Rebel News Podcast - July 04, 2019


Trudeau's ＂special censorship team＂ issues report on the Internet — and Scheer has no comment


Episode Stats


Length

29 minutes

Words per minute

170.07022

Word count

4,933

Sentence count

320

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

sentences flagged

Hate speech

11

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Another day, another plan by Trudeau's government to censor the internet. Another day, Andrew Scheer stays silent as a mouse. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer? I know. There's 8500 customers here and you won't give them an answer?

Transcript

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Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hey folks, today's show, I think it's an important one.
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00:00:25.640 All right, here's today's show.
00:00:26.680 You're listening to a rebel media podcast.
00:00:31.140 Tonight, another day,
00:00:32.560 another plan by Trudeau's government
00:00:34.180 to censor the internet.
00:00:35.900 Another day, Andrew Scheer stays silent as a mouse.
00:00:39.120 It's July 3rd and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:43.300 Why should others go to jail
00:00:44.900 when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:47.100 There's 8,500 customers here
00:00:49.160 and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:51.160 The only thing I have to say to the government
00:00:53.080 about why I'm publishing it
00:00:54.800 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:02.120 It really is coming fast now.
00:01:04.000 Literally every week,
00:01:04.960 there is another plan or study
00:01:06.880 or bill or law or proposal
00:01:09.140 or spending by Trudeau
00:01:11.040 and his liberal government
00:01:11.800 to censor Canadians.
00:01:12.980 I know you must think
00:01:13.620 I don't follow any other sort of news.
00:01:15.580 That's not true.
00:01:16.400 I follow a wide variety of news,
00:01:18.200 foreign and domestic,
00:01:19.160 but I am shocked by the quickening
00:01:21.640 of Trudeau's censorship plans.
00:01:23.560 I'm disturbed that it's obviously
00:01:25.480 part of a larger coordinated strategy.
00:01:27.480 I'm worried that it is in league
00:01:29.560 with foreign censors
00:01:31.260 in illiberal regimes around the world
00:01:34.100 and at the United Nations.
00:01:35.800 And mainly I'm staggered
00:01:37.820 that the leader of Canada's Conservative Party,
00:01:39.940 the official opposition,
00:01:41.200 Andrew Scheer,
00:01:41.860 has been silent on the matter.
00:01:44.680 Oh, I am no longer surprised
00:01:45.860 that Canada's media party,
00:01:47.420 as I call establishment journalists,
00:01:48.840 I'm no longer surprised
00:01:49.560 that they're silent about this
00:01:51.380 or some of them are even supportive.
00:01:53.680 The days of journalists
00:01:54.680 pretending they're for free speech
00:01:55.840 has long passed.
00:01:56.940 They don't have to pretend anymore.
00:01:58.520 They only meant that
00:01:59.480 when they were journalists
00:02:00.580 holding conservatives to account
00:02:02.800 like the evil Stephen Harper.
00:02:04.700 Now that the precious one,
00:02:05.980 Justin Trudeau,
00:02:06.600 is prime minister,
00:02:07.440 the media party is all
00:02:08.500 for censoring prickly journalists.
00:02:10.680 As long as Trudeau
00:02:11.500 and his cronies do the censoring,
00:02:13.100 if Doug Ford or Jason Kenney
00:02:14.700 had did any censoring,
00:02:16.100 well, they better not get any ideas.
00:02:17.460 But Trudeau, sure, sure.
00:02:19.680 So here's the news today.
00:02:21.940 I mean, literally,
00:02:22.540 there are more stories
00:02:23.320 like this every week.
00:02:24.120 I just showed you the other day
00:02:25.720 how the Secretary General
00:02:26.720 of the United Nations
00:02:27.440 announced a global war
00:02:28.920 on hate speech,
00:02:29.840 which they acknowledged
00:02:31.320 has no definition.
00:02:32.500 What is hate speech?
00:02:34.120 And they like that
00:02:34.860 it has no definition
00:02:35.640 so they can apply it
00:02:36.480 to whatever they want.
00:02:37.480 It would be like
00:02:37.980 if the criminal code
00:02:38.740 simply said,
00:02:39.760 arrest bad guys,
00:02:41.000 but didn't say
00:02:41.980 who the bad guys are
00:02:43.740 or what a bad thing was.
00:02:45.460 Imagine police having
00:02:46.220 that unlimited, vague power.
00:02:48.000 That's what the UN is doing.
00:02:49.720 Here's the special censor
00:02:51.060 appointed by the UN Secretary General.
00:02:53.360 His name is Adama Dieng.
00:02:54.980 He's from an unfree country in Africa. 1.00
00:02:57.100 And he's coming to censor you
00:02:58.400 and he admits
00:02:58.880 they're just making up the definition.
00:03:00.440 This has not been an easy task,
00:03:02.660 especially considering
00:03:04.220 that hate speech
00:03:04.940 is a very gray area
00:03:07.260 for which no international
00:03:09.260 legal definition exists.
00:03:10.840 However,
00:03:12.600 the UN entities
00:03:13.360 in their respective mandates
00:03:15.180 and programs
00:03:16.120 in one way or another
00:03:17.820 have been working
00:03:19.200 to address
00:03:20.020 this growing concern.
00:03:21.760 Okay, so that was
00:03:22.460 last week's news.
00:03:24.280 Here's this week's news.
00:03:25.540 This is from
00:03:25.960 a special censorship team
00:03:27.160 hired by Trudeau's
00:03:28.440 Industry Canada Department.
00:03:30.400 As you can see here,
00:03:31.740 it's called
00:03:32.880 the Broadcasting
00:03:33.960 and Communications
00:03:35.060 Legislative Review Panel.
00:03:37.880 I told you about them
00:03:38.560 six months ago.
