Rebel News Podcast - Who won last night’s leaders debate？ Not the Canadian people.

00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. I go through last night's debate, the French language debate, but I don't

00:00:05.480 go through the French language debate part of it. I go through the scrum afterwards, which

00:00:10.480 most of which was done in English, and a great number of questions. I'd have to add them up.

00:00:16.840 They're more than 10 questions. We're put by our reporters, Kian Bextie and David Menzies,

00:00:22.000 and our friend Andrew Lawton. Anyways, I'll let you see those in a moment, but of course,

00:00:25.860 you're doing the podcast, so you're only listening to them. I would encourage you

00:00:28.980 to consider becoming a premium subscriber so you can see them, too. They're fun to watch.

00:00:35.200 It's just eight bucks a month. Go to premium.rebelnews.com. All right, without further ado, here's the podcast.

00:00:47.240 You're listening to our latest podcast.

00:00:49.600 Tonight, who won last night's leaders debate? I'll show you the clips and the tweets to prove

00:01:02.580 it decisively. It's October 11th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:06.340 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:12.140 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:16.220 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:21.080 right to do so.

00:01:27.120 As you know, on Monday, a federal court judge ordered Justin Trudeau's hand-picked debates

00:01:31.780 commission to accredit our journalists, Kian Bextie and David Menzies, to attend the leaders' debates.

00:01:37.900 We beat five Trudeau lawyers in court. I was amazed.

00:01:41.560 But even more amazing was how Kian and David and our friend Andrew Lawton, who was also in court with us,

00:01:46.500 and also got the same court-ordered accreditation.

00:01:49.860 It's amazing how well they did journalistically with the opportunity they were given.

00:01:53.820 They asked more questions than any other media company at the debates,

00:01:58.460 even though the CBC, for example, had more than 80 journalists in the room.

00:02:03.140 Because, of course, the media party journalists aren't really that curious about things.

00:02:06.980 And if they were really curious about something, they'd probably best keep it themselves,

00:02:10.720 or they'd get in trouble, I don't know, with their bosses, with the Trudeau-run parliamentary

00:02:15.800 press gallery, I don't know.

00:02:18.040 Maybe that's one reason why the legacy media is in such trouble.

00:02:20.800 They're so boring. No one is even interested in their stories, unlike the peppy, prickly questions

00:02:26.800 that our guys asked, not just at the English-language debate on Monday night,

00:02:30.200 but on the French-language debate last night.

00:02:32.680 Obviously, the debate itself was in French, but the questions after were in either official language,

00:02:37.420 and we asked them in English, of course.

00:02:39.220 I thought our team asked some great questions, and I'll play a bunch of clips for you later in the show.

00:02:46.580 But the most hostile reaction to our journalists was not actually from the politicians they were grilling.

00:02:52.180 You'd think it would be, right?

00:02:55.800 No, it was from rival journalists who hated having the competition, especially a competition that was so keen.

00:03:04.540 We got the first questions, the first three questions in a row to Trudeau.

00:03:08.320 How lazy do those other 200 incumbent journalists have to be to let that happen?

00:03:12.940 Our guys were first in line, second in line, and third in line.

00:03:15.640 I'm counting Andrew Lawton as one of our guys.

00:03:17.280 And, of course, it wasn't just that we had the first three in a row.

00:03:20.460 It's that we didn't ask, you know, shampoo-style questions.

00:03:25.300 The one that the entire country wants to know.

00:03:28.400 What shampoo do you use?

00:03:31.360 What a disappointing answer this is going to be.

00:03:33.920 Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.

00:03:37.800 So, look at this.

00:03:39.140 Look at this.

00:03:40.400 This is a tweet from Susan Delacorte.

00:03:42.640 She said, first few questions to Justin Trudeau after the French debate are all about, in the now infamous parlance of the election, unfounded rumors about his past.

00:03:53.500 I'll just say I'm glad this isn't a branch of journalism I've ever been asked to do.

00:04:00.400 At Susan Delacorte, her brother is literally a Liberal Party operative.

00:04:04.280 I think she was actually one of the five journalist moderators in the first debate.

00:04:08.380 I know her a little bit.

00:04:09.620 I used to know her better.

00:04:10.320 She personally cried, tears of sorrow, actual water running down her face, crying, literally, when Liberal leader Michael Ignatiev lost.

00:04:20.960 That's how partisan she is. 1.00

00:04:23.240 And she's giving us a lecture on what real journalistic questions are like.

00:04:27.460 When she practices Liberal Party stenography, she hated that we were asking interesting questions. 0.97

00:04:33.760 You bet, because she doesn't have the get-up-and-go that our people did. 1.00

00:04:37.180 Or even if she did, she doesn't want to rock the boat with her friend.

00:04:41.080 I'll show you a few more in a moment, but here's a subtler Snyder tweet.

00:04:47.340 It's from my friend David Akin, who says,

00:04:49.020 The Parliamentary Press Gallery, which is older than Canada, I should note, has been deciding who gets a press pass with great success for quite some time now.

