Rebel News Podcast - April 21, 2020


Was Theresa Tam part of China’s WHO cover-up？


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Dr. Teresa Tam is the head of the World Health Organization fighting against the Ebola virus, but was she on China s side in the debate over whether or not to declare it an international emergency? And why is she still working for the WHO?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through a very interesting story in a UK newspaper
00:00:04.860 about a roaring debate the World Health Organization had in January, January 22nd and 23rd to be
00:00:13.300 precise, about whether or not they should tell the world that the virus was an international
00:00:19.280 emergency. China won the vote that day, but according to The Guardian, they had
00:00:25.720 Western countries supporting them. There were only 15 people on that panel. One of them was Dr.
00:00:33.760 Teresa Tam. Whose side was she on? That's the question I get into in today's show.
00:00:42.160 Hey, before I get into that, let me invite you to become a paywall subscriber to what we call
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00:00:58.800 All right, here's the podcast.
00:01:04.620 You're listening to a Rebel News Podcast.
00:01:14.920 Tonight, a bombshell question that needs to be answered. Was Teresa Tam part of China's WHO
00:01:21.080 cover-to-show cover-up? It's April 20th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:26.620 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:30.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:34.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
00:01:39.000 bloody right to do so.
00:01:40.260 We've told you why Dr. Teresa Tam, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked chief public health officer,
00:01:50.120 needs to go. I can think of four reasons off the top of my head. Number one, she called people who
00:01:54.820 were concerned about the virus, she called them racist back in January, even when many of those
00:02:01.720 people who were concerned were Chinese people themselves. Number two, she gave bizarre advice
00:02:06.660 against using masks. So our advice right now is there is no need to use a mask for well people.
00:02:13.980 Three, she said the closing borders for the virus doesn't work, even though China itself sealed off
00:02:19.220 Wuhan. If it's a pandemic, do we close borders? Do we shut things down like other countries are doing?
00:02:24.940 It may be sort of anti-intuitive for people to understand this, but the more countries that are
00:02:31.400 impacted means that your border measure is going to be much less effective and definitely not
00:02:36.620 feasible. Yeah, that's so weird. Taiwan has some of the strictest rules against global travel,
00:02:41.520 and it kept its death toll in the single digits, even though it's very close to China.
00:02:46.820 Number four, what irks me the most of all, is that of all the weirdness I mentioned above,
00:02:53.320 it's absolutely word for word the propaganda that the Chinese Communist Party uses and managed to get
00:02:58.980 the World Health Organization to parrot. They call concern about the virus racist. They claim the
00:03:03.860 virus wasn't contagious, so you don't need to wear a mask. They wanted countries to keep accepting
00:03:08.200 airplane passengers from China, especially from Wuhan. So really, why bother having a Canadian 0.96
00:03:13.920 health officer in Theresa Tam? Why not just read the latest spin on the WHO website?
00:03:19.160 If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to
00:03:24.720 wear a medical mask like this one. Mask alone can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a
00:03:30.880 source of infection when not used correctly. Masks should only be used by health care workers,
00:03:36.560 caretakers, or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough. Why? Because health care workers
00:03:43.480 and caretakers are in close contact with ill individuals, so they're at higher risk of catching
00:03:48.720 COVID-19. Well, as I showed you last week, Theresa Tam doesn't just follow orders from the WHO. 0.99
00:03:55.160 She works for them right now at the same time as she purportedly works for us Canadians. 0.93
00:04:03.460 Here's her official biography on the WHO website. She has a biography there because she serves as one
00:04:10.400 of seven people on this committee, the Emergency Program Oversight Committee. I mentioned this to
00:04:17.020 you before. It was her job to oversee emergencies. Let me read a bit from the job description of the
00:04:22.440 committee. I hope this doesn't sound boring. It's actually the key to things. It tells you what
00:04:27.160 Theresa Tam was supposed to be doing over there. The main purpose of this seven-person committee is
00:04:34.300 quote, to provide oversight and monitoring of the development and performance of the program
00:04:40.380 and to guide the program's activities. The program being, you know, the World Health Organization
00:04:44.220 fighting against health emergencies. But it gives more specific details. Here's the job description.
