Rebel News Podcast - Why Hudson's Bay dumped Ivanka Trump's clothing line (Guest host： David Menzies)

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the Hudson's Bay is dropping the Ivanka Trump clothing line.

00:00:04.660 Was this a business decision or progressive bullying?

00:00:08.700 It's July 17th. I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.

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00:00:22.880 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:26.480 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.

00:00:30.000 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:40.280 Attention Hudson's Bay shoppers.

00:00:42.400 The Ivanka Trump clothing line is heading to the clearance bin.

00:00:46.580 Yes, the Bay is phasing out this high-end haberdashery.

00:00:50.100 But what is responsible for its demise?

00:00:53.660 Is it poor sales or is it mounting pressure by the usual suspects?

00:00:58.680 So, the Hudson's Bay chain is the latest retailer to axe the Ivanka Trump line of clothing.

00:01:05.800 Hey, it is the Bay's right to sell or not to sell.

00:01:08.840 Anything it so chooses.

00:01:10.660 No argument there.

00:01:12.100 And in a Toronto Star story, a Bay spokesperson had this to say about the Ivanka Trump merchandise.

00:01:18.700 Quote, Hudson's Bay is phasing out this brand through the fall based on its performance.

00:01:24.580 As part of our regular course of business, we review our merchandise offerings and make appropriate changes.

00:01:31.560 End quote.

00:01:32.480 So, there you have it.

00:01:34.180 It's all about performance.

00:01:36.080 Or is it?

00:01:37.500 Now, the Bay doesn't have to divulge sales figures.

00:01:40.920 And to be quite frank, if the chain was axing any other clothing line, I wouldn't give a Rotom's rectum.

00:01:47.520 But because there's a Donald Trump hook to this story, well, folks, my spidey senses are tingling.

00:01:54.960 After all, those suffering from Trump derangement syndrome continue to wage war on anything associated with the president.

00:02:02.660 In the case of the Ivanka line of clothing, Nordstrom's and Sears ceased to carry the line last year.

00:02:09.480 But again, I'd love to know if this eradication is due to lackluster sales, as claimed,

00:02:15.800 or if this is all about bending to the will of progressive bullies.

00:02:20.760 After all, more than 40 companies and organizations are listed on the hashtag grab your wallet boycott list,

00:02:28.120 either because they carry Trump products, or they have some sort of indirect connection with the president.

00:02:34.940 So, one must ponder if this pressure got to the Bay.

00:02:39.000 And if the Bay is indeed caving to such pressure,

00:02:43.220 let's just consider the caliber of people that the chain is indeed acquiescing to.

00:02:48.440 You see, in February 2017, we ventured out to Toronto's flagship Bay store to cover a protest over the Ivanka Trump merchandise

00:02:57.820 by a group called the Peeved Beavers.

00:03:01.340 Yeah, the Peeved Beavers.

00:03:03.760 And in case you missed that report, here are a few highlights.

00:03:08.760 Oh, you're one of the Peeved Beavers, right?

00:03:10.380 I am. I'm a Peeved Beaver, I mean.

00:03:12.420 Now, what's peeving you off, ma'am? 1.00

00:03:13.800 Oh, boy. So much. It's a heavy time.

00:03:17.920 I don't believe that Canada has the values that we're seeing be allowed, I guess,

00:03:25.040 such a big voice in the States under Donald Trump.

00:03:28.800 It upsets me that Hudson's Bay has not taken a stand, as Nordstrom has,

00:03:33.880 to not support Ivanka Trump and her line of clothing.

00:03:39.200 When you think of all the things, I guess, facing women in so many countries around the world,

00:03:43.800 is this really such a big deal?

00:03:46.000 Absolutely it is. I mean, you have to start somewhere.

00:03:48.820 You have to fight all forms of oppression. This is oppressive.

00:03:51.980 The message from the Trump government and Ivanka, because she's his first lady, you know.

00:03:58.660 I don't think she's a first lady. 0.80

00:04:00.420 She's performing the duties that a first lady normally does, 1.00

00:04:03.940 and this is well documented in the press.

00:04:06.180 Yeah, so Ivanka is the first lady, or is at least performing the duties of the first lady, 1.00

00:04:14.960 which has been well documented in the press, so it must be true, right?

00:04:20.080 Yikes. But wait, folks, there's more.

