Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau goes on vacation (again) as coronavirus spreads to Canada

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00:00:56.200 Tonight, Justin Trudeau takes his second vacation of 2020, just as the first coronavirus lands in

00:01:04.360 Canada. It's January 27th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

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00:01:22.500 right to do so.

00:01:23.480 On the weekend, Canada got our first case of coronavirus, the deadly virus that is raging

00:01:34.680 through China. A man flew on a China Southern Airlines flight to Canada. That is a very long

00:01:40.880 flight. He got off the airport and walked through customs, and we only heard about him because

00:01:46.540 he later realized he was sick and he called an ambulance. The CBC found someone to say,

00:01:53.480 look at this, it was quite impressive how quickly first patient was isolated and treated. Really?

00:01:59.740 I'm not really impressed. And I see this morning that his wife has now fallen ill too,

00:02:05.680 and that she hadn't been quarantined. She hadn't been under any observation. She had been under a

00:02:11.660 self-quarantine, whatever that means. That means no quarantine. Have you ever returned to Canada from a

00:02:18.240 long trip abroad? I have. Typically, you go to the grocery store to get some fresh milk and eggs and

00:02:23.620 bread. Maybe you pick up some dry cleaning. You putter around town a bit. Did this woman literally 1.00

00:02:29.500 not leave her home? We don't know. Now, this news started coming out on the weekend about the Canadian

00:02:37.940 case. Public health officials from the government of Ontario had a press conference. I didn't find it

00:02:44.680 particularly useful, but I suppose that government bureaucrats working on a weekend, that's a good sign 0.94

00:02:51.340 of some sort. I recall one of the excuses that the Soviet Union used for not alerting the world 0.85

00:02:56.080 to the Chernobyl disaster was that it happened on a weekend. And the Soviets said, I swear they said 0.58

00:03:01.600 this, that they didn't think Western bureaucrats would work on the weekend. And, you know, most

00:03:07.000 bureaucrats actually don't, but these ones in Ontario did. They said that the passengers near this sick man

00:03:13.960 on the plane would be in danger. If this person was symptomatic and infectious during the flights,

00:03:20.680 and that is something we're still ascertaining. The protocol is to work with the federal government,

00:03:26.920 and I have talked to Dr. Theresa Tam at the Public Health Agency about this already,

00:03:31.540 getting the flight information up to them through to get to the manifest and usually to identify people

00:03:37.420 who are within three rows of the person who's infectious because they would be at risk potentially.

00:03:43.680 But things like international flights where the air circulates for 12 hours, they're not really the

00:03:50.740 domain of provincial governments. That's more of a federal jurisdiction. And Justin Trudeau was on

00:03:57.760 the second holiday of the year this weekend. I mean, he took an extra long 17-day holiday over

00:04:06.480 Christmas. I've never heard of a world leader of a G7 country going on a 17-day vacation before.

00:04:11.920 Have you? 17 days. A lot happened in that 17 days, if you remember. Iran and the United States started 0.92

00:04:17.060 trading blows. Canada has 500-plus soldiers in the Middle East. Trump took out Iran's leading

00:04:22.580 terrorist. General Trudeau, he couldn't be bothered to end his vacation any sooner. He's still wearing

00:04:28.940 that vacation beard like he's just phoning it in. He's been pitifully weak in dealing with Iran since 1.00

00:04:34.420 they shot down a Ukrainian passenger taking off from their own airport. Trudeau calls that a crash or

00:04:41.420 a tragedy when, of course, it's murder, manslaughter at best. Dozens of Canadians dead. But look,

00:04:47.120 that's tough to deal with and stressful and you need to know what to do. And Trudeau doesn't know

00:04:52.640 what to do, so he hides on vacation. So he was on vacation again this weekend. Who has had two

00:04:59.460 vacations already in 2020? Now, when the province of Ontario was having its press conference on the

00:05:05.540 weekend, I checked for any comment from any relevant federal cabinet minister. I checked

00:05:10.680 Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, his deputy, and Harjeet Sajan, the defense minister, and Mark Garneau,

00:05:16.660 the transport minister, and Bill Blair, the public safety minister, and Patty Hajdu, the health minister.

