it wasn't the pandemic, it was the lockdowns,

00:03:46.940 which were 100% human-caused.

00:03:48.380 No virus did that.

00:03:49.500 But there are some places in the United States that never stopped schooling at all.

00:03:54.760 In much of Canada, Ontario's the worst, of course, school is by Zoom, so laptop computers.

00:04:01.420 So hopefully your family can afford that.

00:04:04.280 And hopefully you can have someone at home looking after your kids because they're not at school.

00:04:08.220 And if the kids will only be doing work on the computer,

00:04:12.540 is it really likely if they're watching Zoom all day that they're not also watching a movie or playing games

00:04:18.440 or chatting with their friends?

00:04:19.540 Are they really learning?

00:04:21.740 But even that isn't it, is it?

00:04:23.920 It's living through your computer screen.

00:04:26.040 Going to school by staying at home looking at your screen for eight hours.

00:04:29.920 And then taking some relaxation by watching Netflix on your screen for a few hours.

00:04:33.980 And then saying hi to grandma on your screen for a few hours via Zoom again.

00:04:37.960 And then ordering stuff from Amazon through a screen.

00:04:40.780 And ordering dinner and deliver through a screen.

00:04:42.840 And CTV says it's the virus that's doing them.

00:04:45.840 They're blaming the virus.

00:04:47.800 Oh, but here's the good news.

00:04:49.100 It's from CTV2.

00:04:51.380 I think they're the official sponsor of the lockdown, CTV.

00:04:54.240 Here's the story.

00:04:56.460 Moderna co-founder says COVID-19 booster shots will almost certainly be needed.

00:05:00.700 And you can trust him.

00:05:03.740 The co-founder of Moderna says a regular booster shot will almost certainly be needed to increase protection against COVID-19.

00:05:11.560 Plus, he almost certainly needs another yacht.

00:05:14.440 Oh, sorry, that wasn't in the story.

00:05:16.840 Canadian stem cell biologist Eric Rossi told CTV News Channel on Wednesday that the body's immune system is primed by vaccination or primary infection.

00:05:26.300 However, that immunity wanes over time if those systems are not challenged.

00:05:29.400 I think boosters are most likely going to be in the cards.

00:05:34.300 And evidence is pointing towards that.

00:05:36.220 So this is the evidence emerging out of Israel that a booster is almost certainly the way, Rossi said.

00:05:44.320 So that Dr. Rossi, he's the boss of Moderna.

00:05:48.020 I presume he's one of the nine new pharmaceutical billionaires that have been minted because of the vaccines.

00:05:52.920 Congratulations.

00:05:53.340 Congratulations.

00:05:54.420 And the CTV just publishes his wish list that people will have to take not one, not two, but now three doses and more boosters they're called.

00:06:04.120 That's a good one.

00:06:05.640 Can you imagine any other industry, any other billionaire who's selling something, let alone an experimental medication being given?

00:06:11.200 Just a straight up stenographic boost like that.

00:06:14.960 Just, hey, this billionaire says buy more of his stuff and let's just tell our viewers that and pretend it's not an ad.

00:06:21.520 Let's just not be skeptics.

00:06:23.160 That's too journalistic-y.

00:06:24.380 But as always, Theresa Tam is the most irritating and the most telling. 0.96

00:06:29.660 This one is about submission and political ideology and never forget who your real bosses are.

00:06:34.740 This is a story from Black Locks again.

00:06:37.560 Candidates must be masked.

00:06:40.040 Candidates in an expected COVID election must campaign with masks on.

00:06:43.740 Canada's chief public health officer said yesterday, Dr. Theresa Tam said,

00:06:48.260 even candidates who are fully vaccinated must be masked in the company of strangers.

00:06:54.380 Oh, I didn't know she was our boss. 0.95

00:06:57.180 But I guess a working definition of being a boss is when you give orders, do people follow your orders?

00:07:03.340 If so, I guess you're a boss.