00:04:22.660 Like, Trump is a misogynist, right?

00:04:26.660 So if I protest against his daughter and that brand and that information that they support,

00:04:33.480 then I am fighting for women's rights and the rights of everyone.

00:04:37.220 When I look at a country, say, Saudi Arabia, a woman can't drive, can't vote, 1.00

00:04:41.780 has to completely cover herself in a fabric. 1.00

00:04:45.860 I mean, to me, that seems far more misogynistic than anything coming out of the White House.

00:04:51.500 Oh, I disagree entirely.

00:04:54.120 Oh, absolutely. Grab her by the pussy? 1.00

00:04:57.360 You think that's acceptable?

00:04:59.020 That was locker room talk, but by the same token, you're calling yourself the Peeve Beavers.

00:05:03.440 Yeah.

00:05:04.580 Well, isn't that a slur word for female genitalia as well? 1.00

00:05:09.280 I guess we're co-opting the name.

00:05:12.620 You know, I think I can actually feel myself getting dumber as I listen to this stuff.

00:05:17.340 And as the day wore on, folks, it only got more bizarre.

00:05:22.660 Just listen to this surreal chant.

00:05:26.160 The Eye of Sauron is upon us!

00:05:30.460 Did you catch that?

00:05:31.900 She actually referred to Donald Trump as the Eye of Sauron.

00:05:36.780 Yeah, the villain from The Lord of the Rings.

00:05:39.000 Oh, Little Hobbit, what nonsense you spew.

00:05:51.620 Bottom line, if indeed the Bay was coerced by the likes of the Peeve Beavers to drop the Ivanka Trump line of clothing,

00:05:59.540 then this surely falls into the category of not knowing your audience.

00:06:04.220 From what I can tell, such progressive protester posses simply aren't into high fashion in the first place.

00:06:12.620 Meanwhile, those who are Trump supporters, which is a very sizable number, I would suggest,

00:06:19.380 might just find themselves royally peeved off now.

00:06:23.140 And I should think that the Bay had better hope that these people, i.e. their customers,

00:06:29.860 don't demonstrate their discontent by taking all of their department store business elsewhere.

00:06:36.920 Stay with us.

00:06:38.060 More of the Ezra Levin show coming up.

00:06:53.140 Well, it's the end of an era.

00:06:58.700 The iconic logo of the Greyhound Bus Company won't be seen on the roads of much of Western Canada

00:07:04.420 as the company plans to end service in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and most of British Columbia come October.

00:07:12.440 But the question arises, what led to Greyhound abandoning these markets in the first place?

00:07:18.320 With more on this story is Edmonton Sun columnist Lauren Gunter.

00:07:21.600 Welcome to the Ezra Levin show, Lauren.

00:07:25.040 Thank you very much.

00:07:26.140 Always great to have you.

00:07:27.060 And Lauren, you recently wrote a superb column about the demise of Greyhound in the West.

00:07:31.820 And while more people are driving cars these days and using discount airliners,

00:07:37.040 it appears that Greyhound was also burdened by just too much government regulation.

00:07:43.500 Can you elaborate on that?

00:07:45.340 Sure.

00:07:45.620 I mean, I think it's interesting that Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader federally,

00:07:50.900 has called for funding for Greyhound to keep it going when what's needed is for the provincial governments

00:07:58.020 that where it operates to all get out of the way of creative solutions.

00:08:04.260 So Greyhound is by its own decision kind of married to big buses, to, you know, overbuilt terminals with regular schedules, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:08:17.780 So part of it is a business decision.

00:08:19.580 But part of it, too, is that provincial governments, with the exception of Alberta, which deregulated buses in 2011,

00:08:27.200 most of the rest of the provinces that are affected by this pullout dictate to Greyhound that it must run certain routes,

00:08:35.920 that it must have certain buses, that it can't abandon X and Y village, that it has to stop everywhere,

00:08:42.760 regardless of whether there's been a passenger there or not in the last 15 years.

00:08:47.920 So Greyhound has an awful lot of baggage to carry, literally and figuratively.

00:08:52.820 And that's one of the big reasons why it's not profitable.

00:08:55.700 Well, clearly, Lauren, it seems to me from what your column states, the government isn't really good when it comes to the bus business.

00:09:03.640 Maybe it's not good in any business for that matter.

00:09:06.080 And, you know, I think you nailed it in one of the paragraphs.