00:05:20.920 I checked them all. Literally not a word from any of them. They were on holiday too. Or rather,

00:05:26.020 they were partying. They were all out at different Chinese New Year parties, ironically.

00:05:30.140 Literally in the middle of the Ontario press conference, these cabinet ministers were partying.

00:05:36.020 Many of them were partying in Toronto, just a few miles away from where this emergency press

00:05:40.600 conference was happening. They were literally posting pictures of their parties to Twitter

00:05:45.740 and Instagram in the middle of the press conference. I mean, in truth, if they had gone,

00:05:50.840 what would they even say? Trudeau, their boss, was on holiday. He wasn't holding emergency meetings.

00:05:55.200 There was no cabinet meeting, not even a phone call, conference call. It's not like

00:05:59.660 these cabinet ministers had instructions, marching orders from him. If they would have said anything,

00:06:04.640 they'd probably get in trouble, either for contradicting the boss or, more likely,

00:06:08.760 making the boss look bad and lazy. When the news broke of the first infection in Canada,

00:06:14.800 I went to the state broadcaster. And hours after the news broke, there still wasn't a single story

00:06:21.900 about it on the CBC's main website. Like the Liberal cabinet, the Liberal spin doctors at the CBC

00:06:28.000 didn't know what to say yet. They were all waiting for their instructions from Trudeau.

00:06:32.220 You know, I'm certain that we'll have to rely on the foreign press to tell us anything useful,

00:06:36.940 other than the good news. Just like during the election, we had to rely on America's Time magazine

00:06:42.360 to reveal the Trudeau blackface photo, because the Canadian media all had these photos, but they just

00:06:47.340 wouldn't publish them. So expect a lot of that. In fact, the CBC has been weirdly reminiscent of

00:06:53.960 China's state broadcasters criticizing people for being too worried and for embarrassing the

00:07:00.260 government. Look at this story. It plays to our worst fears. Coronavirus, misinformation fueled by

00:07:06.860 social media. Experts say social media has increased the spread of misinformation during outbreaks.

00:07:11.960 Hey, what's a social media expert, by the way? It's someone the CBC thinks you need to listen to,

00:07:18.600 that's all. You know, it's true, there is misinformation in the middle of any crisis,

00:07:22.960 and rumors and gossip can fill the void. I don't think it helps when the Prime Minister takes a

00:07:27.320 three-day vacation in the middle of it and leaves no instructions for his minions, and by that I mean

00:07:31.760 his CBC. But actually, these days, there's a lot of positive information that fills the void.

00:07:38.160 Some of it could have errors in it. It's possible there's an incorrect translation from something in

00:07:43.960 Chinese, for example, or that something's missing. Sure, sure. But this here is an official government

00:07:50.460 propaganda video from China showing every car on a major highway in Shanghai being stopped and

00:07:56.580 inspected. That shows it's getting bad out there in one of their biggest cities. This is a compendium

00:08:04.840 of videos from various cities in China. What's the most worrisome part of this in my mind

00:08:10.400 is that scene from the crowded hospital hallway. Now, I don't know if all of those people had

00:08:17.820 coronavirus going in, but jammed together in that hallway for an hour, I'm pretty sure they've all got

00:08:24.660 it now. There are direct flights from Shanghai to Canada, by the way. Now, here's a video that purports

00:08:30.760 to show people in a small town physically trying to scare away people from the big city who they fear

00:08:37.440 are bringing the virus to them. That made me think of the panic and chaos of a medieval plague. Who

00:08:42.880 knows if they're right? Probably not. But here's an official propaganda video released by China

00:08:48.020 yesterday. Now, keep it running for a moment and actually turn up the volume a bit. There's no words.