00:04:51.020 I'm going to read a few points. Assess the performance of the key functions in health
00:04:56.940 emergencies. Determine the appropriateness and adequacy of financing and resourcing.
00:05:04.060 Provide advice to the Director General. Review reports on WHO's actions in health emergencies.
00:05:09.240 Review reports on the state of health security adopted by the Director General for submission
00:05:13.160 to the World Health Assembly through the Executive Board and to the United Nations General Assembly.
00:05:18.340 So these are her to-do items. That's another way of saying you're the auditor.
00:05:24.660 Not a financial auditor checking receipts and things like that. You're not an accountant checking
00:05:30.560 for financial fraud, although you're on the lookout, I guess. You're a health auditor checking to make
00:05:36.200 sure the WHO is doing the right thing, telling the truth about health emergencies. And we know that
00:05:42.360 China didn't do that. Now, everything I've shown you here so far, I've touched on in the past week or so.
00:05:48.180 I don't know if you saw it, but last week I recorded a video called FireTam.com, and it's been seen
00:05:53.980 about 400,000 times. It's amazing. People are really frustrated with her. And in that video,
00:05:58.820 I made most of the points I've just made here so far. But I've learned something new since then,
00:06:03.980 and I think it's a blockbuster, maybe. And I've just sent an email to Teresa Tam's office
00:06:09.220 asking for her to answer and explain. I'll let you know if I get an explanation.
00:06:14.020 It's a story from the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. That's a lefty newspaper,
00:06:18.980 but sometimes they do interesting work, no matter what your political stripe. This is one of those times.
00:06:24.800 Here's the story here. Caught in a superpower struggle. The inside story of the WHO's response
00:06:31.000 to coronavirus. Caught between the U.S. and China, the World Health Body has been unable to enforce
00:06:36.360 compliance or information sharing. So they framed it as the U.S. versus China. In some ways, that's
00:06:43.920 right, but only in the same way that you have policemen versus robbers, or firemen versus a fire.
00:06:52.860 They're opposites, but they're not morally equal to each other. Dr. Fauci, Donald Trump's chief
00:06:58.820 health advisor, he has his politics, and you can agree or disagree with him, but I don't think anyone
00:07:03.720 would doubt that he's being candid and transparent and acting in good faith. As in, even if he's
00:07:08.520 mistaken on something, he's trying to do what he thinks is right. Call me naive, but I believe that.
00:07:12.920 Trump seems to, obviously, as well. Whereas whoever is the Chinese equivalent to Dr. Fauci, well,
00:07:20.400 there could be no such thing. Fauci goes on countless media interviews and says what he thinks.
00:07:25.140 He has no minder checking up on him, no censor. I suppose Trump could fire him if he wanted to,
00:07:31.200 but he doesn't seem to want to. I don't think for a second that Fauci would hesitate to disagree with
00:07:36.060 Trump if his heart or mind told him to. I don't think Fauci would lie for Trump.
00:07:42.900 There is no one like that in China. There just isn't. There's no counterpart. They don't have a 0.96
00:07:46.820 free press. I'm sure there is a medical expert who actually gives advice to Xi Jinping, but he would do
00:07:53.240 so in private so as not to embarrass the dictator or cause him to lose face. And even then, there's a risk
00:07:59.440 of telling the truth to an omnipotent tyrant. If you think the news will upset a tyrant,
00:08:06.460 you don't want to say it. It's hard to speak truth to power at all. I can imagine it would be
00:08:11.520 very hard to criticize Donald Trump. But Trump will not kill you or send you and your family to
00:08:17.540 an internment camp if you offend him. He'll give you a mean nickname, maybe, and that's about it.
00:08:22.340 I mean, Trump keeps letting Jim Acosta of CNN ask questions almost every day.