00:09:08.700 As an example, you said, for instance, a government might decree that there had to be a full-size bus,

00:09:15.820 leave Town A at least once a day, headed for Big City B.

00:09:20.340 Didn't matter whether there was enough business to turn a profit on that route.

00:09:24.220 The government felt there was a valid public policy reason for the service, so it commanded Greyhound to do so.

00:09:30.200 Well, Lauren, you know, the question begs if Greyhound was, why would the government mandate Greyhound to run a full-size, say, 53-seat bus

00:09:41.180 when, you know, there wasn't enough people to even fill one-third of that bus?

00:09:46.240 They could get by with that edict at maybe a profitable basis if they ran a smaller shuttle, but you're telling me they weren't allowed to.

00:09:53.340 Exactly. And one of the examples that proves that point, David, is that in about six years ago, Acadia bus lines,

00:10:01.700 which was the Greyhound equivalent in the three maritime provinces, it decided it was going to fold

00:10:07.180 because it could no longer be profitable with its model, which was also big highway buses and built-up terminals

00:10:16.400 and, you know, the standard old-fashioned bus model.

00:10:20.720 And everybody, well, not everybody, but lots of people in the three maritime provinces

00:10:25.700 wrung their hands and moaned about the fact that they were losing this bus service

00:10:30.880 and people wouldn't be able to get to medical appointments

00:10:33.480 and poor people wouldn't be able to get to jobs and et cetera, et cetera.

00:10:36.420 The same arguments that are being made now with Greyhound,

00:10:39.440 but what happened was the three maritime provinces then had to accept maritime bus,

00:10:45.700 which was a much more flexible private sector bus service,

00:10:49.740 which sometimes runs VAM from one town to the next when there's not enough business for a big city bus.

00:10:56.120 And it will cut back on the schedule during off-peak periods of the year

00:11:01.140 and off-peak periods of the week.

00:11:03.380 You know, you don't have the same schedule every day.

00:11:06.460 You don't have the same schedule every month or every season.

00:11:08.740 And so that has allowed bus service to reestablish itself wherever there's demand

00:11:15.900 in the three maritime provinces without the government having to come in

00:11:20.700 and either subsidize the old service, which was Acadian,

00:11:25.000 or start up its own service.

00:11:28.720 I'll give you a very good example.

00:11:30.000 In Saskatchewan, until May of last year, May of 2017,

00:11:33.440 they owned their own intercity bus company.

00:11:37.220 It was called Saskatchewan Transit Company.

00:11:39.360 And lots of people very sentimental about the way they are about the CBC

00:11:42.920 or about Canada Post.

00:11:45.120 We must have these things.

00:11:46.540 We've always had them.

00:11:47.660 They're so much more reliable and fairer than the private sector.

00:11:51.980 Well, the Saskatchewan government owned STC until May of 2017.

00:11:56.780 And finally, the Brad Wall government got rid of it because they calculated that

00:12:02.180 on most routes, the subsidy per passenger per trip had climbed to between $90 and $100.

00:12:10.100 So every time somebody got on the bus, taxpayers had to pay $90 to $100

00:12:13.440 to take them from where they got picked up to where they got dropped off.

00:12:17.660 And that's basically what's been happening to Greyhound indirectly

00:12:21.800 through all of these government regulations.

00:12:23.680 So if the government's in B.C., Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba

00:12:27.740 will just get out of the way and allow private sectors to start up, 0.98

00:12:31.740 it might just be Dave with a van.

00:12:34.320 It might just be Lorne with the big station wagon.

00:12:37.620 But there will be a service.

00:12:40.140 And it will match what the demand in pump-handle Saskatchewan is.

00:12:45.960 Well, you know, Lorne, here's a hypothetical question for you.

00:12:49.600 And it's this. Is Greyhound really serious about this pullout?

00:12:54.360 Or is this, to use a Trumpian phrase, the art of the deal?

00:12:57.980 And what I'm getting at is that they make this announcement to get a reaction from government

00:13:04.300 for government to come back to Greyhound and look and say,

00:13:07.400 listen, you can't leave there.

00:13:09.080 You know, there's still significant demand.

00:13:11.620 What can we do with the regulations to change them to make this more profitable for you

00:13:17.600 to remain as a bus carrier in Western Canada?

00:13:21.180 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:13:22.920 Western Canada is such a small market for Greyhound now.