00:04:59.160 And the decisions about who gets a press pass is made by other journalists, not by the government.

00:05:04.960 No, that's not really right.

00:05:08.480 So here's the reply I wrote to David last night.

00:05:10.420 That's legally incorrect.

00:05:13.840 The only reason the press gallery has its authority is because the Speaker of the House delegates it to them and funds them.

00:05:21.260 The Parliamentary Press Gallery acts as an agent of the government.

00:05:24.380 You call it a great success because you haven't been excluded by that government.

00:05:29.280 Well, David replied, and I'm glad he did.

00:05:31.140 He said,

00:05:31.540 No, you can't be an agent of the government if one's authority is derived by the Speaker.

00:05:37.520 The Speaker does not equal the government.

00:05:39.260 The Speaker is a servant of the House.

00:05:40.840 So though I'm no lawyer like you, you're legally incorrect.

00:05:44.720 No, no, that's not true.

00:05:46.880 Here's my last retort to him.

00:05:48.460 I said, no, my friend, the House of Commons is part of the government.

00:05:51.980 What else do you suggest it is?

00:05:53.500 A private corporation, some sort of voluntary association?

00:05:56.160 It exercises the power of the state, and it has the power to ban non-uniform reporters, which it does.

00:06:03.880 I linked to a clip where the Prime Minister's office said they had colluded with the press gallery to keep an eye out to our reporter.

00:06:09.300 Good, how are you?

00:06:09.720 You won't be able to come in to the event.

00:06:13.640 Why?

00:06:14.360 Just because your organization is associated with white nationalism and white supremacy,

00:06:18.540 and those values and views are not welcome in this place.

00:06:22.280 So I'm allowed in the White House to cover a news event, and I'm not a white nationalist, I'm not a white supremacist,

00:06:29.500 but you guys get to argue.

00:06:30.540 Your news outlet has been associated with that type of behavior and rhetoric, so the White House accreditation will leave it up to them.

00:06:35.240 So the Prime Minister's office has made the unilateral decision to not let me in?

00:06:39.540 The Prime Minister's office has agreed with the Canadian press gallery that your organization's views are not welcome.

00:06:45.560 So that's all I have.

00:06:46.220 I'll get you to leave, but I just wanted to come in my email.

00:06:47.920 So the Prime Minister's office determines who can and cannot cover Canadian politics in the United States?

00:06:51.620 It's a Canadian embassy event, and you are also not an accredited journalist in the Canadian press gallery at a Canadian media event, and that's why.

00:06:58.280 Now, I like David Akin well enough for a uniform journalist, but it's really weird for someone to say that Parliament is not part of the government.

00:07:06.780 What does he think it is?

00:07:08.460 I get why he likes the whole system, because it likes him.

00:07:12.180 And anyways, everything's good when the government keeps out scrappy little guys like Kean and David.

00:07:18.280 David Menzies, that is.

00:07:19.500 So, the whole system right now is good for the government, and it's good for establishment journalists like David Akin.

00:07:26.920 It's good for everyone in the system, everyone except for the citizens.

00:07:32.940 Stay with us.

00:07:34.460 Kean Bextie is next, and we'll go through his video.

00:07:36.740 Oh, what a week was it.

00:07:51.220 What a week it was.

00:07:52.300 It was a week.

00:07:54.620 The week started in the most surprising of ways.

00:07:57.260 We were at the Federal Court of Canada demanding that the Debates Commission, which was handpicked by Justin Trudeau, allow two of our journalists in.

00:08:06.700 Now, we hired a team of bright young lawyers, but they warned me when I hired them.

00:08:11.600 They said, Ezra, this is a very uphill battle.

00:08:13.120 You will probably lose.

00:08:14.100 I said, you know what, we have to fight it on principle.

00:08:17.420 We can't allow Justin Trudeau to deplatform us.

00:08:20.260 And we went to court on Monday morning, and lo and behold, Justice Russell Zinn agreed with us and commanded the Debate Commission to allow in Kean Bextie and David Menzies.

00:08:30.740 And the rest of the week, well, it just went from good to great.

00:08:34.200 Joining me now in studio is one of our journalists who was officially certified, accredited, and commanded into the debate by the judge himself, Kean Bextie-Kean.

00:08:43.960 Great to see you.

00:08:44.580 Great to see you, too.

00:08:45.360 You know, media accreditation is a bit of BS.

00:08:50.520 Being a journalist is an activity.

00:08:53.880 You just sort of do it.

00:08:56.800 There's no, it's not like being a doctor where you have to have a certain certification and a professional.

00:09:02.660 So it's, anytime someone says, are you accredited journalists, it's a little bit of BS.

00:09:07.440 But I think it's fair to say that in this entire country, with the thousands of journalists from coast to coast, you, David Menzies, and our friend Andrew Lawton from the True North, have the most reputable, authoritative, and commanding certification of any journalist in the country.