00:08:52.760 It's just the soothing sound of rain. That's Wuhan. That's the hot zone. The streets are empty. It

00:09:02.020 sort of looks pretty, doesn't it? The rain helps clear the smog away, I think. It really is a calming

00:09:07.520 video. Very well done, propaganda-wise. It's calming because there are no people in it, are there?

00:09:14.440 No panicking civilians, no crowded hospital hallways, no police confused about what to do and why.

00:09:21.340 There's this brief moment where there's diggers building a new quarantine hospital. That's in

00:09:28.240 the video. But no people. That's the way to calm people down, I guess. Just soothing. I'm not sure

00:09:34.220 if it works. It felt more like, you know, that scene in the zombie apocalypse movie before the

00:09:39.760 climactic battle where you say, wow, there's no one left alive. So what are other countries doing

00:09:45.720 besides Canada and China? Well, the United States is arranging not one, but several flights to

00:09:51.860 evacuate its citizens from Wuhan. I see that a number of countries are doing the same or taking

00:09:57.560 steps to prepare to do the same. France, Australia, the United Kingdom, Russia, but not us. Our guy was

00:10:04.360 on vacation, you see. You'll just have to wait. Look at this tweet from a flight from Hong Kong to Milan,

00:10:12.220 Italy. Italian health authorities don't seem to be taking any chances with the coronavirus.

00:10:17.440 Just landed in Milan from Hong Kong and every passenger is having their temperatures checked

00:10:21.940 and providing contact details. That's from in the plane. That sounds pretty prudent, doesn't it?

00:10:27.540 Why don't we do that? Flights from China only come into, you know, not even half a dozen Canadian 1.00

00:10:32.620 airports. Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, maybe a few others. I don't know. How hard would it be to

00:10:38.240 simply have medics board the plane and do the exams right out in the plane rather than wait for people

00:10:45.560 to self-report? Get off the plane, spread it around as the first two cases in Toronto did.

00:10:51.620 Here's an infrared thermometer scanner in Hong Kong's own airport. Anyone coming into the city by plane has

00:10:58.700 their temperature taken automatically by remote. They don't even realize that. If they have a fever,

00:11:03.760 they're pulled over. Why can't we do that? That's not really new technology, actually.

00:11:09.400 There are 4,000 people from the city of Wuhan around the world right now, according to the government.

00:11:16.220 So it's probably 10 times that. How many of them are in Canada? Do we know? Does anyone care?

00:11:24.160 I think the reason why Trudeau is on holidays is not because he's tired from working. Like I say,

00:11:29.560 he just had a 17-day holiday over Christmas. That's crazy. It's that he's running away. He's

00:11:35.240 hiding from problems. He doesn't know what to do. He's not a decider. He's not an executive. He lacks

00:11:42.140 the energy to do anything. We know he hasn't talked to Donald Trump in over a month, despite huge issues

00:11:48.120 where he should, whether it's Iran or China or the virus or hostages, whatever. Trudeau's hiding.

00:11:54.100 He's got that beard that says, I'm mentally still on vacay. I wonder if he'll even show up in

00:11:59.940 question period today just to fake it. But hey, maybe this is all a good thing. Here's a tweet from

00:12:07.500 a Trudeau ally in Quebec, a former politician, current journalist, Luc Ferrandez. Let me translate it.

00:12:15.480 No automobile traffic. Wuhan. No automobile traffic. No air flights. The only city on the planet that will

00:12:21.420 meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, the path to the decline, which will be necessary when

00:12:26.380 all the debates have been in vain. I think he's actually cheering for the virus. What a perfect

00:12:38.120 liberal. Stay with us for more. 0.99

00:12:51.420 Well, we live in very strange days. And I could be talking about any half dozen number

00:12:58.080 of things. But in particular, I'm talking about the transgender agenda. As I've said

00:13:04.500 to you before, I've faced censorship from a number of camps, not the least of which is

00:13:08.880 political censorship. Of course, I faced Islamic censorship when I published the Danish cartoons

00:13:14.560 of Mohammed. But there is no censorship that is faster or more furious than transgender censorship. 0.99

00:13:22.860 I don't know if you know this, but when our reporter, Kian Bextie, was covering the case

00:13:27.020 of Jonathan, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, Twitter was monitoring Kian in real time. And if he said

00:13:35.760 Jonathan Yaniv instead of Jessica, if he said he instead of she, Twitter would immediately suspend

00:13:42.400 him. And he would have to delete the tweet. And then it was like they had a real-time hall monitor.

