Rebel News Podcast - Toronto’s liberal snobs react to Alberta’s election. I think they're jealous.

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I want to show you some Toronto reactions to the Alberta election.

00:00:06.420 It's just exactly what you'd think it would be.

00:00:08.260 But actually, there's a little clip I'm going to show you that is so gorgeous.

00:00:12.560 It's from Edmonton. City News in Edmonton has this amazing panel.

00:00:16.780 Oh, my God. You're going to enjoy it because it's so funny.

00:00:20.160 But I wish you could see it on the podcast because one of the gals, 1.00

00:00:24.060 I shouldn't even say gal, that's assuming their gender. 1.00

00:00:25.920 G is chawing gum like as my grandma used to say, don't chew.

00:00:33.060 It looks like you're chewing your cud, like she would say when I would chaw gum. 0.93

00:00:38.680 This G is chewing gum like it's just a workout.

00:00:43.220 She's getting her cardio, chewing gum, and that just adds to the gorgiosity of it.

00:00:48.080 The reason I say you should watch it in video is because it's hilarious.

00:00:52.080 But also because that would make you a premium subscriber to The Rebel.

00:00:55.480 Go to the rebel.media slash shows and sign up.

00:00:58.960 It's eight bucks a month.

00:01:00.320 This is gorgeous. It's funny.

00:01:02.920 It is funny.

00:01:04.740 And you got to see this G.

00:01:07.060 You got to.

00:01:09.600 All right. The rebel.media slash shows.

00:01:12.180 Without further to do, here's my podcast about Toronto's take on the Alberta election.

00:01:17.500 Take a listen.

00:01:18.940 You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast.

00:01:21.480 Tonight, Toronto's liberals react to Alberta's election.

00:01:25.800 It's April 18th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:28.220 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:34.060 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:38.140 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:44.000 Well, Albertans have spoken.

00:01:51.980 63 seats in the legislature for Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party, 24 seats for the NDP.

00:01:58.740 My prediction was off a bit.

00:02:00.460 I thought Kenney would get 70 seats.

00:02:03.140 I'm slightly surprised that Edmonton was so solidly for the NDP.

00:02:06.480 I guess they never really experienced the depth of the recession that the rest of the province did, that the private sector did, especially oil and gas and construction and everything depends on it.

00:02:17.120 Retail, restaurants, auto dealers, everything real.

00:02:21.060 The public sector bubble was great.

00:02:23.800 50,000 plus new jobs for bureaucrats in the past four years.

00:02:27.340 So, yeah, I guess out of sheer self-interest, why would they vote to end their own NDP gravy train?

00:02:32.480 There might be one or two revisions as some late-counted ballot boxes are included, but it's a done deal.

00:02:39.960 Jason Kenney is the next Premier of Alberta, and it wasn't as close as pundits wished it was or claimed it would be.

00:02:46.900 It was 55% to 32% going by raw popular vote.

00:02:51.800 Again, it shouldn't have even been that much for the NDP, don't you think?

00:02:54.480 But I expect that in the next election, the NDP will fall further down,

00:02:58.160 since voting for an NDP opposition doesn't make the gravy train run.

00:03:01.580 Again, some Edmontonians might want representation in a Conservative caucus or cabinet,

00:03:06.980 and some might actually like having a prosperous private sector again.

00:03:12.700 I love the fact that, subject to those late ballots being counted,

00:03:16.240 the one Conservative candidate who was elected in Edmonton was this guy, Casey Maddu.

00:03:23.080 Now, I've never met him, but he seems like a wonderful Canadian success story.

00:03:27.560 I like the fact that he's politically incorrect enough, politically real enough to look at this,

00:03:32.860 to pose for a photo with our very own Stop Notley Lawn sign.

00:03:38.380 Boy, he's looking good, and that sign's looking good?

00:03:41.180 That made me feel great to see this photo.

00:03:43.680 You know, we handed out 5,000 of those signs, and by we, I mean Sheila and Kian did.

00:03:48.600 It made me laugh when the left-wing pressure groups immediately jumped on Casey Maddu, 0.99

00:03:54.400 a black immigrant to Canada, and implied he was some sort of, I don't know what,

00:03:58.900 white supremacist, Nazi, or whatever. 0.99

00:04:01.920 He's a black man! 1.00

00:04:03.400 It was just perfect, because why not? 0.90

00:04:05.300 I mean, it's not like that accusation has any substantive merit 99% of the time when it's applied to a white guy.

00:04:11.380 So, why should that stop them from smearing a black guy whose only sin was to be a proud conservative?

00:04:17.260 I love this guy, and I've never even met him.

00:04:20.120 Now, Maddu's NDP opponent is a leftist, former CBC journalist named John Archer,

00:04:26.540 and he tweeted out this bizarre image.

00:04:30.660 I don't know, is that his own handwriting or his kid or something?

00:04:34.660 It's weird.

00:04:35.540 Vote as if your skin is not white. 0.96

00:04:41.060 What?

00:04:42.080 What?

00:04:42.740 What does that mean?

00:04:44.760 And why would a white man tell voters to vote as if they're black, if they're white,

00:04:52.620 and if his opponent was black, why is he so obsessed with race anyways?

00:04:57.140 I don't even get it, but I am delighted that John Archer, the NDPer, lost, and Maddu won.

00:05:02.720 But can I show you something just insane?

00:05:06.200 Here's an election night panel put together by an Edmonton TV station called Citi.

