Rebel News Podcast - UK： Five years in prison for having a Nazi swastika pillow？ “I’ve seen rapists get less jail time”

00:00:00.000 Tonight is a five-year prison term appropriate for someone who made a pillowcase with a Nazi 0.95

00:00:05.860 swastika on it. I've seen rapists get less jail time. I'll tell you the story. It's December 18th 0.79

00:00:12.640 and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:19.680 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:23.480 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:27.080 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.

00:00:30.560 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. 0.89

00:00:40.880 I think it goes without saying that I don't like Nazis much. I mean, just on a personal level,

00:00:45.480 I'm a Jew and they'd probably want to kill me. They tried to kill off my whole tribe and wiped out 0.94

00:00:50.620 six million of us. But put aside my own ethnicity, Nazis are totalitarian brutes. They were 1.00

00:00:56.860 dictators. They destroyed civil liberties and life for everybody. Anybody would hate them. And of

00:01:03.480 course, they burnt down Europe in the Second World War, killing tens of millions of people.

00:01:08.080 There's a reason why the term Nazi is the word that the left turns to when they want to demonize

00:01:13.240 someone because it is so synonymous with evil even 73 years after the Second World War ended.

00:01:20.120 It really is just another four-letter word that isn't to swear. But I'm of the belief that there

00:01:26.700 really aren't a lot of real Nazis in the world today. Certainly not in Canada, the United States,

00:01:33.660 and the United Kingdom. Three great democracies that united on the beaches of Normandy on June 6,

00:01:39.940 1944 to storm into France to break the Nazi hold on the continent and drive Hitler out from the West

00:01:46.460 while the Red Army under General Zhukov crushed it from the East. There is Nazism in other countries.

00:01:55.160 In particular, Hitler tried to politically colonize the Palestinians to get them to turn against the

00:02:00.860 British and, just as importantly, to join him in his anti-Semitic Holocaust. The Nazis recruited 0.79

00:02:05.960 Muslim supporters in the Middle East and in the Balkans. Here's the Muslim Mufti, that's the

00:02:13.620 Palestinian religious leader, giving the Sikh Heil to Nazis in Europe. Here's a whole division.

00:02:21.060 Here's Muslim SS soldiers reading a Nazi book about Jews and Muslims. And here's a Nazi Muslim 0.96

00:02:28.820 division at prayer. That is a lot of Nazis doing the Muslim prayer. So I'm not here to say that there 0.79

00:02:37.260 are no Nazis left in the world. I'm just saying that in Canada, the United States, and the UK,

00:02:42.160 and I'd add in Australia and New Zealand, there are no genuine organic Nazi movements. There just

00:02:49.560 aren't. Now, there are racist groups, of course, and there are Muslim immigrants who are anti-Semitic 0.97

00:02:57.040 extremists who use Nazi symbology. But I just don't believe that there's a real Nazi menace in the

00:03:04.240 countries that defeated Nazism. In fact, I know this is shocking, but in Canada, this is hard to

00:03:09.940 believe, but it's true. The Canadian Jewish Congress actually helped to set up and fund

00:03:15.920 the Canadian Nazi Party in the 1960s. I know that sounds crazy, but they did. They claimed to

00:03:23.680 infiltrate it, but they just created it. Here's a story about this weirdness in the Jerusalem Post.

00:03:29.100 I actually wrote about it in my book, Shakedown, about a decade ago. Same thing happened in Canada

00:03:33.540 with the Heritage Front in the 1980s. It was white supremacists. It was set up by CSIS, as you know.

00:03:39.440 I mean, you know you're short of Nazis to police when the police become Nazis to set up Nazi groups 0.58

00:03:44.700 for the police to police. I hate Nazis, but that's almost like saying I hate unicorns. They're so rare 0.96

00:03:50.780 in real life, at least in Canada and the Five Eyes countries I've mentioned. If someone claims to be a

00:03:55.420 Nazi, unless they're a 90-year-old German who sneaked into the country after the war, or unless they are 0.83

00:04:01.700 Muslim extremists, too, just using the Nazi iconography, it's probably either a police informant 0.84

00:04:08.440 or what's sometimes called LARPers, live-action role-playing, like furries, I think. People just

00:04:16.420 doing it to be shocking or dramatic. They're not planning to invade Poland, people. Usually they're 0.98

00:04:22.300 losers, powerless people who know the power of the Nazi symbols and know that it offends and gets 0.98

00:04:27.540 attention. So they use it like they would use the F word. It's powerful. It's shocking. So you use 0.99

00:04:31.900 the word Nazi to hurt feelings and to have people pay attention to you. Charles Manson wanted a symbol

00:04:37.680 of evil. He had a swastika tattoo. I don't think he was actually a national socialist in a meaningful

00:04:42.580 way. He just knew it was the ultimate symbol of evil. If we were in a more religious society,

00:04:48.700 he might have reached for something satanic. But we're in a post-religious society in the main, 0.92

00:04:54.140 so reaching for Hitler is the new Satanism. I remember when I was a Jewish kid, I was in grade

00:05:00.100 three or four, and I saw for the first time in my life another kid, non-Jewish, of course, doodling 1.00

00:05:08.100 a swastika, vandalizing a desk. I was shocked. I mean, I knew what it meant. Was he a nine-year-old

00:05:19.780 Nazi? I think I almost cried. Or I was scared or surprised, really. But the boy who did it, 0.95

00:05:27.720 and I still remember his name, but I won't say it now because he was just nine, and he didn't know

00:05:32.260 what he was doing back then. I asked him what it was, and he didn't know. He was scrawling a swastika

00:05:42.700 on the desk. He didn't know what it meant. He just knew that the teachers hated it. He wasn't a

00:05:49.380 Nazi, folks. If you find a real Nazi, let's get him. I'm with you. But 99.9% of the time, it's fake.

