Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau sets up a $595 million slush fund for journalists — but only the ones he “trusts.”

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Trudeau sets up a $595 million slush fund for journalists, but only journalists he trusts.

00:00:08.300 It's November 22nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:17.080 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:20.920 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:24.640 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:27.640 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:38.200 We knew it was coming, but no one knew it would be this big.

00:00:42.780 Justin Trudeau has announced that he's setting up a $595 million slush fund for journalists, but only for journalists that he trusts.

00:00:52.400 That's really the word.

00:00:53.640 Let me quote from The Globe and Mail.

00:00:55.720 Well, the government said the package will aim to help trusted news organizations.

00:01:03.460 Trusted to do what?

00:01:05.580 Trusted to go easy on Trudeau?

00:01:07.480 Trusted to ignore news stories Trudeau doesn't like trusted?

00:01:10.780 Trusted by whom?

00:01:12.160 Trusted by the public to follow the truth no matter where it leads?

00:01:15.580 Or trusted by Trudeau and his staff not to follow the truth if it would cause problems?

00:01:19.940 Well, pretty obvious.

00:01:22.860 $595 million, though.

00:01:24.240 That is a shocking amount.

00:01:26.140 For journalists and for their millionaire and billionaire owners, at least Bombardier actually makes something.

00:01:33.380 Airplanes and trains.

00:01:34.660 Seriously, taxpayers now have to subsidize every whining social justice warrior on Twitter. 1.00

00:01:41.900 Remember this.

00:01:42.680 First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court?

00:01:50.200 Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now.

00:01:54.360 Yeah, those veterans are asking for too much.

00:01:58.000 Maybe those veterans should start a left-wing newspaper.

00:02:01.840 And then Trudeau would find hundreds of millions of dollars for them.

00:02:06.820 Now, this is unsurprising.

00:02:08.340 The major journalism union has been campaigning for this for months.

00:02:11.680 Just a few weeks ago, they pledged their trustworthiness to Trudeau,

00:02:15.800 saying they would be a trustworthy ally to him to attack Andrew Scheer and the conservatives.

00:02:20.900 That lady, center-right there, that's Lana Payne, a columnist for the St. John's Telegram.

00:02:26.720 So, yeah, the media party, they can be trusted.

00:02:30.520 Not by you, not by readers.

00:02:32.820 They're trusted by Justin Trudeau.

00:02:35.140 They promised to deliver him.

00:02:36.980 You saw it.

00:02:38.420 And so he delivered for them.

00:02:40.640 Here's Unifor's tweet celebrating their deal with Trudeau.

00:02:45.820 Their journalist union bosses are already enforcing the new rules.

00:02:48.900 Everyone just shut up, take Trudeau's money, and be trustworthy, okay?

00:02:54.520 Here's Natalie Clancy, a CBC alumna.

00:02:58.120 She's mad at Paul Wells, a left-wing journalist who already takes government subsidies,

00:03:02.160 both from McLean's Magazine and CBC.

00:03:04.240 But he tweeted that he's against government subsidies while taking government subsidies,

00:03:09.080 but he likes to be very loud about how he doesn't like it.

00:03:11.680 One bit.

00:03:12.060 People, I'm taking this money, but I sure don't like it.

00:03:13.840 Well, even that fake opposition from Paul Wells was too much for Clancy, who said this.

00:03:20.220 He said,

00:03:21.420 I could not disagree with Paul Wells more.

00:03:24.080 No one is putting politicians in charge of journalism.

00:03:26.780 The idea is to give our newsrooms a chance to survive people.

00:03:29.520 But in fact, Trudeau is in charge of journalism.

00:03:33.480 He said so.

00:03:34.300 He will only give money to those he trusts.

00:03:36.820 And newsrooms have no right to survive any more than Bombardier does.

00:03:42.800 Giving money to Bombardier buys you some votes, I guess, but it doesn't damage democracy.

00:03:47.840 But giving money to journalists to tip the scales in political elections?

00:03:51.440 All this talk about meddling in elections and interference, Russia, whatever, they would

00:03:57.280 never dream of dumping $595 million into an election cycle less than the year before the

00:04:04.280 vote.

00:04:05.260 That trusted part?

00:04:07.200 Trudeau has said he'll appoint his handpicked journalistic friends to be gatekeepers for all

00:04:11.960 that cash?

00:04:13.180 That's got to be the most powerful patronage appointment in Canada, wouldn't you say?

00:04:16.400 You know, recently, Paula Simons from the Edmonton Journal was appointed to the Senate by Trudeau.

00:04:25.340 Here she is a couple of years back saying the Senate is tainted and corrupted by decades

00:04:31.680 of hack patronage appointments, liberal and Tory, it's a mess.

00:04:36.180 But then Trudeau offered her a Senate seat as a reward for her years of left-wing journalism.

00:04:42.860 And obviously she took it.

00:04:44.200 I mean, of course she did, but that's probably the last we'll hear from Paula Simons, other

00:04:48.040 than some boring speeches and lots of travel and entertainment expenses she'll foist on 1.00

00:04:52.480 us.

00:04:52.800 She really has no power or influence. 1.00

00:04:56.320 But imagine if instead she had been appointed as one of the gatekeepers of this $595 million

00:05:03.920 jackpot.

00:05:06.040 Well, they would command the world.

00:05:07.240 Imagine the invitations they'd get to galas and parties and free trips and to speak on

00:05:13.900 panels.

00:05:14.400 Imagine the lobbyists who will descend on them with promises or threats or bribes or whatever.

00:05:18.880 And of course they will be immune from the lobbyist registry, I'm sure.

00:05:22.780 Imagine the power of journalists commanding other journalists, jump through my hoops, do what

00:05:29.520 I say, agree with me, or you're not trustworthy enough to get millions of dollars.

00:05:35.500 They're going to be instant millionaires, by the way, these gatekeepers.

00:05:40.600 This is insane.