00:05:11.440 Now, the host seems nice enough, seems like a nice guy, and there's three young women on the panel.

00:05:15.900 You know the young lady on the right here. 0.99

00:05:17.900 Her name is Amber Ruddy.

00:05:19.300 She's a great pro-business advocate. 0.94

00:05:21.520 We've had her on the show.

00:05:23.000 She's really smart on this panel, too.

00:05:25.180 But would you forgive me?

00:05:26.100 I'm not going to show you Amber's remarks here.

00:05:28.920 She basically said it was a vote for free enterprise and jobs and pipelines.

00:05:31.880 That's correct.

00:05:32.900 But my point today in showing this clip is to show how unhinged the two leftists on the panel were.

00:05:39.040 So I'm only going to play some clips from those other two guests.

00:05:42.640 I'm not sure what the theme or the rationale behind the construction of this panel was.

00:05:48.720 Young women, okay, I get it.

00:05:50.020 Sounds good.

00:05:50.980 But just take a look at these two gals. 1.00

00:05:56.400 I think it's a sad day for Alberta.

00:05:58.460 I really feel like in the next four years, our anxieties will be founded.

00:06:03.440 The UCP has shown us sort of who they are and the people they're going to support.

00:06:08.060 We even just saw showing Mark Smith's writing that he won.

00:06:12.120 And just a few years ago, he tried to put a policy forward to make it legal to fire teachers for being gay.

00:06:19.320 I'm beyond furious right now.

00:06:22.380 I'd like to thank the people of Alberta for showing me how little this province cares about LGBTQ rights,

00:06:30.900 about the rights of poor and working class people, racialized people, immigrants, refugees, newcomers.

00:06:39.280 And to see how little this province cares.

00:06:44.920 I am so furious with this province right now.

00:06:48.160 And to know that my fellow Albertans chose the economy and jobs often on false promises of improving the economy on sometimes baseless claims

00:07:04.600 and how that is more important than the life of myself and so many others.

00:07:10.540 Thank you, Alberta, for showing me exactly who you are.

00:07:15.200 Holy macaroni.

00:07:19.280 Yikes.

00:07:20.520 I'm just going to back away slowly and not make eye contact.

00:07:25.840 Folks, that is what the left looks like today.

00:07:28.340 I like the gum chewing.

00:07:29.540 It added a certain youthful je ne sais quoi.

00:07:32.340 So much for the party of the working man and woman. 0.99

00:07:36.520 And the NDP, as you may know, was started as a party of labor and farmers.

00:07:43.900 That's what the CCF was.

00:07:46.160 It was the progenitor of the NDP.

00:07:47.760 It's now the party of, I guess, personal therapy for professionally aggrieved activists who seem to hate their neighbors.

00:07:59.100 That, I saw a lot of hate there.

00:08:00.500 I didn't see a lot of hate on the Kenny campaign.

00:08:02.480 But whoo, whoo, whoo. 1.00

00:08:04.440 That's why I'm shocked that Edmonton even voted for the NDP again.

00:08:07.200 Is that really the look and the sound of Edmonton these days?

00:08:10.180 If it is, yikes.

00:08:12.380 And look at this.

00:08:13.160 Look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look.

00:08:15.320 Look at that top there.

00:08:16.700 An NDP activist wrote a bit of a Jesse Smollett.

00:08:21.140 You know that black actor in Chicago who claimed he was attacked at 3 a.m. by a couple of Donald Trump supporters who saw him outside of the Subway sandwich?

00:08:29.060 Remember that story?

00:08:29.820 And they put a noose around his neck, he said, and threw bleach on him and he fought them back off.

00:08:34.260 And the whole time he never let go of his Subway sandwich.

00:08:37.180 Remember that hoax?

00:08:38.840 Well, let me read this guy's version of Jesse Smollett.

00:08:42.880 He said, this literally just happened.

00:08:45.920 I'm going to read it in my Miles McKinnis voice.

00:08:47.840 This literally just happened.

00:08:49.100 I'm walking my dogs by myself in Old Strathcona and this white guy, yuck, looks at us from across the street.

00:08:57.700 And by us, I mean me and my dogs.

00:08:59.740 And he does a Nazi salute and says, Heil Kenny, broad daylight, casuals, anything, clear and confident.

00:09:06.800 I wish this was a joke, but it's literally true. 0.70

00:09:11.700 Yeah, no, brother, that didn't happen.

00:09:13.680 That did not happen.

00:09:14.600 And I'm glad you left out the part about the dragons and the pirates because that's even less credible.

00:09:20.440 But look at the reply.

00:09:21.380 Do you see that reply underneath it from Denise Balkassoon?

00:09:24.540 She is a Globe and Mail columnist.

00:09:27.780 She is the daughter of a liberal politician in Ontario.

00:09:30.860 And she says, hi, Parker.

00:09:32.860 I'm a Globe columnist.

00:09:34.400 Can you follow me for a sec so we can direct message?

00:09:39.000 Yeah, folks, you're watching a hoax being concocted in real time right there.

00:09:43.780 And he totally looked at my dogs and he called my dogs Nazis.

00:09:47.220 And then he ran away in a pickup truck and he said, Heil Cunning.

00:09:52.920 And then the dragons came.

00:09:55.460 But those two women in that first City News video, I'm hoping, I hope I'm not assuming their gender wrong. 0.98

00:10:02.700 You know, Xi and Jure and then that NDP extremist and that Globe extremist.