00:05:58.560 It's a distraction from real problems, especially real anti-Semitism. There is no SS anymore trying

00:06:04.280 to round up Jews and kill them. There is no Wehrmacht sending panzer tanks in a blitzkrieg 0.99

00:06:09.560 through the world anymore. Ethnic Germans aren't burning down synagogues in a new Kristallnacht

00:06:14.580 or boycotting Jewish stores anymore. Those things are all still being done, by the way,

00:06:21.560 but usually by Muslim anti-Semites or their allies, coalition allies in the West. Sorry to be blunt

00:06:29.240 about it. That's who it is. There are murders being planned and committed. ISIS, Al-Qaeda, they attack

00:06:34.920 Jews when they can. They attack any infidels, really, but they really hate Jews. The only armies 1.00

00:06:40.280 that are threatening Jews with tanks are really places like Iran. Paradoxically, a country that 0.76

00:06:45.800 denies that the first Holocaust even happened, but threatens to do a second Holocaust. And all of this 0.84

00:06:52.360 is my way of saying, oh, believe me, I'm on guard for Nazis. But when the British intelligence services

00:06:57.140 say there are 23,000 Muslim jihadi suspects in the United Kingdom, 3,000 of whom are so dangerous 1.00

00:07:04.220 they need to be monitored around the clock, I'm not too worried about the kids who spray paint a 0.68

00:07:09.460 swastika in an alley and then run away. I'm more worried about another 9-11 or some bomb on a double 1.00

00:07:16.160 decker bus or just someone taking a truck and ramming people on the road, as is the new ISIS play. 0.94

00:07:22.080 And anyone who says stop, no, no, no, stop and look at this fake Nazi, I immediately think 0.68

00:07:27.580 this had better be good or else I think you're just trying to misdirect and confuse and avoid the

00:07:33.080 real elephant in the room. In other words, it's easy to fight fake Nazis today who were a real threat

00:07:40.180 75 years ago rather than fight the real threat today. It's easy to be a brave person tackling a

00:07:46.220 problem that isn't real anymore. Which brings me to this news item I saw this morning. It's a tweet

00:07:52.700 from the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom. I follow them because they hunt Tommy

00:07:57.840 Robinson and I want to see what they're up to. Let me read the tweet. Six people, including a couple

00:08:04.520 who were active members of a banned neo-Nazi group that glorified Hitler in the Third Reich have been

00:08:11.060 jailed today. And then it says photo, Adam Thomas posing with a machete and cushions found in the

00:08:19.460 home he shared with Claudia Patatas. I caught my eye. You don't often see those words in a press

00:08:26.540 release. Third Reich, you know, Nazis. I'm pretty tuned into political shenanigans in the UK. I've

00:08:31.920 been following it pretty closely the past two years, especially as I've gotten to know Tommy Robinson and

00:08:36.140 the problems in that country. And I've never heard of Hitler problems in the UK. I mean, that's the 0.90

00:08:41.260 land of Churchill. That's the land of Battle of Britain. It is also these days the land of Muslim 1.00

00:08:46.600 terrorism and, not to be ethnic about it, lots of acid attacks and knife crime. London is now more 0.97

00:08:53.660 dangerous than New York City. I had not heard of Nazi crime, though. But even in that tweet I showed you, 0.86

00:09:01.200 there's a hint. They glorified Hitler and the Third Reich. So the crime was that they glorified 0.87

00:09:11.060 things. So they didn't stab anyone or throw acid in anyone's face or blow anything up. They were just

00:09:16.340 saying something inglorious was glorious. So they're saying the wrong things about a bad thing. They're

00:09:22.000 saying a bad thing was a good thing. Now, I believe that there should be a crime that prohibits

00:09:29.640 supporting terrorist groups or even supporting gangs like biker gangs or the mafia organized crime. I 0.62

00:09:36.080 think it should be illegal to recruit terrorists, to fund terrorists, to help terrorists. And I'm

00:09:42.740 pretty open to criminalizing terrorist propaganda. But even there, we've got to be careful that we

00:09:46.580 don't just make opinions themselves tantamount to crimes, right? But there's no Nazi terrorist group.

00:09:53.600 There's no Nazi menace in the United Kingdom. These people who were sentenced, they were not building

00:09:59.620 bombs or V-2 rockets or panzer tanks. They were just, as you saw, glorifying things. I mean,

00:10:08.740 look at that image on the tweet. This is, they tweeted, the lady who was convicted, Claudia Patatas.

00:10:14.740 I think that means Claudia Potato, which is a bad name for a Nazi, I think. Her crime, I guess, 0.72

00:10:22.620 was having really, really tacky, ugly, creepy throw pillows. I love how the police have those

00:10:28.820 measuring rulers there, just so the court knows exactly how big were the offending officer,

00:10:33.100 objects officer. Well, it was exactly 3.2 inches, but like they were measuring a crime scene,

00:10:39.540 like, you know, they draw chalk around a dead body and take photos where all the bullet casings are.

00:10:43.620 Just how many inches were the swastika through the pillows, Miss Potato? Now, I'm making some jokes 0.84

00:10:51.640 here, but these folks got years in prison. Let me read a bit from the press release. So I clicked

00:10:56.640 on the link in the tweet and brought me to the press release. Six people, including a couple,

00:11:01.340 have been jailed today for being members of National Action, a proscribed group that glorifies Hitler in

00:11:06.520 the Third Reich. Okay, so maybe it's not just that they glorified Nazis, but they were in a club.

00:11:13.380 They were like in a group. And to be fair, one of them did have a manual on his laptop. Let me read

00:11:21.820 more from the press release. Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Potatoes, 38, from Banbury, were found guilty

00:11:29.920 along with Daniel Buganovic, 27, on 12 November, following a four-week trial. Can I see the

00:11:38.080 cushions again, Your Honor? You've seen it seven times already, ma'am. I just want to see the

00:11:43.520 cushions again. You know this, we've been at this for four weeks. Yeah, a four-week trial at Birmingham

00:11:49.060 Crown Court. Thomas was also found guilty of having a terrorist manual on his laptop that gave advice

00:11:54.660 on homemade explosives, including a soft drink can bomb. Now, I was joking around there a little bit.

00:12:01.320 I shouldn't be joking. But from what I can see, there was no evidence that they were actually going

00:12:05.420 to make a soda drink can bomb, or had done so, or had done anything else violent. They had this

00:12:11.780 document on their laptop. But I'll admit that is a little more than just glorifying Nazis. But I remind

00:12:19.660 you that in a single year, 55,000 Muslims in the United Kingdom downloaded Al-Qaeda's magazine

00:12:27.640 called Inspire, which has all sorts of terrorist plans in it. If merely possessing something you

00:12:34.460 downloaded from the internet that talks about how to kill people as a crime, and maybe it should be a

00:12:39.240 crime. I'm not quite sure. But I think there ought to be some indication of intent to do the crime,

00:12:44.800 or a past track record of doing it. If I downloaded Inspire magazine, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be

00:12:51.340 committing a crime. Well, 55,000 Muslims downloaded in one year. That's 55,000 jihadis now, if that's 0.84

00:12:59.120 our definition, not just the 23,000 they're tracking, which I think is why they went after the Nazis here. 0.60

00:13:05.380 There's just a handful of them. And from what I can tell, they hadn't actually done anything violent.