00:05:42.040 And if you're a lefty having trouble understanding any of this, just do the mental exercise of

00:05:47.300 pretending that, say, Doug Ford set up a $595 million trust fund for journalists himself

00:05:54.320 and appointed a journalist friend of his to dole it out, but only to the people he trusts.

00:05:59.560 I don't know, maybe he'd choose my old friend, Corey Tenike, Doug Ford's former campaign staffer

00:06:05.780 and former boss of Sun News Network.

00:06:08.000 Or heck, why not appoint me?

00:06:11.080 I mean, my point is leftists would freak out, and rightly so.

00:06:15.860 But with Justin Trudeau, I mean, look, these journalists were already pretty compliant with

00:06:21.620 Trudeau without the cash.

00:06:23.500 They're just ideologically pro-liberal.

00:06:25.200 Now they're positively obedient, with their union bosses whipping them into compliance.

00:06:31.520 Here's Stephen Marr, who published literally hundreds of fake news stories about Stephen

00:06:35.860 Harper stealing an election through robocalls.

00:06:38.220 Remember that whole fake news incident?

00:06:41.500 Elections Canada refuted that conspiracy theory, by the way, but it didn't stop Marr from doing

00:06:45.800 his liberal duty.

00:06:46.900 And look what he says now about all this cash.

00:06:48.880 Look what he says.

00:06:49.340 He says, journalists ought to campaign for Trudeau, comparing them to any other lobby

00:06:54.760 group that campaigns.

00:06:56.520 He said, I think Unifor should have a voice in political debates, along with the Business

00:07:01.200 Council of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, etc.

00:07:04.320 I don't know why this is controversial.

00:07:06.040 I don't have to agree with all their views, or any of them, to think that.

00:07:10.440 Now there's a certain honesty here, a journalist comparing journalists to lobbyists.

00:07:16.680 That's honest, because they are lobbyists.

00:07:19.600 Now normally they don't admit it publicly like that, but Marr's never hidden his stripes.

00:07:25.040 Trouble is, when lobby groups publish an op-ed in the newspaper, it's labeled an op-ed,

00:07:29.800 and their conflict of interest is revealed.

00:07:32.160 It's said this is a lobbyist for oil, or for the environment, or whatever cause.

00:07:36.080 The problem with journalists like Marr is that they're lobbyists too, as he admits, but

00:07:40.860 they pretend their views are just factual news reports, not opinions.

00:07:44.560 And when was the last time you saw a journalist disclose, on the air, or in their byline, that

00:07:49.580 they donate through their own union dues to attack conservatives?

00:07:52.400 Never.

00:07:53.160 And now that they take money from Trudeau, that won't be disclosed in their articles.

00:07:58.120 Here's my old friend from the Sun News Network, David Akin.

00:08:01.480 He made a fuss on Twitter about not liking this new contract between the union and Trudeau.

00:08:08.120 But when I pressed him about whether he has actually requested a union meeting on the subject,

00:08:14.420 which is his right as a dues-paying union member, he just said, oh, well, you know, these things take time.

00:08:20.460 Well, actually, not a lot of time.

00:08:21.580 I read the Unifor union local bylaws, and if just one quarter of the journalists in his local

00:08:27.080 request a meeting, they have to have one within a few weeks.

00:08:30.300 He wouldn't tell me if he actually made such a request.

00:08:34.900 I don't think he has.

00:08:36.820 And if he did, I doubt that his colleagues would vote against any of this free cash.

00:08:42.440 They want to pretend that they're independent and idealistic.

00:08:46.260 That's what their self-image demands.

00:08:49.000 But at the end of the day, they're for sale.

00:08:52.480 And even if there were a few journalists having their doubts about renting themselves out to Trudeau,

00:08:58.060 well, their bosses put that to bed.

00:09:00.600 Here's Paul Godfrey, the president of Post Media, which includes the National Post

00:09:04.980 and most big city dailies in Canada, the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province,

00:09:08.820 Calgary Herald, I mentioned Journals, Haskatoon Star, Phoenix, Regina, Leader Post, etc.,

00:09:12.280 Montreal Gazette.

00:09:13.000 Just look at this loving headline in the Post.

00:09:16.780 $600 million in federal funding for media's turning point,

00:09:20.060 a turning point in the plight of newspapers in Canada.

00:09:22.940 And Morneau said the government wants to create,

00:09:25.960 protect the vital role that independent news media play in our democracy and in our communities.

00:09:30.980 Yeah, that's not a headline from the National Post that we all know and love.

00:09:35.600 That's a headline in the new National Post that's talking like Bombardier talks when it gets free money.

00:09:42.780 Let me quote Paul Godfrey, who said in this article,

00:09:46.500 Paul Godfrey, the CEO of Post Media, which publishes the National Post and Daily Prodsheets

00:09:51.080 in many of Canada's larger cities, said the tax credit

00:09:53.360 could be looked upon as a turning point in the plight of newspapers in Canada.

00:09:58.720 I tip my hat to the prime minister and the finance minister.

00:10:04.540 They deserve a lot of credit, said Godfrey.

00:10:07.520 Everyone in journalism should be doing a victory lap around their building right now.

00:10:12.160 I love you.

00:10:13.820 Oh, I just added that last part.

00:10:15.340 It came naturally.

00:10:15.900 So just in case any Post Media journalist didn't know how they were supposed to feel about this,

00:10:20.360 their boss just told them they love it.

00:10:22.540 They love true.

00:10:23.280 And I got to tell you very candidly, I know Paul Godfrey a little bit,

00:10:26.620 and I really like him actually, in large part because he is so honest.

00:10:33.060 He's never said that the National Post is about great journalism.

00:10:36.980 In fact, not too long ago, he admitted its quality was just, and I'm quoting here,

00:10:41.420 he said the National Post is not unacceptable.

00:10:44.660 That's the highest praise he could muster for what they publish every day.

00:10:48.120 I love that.

00:10:49.440 He knows his job.

00:10:51.120 His job is about getting money for his shareholders, or really his bondholders,

00:10:56.920 some hedge funds from New York City.