00:10:08.360 Because that's people who are a little bit off their rocker.

00:10:13.740 I don't think most people are like that.

00:10:15.340 I don't even think most liberals are like that.

00:10:17.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:10:18.280 But I'm afraid an awful lot of liberals and leftists are like this.

00:10:23.620 This is from the Toronto Star, naturally.

00:10:26.480 Alberta is now in reverse gear and roaring backwards.

00:10:30.700 Back to the day when a high school dropout could earn $100,000 a year driving a truck for an oil sands giant.

00:10:36.380 And back to a time when no one had even thought of climate change.

00:10:39.940 All delusion.

00:10:42.380 Really?

00:10:43.320 So Alberta is in reverse gear now?

00:10:45.440 Alberta has the highest unemployment rate west of the Atlantic provinces.

00:10:49.480 That's insane.

00:10:51.300 Calgary has the worst unemployment rate in the country.

00:10:53.040 How is that even possible?

00:10:54.320 So that's now.

00:10:56.620 While every other oil jurisdiction in North America is booming.

00:10:59.440 Texas, North Dakota, whatever.

00:11:00.660 And the Toronto Star says that Kenny will be putting the province in reverse somehow.

00:11:07.160 But look at what they really mean.

00:11:09.720 They really mean he's going to be good for business.

00:11:13.020 Roaring.

00:11:14.040 They just say he's roaring backwards.

00:11:16.540 So they admit the engine's roaring.

00:11:18.380 But it's roaring back to a time when what?

00:11:21.860 Well, when the Alberta economy wasn't on his knees.

00:11:23.880 That's weird to complain about that.

00:11:25.540 But the key part is the classist sneer.

00:11:30.380 Back to a day, they said, when a high school dropout could earn $100,000 a year driving a truck for an oil sands giant.

00:11:37.680 That's what they said.

00:11:38.740 Really?

00:11:40.480 That sounds pretty good to me.

00:11:43.040 Pretty good.

00:11:43.900 A hundred grand to be a truck driver.

00:11:45.940 Now, those are some pretty big trucks.

00:11:47.100 I remember 2013, 2014, before oil prices tumbled, before the NDP brought in their carbon tax.

00:11:56.220 There were truck drivers making that kind of money.

00:11:58.580 I met a welder.

00:12:00.220 He was maybe like 25.

00:12:02.560 He was making $180,000 a year as a welder.

00:12:09.860 A hundred and eighty grand.

00:12:12.080 It's pretty good for a skilled trade and even unskilled trades.

00:12:15.480 I remember meeting a mom from Newfoundland in Fort McMurray.

00:12:20.140 Actually, she was just outside the city.

00:12:21.600 She said she would come to Alberta to cook at a work camp for the men for a few months a year.

00:12:26.800 Remember, the oil sands aren't in the city of Fort McMurray proper.

00:12:29.880 They're maybe a hundred miles out or something.

00:12:31.360 So they live in this camp.

00:12:32.720 And this lady from Newfoundland basically just cooked for the guys. 1.00

00:12:36.200 And she told me she made so much money just cooking, you know, bacon and eggs for breakfast

00:12:43.140 and sandwiches for lunch or whatever.

00:12:44.960 She made so much money doing that in the wintertime when the ground was hard and they could operate

00:12:50.680 there that she could then go home for most of the year, actually, to Newfoundland and still

00:12:57.780 afford to live in her town and follow her passion, which didn't pay at all.

00:13:02.300 She ran a bed and breakfast out there.

00:13:04.400 So she made, I don't know, about 75 grand a year just cooking for the guys for a few months. 0.87

00:13:11.360 And then she'd go back to, I don't know, Twillingate or whatever outport she was in

00:13:16.600 and live off that money in a low cost town that was home.

00:13:20.540 That's a great story.

00:13:23.180 Yeah, Toronto Star, I don't think she had a university degree.

00:13:26.560 Sorry that the little people are getting ahead and loving it and succeeding without some government 0.99

00:13:33.120 grant or some taxpayer investment or some strategic smart cities supercluster innovation program

00:13:40.400 that winds up giving 12 million bucks to Loblaws for fridges or something.

00:13:45.280 You know, severely normal people, including those without a university degree, make money

00:13:49.980 driving and welding and digging and cooking and building a country and selling things that

00:13:56.440 people actually want, or at least they used to until the NDP flattened the place.

00:13:59.960 Unlike the Toronto Star, for example, by the way, a business that's losing so much money

00:14:05.100 that it's applying for, yeah, you guessed it, a government bailout, a college degree, they say.

00:14:11.440 What college degree exactly should those young men and young women spend four years and what,

00:14:16.600 incur a hundred grand in student loans? What should they get? Which grievance studies should

00:14:23.100 they focus on? Gender studies, colonialism studies, vegetarian studies maybe? What are they

00:14:30.020 peddling in universities today? Why? Spend a hundred grand in debt so you can graduate with a useless

00:14:37.140 degree and then earn maybe 15 bucks an hour writing clickbait for the Toronto Star? Yeah,

00:14:43.140 that's a better idea then. Who would even want to do that? Who would even want to do that? Yeah,

00:14:48.680 Alberta is back. And no, it's not ruining the climate, even the United Nations itself. The

00:14:54.100 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that all the carbon taxes in the world won't actually

00:14:59.740 change the weather. You'll notice that even Catherine McKenna, the cult leader here in Canada,

00:15:05.440 she never claims that her carbon tax will change the weather. Look at her vocabulary,

