Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau loses vote in Parliament that promises to examine Canada's relationship with China in the public spotlight

00:00:00.000 Hey, you guys, I have some good news for you, and my mouth can barely even make those words.

00:00:06.020 It's so rare.

00:00:07.080 Good news?

00:00:07.640 Yeah.

00:00:08.100 The opposition parties in Parliament got together and passed a motion over the objections of

00:00:12.560 Trudeau's minority.

00:00:13.740 And it's a good motion.

00:00:15.380 It's to set up a committee to investigate China-Canadian relations.

00:00:19.560 I will read the entire motion to you, almost the entire motion to you, and tell you what

00:00:23.660 I think they should look into.

00:00:25.060 I'm excited about this.

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00:00:46.380 Okay, here's today's show.

00:00:52.160 You're listening to our Rebel News Podcast.

00:00:56.460 Tonight, Justin Trudeau just lost an embarrassing vote in Parliament, 171 to 148.

00:01:09.580 I'll tell you what it's all about and why this is good news.

00:01:12.360 It's December 11th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:14.920 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:20.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:24.820 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:29.700 right to do so.

00:01:30.700 I worked for Preston Manning back in the 90s, and in many ways, it was pointless.

00:01:40.680 I loved the work.

00:01:41.440 I loved working with him.

00:01:42.600 I felt meaningful at the time.

00:01:44.620 But really, every single vote in Parliament was predestined to go his way.

00:01:48.380 Everything.

00:01:49.140 There was never any doubt.

00:01:50.300 He had three majority governments in a row.

00:01:52.540 We could make a bit of a fuss in question period and have the odd symbolic win.

00:01:56.260 But really, for a decade, the government did what Jean Chrétien told it to do.

00:02:01.160 Chrétien had his rival, Paul Martin, but he absolutely knew how to contain and control

00:02:06.520 him.

00:02:06.900 He delayed his exit as long as he liked, and he planted little time bombs for Martin when

00:02:11.260 he finally decided to retire, like the ad scam scandal, the sponsorship scandal.

00:02:15.700 I would never have thought of it at the time.

00:02:17.700 I loathed the liberals so much, but I look back with almost a fondness.

00:02:22.040 I know that's nuts because it was Jean Chrétien who was the liberal, but he reigned in the

00:02:28.300 deficit.

00:02:29.580 It was Jean Chrétien who allowed, and even legally and politically encouraged, the oil

00:02:34.720 sands to take flight.

00:02:36.880 It was Chrétien and his Edmonton cabinet minister, Anne McClellan, who defended the oil sands against

00:02:41.280 the more radical environmentalists in cabinet, like Sheila Copps.

00:02:45.420 True, Jean Chrétien ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and he had this bizarre negotiation strategy.

00:02:50.980 Whatever the Americans agreed at the UN global warming meeting back in Kyoto, whatever they

00:02:56.480 said, he instructed his negotiators to pledge to do 1% better.

00:03:00.640 But what was so genius about that was, of course, he never actually meant any of it.

00:03:05.680 He never actually did anything other than say it.

00:03:09.520 He didn't bring in a carbon tax.

00:03:11.320 He didn't beat up the oil sands.

00:03:13.500 He didn't block any pipelines.

00:03:15.140 He just kept saying that he ratified Kyoto, and he did.

00:03:18.980 Didn't mean he actually executed or implemented it.

00:03:21.980 Chrétien didn't like Alberta that much.

00:03:25.120 He didn't like America that much.

00:03:27.680 But I don't think he picked fights with either, like Justin Trudeau does. 1.00

00:03:31.480 And he wasn't stupid enough to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, the oil patch. 1.00

00:03:35.480 Can you even believe it? 1.00

00:03:36.540 I'm nostalgic for the Chrétien years.

00:03:38.960 I'll admit it.

00:03:40.560 Maybe that's why Chrétien won three back-to-back majorities.

00:03:43.840 He was a liberal.

00:03:45.300 I mean, he implemented a gun registry.

00:03:47.220 He frustrated Senate reform.

00:03:48.560 He did a lot of things we didn't like.

00:03:50.300 But his style, I think, was that of a manager, not a dramatic leader.

00:03:54.520 He liked to put out fires, not start them.

00:03:57.820 He wasn't always hemming for the cameras.

00:03:59.600 He wasn't looking for crusades or adventures.

00:04:01.620 He was happy to have no open files on his desk.

00:04:04.300 He was happy to be bored.

00:04:06.400 He also had a bias towards people around him who were grown-ups.

00:04:10.400 They were liberals, but they were seasoned a bit.

00:04:12.880 I think of Herb Gray, the old liberal hand from Windsor, Ontario.

00:04:16.680 I'm not saying that Herb Gray was a great businessman or really a great anything, but he had some ballast.

00:04:22.960 He wasn't excitable.

00:04:24.580 He had seen a thing or two before, including in opposition.

00:04:28.540 Compare that to the absolutely clueless, inexperienced team that Justin Trudeau has put around himself now.

00:04:34.720 It's like he had a rule.

00:04:35.780 No one over 40. 0.97

00:04:36.860 I mean, that works for hip TV shows, but not really when you're running a country and experience and wisdom counts.

00:04:44.460 Chrystia Freeland is just over 50, but I think she styles herself as a wannabe millennial. 1.00

00:04:50.160 And you are literally looking right now at her crack NAFTA team.

00:04:55.300 I swear to God, look at them there.

00:04:57.740 I don't think any of them have even yet negotiated a mortgage, let alone an international trade deal.

00:05:02.760 No wonder we were taken to the cleaners by Trump.

00:05:05.360 What a contrast to Chrétien.

00:05:07.120 All right.

00:05:07.540 That's not what I actually meant to talk about today, but I can't help but to have thought about it in comparison to Justin Trudeau.

00:05:13.260 By the way, I see that Finland has a new prime minister and she's just 34.

00:05:19.320 And she's part of a pack of millennial cabinet ministers of that country.

00:05:24.400 All of them women, by the way, or most of them. 1.00

00:05:27.040 Finland has about 5 million people in it.

00:05:29.800 So it's about the same population as the greater Toronto area.

00:05:32.760 And it has a smaller GDP than Toronto.

00:05:35.640 So, I don't know, maybe it's no harm to have a group of millennials at the helm.

00:05:40.260 Or maybe Finland is about to be devoured by Russia again, as it has been in the past. 0.97

00:05:46.160 That's Sergei Lavrov on the right there.

00:05:49.400 And that's, look at that guy there.

00:05:51.820 And that was Putin on the other side.

00:05:54.100 They eat broken glass for breakfast.

00:05:56.860 And I don't know if the Finns stand a chance, but hey, they got some millennials who look sort of cool on Twitter.

00:06:05.320 So they got that going for them.

00:06:06.640 Oh, well, that's their problem in Finland.

00:06:09.560 Back to us here in Canada.