00:09:26.740 No one less than a federal court judge says, you're a journalist.

00:09:29.920 Yeah, you know what, I didn't think about it like that.

00:09:34.300 But I guess you could say, I mean, outside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which really accredits every single Canadian citizen and everyone in Canada to be a journalist, that right extends to everyone.

00:09:43.720 There is now a federal court ruling that says we are, in fact, one.

00:09:47.460 And I'd like to see where Rosemary Barton's federal court issuance is that accredits her to be a practitioner of journalism.

00:09:56.060 And, of course, the Charter of Rights itself did not create these rights.

00:09:59.260 It merely enshrined them and wrote them down, rights that we have had for centuries, both through law, statute, and custom, going back to our British legal inheritance.

00:10:09.600 But, boy, they did not like to have you amongst the media party.

00:10:16.100 They were steaming mad at you, weren't they?

00:10:18.260 Tell me a little bit what it was like, you and David.

00:10:20.900 You went to the English debates that Monday night, right, just hours after the court ruling.

00:10:24.500 Yeah.

00:10:25.020 And you were at the French language debates last night in Gatineau.

00:10:29.960 Yes.

00:10:30.800 So, Monday, we were a bit surprised that we actually got in.

00:10:34.940 Like you said, we weren't expecting to get in.

00:10:37.460 So, I had flown from Calgary on the Red Eye to Toronto to go to the court case and then to Ottawa.

00:10:43.840 And by the time I got to Ottawa, I landed and then I realized that we were going to get in.

00:10:47.920 So, I was kind of dressed up in a ball cap and I wasn't really dressed up as I should be.

00:10:51.620 So, I was wearing a ball cap asking Justin Trudeau questions, which, I mean, was fun and all.

00:10:56.660 But the mainstream media was kind of picking on me for it because they just wanted to pick on everything.

00:11:01.960 And they did everything in their power to make it so that I couldn't ask questions because David wasn't there on the Monday.

00:11:09.840 He was there on Thursday or whatever yesterday was.

00:11:14.760 And they would push forward in line.

00:11:17.100 They would push forward past us in elevators while we were waiting to get our bags sniffed by RCMP dogs.

00:11:24.480 They were just trying every trick in the book.

00:11:26.060 And the most hilarious part happened when David and I asked Trudeau both questions each.

00:11:34.740 And this was much to the disappointment of the CBC Radio Canada journalist who was chatting with a TVA journalist as well,

00:11:42.320 trying to, like, with hand signals, explain how they were going to get in front of us in the queue.

00:11:47.500 And immediately after we grilled Justin Trudeau, David and I, and Andrew Lawton as well.

00:11:51.740 It was three in a row.

00:11:52.820 Wow, three in a row.

00:11:53.640 It was really funny.

00:11:55.520 Trudeau's staffer, who Andrew Lawton identified as Justin Trudeau's press secretary,

00:12:01.020 goes up to the Radio Canada journalist and starts scolding him.

00:12:05.200 And the Radio Canada journalist is going like, I can't explain how they did it.

00:12:10.400 Now, I think I know the Radio Canada journalist you're talking about.

00:12:13.040 He's the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, right?

00:12:15.320 Is it Philippe something?

00:12:16.280 Yeah, Voisy or something.

00:12:17.740 I know who you're talking about.

00:12:18.500 I've been trying to get him to accredit us for months.

00:12:21.560 He's clearly in the pocket of the prime minister.

00:12:24.920 And if they scolded him, that seems awfully familiar.

00:12:27.660 You wouldn't scold a journalist for a journalist doing journalism unless he was in your pocket.

00:12:33.080 It's so far.

00:12:33.700 I didn't know that the three years went boom, boom, boom in a row.

00:12:36.820 That's six questions in a row on accountability journalism.

00:12:40.780 That's quite amazing.

00:12:42.300 I say again, Justice Zinn in court on Monday said, what are the odds of even getting a question with 200 journalists there?

00:12:49.600 Well, I guess you really hustled.

00:12:51.680 So you got one, two, three in line.

00:12:53.320 That is a bit of a, that is amazing.

00:12:55.620 Yeah, it was great.

00:12:57.200 They pushed in front of us to get up this escalator because in the museum, there's one way to get up to where the scrum was happening.

00:13:03.560 And it was you had to go up an escalator.

00:13:04.940 And they were trying to push past us, but we were just not having any of it.

00:13:07.560 It's one of those situations where you're not sure how rude you should be by trying to aggressively get in front of someone.

00:13:13.180 And they were being quite aggressive, but we were just not going to have any of it.

00:13:16.840 And they got mad at David.

00:13:18.040 Let's play this video here of that Philippe guy actually scolding David, saying he couldn't be in line because I was also in line.

00:13:27.020 There's two rebel journalists there.

00:13:28.380 He said that was unfair, even though there was plenty of CBC journalists.

00:13:31.900 There was more than 80 CBC journalists.

00:13:35.320 Clearly, he's running errands for the prime minister's office.