00:15:10.080 her choice of words. She always says her taxes will fight global warming. She never says they'll

00:15:17.320 stop global warming or even slow global warming. They'll just fight it because she knows it won't

00:15:22.880 slow it or stop it. She knows it and she wouldn't even dare say such a fib. The funny thing is that

00:15:28.320 the Toronto Star and the NDP actually think they're for the people, for the working man,

00:15:34.380 for the working classes. But they are not. They like the idea of working classes. They like the idea 0.98

00:15:43.140 of the people. But I know what the people look like a little bit. And my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed and

00:15:50.420 Kian Bextie, they know even more. The people look like the men and women in the oil convoys that 0.98

00:15:56.680 Sheila and Kian have been covering. Hardworking guys and gals just trying to put bread on the table, 0.98

00:16:01.920 try and pay for the kids. And to the G's and the G's on that pundits panel and the woke feminists at 1.00

00:16:09.160 the Globe and the Star. It's just too yucky. They have oil on their hands, I think. And the fact that

00:16:17.740 a high school dropout could actually earn a good living and raise a family and buy a house and live 0.90

00:16:23.360 a life while those losers at the Star live in the most expensive city in Canada in a miserable job 0.94

00:16:30.180 and are hated and distrusted by the general public, I think that's what really makes them mad. 0.84

00:16:36.000 I actually think the Toronto Star is jealous of these working people. I think the Star believes

00:16:42.880 their newspaper columns, I don't know, I should be paid a million bucks a year. And the folks who

00:16:47.600 actually build the world, well, they're my servants. They should be paid less than me.

00:16:51.600 And they should be respected less than me in my outstanding journalism.

00:16:56.820 Me, you know, I've got two university degrees. But the day I say that, what I do for a living,

00:17:03.740 pontificating and bloviating into a camera, the day I say that is more morally important than

00:17:11.360 someone without a university degree, who not only builds our country and gives us energy and puts

00:17:17.960 food on the table, but more importantly, builds a life for himself and his family with dignity and

00:17:23.140 without a handout from Justin Trudeau. Well, if I ever do that, that's the day you should stop

00:17:27.840 watching The Rebel. Stay with us for more.

00:17:30.820 Welcome back. Well, there is a book called The Trudeau Report, and it is about Justin Trudeau.

00:17:51.640 It was written by the former ethics commissioner, Mary Dawson, about the Trudeau family's repeated

00:17:57.800 visits to Billionaire Island. That's the nickname of a secretive private island in the Bahamas

00:18:04.520 owned by the Aga Khan, who's not only a very wealthy man and a businessman, but he's the spiritual leader

00:18:10.680 of the world's moderate Ismaili Muslim faith. Well, the Aga Khan has a lot of economic dealings

00:18:17.560 with the government of Canada, grants and other projects. And so this Trudeau report was a study

00:18:24.920 into whether or not Trudeau breached the conflict of interest laws by taking this secret vacation.

00:18:32.520 The short answer is, yes, he did. It's worth a read, though, to see just the lengths that Trudeau

00:18:38.600 went to justify this secret trip. And to me, what I'll never forget is how Trudeau's family,

00:18:45.900 for example, his wife, repeatedly called the Aga Khan and said, can we come back to the island?

00:18:51.760 There was one case documented in the Trudeau report where Sophie Trudeau called the princess,

00:18:58.240 the Aga Khan's daughter, and said, can we come and visit? And the princess said, well, we're not there.

00:19:02.600 And Sophie Trudeau said, oh, that's fine. We just want to use your place. It was shocking.

00:19:07.140 Well, now we have more interesting news that's less shocking and more hopeful. A federal judge has

00:19:12.900 ordered the commissioner of lobbying to reopen an investigation of Trudeau from a lobbyist's point

00:19:21.180 of view. Well, joining us now to figure this whole thing out is our expert in such matters.

00:19:27.000 You know him, Manny Montenegrino, a former senior lawyer in Ottawa, former lawyer to Prime Minister

00:19:32.440 Stephen Harper and the boss of Think Sharp. Manny, great to see you again.

00:19:36.840 Nice to see you, Ezra.

00:19:37.880 The Trudeau report is fascinating reading to show the shenanigans that Trudeau got up to from an

00:19:44.260 ethics point of view. But tell us what this court order means that now the lobbying commissioner must

00:19:50.880 reinvestigate Trudeau.

00:19:53.660 Yeah, no, it says a lot. There's a lot of legalities in the report. And Ezra, I want to make it kind of

00:20:00.460 simple for your viewers on a particular point. The federal court rarely, rarely intervenes in a

00:20:09.600 quasi-judicial matter. And what basically that means is courts are very hesitant to give opinions or

00:20:16.240 interfere in the operations of quasi-judicial or governmental type of decision-making process.

00:20:24.620 And it's very simple why. Courts don't want to be making decisions for all these bodies. And so they say,

00:20:30.060 go at it, make your own decisions. But if you breach and really substantially breach your duties of

00:20:36.600 natural justice, and that means you really got to make a big, big mistake, the courts will step in.