00:06:11.240 Trudeau is almost 50. 0.75

00:06:14.680 And he's awful, no matter what his age was.

00:06:16.880 But the good news is he had his majority government taken away from him.

00:06:21.120 Now, the good news for him is that the NDP doesn't want to have another election right away.

00:06:25.640 They have no money.

00:06:26.700 They really underwhelmed in the last election.

00:06:28.840 They had their sheet count cut almost in half.

00:06:30.580 And Jagmeet Singh is like Trudeau, but even with less there, there.

00:06:36.300 He was a weak campaigner, and he actually makes Trudeau look wise.

00:06:40.560 This is Jagmeet Singh in his safe place.

00:06:44.820 Wait, wait, wait, stop.

00:06:46.080 Stop, this doesn't make sense.

00:06:47.480 Hold up.

00:06:48.280 Wait, who are you?

00:06:49.940 I am you.

00:06:51.260 I am me.

00:06:52.200 No, sir, you are you.

00:06:53.540 Wait, I don't know.

00:06:55.360 Two is two.

00:06:56.700 Got two bust downs, diamonds blue.

00:06:58.640 I mean, they look sort of cool, pretty cool.

00:07:02.780 That's a popular app with the teenagers called TikTok.

00:07:07.380 It's basically a karaoke dance app.

00:07:10.120 And I think Jagmeet Singh is a perfect fit for TikTok.

00:07:14.700 He's done a couple of vids like that now.

00:07:16.620 He's sort of cool.

00:07:17.520 And that was his brother there, too, politician also.

00:07:20.180 Those guys are happy to be living on the public dime, have a fake sort of celebrity.

00:07:25.460 But neither of them would ever know what to do if they were given any power.

00:07:28.820 They're happy to be in opposition, is what I'm saying.

00:07:31.800 It's just enough for them.

00:07:33.440 They didn't do very well at campaigning.

00:07:35.500 Neither of them will ever actually wield power.

00:07:37.860 So I don't think they're going to go to an election again.

00:07:39.660 They're just going to do some TikToks.

00:07:42.140 The Bloc Yiboquai actually came ahead of the NDP.

00:07:45.840 Total revival under Trudeau.

00:07:47.380 He's revived Western separatism and Quebec separatism.

00:07:50.340 So good for him, eh?

00:07:51.380 I don't think they're in a hurry to campaign anymore.

00:07:53.800 They're just enjoying life on the public dime, too.

00:07:56.640 They're totally against the government of Canada, except when it comes to their pay and

00:08:02.080 their pensions.

00:08:03.360 So I think Trudeau will likely win any confidence votes for at least a few years.

00:08:08.340 Because, of course, if you lose a confidence vote, like a budget, there's an election.

00:08:11.940 I think Trudeau will call an election when he thinks he has his opposition particularly

00:08:16.420 weak.

00:08:17.020 I don't know, maybe right in the middle of an Andrew Scheer leadership vote or something.

00:08:22.240 But although Trudeau is likely to pass any budgets or confidence votes, he will still

00:08:28.440 lose on some matters where the parties can humiliate him and stop him without forcing an election.

00:08:38.060 It might be hard to find common ground amongst the conservatives, the Bloc, and the NDP.

00:08:42.320 But I think it could be on some things.

00:08:43.940 When it comes to the SNC-Lavalin-Jody Wilson-Raybould matter, although I think, now that I say it,

00:08:50.080 I think the Bloc Quebecois would probably stop that because they would champion SNC-Lavalin

00:08:54.400 and say, stop picking on Quebec.

00:08:56.320 I think there could be some cooperation by the opposition on ethics matters.

00:09:01.040 But last night, they actually found common ground in foreign policy on China.

00:09:07.720 Isn't that interesting?

00:09:08.920 And so they teamed up to pass a motion, 171 votes to 148.

00:09:15.440 I want to read it to you at length, if I may.

00:09:18.760 It comes on the one year anniversary of the kidnapping by China of two Michaels, Michael

00:09:22.880 Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were seized as hostages by the dictatorship of China in revenge

00:09:29.120 for Canada lawfully arresting a Chinese tycoon named Meng Wanzhou.

00:09:34.060 She's the CFO of Huawei.

00:09:36.560 That's a big telecom company in China.

00:09:38.460 She's also the daughter of the founder.

00:09:40.820 So it would be like arresting, I don't know, Bill Gates' daughter or something like that,

00:09:45.080 if he has one.

00:09:45.700 China has launched a diplomatic war against Canada in revenge and a trade war.

00:09:51.540 And of course, taking hostages, which really could be considered a real act of war.

00:09:56.620 But Trudeau has bent the knee and appointed a new foreign minister who literally went on

00:10:02.580 television in China on their propaganda networks to speak in defense of what a great dictatorship

00:10:10.100 they are.

00:10:10.560 Here's the clip.

00:10:12.460 And I would say China stands out as beacon of stability, predictability, a rule-based

00:10:17.600 system, a very inclusive society.

00:10:21.800 Yeah.

00:10:22.440 Oh, boy, he's going to hold them to task, eh?

00:10:25.220 Yeah.

00:10:25.360 But Canadians are smarter than Trudeau, even though they voted for him.

00:10:29.740 I don't know if you can see this.

00:10:30.680 This is a chart by countries.

00:10:33.660 It's a survey done by Pew Research of countries around the world and asked them if they have

00:10:39.780 an unfavorable or favorable opinion of China.

00:10:43.200 The blue bars are unfavorable.

00:10:46.660 The green bars are favorable.

00:10:48.060 You can see that Canada has amongst the most unfavorable views of China in the world, even

00:10:56.880 more hostile than Americans. 0.85

00:10:58.720 And this has all happened.

00:11:00.360 Canadians have hardened their hearts only in the last year towards communist China.

00:11:04.460 They've had enough.

00:11:05.720 I think the hostage-taking is really serious.

00:11:09.200 So is China threatening Hong Kong?

00:11:11.420 I think Canadians are good people, obviously, and have always felt a bit odd about how chummy Trudeau

00:11:19.120 was with China, and now it's moved from a quirk of Trudeau to a real flaw.

00:11:24.220 I mean, remember this?

00:11:25.500 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is

00:11:36.100 allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.

00:11:39.940 When Trudeau said that back then, it was weird, but now it's much worse than weird.

00:11:47.940 So here's the motion that passed yesterday.

00:11:51.240 It's called Special Committee on Canada-China Relations.

00:11:55.680 Okay.

00:11:56.600 Let me read it to you.

00:11:57.740 I'm going to read most of it to you.

00:11:59.760 The motion is that in light of the prolonged diplomatic crisis with China, the House, that's

00:12:06.080 House of Commons, appoint a special committee with the mandate to conduct hearings to examine

00:12:11.840 and review all aspects of the Canada-China relationship, including, but not limited to,

00:12:16.520 consular, economic, legal, security, and diplomatic relations.