00:13:09.500 No riots, either from them or in support of them when they were picked up. Let me read some more. I

00:13:14.960 don't want you to think that I'm hiding some devastating fact from you. Here's some more of

00:13:18.680 what the CPS emphasized. They said, images were also found on Potato's laptop of Adam Thomas in

00:13:26.740 Ku Klux Klan robes holding a machete taken at their home in Banbury. She also had a photo on her mobile

00:13:34.420 of Thomas Fletcher and others giving a Nazi salute under a crucifix outside Liverpool Metropolitan

00:13:41.160 Cathedral. Well, that's just bad taste. I mean, come on. Like I say, it's a bit of role-playing,

00:13:47.020 live-action role-playing, a bit of dress-up. It's creepy, and it's gross, and they sound like

00:13:52.960 weirdos. But it doesn't even make sense outside the KKK. That's an American thing. The KKK was 0.63

00:13:59.560 a Southern Democratic Party reaction to losing the Civil War. It wasn't a Nazi thing either. It

00:14:08.140 was a Southern Democrat thing. And by the way, plenty of Ku Klux Klan members fought against

00:14:14.620 the Nazis. I'm not pro-KKK. I'm not pro-Nazi. I'm just saying that these folks in Banbury were

00:14:24.840 surely racist, and they have bad taste, and they got to get their story straight because

00:14:29.940 the Klan hated the Nazis. I mean, most of them did. They fought against them. I'm not

00:14:35.800 for the KKK. I'm not for the Nazis. I think they're both bad. But since when is glorifying

00:14:40.140 racism and having a photo of dressing up in a Klan outfit, when's that a crime? Even wearing 0.75

00:14:47.240 a Klan outfit is not a crime. Maybe a crime against fashion, a crime against taste, a crime 0.77

00:14:52.220 against politeness. But is that a crime? Let me read some more. These members continued

00:14:58.400 to believe in its racist neo-Nazi worldview, remained in contact on encrypted messaging

00:15:04.320 apps and organized meetings to keep the group going. They still believe in it, and we're

00:15:12.080 going to prosecute until they stop believing. You know what, folks? I don't think they have

00:15:16.140 actually stopped believing in their racist worldview. I don't think putting them in prison

00:15:20.120 for five years each will likely change that either. If anything, it will confirm for them

00:15:24.640 that the thing is rigged against them by Jews, blacks, I don't know. I think that, by the way, 0.98

00:15:31.020 these people will probably be killed in prison, from what I have learned about British prisons. 0.96

00:15:36.100 At least they're put in the majority of British prisons that seem to be controlled by Muslim gangs. 1.00

00:15:42.460 And who knows, maybe that is the desired outcome of the justice system here. But let me read you

00:15:48.260 the sentences that these people received. Adam Thomas, total of six years and six months.

00:15:55.980 Claudia Potato, five years or two and a half years each per throw cushion. 1.00

00:16:02.640 Daniel Buganovic, six years and four months. Darren Fletcher, total of five years, which includes

00:16:08.200 20 months for breaching a criminal antisocial behavior order. Good Lord, I wonder what that is.

00:16:14.160 Nathan Pryke, five years and five months. Joel Wilmore, total of five years and 10 months.

00:16:19.840 So none of them in jail for less than five years. That's what Mrs. Potato got. 0.93

00:16:27.160 Five years for some bad costumes and those really ugly throw cushions and the wrong worldview and being

00:16:34.440 part of a secret club that was so super secret. And one of them had a manual on his laptop that had

00:16:42.820 instructions for how to make a bomb and a pop can. Hey, remember that massive Muslim rape gang that 1.00

00:16:49.640 Tommy Robinson was put in jail for reporting about? They were all convicted in the end. They raped 15 0.99

00:16:56.120 different girls. Let me correct that. That's actually how many they were convicted of raping. 1.00

00:17:02.380 The actual number of girls they raped was surely much, much higher, maybe 10 times higher. These are

00:17:07.760 just the 15 that they had evidence for. These girls were girls. When I say girl, I don't mean young

00:17:12.440 woman. These were children as young as 11. They were raping children as young as 11. And please 1.00

00:17:19.900 understand, they didn't just rape these girls once. They raped them cumulatively, thousands of times 0.99

00:17:29.180 over years. They turned them into rape slaves. One girl set her own house on fire so her family would 1.00

00:17:38.000 have to move away. One girl literally jumped off a balcony to hit her head on the pavement to 1.00

00:17:43.840 hospitalize herself so she wouldn't have to be raped anymore every week. That's how brutal these men

00:17:50.380 were. I would call them Nazi-like in their evil. And some of these men in the Huddersville rape gang

00:17:57.680 that Tommy was jailed for reporting about that day in Leeds, some of them got a sentence of 15 years or so,

00:18:03.400 but some of them got just eight years. Here's one. Irfan Ahmed, 34 years old, of Hughes Hill Road,

00:18:10.660 Huddersfield, guilty of one count of sexual assault and two counts of trafficking for sexual

00:18:14.480 exploitation. Sentenced to eight years. Mansour Akhtar, 27, of Blackmoor Foot Road, Huddersfield,

00:18:21.860 guilty of two counts of rape and two counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Sentenced to

00:18:25.540 eight years. I say it again, these men didn't rape these girls once. They raped them week after week

00:18:32.340 after week. These were girls. These were as young as 11. So glorify Nazism, get out in six years of 1.00

00:18:40.500 prison. Rape children for years, eight years in prison. And that's rape. What about merely supporting 0.99

00:18:51.400 terrorism? Glorifying it, to use the word. Look at these. Look at these. What about political crimes like

00:18:58.720 calling for death to infidels? Calling for death to those who would defy Islam? I don't know if that's 0.97

00:19:03.300 a crime, but the UK thinks it's a crime to have some ugly throw cushions. Well, look, if the UK is not

00:19:10.380 going to arrest 23,000 jihadi suspects, if it's not going to arrest 55,000 British Muslims who downloaded 0.85

00:19:18.340 an al-Qaeda manual, surely it's not going to go after the hundreds of thousands or even millions of

00:19:23.320 British Muslims who believe democracy should be replaced by Sharia law. Yeah, I don't think Mrs. 1.00

00:19:29.240 Potato is a nice person. I don't like her or her Nazi glorifier friends and their dress-up parties.