00:03:39.180 I don't know if you remember.
00:03:40.500 Let me play the clip
00:03:41.700 of what I said about them
00:03:42.900 back in January.
00:03:44.100 Here's about a minute.
00:03:44.800 Take a look at this.
00:03:45.500 And who is this panel
00:03:46.340 of elite experts anyways?
00:03:47.600 Well, here they are.
00:03:48.720 This is the list
00:03:49.420 of this Legislative Review Panel.
00:03:51.780 They're all Ottawa insiders.
00:03:53.700 They're mainly, at least.
00:03:55.240 They're lawyers, mainly.
00:03:57.460 And this is how you know
00:03:58.640 they care about accuracy
00:04:00.100 and independence
00:04:00.920 and trustworthiness.
00:04:03.800 Well, you know that
00:04:04.380 because they're good liberals.
00:04:06.060 You see that Janet Yale,
00:04:07.840 the one who chairs this whole thing?
00:04:08.880 Well, here's from public records.
00:04:12.400 She has donated.
00:04:13.700 This is a list of her
00:04:14.480 political donations
00:04:15.320 over the years.
00:04:16.720 She has donated
00:04:17.540 thousands and thousands
00:04:19.820 and thousands
00:04:20.640 and thousands
00:04:21.520 and thousands
00:04:22.720 of dollars
00:04:23.700 to the Liberal Party
00:04:25.780 going back years.
00:04:28.440 If you look carefully
00:04:29.560 at this list,
00:04:30.140 you'll see
00:04:30.420 she mixes it up
00:04:31.500 once in a while.
00:04:31.960 once she gave money 0.84
00:04:33.000 to the provincial liberals
00:04:34.260 just for diversity
00:04:35.120 and she once even gave money 1.00
00:04:36.540 to the NDP.
00:04:38.460 Now, that was
00:04:39.000 more than 20 years ago
00:04:40.540 so I'm sure Trudeau
00:04:41.300 will forgive that one
00:04:42.300 NDP act of disloyalty.
00:04:44.660 Tons of donations
00:04:45.520 to the liberals
00:04:46.120 from the other
00:04:46.740 expert panel, too.
00:04:48.180 They're about as independent
00:04:49.160 as Justin Trudeau's
00:04:50.580 independent senators.
00:04:51.740 You have to be
00:04:52.420 from the CBC
00:04:53.280 to be gullible enough
00:04:54.340 to believe that these people
00:04:55.520 are independent.
00:04:56.700 Anyways,
00:04:57.120 I have nothing
00:04:57.700 against Janet Yale.
00:04:58.760 She's the head
00:04:59.280 of this review committee.
00:05:01.580 She used to be the CEO 1.00
00:05:02.540 of the Canadian
00:05:03.260 Cable Television Association
00:05:04.640 so I bet she hates
00:05:06.180 internet companies
00:05:07.520 like us
00:05:08.020 that are eroding
00:05:08.800 cable TV viewership
00:05:10.080 but even if she wasn't
00:05:11.180 a former lobbyist
00:05:12.080 for our competitors,
00:05:14.020 even if she wasn't
00:05:14.860 the largest liberal donor
00:05:16.020 I've ever come across,
00:05:16.940 frankly,
00:05:17.940 even if she actually
00:05:19.180 was interested
00:05:19.920 in accuracy,
00:05:20.900 independence,
00:05:21.440 and trustworthiness
00:05:22.140 for the news,
00:05:22.880 why on earth
00:05:23.340 should anyone
00:05:23.920 in this country
00:05:24.540 care what she thinks?
00:05:26.740 Why should anyone
00:05:27.400 in this world
00:05:28.580 have to defer
00:05:29.580 to her taste
00:05:31.160 or her politics
00:05:32.020 or her aesthetic sense
00:05:33.400 or her sense of humor
00:05:34.220 or anything?
00:05:34.920 Or to put it more bluntly,
00:05:35.920 who the hell is she? 0.99
00:05:37.940 Yeah, well,
00:05:38.960 she did what we were
00:05:40.280 worried she would do.
00:05:41.840 She published a report
00:05:42.880 that's not about freedom.
00:05:44.500 It's not about giving
00:05:45.160 Canadians more choice
00:05:46.500 on the internet
00:05:47.100 or maybe one day
00:05:48.480 cheaper prices
00:05:49.620 for the internet
00:05:50.520 or cell phones.
00:05:51.380 It's about censorship.
00:05:52.880 Here, let me read to you
00:05:53.640 what these liberal
00:05:54.240 and NDP donors
00:05:55.260 who have a lifetime
00:05:56.460 of work
00:05:57.580 in the legacy media companies,
00:05:59.060 the establishment media,
00:06:00.820 the regulated,
00:06:01.660 subsidized,
00:06:02.180 protected media.
00:06:02.900 Here's what they came up
00:06:03.980 with now.
00:06:06.060 Social harm
00:06:07.340 in a digital environment.
00:06:09.160 Well, did you know
00:06:09.600 that that's what
00:06:10.060 they were hired to do,
00:06:10.880 to look at social harm?
00:06:12.340 I like that phrase.
00:06:13.520 You can't say crime.
00:06:15.760 You can't even say
00:06:16.820 an offense,
00:06:17.600 a civil offense.
00:06:18.320 You can't say
00:06:18.820 there's a problem
00:06:19.380 because we already
00:06:20.220 have solutions
00:06:20.820 for real problems.
00:06:21.700 So you come up
00:06:22.560 with the phrase
00:06:22.960 social harm.
00:06:24.140 You know,
00:06:24.400 they use that phrase
00:06:25.240 in China now.
00:06:26.000 They call it
00:06:26.340 social credit.
00:06:27.380 If you say something
00:06:28.320 in China
00:06:28.920 that's not friendly
00:06:29.840 to the Communist Party,
00:06:30.900 you lose points.
00:06:33.020 Losing points
00:06:33.700 that can ban you 0.70
00:06:34.400 from having a bank account
00:06:35.460 or from traveling.
00:06:36.640 Social harm.
00:06:37.980 Here's what social harm
00:06:39.280 looks like in China.
00:06:41.220 Dear passengers,
00:06:42.840 people who travel
00:06:44.060 without tickets
00:06:45.220 or behave disorderly
00:06:47.020 or small being
00:06:47.740 in public areas
00:06:48.920 will be punished
00:06:50.140 according to regulations.
00:06:51.700 and the behavior
00:06:52.920 will be recorded
00:06:53.820 in the individual
00:06:54.800 credit information system.
00:06:57.220 To avoid
00:06:58.020 an inevitable record
00:06:59.380 of personal credit,
00:07:01.080 please follow
00:07:01.700 the relevant regulations