00:12:21.080 That the committee be composed of 12 members, of which six shall be government members, four

00:12:25.960 shall be from the official opposition, one shall be from the Bloc Québécois, and one

00:12:29.440 from the New Democratic Party.

00:12:31.020 Okay.

00:12:31.280 Let me stop there.

00:12:32.000 So it's a total review of the Canada-China policy.

00:12:34.100 I think it makes sense.

00:12:35.080 It's something Trudeau should have done, but he didn't do.

00:12:38.140 His government is packed with China shills. 0.99

00:12:39.900 Even his new ambassador to there, Dominique Barton, total signophile.

00:12:45.260 I think they might even still be working psychologically for China as they did in real life before. 0.94

00:12:50.720 That's not an insult.

00:12:51.500 They did in their real life work for China, in China, for Chinese businesses.

00:12:56.440 I'm not sure how anyone can trust that they're still not putting Chinese interests first. 0.99

00:13:00.400 I'm talking about our ambassador, our foreign minister.

00:13:02.320 Well, now we've got a committee that is 50-50 government and opposition MPs.

00:13:07.280 I'm not sure how tie votes will be broken, but it'll be very interesting to see the proceedings.

00:13:11.700 They won't just be able to shut them down.

00:13:13.420 Like, I don't know if you remember a few months ago, how they shut down any inquiries in the

00:13:17.880 House of Commons because they used that liberal majority when they were investigating the Jody

00:13:22.380 Wilson-Raybould matter.

00:13:23.880 Remember this disgrace?

00:13:25.020 Can you get to your actual point of order?

00:13:26.780 I actually have started my point of order.

00:13:29.320 It has to be an actual point of order.

00:13:32.140 It is indeed a point of order.

00:13:33.280 It is indeed a point of order.

00:13:35.620 And I appreciate that this is a very uncomfortable subject for the Trudeau majority on this committee.

00:13:42.320 But while the prime minister is trying to silence his former attorney general, he will not

00:13:46.460 silence members of the official opposition.

00:13:48.160 So at this point, this is a point of debate.

00:13:50.440 We're going to move to a vote.

00:13:52.300 We're going to—Mr.—Mr.—because I've spoken to the clerk, and at this point, you haven't

00:13:58.660 raised a point of order.

00:13:59.700 You've raised a point of debate.

00:14:00.900 I'm sure that this is an attempt to shut down the debate and continue to cover up.

00:14:04.940 Okay.

00:14:05.460 Thank you.

00:14:06.180 We're going to move to a vote.

00:14:07.740 All those in favor of the motion—

00:14:11.280 What an awful, disgraceful, corrupt moment that was, that Anthony Howe's father,

00:14:16.500 chairing the committee, shutting down any questions into the scandal.

00:14:21.020 Well, that won't be able to be done now that Trudeau does not have a majority anymore.

00:14:26.160 I don't know how you're going to break a tie on a committee, though.

00:14:28.340 All right.

00:14:28.520 I'm going to skip some of the technical parts of the motion, but let me read a little bit

00:14:31.440 more, okay?

00:14:32.340 The clerk of the House shall convene an organization meeting of the said committee for no later than

00:14:38.180 January 20, 2020.

00:14:41.120 That the committee be chaired by a member of the government party, that notwithstanding

00:14:45.220 Standing Order 106-2, in addition to the chair, there will be one vice chair from the official

00:14:49.860 opposition, one vice chair from the Bloc Québécois, and one vice chair from the New Democrats.

00:14:56.360 The quorum of the committee be as provided for in Standing Order 118, and that the chair

00:15:00.300 be authorized to hold meetings, to receive evidence, and to have that evidence printed

00:15:05.200 when a quorum is not present, provided that at least four members are present, including

00:15:09.620 one member of the opposition and one member of the government.

00:15:11.920 Okay, I'm just showing that they're going to do some, that they've got some rules here.

00:15:16.300 The committee be granted all the powers of a standing committee, as provided in the standing

00:15:21.420 orders, as well as the power to travel, accompanied by the necessary staff, inside and outside of

00:15:28.680 Canada.

00:15:29.500 Okay, so let me stop for a minute.

00:15:30.860 This thing's going to get rolling pretty quickly.

00:15:33.020 Right after the new year, they're going to organize it.

00:15:35.300 They'll have a staff.

00:15:36.140 They'll have all the powers of any existing committee, and they'll travel in Canada and

00:15:40.240 overseas.

00:15:41.560 I bet they'll go to Hong Kong.

00:15:43.900 I bet they'll go to Hong Kong.

00:15:44.980 What do you think?

00:15:46.460 But look at this part.

00:15:47.360 This is delicious.

00:15:48.160 This is also from the motion.

00:15:49.580 That the committee have the power to authorize video and audio broadcasting of any or all of

00:15:54.740 its proceedings, and that the prime minister, the minister of foreign affairs, the minister

00:15:58.960 of public safety, and the Canadian ambassador to China be ordered to appear as witnesses

00:16:03.740 from time to time as the committee sees fit.

00:16:07.160 So it's going to be broadcast on TV, which is good, so we can all see it, and the foreign

00:16:11.040 minister, public safety minister, Trudeau himself, the ambassador, ordered to appear.

00:16:14.620 Now, I'm not quite sure if a vote of the House of Commons is enough to order someone to appear,

00:16:20.000 but really, why wouldn't Trudeau?

00:16:21.740 He takes questions from time to time in question, period, already.

00:16:24.980 It's not like he actually says anything substantive in his answers.

00:16:28.380 He's a master at evasion, and the opposition isn't really good at pinning him down on anything, 1.00

00:16:32.760 and frankly, he's too dumb. 0.99

00:16:34.100 He doesn't even know enough to give a wrong answer. 1.00

00:16:37.400 And certainly, the media party doesn't press him on anything.

00:16:40.240 Really, Trudeau just has his very shallow message track, and no one tries to push him

00:16:45.600 off message, except Donald Trump.

00:16:47.400 That's the one time I've ever seen it happen.

00:16:49.580 Just last week, at the NATO summit in London.

00:16:52.000 Watch that moment one more time.

00:16:53.300 Look at this.

00:16:54.720 Well, we'll put him on a payment plan, you know?

00:16:56.740 We'll put you on a payment plan, right?

00:16:58.660 I'm sure the prime minister would love that.

00:17:00.520 What are you at?

00:17:01.260 What is your number?

00:17:03.140 The number we talk about is 70% increase over these past years, including, and for the

00:17:09.820 coming years, including significant investments in our fighter jets, significant investments

00:17:16.320 in our naval fleets.

00:17:18.040 We are increasing significantly our defense spending from previous governments that cut it.

00:17:23.340 Okay.

00:17:23.740 Where are you now, in terms of your number?

00:17:26.820 We're at 135?

00:17:29.300 1.3.

00:17:30.480 1.4.

00:17:31.100 1.4.

00:17:32.300 1.4.

00:17:33.260 And continuing to move forward.