00:08:28.300 He seems to like it, maybe. You ask one gotcha attack question like that to Xi Jinping and it's
00:08:34.560 off to the gulag for you. So my point is, it's not a battle at the WHO between two teams like a sports
00:08:42.180 match. It's between medical doctors and public health officers acting in good faith and honesty
00:08:49.160 and transparency, the Western democracy way, and one big murderous dictatorship that cares about
00:08:56.060 saving face and tamping down unrest at all costs. To equate the two would be like equating firemen
00:09:03.120 and a fire. Okay, that's just my thoughts on the headline, but back to the Guardian story.
00:09:09.120 This is interesting. Remember, throughout January, the WHO was repeating the Chinese lie that the virus
00:09:14.780 was not contagious. Here's a killer tweet. I call it a killer tweet because it surely led to many
00:09:21.500 deaths from people who trusted it. Anyways, here's what the Guardian says happened on January 22nd and
00:09:27.840 23rd. Apparently, there was a battle raging within the WHO about whether or not to tell the truth
00:09:34.520 and declare a global health emergency, a public health emergency of international concern,
00:09:40.660 as they call it. The debate raged on for two days within the WHO, but the agency was deadlocked.
00:09:50.320 China insisted the virus wasn't contagious, but other countries' doctors insisted it was. Let me quote,
00:09:56.100 China argued against declaring an emergency on 22 January, but could not have carried the argument
00:10:01.840 alone. And for the vote to have been split, several Western or Western-aligned representatives
00:10:09.680 must have voted with Beijing. Voting on whether or not the virus will kill you. But are you with me there?
00:10:18.520 So there's only 15 countries in the world who had a representative on that particular committee
00:10:23.980 called the IHR Emergency Committee for the COVID-19 Outbreak. So this is the big committee.
00:10:33.340 Only 15 countries. So it's a different committee than the other one Teresa Tam was on.
00:10:40.240 15 countries in the whole world, and Canada was one of them, and Canada's representative
00:10:46.400 was Teresa Tam. There she is at the end of the list of members. Now, how each country voted on January 23rd
00:10:55.120 is apparently a secret, if I'm reading this Guardian story correct. Like so much of what the WHO and
00:11:01.040 other UN agencies do, it's secret. But neither possibility is any good.
00:11:05.200 If Tam voted along with China to lie about the virus, and to continue to falsely claim that the virus was not
00:11:13.800 contagious from person to person, she was a party to one of the deadliest political outrages in modern times,
00:11:20.360 possibly a crime. But if she voted against China, and I hope she did, if she voted against China and for publishing
00:11:28.960 the truth about the virus, but was blocked by China, in some ways that's just as bad. Because that means she 1.00
00:11:37.560 would have known how bad things were at the WHO. She would have seen firsthand how China was manipulating 0.81
00:11:43.520 and blocking the facts using politics, corrupting the science using votes at the UN. And yet she still went on to parrot
00:11:52.120 the WHO line in public and other deceptions.
00:11:55.520 How did she vote in this committee? Did she vote at all? We'll have to find out. I've asked her. I mean,
00:12:02.960 seriously, how much time is Dr. Tam devoting to the UN's WHO and their shenanigans versus attending to her
00:12:10.920 business, you know, her real job here in Canada? But how did she vote? At that key meeting, did she vote with
00:12:20.000 China to keep the cover-up going? Before she voted, did she seek input and approval from Trudeau
00:12:27.120 or his advisors first? What did they tell her to do? And why did she keep all this a secret
00:12:34.200 as thousands died around the world? Don't you see? The WHO isn't good. It's actually evil. Japan's 1.00
00:12:43.080 deputy prime minister said it should be called the China Health Organization, not the World Health
00:12:47.460 Organization. Taiwan knows that pretty well, too. But here in Canada, we're still following the WHO.
00:12:53.080 Tam sure does. Trudeau does. Patti Haidu does. She gets furious when people say China's lying.
00:13:01.180 So I would say that your question is feeding into conspiracy theories that many people have been
00:13:06.160 perpetuating on the internet. Yeah, no, Patti, China lies. Sorry. My question, and I've sent it to Dr. Tam 0.97
00:13:14.060 by email today, is on January 23rd, that fateful day, when the WHO Pandemic Committee voted in secret to
00:13:23.500 keep lying about the virus, whose side was she on? I'll let you know if I get an answer.