00:13:39.040 What a loser.

00:13:40.380 But, I mean, we've always said that they're government journalists.

00:13:44.020 So what are you going to do?

00:13:44.860 Let's take a look at that clip.

00:13:45.660 Question five CBC questions, since there's many, many medias.

00:13:50.140 I think your colleague here...

00:13:51.820 That's my colleague Kim, right?

00:13:53.200 Yeah, so...

00:13:54.560 I mean, just to make sure that every media gets a chance to ask questions.

00:13:59.020 Well, you're first in line, right?

00:14:01.000 Yeah, not for me.

00:14:01.900 I'm just asking for everyone else.

00:14:03.420 I think you're good to ask.

00:14:04.980 I'm not talking about me.

00:14:06.340 I'm just talking about, like, yeah, yeah.

00:14:08.240 What I'm saying is that everyone can ask questions.

00:14:10.080 But you only want us to ask one question, just...

00:14:13.440 Sorry?

00:14:14.060 I'm just saying that there's a lot of medias.

00:14:16.380 The two of you will have one question before I have mine.

00:14:19.200 Okay.

00:14:19.500 That's his point.

00:14:20.160 Maybe every media could have one before you have two.

00:14:24.240 Sure, well, we're just all in line, right?

00:14:26.000 It's one at a time, right?

00:14:27.780 Yeah.

00:14:28.300 But I'm saying that some medias won't have questions, and you'll have two.

00:14:31.880 We just think we have none.

00:14:34.600 We have to get a court order, sir, to get in here.

00:14:36.700 I understand everything.

00:14:37.400 I'm just saying that, I mean, we're all here.

00:14:40.340 Oh, yeah, but we were never here.

00:14:41.600 That's the thing.

00:14:42.440 Are you here?

00:14:43.440 We are here now.

00:14:44.140 We are here, too.

00:14:44.620 But you're telling me not to ask a question, because there's two of us.

00:14:47.400 I'm not telling you not to ask a question.

00:14:48.480 I'm telling you we can all play in a team.

00:14:51.220 Oh, 100%.

00:14:51.980 No, it's not 100%, since you're not playing in a team right now.

00:14:55.860 Well...

00:14:56.180 Because some medias won't have questions. 0.67

00:14:57.800 That's what I'm saying.

00:14:58.420 You're too ahead of me in the line.

00:15:00.020 I'm not talking about me.

00:15:01.120 I'm talking about people here.

00:15:03.480 TVL.

00:15:04.140 Okay.

00:15:04.820 Yeah.

00:15:05.080 Talking about other medias?

00:15:06.820 But we have been excluded, sir, from the entire campaign until...

00:15:10.240 You're here?

00:15:11.100 Is that right?

00:15:11.660 I am planning to ask a question, yeah.

00:15:12.900 Two questions.

00:15:14.260 Well, I don't know.

00:15:15.160 I mean, it depends.

00:15:16.080 So that's a...

00:15:16.740 You are planning to ask two questions.

00:15:17.980 Well, as you know, the Prime Minister has a penchant for not answering questions.

00:15:22.060 It's one and a follow-up.

00:15:22.740 It's question and follow-up, right?

00:15:23.800 Yeah.

00:15:23.920 That's the rule.

00:15:24.980 That's what's going to happen?

00:15:25.900 Yes.

00:15:26.720 Oh, that'd be interesting.

00:15:27.040 Question and follow-up.

00:15:27.620 All right, we'll watch for that.

00:15:28.580 Okay.

00:15:28.840 Is that a problem, or...

00:15:32.160 Well, it's not great.

00:15:33.700 It's my understanding, actually, that from what I was hearing from the gentleman, that

00:15:36.300 you've got two people here, and so you are.

00:15:38.020 I'm planning to ask two questions, which makes it four.

00:15:40.020 Yeah.

00:15:40.960 Oh, sorry.

00:15:41.380 What was that?

00:15:42.780 I think I'm done here.

00:15:43.800 Thanks.

00:15:44.020 Okay.

00:15:45.420 Were there any other moments like that where the Media Party, despite Justice Zinn's order

00:15:50.700 that you're the only court-approved journalist in the country, the three of you, were there

00:15:55.300 any little pouty moments like that, any disparaging, condescending moments like that?

00:16:01.120 Well, the left on Twitter, just to put the Media Party aside, the left on Twitter absolutely

00:16:06.340 exploded.

00:16:07.480 When we asked questions, they said, oh, that's not a fair question.

00:16:10.900 Rosemary Barton said, you're not a journalist just because you call yourself a journalist.

00:16:13.840 Well, I didn't call myself a journalist, Rosie.

00:16:15.460 A judge did.

00:16:16.540 And on top of that, CTV actually cut the audio.

00:16:20.620 They scrambled to cut the audio on their live broadcast because the hilarious part of this

00:16:25.040 is every single member of this consortium, a pool, were playing the Scrum Live because

00:16:31.060 it was interesting news.