00:17:34.700 They're getting there.

00:17:35.400 They know it's important to do that.

00:17:38.680 And their economy is doing well.

00:17:40.660 They'll get there quickly, I think.

00:17:42.040 Look, it's to their benefit.

00:17:43.280 Trudeau was afraid of Trump, afraid of Trump calling out his BS.

00:17:49.100 So he actually answered after obfuscating.

00:17:52.160 It was a lie.

00:17:52.920 Canada spends 1.27% of our GDP on defense, not 1.4%.

00:17:57.340 But at least he gave a substantive answer to the best of his meager abilities.

00:18:01.040 Trudeau was afraid to avoid the answer, but he's unafraid of Parliament or the Canadian

00:18:07.140 media or even the law.

00:18:08.620 I mean, the guy's broken the law five times now, Conflict of Interest Act.

00:18:11.660 So he'll skate at this new China committee, but still it'll be a moment Trudeau will hate.

00:18:18.040 And there are real things to talk about.

00:18:20.140 And even if Trudeau lies to the committee, others might tell the truth.

00:18:23.440 Here's a few things to talk about.

00:18:25.280 Why isn't Canada retaliating to China's trade war?

00:18:29.060 Why does Canada take so many Chinese nationals into our universities, pushing aside Canadians? 1.00

00:18:36.360 Why does Canada take so many Chinese nationals into our high-tech university departments where 1.00

00:18:41.660 they engage in massive industrial espionage, according to CSIS?

00:18:46.680 Why is Canada allowing Huawei to build any telecom infrastructure in Canada at all, let alone

00:18:52.180 in our far north?

00:18:53.920 Why is Canada allowing China to put trade sanctions on us, like on our agriculture, without a tit

00:18:59.040 for taft?

00:19:00.380 Frankly, why are Chinese diplomats even allowed here while the two Michaels are held hostage?

00:19:05.620 Why don't we expel them? 0.88

00:19:07.240 Not take them hostage, but kick them out.

00:19:09.940 Why won't Canada stand with Hong Kong like the U.S. Congress has done?

00:19:14.280 Both parties, Democrats and Republicans, they voted for a law that would put sanctions on

00:19:21.680 China if they get violent in Hong Kong, take away Chinese rights to trade in America.

00:19:27.260 We have more Canadians in Hong Kong than America has Americans there.

00:19:32.220 Why are we silent while Americans are bold?

00:19:36.140 Why are we still planning to take billions of Canadian tax dollars and invest them in China's

00:19:42.980 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?

00:19:45.380 Have you heard of that?

00:19:46.620 It's this huge Chinese infrastructure bank.

00:19:49.540 Why would Canadian taxpayers give money to China at all, let alone to build Chinese infrastructure?

00:19:55.280 They have, what, two, three trillion dollars in foreign currency reserves.

00:20:00.620 Why would we build Chinese infrastructure with our money, especially when we're shutting down

00:20:04.840 Canadian infrastructure like pipelines?

00:20:07.120 How much money does Canada still give China in foreign aid?

00:20:10.040 Because I know we do.

00:20:10.920 Why do we at all, and how much do we give?

00:20:13.760 Those are just a few of the hundreds of questions I think ought to be asked, and none of them

00:20:18.400 could cause the minority government to fall in themselves.

00:20:22.160 It's actually a smart use of the combined votes of the opposition parties, don't you think?

00:20:26.940 Maybe they're not quite as hopeless as we once thought.

00:20:31.140 Stay with us for more.

00:20:32.120 We no longer have time to leave out the science.

00:20:49.020 Without seeing the full picture, we will not solve this crisis.

00:20:53.460 Finding holistic solutions is what the COP should be all about.

00:21:01.140 But instead, it seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate

00:21:08.380 loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition.

00:21:11.800 Well, that's Greta Thunberg, Saint Greta, as we call her, or the Time Magazine Person of the Year,

00:21:22.440 as Time Magazine calls her, even though Time Magazine readers overwhelmingly voted

00:21:29.000 that that honor should be bestowed on the young people of Hong Kong,

00:21:33.480 who have stood firm against Beijing's tyranny, defended democracy and freedom

00:21:40.280 at the cost of their own, at the risk of their own lives.

00:21:44.600 Well, Greta, she sailed in a yacht from America to the Global Warming Conference in Madrid,

00:21:51.420 so surely that makes her the most amazing person in the world.

00:21:56.540 Yeah, not really.

00:21:57.880 But we have sent the only two skeptical journalists in all of the world

00:22:03.560 to cover the Global Warming Conference that the UN hosts every year.

00:22:08.300 This year, it's in Madrid, Spain.

00:22:10.140 It was supposed to be in Santiago, Chile.

00:22:12.860 But alas, that city is in flames as the people rise up against energy poverty,

00:22:19.300 brought about by poor decisions made by the local authorities there

00:22:23.420 to go with green transit, which costs more,

00:22:28.440 and thus made the price of transit go up and cause the riots.

00:22:32.260 I think it's quite poetic that the Global Warming Conference was moved

00:22:36.380 because of riots against the global warming agenda.

00:22:41.360 Joining us now via Skype from Greta Sendral,

00:22:45.100 Arke and Bexty and Sheila Gunnery, good to see you guys.

00:22:48.960 Hey, boss. Good to see you, too.

00:22:51.040 Well, give us an update.

00:22:52.700 Sorry for that long introduction.

00:22:54.940 I just can't even, part of me can't believe that Greta is held up

00:22:59.720 as the best of anything.

00:23:01.760 But really, when you think about the politically correct mindset,

00:23:05.480 of course she was, because she is the battering ram

00:23:08.780 for the globalist, environmentalist, green agenda.

00:23:11.760 So, of course, she's the person of the year.

00:23:15.040 Yeah, this was to be expected.

00:23:18.700 But you know as well as I do, the history of Time magazine's person of the year used to be man of the year back in 1930-something

00:23:28.460 when they picked some undesirable man.

00:23:31.300 They don't have the best taste as far as I'm concerned.

00:23:34.100 And when you compare Greta Thunberg to the millions of people marching in Hong Kong,

00:23:40.040 I've seen them both.

00:23:41.400 And I know who I'm impressed by.

00:23:43.120 I'm impressed by the people who stand up against the Communist Party of China

00:23:46.260 when they risk their own lives, when they risk being sent to a gulag,

00:23:50.120 when they risk being raped in prison by police officers.

00:23:53.660 Greta Thunberg, on the other hand, doesn't risk anything. 0.57

00:23:57.040 Greta Thunberg is just raking in the dough, raking in the fame, 0.99

00:24:00.240 and there's no risk to her.

00:24:02.520 Well, and what does it say about Time magazine that they're choosing this young girl

00:24:07.220 as their person of the year over the Hong Kong protesters?

00:24:12.120 One of these groups or one of these people is advocating for more centralized government,

00:24:18.240 more government control over your life.