00:13:31.340 Here again, called for in-person sittings in Parliament. Here's a little bit of what he said.
00:13:49.280 If the government wants to effectively shut down Parliament, it needs to explain why. What are the
00:13:55.880 Liberals so opposed to? Transparency and accountability are in the best interests of Canadians.
00:14:02.420 So I agree. Transparency and accountability are in the best interests of Canadians. I'm not sure
00:14:06.980 any journalist would disagree with that notion. I don't think it's completely honest, though,
00:14:11.760 to say that the government doesn't want Parliament to return. I just don't know that we've reached a
00:14:16.600 place where they agree. Well, that's a CBC pundits panel calling Andrew Scheer dishonest,
00:14:22.500 or partially dishonest, in his complaint that Justin Trudeau didn't want Parliament to resume,
00:14:29.600 whatever would give people that impression, other than the fact that Justin Trudeau has been
00:14:33.680 in a fake quarantine for more than a month in his own house, not wanting to come out,
00:14:38.520 resisting all he could, the scrutiny of a question period. It's odd to me that the state
00:14:44.220 broadcaster would hold the leader of the opposition to account more than it holds the prime minister
00:14:48.120 to account. But let me point out one quick thing before we move on. That panel weighing Justin Trudeau
00:14:54.420 could have been handpicked by Justin Trudeau. Let's just quickly go through those four people we saw.
00:15:00.300 Rosemary Barton, the host of Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster, she was a personal plaintiff
00:15:06.480 suing the Conservative Party in the last election. Next up was Chantal Ibert, who is a scholar
00:15:12.780 at the Trudeau Foundation. Then you have Andrew Coyne, and not to be personal about it, but it is
00:15:21.880 personal. He has a family connection. His cousin was Pierre Trudeau's mistress and had a daughter by him.
00:15:28.940 And finally, Althea Raj, the authorized biographer of Justin Trudeau. Four people on a panel, each of
00:15:35.860 whom explicitly or implicitly have a connection to Justin Trudeau. That's the kind of scrutiny the CBC
00:15:41.740 proposes. Well, finally, parliament did resume, albeit at a reduced count, and that's fine. And
00:15:48.840 our friend Andrew Lawton from True North was watching it, and he comes to join us to report
00:15:55.480 on what he saw. Andrew, what a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for taking the time.
00:16:00.200 Hey, thanks for the invite.
00:16:02.020 Well, it's always good to have you. And before we go further, let me just remind our viewers
00:16:05.220 that Andrew has his own show, which you can subscribe to or watch at andrewlawtonshow.com.
00:16:13.780 And you got to give him support. He's one of the few good guys out there not on the take
00:16:17.940 from Justin Trudeau. In fact, he's fighting Trudeau with us in court over the Debates Commission. But
00:16:22.640 let's get back to today's news. Andrew, what was it like Trudeau finally answering in a form of
00:16:28.280 question period?
00:16:30.080 Well, it was funny. There was not a huge amount of fireworks. I think a lot of people were expecting
00:16:35.860 that it was going to be this case where we'd all tune into question period. The fur would be flying.
00:16:40.480 It started out by all accounts very civil, actually. Andrew Scheer asked the prime minister
00:16:45.320 for an update on the Nova Scotia shooting. And then some questions about really the meat of the
00:16:51.640 government's response when it comes to getting ventilators in, preparedness, the emergency stockpile
00:16:56.940 that we know was expired and discarded. But I do think there's a symbolic issue here that needs to
00:17:03.000 be pointed out, which is that Justin Trudeau was claiming for the last few days that Andrew Scheer's
00:17:08.900 desire to have Parliament reconvene, as all parties had originally scheduled, by the way,
00:17:13.900 was going to jeopardize the health of 338 MPs. The liberal talking point, the media talking point,
00:17:21.060 was that Scheer was basically pushing for all the MPs to fly from far-flung corners of the country,
00:17:26.640 from Vancouver Island, from Nunavut, from Yukon, from Nova Scotia to Ottawa, and packed themselves
00:17:33.520 into the House of Commons like sardines, when in actuality, all that was at stake was exactly what
00:17:38.760 we saw today, which is a pared-down, bare-bones, proportionate number of MPs from each party
00:17:44.820 getting together under the same roof and doing the business of government. You know, for all that we
00:17:50.380 talk about the importance of government in the response to COVID-19, you can't have government
00:17:55.380 without Parliament unless you surrender what is the core identity of our government, which is a
00:18:00.720 parliamentary democracy.