00:16:32.320 So they, the CTV, CBC, Global News, were playing the Scrum Live, and were playing three

00:16:37.460 questions in a row from rebel journalists.

00:16:39.640 Six questions.

00:16:40.280 You've got a follow-up.

00:16:41.420 So six questions in a row.

00:16:42.900 That's pretty awesome.

00:16:43.620 And they were just not having any of it when it came to Maxime Bernier.

00:16:46.540 And my question about the media bailout, I said, Maxime, do you think that the media bailout

00:16:51.900 has compromised the coverage of this election?

00:16:53.980 $600 million.

00:16:55.680 You wouldn't know that if you're watching CTV because, well, they cut it out right after

00:17:00.220 I said $600.

00:17:01.040 It was like a cue to them.

00:17:02.200 They're like, oh, we can't talk about that $600 million.

00:17:04.600 So watch this video.

00:17:05.520 I see you for the news.

00:17:08.060 My question is about the $600.

00:17:13.620 So they just killed the sound.

00:17:30.460 It would be funny if it wasn't so Orwellian.

00:17:32.920 They just killed, so they tried to stop the three years, they tried to stop Bernier from

00:17:37.680 getting into debates.

00:17:38.640 They failed.

00:17:39.520 They tried to stop the three years from getting access as accredited journalists.

00:17:43.840 They failed.

00:17:44.880 So their last ditch was to literally kill the sound.

00:17:50.200 There's nothing worse in TV than dead air.

00:17:52.380 I mean, a second feels like an hour.

00:17:56.240 It's the greatest failure.

00:17:58.660 But they chose dead air rather than to have a question they didn't like and an answer they

00:18:04.920 didn't like.

00:18:05.620 That is the purest distillation.

00:18:09.100 That is like a million-time concentrated media party.

00:18:12.700 It's one drop of that will last you a year media party-wise.

00:18:16.460 Yeah, I just imagined in my head the editing team in their back room just pulling plugs

00:18:23.080 trying to figure out, how do I kill the footage too?

00:18:25.780 And it was hilarious because you could hear the audio from the room, just like quiet, like

00:18:29.820 creaking of chairs and stuff like that.

00:18:31.540 And then, of course, there was nothing wrong with the audio other than they just didn't

00:18:34.700 want to hear us.

00:18:35.600 It wasn't technical difficulties broadly in the station because right when it went back

00:18:39.880 to the anchor, who I don't even know who she is, the audio was fine.

00:18:43.780 Yeah, oh, that's just unbelievable.

00:18:50.180 You've said a lot of interesting things.

00:18:51.660 We've seen a lot of interesting things.

00:18:53.420 I just want to show one more clip of, I want to show two more clips.

00:18:58.420 Let's show the clip of you, let's show three clips.

00:19:02.860 Okay.

00:19:04.040 Let's show the six questions in a row to Trudeau about his time at West Point Great Academy.

00:19:11.940 So we're going to just, all three couplets in a row.

00:19:16.040 And what's so awesome is that these were in a row, right off the top, and they were run

00:19:20.140 live.

00:19:20.440 Take a look.

00:19:21.220 Hi, Kian RNN.

00:19:22.560 Have you, your campaign, or any other agents secured non-disclosure agreements from anyone

00:19:26.680 about inappropriate sexual personal conduct?

00:19:30.320 No.

00:19:31.260 Follow up.

00:19:31.880 The 2001 yearbook from West Point Great Academy says that you and convicted sex offender Christopher

00:19:37.420 Ingvoldson made a young student's, quote, life at WPGA a lot more interesting slash amusing,

00:19:43.740 end quote.

00:19:44.400 How did you two keep her amused? 1.00

00:19:47.060 We were teachers.

00:19:48.480 David Menzies, Rebel News.

00:19:49.620 Mr. Prime Minister, you left West Point Great Academy in the middle of a term, which is highly

00:19:55.500 unusual.

00:19:56.640 It was a law firm that made this announcement, which is also highly unusual.

00:20:02.720 Sir, can you tell us the real reason why you left so abruptly?

00:20:06.940 And did it involve any kind of sexual misconduct at the school?

00:20:11.600 I wrote three pages on that in my autobiography, and it involved absolutely nothing of the sort

00:20:19.000 of the rumours that you're trying to spread.

00:20:21.300 Even so, Mr. Prime Minister, a follow-up question.

00:20:23.560 Why did so many teenage girls write so passionately about you in the yearbook?

00:20:30.560 Was there any connection to you having a relationship with these girls or their mothers?

00:20:35.420 I was a good teacher.

00:20:37.280 Good evening, Prime Minister.

00:20:38.420 Andrew Lawton from True North.

00:20:39.580 In English and in French, please.

00:20:40.960 When you were accused of, in her words, groping a young woman at the Kokanee Music Festival,

00:20:47.040 you said that people can experience things differently.

00:20:50.220 When you look back at your career at West Point Great Academy, were there any episodes,

00:20:55.000 any chapters, any incidents where, looking back, you may have, in your view or in the view

00:21:00.060 of anyone else involved, acted inappropriately?