00:10:58.880 Nothing else.

00:10:59.740 That's what he's paid to do.

00:11:01.600 And if that means praising Justin Trudeau, he'll do it.

00:11:06.280 For free money?

00:11:08.020 That's his job description.

00:11:10.580 So let's sum up here.

00:11:12.360 The CBC is already in the tank for Trudeau.

00:11:14.780 They get $1.5 billion a year of tax money, and that ensures their compliance.

00:11:19.260 But again, they're journalists, so they're naturally leftist anyways, but the money seals the deal.

00:11:24.860 Another $595 million now.

00:11:28.320 It sounds insane, but it's less than half what Trudeau gives to CBC,

00:11:33.460 and he just effectively nationalized every other private sector media company in Canada.

00:11:37.820 That's a small price to pay to lock up the next election next year.

00:11:41.460 I see a few pretend attempts to protest by Paul Wells and Andrew Coyne,

00:11:46.600 both of whom take money from the CBC already.

00:11:51.180 And I saw Matt Gurney, of course, but they'll all fall into line.

00:11:56.540 And I get it, because they value their jobs more than they value being ideologically pure.

00:12:01.440 I don't blame them, especially if they have a young family to feed.

00:12:04.880 But I just don't ever want to hear them criticizing, well, anyone ever about fiscal responsibility

00:12:14.560 or editorial independence, ever.

00:12:17.060 No more Bombardier editorials in the National Post or McLean's or really anywhere.

00:12:21.440 It would just be too much.

00:12:22.840 The irony would explode, don't you think?

00:12:25.760 Which is what Trudeau's counting on here.

00:12:28.760 It's not even that these journalists now have a personal favor to repay Trudeau.

00:12:34.880 I mean, that's there.

00:12:37.520 But by taking free government money, they have undermined fatally their own moral authority

00:12:43.980 to ever talk like conservatives again.

00:12:47.560 To ever criticize government spending again.

00:12:51.480 That's actually what makes them so trustworthy in the eyes of Trudeau.

00:12:55.000 Not that they've done a secret deal or a not-so-secret deal like Unifor has.

00:12:59.000 It's that they've just destroyed their own soul, their own credibility.

00:13:02.960 So how could they ever fight with any spirit anymore?

00:13:06.480 Can you ever see the National Post criticizing big spending ever again?

00:13:10.880 You saw that headline they ran today.

00:13:14.060 So yesterday was a huge victory day for Justin Trudeau.

00:13:17.780 And for the billionaires who own most Canadian media there, they'll be pocketing most of this

00:13:22.580 subsidy.

00:13:24.100 But what was on Justin Trudeau's small mind?

00:13:26.440 Well, us here at The Rebel, seriously, the only media company that he talked about in Parliament

00:13:34.400 yesterday was tiny little us.

00:13:39.200 It was in an answer to a question put from the conservatives about open borders, mass

00:13:43.240 immigration.

00:13:45.340 Nothing to do with The Rebel.

00:13:46.380 But maybe it did have something to do with The Rebel, because listen to this answer from

00:13:51.240 Trudeau.

00:13:52.820 Mr. Speaker, the world is seeing unprecedented levels of men, women, and children displaced

00:13:58.260 by war and by persecution.

00:14:00.340 Our government is proud to have taken a leadership role on the global compact.

00:14:05.280 This is the first time the international community has worked together to develop a comprehensive

00:14:10.060 set of principles to better manage this phenomenon.

00:14:12.900 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.

00:14:20.580 Hmm?

00:14:23.420 I watched The Question.

00:14:24.680 It was by Michelle Rample.

00:14:25.620 It was just about policy issues.

00:14:28.180 She didn't mention The Rebel.

00:14:29.200 No one mentioned The Rebel.

00:14:31.460 But boy, it's on his mind, isn't it?

00:14:33.940 And not just his mind.

00:14:35.060 I think he was reading from a prepared script.

00:14:37.240 We're living rent-free in the minds of liberals, aren't they?

00:14:40.200 I think they're obsessed with us.

00:14:43.880 Why?

00:14:46.080 Well, because we are the one group in Canada that he cannot buy.

00:14:52.300 And if you thought it was just a coincidence, well, last night, Gerald Butts, Trudeau's handler,

00:14:56.320 he tweeted about us, too.

00:14:57.680 He calls us Nazis all the time or whatever.

00:15:00.120 He tweets about us all the time.

00:15:02.820 He's obsessed with us.

00:15:04.260 But why?

00:15:04.740 I mean, seriously, why are they obsessed with us?

00:15:08.960 They already run the CBC, which is bigger than all other Canadian news media combined.

00:15:14.120 They just rented out every other private media outlet in Canada.

00:15:18.560 They now control, directly or indirectly, 99% of all the media in this country.

00:15:27.300 That's how many are going to take money from Trudeau in one way or the other.

00:15:30.360 Only as long as they're trustworthy, so they will be trustworthy.

00:15:36.040 So why on earth would he be so obsessed with us?

00:15:40.320 Well, you heard Trudeau.

00:15:42.240 In that particular question there, we're the only news organization reporting the other side of the story.

00:15:47.460 In that particular case, he was talking about mass, out-of-control, illegal immigration.

00:15:52.480 On other things, too, like the theory of man-made global warming, like, I don't know, civil rights for Christians in Canada,

00:15:58.980 like being pro-Israel or pro-America, like opposing Trudeau's soft-on-terrorism stances, his love for Omer Cotter, that sort of thing.

00:16:08.200 If it weren't for us here at The Rebel, it would be 100% unanimity, not just 99%, but that is why he hates us.

00:16:19.160 In fact, the more that the other media sell out to him, the more aware he is that we are the last holdout,

00:16:26.800 the more conspicuous is the fact that we will not bend the knee.

00:16:31.460 That's why he's angrier and angrier and angrier at us, because we just won't shut up.

00:16:37.720 And so it's not just the carrot of the $595 million.