00:18:02.560 Yeah. Well, recall that about a month or so ago, Trudeau wanted to change the rules so that he could
00:18:08.660 rule by fiat, including any spending, not just till we're through the pandemic, but through to the end
00:18:15.340 of 2021. Now, that was such an overreach, even the media balked. But Trudeau has taken every
00:18:21.840 opportunity to empower himself, take authorities away from Parliament, and reduce scrutiny of his
00:18:28.600 own conduct.
00:18:31.180 Yeah, and I think it's exactly because of that, that the parliamentary oversight that Andrew Scheer and
00:18:36.920 the Conservatives have been pushing for is so important, because we've already seen really what
00:18:41.380 the ideal scenario is for the Liberals, which is an executive fiat that allows them to tax and spend
00:18:46.900 far beyond the imminent danger of the pandemic. And I think that whole episode with that bait and
00:18:52.820 switch from the Liberals on that initial relief bill shows why people are more leery. And there was
00:18:58.260 one clip from Andrew Scheer's press conference on this morning, as a matter of fact, where a CBC
00:19:04.980 journalist asked him, her words, what's your problem? She literally said, why don't you just go along
00:19:11.900 with all of these other parties? What's your problem? And that was, I guess, in some ways,
00:19:16.220 we can laud the honesty of CBC, just saying Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives need to go along and fall
00:19:21.680 in line with the other parties. But the whole point is, you need to have that oversight that comes from
00:19:27.540 an opposition party, you need to have the oversight that comes from the parliamentary process.
00:19:31.760 Yeah. You know, I saw that clip, I think it was Julie Van Dusen. We have it now. Let me
00:19:36.220 play that for our viewers. Just absolutely unthinkable that if the shoe was on the other
00:19:42.980 foot, if Stephen Harper were the prime minister, saying he didn't want to be accountable, imagine
00:19:48.080 the CBC saying to some liberal, why don't you just go along? I mean, come on. Here, take a look at
00:19:52.920 Julie Van Dusen of the CBC state broadcaster.
00:19:55.060 You seem to be almost suggesting that the other parties are joining forces with the government.
00:20:01.540 You've called one of them a cheerleader, almost like they're plotting something. I'm just trying
00:20:06.220 to figure out why just won't you go along with everyone else? Like, what's your problem? What
00:20:11.860 have you got to lose? Well, you know, we don't believe that going along with a plan that eliminates
00:20:16.320 80 percent of the sitting days of the House of Commons during a crisis serves Canadians. We don't 0.99
00:20:23.540 believe that that will result in better programs and services for Canadians. In fact, we know
00:20:29.100 the contrary to be true. And we're not talking about some theoretical concept. We're not talking
00:20:33.920 about a hypothetical. We know it to be true. When the government has proposed programs...
00:20:40.940 You know, it's almost like they're holding the opposition to a ground. Why do you guys have
00:20:46.320 to oppose everything? Sure, you're called the leader of the opposition, but you have to be
00:20:49.380 so opposey about it. I thought that was a deeply embarrassing moment for Julie Van Dusen personally,
00:20:56.060 for the CBC in general. But the media party, they've really been that way since this pandemic
00:21:01.280 began. Yeah, that's been the role. And to be fair, I think in the early days, everyone was committed
00:21:08.860 to that idea of what Justin Trudeau has called the Team Canada approach, which is all hands on deck,
00:21:13.980 suspend partisan differences. And I think that if the government had kept up with that on its end of the,
00:21:19.380 on its end of the equation, that might be possible. But they've revealed that they've tried to seize
00:21:24.180 power on this. They've revealed that a lot of the promises they've made for relief aren't making
00:21:28.600 their way to where they're supposed to. And more importantly, I think they've completely compromised
00:21:33.020 their credibility by giving public health advice and recommendations that are wrong, that are just
00:21:38.100 flat out wrong, that are reversed within days, reversed within a week, reversed within a few weeks.