00:21:02.560 No.

00:21:03.280 No.

00:21:04.100 Okay, thank you.

00:21:05.100 And a follow-up to that, sir.

00:21:06.520 I mean, these are questions we're asking publicly because your office has not answered them

00:21:11.000 privately.

00:21:11.940 Do you think they are relevant, given that you have been accused of bullying women you've

00:21:15.660 worked with, firing women that have stood up to you, and accused of groping women?

00:21:19.880 Do you realise that these are important questions?

00:21:21.600 We live in a democracy where people are allowed to ask questions, and where Canadians will make

00:21:27.720 their decisions.

00:21:28.760 I am extremely confident in the values that I've always put forward and the work that

00:21:33.540 I've done for Canadians.

00:21:34.960 And I know that Canadians will base their decision in 10 days on facts and not on internet rumours.

00:21:42.580 If only they were just internet rumours.

00:21:46.720 A lot of the things that Justin Trudeau says are false internet rumours, like Jody Wilson-Raybould's

00:21:51.360 story itself, turn out to be the truth later on.

00:21:54.240 There's one more clip I want to show you of David Menzies putting what I thought was an

00:21:57.920 excellent question to Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party.

00:22:00.900 And I put it to you.

00:22:01.680 Can you name a single other journalist in this entire country who would have cared about

00:22:06.900 this issue and been on this side of the issue and asked it to the Green Party leader?

00:22:11.600 This, in some ways, was my favourite moment of the scrum.

00:22:14.900 Take a look.

00:22:15.420 David Menzies with Rebel News.

00:22:18.140 Ms. May, in 2015, you stated that convicted terrorist Omar Khadar had more class than the

00:22:24.860 entire effing Conservative cabinet under Stephen Harper.

00:22:28.800 Do you still believe in 2019 that this convicted terrorist has more class than the entire Conservative

00:22:34.740 Party under Andrew Scheer?

00:22:36.300 Have you ever been to a press gallery dinner?

00:22:39.020 Do you understand the concept of it being ridiculous with lots of humour?

00:22:43.320 I'm sorry, that's not a real question.

00:22:45.240 Oh, sorry, if this was an attempt at humour, a supplemental question, do you think that

00:22:49.540 the widow and the fatherless children of Christopher Speer, his murder victim, do you think they

00:22:56.620 found that funny, Ms. May?

00:22:58.460 I don't think you understand the concept of press gallery dinner skits, but I will say

00:23:02.740 this.

00:23:03.740 There's very questionable evidence that Omar Khadar committed the crime of which he was accused.

00:23:10.820 It was at the disposal, it was the decision of the U.S. military to describe something

00:23:15.100 that was in a war zone as terrorism, when in the common sense understanding of the word

00:23:19.460 terrorism, it wasn't.

00:23:20.460 And I recommend to you the journalism of Sandy Garrasino, who has produced a photograph that

00:23:26.000 makes it quite clear that at the moment that Mr. Cotter was supposed to have been able

00:23:29.600 to throw a grenade, he was under a pile of rubble.

00:23:32.700 The whole question is very fraught with historical revisionism, and we're not that far into our

00:23:38.600 history.

00:23:39.600 We also know that his rights were violated because he was a child at the time that his parents

00:23:44.520 took him into, that his father took him into a war zone.

00:23:47.520 There's a lot wrong with that story.

00:23:49.520 No, actually there's about seven things wrong with her answer there, including the fact that

00:23:54.520 Omar Khadar was not legally a child, not under Canadian law, not under the UN conventions

00:24:00.280 of the rights of the child, she just made that up.

00:24:02.520 He was in fact convicted by a jury of terrorism, it's not just a spurious allegation, he also confessed

00:24:09.160 to it, with the advice and approval of his very zealous lawyers.

00:24:13.840 He had a lot of very anti-American, pro-terrorist lawyers, they certainly weren't government patsies,

00:24:20.540 they approved his confession.

00:24:23.060 So frankly, every word you said that she said there was untrue.

00:24:27.100 But I say again, the main point of showing that clip was that, can you name me another

00:24:31.160 journalist in the country who would have asked that question?

00:24:34.520 Good for him for remembering the true victims, the children of Christopher Speer.

00:24:42.760 I think it was an incredible week for the rebel.

00:24:46.480 But the writ of Justice Russell Zinn, who commanded this media political industrial complex to let

00:24:56.900 you in, it has expired.

00:25:00.060 This command only applied to these debates.

00:25:03.660 I predict that going forward, there will be a new hatred and deplatforming of rebel journalists,

00:25:11.820 precisely because the whole world saw how well we do, if we're let in.

00:25:17.140 And I think that politicians will be pressured not to talk to us, I think events will be pressured

00:25:22.840 not to allow us in.

00:25:24.460 I think that the very proof of your success that we just saw there will cause the media

00:25:29.960 party to close ranks even harder.