00:24:20.300 And the other group, the Hong Kongers, they're marching for less government control,

00:24:26.620 less freedom.

00:24:28.180 They're marching for liberty when all the solutions to the things that Greta thinks are problems

00:24:34.840 means more government and fewer rights for everybody.

00:24:38.120 Yeah, that's a very good point.

00:24:40.100 Now, Sheila, this is, if I'm correct,

00:24:43.160 your fourth global warming conference that you've covered for Rebel News.

00:24:49.980 I'm really glad.

00:24:50.760 You're an old pro.

00:24:51.620 Tell us how this one is different, if it is different, than the ones you've covered in

00:24:57.320 the past from, let me see if I can remember, Marrakesh, Morocco, Bonn, Germany, Katowice,

00:25:04.840 Poland.

00:25:05.400 You've tracked this traveling feast.

00:25:08.800 It's a feast for the bureaucrats and diplomats and lobbyists.

00:25:13.220 You're there working and you're going economy class.

00:25:16.180 How, if at all, is this year's conference different from the previous three you've covered?

00:25:23.780 Well, I think the first thing is that it is, it's in a bigger facility than the other places

00:25:32.040 have been.

00:25:32.540 So there's, in the other cities, there were more inflatable structures to support the

00:25:38.440 conference.

00:25:39.060 This is in a massive facility.

00:25:42.060 So they do have a lot of structures existing here.

00:25:47.440 However, you can tell that it was thrown together haphazardly at the last minute.

00:25:53.420 If you look around town, there's not a lot of signage here.

00:25:56.660 I know in Morocco, the whole town was coated with signs.

00:26:00.680 Germany, likewise.

00:26:02.560 Poland, not so much for other reasons.

00:26:04.400 But here, even the signs, they still say Chile.

00:26:09.480 And then they have Madrid written underneath because Madrid was chosen, you know, really

00:26:14.860 only four weeks ago.

00:26:16.440 And this is actually the third host city.

00:26:19.420 So I suppose it's hard to get momentum up for a conference that literally nobody wanted.

00:26:24.680 Originally, this was intended to be in Brazil, and then Brazil elected their version of President

00:26:32.260 Trump, President Bolsonaro.

00:26:34.020 And he said, we're not having this conference here.

00:26:37.240 We don't want it.

00:26:38.300 We're setting our own way.

00:26:39.400 We're going our own way in the world.

00:26:41.120 And that's how it ended up in Chile.

00:26:42.800 And as you rightly pointed out, they are having energy poverty protests that have turned out

00:26:46.580 to be deadly.

00:26:47.140 So I guess the people who want to make energy more expensive for literally everybody on the

00:26:54.820 planet thought it might be an optically bad idea to continue to hold it in Chile.

00:26:59.540 So they scrambled and found a location here in Madrid.

00:27:04.680 I was actually quite convinced that it would go back to Bonn, Germany, where the head of

00:27:08.300 the UN climate change operations are.

00:27:12.240 But they did find a place here.

00:27:13.560 But it's festive inside.

00:27:16.420 But when you're in the rest of the city, you would not know that this conference is

00:27:20.360 happening.

00:27:21.080 Yeah.

00:27:21.880 Well, let me ask you one more question before I go back to Kian.

00:27:24.540 I, as you say, this was just kicked around.

00:27:27.260 Nobody wanted it.

00:27:28.100 The signs all say Chile.

00:27:29.500 I think that's very funny.

00:27:31.080 I noticed that they have big corporate sponsors, which makes sense because, of course, the journalists

00:27:40.520 report on the press releases and the politicians.

00:27:43.680 But there really is a lot of business conducted at these billions of dollars worth of grants

00:27:49.400 and subsidies.

00:27:50.280 They're lobbying.

00:27:51.580 I noticed that of the four, I think they're called platinum or diamond sponsors, three of

00:27:56.840 them are coal-fired power plant companies.

00:28:01.420 They're energy mega corporations.

00:28:03.680 And they have, you know, they all have a few windmills for window dressing.

00:28:08.960 But the people who are sponsoring this are in the coal industry.

00:28:14.600 Now, I think that's hilarious.

00:28:16.300 I think that's great.

00:28:17.440 I think it shows that the UN, like most global things, is absolutely riggable.

00:28:23.620 Just like, I don't know, international sports.

00:28:26.920 There's bribery and corruption and whether it's FIFA, soccer or the Olympics.

00:28:34.220 Here, you don't have blood doping like the Olympics.

00:28:36.720 You just have payola to say, can you give my coal mine your green blessing or something?

00:28:42.880 I've got nothing against coal.

00:28:44.180 I'm just laughing that the global warming people are letting themselves be sponsored

00:28:47.780 by coal because, of course, they like free money.

00:28:51.320 Well, yeah, you know me.

00:28:52.500 I like coal.

00:28:53.860 I'm a fan of coal.

00:28:55.100 But it's funny.

00:28:57.280 You're right.

00:28:58.200 There are some major fossil fuel companies here sponsoring this event.

00:29:03.320 If you go to their website, they sort of feature the fact that they're into natural gas.

00:29:09.200 But, of course, they are into coal.

00:29:11.400 We also see there's a lot of greenwashing happening here.

00:29:15.620 Coca-Cola is prominently featured here.

00:29:17.940 And as Kian points out, they're one of the world's largest producers of plastic pollution. 0.98

00:29:22.660 Danone, you know, the little dairy company that has all the disposable yogurts, they're prominently featured here.

00:29:31.280 It's greenwashing, really.

00:29:33.020 It's exactly what you point out.

00:29:34.540 These high-polluting companies, if you care about that sort of thing, and I'm told these people do, if they throw enough money at the United Nations, they get the green stamp of approval.

00:29:47.220 And it's funny because I saw on Twitter today some of the delegates here are sort of outraged that CAP, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has representatives here.

00:30:00.280 I suppose they are as observers.

00:30:02.820 But why is that so outrageous when everyone is walking under these signs featuring these Spanish fossil fuel companies? 0.98

00:30:13.260 It's almost as though, you know, it's really how the Liberals treat Canadian oil and gas, isn't it?

00:30:19.660 They tax Canadian oil and gas and give foreign oil and gas a pass.

00:30:26.080 And the same thing is happening here, except in reverse.

00:30:29.260 They are giving their own domestic production a pass while, again, continuing to target Canadian oil and gas.

00:30:36.520 Yeah.

00:30:37.040 Well, Kian, I want to bring you into the conversation.

00:30:39.500 You are the only journalist of which I'm aware, at least the only journalist in the English-speaking world,

00:30:46.820 who has actually managed to put questions to Greta Thunberg, St. Greta, Person of the Year Greta,

00:30:54.680 that weren't puffball PR-approved questions.

00:30:59.700 And that's when you encountered her in Edmonton.

00:31:02.200 You tracked her down.

00:31:03.080 We had a big team effort to find her.

00:31:04.540 It was amazing.