00:07:06.960 Even if you're actually just an obscure, quirky bureaucrat who hasn't had a real patient in years

00:07:12.240 and no one ever heard of you until last year and no one ever voted for you.

00:07:15.520 But if you act like a boss and Trudeau obeys and the media obeys, I guess you're a boss.

00:07:21.060 I encourage all political campaigners and their teams to follow those rules and get vaccinated, Tam told reporters.

00:07:28.400 Canada has never held a general election in a pandemic.

00:07:31.360 Oh, OK.

00:07:32.780 Follow the rules.

00:07:33.420 But what rules are those?

00:07:34.820 You're outside.

00:07:36.500 Door knocking.

00:07:37.280 Campaign events.

00:07:38.260 You have to wear a mask.

00:07:39.800 Whose rules are those?

00:07:42.120 Is it safe to do this right now?

00:07:44.100 Asked the reporter.

00:07:44.800 I have no say on the timing of any election, replied Tam.

00:07:48.720 Oh, but you know she wishes she did. 0.86

00:07:51.920 Obviously, there is guidance provided to how to reduce your risk in terms of wearing a mask, she said.

00:07:56.420 Even if you are vaccinated and you don't know who else is around, whether the people you are encountering are vaccinated or not,

00:08:02.760 then the most prudent precautionary thing to do is wear a mask and make sure there are some distancing measures.

00:08:09.100 Hang on.

00:08:09.440 Now, if vaccines work, why do you need to wear a mask in distance?

00:08:14.940 Come to me, if vaccines work, why do you need a vaccine passport?

00:08:19.380 And actually, if vaccines don't work, why do you need a vaccine passport?

00:08:25.560 Teresa Tam has nothing to say about elections, but she wants to.

00:08:29.740 She knows this.

00:08:31.740 Masks are indeed a flag, proof that you believe, that you obey, that you want to signal to others what group you're in.

00:08:38.400 The mask party, the lockdown party.

00:08:42.000 Trudeau takes off his mask when he wants to, including when he was just overseas with world leaders at the G7.

00:08:48.340 That's a super spreader event.

00:08:50.160 He's double vaxxed, of course, but now that he's on the campaign trail, he's wearing his mask again outdoors.

00:08:56.460 Why?

00:08:56.860 To show that he's part of the elite team, the A team, the inside team, the team that's in charge, the team that can lock you down,

00:09:05.580 the team that can force you to wear one mask or two masks, take one or two or three vaccine shots,

00:09:11.300 and keep changing the rules of the game, keep dangling a freedom date in front of you.

00:09:15.280 But, oh, shucks, we have this new variant, you know.

00:09:18.020 So sorry, we have to delay your freedom again.

00:09:20.680 And, yeah, things aren't going to get any better, are they?

00:09:24.620 And Trudeau's going to get another majority, isn't he?

00:09:28.500 Stay with us for more.

00:09:29.480 Well, remember a few years ago when Justin Trudeau decided to add a political purity test

00:09:48.220 to anyone seeking a summer jobs student grant?

00:09:53.280 Let me explain what I mean.

00:09:54.480 The federal government claims it wants to help kids get summer jobs,

00:09:58.320 and to do so they would provide grants for the kind of jobs you'd expect kids to do over the summer,

00:10:03.820 including, for example, being a camp counselor, that sort of thing.

00:10:07.920 But all of a sudden, if you were a business applying for a grant,

00:10:12.640 you had to sign something called an attestation that you agreed with Justin Trudeau

00:10:18.340 on his particular brand of sexual and religious morality.

00:10:25.300 You had to support his views on things like being pro-choice and things like gay marriage.

00:10:32.260 In other words, you could not get money for a completely unrelated thing.

00:10:38.300 You could not get money to hire a student unless you swore in writing that you agreed with Trudeau on moral questions.

00:10:47.560 By the way, you don't have to agree with Trudeau on moral questions.

00:10:52.200 You're allowed in Canada under the Charter of Rights to have any opinion you like.