00:19:36.900 But to be honest, every minute and every dollar that the UK spends going after them

00:19:40.740 is a minute and a dollar they're not spending going after the real Nazis of today. I am not a Nazi,

00:19:48.020 even though liberals often call conservatives Nazis. If real Nazis were a threat, I would be all about 0.99

00:19:54.260 fighting them. But today's Nazis fly a different flag, the flag of Muslim extremism. And the press 0.99

00:20:01.600 and the politicians and the police and the prosecutors and the professors, the 5P professionals,

00:20:07.740 they couldn't care less. Stay with us for more. 0.90

00:20:18.020 Thank you so much for joining us, Mr. Pipe lines have always been controversial. It is very unfortunate that Canadians are polarized on on such vital piece of infrastructure that is so necessary for us to grow our economy and create jobs.

00:20:48.000 Unfortunately, the changes that previous government made in 2012, gutting the environmental protection of water,

00:20:58.000 environmental protection of fish and excluding Canadians from participation in the in the review, limiting the participation of indigenous communities in the process and not taking action on climate change has further polarized the opposition to the

00:21:17.980 pipeline.

00:21:19.980 That is called victim blaming. That's Amarjeet Sohi, the energy minister, blaming everyone, including the inanimate objects of pipelines for being so controversial. Pipelines are not controversial. In fact, you could say they go back to Roman aqueducts. And before then, pipelines are about the least controversial thing in the world. Even to this day, pipelines retain a majority or plurality of support in every province.

00:21:45.980 In every province, if you append the proviso that they be done in an environmentally safe manner. But the arrogance of that liberal today, blaming everyone, but his own activist party, which campaigned against pipelines, is quite astounding. And it's no surprise, as I showed you yesterday, that Angus Reid shows that Amarjeet Sohi is the most detested cabinet minister in the entire Trudeau cabinet.

00:22:13.980 With a negative 36 rating. Joining us now from Edmonton to talk about Amarjeet Sohi and his announcement of $1.6 billion in corporate welfare is our friend, Lorne Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun. Lorne, great to see you again.

00:22:32.140 Good to see you.

00:22:32.800 I find it frustrating when liberals say that pipelines are controversial or when Rachel Notley says the oil industry has a bad reputation. No, it doesn't. Most people don't even think about those things. And the only people who would say those are partisan activists.

00:22:47.420 They're no more controversial than highways or, you know, any other infrastructure. It's only this activist set that defames it as controversial and then offers up their solution, which is carbon taxes. No one thinks the pipeline's controversial other than activists.

00:23:03.160 I mean, if you if you if you only hang out with people, as you call the activist set, then you get to say, well, everybody thinks that because everybody, you know, thinks that.

00:23:15.940 But they don't get out very much in the liberal government or the NDP government in the province.

00:23:21.340 They they surround themselves with other like minded individuals.

00:23:25.120 They they have they live lives in echo chambers.

00:23:29.600 And so it doesn't seem wrong for them to say, as so he did today, that pipelines are controversial.

00:23:35.980 Well, pipelines weren't really all that controversial until the liberals came along in 2015 and decided to take advantage of that in the election and and really play up the schism and say, oh, you know, the Harper government has done everything it can to railroad pipelines through.

00:23:54.640 I forgive the mixed metaphors, but everything they can to ram pipelines through.

00:24:00.800 And I think it's hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.

00:24:04.400 These people have been in government more than three years now, and they still blame Harper for the fact that there is no pipeline.

00:24:12.820 Maybe they believe that or maybe they think we'll believe that. 0.98

00:24:16.120 But either way, somebody's dumb in this equation. 0.99

00:24:18.260 Yeah. Well, the thing is, the Northern Gateway pipeline was approved by the National Energy Board under Harper's term and Trudeau positively canceled it. 0.87

00:24:30.500 The Energy East pipeline was en route to be approved.

00:24:35.100 And then Trudeau changed the rules, which made it impossible to continue.

00:24:39.800 These, I should say that so these things did not just happen on their own, they were pushed.

00:24:49.960 And there's that famous video, I'll just play a quick clip of it now, of Gerald Butts, just before he left to work for Justin Trudeau,

00:24:59.740 saying in regards to the Northern Gateway pipeline, he wasn't for or against this route or that route.

00:25:07.780 He didn't even really care about the route.

00:25:10.480 He was against energy and fossil fuels altogether.

00:25:13.760 Here's that quick clip.

00:25:15.000 We think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place.

00:25:23.440 So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route for a pipeline,

00:25:29.500 because the real alternative is not an alternative route.

00:25:34.080 It's an alternative economy.

00:25:35.320 So, Lorne, to pretend that these folks were not the problem is a kind of revisionist history.

00:25:43.220 Here's a question for you.

00:25:44.140 You're in the heart of the oil patch in Edmonton.

00:25:46.460 Does anyone buy it?

00:25:49.940 What's the $1.6 billion buyout?

00:25:51.920 Does anyone buy that the Liberals are not to blame here, that the NDP are not to blame?

00:25:55.880 Oh, and, you know, so we're losing, if you look at stats can numbers, we're losing in Canada about $40 billion a year in direct investment in the energy sector.

00:26:07.640 That's every year, $40 billion.

00:26:10.100 That's because of, initially, yes, sure, world oil price collapse had a big part to play in that in 2015 into 2016.

00:26:19.840 Since then, though, the last two years, that's all been because of the social license and the green agenda of the federal Liberals and the Alberta NDP.

00:26:31.400 And so, we're losing $40 billion a year, and up pops Amarjeet Sohi and Jim Carr at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton today.

00:26:42.620 And they say, here's $1.6 billion.

00:26:45.220 We're going to spread it across the entire country.

00:26:47.480 Any oil company anywhere in Canada can try and get in on this money.

00:26:51.920 We're going to retrain workers.

00:26:53.280 Well, why would you need to retrain people unless you think they're never going to get a job again in the oil sector?

00:26:58.940 If your ultimate goal is to shut in all oil, or certainly all oil sands oil in Canada, I think that's where they're at.

00:27:09.260 They're here long before they expect it to be, far earlier in the process than they expect it to be.

00:27:14.820 But now that it's here, maybe they're taking advantage of it.

00:27:17.840 Or one of the other things that I proposed in a column that's just gone online,

00:27:22.220 maybe they're having to put $1.6 billion into Alberta because they intend to revive the GM plant in Oshawa,

00:27:29.940 and they realize you can't pump money into that unless they pump money into the energy sector first.

00:27:34.480 Or maybe they're trying to overcome the bit of a controversy that they set off a couple weeks ago

00:27:40.600 when they announced that they're going to give Quebec an extra $1.4 billion in equalization payments,

00:27:48.000 which Quebec doesn't need.

00:27:50.220 And so maybe all of these things together are wrapped into this.

00:27:54.860 Or maybe they think that voters in southern Ontario, in Quebec, in BC, in Ottawa,

00:28:02.320 are starting to worry a little bit about the economy.