00:31:05.680 We found her in that city of a million.

00:31:07.560 And you, well, here, let me just show our viewers a quick reminder of when you actually got to ask her about,

00:31:15.000 well, who's funding you and things like that.

00:31:16.680 Here, take a quick look at this.

00:31:18.280 So will you be disclosing your finances?

00:31:20.880 Will you be telling us who is paying for your trip, your Tesla,

00:31:24.400 and bringing you to our country in the middle of an election?

00:31:27.600 Thank you very much.

00:31:29.200 I'm paying?

00:31:30.320 You're paying for everything.

00:31:31.440 You pay for the Tesla?

00:31:32.780 No, let's pay for everything.

00:31:34.540 You borrow the Tesla for free?

00:31:36.620 You borrow the Tesla for free from New York.

00:31:40.000 Yeah, from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:31:41.580 Have you registered as a third-party advertiser coming to this country in the middle of an election period?

00:31:47.660 It's the middle of an election.

00:31:48.900 You understand that?

00:31:49.740 Have you registered as a third-party advertiser?

00:31:52.480 I'm sure she will not talk about the elections at all.

00:31:54.740 I will not.

00:31:55.340 I have never mentioned the election.

00:31:56.820 You understand that climate change is a pivotal policy, is a ballot box question in this election.

00:32:02.440 I'm actually competing in the middle right now, so...

00:32:03.880 This is a ballot box question in this election, and you're rallying, you're engaging in our political discourse as a foreigner.

00:32:10.880 All right, so that's...

00:32:12.940 You're, I think, the only journalist in the world who's actually scrummed Greta.

00:32:18.780 Really, it's her handlers that are the puppeteers.

00:32:22.420 How is Greta being treated or seen at this global warming conference?

00:32:29.560 Because on the one hand, they would love her because she's the battering ram that's punching through because she's so quirky. 0.99

00:32:38.260 On the other hand, her whole shtick is that she's holier than thou.

00:32:43.260 She took a sailboat across the Atlantic.

00:32:45.880 No one else at this Madrid conference did.

00:32:47.540 They all took jet planes.

00:32:48.980 So her whole thing is, I'm so pure.

00:32:52.180 No one is pure enough for me.

00:32:54.180 How are they handling that?

00:32:58.100 This is a very interesting question, Ezra, because something we've been working on here is sharing some footage that we have of Greta.

00:33:05.820 Something that we haven't published yet before, from that day when I talked to Greta, was the footage of the inside of her Tesla.

00:33:14.000 The Tesla that Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her, and it was littered, Ezra, it was littered with climate contraband.

00:33:21.540 Climate contraband, that's a good phrase. 0.82

00:33:23.740 You mean like plastic bottles and stuff?

00:33:26.980 Yes.

00:33:27.400 Yeah.

00:33:28.300 It was full of it.

00:33:29.760 Plastic utensils, plastic grocery bags, plastic water bottles, plastic wrappers for Kiwis, plastic twine covering oranges, all this stuff, Ezra.

00:33:40.020 So we're asking folks, well, what do you think about the use of plastics in general?

00:33:44.720 And when they say, oh, the use of plastics is bad, and then we say, well, look at this footage of Greta Thunberg's Tesla.

00:33:51.600 And their response, Ezra, is, I don't believe it.

00:33:55.040 They, they, they, they, we watch the, we watch the stages of grief pass through their face in about five seconds.

00:34:04.000 And they get angry.

00:34:05.180 They get angry.

00:34:06.060 Wow.

00:34:06.700 One of them literally called on us.

00:34:08.640 One of them said, I just don't believe you because she's my hero and Greta wouldn't do that.

00:34:14.680 One of them said, well, you know what, Kiwis, I do believe you because she's not a messiah as much as everyone says she is.

00:34:20.640 That was some brutal honesty.

00:34:22.340 Yeah.

00:34:22.920 It, it, the reactions have been hilarious.

00:34:25.980 And I encourage everyone to go to rebelun.com where all, all of our coverage from this conference is.

00:34:31.200 And that video will be there. 0.86

00:34:32.580 And it is the, the creme de la creme of this conference, I think, because the reactions, they just, some of them don't want to accept that Greta, person of the year, is really Greta, hypocrite of the year.

00:34:45.300 Okay, well, let's just show a quick sneak peek of that, but you're correct, you guys have been pumping out the vids, including on St. Greta.

00:34:52.320 All your vids from Madrid are at rebelun.com.

00:34:55.460 But here's just a taste of you showing the truth that St. Greta isn't quite as pure as the driven snow when it comes to plastics.

00:35:03.800 Take a quick look at this.

00:35:04.980 What do you think Greta Thunberg would say to people who continue to use plastic, even though they know how damaging it is to the environment? 0.99

00:35:11.120 I think she would be very angry at them.

00:35:13.340 If you stop using plastic, it'll help a great deal.

00:35:17.040 Shame, shame, shame.

00:35:19.600 How dare you.

00:35:20.420 I was going to say it, I was going to say it.

00:35:22.460 How dare you.

00:35:23.640 How dare you.

00:35:25.100 Do you think Greta Thunberg uses plastic water bottles? 1.00

00:35:27.860 Um, I hope not, but I don't know.

00:35:31.100 So we, we see lots of people driving Teslas, you know, and they're like, oh, we're saving the environment.

00:35:36.380 But in the Teslas, in the cup holder, is a plastic water bottle. 0.95

00:35:39.760 Do you think some of these people are just hypocrites? 0.89

00:35:41.220 Honestly, yeah, I think so.

00:35:42.900 And I think it's easy to, like, jump and to be part of the trend of, like, going green, going healthy.

00:35:48.180 So I think that it is, a lot of it is, like, this new kind of trend or fad that's going on of trying to save the environment.

00:35:54.440 But I think at the end of the day, people don't really care and they just want to have the image.

00:35:58.020 So one thing I want to show you, it's footage that I took, actually, of Greta Thunberg's car.

00:36:03.860 This is her car.

00:36:05.760 These are the aboriginal beads that were given to her by native bands.

00:36:09.040 Yeah, but it's kind of hard.

00:36:11.100 It's not to be unplight, but it's kind of hard to believe because Greta is kind of my, it's really a hope for my family, my generation.

00:36:22.500 So if I don't have, like, strong evidence, I can give you an answer.

00:36:27.500 What do you think about that?

00:36:28.180 I don't know what is the source of the photos, I'm afraid I cannot say anything.

00:36:33.080 If they were true, if they're real, and I can promise you they are, what do you think about them?

00:36:38.080 Well, nobody, nobody should use plastics in the first place, but I don't know what is the source, so I'm afraid I cannot really say.

00:36:48.200 I took it myself.

00:36:50.720 Why, are you surprised that Greta Thunberg, someone who... 0.97

00:36:53.400 I'm surprised that you're using plastic.

00:36:55.160 This is, well, this is for you.

00:36:56.640 Oh, okay.