00:07:03.180 and help with the orders
00:07:05.240 on the train
00:07:05.960 and at the station.
00:07:08.400 So social harm,
00:07:09.580 that's what we're hunting
00:07:10.260 now in Canada.
00:07:10.960 Let's see what
00:07:11.420 Trudeau's people have to say.
00:07:14.200 Digital platforms
00:07:15.240 have created new opportunities
00:07:16.500 for participation
00:07:17.240 in digital society,
00:07:19.120 expanded outlets
00:07:19.860 for the expression
00:07:20.500 of ideas and creativity,
00:07:21.700 and allow the creation
00:07:22.980 and sharing
00:07:23.920 of user-generated content.
00:07:25.920 However,
00:07:26.980 okay, stop for a second.
00:07:28.020 You know the rule, right?
00:07:30.040 Ignore everything
00:07:30.920 that someone says
00:07:31.660 before the word
00:07:32.400 but or however.
00:07:35.420 Sure, I like her well enough,
00:07:36.980 but.
00:07:38.040 Sure, she seems nice,
00:07:39.800 however.
00:07:40.820 Oh, dinner was delicious,
00:07:42.680 however.
00:07:44.800 You know the word however,
00:07:45.980 the word but?
00:07:46.400 It tells you
00:07:46.900 when to start
00:07:47.940 paying attention.
00:07:48.820 Ignore everything
00:07:50.160 before the word but.
00:07:52.140 Okay, I'll read some more.
00:07:54.620 However,
00:07:55.900 digital platforms
00:07:56.700 also create new
00:07:57.680 and enhanced potential
00:07:59.120 for individual
00:08:00.040 and collective
00:08:01.020 social harm,
00:08:02.200 ranging from
00:08:02.980 misinformation
00:08:03.680 and fake news
00:08:04.660 to inappropriate
00:08:05.660 or illegal content.
00:08:07.180 They were references
00:08:07.840 to the potential roles
00:08:08.880 and responsibilities
00:08:09.680 of digital platforms
00:08:10.760 in relation to news,
00:08:12.180 information,
00:08:12.600 and audio-visual content
00:08:14.200 that may be generated
00:08:15.060 by users
00:08:15.620 or alternatively
00:08:16.540 to be provided
00:08:17.660 or curated
00:08:18.260 by the platform provider.
00:08:20.540 Yeah, look,
00:08:20.840 the internet's been around
00:08:22.020 for about 35 years.
00:08:23.660 It's been popular
00:08:25.060 for more than 20 years.
00:08:27.160 We know about
00:08:28.000 illegal content online.
00:08:29.640 We've got the same tools
00:08:31.760 that we've used
00:08:32.340 for decades
00:08:33.040 to deal with
00:08:33.640 illegal content
00:08:34.440 on TV
00:08:35.260 and on the radio
00:08:36.660 and to deal with
00:08:38.420 illegal content
00:08:39.220 in books
00:08:39.840 before that.
00:08:41.120 We've just applied
00:08:42.300 those old principles
00:08:43.260 to the new technologies.
00:08:44.760 Harassment,
00:08:45.380 fraud,
00:08:45.860 threats,
00:08:46.260 extortion,
00:08:46.780 defamation,
00:08:47.480 whatever.
00:08:47.920 All of those offenses
00:08:48.840 existed before the internet,
00:08:51.120 before the telephone,
00:08:52.040 before the printing press even.
00:08:53.620 They're in hand.
00:08:54.940 The law will surely
00:08:55.760 continue to develop
00:08:56.760 to handle Twitter.
00:08:58.180 But this isn't really
00:08:59.420 about crimes,
00:09:00.300 is it?
00:09:01.500 It's about fake news.
00:09:02.580 Is that a crime?
00:09:03.300 No.
00:09:03.580 Is that a tort,
00:09:04.740 as lawyers would say?
00:09:05.440 No.
00:09:05.840 It's fake news.
00:09:06.800 I think two years
00:09:07.640 of the media party
00:09:08.600 promoting the conspiracy theory
00:09:10.780 that Donald Trump
00:09:11.900 was a Russian agent.
00:09:13.180 I think that's fake news.
00:09:15.060 I think 20,
00:09:15.800 30 years of propaganda
00:09:16.780 about how we're all
00:09:17.420 going to die
00:09:17.960 because of global warming
00:09:19.500 and there won't be
00:09:20.000 any more snow
00:09:20.840 and the seas will rise
00:09:21.900 and swallow up Miami
00:09:23.220 and New York and LA.
00:09:24.220 I think that's fake news.
00:09:25.640 I don't want the government
00:09:26.460 to regulate the news for me.
00:09:27.740 I'm a grown up.
00:09:28.440 I can choose
00:09:28.960 what I want of you.
00:09:29.580 I don't need a net nanny. 0.94
00:09:31.320 And if I do want one,
00:09:32.240 there's literally
00:09:32.720 things called net nanny,
00:09:34.860 a hundred other apps
00:09:35.740 you can buy
00:09:36.360 to help censor
00:09:37.480 the internet
00:09:37.920 for you yourself.
00:09:38.760 I don't need
00:09:39.260 some old TV industry lobbyist
00:09:41.800 to help me censor myself.
00:09:43.040 Thank you very little.
00:09:44.680 Okay, back to their BS.
00:09:47.120 Digital platforms
00:09:47.820 holding vast amounts
00:09:48.960 of Canadians' personal data
00:09:50.220 are able to reuse
00:09:51.580 that information
00:09:52.180 in ways that may cause
00:09:53.080 social harm.
00:09:54.320 For this reason,
00:09:55.080 some parties indicated
00:09:55.960 that the digital platform
00:09:57.300 should be subject
00:09:57.920 to the authority
00:09:58.520 of regulators,
00:09:59.520 including the CRTC,
00:10:01.080 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner,
00:10:02.740 and the Competition Bureau.
00:10:03.960 All right,
00:10:05.380 I don't know
00:10:05.900 what the CBC has to do
00:10:06.840 with any of that,
00:10:07.600 but I am all for
00:10:08.700 stopping the snooping
00:10:10.800 of Facebook on us,
00:10:12.220 but I actually haven't seen
00:10:13.460 an ounce of effort
00:10:14.520 being put into
00:10:16.100 our privacy
00:10:17.080 by the government of you
00:10:18.860 because they don't want privacy.
00:10:20.000 They want to know
00:10:20.580 just as much about you
00:10:21.560 as Facebook does.
00:10:22.240 I don't see any investigations
00:10:23.480 into Facebook and Google
00:10:25.080 and YouTube and Twitter