00:28:04.740 And while they know $1.6 billion will have no impact in Alberta,

00:28:08.280 it's not going to save anybody from going bankrupt.

00:28:10.820 It's not going to put anybody back to work.

00:28:12.800 Maybe they think that they can assuage voters in Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver

00:28:18.740 that they're doing something about the economy by throwing useless money at Alberta.

00:28:24.780 It's an insult, though, to Alberta. 0.95

00:28:26.860 Are we really that dumb to think that what's missing between a prosperous energy sector 0.86

00:28:33.120 and where we're at now is $1.6 billion taxpayer dollars from Ottawa? 0.94

00:28:37.760 And it's an insult.

00:28:39.700 Yeah.

00:28:40.120 You raise a good point about retraining.

00:28:42.120 I mean, the leftists have always said, shut down the oil sands, phase out the oil sands.

00:28:47.020 Oh, and maybe teach these 50-year-old oil men how to code.

00:28:51.120 And it's like what they would say to coal workers in West Virginia.

00:28:55.780 Another quick clip here.

00:28:57.560 Here's Justin Trudeau, just quite recently,

00:29:00.780 saying that his goal is to phase out the entire industry.

00:29:06.480 Here, take a look at that.

00:29:07.540 I've said time and time again, and you're all tired of hearing me say it,

00:29:11.320 you can't make a choice between what's good for the environment and what's good for the economy.

00:29:15.600 We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow.

00:29:19.700 We need to phase them out.

00:29:22.280 Lauren, that's really what's going on here.

00:29:24.000 The problem is not a lack of money.

00:29:25.280 The oil industry is one of the best financed industries in the entire world.

00:29:30.020 Literally trillions of dollars.

00:29:31.720 Money can't move fast enough into new oil-producing regions in the States, for example.

00:29:37.300 North Dakota is setting new records.

00:29:39.360 Texas is setting new records.

00:29:41.860 The oil patch never asks for money.

00:29:44.680 Enbridge pipelines, Kinder Morgan pipelines, Trans-Canada pipelines,

00:29:51.280 they weren't short of money.

00:29:53.160 They had all the money.

00:29:54.480 They just needed the government to stop blocking them.

00:29:57.480 And a fraction of a fraction of government money doesn't solve the actual problem,

00:30:01.500 which is they're not allowed to build.

00:30:03.540 And that's exactly what's going on here.

00:30:05.860 So you have to assume that the liberals announced this $1.6 billion today

00:30:10.720 for political purposes, not for economic purposes.

00:30:13.820 There's no way.

00:30:15.000 I mean, what the oil patch wants, that's different from a lot of other businesses

00:30:19.920 who were happy to be bailed out.

00:30:21.740 What the oil patch wants is simply for government to get out of its way.

00:30:26.220 It would be nice if the federal government used its constitutional might

00:30:31.140 to help Trans Mountain get built.

00:30:34.520 It has control over interprovincial trade, so it could exercise some authority.

00:30:40.860 In fact, last April, when Justin Trudeau met in his office on Parliament Hill

00:30:45.380 with John Horgan, the B.C. Premier, and Rachel Notley, the Alberta Premier,

00:30:50.580 he said, I will have Parliament pass a bill this spring.

00:30:54.580 So before June of 2018, he was going to have Parliament pass a bill

00:30:59.780 asserting Ottawa's constitutional authority over the pipeline.

00:31:03.560 Now, that's not going to prevent its opponents from taking the matter to court.

00:31:08.560 It's not going to be a magic wand that suddenly gets all the bulldozers

00:31:13.260 and the pipe layers out and moving.

00:31:16.840 But it is something that sends a signal to opponents, to courts, to investors,

00:31:23.200 that Ottawa is serious about this.

00:31:24.780 The absence of that kind of motion in Parliament sends a very opposite signal.

00:31:30.500 And so, you know, there you have Trudeau saying that, you know,

00:31:33.940 he wants to phase out oil and not following through on the constitutional side

00:31:39.200 with Trans Mountain.

00:31:40.320 So what are people supposed to, you know, you say, oh, well, let's,

00:31:43.340 please give us $7 billion to build a pipeline.

00:31:46.920 What do you think people are going to say?

00:31:48.480 Well, you've got a prime minister that's probably going to stand in the way of that.

00:31:51.880 No, we're not going to give you $7 billion.

00:31:54.060 So not only is it North Dakota and Utah and New Mexico and Colorado and Oklahoma

00:31:58.520 and Texas and the United States that are going ahead with oil,

00:32:01.580 but it's all sorts of countries around the world.

00:32:03.920 The latest estimate that I saw is about two months old.

00:32:06.860 There would be $300 billion worth of investment in oil and gas around the world

00:32:13.840 in the next three years.

00:32:16.040 And that's better than it's been now for about five years, $300 billion over three years.

00:32:22.680 And almost none of that was going to come to Canada.

00:32:26.320 We are going to be below our average, our normal historical average for investment.

00:32:31.900 And that's all because of politics, not because there isn't oil there,

00:32:36.660 not because the geology is wrong, not because we don't have a skilled workforce.

00:32:40.940 It's all because of politics.

00:32:43.860 Yeah. Now, I've got a question for you.

00:32:45.980 And you and I have talked about these things before.

00:32:47.960 We've talked about how the liberal government has been colonized by anti-oil lobbyists.

00:32:53.780 I showed you Gerald Butts.

00:32:55.120 That's the principal secretary to Trudeau.

00:32:57.120 The chief of staff to the environment minister used to be the head of the anti-oil lobby group called PEMBDA.

00:33:02.800 The chief of staff to the energy minister, the chief of staff to various personnel within the government.

00:33:09.740 They were leading anti-oil lobbyists.

00:33:12.360 So that's not a surprise.

00:33:14.800 I want to ask you about the Alberta reaction, because in the last few days, we've seen huge rallies in Alberta,

00:33:22.160 the likes of which I don't think have been seen in Alberta since the early 1980s.

00:33:28.300 This is imagery on the screen right now from Calgary.

00:33:32.040 Police estimate that just under 3,000 people were there in Calgary.

00:33:36.920 It's pretty impressive for Calgary, a city that's not a professional protest city.

00:33:41.160 I saw estimates of between 1,500 and 2,000 people in Grand Prairie.

00:33:47.080 That's a city of just 65,000 people.

00:33:49.420 That's right.

00:33:50.500 Proportionately, that's as large as the great 100,000-person unity rally in Montreal on the eve of Quebec referendum.

00:33:58.740 There's an anger there.

00:34:01.400 Can I show you a quick clip?

00:34:02.480 This is when Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who's always been a bit of a lefty, he tried to speak in French.