00:36:57.620 Yeah.

00:36:58.180 So Greta Thunberg is using single-use plastics. 1.00

00:37:00.740 That's what surprised us.

00:37:05.220 Have you used single-use plastics?

00:37:07.740 We're not the climate messiah.

00:37:10.500 I don't know what was the case and why was it bought, but as I say, I wouldn't take any stand on this just because it is unclear to me what is the source and if it's true.

00:37:23.220 Fair enough.

00:37:23.560 So, I want to believe that it's not Greta Thunberg, I want to believe that it's not her, and I can't confirm it, so I will not talk about her.

00:37:33.440 Well, you guys, you're doing great work there.

00:37:35.620 Well, you're going to be there for a couple more days.

00:37:37.360 Now, it looks like you're getting more access to this conference than we have in the past.

00:37:42.140 I know that after Sheila went to Marrakesh, Catherine McKenna, the climate zealot who has since been demoted by Justin Trudeau, she instructed the U.N.

00:37:55.700 to not accredit rebel journalists at the U.N.

00:37:58.640 That's very abusive and censorious.

00:38:00.880 It hasn't stopped us from going to these climate conferences, but it's changed where we could physically go.

00:38:07.120 It looks like you guys are getting a lot of access.

00:38:09.500 Is that just because everything's so ramshackle?

00:38:13.680 It's sort of easy to get places?

00:38:15.300 Is it because it's not in an authoritarian regime like, I mean, Morocco is not that bad a place as Arab countries go, but it's a controlled, benign dictatorship there.

00:38:26.400 Why are you getting more access than you have in years past?

00:38:32.240 Well, we're getting into the side events.

00:38:34.680 Now, we are nowhere near where all the bureaucrats and decision makers are.

00:38:38.200 They're in a completely other building from where we're at.

00:38:41.000 But because this was thrown together, I think so haphazardly, the side events that are normally spread across the city and that are earlier in the conference, they're being held right now in one building.

00:38:55.840 And so we're able to get into it sort of amounts to a bit of a trade show where they have press conference or like not press conferences, but panels.

00:39:05.000 They're hosting panels of completely uninteresting people, but at least we're allowed to get in under in the warmth.

00:39:11.280 It was only four degrees here and it was raining this morning.

00:39:15.680 So we can get in there and we can there we can find sort of the climate change true believers, which has resulted in some really great content for Kian.

00:39:25.500 But, yeah, I think it's just because it was just the whole conference was just stuffed together in this one venue and the security is not as tight at other times.

00:39:37.100 You know, sometimes they want to see our passport so we can get into the building.

00:39:40.400 Sometimes we just walk in with the herd and nobody seems to notice.

00:39:43.580 So, yeah.

00:39:44.340 Well, I think it's really exciting and I want to encourage all the people to go to rebelun.com.

00:39:48.980 I believe that you, too, Sheila and Kian, are the only skeptical journalists, I want to say in the world, there may be someone else out there, but I just don't know who they are.

00:40:03.220 I haven't seen journalists make contact with Greta in the skeptical way that we have.

00:40:07.860 I haven't seen journalists cover these global warming conferences in the way that we have.

00:40:12.700 That's why Catherine McKenna kicked us out. 1.00

00:40:15.560 That's why the UN kicked us out.

00:40:16.980 That's why we go back.

00:40:19.360 I think that it's important journalism and I'd encourage all our viewers to go to rebelun.com to watch all the videos and to help cover our costs if they can.

00:40:29.440 I have one more question for you and I'll let you guys go because I know the time zones are later over there.

00:40:34.540 I think it's six hours later there than in Toronto.

00:40:38.320 I've been talking a lot about China and you mentioned Hong Kong, Kian.

00:40:42.320 Yeah.

00:40:42.720 Everyone at these global warming things hates what I call ethical oil.

00:40:47.180 That's oil produced in democracies.

00:40:50.140 And these days that really means Canada, the United States, a little bit of North Sea oil.

00:40:55.840 And that's pretty much it.

00:40:59.460 Whereas the conflict oil from OPEC countries in Russia is generally not criticized.

00:41:06.760 I haven't seen Greta criticize it.

00:41:09.120 And of course, if you worry about greenhouse gases, and I don't, but for those who do,

00:41:13.660 China is by far the largest emitter and India is probably growing and will soon be number two.

00:41:19.880 Have you seen any criticisms of China, India, OPEC countries, Russia there?

00:41:26.380 Or is there hatred reserved only for the Western liberal democracies?

00:41:31.880 It's the latter, Ezra.

00:41:34.760 Their hatred is reserved completely for Western liberal democracies.

00:41:37.800 And Greta Thunberg said it in her speech today when she said,

00:41:40.720 Net zero emissions are not enough when referring to rich countries, rich Western liberal countries.

00:41:49.560 Net zero is not enough.

00:41:51.180 We must ask for more.

00:41:52.940 And countries like Canada and the United States need to do even more to offset poor countries like India, China.

00:41:58.960 You know, the major polluters that are destroying our rivers and oceans,

00:42:01.620 killing ecosystems and polluting particulate matter more than anyone else in the world.

00:42:07.480 There's one reference of China here, and it is in these pollution pods. 0.62

00:42:11.860 We did a video on them, and Beijing was the worst pod out of all of them. 1.00

00:42:16.460 It's hard to fudge the facts on that one.

00:42:19.440 Beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world.

00:42:21.900 And in these pollution pods, well, there's five of them, one from London, one from Sao Paulo,

00:42:27.440 one from India, and Beijing as well from China.

00:42:32.440 None from North America, though, because, well, guess what?

00:42:35.500 North America is clean.

00:42:37.100 The air in North America is clean.

00:42:39.160 But it's North America that is being targeted by the likes of Greta and by the likes of the United Nations.

00:42:45.180 The West needs to do more and do more, and we need to kneecap our economies,

00:42:49.400 and we need to kneecap our middle classes more and more and more,

00:42:53.020 so that Xi Jinping can pollute more and more and more and create cheap products to be shipped out to South America

00:43:00.180 and Europe and Africa and North America as well because China gets a free pass.

00:43:06.040 China's not – I haven't seen China mentioned hardly at all.

00:43:09.080 And one thing also to note is Taiwan is not here.

00:43:12.820 Taiwan typically – a major city, millions and millions of people, tens of millions of people, I think, live in Taiwan.

00:43:19.400 Huge contributor to the dialogue around sustainable development, sustainable growth,

00:43:26.720 and climate change technology and carbon capture technology.

00:43:30.800 Taiwan's a huge player in that.

00:43:31.780 But China has been allowed to veto Taiwan's ability to be at this climate change conference, which they wanted to be at.

00:43:39.400 But, of course, the United Nations bends to whatever demands Xi Jinping has.

00:43:43.640 Yeah.

00:43:44.140 Taiwan's an amazing country.

00:43:45.420 It's got about 24 million people.