00:10:55.880 Now, you're not allowed to discriminate in Canada, but you can hold any view you like.

00:11:01.000 Justin Trudeau, however, said otherwise, and he made a rule that if you didn't swear that you agreed with him,

00:11:08.040 you wouldn't get the dough.

00:11:09.140 Well, one university that applied for such dough is called Redeemer University, as the name suggests.

00:11:15.800 They have a Christian point of view.

00:11:17.520 They're based in greater Hamilton, Ontario, and they applied for grants for about 10 kids.

00:11:23.840 They were rejected.

00:11:25.420 They were told to fill out a form with more information.

00:11:28.360 They did.

00:11:29.640 They were rejected again.

00:11:31.720 And they sued.

00:11:33.460 And incredibly, they won.

00:11:35.420 Not only did they win, the judge slammed the federal government for their bigotry and did something I have very rarely seen.

00:11:44.340 They awarded Redeemer University their full legal cost down to the penny of the cost of challenging the ruling.

00:11:53.060 Joining us now via Skype is the interim president of Redeemer University, Dr. David Zietzman.

00:11:59.420 Dr. Zietzman, welcome to the program and congratulations.

00:12:01.820 I would have thought this court victory, the federal court a couple weeks ago by Mr. Justice Richard Mosley, would have been national news.

00:12:11.820 Maybe it's against the narrative of the establishment media because I haven't seen it widely covered.

00:12:17.880 I think that this is an enormous victory.

00:12:20.040 How do you feel about it?

00:12:22.600 Yes, certainly we're very pleased with the ruling that the court provided.

00:12:28.100 We have certainly seen news in our neck of the woods.

00:12:33.860 The CBC here has covered it.

00:12:36.420 And Global News, I did an interview with them as well.

00:12:39.440 So it's certainly received some traction, at least in our area.

00:12:45.000 And we're glad that Canadians are talking about this a little bit.

00:12:48.860 We think it's an important step for recognizing the charter rights of faith-based institutions like Redeemer University.

00:12:56.340 Well, I'm very glad that it has received coverage, even if just on a local basis.

00:13:00.600 Can I ask you, did you think that media coverage was fair or at least fair enough?

00:13:07.700 I think generally you're always, you know, you'd always prefer to have the media cover your institution the exact way you want it.

00:13:16.480 But overall, I can say the issues have been covered in generally a fair way.

00:13:21.240 Well, that's good to hear.

00:13:22.880 And that's a little bit remarkable in itself.

00:13:25.020 I want to read to you from Justice Mosley's ruling, paragraph 40, because I think this really shines a light on it.

00:13:32.700 And, Doctor, I'm going to rely on you to correct me if I'm misunderstanding this.

00:13:36.820 So you basically said, well, we're going to appeal our rejection.

00:13:41.100 They sent you basically a demand for more info, but they didn't really pay attention to it, according to the ruling.

00:13:48.540 Just some bureaucrat did a little Google search.

00:13:52.360 Well, let me read how the judge put it.

00:13:53.840 This is from paragraph 40.

00:13:55.960 Quote, what appears to have happened is that the program officer reviewing the application did a cursory search of the Internet

00:14:02.820 for information about Redeemer's policies and practices, turned up a few pages about its faith-based approach to education

00:14:10.480 and submitted them to the Escalation Committee as evidence of Redeemer's ineligibility.

00:14:17.980 The missing information letter was not, in my view, a genuine attempt to seek clarification of further information from the applicant,

00:14:26.000 as the letter did not address the real concerns held by the respondent.

00:14:29.080 Those concerns related to the undoubtedly sincere beliefs of the applicant's community regarding the nature of marriage.

00:14:36.700 Most importantly, the respondent, the respondent's the government here,

00:14:40.080 failed to give the applicant, that's you guys, an opportunity to demonstrate how those beliefs did not result in discriminatory practices.

00:14:48.760 Sending the letter was simply going through the motions to appear to be fair, not an exercise in fairness itself.