00:34:08.600 He tried to speak in French to the rally.

00:34:11.780 And I think that bugged people because Quebec has just said,

00:34:14.820 we want more equalization and we don't want your pipeline.

00:34:18.680 Take a quick look at this.

00:34:21.120 I've been asked by the organizers, because it's important that this message carry across the whole country.

00:34:26.420 So, I've been asked by the organizers to say a few words in French.

00:34:30.040 So, I will do that now.

00:34:31.500 Should I be able to know what I'll say?

00:34:34.820 Let me give you a little bit of advice.

00:34:36.940 If you want someone to listen to you, you have to speak their language. 1.00

00:34:45.180 You know what?

00:34:45.920 That wasn't just a little bit of booing. 0.99

00:34:47.660 Everyone was booing.

00:34:48.640 I don't think people there don't like the French language.

00:34:51.520 I don't think it's because most people there couldn't understand the French language.

00:34:54.180 And I actually understand Nenshi's point.

00:34:57.260 You know, let's send a message to Quebec. 0.93

00:34:58.980 But that just shows that people are worn out.

00:35:02.480 Their patience is gone.

00:35:04.120 And it was so fresh that Quebec was getting more equalization cash and was adamant on the pipeline.

00:35:10.280 And Trudeau just gave Quebec another de facto veto.

00:35:12.980 That's the anger there.

00:35:14.120 And Nenshi obviously is not in tune with his own people.

00:35:17.200 Yeah.

00:35:17.380 No, that's exactly right.

00:35:18.120 And it's kind of too bad that they didn't let Nenshi give his message in French, because I think he did have a good intention.

00:35:26.660 And I don't like Nenshi.

00:35:28.740 I'm not making apologies or excuses for Nenshi. 1.00

00:35:32.980 It's too bad that the crowd didn't let him do that.

00:35:35.080 But I fully understand where they're coming from, how they feel.

00:35:40.280 You have had Francois Legault, the new premier of Quebec, say that it's socially unacceptable in Quebec to have a pipeline.

00:35:47.700 And that it's full of dirty energy from Alberta.

00:35:51.540 Dirty energy from Alberta.

00:35:53.940 You know, and interestingly, since 2015, when the Line 9 reversal was finished, and instead of bringing oil from the east to the west, Line 9 now takes oil.

00:36:05.320 9B takes oil from the west to the east.

00:36:08.100 Quebec now gets 53% of its oil from Alberta.

00:36:10.740 So they're using lots of our oil, and they're buying SUVs at a faster pace than any other province in the country, because they suddenly have some money, and they're doing what everybody else does.

00:36:23.320 They're buying a bigger vehicle.

00:36:24.380 They're buying bigger houses.

00:36:25.760 They're using more of that energy to heat.

00:36:28.280 They use more oil to heat than anywhere else in the country. 0.94

00:36:33.460 And so it's hypocritical.

00:36:36.220 And I understand why people are frustrated, because in Quebec, this is seen the way most people see their groceries.

00:36:43.100 It's just food that shows up in the store.

00:36:44.800 They have no thought.

00:36:45.720 They give no thought to the animals or the ranchers or the farmers and the produce and all of the equipment and everything goes into producing the food.

00:36:53.720 They just want the food in the grocery store. 0.99

00:36:55.560 And so people in Quebec have the same impression of energy.

00:36:59.060 They don't care where it comes from.

00:37:00.500 They just want to know when they go to the gas pumps, there's gas there.

00:37:03.020 When they flip the switch, there's light there.

00:37:05.040 When they turn on the furnace, there's heat there. 0.96

00:37:08.520 And so they get to be hypocritical.

00:37:10.740 They get to be idealistic about, you know, oh, we don't want dirty oil. 0.96

00:37:14.580 Oh, my goodness.

00:37:15.280 No.

00:37:16.160 While they're taking all sorts of oil from Saudi Arabia and the United States and everywhere else.

00:37:20.340 So it's very frustrating.

00:37:23.480 And I understand, then, why the crowd was booing.

00:37:25.360 You know, I want to show you one more clip from that Calgary rally because there's a cantankerousness and almost 3,000 people.

00:37:33.360 That is a large crowd.

00:37:34.500 I remember when we had an anti-carbon tax rally two years ago in Edmonton and some unemployed oil man started chanting, lock her up.

00:37:41.900 And it was obviously a repetition of the Hillary Clinton lock her up because this was just a month after Trump had won.

00:37:48.500 It was in the air.

00:37:49.040 It was obviously a joke.

00:37:50.620 It was a blowing off steam job.

00:37:51.980 They didn't want to actually lock the premier up in handcuffs.

00:37:54.700 It was a humorous banter.

00:37:59.280 But, oh, my God, how dare you?

00:38:01.040 Well, Calgary, when one of their own aldermen was trying to say, come on, guys, let's buy Quebec cheese.

00:38:08.180 I know it sounds funny, but take a look at this for a second.

00:38:11.600 This is not a time to be talking about boycotts or trade embargoes.

00:38:15.760 We want to encourage trade, not restrict it.

00:38:18.620 We should be talking about supporting Ontario.

00:38:22.540 Wow.

00:38:23.380 Really?

00:38:24.700 And you guys call yourselves Canadians?

00:38:27.500 Wow.

00:38:28.980 No, no, no!

00:38:32.740 So he's pitching buying Quebec cheese.

00:38:38.260 They don't like that.

00:38:40.220 And then he disparages that.

00:38:42.680 You call yourself...

00:38:43.440 So between Nenshi, being curious that they didn't want to hear French, and that guy, I think his name is Paul DeMong or Peter DeMong, I forget.

00:38:50.900 You don't want Quebec cheese and you call yourselves Canadian? 0.51

00:38:54.120 He's speaking to his own electorate there, Lorne.

00:38:57.120 Exactly.

00:38:57.960 And what about the people in Quebec who don't want our oil?

00:39:01.140 Yeah.

00:39:01.440 Does he go down to Montreal and say, oh, you call yourselves Canadians for not wanting Albert oil?

00:39:06.960 No, he doesn't do that.

00:39:07.980 So this is the mentality we get into every time this sort of thing comes up, and that is you have these progressive elites from the West and from Central Canada who disparage anyone who doesn't accept their view of what's tolerant and what's acceptable.

00:39:24.060 And so there's no reason that people in Quebec or in Calgary need to buy a lot of Quebec cheese.

00:39:31.660 I don't want a boycott of Quebec merchandise because I don't think that the entrepreneurs in Quebec are the ones who are driving the anti-oil mentality.

00:39:43.160 And so they shouldn't be the ones necessarily who need to be punished.