00:25:31.700 You know, I hope that what you say is not true, although I see the writing on the wall.

00:25:37.800 Journalists have a vested interest in protecting their income, and they know that we're pulling

00:25:42.140 the rug out from underneath them.

00:25:44.060 We're hiring people daily, it seems, here at The Rebel, and we're covering stories that

00:25:49.700 the mainstream media refuses to.

00:25:51.500 On your point about politicians, I hope that's not the case.

00:25:53.060 I hope politicians saw that, and I hope the staffers of politicians saw that, because at

00:25:58.820 the end of the day, it's not Andrew Scheer saying that he doesn't want to talk to us,

00:26:02.120 I don't think.

00:26:03.120 Hopefully, I saw the questions that we asked and saw that they were reasonable.

00:26:07.380 They weren't unfair questions.

00:26:08.840 They weren't libelous questions.

00:26:11.180 They weren't anything that the media party says we are.

00:26:14.820 They were very valid questions to Trudeau, to Andrew Scheer, to Maxime Bernier, to Elizabeth

00:26:19.560 May, to Jagmeet Singh.

00:26:22.020 And we saw the fallout that both the block leader got and Jagmeet Singh got.

00:26:27.520 I'm sure they were applauded by the left for ignoring my question.

00:26:31.020 But many people were just like, why would you not answer that question?

00:26:34.360 Especially folks in Alberta, they wanted to know why Jagmeet Singh wouldn't answer that question.

00:26:37.320 Let's put that question up because, I mean, Jagmeet Singh seems to be a nice enough guy

00:26:41.500 on a personal level.

00:26:43.640 But when he detected that you were a rebel, he didn't answer the question, which mistakes

00:26:49.740 the question's purpose.

00:26:51.080 It's not a personal question that you've just been carrying around with you as a person.

00:26:55.280 It's a question that will elicit information about a candidate for millions of viewers to

00:27:00.980 see.

00:27:01.980 The question was not a personal trick or for personal gain.

00:27:06.300 It was to elucidate his views on a particular subject and that he used your identity as an

00:27:10.920 excuse not to answer it.

00:27:12.540 It could be anyone who asked you the question.

00:27:15.160 The question stands on its own merits, but watch Jagmeet Singh avoid the question.

00:27:19.580 I think the avoidance here is terrible.

00:27:21.640 Take a look.

00:27:22.640 Hi.

00:27:23.640 Elizabeth May told me earlier today, and I think she spoke in the other debate recently, that

00:27:28.140 she wants the Alberta oil sands offline in a decade. 0.92

00:27:32.100 What's the date that you want the Alberta oil sands offline?

00:27:34.020 Sir, what's your name?

00:27:35.020 My name's Kian.

00:27:36.020 I'm with RNN.

00:27:37.020 You're with who?

00:27:38.020 RNN.

00:27:39.020 I'm going to pass on the question, my friend.

00:27:40.020 Okay.

00:27:41.020 So do I get the follow up then?

00:27:42.020 Or are you just going to pass on the question for-

00:27:44.020 Yeah, I'm not going to answer that.

00:27:45.020 Because it's a hard one or-

00:27:46.020 No, I'm just not going to answer your question.

00:27:47.020 Anyone else can ask it?

00:27:48.020 The follow up, I guess, would be how do you have the moral authority to take the Alberta oil

00:27:51.880 sands offline given Alberta just recently rejected your party in the largest democratic

00:27:57.460 mandate that the province has ever seen?

00:27:59.340 I'm not going to answer your question, but thanks.

00:28:01.340 It's a hard one, Hank.

00:28:02.340 Yeah.

00:28:03.340 Thanks, man.

00:28:04.340 Now, I got a question.

00:28:05.340 I mean, Kian, I don't know you very well, but we've been working together in a friendly

00:28:09.840 way for a year or so.

00:28:13.920 I can only imagine that the reason he doesn't answer your question is that he finds you politically

00:28:19.280 disagreeable.

00:28:20.280 You're not a criminal.

00:28:22.180 You're not doing anything obscene or immoral.

00:28:25.580 You're not engaging in any sort of misconduct.

00:28:29.200 In fact, the way you got to the front of the line there was through a court order and then

00:28:34.000 through initiative.

00:28:35.000 So there's no reason whatsoever that would justify that conduct.

00:28:40.400 If Al Jazeera, a state-run propaganda arm of Qatar, asked me a question, I might say to them, I'm not

00:28:50.860 talking to you because you're the state-run propaganda arm of Qatar.

00:28:53.880 If Xinhua asked me a question, I might say, well, you're just the Communist Party's mouthpiece and you're spies.

00:28:59.680 So that, I think, could be a legitimate reason not to talk to a particular media outlet because

00:29:05.340 they're not really, like Xinhua and the People's Daily are not journalists.

00:29:09.100 They're propaganda spies.

00:29:12.100 But for Jagmeet Singh to decline to answer your question because of your nature, whereas your

00:29:18.300 nature is simply you're conservative.