00:13:26.700 It's almost lost.

00:13:28.900 It's lost almost 50% of its ridership in Western Canada since 2010.

00:13:32.960 And as you said in the intro, the big reason for that is there's now discount airlines.

00:13:40.100 I looked this up the other day when Greyhound announced it was pulling out.

00:13:43.280 If I wanted to go from Edmonton to Winnipeg on Greyhound, it would cost me over $170.

00:13:49.860 If I wanted to go from Edmonton to Winnipeg on WestJet, it would cost me $270.

00:13:56.020 So for about $100 difference, I can get there in two hours versus 16 to 18 hours.

00:14:01.560 Well, there aren't many people who won't make that choice.

00:14:04.520 Even people on low income are choosing that kind of convenience over the ordeal of going

00:14:10.440 on the bus.

00:14:11.000 There's not that much romance.

00:14:12.460 I remember people when I went home from university, about nine hours, a one-way trip, four or five

00:14:20.260 times a year on Greyhound from Edmonton to Madison Hat.

00:14:24.840 And you had to stop in a bunch of little towns and you had to have a two-hour layover in Calgary

00:14:28.780 while you switched buses.

00:14:29.760 And it wasn't particularly convenient.

00:14:32.280 But at the time, nobody thought different of it because there were no other alternatives.

00:14:36.300 I couldn't drive.

00:14:37.440 There wasn't a flight that was affordable.

00:14:40.760 And so you just took the bus.

00:14:42.140 That's what it was.

00:14:42.660 And sometimes people then were kind of nostalgic about, oh, I had this great long discussion

00:14:47.100 with this lady who was going to visit her child.

00:14:50.180 You've heard all of that stuff.

00:14:52.280 And there's still some of that nostalgia, some of that fuzzy feeling about Greyhound in the

00:15:00.300 reaction to this announcement.

00:15:01.760 But from a utilitarian standpoint, more people are driving.

00:15:07.400 More people are taking flights.

00:15:09.360 And it's just not profitable for Greyhound as it's structured to do it.

00:15:14.900 Greyhound just built a brand new terminal in Edmonton.

00:15:17.200 It's not fancy.

00:15:18.220 But it got moved out of its downtown location by our new hockey rink.

00:15:22.340 And so they built a new rink.

00:15:24.180 Or a new rink.

00:15:25.060 They built a new terminal out by the freeway.

00:15:27.820 And now they're backing away from that because that kind of model just doesn't work for bus

00:15:33.680 companies anymore.

00:15:34.920 One last question then, Lorne.

00:15:36.220 What do you think of the politicization of this Greyhound withdrawal from Western Canada?

00:15:42.060 For example, it's been floated that people in rural areas, native reserves, they're going

00:15:50.580 to be forced to hitchhike.

00:15:52.440 This will particularly put women at risk.

00:15:55.180 And I noticed earlier today, Prime Minister Trudeau made some announcement, nothing concrete,

00:16:02.960 but he wants Mark Garneau, the transportation minister, to look into remedies.

00:16:07.200 So I guess what I'm asking you, sir, is how do you see this playing out?

00:16:11.340 Or is it just come Halloween, that's it for Greyhound in Western Canada?

00:16:16.360 Well, I do think that the feds, because they're progressives, and most of the provincial governments

00:16:23.020 in the West, including the Alberta NDP, who are progressives, will try and come up with

00:16:29.380 some sort of government solution to this.

00:16:31.460 But that's because progressives have no imagination.

00:16:34.560 Whenever there is an issue that comes forward, the only solution they ever see is a government

00:16:40.080 solution, a taxpayer-funded solution.

00:16:42.700 And so will they try and come up with some money?

00:16:44.840 But at the very most, that will only prevent the inevitable from happening.

00:16:49.280 They simply have to get out of the way and let local entrepreneurs figure out what it is.

00:16:55.880 There's going to be somebody in almost all of these communities, or somebody in a region

00:17:01.720 of one of these provinces, or over all three provinces.

00:17:04.660 There's going to be someone who says, look, there's a bunch of buses now that I can get

00:17:08.520 for pennies on the dollar from Greyhound, I can run them.

00:17:12.900 If I also have some vans, 12-passenger vans, I can run those too, and we'll provide the service.

00:17:18.740 That's going to happen.