00:21:43.400 I mean, you compound that with the government shilling for the Chinese regime's numbers,
00:21:47.520 with all of the other factors of the World Health Organization. And you've had, I think,
00:21:52.600 a huge, huge crisis of credibility in the people that are supposed to be above partisanship leading
00:21:58.000 us all through this. Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. Every single mistake that could have been
00:22:02.640 made was made. Calling people racist just when they're concerned about the virus, saying masks don't
00:22:08.740 work, not closing the borders, standing by the World Health Organization and Chinese numbers when
00:22:14.400 even now China's admitted they were not accurate. Every, I mean, the federal government actually is
00:22:19.660 not in the driver's seat for this crisis. For constitutional and practical reasons, it's the
00:22:24.700 provinces. Justin Trudeau does not have authority over any hospital in the country. That's all provincial
00:22:30.180 matters. It's just the few things that were his to do, the foreign affairs stuff, the airport stuff,
00:22:38.560 I guess the bully pulpit stuff. Every single one of them he's got wrong. And he's shown, in my view,
00:22:44.560 a laziness, Andrew. I mean, Trump works seven days a week. And by the way, instead of hiding from
00:22:50.720 critical questions, he seems to love the scrappier the question, the better. It's such a contrast.
00:22:56.180 You don't have to love Donald Trump to acknowledge that he's working seven days a week as opposed to
00:23:01.300 Trudeau. Let me ask you a question about today, though. Was there a question in question period today
00:23:05.920 that stood out from Scheer or another one of his critics? Was there something that really got to
00:23:11.180 an important issue in your mind? I think, yeah. And I'll say Andrew Scheer and also Michael Cooper.
00:23:17.120 And Michael Cooper was a lot more punchy with it than Andrew Scheer was. But asking the prime
00:23:21.900 minister about China's numbers. And in the end of it, when Michael Cooper asked, and he said,
00:23:27.480 listen, I mean, how are you on earth trusting a Chinese communist regime? Christian Freeland gave the
00:23:32.240 answer that we've heard multiple permutations of from the government, which is, oh, this is an
00:23:36.760 ongoing thing and this is a pandemic. And there was kind of a glimmer of hope in her answer because
00:23:41.640 she mentioned authoritarian regime. She didn't call China one, but she mentioned authoritarian regime.
00:23:47.000 So perhaps there was a tacit recognition of this. I mean, maybe I misheard and, you know,
00:23:52.580 heard her talking about something that, you know, she wasn't talking about. But in her answer,
00:23:56.820 she did use those words. And I think that that was, you know, the closest we've gotten from the
00:24:02.560 government accepting there might be a flaw with China. And just for context on this, remember that
00:24:07.340 last week on Friday, even China acknowledged that China's numbers were wrong. And the point that I
00:24:12.480 made on my show is that, you know, this means that Patty Hajdu or Politburo Patty, as I've come to love
00:24:17.760 her as I love the nickname of, which has more confidence in China's numbers than China has in China's 0.95
00:24:23.520 numbers. Yeah, let's play that clip from question period. Michael Cooper and Christy Freeland. Take a
00:24:27.980 look. Speaker, the Chinese communist regime repeatedly destroyed and falsified information
00:24:34.080 about the spread of COVID-19, all the while imprisoning whistleblowers. As a result, a regional
00:24:41.540 health problem became a global catastrophe. What measures is this government prepared to undertake
00:24:48.960 to hold the Chinese communist regime accountable? The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister.