00:13:49.360 That is how forceful the transgender censorship is. Of course, censorship is the least of us. 0.99

00:13:57.040 People can be fired from their senior jobs. People can be physically attacked. There's so many things

00:14:02.940 going on, and it's all happened so suddenly. One person in Canada who I think has been following

00:14:08.180 it more closely than anyone else is our friend Barbara Kay, a columnist in various places,

00:14:13.300 including the National Post. And she just wrote a piece in the Post called,

00:14:17.300 Will 2020 Be the Year of Reason in the Cancel Culture Wars? Most people, McGill's Prof. Vazier

00:14:26.460 believes, want to see more brave conversations on difficult topics. Barbara joins us now via Skype.

00:14:32.840 Barbara, great to see you again. Welcome back.

00:14:35.040 Thanks, Ezra. Hi. How are you?

00:14:36.300 Well, I'm fine. I think you might be optimistic if you think 2020 is the year that cancel culture

00:14:44.560 is overcome. But let me invite you to make your case. Why do you think we're turning the corner

00:14:51.180 when all around me, I see more censorship than ever? I see setbacks. Maybe I'm not seeing the

00:14:58.520 good news. What do you think is reason for optimism?

00:15:00.560 Well, there was one piece of good news that, you know, I'm looking for reasons to be optimistic. So

00:15:07.220 maybe I'm over optimistic. But the piece of good news that I found encouraging was that the

00:15:14.060 psychiatry department or the department of transcultural and ethnic psychiatry, ethno-psychiatry,

00:15:24.120 invited Dr. Kenneth Zucker to make a presentation at the Montreal Neurological Institute on his research

00:15:34.180 into gender dysphoria. And the fact that Kenneth Zucker, who is highly controversial, considered

00:15:42.600 highly controversial in this field, could be invited to come, that he would, that the lecture would go

00:15:50.760 forward without protest, that people of various opinions would come together, listen to what he

00:15:58.280 had to say, listen respectfully, and then engage with him in a respectful Q&A. This all did happen

00:16:07.000 at McGill, McGill administration, in spite of some petitions for cancellation, there were. But they,

00:16:14.960 again, they were, you know, letters, not, not placard wielding activists screaming, you know, accusations

00:16:23.680 of transphobia. It all went according to what you would consider to be civil opposition, or, you know,

00:16:32.200 two sides of a coin, and people voicing their opinions, you know, in the way that universities are

00:16:39.800 supposed to. So it was a good, it was a good event. And it was well conducted. And the administration

00:16:48.680 didn't even for a minute consider de-platforming Dr. Zucker. So for me, it was, it was, you know,

00:16:56.200 a positive moment. My editor was very glad to get some positive news on that front.

00:17:00.760 You're talking about Dr. Ken Zucker. Now, he was actually fired from McGill, right? For, I mean, he

00:17:07.720 believes that certain cases of, well, why don't you tell us a little bit more about Dr. Zucker? I'm

00:17:12.520 sure you know his case better than me. He was sacked. Yeah. He later got a retraction, I think,

00:17:17.320 a payment. But tell us a little bit about who this guy is, and why you think it's important that he

00:17:22.520 gave a speech within this institution. Okay, so he was not fired from McGill. He was fired from the

00:17:28.680 Center for, wait, CAMH in Toronto. What is it? The mental health, the, uh, the mental health. Okay,