00:10:25.860 and other social media companies
00:10:27.400 for collecting info on us
00:10:28.920 and then abusing it.
00:10:30.080 And I think it's obvious why,
00:10:31.000 because there has been
00:10:31.920 a merger between big tech
00:10:33.420 and big government.
00:10:34.360 I mean,
00:10:34.500 not only does the government
00:10:36.000 itself do the same thing,
00:10:37.280 collect info on you,
00:10:38.200 and political parties do too,
00:10:39.440 by the way,
00:10:40.340 but more than that,
00:10:41.180 the governments are counting
00:10:41.900 on Facebook
00:10:42.520 and other companies like that
00:10:45.480 to enforce their will for them
00:10:47.140 on political censorship,
00:10:48.400 for example,
00:10:49.840 on implementing
00:10:50.720 a Chinese-style
00:10:51.420 social credit system.
00:10:52.440 We already see banks
00:10:53.360 in North America,
00:10:54.140 Chase Bank,
00:10:55.060 refusing to do business
00:10:56.040 with people who are conservative.
00:10:58.300 We already see deplatforming.
00:10:59.960 The greatest deplatformers
00:11:01.120 in the world
00:11:01.560 are governments
00:11:02.300 teamed up with the Facebooks
00:11:04.200 of the world.
00:11:04.800 The fact that most lobbyists
00:11:06.280 at the large tech companies
00:11:07.360 are former political staff
00:11:08.820 of the Liberal Party
00:11:09.560 in Canada,
00:11:10.640 former Obama staff
00:11:11.980 in the U.S.,
00:11:12.420 it's just sort of obvious now.
00:11:14.260 Okay, back to their report.
00:11:15.480 I love how this is put
00:11:17.060 in the mouths of some people.
00:11:18.980 So the censorship committee
00:11:20.060 can claim,
00:11:20.840 no, no, no,
00:11:21.100 this wasn't our idea.
00:11:21.960 No, no, no, no, no.
00:11:22.840 We just heard a lot of people
00:11:23.940 calling for this.
00:11:24.500 We just do what people want.
00:11:25.500 Let me read it.
00:11:26.940 A number of interested parties
00:11:28.960 submitted that
00:11:29.580 communications regulation
00:11:30.780 should have a role
00:11:31.760 in ensuring the provision
00:11:32.940 of accurate,
00:11:34.120 independent,
00:11:34.840 and trusted news
00:11:35.640 and information,
00:11:36.460 and that legislation
00:11:37.300 should include a policy objective
00:11:39.100 to this end.
00:11:40.360 Some parties suggested
00:11:41.460 that the quality
00:11:42.120 of online journalism
00:11:43.120 would be increased
00:11:44.260 if standards-setting models
00:11:46.220 similar to those
00:11:47.160 established for broadcast journalism,
00:11:49.020 such as the Canadian Broadcast
00:11:50.520 Standards Council,
00:11:51.220 were to be adopted.
00:11:52.040 Okay, slow down a second.
00:11:54.700 I say again that
00:11:55.700 some people told us
00:11:57.880 because they're pretending
00:12:00.120 they don't want to do this themselves.
00:12:01.680 Hey, guys,
00:12:02.160 we totally don't want to censor you,
00:12:03.660 but you Canadians
00:12:04.580 said you wanted censors,
00:12:06.860 so we don't want to regulate
00:12:08.380 the news,
00:12:08.860 but you want us to.
00:12:09.860 So fine.
00:12:12.100 For you,
00:12:12.980 we'll censor the news.
00:12:13.840 Can you imagine trusting
00:12:15.160 the government
00:12:16.220 to tell you what reporting
00:12:17.520 on the government
00:12:19.060 you should trust?
00:12:19.840 Can you imagine trusting
00:12:20.740 a partisan like Trudeau
00:12:22.160 and his partisan appointees
00:12:23.280 for independent news?
00:12:24.520 They just said
00:12:25.460 that's what they hoped to do.
00:12:26.660 And the Canadian Broadcast
00:12:27.500 Standards Council,
00:12:28.160 I remember them
00:12:28.940 from the Sun News Network,
00:12:30.420 which was, of course,
00:12:31.120 regulated by the CRTC.
00:12:33.040 The Canadian Broadcast
00:12:34.080 Standards Council
00:12:34.720 made me apologize,
00:12:36.100 do you remember,
00:12:36.900 for saying the fun
00:12:38.040 Spanish phrase,
00:12:39.700 chinga tu madre,
00:12:41.220 to the head
00:12:41.920 of the Chiquita Banana Company.
00:12:43.540 Do you remember that?
00:12:44.760 I don't know
00:12:45.100 if you remember I do.
00:12:46.280 Chiquita Banana
00:12:46.980 announced a boycott
00:12:48.840 of Canadian ethical oil.
00:12:52.020 Some bizarre decision.
00:12:53.380 Who made that decision?
00:12:54.540 What's Chiquita Banana
00:12:55.380 going to do?
00:12:55.820 But they announced it.
00:12:57.520 But Chiquita is one
00:12:58.580 of the worst companies
00:12:59.460 in the world.
00:12:59.920 It's literally the reason
00:13:01.880 why the phrase
00:13:02.620 Banana Republic
00:13:03.660 was coined.
00:13:05.100 Chiquita Banana
00:13:05.700 would go into
00:13:06.960 a poor Latin American country
00:13:08.580 and just corrupt
00:13:10.000 the whole place.
00:13:11.560 The media,
00:13:12.640 bribed politicians,
00:13:14.280 bribed police,
00:13:15.100 sometimes even threatened
00:13:15.860 to kill people 0.87
00:13:16.440 just to get their
00:13:17.500 banana profits.
00:13:18.860 I know that sounds crazy.
00:13:20.160 They were actually
00:13:20.760 the only company
00:13:21.360 to have their own
00:13:21.960 CIA codename,
00:13:23.680 Unifruit.
00:13:24.980 They are the most
00:13:26.540 corrupt corporation
00:13:28.100 in the world
00:13:29.580 with the possible
00:13:30.620 exception of
00:13:31.740 SNC-Lavalin,
00:13:32.960 come to think of it.
00:13:33.620 I mean,
00:13:34.660 they just recently
00:13:35.340 admitted they were
00:13:36.480 paying money to
00:13:37.100 a Latin American
00:13:37.960 terrorist group.
00:13:39.440 What are you doing?
00:13:40.680 I mean,
00:13:41.040 just like recently,
00:13:41.980 I'm not talking
00:13:42.400 about decades ago.
00:13:44.020 They are literally
00:13:45.080 criminals.
00:13:46.440 I don't even know