00:24:55.300 Mr. Speaker, this is a global pandemic. That's why international cooperation and information sharing
00:25:02.520 are absolutely essential. We can all help each other and save lives by gathering and sharing the most
00:25:09.220 accurate information possible. Having said that, decisions about Canada are made by Canadians based on the
00:25:17.420 advice of Canada's world-renowned experts. Finally, Mr. Speaker, I think everyone in this House
00:25:23.940 appreciates that democracies are transparent in a way authoritarian regimes can never be.
00:25:29.800 Well, I'm glad that they've started to have some functioning as a parliamentary democracy. I note that when
00:25:36.520 Hungary brought in some emergency powers, every liberal in the West said, look at that, they're suspending
00:25:41.660 parliament. No, no, no, the Hungarian parliament still sits. Those same critics who are quick to
00:25:47.400 jump on. Other countries for any authoritarian excesses have given Trudeau a pass. Let me ask you,
00:25:54.720 how often will this question period sit? It looks like they worked out the social distancing minimal
00:26:01.380 quorum number issue. That's fine. How many days a week do we expect to see Trudeau rouse himself,
00:26:08.920 put on a suit and go to work?
00:26:11.840 Well, it's still not known. I mean, Andrew Scheer is pushing for three sittings a week.
00:26:17.500 Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are trying to push for one plus virtual sittings to augment it. But the
00:26:23.260 problem is that those virtual sittings don't exist yet. We don't have the capability or the setup to do
00:26:28.920 it. So it's all fine and dandy in the future. But I don't want it to be an excuse that the Liberals
00:26:33.880 can use to say, all right, we're going to do one and two virtual sittings when we get the virtual
00:26:38.360 sittings up and running. And then that comes sometime, I think, in May of 2047. So the reality
00:26:44.820 here is that the only way to guarantee there will be this check and balance is to do in-person
00:26:50.480 sittings. But so far, the parties have not yet agreed to the when and the how and how often.
00:26:55.920 Let me ask you one last question. In that clip we played a few minutes ago of Julie Van Dusen
00:26:59.840 asking Andrew Scheer, why don't you just go along with everyone else? Why are you implying
00:27:05.400 that there's something conspiratorial, some sort of coalition? My ears perked up because
00:27:09.840 I'm old enough, Andrew, to remember that in, I think it was 2008, maybe it's 2011, the Liberals,
00:27:20.620 the Bloc, and the NDP did in fact try and form a coalition to oust Stephen Harper, who had
00:27:27.440 only won a minority government. Yeah, that was 2008. And it's amazing how that just seems like
00:27:32.580 a distant memory now, that this axis of the NDP, the Liberals, and the Separatist Party
00:27:39.700 coming together to try to unseat the Conservatives is now something that we're expecting. We're now
00:27:45.940 expecting some sort of collusion mentality and saying, well, but how can you take issue with that?
00:27:52.040 Now, why would those other parties be so quick to grant Trudeau a pass? I don't think there's any,
00:27:57.320 chance that Canadians would support bringing down the government now and forcing another national
00:28:03.740 election now. So it's not a matter of losing a confidence vote. So given that that's off the
00:28:09.640 table, why wouldn't the Bloc Québécois, the NDP, and even the handful of Green MPs, why wouldn't they
00:28:17.640 want more scrutiny of Trudeau? Surely to score points from their own ideological angle. Why are they
00:28:24.460 not wanting to sit? Well, look, I think that the Bloc knows it's never going to form government. The NDP
00:28:30.980 knows it's never going to form government. The Green Party, they might think they're going to form
00:28:35.260 government, but they understand that that's not imminent at the time now. So I think for a lot
00:28:39.980 of these people, they know that the best chance they have of getting what they want, of getting the
00:28:44.680 money, getting the programs, getting the taxing and the spending, is from the Liberals. So I do think
00:28:50.780 there is either an implicit or perhaps an explicit agreement between these parties and the Liberals
00:28:56.080 that we're going to keep pushing whatever you're advancing and whatever you're championing,
00:29:00.640 because these parties know that their agenda, the only thing that they can hope for is that
00:29:05.660 Justin Trudeau will go along with it. They know that in the event where the Conservatives are in power
00:29:09.800 or the Conservatives have a perceived moral high ground, the Bloc is not getting the concessions that
00:29:15.140 they need. The Liberal or the NDP is not getting the concessions they need. And I think they know
00:29:19.820 their only hopes of advancing their agenda are by appeasing the Liberals.