00:16:44.640 That was enough to buy off everyone else, but not us.

00:16:48.000 You can't buy us.

00:16:50.420 So now he's going to bring up the stick.

00:16:53.120 The stick.

00:16:54.480 Legal bans, too.

00:16:55.700 Here's Harjeet Sajjan, Trudeau's cabinet minister, defense minister,

00:16:59.960 talking about banning what he calls fake news.

00:17:04.100 Now, that's quite audacious, coming from the biggest fake news guy around.

00:17:08.040 He's the one, you recall, who falsely claimed to be the architect of NATO's Afghan war strategy,

00:17:14.080 and he later admitted he lied about a bit of stolen valor there.

00:17:17.120 But put aside his own fake news.

00:17:20.480 What he really means is he wants to ban the points of view he doesn't like.

00:17:25.240 That's what he means by fake news.

00:17:27.000 And what he really means is that last, last journalistic holdout that won't take the cash.

00:17:31.860 It's not a coincidence.

00:17:34.420 It's not a one-off.

00:17:35.200 Look at this.

00:17:35.980 This is from Hedy Fry.

00:17:39.680 Best way to ensure more fact than fake news is to support journalism.

00:17:44.880 A profession with a code of ethics and under law must produce verifiable and accountable news.

00:17:53.120 Hang on, so we've got to be accountable under law to her. 1.00

00:17:59.640 A bit crazy from the MP who, if you recall, falsely stood up in Parliament

00:18:05.260 and claimed that there were crosses burning, KKK style, in British Columbia.

00:18:10.960 Remember that? 0.99

00:18:11.980 What a liar. 0.96

00:18:13.060 But still, she, the fake news queen, wants to ban news she disagrees with. 1.00

00:18:21.560 So under Trudeau, there will only be two kinds of news.

00:18:25.340 The kind Trudeau and Harjeet Sajan and Hedy Fry trust and subsidize.

00:18:31.940 And the kind of news that's banned.

00:18:33.760 Oh, and if you're asking, not a peep against any of this from the Canadian Association of Journalists

00:18:41.340 or Penn Canada or Reporters Without Borders or the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:18:48.520 Are you kidding?

00:18:50.460 Not at all.

00:18:51.220 Because they fundamentally agree with it.

00:18:53.700 And they hate the rebel.

00:18:56.400 For the same reason Justin Trudeau does.

00:18:58.920 I should point out that there is one little news organization that has said the same sort of thing as us.

00:19:05.120 Here's a statement.

00:19:06.940 Let me read it to you.

00:19:07.540 A statement from Black Lock's Reporter.

00:19:09.560 We will neither solicit nor accept Canadian Heritage Media grants

00:19:12.420 and have always named and shamed those who do.

00:19:17.040 That's great.

00:19:17.920 That's called Black Lock's Reporter. 0.57

00:19:19.400 It's an online small group of reporters.

00:19:22.960 They're pretty tiny.

00:19:24.480 That's not an insult.

00:19:25.500 That's just a fact about them.

00:19:27.740 They're great.

00:19:28.380 In fact, I think I'm going to sign up and be a subscriber just to support them based on what they said there.

00:19:33.180 But I have just now listed for you the only other independent news agency in this country.

00:19:38.980 That's it.

00:19:39.220 There's no one else.

00:19:41.340 Everyone else is for sale or for rent.

00:19:43.520 Whatever.

00:19:44.460 Sorry, it's true.

00:19:47.220 But not us.

00:19:48.140 You can't buy us.

00:19:50.060 We're paid only by our viewers in little crowdfunding dribs and drabs.

00:19:53.320 And by you, our premium subscribers who pay $8 a month.

00:19:56.100 Thank you.

00:19:56.400 Our average donor is about $65.

00:20:00.840 That's it.

00:20:01.980 Not $565 million.

00:20:04.840 We just wouldn't take Trudeau's money.

00:20:06.820 We couldn't.

00:20:07.280 You can't call yourself a rebel and be paid by the government.

00:20:10.360 That would be about as nonsensical as saying you're a punk rock band or an edgy comedian

00:20:15.020 who works for the government.

00:20:16.940 That's why CBC comedians are so painfully unfunny.

00:20:20.960 It just doesn't work to be a government comedian.

00:20:23.160 Now, this whole development is bad news for us here at The Rebel in some ways.

00:20:28.840 We're going to be attacked even worse than before.

00:20:31.020 All that talk about fake news and banning people, that's really coming for us and pretty much us alone.

00:20:37.180 And the hatred and marginalization of us by the mainstream media, who hate the fact that we're calling them out.

00:20:43.400 We're embarrassing them by dissenting.

00:20:45.600 Well, obviously, hating the rebel is a necessary condition for them to get paid by Trudeau.

00:20:53.320 It's part of whether or not he can trust you, right?

00:20:56.700 If you don't hate the rebel, how could Trudeau trust you?

00:20:58.920 So it's going to get tougher for us and for you as a viewer and for your fellow citizens.

00:21:06.880 Isn't it proof, though, that the rebel is needed more than ever?

00:21:12.060 Imagine, God forbid, if we were to fail.

00:21:15.460 There would literally be no one else in the country telling the other side of the story.

00:21:20.820 That's what made Trudeau so mad in question period, that there was one voice telling the other side of the story.

00:21:26.000 A single voice.

00:21:28.920 Now, we don't need $595 million to live, but $595,000 would be great.

00:21:35.800 We'd pay off some of our bills, spruce up the website a bit, hire another couple reporters,

00:21:42.160 cover the 2019 federal election properly, maybe even spend a little bit of money advertising that we exist.

00:21:50.120 If you want to do something constructive and productive to fight back against Trudeau's slush fund,

00:21:54.200 may I suggest doing that?

00:21:55.860 Go to youcantbuyus.com.

00:21:59.820 That's our message to Trudeau.

00:22:01.560 That's our answer to Trudeau.

00:22:03.040 Go to youcantbuyus.com and help chip in.