00:29:21.480 The reason that's odious is not just that it doesn't participate in the democracy and

00:29:27.480 the journalistic vetting of politicians, but it telegraphs to me what Jagmeet Singh will

00:29:34.480 be like, God forbid, if he were ever granted any power, that if someone were to come to

00:29:39.600 his office and say, I need help with an immigration issue, I need help with a passport issue, I need

00:29:44.440 help, there's a pothole outside my, I need help, he would say, okay, hang on, hang on.

00:29:49.540 Put his name in the database.

00:29:50.540 Is he a conservative?

00:29:51.540 No.

00:29:52.540 Okay, we'll help you.

00:29:53.540 Put his name in the database.

00:29:54.540 Is he a conservative?

00:29:55.540 Yes.

00:29:56.540 Sorry, I'm not going to help you.

00:29:57.540 He showed a warrantless discrimination.

00:30:03.960 He discriminated against you in his answers because you're conservative.

00:30:08.360 In a way, it was deplatforming and it was a way, it was a workaround, Justice Zinn's order

00:30:13.160 that you be accredited.

00:30:15.660 I don't, I mean, they were probably high-fiving and slam dunking in the media party, but if

00:30:21.160 I were someone in Jagmeet Singh's own writing, I'd have to say, is he even my MP or should

00:30:28.400 I go to a neighboring writing?

00:30:30.080 Because this guy clearly hates my kind so much that he won't even let me ask a question.

00:30:34.660 I think you're right about that.

00:30:37.000 I think also the question was harder than, that was probably the most difficult question

00:30:41.360 I asked of the night.

00:30:42.360 Yeah, maybe he wasn't even conservative, maybe he was just looking for a way out from

00:30:45.360 answer because it's a hell of a question.

00:30:46.360 Well, yeah, and the question was a valid question that Albertans and folks in Saskatchewan want

00:30:51.780 an answer to.

00:30:52.780 Is, I mean, they just rejected the NDP, Rachel Notley's government, the largest democratic

00:30:57.960 mandate the province has ever seen.

00:31:00.860 Separatist sentiment is rising on the daily.

00:31:04.960 And if TMX is canceled, there will be riots.

00:31:07.360 You saw the protests of everyday working class Albertans outside of the Hyatt at that I Heart

00:31:16.360 Oil Sands rally.

00:31:17.360 It was on the streets when Justin Trudeau came.

00:31:20.360 Maybe it was Bill Morneau.

00:31:21.360 Either way, the crowds were huge.

00:31:23.360 And if TMX is canceled, how does the NDP have the moral authority, or the Green Party for

00:31:28.360 that matter, or the Liberal Party have any moral authority to govern Alberta when they

00:31:33.360 can't get an iota of support in that region?

00:31:38.360 Yeah.

00:31:39.360 Well, Ian, listen, I think you had a great week.

00:31:41.360 David Menzies, too.

00:31:42.360 I think we're punching above our weight in this election.

00:31:46.360 We're asking accountability journalism that viewers love, politicians hate, and our competitors

00:31:53.360 are trying to quash.

00:31:55.360 That tells me we're on the right track.

00:31:57.360 Ian, great to see you.

00:31:58.360 Great to see you, too.

00:31:59.360 All right, folks.

00:32:00.360 Stay with us.

00:32:01.360 Final thoughts right after this.

00:32:11.360 Well, what a week.

00:32:12.360 I tell you, from the federal court in Toronto on Monday to the deplatforming of my book launch

00:32:21.360 in Edmonton on Thursday, it was exhilarating, thrilling, stressful.

00:32:26.360 But I feel like the Rebel had one of our best weeks ever.

00:32:30.360 We asked some of the best questions we ever had in the most important time to do so.

00:32:34.360 Even though we were technically shut out, I mean, not technically, physically shut out

00:32:39.360 of the Princess Theatre in Edmonton, we had hundreds of people show up anyways, and we

00:32:43.360 concocted or came up with or discovered a new strategy for fighting against the deplatformers. 1.00

00:32:48.360 I'll talk a little bit more about that on Monday's show.

00:32:50.360 I thought it was a great week.

00:32:51.360 I hope you did, too.

00:32:52.360 And I thank you for being such strong supporters of the Rebel.

00:32:55.360 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:33:00.360 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:02.360 All right.

00:33:03.360 I think you have been so strong.

00:33:04.360 Thank you.

00:33:05.360 Thank you.

00:33:06.360 Thank you.

00:33:07.360 Thank you.

00:33:08.860 You're welcome, everybody.

00:33:09.360 Thank you.

00:33:10.360 Thank you.

00:33:11.360 Thank you.

00:33:12.360 Thank you.

00:33:13.360 Thank you.

00:33:14.360 Bye.

00:33:15.360 Thank you.

00:33:16.360 Say hello.

00:33:17.360 I will be doing.

00:33:18.360 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - October 12, 2019

Who won last night’s leaders debate？ Not the Canadian people.

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