00:13:47.320 why they're still
00:13:48.180 allowed to exist
00:13:48.700 as a company.
00:13:49.600 And I thought,
00:13:51.480 these thugs,
00:13:52.400 these terror-supporting
00:13:53.720 liars,
00:13:54.700 are judging the ethics
00:13:56.320 of Canadian oil
00:13:57.300 sand oil?
00:13:57.760 Do they prefer
00:13:58.520 OPEC conflict?
00:13:59.320 So I did a little
00:14:01.380 story about them
00:14:02.520 on Sunday's network
00:14:03.320 and I was so mad.
00:14:04.680 And so I ended
00:14:05.400 with a well-planned-out
00:14:06.820 Spanish insult,
00:14:08.640 a minor swear.
00:14:10.160 Chinga tu madre.
00:14:11.060 It's a great phrase,
00:14:13.040 by the way,
00:14:13.720 and I had it approved
00:14:14.700 by the whole team
00:14:15.420 at the Sun News Network,
00:14:16.220 including the lawyers.
00:14:17.100 I was having so much fun.
00:14:18.280 It was so much fun.
00:14:19.940 But some loser out there, 0.99
00:14:21.220 I don't know who,
00:14:21.780 complained to this thing
00:14:22.940 called the
00:14:23.400 Canadian Broadcast
00:14:24.260 Dancers Council,
00:14:25.280 which literally ordered
00:14:26.900 the Sun News Network
00:14:28.140 to make us apologize.
00:14:29.760 I'm serious.
00:14:30.420 To apologize to some
00:14:31.640 terrorist thug
00:14:32.920 CEO of Chiquita.
00:14:34.700 Now,
00:14:35.200 I complied with
00:14:36.500 the letter of the law,
00:14:38.160 but I don't know
00:14:38.680 if you remember,
00:14:39.200 if you were watching
00:14:39.700 back then,
00:14:40.360 while I read it,
00:14:41.660 I repeated insults
00:14:43.040 and I expanded on them,
00:14:44.280 so the apology
00:14:46.280 was a disaster for them.
00:14:47.860 I just went
00:14:48.440 10 times further.
00:14:49.780 But seriously,
00:14:52.080 what kind of country
00:14:52.900 are we that were
00:14:54.460 ordered to apologize
00:14:55.600 for having a point of view?
00:14:57.220 Is this Venezuela?
00:14:58.200 Is this Iran? 0.82
00:14:59.720 Ordering a journalist 0.91
00:15:00.820 to apologize
00:15:01.580 to some foreign thug 0.85
00:15:02.860 who paid money?
00:15:04.020 What?
00:15:05.240 You know,
00:15:05.660 even our courts of law
00:15:06.700 don't have that power.
00:15:07.840 You know,
00:15:09.340 if you can't convince
00:15:10.220 someone to apologize
00:15:11.180 for something,
00:15:12.420 what good is forcing
00:15:13.500 them to say the words
00:15:14.260 with their mouth,
00:15:14.800 I apologize?
00:15:15.620 If you don't mean it,
00:15:16.460 why would you want
00:15:17.380 a fake apology?
00:15:18.280 How's that any different,
00:15:19.600 how's that anything more
00:15:20.360 than a jailhouse confession,
00:15:21.980 you know what I mean?
00:15:22.400 Sign the paper
00:15:23.040 extracted by a threat.
00:15:24.760 You literally
00:15:25.380 cannot order
00:15:26.820 a murderer
00:15:27.660 to apologize
00:15:29.760 in Canada.
00:15:30.660 Of course not.
00:15:31.080 What would be the point
00:15:31.840 if you didn't mean it?
00:15:32.680 But the Canadian Broadcast
00:15:34.960 Standards Council
00:15:35.560 ordered the Sunday's
00:15:36.420 Network and me
00:15:36.920 to apologize
00:15:37.460 for saying that
00:15:38.420 glorious swear
00:15:39.320 to a terrorist-financing
00:15:42.220 anti-Canada group
00:15:43.240 of thugs
00:15:43.760 that coined the phrase
00:15:45.260 Banana Republic.
00:15:45.960 On any given day,
00:15:46.940 by the way,
00:15:47.680 there are swears
00:15:48.320 spoken in English
00:15:49.440 on the CBC,
00:15:51.040 for example.
00:15:52.480 Nudity,
00:15:52.980 even full nudity,
00:15:54.140 I mean,
00:15:54.360 obviously.
00:15:56.140 But have a political
00:15:57.160 point of view
00:15:57.600 that upsets someone
00:15:58.440 and you'll be ordered
00:15:59.120 to apologize?
00:16:00.600 Or what?
00:16:01.520 In the case
00:16:03.300 of the Sun News Network,
00:16:04.140 they could theoretically
00:16:04.760 have lost their entire
00:16:05.760 license to be a TV station.
00:16:07.380 That's been done
00:16:07.920 before in Canada.
00:16:08.880 Radio stations
00:16:09.500 have had their licenses
00:16:10.640 revoked because
00:16:11.580 they didn't apologize
00:16:12.320 for having the wrong views.
00:16:13.140 That's a fact.
00:16:14.720 And that's what's
00:16:15.340 being proposed now
00:16:16.240 for journalists
00:16:17.860 on the Internet
00:16:18.440 that the government
00:16:19.180 doesn't like.
00:16:20.000 But what does that mean?
00:16:20.880 They would, what,
00:16:21.360 take away my computer
00:16:22.460 or something,
00:16:22.900 take away my cell phone?
00:16:24.280 They'd stop us
00:16:25.140 from having the opinions
00:16:25.940 we have on the Internet?
00:16:26.980 What would that even look like
00:16:28.080 to have a Canadian
00:16:28.780 Broadcast Standards
00:16:29.620 Council-style
00:16:30.340 censorship pattern
00:16:31.520 for the Internet?
00:16:33.260 Just one more quote
00:16:34.100 from this report
00:16:34.820 that goes to the merger
00:16:35.720 between big government
00:16:36.580 and big tech
00:16:37.580 for Trudeau
00:16:38.400 to outsource
00:16:39.300 the worst of his censorship
00:16:40.500 to the private sector
00:16:41.400 where it won't be subject
00:16:42.420 to scrutiny or accountability.
00:16:43.800 Let me read it.
00:16:44.300 Some parties noted
00:16:46.720 Oh, it's not us, guys.
00:16:48.300 It's some parties noted
00:16:49.200 that digital platforms
00:16:50.100 have considerable power
00:16:51.480 regarding when information
00:16:52.920 is presented to Canadians
00:16:54.000 as news and fact.
00:16:55.860 Through their algorithms,
00:16:57.200 digital platforms
00:16:57.840 provide a curation function
00:16:59.220 that is driven
00:16:59.960 by user preferences
00:17:00.920 and the application