00:22:09.080 I mean, Justin Trudeau just forced you and every other Canadian to give money to our competitors.

00:22:14.020 Where do you think they found the $595 million from?

00:22:17.120 Between this bailout and the CBC, that's more than $2 billion.

00:22:22.380 That's about $250 per family in Canada.

00:22:26.440 He's just taking that from you every year, $250 from your family, to give to his journalists that he trusts.

00:22:32.860 $250.

00:22:33.300 Would you consider going to youcantbuyus.com and making a voluntary donation so we can provide the other side of the story?

00:22:42.040 We need to survive.

00:22:43.300 We need to thrive.

00:22:44.500 We need to grow.

00:22:45.900 Somebody has to speak truth to power.

00:22:49.520 And right now, I'm afraid it has to be us.

00:22:53.440 Stay with us for more.

00:22:54.440 Welcome back.

00:23:11.120 I saw a story the other day in the Toronto Star, and every word in it, including ah and the, is bizarre.

00:23:21.620 This is not fiction.

00:23:22.720 This is news in the year 2018.

00:23:25.320 I want to read this story to you.

00:23:26.460 I'll read the headline and then the first few sentences, and then I'll call in a guest to comment on it with me.

00:23:31.720 The story, as you can see, is called Transgender Woman Gets 18 Month Sentence for Sexually Assaulting Daughter.

00:23:41.920 By the way, before I read any of it to you, do you think Transgender Woman is factually accurate?

00:23:46.940 Do you think the facts of the story will sustain that headline?

00:23:49.700 Well, let me read it to you, and you can find out here.

00:23:51.840 Let's start reading.

00:23:53.580 A Quebec City transgender parent who sexually assaulted her young daughter will be serving a sentence in a women's jail after undergoing a sex change between the time of the crime and the conviction.

00:24:09.180 The transgender woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, was sentenced to 18 months Monday for sexual assaults carried out when she was still a man.

00:24:21.880 The 33-year-old, the victim's biological father, had pleaded guilty to crimes that took place in 2013 when the girl was just three.

00:24:35.100 This is in the last quote here.

00:24:36.920 The accused was separated from the girl's mother at the time and was, in the months following the assaults, she underwent a sex change.

00:24:47.120 I'll stop reading.

00:24:47.960 I think that's enough for you to get the story.

00:24:50.240 Let's call on our guest, Barbara Kay, a columnist for the National Post, to join us via Skype to talk about this.

00:24:58.580 Barbara, of course, I'm furious at the underlying facts of the story.

00:25:02.860 I'm furious at a sexual assault, let alone of a child, let alone against one's own child.

00:25:09.380 In my mind, an 18-month sentence for sexually assaulting a child, let alone your child, is a laugh.

00:25:16.520 It's a trifle.

00:25:17.760 Of course, he'll be out in a matter of months under our parole laws.

00:25:20.440 I'm outraged by the crime.

00:25:21.700 I'm outraged by the lenient sentence.

00:25:23.960 But there's so many more layers here, including that he is being sent to serve his sentence in a women's prison.

00:25:30.300 And then finally, the cherry on top of the icing, on top of the cake, is that the Toronto Star calls him a her.

00:25:38.240 Now, they lapse into saying, was her father, because otherwise the story makes no sense.

00:25:45.560 But this is the lowest our culture has sunk in quite a long while.

00:25:52.320 I can't even remember anything like it.

00:25:53.980 That's my view.

00:25:54.820 Let me hand it over to you before I start ranting even more.

00:25:57.960 No, I share your horror at this story.

00:26:02.160 And I agree with you.

00:26:03.200 I don't know how satire stays in business anymore, because this is the kind of story in your wildest dreams you would never expect to see written up with a straight face and the pronouns he, her.

00:26:15.620 And this is what happens when you insist that language follow the, you know, feelings or the beliefs in people's minds so that and you redefine objective facts and you call something that used to mean one thing by another name.

00:26:35.020 And then you're forced to follow up with action that befits the new definition.

00:26:39.940 So, if this person, this man, this biological man has told everybody and he is assuming that he, you know, he is a woman because he feels like a woman or maybe because he, who knows why. 0.98

00:26:53.900 Then, uh, suddenly he's, uh, he's a woman who assaulted his daughter with his, I assume with his penis, you know, uh, this, this kind of, uh, muddle headed thinking is what got us into this mess. 0.99

00:27:08.300 Uh, this man, this biological man, um, is a very sick individual. 0.99

00:27:14.500 And by the way, it used to be, he's getting a sex change operation used to be the days when, if you wanted a sex change operation, uh, you had to be, go through some serious psychological assessment. 0.86

00:27:28.180 Uh, they didn't just do anybody that came to the door.

00:27:31.360 Uh, they, they weeded out those that they thought were afflicted with psychological serious problems, uh, and, and, and that they were not truly dysphoric,

00:27:42.520 but that this was, uh, a function of, of other problems sounds to me like this biological man as, uh, other problems besides wanting to be a woman.

00:27:52.960 Uh, so yeah, it's, it's a horrible story.

00:27:56.080 Uh, it is, it is not a serious sentence.

00:27:58.480 It should be much longer.

00:27:59.640 And I, I worry about the women that in the prison, uh, that this biological man who I suppose after he's had a sex change operation, they'll stop calling him a biological man, 0.69

00:28:10.560 but he still will be only one without male genitalia.

00:28:13.700 Um, and I worry about the women in that prison. 1.00

00:28:16.440 We already know, uh, it's happened in England that, uh, a trans woman with still with male genitalia did assault, uh, women in prison when, when, uh, you know, in a woman's prison.

00:28:28.880 And this, we're in, we're in a terrible situation because we have committed to believing, to, to, to, to, to creating laws, um, and to, uh, denying reality on the basis of some people's, uh, psychological affliction.

00:28:44.760 Yeah, I can think of four reasons why, uh, this criminal would want to serve time in a women's prison instead of a men's prison. 1.00

00:28:54.520 Um, the, the first reason, and it's the least important, and it's, uh, and I give it no weight, is because he thinks she's a woman now.