00:20:43.060 And that's a very rare, rare use of the court's powers over these quasi-judicial bodies. Well,

00:20:49.860 it happened. And that is alarming. I'm surprised that we are not seeing great reports about this,

00:20:55.840 because what the federal court said, and it just didn't say you made a few mistakes. It was a

00:21:01.960 complete indictment of the quasi-judicial offer that investigated the Aga Khan and the free trips

00:21:08.800 by Trudeau. It said, I mean, it said it lacked transparency. It lacked justification. It was an

00:21:16.900 unreasonable deliberation of the process. I mean, that is basically saying, the court is saying,

00:21:24.040 you didn't even do your job. And that's frightening for every Canadian, because,

00:21:30.840 and I'll tie it to the obstruction of justice and the SNC-Lavalin case.

00:21:37.040 Ezra, we know what the prime minister has done. He silenced two cabinet ministers with his

00:21:43.420 privilege, enforcing privilege on him, so we don't get the whole story. He silenced the justice committee,

00:21:49.380 so we don't get the story. He silenced the ethics committee. And he points to Canadians and say,

00:21:54.660 yeah, but we have the ethics commissioner. They're going to look at it. Well, the federal court has

00:22:00.100 said these quasi-judicial bodies are barely doing their job. So it's extremely alarming.

00:22:05.960 Yeah. You know, I take your point. And for non-lawyers, you know, a general court doesn't want to pretend

00:22:13.080 they're an expert in the narrow field of lobbying or the narrow field, I don't know, the liquor control

00:22:18.420 board. They want to defer to these expert agencies and only interfere when there's something grossly

00:22:24.800 wrong. Can I quote to you from Justice Patrick Gleason? That's the federal judge that made this

00:22:31.080 very rare intervention. I want to quote from his ruling, and I'm reading from Blacklock's reporter.

00:22:35.700 So this is the judge. The commissioner, that's the lobbying commissioner, was required to take a broad

00:22:42.680 view of the circumstances in addressing the complaint. Instead, the record before the court reflects a

00:22:49.080 narrow, technical, and targeted analysis that is lacking in transparency, justification, and

00:22:56.300 intelligibility when considered in the context of the commissioner's duties and functions. The decision

00:23:01.640 is unreasonable. That's tough talk. I mean, judges are very polite people. They're like diplomats in

00:23:07.440 a way. But that's a judge tearing a strip off the lobbyist commissioner, isn't it? Absolutely. And it's

00:23:15.660 alarming because the courts, as you say, never get involved, especially when you have a quasi-judicial

00:23:23.740 body like the lobby commissioner or the ethics commissioner. They don't get involved in their work.

00:23:29.020 And to do so is really making a very big statement. So we should be alarmed. And there's obviously much

00:23:36.240 more with respect to this. We're talking about multiple trips. We're talking about at least $200,000

00:23:43.920 of free trips that the prime minister took. Now, normally, there are, and Ezra, you can go through

00:23:51.020 the criminal code, and I forget the section, and I tweeted it. But there's a mirror section of the

00:23:56.200 criminal code dealing with a public official using its office in order to get a gain. And there is

00:24:06.360 really something much more in this report. And you could see that the court is saying,

00:24:11.920 you did do your job. You kind of hit it. It was pretty shoddy. Do it again. And that's very alarming

00:24:17.900 to Canadians. Yeah. I see that now the new lobbying commissioner, Nancy Belanger, has to examine what

00:24:26.320 the Aga Khan's foundation did, because they're the lobbyists, so to speak. Do you think that this

00:24:33.980 will require the PMO, Trudeau and his wife Sophie, who contacted the Aga Khan so much, do you think it

00:24:41.320 will, the examination will be of their conduct, or do you think it'll focus on the Aga Khan? And I

00:24:46.300 have to tell you, reading the Trudeau report from Mary Dawson, it is so clear to me that this, all of

00:24:53.700 these initiatives, can we come to the island? Can we come to the island? Can we have a party at your

00:24:57.700 place? Oh, I know you're not there. Can we use the place? It all came from the Trudeau family. In fact,

00:25:02.980 reading it, it feels like the Aga Khan was sort of shocked that they just wanted to use him for his

00:25:08.020 stuff. Maybe he should have reported it. But it's so evident to me, reading that Trudeau report,

00:25:13.100 this was all Trudeau. I don't think, Manny, that this was the Aga Khan trying to ingratiate himself.

00:25:20.280 I think it was the opposite. I think he was saying, geez, this prime minister sure is taking advantage,

00:25:27.000 but I guess I shouldn't say no. That's how it read to me. Absolutely. And Ezra, you forgot the timing

00:25:32.440 aspect. It was within months of the prime minister becoming the prime minister. It was a nine-month

00:25:40.800 plan before they had their first trip. So they started it within a few months of being in office.

00:25:47.000 They started, you know, cashing in on the entitlements. And the Aga Khan was a perfect 1.00

00:25:52.520 place to go. And why not go to a perfect island? And I agree, it will, it should bleed into the prime

00:25:58.880 minister and his family and whoever else went on the multiple trips. And I'm talking bleeding into

00:26:04.820 points that, as you say, if it's proven that these were demands and the Aga Khan knew that never has

00:26:11.700 hosted a Canadian prime minister and the Aga Khan felt pressure to do so, that brings in, will bring in,

00:26:20.400 may bring in, should bring in an investigation by the RCMP. Are you using your office in order to get

00:26:27.480 a gain? And the answer to that question, from what I know now, what I see, starts months after he becomes

00:26:35.080 prime minister. The family basically, basically harasses the Aga Khan to give a family vacation.