00:39:46.140 But what you see here is a version of social license.

00:39:51.120 Well, let's be really nice to Quebec, and in turn, I'm sure they'll turn around and be really nice to us.

00:39:56.940 No, they're not going to change their minds.

00:39:59.560 And they are given all sorts of – you want to talk about license?

00:40:02.380 They're given all sorts of license by the federal government and by their own provincial government and by politicians like those two in Calgary.

00:40:10.520 They're given all sorts of license to be sneering and snotty about Alberta oil because we rush to appease them every time it happens.

00:40:19.040 So, no, I fully understand why the crowd was as frustrated as they were in Calgary.

00:40:24.180 The other one, though, and you mentioned it briefly, is the one in Grand Prairie and how large it was relative to the size of the town.

00:40:30.800 The other thing that happened right after that rally broke up was they had a caravan of oil service vehicles, mostly large trucks, that drove through town.

00:40:42.600 It took 90 minutes for it to process through, and the police estimate there were 600 vehicles there.

00:40:48.940 I mean, that's the depth of the frustration.

00:40:52.420 That's the depth of the discouragement that there is, but at the same time, too, the depth of the passion people have for the energy.

00:41:00.800 Yeah.

00:41:01.760 Those trucks, unlike the oil sands itself, which can't be moved, those trucks can now move down to Texas or North Dakota, and that's where the jobs are.

00:41:09.820 Here's my last question.

00:41:11.100 I mean, I was too young in the early 80s to follow the separatist movement.

00:41:16.220 But I know that Doug Christie...

00:41:17.040 Where's this going, Ezra?

00:41:18.480 Well, here's my question.

00:41:19.280 I know Doug Christie followed the...

00:41:21.740 You filled the Jubilee Auditorium with separatists. 0.78

00:41:25.020 They actually elected a separatist provincially.

00:41:27.480 When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I saw another wave of Western alienation.

00:41:35.000 Preston Manning came along and said, the West wants in, not out.

00:41:38.400 Vote for me, and we'll fix things.

00:41:39.960 He didn't fix things.

00:41:41.180 In fact, he split the right.

00:41:42.480 But Harper finally fulfilled the promise, and the West was in.

00:41:47.120 Here's my question to you. 0.90

00:41:48.540 You've got these losers like Nenshi and DeMong, they're saying, come on, guys, let's speak French and buy French cheese, and that'll do it. 0.56

00:41:55.960 If the carbon tax won't, buying Quebec cheese will. 0.94

00:41:59.900 So you've got an anger there.

00:42:01.260 I think Jason Kenney's certain victory next year will ease the pressure.

00:42:08.500 But the problem is coming from BC's John Horgan and Justin Trudeau federally.

00:42:13.240 And I want to know, how's this going to end?

00:42:14.840 Because when you have 2,700 people in Calgary and almost 2,000 in Grand Prairie, and these are angry people,

00:42:21.080 and they won't listen to the centrists, if you'll call Nenshi and DeMong that, where's this going to go?

00:42:26.580 Yeah, I don't know.

00:42:28.700 And could it lead to a revival of Western separatist viewpoint?

00:42:36.160 Yeah, sure it could.

00:42:37.160 It certainly has led to a revival of alienation.

00:42:41.280 Not entirely different emotions, but one is more extreme than the other.

00:42:48.320 And you start to hear people say, now, they're starting to use the S word again, which they hadn't used in a long, long time.

00:42:55.940 I mean, the very fact that there was a prime minister from Calgary deflated a lot of that.

00:43:03.440 I mean, Preston did deflate that anger when he said the West wants in, whatever the outcome of that was, ultimately.

00:43:13.040 But he stepped in and stopped a large-scale separatist movement from forming in the West.

00:43:20.420 But now there's another Trudeau.

00:43:23.180 Now there's another anti-Alberta, anti-Western government in Ottawa, one that is once again favoring Quebec every time we turn around.

00:43:34.520 And I can't say that the sentiment you saw on the ground in Calgary, in Fort McMurray, in Grand Prairie, to a lesser extent in Edmonton,

00:43:43.040 I can't say that that won't morph itself into separatism.

00:43:46.900 Yeah. You know, I've kept you so long here today, Lorne. Thank you for your time.

00:43:52.280 Not at all.

00:43:53.440 You've made me think of a question. I'm going to get Kian Bexty, our new Calgary reporter, to do some streeters, if you know what I mean,

00:43:59.800 just going out on the street, do some Vox Populi.

00:44:02.260 And you've made me think of a question, and that is, who would treat Alberta's oil patch better?

00:44:08.680 Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister of Canada, or if Alberta joined the United States, Donald Trump?

00:44:17.440 Because Trump's the guy who said Bill Keystone excelled.

00:44:19.940 Trump's the guy who said drill, baby, drill.

00:44:22.020 Trump's the guy who said frack, drill and export.

00:44:25.600 I bet that Albertans, while they do have a sentimental, historical, and inertial love for Canada,

00:44:35.720 know that the practical answer is Donald Trump would be a better friend to Alberta than Justin Trudeau.

00:44:42.720 I just, you know, put aside loyalty and patriotism, the factual answer there, there is only one answer.

00:44:48.740 Trump would be better for Alberta practically.

00:44:51.300 Now, that doesn't deal with emotion and history.

00:44:53.320 That's, I'm going to ask him to do some streeters on that.

00:44:55.660 What do you think?

00:44:56.740 Yeah, yeah, I don't think it will be much of a surprise what the answer will be.

00:45:02.440 The United States, for the first time in over 50 years, this year, has become a net exporter of oil again.

00:45:10.700 Yeah, that's incredible.

00:45:11.820 Lauren, thanks for your time.

00:45:12.800 I know I kept you a long time.

00:45:14.220 These things are just, there's a heavy moment going on in Alberta right now.

00:45:18.560 And the Ottawa media doesn't care, and I think most politicians don't care.

00:45:23.780 I'm glad you care.

00:45:25.860 I'm glad you do, too.

00:45:27.000 All right.

00:45:27.520 Thanks, my friend.

00:45:28.480 Take care.

00:45:28.820 We'll talk to you soon.

00:45:30.140 You bet.

00:45:30.540 All right.

00:45:30.800 That's Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun.

00:45:34.080 So interesting, so troubling.

00:45:35.640 I truly, in my 46 years, do not recall anything like this, with the possible exception of the

00:45:43.520 separatist movement when I was just 9 or 10, which I did not fully experience at the time.

00:45:48.840 Stay with us.

00:45:49.540 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:45:50.180 Hey, welcome back.