00:17:20.100 There is just too many people in Western Canada who need to get to oil rigs and into the bush, 0.89

00:17:27.000 you know, into logging operations and things, that there isn't enough, you know, there's

00:17:31.920 clearly enough business for some sort of transportation like this.

00:17:36.460 But it's not on the Greyhound model, and it's not on the regulated model that governments

00:17:40.840 are thinking of.

00:17:41.660 And so somebody coming along and deciding to give taxpayer dollars to keep Greyhound alive

00:17:46.720 is merely funding a system that's inevitably going to collapse.

00:17:51.840 Well, there you have it.

00:17:52.480 And Lauren, maybe like you said earlier, if government does get out of the way, maybe with

00:17:56.880 my minivan and your station wagon, we can be the new carriers of people in Western Canada.

00:18:03.340 It might not be a nostalgic ride, but it'll be a ride to Point B to, and nevertheless...

00:18:08.580 Well, I'm old enough now that I'm full of nostalgia.

00:18:11.720 I can go on about nostalgia.

00:18:15.300 Well, people tell me I'm full of something too, but I can't say it on a family show.

00:18:19.240 Lauren, thank you so much for weighing in on the Greyhound issue.

00:18:21.980 Much appreciated.

00:18:23.400 Don't worry.

00:18:24.160 Thank you.

00:18:24.840 And folks, keep it here.

00:18:25.980 More of the Ezra Levin show to come right after this.

00:18:28.200 Well, the most recent global report card rating CO2 emissions has arrived, and the results

00:18:45.540 are eyebrow-raising.

00:18:47.200 For example, just check out which country had the largest decline in CO2 emissions.

00:18:53.540 Well, it was none other than the United States of America.

00:18:56.840 But on the flip side, just check out which country made the top 10 list in terms of having

00:19:03.340 one of the largest increases in CO2 emissions.

00:19:07.520 Well, it's Canada.

00:19:09.540 But how can this be?

00:19:10.900 Haven't we been led to believe that the Trudeau liberals are climate change crusaders, whereas

00:19:16.120 the Trump administration doesn't give a darn about the environment?

00:19:20.200 Well, joining me now to make sense of it all is Mark Morano, the founder of ClimateDepot.com.

00:19:27.980 Thanks for coming on the Ezra Levin show, Mark.

00:19:30.940 Thank you, David.

00:19:31.680 Happy to be here today.

00:19:32.860 In the U.S., leading the way on fighting climate change under Donald Trump.

00:19:38.220 Trump is the climate hero.

00:19:40.000 But, you know, here's the thing, Mark.

00:19:42.800 How did this come to be, given the narrative right off the bat?

00:19:46.640 What factors have led to the U.S. actually having the greatest decrease in carbon emissions?

00:19:54.220 Well, it's been.

00:19:55.380 The simple answer is fracking, as it replaces coal for electricity use in the United States.

00:20:01.700 Fracking is just so much more cleaner, efficient, lower CO2 burning.

00:20:06.040 Not the clean and CO2 go together, but just in a lot of other pollutants.

00:20:09.720 And it's becoming ubiquitous and cheap.

00:20:12.200 So what's happened is they don't want to they don't want to credit.

00:20:15.220 When I say they, I mean, the environmental groups, the media doesn't want to credit fracking.

00:20:19.100 So originally they were trying to say, well, this is because of the great recession of 2007

00:20:24.080 and 2008.

00:20:25.180 And by the way, you may have seen some of the extreme weather we're getting here now.

00:20:29.520 But they tried to blame it on the big stock market and recession we had 2008.

00:20:34.300 And they tried that for years to say, oh, it's just a leftover of that.

00:20:38.580 In fact, they were so optimistic that I would go to United Nations conferences and climate

00:20:43.760 activists like Kevin Anderson out of the U.K. and other U.N. officials were calling for

00:20:47.880 planned recessions in order to lower emissions and fight global warming.

00:20:51.920 That's how convinced.

00:20:53.000 But the problem now is that argument no longer holds any water as we go forward here, because

00:20:57.880 the U.S. economy is doing very well with record low unemployment and very steady, robust economic

00:21:04.460 growth.

00:21:05.220 And we're still leading the way.

00:21:07.420 It's because of the energy revolution in technology, not because of regulations, not

00:21:12.640 because of treaties.

00:21:13.740 We're pulling out of the U.N.