00:26:41.340 There are multiple vacations. They basically use it as a timeshare while they're in office. So that

00:26:50.700 really raises a bigger issue. And will the RCMP pick up the report and say, what really happened

00:26:59.620 here? Was there an abuse? Was there a demand? Was there basically using your power in order to

00:27:05.480 extract a gain for the family? Yeah. You know, aesthetically, the Trump family, I mean, he's a

00:27:12.140 billionaire. You can argue how many billions, but luxury, private jets, hotels, glamour.

00:27:17.980 Um, how glamorous and how rich, I don't know, but that's a lifestyle. It seems to me, again,

00:27:23.680 reading the Trudeau report of how Sophie Trudeau kept calling up and saying, can we come to place?

00:27:28.500 Can I bring my girlfriends? So she wanted to go there and sort of show off to all her girlfriends,

00:27:34.260 hey, girls weekend out at this private Island. And again, the Aga Khan's daughter said, well, 0.62

00:27:39.240 we're not even going to be there. And so I think Sophie Trudeau liked it better that way.

00:27:45.240 I mean, put yourself in that position, Manny. Let's say you had a really nice cottage somewhere,

00:27:51.080 not a private Island. The Bahamas, a really nice cottage. And someone who, the wife of someone who

00:27:56.140 you vaguely knew said, can I come and use it? And of course you weren't friends. I mean,

00:28:02.280 you only talked to Justin Trudeau once in 30 years, the Aga Khan, and let alone, you never met his wife.

00:28:07.560 But are you really, it's such a, so much chutzpah to ask. How could you even say no to that?

00:28:13.380 Well, that's one way of looking at it. So I'm going to look at it from the Aga Khan's point of

00:28:18.220 view. The Aga Khan has been doing very good work worldwide and in Canada and has worked with Canada

00:28:26.200 and has successfully obtained funding for the good work. Now think about it. There's a change in

00:28:35.080 government. There's a person that's in government. Wife gives you a call within a few months and you must

00:28:41.000 feel that there is this threat over your head. And I, I'm not saying these are allegations.

00:28:46.460 These are something that has to be investigated by either the police or someone. But if you're the

00:28:51.840 Aga Khan and you've been doing work with Canada for years and years and years and, and, and very good

00:28:56.920 work for Ismaili community and for charities, and you get a call within months of the leader of the new

00:29:04.360 prime minister's wife wanting to have a girl's weekend or girl's week at your premises and you

00:29:09.820 feel pressured and you feel you have to say yes when you've probably would say no, but you're worried

00:29:15.580 because this prime minister, and we've heard, gets what he wants. He gets what he wants at the risk of

00:29:23.680 perhaps maybe losing the funding you've received for years. And we saw what the prime minister has done

00:29:29.960 with the attorney general, when he gets what he wants. So the real concern I have is how much

00:29:38.140 pressure, and you've alluded to some of it, how much pressure was put on the Aga Khan? How much did

00:29:43.540 he relent? Why did he relent? Was it even spoken? Was it even threatened? And these are questions that

00:29:50.840 have to be asked. And if they're anywhere approaching the answer that yes, yes, pressure, pressure,

00:29:58.420 yes, perhaps funding, millions of dollars of funding would be lost to the Ismaili purpose,

00:30:05.560 the charitable purpose. And they said, yes, you can have my island while I'm away because they were

00:30:10.780 afraid. This is a big, big case that has to be reviewed and reported on. And I'm just surprised

00:30:18.460 that it's not. And it's alarming to me.

00:30:22.500 Yeah. You know, the only other first lady I know we don't use that term in Canada that I know is 0.99

00:30:28.260 Lorene Harper, who's as down to earth as they come. She's a country girl from Turner Valley, Alberta,

00:30:33.760 just folks playing like super normal gal. And the idea that she would call up some world leader's 0.67

00:30:41.120 daughter to get access to some, you know, luxury retreat, it's unthinkable. I mean,

00:30:47.680 but here's my question to you. Is it really that this is the first and only time Trudeau or even his

00:30:56.900 wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau did this? I put it to you, Manny, that when you grow up a trust fund

00:31:03.060 millionaire, Justin Trudeau, son of a trust fund millionaire, Pierre Trudeau, and you have the

00:31:09.680 famous last name and you're handsome and you have cachet and charisma, that your life is like this,

00:31:16.740 that you ask for things and you quite often get them. I, here's my question to you. And again,

00:31:21.480 it's just speculation, but I, if you have the chutzpah to ask a princess for access to a private

00:31:30.380 island and you've never even met her, I'm guessing that's not the first and only time you've ever done

00:31:34.540 that. And the reason I say that is there's a lot of valuable and rich and luxurious stuff out there.

00:31:40.300 A private plane owned by Bombardier. Um, we saw how SNC Lavalin treated Muammar Gaddafi's son

00:31:48.380 with luxury. In his case, it was prostitutes and, and parties and hotel rooms. And so my worry is

00:31:55.060 that Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau are so used to this life of entitlement

00:32:00.160 since Trudeau was a baby that I think he just thinks it's normal to ask people for things.

00:32:05.620 And I bet if we actually knew the full truth, he does this all the time.

00:32:10.720 Well, we've seen again, uh, you know, your, your premise is, is soundly based,

00:32:16.880 but let's look at the facts. There are facts that are known to the public where this has happened.