00:46:01.960 I got my monologue yesterday about a poll that rated the performance of Trudeau's cabinet.

00:46:05.820 Timmy writes,

00:46:08.140 The only Canadians that support Trudeau and his cabinet are those who have no idea what's going on with their government, let alone their own personal lives.

00:46:14.620 You know, I just watched a fun little clip from my friend David Menzies, and he does this thing where he goes downtown late at night when the bar is empty, and he talks to the drunks.

00:46:26.400 And that sounds like a great way to pass the time.

00:46:30.220 And David's a friend to all, and you just meet a different side of the world, eh?

00:46:38.760 If you want to be depressed for a bit, watch some of Menzies. 1.00

00:46:41.440 Can I play a clip?

00:46:42.120 So he, I just want to show you this.

00:46:43.740 So he set up a Justin Trudeau doll.

00:46:47.400 There is such a thing.

00:46:49.120 I'm pretty sure Rosemary Barton has one. 1.00

00:46:51.700 And then he got something called a Trumpy Bear, which is a teddy bear with some yellow Trump-style hair.

00:46:57.020 It's a thing.

00:46:57.960 He put them on a chair, and he asked people, which would you like for Christmas, the Trumpy Bear or the Trudeau doll?

00:47:04.740 And here's just a snippet of the Trudeau love that's out there.

00:47:08.800 Take a look.

00:47:09.660 You're obviously an informed gentleman.

00:47:11.600 So who would, who would you pick for your Christmas gift?

00:47:15.080 Is it Trumpy Bear or the Justin Trudeau doll?

00:47:17.980 I'll say Justin Trudeau because he looks good.

00:47:21.440 That's simply honest.

00:47:23.260 I thought for sure you were going to go with Trumpy Bear.

00:47:25.420 No, Trumpy Bear, he's cute, but like, I can't take him home.

00:47:28.880 Like, if I were to, like, I'm pretty sure I could take Justin Trudeau home right now.

00:47:34.240 Oh, I would agree.

00:47:36.380 The Justin Trudeau doll?

00:47:38.440 I'm third that.

00:47:41.060 I thought teddy bears are so cuddly.

00:47:43.420 I thought...

00:47:44.000 Hair?

00:47:44.700 Hair?

00:47:45.360 No, no, no.

00:47:46.360 He's giving me Trump vibes, so I'm going to have to say Justin Trudeau.

00:47:49.640 Trump vibe a bad vibe?

00:47:51.160 Very bad vibe.

00:47:52.480 Yeah, can I just say one thing?

00:47:55.660 I am so glad that the voting turnout rate for millennials is like 20%.

00:48:01.920 Maybe we should raise the age to vote to like 40.

00:48:08.400 All right.

00:48:09.380 On my interview with Pierre de Rocher on his book Population Bombed, Bruce writes,

00:48:15.120 Suzuki doesn't care about accuracy, but the narrative that we're a bacterial infection

00:48:20.380 on the face of the earth.

00:48:22.460 You know what? 0.96

00:48:23.040 He's a dehumanizer. 0.96

00:48:24.340 He really is.

00:48:25.660 And maybe it's because he used to be a geneticist, so he studied fruit flies.

00:48:30.240 That's what geneticists do. 0.99

00:48:32.040 So maybe he thinks of everything in that way.

00:48:34.520 Maybe like when all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

00:48:38.540 When you're a fruit fly scientist, everything looks like a bug.

00:48:41.600 But I always find it dehumanizing when someone compares people to cockroaches, vermin, rats.

00:48:48.920 Listen, I dish out insults every day, let's be candid.

00:48:52.220 But I try not to do the dehumanizing. 1.00

00:48:55.240 When I call someone an idiot, I obviously mean an idiot person, not like an idiot animal. 1.00

00:49:02.860 And when David Suzuki compares us to maggots and bacteria, it makes me wretch. 1.00

00:49:08.480 Of course, he's a little bit anti-human.

00:49:12.400 And what's so funny is he's such a leftist, and he's against immigration to Canada for that reason.

00:49:17.560 He thinks there's too many people in the world, as you saw in his TestTube video.

00:49:21.560 But he's got five kids himself.

00:49:25.080 Brett writes,

00:49:25.880 I've been a viewer since your Sun TV days, and often check out your clips on YouTube.

00:49:30.340 I finally got off my rear and subscribed to Premium last week.

00:49:33.820 My only complaint is that you don't do a daily two- or three-hour show.

00:49:37.340 On one hand, watching your show makes me sick every time. 1.00

00:49:39.660 I'm reminded of Justin's stupidity. 1.00

00:49:41.260 But on the other, you provide incisive analysis and commentary, 1.00

00:49:43.940 and a few good laughs as a tonic for the nausea.

00:49:46.520 Anyhow, thanks, and keep it up.

00:49:47.860 Well, Brett, that is such a friendly letter.

00:49:50.260 Thank you very much.

00:49:51.980 It's nice to hear that.

00:49:53.780 And thanks for being a premium subscriber.

00:49:55.400 Thanks to everybody.

00:49:56.540 Because at eight bucks a month, it really adds up.

00:49:59.140 And as you know, almost exactly two years ago, YouTube demonetized us.

00:50:03.980 They demonetized every conservative commentary site online.

00:50:07.200 That YouTube money probably could have paid for the whole company.

00:50:09.840 It was starting to be a very significant sum.

00:50:12.100 And then YouTube just said, no, stop.

00:50:13.640 You're right-wing.

00:50:14.720 We're going to take you out of the ad buy pool,

00:50:17.120 and we're going to demonetize anything with the words feminism, 1.00

00:50:19.520 feminism, Trudeau, or ISIS in the headlines.

00:50:21.840 That's what happens to us.

00:50:24.140 My point is, your premium subscription keeps us afloat,

00:50:26.960 and the occasional crowdfunding that we do.

00:50:28.920 So thanks.

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00:50:30.340 And you know what?

00:50:30.820 I love doing the content.

00:50:31.720 I love doing the interviews.

00:50:32.560 I love doing the monologues.

00:50:33.980 It's tricky, because I have other duties here at The Rebel as well,

00:50:36.780 trying to help manage things, trying to help grow things.

00:50:40.760 So yeah, I mean, it would be wonderful if I could just do what

00:50:44.420 some of the other online guys do, which is just content all day.

00:50:48.880 But I've got to do other things, too.

00:50:50.860 But I'm glad you like what you see.

00:50:53.520 That's our show for today.

00:50:55.240 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:50:57.820 to you at home, good night.

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Rebel News Podcast - December 19, 2018

UK： Five years in prison for having a Nazi swastika pillow？ “I’ve seen rapists get less jail time”

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