00:21:15.280 Paris Agreement and we're going full steam on fossil fuels.

00:21:18.560 And we're still leading the world.

00:21:20.420 It just goes to show you this is about technology and about unleashing and allowing the energy

00:21:28.000 sector and the free market to go and to go out and get that energy, which is what's happening

00:21:32.260 mostly in the United States.

00:21:33.940 We still have states like New York that won't even allow fracking. 0.81

00:21:37.380 Well, you know, Mark, I find that incredible that people on the other side of this issue

00:21:41.380 actually advocate for a recession as being a good thing.

00:21:45.880 But, you know, I guess we're used to that kind of inanity from some of those progressives.

00:21:52.480 But tell me, I guess from what you're saying, it seems to me that it's deregulation that

00:21:59.760 is leading the U.S. toward what some call the fracking miracle, with the exception of New

00:22:06.440 York, of course.

00:22:07.620 Do I have that right, Mark, that there's fewer regulations that are preventing the energy

00:22:11.800 companies to going out there and getting this energy to market?

00:22:15.880 Yeah, I mean, I've been toward several different fracking sites.

00:22:19.480 It's amazing.

00:22:20.340 It's not just deregulation.

00:22:22.140 I mean, it's deregulation, but it's also just that incentive.

00:22:26.240 You know, I was in Pennsylvania and it's amazing to see the amount of drilling they're able to

00:22:32.880 do, the amount of oil, the amount of small, like small time operators that are able to

00:22:38.120 just start up companies and start and make money and the landowners making money.

00:22:42.320 So what's happening is there's become a glut, if you will, and that's actually helping to

00:22:47.800 keep energy costs down in the U.S.

00:22:49.700 And it's also helping to lower our emissions, if that's your goal.

00:22:53.620 And it is ironic because even the New York Times this week had an article from a Notre 0.96

00:22:58.260 Dame professor calling, essentially saying that we need central planning and capitalism 0.99

00:23:03.100 is the root of all this evil in order to fight global warming.

00:23:06.000 And this was a guy lamenting that he had his daughter saying that he doesn't know why he would

00:23:10.520 be contributing to the horrible, you know, state of our earth and, you know, given all

00:23:14.800 the stuff we need.

00:23:15.580 I mean, they openly advocate the opposite from what works here, the climate activists do.

00:23:21.740 And that's what we're facing.

00:23:22.800 Another irony here is that Europe, which is much further along on the road to socialism or

00:23:29.080 central planning, if you will, are doing much, much worse.

00:23:32.900 They're right in the middle of the pack of the countries doing poorly with rising emissions.

00:23:37.400 So the irony here is you have all of the French, the French president, Macron, other European

00:23:43.220 union nations and Europe leaders looking down on the Trump administration with their, you

00:23:48.400 know, if their nose is held high as though we're some kind of scientific rubes because

00:23:53.000 we're not involved in the U.N.

00:23:54.740 Paris agreement.

00:23:55.500 Meanwhile, in real world data, we're kicking their rear ends in terms of lowering our emissions.

00:24:00.680 Again, if that's your target and goal, and I don't even think it should be with CO2.

00:24:04.240 But it's amazing because they're trying to make shame us, in the words of John Kerry,

00:24:09.820 global shaming for not being part of the U.N.

00:24:12.420 Paris agreement.

00:24:13.040 But we're showing we don't even need it if you care about if you care about emissions.

00:24:16.960 No, you're quite right, Mark.

00:24:18.580 And the numbers bear you out.

00:24:20.480 I have here that EU emissions were up one point five percent.

00:24:25.000 And it really kills me because aren't these European countries typically where these U.N.

00:24:32.940 climate change summits are hosted?

00:24:35.680 Aren't these the, you know, the great leaders, the progressives trying to tell us how to do

00:24:42.600 things?

00:24:43.220 And yet here we have them up one point five percent, whereas the U.S.

00:24:47.500 is down.

00:24:48.780 Do you have any other insight into what's leading that trend?

00:24:52.040 Well, in Europe, they're trying all they've tried a whole series of green energy mandates.

00:24:59.620 And if you remember, the whole premise of this, going back to Al Gore's film and all

00:25:03.100 these environmental activists, if they want to essentially ban energy that works and then

00:25:08.000 mandate energy that's not ready for prime time, it may never be.

00:25:11.540 I mean, we don't know.