00:14:56.400 So if I'm reading that correctly, and Dr. Zeitzman, you correct me if I'm not.

00:15:01.640 The court said that they were just asking you to fill out forms, and they weren't even really paying attention.

00:15:07.400 As soon as they saw that you guys were believing Christians, that you had a faith-based approach to education,

00:15:14.120 they knew they weren't going to give you the dough, even though you do not discriminate,

00:15:19.700 you do not treat people illegally or poorly.

00:15:23.120 They just saw Christian, they saw faith-based, and they just threw it out.

00:15:27.880 They knew the fix was in.

00:15:30.080 That's my reading of Justice Mosley's ruling.

00:15:34.100 Is that how you take it?

00:15:37.860 Yeah, I think that's approximately correct, Ezra.

00:15:41.020 I mean, this goes back to 2018 as well, when Redeemer University submitted an application

00:15:46.620 but did not check the attestation that was required during that year,

00:15:51.660 and that court case is still before the courts.

00:15:56.020 In 2019, while the government backed away from that attestation,

00:15:59.800 they gave an indication that workplaces had to demonstrate

00:16:06.880 that they were free from discrimination and harassment.

00:16:10.180 And as you said, our understanding is someone elevated us to high risk

00:16:14.940 because of something they found on the internet, referring to Redeemer.

00:16:20.060 And they informed us and asked us, actually, for more information.

00:16:24.260 So to be fair to the government, they asked us to provide information

00:16:28.280 that demonstrated that we create a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

00:16:33.320 And so Redeemer undertook to do that.

00:16:35.800 In fact, we provided extensive information, including our anti-discrimination policies.

00:16:40.400 It is at that point that the government appeared to have already made up its mind.

00:16:45.500 And we were informed later that we had been rejected

00:16:50.860 because we did not provide a workplace free of harassment or discrimination.

00:16:55.140 But there was no basis given to us for that allegation,

00:16:58.080 when, in fact, Redeemer has never been found

00:17:01.240 to have committed an act of discrimination or harassment.

00:17:05.800 Certainly, we're not perfect.

00:17:08.100 No organization is, but we've never been found liable

00:17:11.320 for any act of harassment or discrimination.

00:17:13.640 So as far as we could tell, there was no basis for that allegation

00:17:17.700 and the rejection, which is what caused us, inevitably,

00:17:21.500 to seek a judicial review.

00:17:23.600 So we did not sue the government,

00:17:26.100 but we sought a judicial review of the decision,

00:17:29.480 asking the court to determine whether we had been treated fairly in this process.

00:17:34.400 And furthermore, whether we had been treated in a way consistent

00:17:39.500 with our charter rights of freedom, expression, and conscience.

00:17:42.740 And so that was the basis for requesting the federal court

00:17:46.460 to perform a judicial review.

00:17:48.820 Yeah.

00:17:49.200 Well, I mean, a judicial review, of course, is a kind of a lawsuit.

00:17:52.420 You're suing to have a court overturn the decision by the bureaucrat.

00:17:57.720 But what stands out, and I was just reading the ruling here,

00:18:01.860 is that they called you high risk, but they had no factual basis for it.

00:18:07.380 They said you were at high risk to discriminate,

00:18:10.200 and their only reason for saying so, according to this ruling,

00:18:12.880 if I'm reading it right, is because you are explicitly Christian.

00:18:16.940 I think that's a form of bigotry.

00:18:19.280 And frankly, the irony here, they're the ones who were discriminating.

00:18:23.900 They were saying, we're not going to give any money to discriminators.

00:18:29.120 You're not a discriminator.

00:18:30.440 They had no proof you're a discriminator.

00:18:32.560 But they tagged you specifically because you're Christian.

00:18:37.600 That tells me that they're projecting with this whole bigotry thing.

00:18:41.280 That's my view, doctor.

00:18:42.580 Yeah, look, I think there's no doubt, Ezra, that they might view this as a case of competing rights,

00:18:52.920 and that creates challenges.