00:17:02.060 of processes
00:17:02.600 that are not transparent.
00:17:04.200 These can lead
00:17:04.720 to the removal
00:17:05.220 of credible sources
00:17:06.240 of news
00:17:06.700 and the rapid dissemination
00:17:08.300 of misinformation.
00:17:09.960 Consequently,
00:17:10.840 some interested parties,
00:17:12.040 it's definitely not us,
00:17:13.600 asked that digital platforms
00:17:14.820 be subject
00:17:15.260 to regulatory oversight.
00:17:17.040 Providers of digital platforms
00:17:18.240 disagreed,
00:17:19.220 stating they were committed
00:17:20.000 to the free flow
00:17:20.580 of information
00:17:21.120 but were also taking steps
00:17:22.680 to stem the flow
00:17:23.440 of misinformation online.
00:17:24.840 So the first thing
00:17:27.220 that they said
00:17:28.160 that was digital platforms
00:17:29.600 have considerable power.
00:17:32.400 You say the words
00:17:33.120 considerable power
00:17:34.280 in Ottawa
00:17:35.800 or near a liberal
00:17:36.800 and they start
00:17:37.760 to salivate.
00:17:40.380 Considerable power.
00:17:41.280 What they mean is
00:17:42.240 Google, YouTube, Facebook,
00:17:44.400 they have power
00:17:45.200 to censor things,
00:17:46.100 to shape things,
00:17:47.020 to promote certain things
00:17:48.020 and hide other things.
00:17:49.060 We saw that the other day
00:17:49.880 when Google admitted
00:17:51.060 to hiding pro-life results
00:17:52.820 in Ireland
00:17:54.000 in the week
00:17:54.840 before the referendum
00:17:55.740 they're on abortion. 0.80
00:17:56.660 So yeah,
00:17:57.480 considerable power
00:17:58.420 and that power
00:17:59.260 would be exercised
00:18:00.320 in secret
00:18:01.240 on the beck and call
00:18:03.900 of Justin Trudeau.
00:18:04.600 No committee hearings
00:18:05.260 about censorship,
00:18:06.200 no question period
00:18:06.900 accountability,
00:18:07.520 no transcript,
00:18:08.080 no records.
00:18:08.880 Just outsource the censorship
00:18:10.360 to Facebook, Google, YouTube.
00:18:11.700 That's what the industry lobbyists
00:18:12.980 are calling for
00:18:14.260 and by industry lobbyists
00:18:15.520 I mean the people
00:18:16.600 who wrote this report.
00:18:18.680 Now the only place
00:18:19.340 I've seen this story on
00:18:20.880 so far
00:18:21.560 is the independent news website
00:18:23.520 called Black Locks Reporter.
00:18:25.080 I haven't seen this
00:18:25.880 on the CBC.
00:18:26.660 Maybe they'll get around to it
00:18:27.780 but I don't think so.
00:18:29.500 You're not going to see this
00:18:30.200 in the bailout media.
00:18:32.420 They don't mind it one bit.
00:18:33.800 I mean look,
00:18:34.100 they're going to get
00:18:34.540 their 600 million dollars
00:18:35.740 in the next little while
00:18:36.880 from Trudeau
00:18:37.620 if he and his lobbyist friends
00:18:39.420 have to shut up
00:18:40.240 a few loudmouths
00:18:41.060 on the internet.
00:18:41.700 Well, look,
00:18:42.940 they should have been
00:18:43.400 shut up anyways before, right?
00:18:45.180 I mean it's just a small price
00:18:46.400 to pay for social order
00:18:47.880 and to remove
00:18:48.420 what's that phrase?
00:18:49.260 Social harm.
00:18:50.880 One day, my friends,
00:18:53.260 you'll wake up
00:18:53.860 and we will just be gone.
00:18:57.560 Remember us, will you?
00:18:58.460 You see, it used to be
00:19:19.240 very dangerous.
00:19:20.480 Very, very dangerous.
00:19:22.100 After our first summit,
00:19:24.380 all of the danger...
00:19:25.840 I said,
00:19:37.640 I'm over here,
00:19:39.220 I want to call up to
00:19:40.460 Chairman Kim.
00:19:41.220 and we got to meet
00:19:56.040 and we got to meet
00:19:56.060 and we got to know
00:19:57.900 the relationship
00:20:01.540 that we've developed
00:20:03.500 has meant so much
00:20:05.220 to so many people
00:20:06.140 and I want to thank you.
00:20:07.580 It's been great.
00:20:08.560 It's been great.
00:20:12.340 What an incredible spectacle.
00:20:15.500 What a historic moment.
00:20:17.980 Donald Trump visiting the DMZ,
00:20:20.540 the demilitarized zone
00:20:22.080 between North and South Korea
00:20:24.020 and actually steps
00:20:26.040 onto North Korean soil,
00:20:27.720 the first U.S. president
00:20:28.740 to do so,
00:20:29.380 and walks back across
00:20:31.220 with the supreme leader,
00:20:33.860 the dictator of the North.
00:20:35.640 The whole thing seemed
00:20:37.320 to come about quickly
00:20:39.340 and unconventionally.
00:20:40.940 Let me read to you
00:20:41.760 a tweet published
00:20:43.540 by Donald Trump
00:20:44.460 on June 28th.
00:20:46.060 He just said,
00:20:47.600 after some very important meetings,
00:20:49.040 including my meeting
00:20:49.700 with President Xi of China,
00:20:51.580 I will be leaving Japan
00:20:52.640 for South Korea
00:20:53.420 with President Moon.
00:20:55.060 While there,
00:20:56.400 if Chairman Kim
00:20:57.340 of North Korea sees this,
00:20:59.440 I would meet him
00:21:00.140 at the border DMZ
00:21:01.340 just to shake his hand
00:21:02.540 and say,
00:21:03.580 hello?
00:21:04.780 What an unusual communication.
00:21:08.500 And joining us now
00:21:09.300 to help decrypt it
00:21:10.760 is our friend
00:21:11.980 and expert on many matters,
00:21:14.140 including China
00:21:15.160 and North Korea,
00:21:16.800 Gordon Chang,
00:21:17.600 who has written
00:21:18.020 a fascinating article
00:21:19.040 in The National Interest
00:21:20.080 called
00:21:20.360 Trump's Visit to North Korea
00:21:22.280 is an Alarming Message
00:21:23.640 to China.
00:21:24.580 Gordon,
00:21:24.900 thanks so much
00:21:25.500 for joining us.
00:21:26.860 Why is it an alarming
00:21:28.160 message to China?
00:21:30.860 Because President Trump
00:21:32.460 is cutting the Chinese 1.00