00:25:12.280 Solar could have huge breakthroughs.

00:25:13.840 You never want to be against science or technology.

00:25:16.540 Wind has been around since, what, the 13th century and still hasn't progressed to the point

00:25:20.320 where it can take over on any large scale.

00:25:22.820 So what's happened here in Europe and in Germany is that they're failing spectacularly and then

00:25:28.520 they're being forced to rely back on the old standby of coal and other forms of energy because

00:25:35.280 they're not all these projections that they had of green energy just filling in the void

00:25:39.820 and coming over isn't happening.

00:25:42.420 So we're finding that they haven't unleashed the market.

00:25:45.140 They haven't deregulated.

00:25:46.240 They've actually gone the opposite in trying to follow UN mandates or trying to essentially

00:25:50.300 plan.

00:25:51.240 And they're finding that it's just not, you know, it's not working out for them.

00:25:55.340 And those numbers are giving us, they sound low, 1.5 percent.

00:26:01.060 But if you look at these as long term trends, Europe's doing terrible.

00:26:03.840 The US has had significant declines because these add up.

00:26:07.280 And again, I don't know, going forward, it's going to be interesting to see how this how this

00:26:11.480 happens because the cleaner and more technologically advanced to become the lower emissions in the

00:26:16.260 bottom line is China is going to probably continue to go for decades before they peak in 0.98

00:26:21.440 their emissions.

00:26:22.580 And of course, they're not doing it really squat when it comes to the UN Paris Agreement

00:26:26.280 in India and all these other countries.

00:26:27.920 So it really is, as the UN climate official Eden Hofer had said years ago, this really is

00:26:33.740 not about the climate, energy or environment.

00:26:35.820 It's about redistribution of wealth and it's about empowering the United Nations.

00:26:41.080 In the words of the other UN climate chief, Christina Figueres, the former chief, it is

00:26:45.220 about a central transformation that will make life on planet Earth very different for everyone.

00:26:49.840 They really don't care ultimately about the emissions.

00:26:52.680 They care about who's in charge and who's who's centrally planning this.

00:26:56.700 No, I think you're right, Mark.

00:26:57.700 And by the way, since one last question, since you did mention China, that was the other finding

00:27:01.960 of the report card.

00:27:02.880 I noticed together, China and India accounted for nearly half of the entire total global

00:27:10.640 carbon emission increase.

00:27:12.180 These two countries, yet these two countries, they always seem to be getting a pass from

00:27:17.260 the progressives, don't they?

00:27:19.140 Yeah, not only do they get a pass, but China will set up windmills in cities that turn into 0.79

00:27:24.820 ghost towns of all these windmills that no one uses, but they get all this credit.

00:27:29.340 China's investing X amount of dollars.

00:27:31.160 Oh, China's way ahead of the U.S. 0.94

00:27:33.580 I don't begrudge them because in terms of their emissions, because they need massive

00:27:38.000 development, India and China.

00:27:39.800 And they're going to continue this way for a long time to come because they're in dire

00:27:44.300 poverty, particularly throughout Asia and all these in the developing world.

00:27:47.840 So they need to develop.

00:27:49.640 The immorality comes here where the developing world, white, wealthy Westerners are telling 0.99

00:27:54.540 people of color in Africa and Asia, South America that they can't develop the way we 0.91

00:27:59.200 can, that they need to have.

00:28:00.660 And in the famous case, the U.N.

00:28:02.180 climate chief was touting solar panels on huts made of dung as a way for people to have,

00:28:08.440 you know, energy instead of actually touting real coal power or nuclear or gas to come

00:28:15.260 in there and actually give them infrastructure and clean up their rivers and clean up the air

00:28:19.440 they breathe so they don't have to burn wood and dung and huts made of dung.

00:28:23.660 So this is, you know, it's something where we should applaud what China is doing.

00:28:28.040 China is about 1880 with the United States and the Industrial Revolution.

00:28:32.540 They have a long way to go to industrialize.

00:28:35.300 And then they'll eventually stabilize, clean up their air, and eventually their emissions

00:28:38.720 will lower.

00:28:39.860 But, you know, I don't begrudge them that.

00:28:41.840 But I do begrudge all these greens out there trying to tout China as the green energy role 0.99

00:28:46.500 model when they're building coal plant after coal plant on a weekly basis.