00:17:36.680 he, he had been headed, he headed up the, uh, uh, gender, uh, dysphoria or gender identity clinic

00:17:45.960 for decades. And he is the, he is an international expert on gender dysphoria. He is the editor in chief

00:17:53.560 of, uh, uh, uh, the archive of sexual behavior, which is, you know, the leading journal for that

00:18:00.440 domain. And, uh, so he was highly respected for many, many years in his profession. Um, but the

00:18:08.760 activists, uh, were not happy with his clinical approach to treating gender dysphoria because, uh,

00:18:16.360 he had a very holistic approach. Uh, if parents brought a child, uh, that was confused about

00:18:22.120 gender to his clinic as his patient, he didn't just say, oh, this child, you know, this little

00:18:27.640 girl thinks she's a boy. Uh, okay, let's, uh, let's talk about puberty blockers. He said, well,

00:18:33.560 tell me about this child. What's her behavior like in general? Is she depressed? Is she anxious?

00:18:39.240 Have there been family issues? Uh, like in other words, he was treating, he does treat his patients,

00:18:45.800 uh, as a psychotherapist, um, activists nowadays in the last several years have decided that, uh,

00:18:52.680 gender dysphoria is not a disorder. It's a, it's a normal condition. Um, and psychotherapists should

00:18:58.840 really not be doing the offering, uh, treatment of that kind to children. They don't need therapy.

00:19:05.880 They need affirmation. So, uh, on the affirmation model, Dr. Zucker became suddenly very, uh,

00:19:13.400 incorrect in his approach and, uh, the activists were out to get him. They made false allegations

00:19:19.160 about him, that he was practicing something they call conversion therapy. Uh, he was doing nothing

00:19:24.680 of the kind. He does endorse for those children who are persistent, um, in their, in their, uh, dysphoria. 0.54

00:19:33.480 He does, uh, endorse puberty blockers and the rest of it. So, uh, it was false allegations and he

00:19:39.960 therefore, uh, did, he was sacked, but he did, uh, sue CAMH and did receive a payout, but he was not

00:19:47.400 reinstated and now he's practicing privately and continuing with his research. I have to tell you,

00:19:53.400 Barbara, it's so, um, bizarre to hear him accused of conversion therapy. And I know that phrase is used

00:19:59.880 if someone is gay and, uh, conversion therapy is, well, no, you're actually straight and here,

00:20:05.640 let's talk you out of it. Well, it seems like the greatest conversion fad these days is to convert 0.86

00:20:12.360 people to trans. The irony that trans activists would be against conversion when that's their whole

00:20:19.000 shtick is all they want to do is convert people who may be gay. 0.50

00:20:23.640 Or they, or they, or they certainly encourage, uh, what is entirely normal in childhood, uh, to have,

00:20:32.840 you know, passages or phases when, uh, you're non-conforming to your biological sex. That is

00:20:39.880 extremely normal. And as we know from many studies, uh, children who are non-conforming in childhood,

00:20:45.400 uh, usually after puberty turn out, uh, to be comfortable in their natal sex. Uh, many of them 0.61

00:20:52.360 turn out to be gay. So if you have like an effeminate little boy, that doesn't mean he wants to be a 0.96

00:20:58.520 girl. It means that he, or it may probably means, uh, nothing whatsoever, or, uh, it means, uh, that he

00:21:08.040 will turn out to be gay. So, uh, you know, I think you're right. This word conversion from, uh, when that's 0.99

00:21:17.800 not the intention at all, uh, to help children with their confusion is, is, is a real false

00:21:23.720 allegation. Yeah. Well, um, I accept your detection of a modest victory in that Dr. Zucker was allowed

00:21:32.440 to give a speech despite some letters of protest. Um, I guess you have to take your, uh, your victories

00:21:38.120 where you find them. Um, let me draw your attention across the pond to a very prestigious, uh, institution,

00:21:46.440 perhaps the most prestigious university in the world, Oxford University, where Professor Selina