00:21:33.720 out of the denuclearization process.
00:21:36.920 Beijing looks at
00:21:37.820 the Korean Peninsula
00:21:38.680 as its own,
00:21:39.840 that the Koreans
00:21:40.420 are vassals,
00:21:41.700 and it doesn't want
00:21:42.680 the vassals
00:21:43.260 to interact
00:21:44.200 with the United States
00:21:45.220 except on the instructions
00:21:46.480 of the Chinese.
00:21:47.900 Well, here is Kim Jong-un
00:21:49.260 interacting with President Trump,
00:21:52.220 and I think that
00:21:53.320 what the United States
00:21:54.260 is trying to do here
00:21:55.280 is to wean North Korea 0.98
00:21:57.180 away from the Chinese. 1.00
00:21:59.360 So in Beijing,
00:22:00.500 this is not viewed,
00:22:01.880 this meeting is not viewed
00:22:03.400 with a lot of optimism.
00:22:05.340 Now, they call North Korea
00:22:06.740 the Hermit Kingdom.
00:22:08.320 I can imagine
00:22:09.380 the paranoia,
00:22:10.500 three generations
00:22:11.520 of tyrants
00:22:12.540 always on the lookout
00:22:13.900 for someone trying
00:22:14.740 to undermine them
00:22:15.620 or disinform them,
00:22:17.380 let alone assassinate them.
00:22:19.600 One theory I saw brooded,
00:22:21.640 and I wonder
00:22:22.180 what you think of this,
00:22:23.800 is that by tweeting
00:22:24.820 so publicly,
00:22:26.460 Donald Trump
00:22:27.020 was assured
00:22:27.900 that the message
00:22:28.640 could get to Kim himself
00:22:30.140 and possibly not be
00:22:31.760 intercepted
00:22:32.720 by any Chinese
00:22:34.640 agents
00:22:35.940 or handlers
00:22:36.660 around him
00:22:37.260 if it was a secret message,
00:22:39.040 a diplomatic message,
00:22:39.980 that might get intercepted,
00:22:41.740 but a public tweet,
00:22:44.000 well,
00:22:44.380 he'd hear about that.
00:22:45.420 Yeah, well,
00:22:47.100 President Trump
00:22:47.640 is used to talking
00:22:48.500 to people directly,
00:22:49.820 bypassing the media
00:22:50.860 and bypassing elites
00:22:52.740 in the United States.
00:22:54.060 So we shouldn't be surprised
00:22:55.400 if that's true.
00:22:56.880 There are some discussions
00:22:58.220 between Steve Biegun,
00:22:59.520 who is President Trump's
00:23:01.720 North Korea envoy,
00:23:03.180 and between Biegun
00:23:04.360 and his counterparts
00:23:05.860 in the North.
00:23:07.160 But, you know,
00:23:07.780 that's very possible.
00:23:09.140 But in any event,
00:23:09.860 what's occurring here
00:23:10.800 is that Trump,
00:23:12.140 through an act of will,
00:23:13.240 and on very short notice,
00:23:15.080 arranged an historic meeting.
00:23:17.020 And this truly was
00:23:18.520 a stunning event.
00:23:20.200 Well, it's certainly
00:23:20.840 a high-stakes thing.
00:23:22.020 I mean, often,
00:23:23.180 there's a political tactic
00:23:24.740 of doing the deal first
00:23:28.080 and then announcing,
00:23:29.760 we're going to try
00:23:30.420 to get the deal
00:23:31.220 when you know in advance
00:23:33.040 that you're good.
00:23:33.580 It's like taking a shot.
00:23:35.040 You could take a shot
00:23:36.180 in basketball
00:23:36.720 from the three-point line,
00:23:38.300 but you already secretly
00:23:40.540 knew how it would go.
00:23:41.560 You could be a lot more
00:23:42.640 confident about that.
00:23:44.220 To put that tweet out there,
00:23:46.200 part of me thought,
00:23:46.940 well, he's got this thing
00:23:47.860 already signed.
00:23:48.700 That's a big risk to take
00:23:50.180 if he didn't actually
00:23:51.380 have this meeting
00:23:52.040 in advance set up.
00:23:53.680 Yeah, certainly.
00:23:54.840 I mean, the conversation
00:23:55.700 right now would be
00:23:56.820 about how Trump
00:23:58.120 was humiliated
00:23:58.920 by the North Koreans
00:23:59.940 because Kim Jong-un
00:24:01.220 did not show up
00:24:02.320 at the DMZ.
00:24:04.060 This is Trump being Trump
00:24:06.300 and just taking
00:24:07.240 diplomatic convention
00:24:08.520 and breaking it.
00:24:09.900 Sometimes it works,
00:24:10.640 sometimes it doesn't.
00:24:11.760 In this particular time,
00:24:13.160 it works spectacularly.
00:24:14.680 Now, this is not to say
00:24:15.900 that the North Koreans
00:24:16.620 are going to do
00:24:17.300 what Trump wants them to do,
00:24:19.120 but nonetheless,
00:24:20.320 this is giving them
00:24:21.020 the opportunity.
00:24:22.420 And Trump at the Ottawa G7,
00:24:24.380 which preceded
00:24:25.080 the historic summit,
00:24:26.340 Singapore,
00:24:27.100 Singapore summit
00:24:28.420 in June of last year,
00:24:29.820 you know,
00:24:30.500 Trump at the Ottawa G7
00:24:31.780 said this is what
00:24:32.500 he's going to do.
00:24:33.160 He was going to give
00:24:33.740 Tim a quote-unquote
00:24:34.900 one-time shot
00:24:36.120 to disarm.
00:24:36.840 And I think what Trump
00:24:38.140 was trying to do
00:24:39.080 in a broader sense
00:24:40.020 is to make the North Korean 1.00
00:24:41.480 feel secure enough
00:24:42.560 in such a favorable environment
00:24:44.260 that he would believe
00:24:45.800 that it was safe
00:24:47.000 to give up
00:24:47.500 his most destructive weapons.
00:24:48.920 This is really bold
00:24:50.140 on the part
00:24:50.720 of President Trump.
00:24:51.940 It might not work,
00:24:53.280 but nonetheless,
00:24:53.880 it's giving the North Koreans 1.00
00:24:55.040 the opportunity
00:24:55.860 to do that.
00:24:56.940 And for that,
00:24:57.840 he gets credit for trying.
00:24:59.480 Now, you have been
00:25:00.580 one of the toughest critics
00:25:01.800 of North Korea,
00:25:02.760 and for years,
00:25:03.860 your prescription
00:25:04.560 has been tough love,
00:25:05.600 not just on North Korea,
00:25:07.060 but on China.
00:25:07.980 And I think Donald Trump
00:25:09.640 is certainly following
00:25:11.220 that path on the trade side.