00:43:47.320 It's very modern, very clean, and it is a democracy.

00:43:51.000 It's shocking to me that they have been banned, but not surprising because, of course, the UN is all in for Beijing. 0.74

00:43:58.440 Last word to Sheila.

00:43:59.900 Sheila, I want to say that your trips to these global warming conferences are truly one of the great achievements of Rebel News in our almost five-year history.

00:44:11.460 I'm kidding.

00:44:12.080 I mean, I say this as a compliment to you, but it's true.

00:44:17.160 I think that if I were to look back on the 13,000 videos we've produced at Rebel News over the years, we've hit other UN conferences too.

00:44:27.620 We did one on the Nanny State Conference in New Delhi once.

00:44:31.120 We sent David Menzies to their migration conference in Morocco also once.

00:44:37.120 We've been to the UN in Geneva and New York.

00:44:39.740 But I think that these global warming conferences, if we didn't do it, I don't think anyone would.

00:44:45.960 We have, I mean, our headquarters is in Toronto, but our heart is in Alberta with the oil patch.

00:44:50.980 I just think it's important work, and I thank you for doing it.

00:44:53.780 I'm glad you're bringing Kean along, show him the ropes to these conferences, release the Kean.

00:44:59.020 You know, he's got his own great style.

00:45:01.140 But give me your thoughts.

00:45:02.600 This is your fourth one, and I hope you'll continue to go to these always for us.

00:45:06.100 Give us your last thoughts on this, Sheila.

00:45:07.520 Well, you did point it out that we are probably two of the only skeptical journalists here.

00:45:14.440 We did encounter our friends from the New American magazine who did interview us, because as Americans, you're quite interested in the fact that we were banned by our own government.

00:45:24.700 They found it very shocking, actually.

00:45:26.500 And it should be shocking.

00:45:29.420 But also, besides Kean and I being journalists, I think we're just normal people, like we're normal Albertans.

00:45:35.080 And so we noticed things that these very managed, true-believing journalists don't or refuse to.

00:45:42.680 Like Kean, right away, I was so proud.

00:45:44.780 I felt like I had maternity over it when we were going through security, and he noticed the hum of the diesel generators.

00:45:50.700 And I thought, that's my boy.

00:45:53.740 Yeah, that's a great point.

00:45:55.180 I was so proud.

00:45:57.900 I was so proud.

00:45:59.140 And then when we were out in the parking lot, and Kean's like, nobody's using the electric car chargers.

00:46:03.780 And I had to wipe away a little tear, because I was very proud that he was noticing all these things that normal people notice,

00:46:11.200 that the dozens and hundreds of journalists walking into the conference every day don't.

00:46:15.140 So I'm very excited that Kean's here, because there's so much to do.

00:46:20.100 And my great regret at these conferences is that I can't cover it all.

00:46:23.780 And Kean and I will never be able to cover it all.

00:46:26.700 But at least we can make a real serious dent in it.

00:46:29.240 Yeah, well, that's great.

00:46:30.400 I remember, and we'll just show a little B-roll of it right now, when you were in Morocco, and you leaned up against one of these car chargers.

00:46:38.180 And I was thinking to myself, are there really that many Teslas in Morocco?

00:46:42.060 And not only are there really no Teslas there, but they were fake.

00:46:47.920 These car electric chargers were fake, and they tipped over when you leaned on them.

00:46:52.420 They were literally a Potemkin village, a fake just-for-show thing, which was the perfect symbol. 1.00

00:46:58.780 So I'm so glad that Kean caught on to that, too.

00:47:01.460 Well, you guys, thanks for doing this interview with me.

00:47:04.400 I don't even know what time it is over there, but thanks for fitting me in.

00:47:08.300 Good luck in the next two days.

00:47:10.240 Keep the videos coming.

00:47:11.460 We'll encourage people to go to rebelun.com.

00:47:14.400 And more great work.

00:47:16.420 I think you guys are really making a difference.

00:47:18.140 So thanks for doing it.

00:47:20.700 Thanks, Ezra.

00:47:21.500 Thanks, boss.

00:47:22.020 We love.

00:47:22.200 All right, you guys take care.

00:47:23.540 Well, there you have it, Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kean Bexte at the UN Global Warming Conference

00:47:30.420 in Madrid, a conference that no one wanted.

00:47:33.320 Brazil kicked them out.

00:47:35.000 Chile kicked them out.

00:47:36.080 Madrid said, oh, fine, we'll take them.

00:47:39.020 And I really recommend you head over to rebelun.com.

00:47:43.240 There's just little videos, little vignettes there that I promise you, you will not see

00:47:48.980 anywhere else.

00:47:50.120 All right, stay with us for more.

00:47:52.200 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about WestJet's CEO saying he won't tolerate

00:48:04.320 talk of Western separatism.

00:48:05.880 Roddy writes, I say, boycott WestJet, find another means of travel.

00:48:09.920 Let him eat his words.

00:48:11.960 Yeah, I don't think that's going to punish the CEO.

00:48:16.280 Maybe it will.

00:48:16.920 Well, I think he has to be chided by his business peers and by political leaders.

00:48:28.840 So far, I haven't seen either of those things happen.

00:48:32.400 Raymond writes, if Alberta separates, investments would flood in.

00:48:37.000 Well, they're already flooding out.

00:48:38.780 So it couldn't be any worse than that, could it?

00:48:41.020 Matthias writes, we don't need the opinions of millionaires.

00:48:45.380 This is a decision for every Albertan.

00:48:48.520 Yeah, my beef with the CEO of WestJet isn't that he's a millionaire.

00:48:52.100 I'm just pointing out that because he's a millionaire, he's completely immune to what

00:48:56.580 unemployed Albertans are going through.

00:48:57.760 I saw a statistic that 20% of young men in Alberta are unemployed.

00:49:01.280 That's shocking.

00:49:02.360 It's that he has no connection to the oil patch, really no connection to Canada at all.

00:49:06.980 He just got here a couple of years ago.

00:49:08.560 He's not a citizen.

00:49:09.820 He's a jet-setting globalist in every meaning of that word. 0.63

00:49:12.980 And he's telling regular Albertans who are hurting to shut up.

00:49:16.320 The fact that he's a millionaire adds insult to injury because, you know, who knows what

00:49:21.120 lavish lifestyle he's in while he's chirping at people for complaining about their poverty.

00:49:25.660 I thought it was a real disgrace.

00:49:27.340 And it really reminded me of the snobbery in the UK Brexit vote.

00:49:32.100 He's a perfect remainer where he can go sawed off, as they'd say in Britain.

00:49:37.700 I think that's a swear over there.

00:49:39.580 Well, my friends, that's today's show.

00:49:40.940 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep

00:49:45.240 fighting for freedom.

00:49:45.960 We'll see you next time.

00:50:00.840 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - December 12, 2019

Trudeau loses vote in Parliament that promises to examine Canada's relationship with China in the public spotlight

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