00:29:04.060 That's the reason he is going there.

00:29:07.620 The second reason is that, um, child predators, child molesters, pedophiles often don't do well in a prison.

00:29:17.080 The general population of the prison, even though they're all guilty of some other crime, they have some innate morality.

00:29:24.120 And people who sexually assault children are outside even the moral norms of a prison.

00:29:30.300 So, he might well be attacked in some form of vigilante justice in a men's prison, uh, but less likely in a women's prison.

00:29:39.400 The, the, the third reason is that I've never been inside a women's prison. 1.00

00:29:43.640 I've been inside a men's prison, not as a prisoner, of course.

00:29:46.460 Um, I would imagine that a women's prison, especially in Quebec, especially for a custodial sentence of just a few months, 0.99

00:29:52.680 is not a pleasant place, but certainly less punitive than a men's prison.

00:29:59.640 Uh, we've seen that with, uh, some of these healing lodges and whatnot.

00:30:04.500 Women's prisons are generally more hospitable. 1.00

00:30:06.860 And the fourth and darkest reason that you've alluded to is, if you're a sexual predator, if you're a rapist,

00:30:16.680 and the government says, yes, we'll allow you to be in an institution with hundreds of women who are trapped, 1.00

00:30:23.780 well, what, what, what self-respecting rapist wouldn't say, sign me up?

00:30:30.080 Those are four reasons.

00:30:32.460 Each one of them is awful, but all of them will be satisfied.

00:30:38.500 Yeah, the, the, the real, uh, you know, this child that was assaulted is the victim of this particular, uh, biological man.

00:30:47.660 But in general, the real victims of this entire movement, which has forced, compelled people to redefine words, 0.91

00:30:58.860 uh, for example, the word woman now means a human being with a vagina, or it means a human being with a penis. 0.98

00:31:06.220 I mean, that is basically what has happened to the word woman. 0.98

00:31:08.460 And therefore the word woman has erased the unique biological category that women have fought so hard, you know, to have rights as women.

00:31:19.400 And now they are seeing these rights erased, uh, in order to accommodate a very small percentage of, uh, biological males who have a female vision of themselves.

00:31:33.140 And, uh, so now we're forced to call these trans women, women, uh, and to insist that they actually, you know, air quotes are women.

00:31:43.100 But as a result, that gives them legal rights.

00:31:46.000 And here we have an example of it.

00:31:48.740 Uh, and it puts women at risk. 0.99

00:31:50.460 I understand, you know, as I am not a radical feminist by any means, or I don't even call myself a feminist,

00:31:56.440 but I am totally on the side of those feminists who are screaming bloody murder because their own, uh, category of, of human being is, has been superseded, uh, by the needs or the wishes or the rights of biological men. 0.99

00:32:15.080 Yeah.

00:32:15.460 Who, yeah.

00:32:16.220 You know, I just read a story, uh, I think it was out in Vancouver of some lesbians being kicked out of a LGBT parade because the trans men were upset that these lesbians did not call them women.

00:32:32.640 Imagine that lesbians kicked out of a lesbian parade because some guys said, you say it, say I'm a woman, say it, you have to say it.

00:32:46.480 And they demand that because that's the affirmation they're craving. 0.91

00:32:51.740 You know what's crazy?

00:32:52.800 And I did a monologue on this a few months ago.

00:32:54.740 Um, Corrections Canada now has an official policy promulgated from the Trudeau cabinet that if you are a trans man who is now in a women's prison,

00:33:04.720 you can insist that your strip searches be done by a woman guard. 1.00

00:33:10.640 Did you know that, Barbara?

00:33:12.200 No, I didn't.

00:33:13.400 You can, and because of course in prisons you're searched from time to time for contraband, for weapons, just being taken into the prison,

00:33:20.900 you are subject to an invasive search that's, that's part of security.

00:33:25.800 It's just how it is.

00:33:27.040 And under Corrections Canada's guidelines, a man can insist that that search be done by a woman.

00:33:35.660 Where are the rights of the prison guards, by the way?

00:33:38.860 You could ask that.

00:33:39.820 Um, I think, I think, uh, look, rights often conflict and you have to decide, uh, you know, who, uh, there's such a thing as the rights of the,

00:33:50.760 the majority rights as well as minority rights.

00:33:53.180 This is a very tiny minority we're talking about, but if we had not, look, if we had, if we had insisted that the words,

00:34:00.280 that words mean what they say they mean, then we'd have a category called women and we'd have a category called trans women. 0.99

00:34:06.460 Yeah.

00:34:06.940 They exist, uh, they, but they are a category all their own.

00:34:10.440 Yeah.

00:34:10.660 And that way you could say trans women can have their own units in prisons. 0.94

00:34:14.920 We'll, we'll set up special units for trans women, uh, but trans women, for example, cannot be counselors in a rape crisis center because only women, uh, or, or a rape crisis center. 0.79

00:34:29.000 I'm not saying men don't get raped, but that's, that's another shelter. 1.00

00:34:32.220 That's another kind of shelter, but in rape crisis shelters for women, trans women may not serve as counselors. 1.00

00:34:38.280 There was a case out in BC, uh, pursued by a trans woman who's very insistent, uh, that trans women should have the right to become counselors to real women, uh, after they've been raped.

00:34:52.440 That's just exactly what a rape victim needs is to have a biological male, uh, giving her counsel.

00:34:57.860 So this is, this, these are the kinds of situations we'll see more and more of because our government, uh, was too supine to insist when they put gender expression rights into, into a bill, uh, to, to define, you know, they're, they're not very good on definition.

00:35:16.020 They're very good on, on vague, uh, theories and they like to look good.

00:35:20.460 The optics look good, but gender expression is a weasel word.

00:35:24.260 We don't know what it means and we're finding out that it means bad things as well as good things.

00:35:29.160 Yeah.