00:32:22.540 The eight day India trip. I mean, that was a wonderful family vacation for the truth,

00:32:28.780 for the Trudeaus. It costs millions and millions of dollars. And then they had that kind of say,

00:32:34.360 well, we've got to make some business sense out of this, or it just looks absolutely obscene to

00:32:40.160 the taxpayer. So they talked about a $250 million trade that they're going to get them India that

00:32:45.700 was already there over a five year period. I think they spent more on, on, on, on the,

00:32:51.260 on the trip than the trade deal, but the trade deal was already there. So there's that one instance

00:32:55.900 as where there's the other one where they bought the whole theater to see, I forget the play now.

00:33:00.800 It was, uh, come from away in, uh, Broadway. Right. Well, they bought the whole theater in New York

00:33:06.300 and he gave 50 million bucks to Trevor Noah, you know, that, um, late night comedian. He just said

00:33:10.880 in a tweet, 50 million bucks. How's that by you? Yeah. So there's a lot of evidence that Trudeau

00:33:16.560 does believe, prime minister Trudeau does believe he's entitled. So it wouldn't surprise me if that,

00:33:21.760 if, if, if the RCMP or if someone investigates this, there was strong demands. I, I, I,

00:33:27.500 and about giving the, and I think they've used the property at least two times. One was a girl's

00:33:33.000 week and the other was with a Trudeau family. I mean, that, that's, that's really bordering on

00:33:37.340 too much. I don't know if there was a third or fourth vacation. It said multiple vacations. And I,

00:33:41.580 I don't know what that means, but if it was more than once, more than twice, and you're demanding

00:33:46.420 and you're there when your hosts aren't there, clearly there's lots of evidence of that form of

00:33:51.600 abuse. So there is a sense of entitlement. We heard, we heard, uh, the evidence that, uh, in the

00:33:58.160 SNC, uh, Lavalin case that he gets what he wants. This is a, this is a, so why wouldn't he feel

00:34:05.660 entitled? And Ezra, let's go back to the beginning of time, if you will, under the, uh, Ketinovich,

00:34:12.520 um, uh, where he was a, a part of the Ketinovich, uh, uh, association where he traveled the world.

00:34:19.820 Now Ezra, at that time, I think Justin Trudeau was in his twenties, early twenties. And, and there

00:34:25.340 was a wonderful Toronto Sun report on it. And if you can Google it and find it out, but basically

00:34:31.560 it said that Trudeau during this Ketinovich was living higher on the hog than the president of

00:34:38.100 Ketinovich. And he was just one of the kids and he was spending $400 on lunches, uh, hotel rooms

00:34:44.580 who were more luxurious than the president on these, on this wonderful little, uh, I'll

00:34:50.300 call elitist little, uh, organization that took care of friends of the Trudeau and, and

00:34:55.600 the like. So there's lots of evidence to prove and show that he's got a sense of entitlement

00:35:00.760 of government money entitlement. And therefore it wouldn't surprise me that, that he knew

00:35:06.740 of the Aga Khan. They may have known that the Aga Khan gets 40 to 50 or hundreds of million

00:35:12.580 dollars from the Canadian government over the years for doing wonderful charitable work. Uh,

00:35:17.600 and they may have known that and said, well, this is a wonderful Island. It's, it's, uh, it's,

00:35:23.600 it's a, it's a, it's a private Island, a billionaire Island. No one will ever experience

00:35:27.600 that. Money can't buy it. We put estimates of $200,000 on it, but money really can't buy

00:35:33.560 a trip there and no one can be there. So it wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. Let me throw one

00:35:39.700 thing at you. And you just made me think of something because Manny about 10 years ago,

00:35:43.300 before I joined the sun news network TV station, um, I was sort of a jack of all trades. One

00:35:48.840 of the things I did, uh, I mean, in 2008 election, I volunteered for Stephen Harper's campaign and

00:35:54.800 I wrote speeches occasionally for politicians and I wrote two or three speeches for Senator

00:36:00.220 Mike Duffy and I charged, I don't know, a few grand for them or whatever. Right. One of the

00:36:04.560 things I did for, to make a living before I got into the TV business. And so when the police

00:36:10.860 investigated Mike Duffy for his expense account, they contacted me and they met me and they asked

00:36:18.560 me all my dealings about Mike Duffy. And I had absolutely nothing to hide. I wrote the speeches.

00:36:22.580 It was legit. I, I sent in the bill. I got paid. Uh, I didn't even think twice about it. I met the

00:36:28.040 police in person. They recorded everything. They asked for evidence. I didn't have any objection.

00:36:32.700 I gave it to them. I was actually, I actually testified at the trial. I was cross-examined.

00:36:38.240 It was a, it was a very, very small part to play, but they interviewed dozens, like I was a teeny

00:36:43.720 tiny player and I didn't do anything wrong. I just wrote a speech for the guy 10 years ago.

00:36:48.660 My point is the amount of manpower and research and digging. And I was actually testified at trial

00:36:56.580 for about an hour. Um, dozens of people, hundreds of hours of police investigation over trivia that

00:37:04.720 amounted to nothing. And Manny, I'm wondering where are the cops with these massive scandals?

00:37:11.800 My speeches that I wrote for Duffy were completely innocuous. I got paid a couple of grand. It was

00:37:17.520 legit. No problem. Where's the RCMP when it's a $200,000 secret vacation from a princess?

00:37:25.360 Where's the RCMP when Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are sacked? Where are they? They came

00:37:33.020 and met with me over a speech for a couple of grand. Where are they when it's something real and big?