00:18:54.060 However, it's important that the government remain neutral

00:18:57.840 and not promote one set of rights over another set of rights.

00:19:02.060 The government has a responsibility, in our view, to protect and balance all rights,

00:19:06.360 not just those of one particular group.

00:19:08.480 And, you know, we understand that that's not easy, but it can't be a matter of just saying,

00:19:13.360 you know, we're going to pick these rights and prioritize them and ignore the rights of others.

00:19:18.560 So, you know, rights in the charter can be subverted or weakened

00:19:21.880 when a governing party shows preference for one set of rights over another.

00:19:27.100 And it can also set a dangerous precedent because governing parties change,

00:19:31.040 and perhaps the next government might choose a different set of rights to prioritize

00:19:34.240 or promote at the expense of others.

00:19:37.140 And so our goal here was to seek the court's intervention on principle.

00:19:43.300 We did not seek damages, nor, of course, could we seek restitution of the jobs.

00:19:47.600 That time had passed. The summer was long gone.

00:19:50.440 But we wanted the court to weigh in on whether our charter rights had been violated.

00:19:54.700 Well, you know, it is quite a ruling, and the fact that you were awarded your full cost,

00:20:02.200 that's unusual.

00:20:02.920 I should tell you, we sue the government from time to time, and at most, we get a fraction of our costs.

00:20:08.260 But for the judge to order every single penny of the lawsuit, like, you're correct to point out,

00:20:13.740 you didn't get the job money in the end.

00:20:15.540 But that is quite a stinging rebuke.

00:20:17.260 Here's what worries me about this whole thing,

00:20:19.080 is that if we start allowing Justin Trudeau to make ordinary Canadian individuals, businesses, whatever,

00:20:27.420 say, I agree with you on contentious issues,

00:20:31.240 if we force people to swear an oath that they obey the prime minister's whims

00:20:37.340 before they let them have summer jobs grants.

00:20:40.380 Well, why not before they give them a pension, before they're allowed to have a passport?

00:20:45.620 I mean, it's completely unrelated to the question of summer jobs.

00:20:50.200 I mean, it's almost as if you're not allowed to go to the hospital.

00:20:53.800 You're not allowed to get a welfare check.

00:20:56.100 These are things that the government does for Canadians, regardless of our ideology.

00:21:00.300 This put a litmus test between Canadians and any benefits from the state.

00:21:07.300 I don't think Trudeau's done with this.

00:21:09.440 I think this is a slap on his hand from the federal court,

00:21:12.560 but I think this continues to animate a lot of his public policy.

00:21:18.080 Can I ask you, in 2020 and in 2021, did this issue come up for you as well?

00:21:26.940 We applied for Canada summer jobs, both in 2020 and in 2021.

00:21:32.180 In the case of the 2020 application, we heard nothing back until we successfully received

00:21:40.840 the funding in December for jobs that would have been needed in the summer six months previous.

00:21:49.600 So obviously, unfortunately, we were unable to hire any students for the summer

00:21:56.240 because we didn't hear until December.

00:21:58.240 For this summer, for summer 2021, our application was successful,

00:22:03.940 but we only found out on June 17th.

00:22:06.740 And so we're probably only able to secure one student.

00:22:10.880 I mean, it's so close to the time of the program that it becomes very difficult for us to execute it.

00:22:17.640 So, you know, and we're trying to be gracious and understanding that during COVID,

00:22:23.360 you know, perhaps the processing timelines and other things are more difficult.

00:22:26.860 And so we're excited to get our application together for the summer 2022 program.

00:22:33.920 See, you're a New Testament guy.

00:22:36.140 You're a turn-the-other-cheek guy.

00:22:37.960 You're a thinker-the-best guy.

00:22:40.140 I'm more Old Testament in my thinking.

00:22:42.580 And what I see here is bigotry, having been slapped down by the federal court,

00:22:49.700 is now expressing itself with a disguise of incompetence.

00:22:53.900 This government is, if there's one thing it's good at, it's spending money and throwing money out the door.