00:35:29.360 You know, I'm familiar with that rape crisis shelter in Vancouver. 0.93

00:35:32.080 It's called Vancouver rape relief.

00:35:34.120 And the man in question, a six foot something former pilot demanded access to the actual shelter itself.

00:35:42.560 Um, and this went all the way up to the court of appeal.

00:35:46.080 Let me just take a little tangent there.

00:35:47.340 Cause you reminded me of this horrific story and actual rape victims were forced to take the stand in the, in court.

00:35:54.260 And say, had that big man been waiting there in the rape relief shelter, I would literally have turned around and gone back onto the street rather than take shelter.

00:36:06.040 He was so terrifying to the women and yet he's insisted he had this counterfeit human right to be a male counselor in a rape shelter.

00:36:16.960 And that was more than 10 years ago, by the way, it's, it's even nuttier now, you know, Barbara, we all talk about Orwell and we say Orwellian, but maybe we all need to refresh ourselves.

00:36:27.980 I remember when I read them, I've read the book 1984, probably three times.

00:36:31.140 I should read it again.

00:36:32.040 And the last time I read it, it was clear to me that the, the story was actually about new speak.

00:36:39.480 That's the new invented engineered language that was being, that was replacing English.

00:36:47.480 And one of its great, uh, qualities according to the dictatorship was that it had so few words.

00:36:54.980 Um, it took out so many adjectives and adverbs and so many shades of gray.

00:37:00.040 You just had good and you had un-good.

00:37:03.360 Un-good.

00:37:03.940 And you had...

00:37:04.980 Plus good, yeah.

00:37:05.540 Un-good, plus good, yeah.

00:37:07.060 Yeah, double plus good, double plus un-good.

00:37:09.320 So, and they would say, well, that's a feature.

00:37:12.260 This, this language is so wonderful.

00:37:14.020 It only has a few hundred words.

00:37:15.300 But the effect was you couldn't express things.

00:37:18.880 And there's this one beautiful passage.

00:37:20.740 It's been 15, 10 years since I've read it last.

00:37:23.760 And it was the, they said the Declaration of Independence could not be articulated in new speak.

00:37:31.180 It would just be swallowed up in the word crime think.

00:37:36.180 I'm going from memory here.

00:37:37.500 It's been 10 years.

00:37:38.120 1984 was about authority and tyranny, but it actually, from the very first sentence, you know, the clock struck 13, working in the Ministry of Truth, literally changing old newspapers, revising history by cutting out articles that were no longer convenient and replacing them, and then doing it again.

00:38:01.200 And you can never actually remember what the first one was.

00:38:04.020 That's what 1984 was about.

00:38:05.720 And when you have the Toronto Star actually writing a headline, transgender woman gets 18-month sentence for sexually assaulting daughter, and it's not until you dig in that you realize it was a man who assaulted his own daughter, that is actually what George Orwell warned us about.

00:38:29.300 Yes, indeed.

00:38:30.080 Indeed. No, I, listen, I don't have a problem with the word trans woman, because it identifies to me that this is a biological man who believes he is a woman and desires to live his life presenting as a woman.

00:38:44.580 I have no problem with that, and I have no problem with calling that person she and her.

00:38:50.340 Sure, I have no problem with it at all, but I do have a problem with being compelled to call a trans woman woman. 0.98

00:38:59.280 I am a woman, that person is not, has nothing in common with me, except the belief that he has something in common with me.

00:39:08.380 So, I'm not buying this, and the minute you buy that the word woman can mean either a biological man or a biological woman, the word woman has been erased.

00:39:22.940 The category of women has been erased, and we are subject to the whims and the declared rights of biological men, very few, but very, very aggressive, the activists.

00:39:38.340 I'm not talking about, I happen to know some trans women, delightful people just living their lives. 1.00

00:39:44.340 It's their, and they admit they don't know what their dysphoria is all about, but this is the thing that makes them happy.

00:39:50.300 Fine, live your life, but the activists, some of them are so aggressive and hateful, it seems to me they hate women. 0.99

00:39:57.960 They really hate women. 1.00

00:39:59.640 That's what comes across to me when they say, call me a woman, call me a woman. 0.97

00:40:04.180 That's not, that's not asking for a right.

00:40:06.880 That's bullying, controlling, it's, in fact, it's toxic masculinity is what it is.

00:40:12.600 Yeah, you're so right.

00:40:13.460 It's an interesting observation.

00:40:15.020 Barbara, it's always a pleasure to talk with you.

00:40:16.440 So few Canadians are willing to speak about this publicly because, as you say, the bullying comes down.

00:40:22.740 There is no bullying like transgender bullying. 0.96

00:40:26.600 I mean, it's tough to take on radical Islam. 0.90

00:40:29.200 You get called an Islamophobe.

00:40:30.520 It's tough to take on political correctness.

00:40:32.600 You called a right-wing bigot.

00:40:34.340 But there is nothing as swift and sharp as the establishment slapping back anyone who dares to challenge this new ideology of transgenderism. 0.97

00:40:44.620 Yeah, it's pretty ferocious.

00:40:46.180 I've never seen anything like it.

00:40:47.520 It's pretty ferocious.

00:40:48.560 Yeah.

00:40:48.880 Well, thanks for being brave.

00:40:49.980 It's always a pleasure to have you.

00:40:51.000 Thanks so much.

00:40:52.080 Thanks, Ezra.

00:40:52.800 There you have it, Barbara Kay, a columnist with the National Post and one of the courageous voices on this prickly issue.

00:41:00.360 Stay with us.

00:41:01.180 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:41:02.020 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

00:41:16.800 Keith writes,

00:41:17.380 When this story first broke three or four weeks ago, the UK press and TV were telling it with the full emphasis that this guy was a good guy, nothing more than a journalist.

00:41:25.840 Not one word about his dubious past.

00:41:27.840 Good work, Ezra, for exposing some of the truth.

00:41:30.980 Thanks, Keith.

00:41:31.740 I want to say again, I don't believe in murder.

00:41:36.060 There are some cases I believe in capital punishment, I should say.