00:28:51.040 Yeah, you know, and I'll leave it at that, Mark.

00:28:53.060 It reminds me, last month in Toronto, we had the annual naked bicycle ride.

00:28:58.300 And the ostensible policy reason for this was it was a protest against big oil.

00:29:03.540 And yet two things.

00:29:04.800 One is that all these bicycles, well, they were manufactured in China, which meant they 0.56

00:29:12.340 had to be shipped over here, and it wasn't dilithium crystals powering the ships or the

00:29:17.080 manufacturing process.

00:29:18.220 And it's really nice to do a naked bike ride in Toronto when it's plus 30 in June and not

00:29:23.880 minus 30 in January, where they would need all those polycarbonate materials that they

00:29:29.400 wear to keep them warm.

00:29:31.080 So the hypocrisy and the delusion is off the charts.

00:29:34.900 I guess that's where I was getting with that anecdote.

00:29:36.840 But, Mark, thank you so much for weighing in to make sense of this.

00:29:40.360 I really appreciate your time.

00:29:42.340 Thank you, David.

00:29:43.060 I appreciate it.

00:29:43.680 Thank you, Mark.

00:29:44.380 And folks, keep it here.

00:29:45.700 More of the Ezreal event show to come right after this.

00:29:59.220 Well, lots of comments on my video about the University of Wyoming getting slammed by the

00:30:04.180 usual PC suspects for their new marketing slogan, namely, the world needs more cowboys.

00:30:10.760 Apparently, the world needs more cowboys is not inclusive enough, and therefore, that apparently

00:30:18.440 makes the term cowboy both racist and sexist.

00:30:23.080 No, I'm not making this up, folks.

00:30:25.520 Harold writes, remember cowboys and Indians?

00:30:29.280 Well, today, it's bovine management personnel and First Nations peoples.

00:30:34.260 Yes, indeed, Harold.

00:30:35.180 The language continues to evolve.

00:30:37.000 Or is it devolve when it comes to what is and is not acceptable in 2018?

00:30:43.480 And who knew that cowboys is the new C word, at least according to all the progressives

00:30:50.440 out there?

00:30:50.920 Hey, forget about the controversy over the Washington Redskins nickname and logo.

00:30:55.560 Maybe it will be the NFL's Dallas-based franchise that will have to change its name soon.

00:31:02.520 And Maurice writes, I've met many cowboys in my life.

00:31:06.140 Every single one of them has been sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, Islamophobic, even the black 1.00

00:31:13.140 female Muslim ones. 1.00

00:31:14.920 Cow people, on the other hand.

00:31:16.820 Well, maybe that is the solution, Maurice.

00:31:19.660 To take the boy out of cowboy, just like removing man from mankind. 0.98

00:31:25.260 Maybe if we were to refer to cowboys as cow people, then such a gender neutral term would 0.98

00:31:32.220 lead to more sensitivity and more inclusive behavior.

00:31:36.300 One thing is for certain, Justin Trudeau would surely approve of that rebranding.

00:31:42.040 And Lee writes, I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but after 24 years of living in Calgary, I can

00:31:47.940 easily think of a hundred or more stampede rodeo competitors who were Aboriginal or black

00:31:53.900 or otherwise non-white.

00:31:56.220 And of course, some of them won the championship.

00:31:59.780 And I'm not even that much of a rodeo fan.

00:32:03.300 Oh yes, the truth can be so inconvenient sometimes.

00:32:07.500 Yes, Lee, I have seen those types of cow people too. 1.00

00:32:11.040 Here's the problem.

00:32:11.880 Do you think that any progressive would be caught dead at a rodeo, an event that actually celebrates

00:32:16.980 Western heritage?

00:32:18.600 Looney leftists tend to stay cocooned in their safe spaces, tucked away in their ivory towers,

00:32:24.440 far, far removed from reality.

00:32:26.580 In the meantime, let's just hope the University of Wyoming sticks to its guns and resists the

00:32:32.200 pressure to drop its slogan.

00:32:34.200 That would be the cowboy way of doing things after all.

00:32:38.260 Well, folks, thanks so much for tuning in to the Ezra on the Vent Show.

00:32:41.260 And I will see you here tomorrow night, same time, same channel.

00:32:46.020 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - July 18, 2018

Why Hudson's Bay dumped Ivanka Trump's clothing line (Guest host： David Menzies)

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