00:23:02.360 And the fact that they gave you your summer jobs grant money in December last year,

00:23:08.700 and this year, when the summer had begun, I don't think that's a coincidence.

00:23:13.580 I know you're a man of good faith and, you know, give people the benefit of the doubt.

00:23:19.400 I am not as open-minded as you when it comes to assessing the motives of the government.

00:23:26.860 Listen, I wish you good luck in dealing with this bigoted government.

00:23:31.460 I think it's fair for me to call them bigoted, based on what Justice Mosley discovered in his judicial review.

00:23:37.660 I think it's fair to call them incompetent with how they're, you know, messing with you.

00:23:43.940 We're now on, what, four years in a row for that.

00:23:47.880 But I appreciate you coming on the show to tell the story.

00:23:50.320 You're much better behaved than me, doctor, and that's why you're the president of a university,

00:23:54.320 and I'm just a troublemaker over here.

00:23:57.400 But I wish you good luck, and I'm really glad you suited.

00:23:59.600 There's a lesson in there to stand up for your rights, and I'm glad you did.

00:24:02.900 Yeah, like, we really believe that, you know, it's important that Canada, as a diverse nation,

00:24:08.120 has a diverse and pluralistic set of post-secondary institutions.

00:24:12.400 Faith-based universities like Redeemer offer incredible degrees,

00:24:15.600 are an important part of the fabric of Canadian society.

00:24:18.000 So, you know, we want to continue to fight for those principles

00:24:21.440 and to have a diverse post-secondary sector that includes faith-based institutions like Redeemer University.

00:24:26.480 I agree completely.

00:24:27.000 Thank you very much for having me today.

00:24:28.080 Yeah, well, it's my pleasure.

00:24:29.160 And I'm familiar with your lawyer, Alberto Polizagopoulos, and he is a great fighter for freedom.

00:24:34.740 So it's great to see him notch up a win.

00:24:38.280 Thanks, doctor.

00:24:39.240 Great to have you on the show today.

00:24:41.260 Thank you very much.

00:24:41.980 Have a good day.

00:24:42.460 You too.

00:24:42.900 All right, there you have it, Dr. David Zietzman, a much more polite man than me.

00:24:46.520 He's the interim president of Redeemer University.

00:24:49.380 A huge win in federal court, but just as troubling as what they did to him there

00:24:56.000 was what they did in the subsequent years, don't you think?

00:24:59.040 Stay with us.

00:24:59.760 More ahead.

00:25:11.620 Hello, my friends.

00:25:12.460 Instead of reading you mail today, I'd like to show you a new video I just made.

00:25:15.960 It's called StandWithDrea.com.

00:25:17.680 I'm referring to Dre Humphrey.

00:25:18.880 I don't know if you know this, but she got assaulted, I think is the word, by one of

00:25:24.560 the prime minister's bodyguards.

00:25:25.840 Here, take a look at this.

00:25:26.600 I'll say goodbye to you now, but check out this video we put up at StandWithDrea.com.

00:25:31.100 I'm furious, but I need your help.

00:25:33.800 Our Vancouver reporter, Dre Humphrey, was physically manhandled by Justin Trudeau's personal bodyguards

00:25:41.160 for simply asking questions Trudeau didn't like.

00:25:44.140 Take a look for yourself.

00:25:45.200 You talked about Canada's last wrongs, the past things they haven't done right.

00:25:52.080 When will you speak out about the 20 vandalized churches?

00:25:55.280 They're burning churches and vandalizing them, and you're not calling it a hate crime.

00:26:01.040 That makes me sick.

00:26:02.960 Dre is an accomplished journalist, a registered member of the Independent Press Gallery.

00:26:07.540 She was invited to attend Trudeau's campaign press conferences in British Columbia this week

00:26:12.960 during his pre-election swing through the province.

00:26:15.880 She asked Trudeau about the wave of arson targeting churches across Canada, especially in B.C.