00:29:23.440 You know what? I think that's an excellent answer. And I see that Trudeau and his ilk are
00:29:27.500 already talking about, and certainly the Greens are most explicit, saying, well, let's keep doing
00:29:33.000 some of the things we're doing now. And Trudeau has said, when we come back online, we'll have to
00:29:36.960 have a green economy. So I think you can see the secret deals, or it doesn't even have to be secret,
00:29:42.960 just the subconscious. I'll throw you a bone, Green Party. I'll throw you a bone, NDP. Hey,
00:29:47.640 Bloc Habakkuk. I promise I'll finish off the oil patch. Just stay calm and quiet. You can already 0.94
00:29:54.520 see Trudeau absorbing their agendas in return for their compliance. Very interesting. Listen,
00:30:00.940 thanks very much for watching Question Period and giving us the report. And I want to give a shout
00:30:05.560 out one more time to your website where folks can sign up for your podcast. It's andrewlaughtonshow.com.
00:30:11.640 Thanks, my friend. And stay healthy and stay safe out there.
00:30:16.200 Yeah, you too. Thanks very much for having me on.
00:30:18.300 All right. Our pleasure. There's our friend Andrew Lawton. And it's good to see he's working
00:30:22.580 so hard holding the government to account. One of the few good guys out there not taking
00:30:26.640 a dime from Trudeau. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:30:29.400 Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about fighting to protect civil liberties, Lance writes
00:30:42.240 to actually think the government will let us go back to the freedoms we had before the panic,
00:30:46.480 give up all that control. There is a bigger force behind all this global panic.
00:30:51.700 Well, that's the battle, my friends. And the battle is on now. We're going to do our best here. Maybe you
00:30:57.120 can help. But the answer is, it is not yet determined how this will go. We're going to do
00:31:02.700 our best to make sure we go back to civil liberties. Paul writes, if we're ever going to come out of
00:31:09.060 this, it will be because of the provinces. The Trudeau liberals would keep us in lockdown forever
00:31:12.940 if they thought they could get away with it. Absolutely, because that's the globalist authoritarian
00:31:19.020 way. And Trudeau sort of likes the emergency. He doesn't have to go to work any day. He can hang out
00:31:23.760 at his cottage, a 22-room house. And you see him fighting hard. He doesn't want to even go to
00:31:28.640 question, period. Yeah. Trudeau and his people will do just fine out of this, believe me.
00:31:34.800 On my interview with Lauren Gunter, Bruce writes,
00:31:37.600 Lauren is correct. It's time to start reopening places. Protect seniors, but let schools and 0.92
00:31:41.340 businesses reopen. If people are kept under house arrest, there's going to be an explosion of anger.
00:31:45.860 Well, that's the thing.
00:31:46.760 I think that people are relieved that it's not a mass casualty event. I mean, we're not quite at
00:31:54.540 2,000 deaths in the whole country. That's still a very large number. Obviously, no one wants any
00:31:58.540 deaths, but that's not 20,000 or 200,000 as some models predicted. So people realize it's not a panic
00:32:06.880 like they were told. And people are also detecting more and more, I think, that this disease attacks
00:32:13.860 certain kinds of people. Older people, not younger people. People with pre-existing health
00:32:18.520 conditions. So if you're a 25-year-old healthy person who's out of work, it doesn't make a lot
00:32:25.380 of sense for you to remain out of work because a 75-year-old in an old folks' home might be in 0.99
00:32:30.540 jeopardy. I think it's going to be very interesting days ahead. And we have our role with
00:32:34.780 fightthefines.com. That's where we're going to go to work. I should tell you, we already have
00:32:40.480 seven clients in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. And we're going to fight
00:32:49.820 back. All right, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
00:32:54.740 at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
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