00:41:39.020 But that's different than murder.

00:41:40.300 Capital punishment is a trial, a law, an independent judiciary.

00:41:44.620 It's methodical, and it's done very sober-minded.

00:41:46.820 I don't believe in murder.

00:41:49.000 But if we're going to cancel a diplomatic relation with a very momentous and important country, important economically, important geopolitically, important militarily, important as a counterweight to Iran, 0.79

00:42:01.620 it has to be over more than a foreign citizen who is deeply entangled with terrorist groups.

00:42:09.240 It has to be more than that.

00:42:10.560 Otherwise, we would have no diplomatic relations with anyone other than maybe the Swiss. 0.92

00:42:15.020 Tyler writes,

00:42:17.340 Could care less about Khashoggi. 1.00

00:42:20.300 More worried about the $500 million tax dollars that Justin is giving his pet media.

00:42:24.500 Need you more than ever, Ezra.

00:42:25.560 You have my support.

00:42:26.900 Good show, PPC 2019.

00:42:29.380 Thank you very much, Tyler.

00:42:30.540 You know, I think of our staff here at The Rebel, our on-air staff, our behind-the-scenes staff.

00:42:38.500 We've got to make payroll every week.

00:42:40.560 I know how hard it is to be a media tycoon.

00:42:44.220 You know, Canada's largest media tycoon, the Thompson family, they own the Globe and Mail, Thompson Reuters, you've probably heard the name.

00:42:51.080 That's Canada's richest family.

00:42:52.400 They're worth, I don't know, $25 billion.

00:42:54.060 Other media, of course, the government owns the biggest media.

00:43:01.120 But it really is difficult to be a CEO, which I could call myself, of a media company.

00:43:08.260 I know how tough it is.

00:43:11.440 And sometimes you daydream.

00:43:12.620 I wish there was some, you know, miraculous solution.

00:43:17.320 But that's just a daydream.

00:43:18.660 If someone walks in and says, here's a bushel of gold coins for you, that's not real life.

00:43:28.600 If it happens, there is a string attached.

00:43:32.640 And the string attached to the $595 million that Justin Trudeau is shoving in front of the Thompsons, the CTVs, the Globals, Paul Godfrey of Post Media,

00:43:46.980 it's not free money.

00:43:49.740 It comes with the condition that they be loyal and obedient, or to use his word, trustworthy.

00:43:56.940 If someone were to bring in a wheelbarrow of a million or $5 million in here, and I saw it with my eyes, and I rolled around in it for a bit, and I, you know,

00:44:07.780 I admit it would be tempting, because I have to make payroll every two weeks here.

00:44:15.900 But there is no point in being a government journalist.

00:44:21.600 If you have that adjective in front of the word journalist, you are actually not a journalist.

00:44:27.020 And nothing called the rebel can take money from the government.

00:44:36.800 So I have to say, because I know what it is to make payroll every two weeks and to worry about costs,

00:44:44.020 I understand why Paul Godfrey is doing a victory lap.

00:44:48.600 But understand he and I are different.

00:44:50.540 And his job, and he gets paid over a million bucks a year to do it, is to bring home the bacon for his hedge fund bosses.

00:44:58.300 And he does that well.

00:44:59.900 I think my job is to, as honestly and candidly as possible, tell the other side of the story to the political narrative in Canada.

00:45:09.720 Which is why I cannot, even if it would be offered to us, it would never be offered to us.

00:45:15.820 But if it were, we simply could not take the money, because that is our kryptonite.

00:45:26.180 You cannot be a government rebel, is what I'm saying.

00:45:31.740 On my interview with Joel Pollack, Bruce writes,

00:45:34.100 That Airbnb rule reminds me of 1930s Germany.

00:45:39.380 You know, I've made that point myself.

00:45:41.700 1930s Germany didn't start with the Holocaust killing Jews right away.

00:45:46.840 The final solution did not come immediately.

00:45:49.960 There was a denormalization of Jews in advance,

00:45:54.400 softening up the population to accept the theory that Jews are lower than them.

00:45:59.480 The Nuremberg Laws of 1935, ban Jews from certain professions,

00:46:02.980 banned Jews from marrying non-Jews, banned a lot of things.

00:46:06.900 And then there was the boycotts.

00:46:08.800 And in German, my pronunciation is not good.

00:46:11.020 It's Kauf nicht bei Juden.

00:46:13.020 These Nazis would stand outside Jewish-owned stores saying, 0.91

00:46:15.940 Don't buy from the Jews. 1.00

00:46:18.360 So it's less crude and less overt now.

00:46:24.660 But when Airbnb says you can't rent from Jews in Hebron,

00:46:31.900 you can rent from Muslims.

00:46:33.340 I don't think there are any Christians in Hebron. 0.51

00:46:35.700 But you can't rent from Jews. 1.00

00:46:37.160 How can I not think about the Kauf nicht bei Juden signs from Germany in the 30s?

00:46:44.260 I'm sorry.

00:46:44.760 It's just immediately what comes to mind.

00:46:47.480 Well, that's our show for today.

00:46:48.540 Hey, can you go to youcan'tbuyus.com, poke around there, forward it to friends,

00:46:55.080 because we could use some help.

00:46:57.160 Look, we don't take any money from the government, never have, never will, never could.

00:47:00.700 So unfortunately, that means we've got to ask you, and I know you get sick of it.

00:47:04.740 But I've got to tell you, your pocket was picked yesterday for the other media,

00:47:08.900 and you might not even know it because it comes at tax time.

00:47:11.380 You don't have a choice in it.

00:47:12.620 Maybe this is a choice you'd make to help us out.

00:47:14.540 I'd be grateful if you would.

00:47:15.300 That's our show for today.

00:47:18.540 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.

00:47:22.580 And keep fighting the man.

00:47:25.080 Bye-bye.

Rebel News Podcast - November 23, 2018

Trudeau sets up a $595 million slush fund for journalists — but only the ones he “trusts.”

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