00:37:39.660 Well, exactly. I mean, when you bring up the Duffy, uh, matter, there was absolutely no evidence

00:37:45.820 of any wrongdoing except rumors and innuendos. And the RCMP sent a squadron of people, as you say,

00:37:53.020 to investigate everybody and charges were laid and the court threw it out and found Senator Duffy's

00:37:59.260 testimony credible. Now, all the RCMP has to do is pick up the Ethics Commissioner 73 page report,

00:38:06.820 which I did, which sets out the evidentiary fact of what could be criminal conduct by taking $200,000

00:38:16.180 from a, a, a, a, a, a person because you are the person of authority. You are the government

00:38:24.180 official. So all they have to do is start, read the report. Now read this, this decision by the,

00:38:29.640 by the court. There's so much more evidence to at least begin an investigation and it hasn't done.

00:38:35.420 Uh, so it, it, it, you know, you talk about entitlement. Absolutely. I mean, there is so

00:38:41.040 much, and this is probably the tip of the iceberg. Um, I, I will, I will share with you one little

00:38:47.520 story that I think, uh, you'd like to hear, uh, on the first anniversary of, of, uh, prime minister

00:38:54.200 Harper's, um, uh, like being elected to government. I think it was, uh, January 26th, 2007. Uh, I was

00:39:02.660 invited to, uh, 24 Sussex, uh, for a little party because it was just a thing to do. I couldn't go

00:39:09.960 because my wife and I had booked a vacation and I sent a very inexpensive bottle of champagne to say,

00:39:17.920 sorry, I can't be there. Um, uh, uh, have a good time. They wouldn't take the champagne. The prime

00:39:24.500 minister wouldn't take the bottle of champagne. He, he said, I mean, he didn't say this to me, but

00:39:30.460 I inferred that he would not take any form of gift from anyone. And I, and I remember thinking

00:39:35.820 at that time, if we have a prime minister that won't even take, and, and by the way, Ezra,

00:39:41.380 it was a cheap bottle of champagne because I'm a conservative. It wasn't one of those,

00:39:45.000 it wasn't, and an immigrant. So, you know, but it wasn't one of those, but it was, uh, and I thought

00:39:53.040 to myself, if this prime minister, uh, would not take a bottle of champagne, this is the most

00:39:59.800 ethical prime minister we have. We have the complete total opposite. Now, this is a fellow

00:40:05.060 that thinks he's entitled to trips, to movie theaters, to, to everything. And, uh, and it

00:40:11.320 shows, and there's probably so much more. What an amazing anecdote that is. And the two of you

00:40:16.220 were friends and it was just a bottle of wine and people drink things anyways. And he wouldn't

00:40:21.340 take that. It's just what a, what a great reminder of how far we have fallen.

00:40:26.100 Yeah. Manny, it's great to talk to you about these things. And I'm glad we are because, uh,

00:40:30.840 I quoted from Blacklock's reporter and I see there's a modest story in global news, but this,

00:40:35.800 if it were a conservative, it would be front page. It's a huge story because we're talking about

00:40:41.120 basically, was there possibly some form of undue pressure? Now we saw the SNC-Lavalin where there

00:40:49.400 was nothing but pressure, uh, you know, continual pressure for four months by 10 people because the

00:40:54.920 prime minister wanted something. You don't think that the Aga Khan experienced some form of pressure

00:40:59.460 because they wanted to try a private island? I don't know. I think so. All right. Well,

00:41:04.820 very interesting as always. All right. We really are grateful to you for your wisdom and your

00:41:08.740 experience. And I very much appreciate the anecdote of the bottle of wine. That's,

00:41:13.560 that's quite telling. Great to see him. Champagne, champagne, champagne. Sorry. Yeah. Champagne.

00:41:17.820 There you go. Champagne. Champagne. Our friend, Manny Mondinegrino. He is the CEO of ThinkSharp and he

00:41:25.440 joins us via Skype from Ottawa. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.

00:41:40.920 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Yves Torres, a Quebec politician, making a joke

00:41:45.420 about burning down the big basilica in Montreal. Debra writes, that was definitely a veiled threat

00:41:52.180 by Yves Torres. It's only a matter of time before our churches burn. She should be held to account

00:41:56.920 for her comments. Well, you know, when you say it's only a matter of time, I think you need to put

00:42:03.080 that in past tense. We see attacks on churches regularly in Canada. Most of the time, it's just

00:42:08.600 graffiti or some small vandalism, but there have been arson. There have been priests attacked. I think,

00:42:14.600 wasn't there a priest that was attacked in Canada just a couple of weeks ago, it was caught on camera.

00:42:19.680 I think that was in Toronto or Montreal. Yeah, it's happening. It's just underreported,

00:42:23.240 just the same way Yves Torres. You won't see mention of it anywhere in the English press.

00:42:28.340 Jerry writes, the CBC and other mainstream media are in protect the predator mode. Yeah. What do you

00:42:33.660 think of my construction of the boy who didn't cry wolf? We all know the fable about the boy who

00:42:39.240 falsely cried wolf. But the contrapositive of that is, what about the boy who should have cried wolf,

00:42:46.880 but refused it to? That's what we have here. Liza writes, can we get some extra security to

00:42:54.160 protect that Montreal church, please? Yeah. How bizarre that Eve Torres herself recommended it.

00:43:01.020 It sounds like she knows something's coming. Unbelievable. Well, folks, that's the show for

00:43:05.000 today. Until next time, on behalf of all of our friends and workers and talent and everyone here

00:43:11.960 at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - April 19, 2019

Toronto’s liberal snobs react to Alberta’s election. I think they're jealous.

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