00:21:52.440 Todd, who is a feminist, she is a, you know, 10 years ago, she would have been the leading edge 1.00

00:22:01.000 of political progressivism. But because she is a feminist, she's a woman first, I suppose you could 0.88

00:22:10.280 say. She has been targeted by transgender extremists. Um, they call, they use that made up word against

00:22:18.360 her, a TERF, that she's a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. It's gone more than just arguing with her 1.00

00:22:25.080 or trying to de-platform her. It's to the point where physical threats mean that she must now have a male 0.99

00:22:33.400 bodyguard at her lecture. So this is in the highest institution in the UK. And she is someone who,

00:22:42.200 mere moments ago, was the most progressive person around. Now, she's being threatened by these trans 1.00

00:22:49.560 thugs to the point where she needs bodyguards. That's not just cancel culture. It's almost like 0.99

00:22:53.720 she's Salman Rushdie. Yeah, it's a fiat culture. It's a fatwa, you know, gender fatwa culture. 0.99

00:23:03.160 These are people, by the way, who usually, when you see them on talk shows or panel discussions,

00:23:10.440 they talk a great deal about compassion, about how, how any discussion about gender that doesn't

00:23:19.160 conform to their narrative is it causes pain, it causes harm. It's not a safe space for trans people.

00:23:29.160 But when you do step outside the bond, the bounds of what they want to hear, you do find some of the

00:23:37.160 radicals amongst them. It can get very brutal in their abusive pushback. One last question. I appreciate 0.99

00:23:46.760 you taking the time to talk to us about these. So few people will even talk about these things.

00:23:51.080 It's so, you instantly become labeled, no matter how progressive you are, no matter how warm-hearted

00:23:58.440 you are, if you refuse to go with the full trans agenda, you are unpersoned. And even someone with

00:24:07.080 impeccable progressive credentials like this, Professor Todd, imagine having two bodyguards in her classes.

00:24:14.280 I know. Burly bodyguards. I noticed that in the description of the bodyguards.

00:24:18.440 Yeah, Burly. Yeah, that's right. They're not messing around. Now, here's the thing that got me.

00:24:24.520 Like so many Canadians, I follow, with some amusement, the Democratic Party's presidential

00:24:30.360 nomination primaries in the United States. I just think it's fascinating. I'm sure you do too.

00:24:36.200 They have had a real focus on transgender issues. I'd say, I mean, obviously, climate change is

00:24:41.240 their number one. But they really talk about transgender a lot in their town halls. And I saw

00:24:47.400 Joe Biden, who I think is regarded as more moderate than, let's say, Bernie Sanders, more moderate than

00:24:55.960 certainly Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I mean, Joe Biden, he's of a certain vintage. He's been in the

00:25:03.720 Senate for decades. He was vice president for years. He said that the trans agenda is the absolute,

00:25:13.160 in the tweet here, is the absolute human rights battle of our lifetimes. So if the most conservative

00:25:21.400 Democrat running for president says a trans agenda, 100%, I think he, I don't know if he's trying to get

00:25:29.960 some advantage over Bernie, or if he's just trying to head off an attack against him. But he said it now.

00:25:36.040 I think they're mad. I think that every mum in America, or every dad, really, who wants their

00:25:44.120 daughter to be able to enjoy sports at school, or wants their daughter to be able to change in a

00:25:49.960 locker room or go to a bathroom without having some Jonathan Yaniv character in there. I think this is

00:25:56.840 so far down, the emperor has no clothes. I think it's crazy. And when Joe Biden did it,

00:26:02.920 I thought, my God, it's gotten far. Do you have any thoughts on that? The so-called most, go ahead.