00:26:23.200 Now, Trudeau refused to take her questions and walked away from the podium to pose for selfies

00:26:29.740 with the public.

00:26:30.880 That's more his speed.

00:26:32.900 Dre politely walked beside him, asking her questions again.

00:26:36.520 She was never threatening or abusive.

00:26:38.780 She never blocked his path.

00:26:40.600 She never posed any physical danger to Trudeau whatsoever.

00:26:44.680 She was simply asking him questions he didn't like.

00:26:48.020 Trudeau brushed her off, and a squad of Trudeau's RCMP bodyguards immediately swooped in, physically

00:26:55.160 grabbed her, and pulled her away from asking her questions like she was a rag doll or something.

00:27:01.240 The shocking interaction was caught on video.

00:27:04.480 There's no denying it.

00:27:05.840 This is simply unacceptable in a liberal democracy, but it fits with Trudeau's growing reputation

00:27:11.260 as a thin-skinned politician who can't stand criticism, especially from strong women. 1.00

00:27:17.560 Just ask Jody Wilson-Raybould.

00:27:19.660 Trudeau prefers to call on hand-picked journalists that he can control, usually CBC state reporters

00:27:25.720 or journalists from bailout newspapers.

00:27:29.080 They're calling in armed bodyguards to physically assault Drea is a new low, even for Trudeau. 1.00

00:27:35.720 Please help us fight back.

00:27:38.000 Go to standwithdrea.com to sign our petition to Trudeau, telling him to call off his bullies

00:27:44.280 and stop ordering the RCMP to assault journalists.

00:27:48.300 And at that same page, you can read our complaint letter to the RCMP Complaints Commission,

00:27:53.240 drafted by our general counsel.

00:27:55.060 We're not simply going to let this slide.

00:27:58.540 I know that in Trudeau's male feminist world, you get to assault women you don't like and

00:28:03.280 then brush it off.

00:28:04.740 Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly

00:28:13.340 in a professional context, can experience it differently.

00:28:16.160 Yeah, that's not going to happen here.

00:28:17.740 If this is how Trudeau behaves now, you know it's only going to get worse during the stress

00:28:23.120 of the campaign when he doesn't like more questions.

00:28:26.140 We've got to nip this in the bud.

00:28:28.400 Sign our petition now at standwithdrea.com.

00:28:31.340 And if you can help us cover the cost of our lawyer's intervention, please do.

00:28:34.600 You know, Drea is too polite to say it herself, but I really think that Trudeau has a problem

00:28:40.200 with strong women.

00:28:41.100 Whether it's Jane Philpott, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Selena, Cesar, Chavan, he really seems to

00:28:47.060 hate it when a woman questions him, especially a woman of color. 0.96

00:28:50.960 Imagine the national outcry of Trudeau and a CBC reporter assaulted this way.

00:28:55.300 But of course, that would never happen because a CBC reporter would never ask Trudeau a real

00:29:00.240 question, so he would never lose his temper this way and give in to his rage.

00:29:04.680 Please go to standwithdrea.com to sign our petition and chip into our legal complaint against

00:29:10.720 Trudeau's bodyguards.

00:29:11.700 And one more thing, you can be sure having Trudeau's tough guys push her around isn't

00:29:16.380 going to stop Drea from being Vancouver's most effective independent reporter. 0.99

00:29:20.740 Please go to standwithdrea.com.

00:29:22.640 Thanks.

00:29:23.020 Thank you.

00:29:36.940 I love you.

00:29:38.760 I do.

00:29:39.100 I love you.

00:29:40.060 I love you.

00:29:40.880 I love you.

00:29:41.100 I love you.

00:29:41.920 I love you.

00:29:42.080 I love you.

00:29:43.540 I love you.

00:29:44.480 Thank you.

00:29:45.520 I love you.

00:29:47.140 Thanks.

00:29:50.380 Thanks.

00:29:52.200 Thanks.

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Rebel News Podcast - July 10, 2021

Three lockdown stories, all connected

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