00:25:13.060 He doesn't have sanctions.
00:25:14.460 I know you and I
00:25:15.120 have talked about
00:25:15.680 the possibility of sanctions
00:25:17.460 on major Chinese banks.
00:25:18.900 He's doing it
00:25:19.600 in the form of tariffs
00:25:20.520 on China.
00:25:21.820 But I've seen other commentators
00:25:25.160 take umbrage with the,
00:25:27.820 I'm going to use the phrase,
00:25:28.900 obsequious praise
00:25:30.920 that Trump is heaping on Kim,
00:25:34.100 who's obviously
00:25:34.780 a brutal dictator.
00:25:36.220 My thought is
00:25:37.340 when a crazy man
00:25:38.900 has his finger
00:25:39.640 on the trigger,
00:25:40.300 it's like a police
00:25:41.180 hostage negotiator.
00:25:42.960 You say and do
00:25:43.900 whatever it takes
00:25:44.680 to get that person
00:25:45.500 to put down the trigger.
00:25:47.480 That's my analogy here.
00:25:49.420 I think that because
00:25:50.420 things are so far gone there,
00:25:51.780 Trump has to say things
00:25:53.800 that he might not even
00:25:54.860 mean or believe
00:25:56.520 just to get a deal.
00:25:58.900 That's my explanation
00:26:00.160 for why he's being
00:26:01.320 so chummy with Kim.
00:26:02.360 Is that your understanding
00:26:04.020 as well?
00:26:05.520 Yeah, I don't know
00:26:06.860 why President Trump
00:26:07.920 is using that flattery
00:26:09.440 to that extent.
00:26:10.220 I mean, if I were
00:26:11.540 advising the president,
00:26:13.080 I would say don't do that.
00:26:14.980 But, you know,
00:26:16.000 there's a number
00:26:16.720 of different ways
00:26:17.440 to get to the end.
00:26:18.840 The thing that people
00:26:20.100 are concerned about,
00:26:21.000 Ezra, is the legitimization 0.95
00:26:22.600 of Kim.
00:26:24.100 And if Kim feels
00:26:25.460 that he is legitimized,
00:26:27.400 then he might be emboldened
00:26:29.080 to resist the international
00:26:30.740 community on disarmament efforts.
00:26:33.040 That's the risk there.
00:26:34.680 But, you know,
00:26:36.000 I don't know what
00:26:38.060 our president is trying to do.
00:26:39.960 But I think that essentially
00:26:41.400 he's giving Kim
00:26:42.380 that opportunity
00:26:43.260 to actually come in
00:26:45.000 from the cold.
00:26:46.100 And if Kim doesn't
00:26:47.300 take advantage of it,
00:26:48.200 and so far he hasn't,
00:26:49.920 you know,
00:26:50.340 Trump can always go back
00:26:51.580 to those policies
00:26:52.540 that made him successful
00:26:54.080 before the Singapore summit,
00:26:55.540 which was really vigorously
00:26:57.080 enforcing sanctions
00:26:58.020 and cutting off
00:26:58.760 the money flows.
00:26:59.980 Apparently,
00:27:00.780 the United States
00:27:01.680 had cut the flows
00:27:02.980 of international cash
00:27:04.360 to the regime
00:27:04.960 by about 50%.
00:27:06.640 That was before
00:27:07.480 the Singapore summit.
00:27:08.740 Since then,
00:27:09.220 we've let our foot
00:27:10.100 off the gas.
00:27:11.920 And I think that
00:27:12.660 the money is flowing
00:27:13.720 to Kim a bit more.
00:27:16.080 But, you know,
00:27:16.940 Trump can always change that
00:27:18.180 and go back
00:27:18.760 to that maximum enforcement.
00:27:20.640 Well, it's very
00:27:21.180 interesting times
00:27:21.940 and we're so grateful
00:27:22.700 for your expertise.
00:27:24.340 Gordon, thanks so much
00:27:25.140 and let me just
00:27:25.860 one more time
00:27:26.520 tell our viewers
00:27:27.800 if they're interested
00:27:28.460 in your take on things
00:27:29.600 in a more extended version,
00:27:31.000 they can see your article
00:27:32.200 in the National Interest
00:27:33.260 called Trump's Visit
00:27:34.520 to North Korea
00:27:35.100 is an Alarming Message
00:27:36.460 to China.
00:27:37.000 Thank you, my friend,
00:27:37.740 for sharing your wisdom
00:27:38.520 as you always do.
00:27:40.220 Oh, well, thank you, Ezra.
00:27:41.460 I really appreciate
00:27:42.240 being on your show.
00:27:43.120 Well, it's our great pleasure
00:27:44.640 and we learn so much
00:27:45.500 from you.
00:27:45.880 Thanks, Gordon.
00:27:47.160 All right.
00:27:47.800 Well, stay with us.
00:27:48.780 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:27:55.140 I should tell you
00:28:02.060 in the time between
00:28:02.880 when I wrote that script
00:28:03.960 and recorded it
00:28:04.760 and now,
00:28:06.120 I just received an email
00:28:07.560 that the government
00:28:08.560 of Canada
00:28:09.020 has literally rolled out
00:28:10.580 about $25 million
00:28:12.480 in their war on fake news.
00:28:15.540 They're basically bribing
00:28:16.720 a lot of activist groups
00:28:18.220 to repeat Trudeau's messages
00:28:20.200 and to attack voices
00:28:22.280 they don't like.
00:28:23.080 $25 million.
00:28:24.280 I don't even have time
00:28:25.320 to revise the script.
00:28:26.580 I'll get back to it
00:28:27.300 another day.
00:28:28.160 I said at the beginning
00:28:29.220 of today's show
00:28:29.880 that there's a new
00:28:30.840 censorship platform
00:28:31.880 every week.
00:28:32.900 It's almost every day.
00:28:34.840 I think it's more
00:28:36.340 than anything else
00:28:37.600 what Justin Trudeau
00:28:38.780 cares about.
00:28:39.520 No one believes him
00:28:40.180 when he talks about
00:28:40.700 feminism anymore. 1.00
00:28:41.920 The carbon tax
00:28:42.800 is a meltdown for him.
00:28:45.140 The one thing
00:28:45.820 he truly cares about
00:28:47.220 and he's truly fighting for
00:28:48.420 is censorship.
00:28:50.880 That's our show for today.
00:28:52.420 Until next time
00:28:53.180 on behalf of all of us
00:28:54.160 here at World Headquarters
00:28:55.940 for the Rebel
00:28:56.440 good night
00:28:57.400 and keep fighting for freedom
00:28:59.560 while you still can.