00:26:08.360 Yeah, I think Elizabeth Warren, a little while ago, said one of the points of her platform

00:26:15.160 was to ensure that trans women, you know, male-bodied people that want to be, like Jessica Yaniv,

00:26:24.120 that they would have access, that they would have access to being billeted in women's prisons. That 0.99

00:26:31.480 was very important to her, that they would have the right to be in women's prisons. 1.00

00:26:35.320 And I said to myself, man, you know, she thinks Twitter is the American population. She thinks 10

00:26:42.360 people on Twitter represents the majority opinion out there. And she's out to lunch on this. Because

00:26:53.640 if you did a real poll of the American population on how they feel about male bodies in women's

00:27:00.760 prisons, they'd say, what are you even talking about? They wouldn't even have been aware of that

00:27:06.680 discussion. And if you asked them, they'd say, well, why? Why would you? You know, I mean, so, so when,

00:27:12.120 when they get into this whole trans thing, they're really treading on very, very fragile ground, 0.99

00:27:19.400 because they're, they're responding to the activists, to the loudest voices. They have no idea

00:27:26.520 what ordinary people or, by the way, ordinary trans people do not identify with these radicals

00:27:33.400 at all. They just want to live their life. And most of them can absolutely see why male bodies 0.99

00:27:40.600 should not be in women's sports, or in women's prisons, or rape crisis shelters, or in girls' 0.97

00:27:47.080 locker rooms. So, you know, this is a very dumb thing that they're doing, trying to outdo each other 0.99

00:27:53.160 on the trans file, which is on nobody's list of important issues, you know, in their voting patterns. 0.94

00:28:02.120 Yeah. You know, I, I'm just waiting for a politician, a mainstream politician somewhere to say,

00:28:07.560 the emperor has no clothes. I'm not going along with this. I think they would get a huge

00:28:12.920 bandwidth of support. You know, let me say one quick word about prisons. Obviously, if a woman 1.00

00:28:17.720 is in a prison, she's probably done something very bad because most women, even who commit violent 1.00

00:28:23.400 crimes are not imprisoned. That said, I would imagine that if you're a woman in prison, 1.00

00:28:28.920 you've had a pretty rough go in your life. And although you're obviously a criminal,

00:28:34.600 you're probably in many ways, a victim of life too. And to put a man in a woman's prison 1.00

00:28:43.560 is to victimize those other women in countless ways. And, and as you know, Barbara, under Justin Trudeau,

00:28:50.600 it is now the policy that Corrections Canada must put prisoners in the prison that they identify

00:28:57.400 with. So if Jonathan Yaniv in Vancouver, who's now being criminally prosecuted for having a

00:29:03.560 restricted weapon and, and possibly even for assaulting our reporter, if he's jailed, he can say,

00:29:09.880 I'm going in with the girls. And it's shocking to me. I just, I haven't seen any conservative

00:29:16.600 politicians in Canada speak out against this. Have you like not even a common sense conservative,

00:29:21.480 like a Doug Ford or a Jason Kenney? Have you? No, I haven't. And it's a, it's kind of weird.

00:29:27.480 This is a subject that's become such a, you know, a hot rail, uh, that everybody seems very afraid to

00:29:33.800 touch it. But, uh, you're, you're so right about, uh, these women, many of them are very tough, 0.99

00:29:42.440 uh, tough women. I, they have done bad things. Uh, but as you say, they're, uh, one of the reasons 1.00

00:29:49.720 they've done bad things is they've had a tough go in life. And I suppose one could say the same about

00:29:54.200 the men. I don't want to get into, uh, who's had the tougher background. Uh, but the idea is, uh,

00:30:00.200 they should be in, in a safe space sexually. Um, and of course men aren't, look, we could get into 0.97

00:30:08.120 this whole thing of, of male rape and all of that. I mean, it's, it's all, it's all problematic,

00:30:14.520 but I don't see why there can't be units, uh, for trans women and trans men within the prison system.

00:30:21.080 I don't see, I don't see that's a big stretch. So I don't know why this. I mean, I just think that

00:30:26.600 that the first candidate who comes forward and says, I'm just, you know, I, I'm not for picking

00:30:31.320 on anyone, but I just, I'm not going to go along with the madness. We're not going to be mean to

00:30:36.600 trans people, but neither are we going to go along with the madness. I think that person would immediately 1.00

00:30:43.240 draw from the center left, the center, right. And a lot of people who don't even think in terms of

00:30:47.640 left and right, they would just say, yes, thank you. Stop the madness. No, really it look, uh, trans, 1.00

00:30:54.280 trans rights often collide with women's rights. This is, this is a fact. And, uh, when they do 1.00

00:31:00.680 collide, you can't just say, no, trans rights trump women's rights because trans, you just can't, you,

00:31:07.960 you have to use common sense. Well, listen, Barbara, it's always good to talk with you. Thank you. We sort

00:31:11.720 of meandered a little bit, but there was such a strange and interesting subject. And, um, I mean,

00:31:18.520 to be censored in real time, like to watch Kian tweet about Jonathan Yaniv and he was censored,

00:31:24.680 I think five times in an hour, they had someone watching his tweets. They do actually. Yeah. I

00:31:31.320 think, I think there is somebody literally within Twitter who's assigned to the Yaniv case. I really

00:31:38.040 get that impression. Yeah. It's, it's crazy. Um, and I, I don't know if you know this and I'll just,

00:31:43.080 I, I don't think we've officially told our, our viewers, but not only is Yaniv now being

00:31:49.240 investigated for his assault on Kian Bextie, but we have decided to file a civil action against

00:31:56.040 Yaniv for his assault on Kian, as well as his assault using a cane against David Menzies,

00:32:02.680 because it's just part of the madness is that people let them get away with it. And I think

00:32:07.720 we're going to stop here. And for folks who are interested, uh, when it's filed, we'll have that

00:32:12.280 full lawsuit up at Yaniv trial.com. If people want to see it, Barbara, you take care and don't

00:32:17.480 let anyone push you around. I tell you. Okay. And Godspeed in your civil suit. I hope you win.

00:32:23.400 Thanks Barbara. Great to see you again. Well, there's our friend, Barbara Kaye. She writes

00:32:27.320 for the national post and other places. And she's one of the most courageous journalists

00:32:31.720 when it comes to the issue of transgenderism. Stay with us. More ahead on the rebel. 1.00

00:32:42.280 Hey, what do you think? Do you think I'm over worried about this Corona virus? Do you think

00:32:48.200 I'm worried too much? I don't know. I, I saw that movie Chernobyl and I, and I was reminded of how

00:32:54.760 authoritarian regimes cover up bad news because they don't want to look weak. Uh, it's certainly

00:32:59.880 what the Soviet union did. Uh, we know China's covered up health epidemics before the SARS virus. 0.76

00:33:06.840 We know that that came to Canada and killed people here too. Uh, we know from the fact they 0.99

00:33:12.520 had a weekend press conference that Ontario's public health officials seem to be engaged, but

00:33:16.840 we know that Trudeau took his second vacation this weekend. Are you confident

00:33:21.160 that he'll do anything? I see what other countries are doing. Basic things. I really like that Milan idea

00:33:26.920 of just sending medics onto the plane, take temperatures on the plane. Why didn't we do that?

00:33:30.920 I don't know. I don't want to be alarmist, but they're certainly ringing the alarm in China.

00:33:38.760 Uh, I don't think they would do that if it wasn't really, really bad. That's the thing about

00:33:44.360 authoritarian regimes. And it's probably even more so in the Chinese culture of saving face.

00:33:49.480 You don't declare an emergency and seal off, what is it now, 50 million people? If something's not

00:33:56.600 desperately wrong. I'm worried. Uh, I'm not in panic mode yet, but I'm a little worried. I'm attentive.

00:34:04.920 And with Trudeau in the decider's chair, that's really what worries me the most.

00:34:09.960 All right, folks, that's the show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at

00:34:14.600 Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:34:19.480 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - January 28, 2020

Trudeau goes on vacation (again) as coronavirus spreads to Canada

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