Rebel News Podcast - Without smears and insults, Trudeau's Liberals have nothing

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through Justin Trudeau's policy proposal to cut cell

00:00:07.080 phone rates. Well, who wouldn't want cell phone rates cut? Well, actually, Trudeau, he didn't

00:00:12.800 support opening up the free market to American cell phone companies in the NAFTA deal, but

00:00:17.280 apparently he's got religion. He's desperate for something after his blackface scandal. I take you 1.00

00:00:21.680 through his proposal and have a few laughs with you. I also talked to Andrew Lawton today and

00:00:26.360 how the liberals are treating him on the campaign trail. I think you'll find that interesting.

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00:00:59.420 Tonight, now that it's tough for Trudeau to call anyone else racist, he doesn't have

00:01:17.260 a lot to say, but what he does say is hilarious. It's September 23rd, and this is the Ezra Levant

00:01:23.000 show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:28.980 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:34.580 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:38.920 I'm 47 and a half years old. I've met a lot of people. I've traveled too much. And I have never

00:01:50.240 in my life seen anyone do blackface. I just haven't. And I'm from supposedly redneck Alberta.

00:01:57.840 It's just not something you see. And if it's not some grassroots redneck thing, it's not an elite 0.90

00:02:03.820 thing either. Not that the University of Alberta Law School was particularly elite, but I've been

00:02:09.480 to plenty of universities. I don't know. Maybe you'd find some kind of spoiled trust fund kids at

00:02:14.960 Queens or Western who might be bad boys like that. No, I've never seen that. Not at any university.

00:02:22.480 And I've been here and there. No one does it. But Trudeau does it. So often, he can't even

00:02:31.840 remember all the times he does it. He just can't say. You said just a few minutes ago that you told

00:02:38.680 us last night on the plane that of all of the different instances that you recalled,

00:02:43.260 have you since been made aware or remembered of other instances? And if so, how many?

00:02:47.500 I think it is obvious that this is something that was deeply regrettable. I am wary of

00:03:01.000 of being definitive about this because the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered.

00:03:11.840 It just happened so often you couldn't put a number on it? Oh, my God. Is it dozens of times he did it?

00:03:20.780 By the way, here's Archie Bunker in the 70s. Remember that amazing old show? So this was 30 years

00:03:28.980 before Trudeau claimed he just didn't know what he was doing. Remember this?

00:03:33.340 I don't believe you guys. You're actually going to put on a minstrel show in this day and age? You ought

00:03:39.160 to get great reviews from the Ku Klux Klan. This is the worst kind of bigotry.

00:03:43.860 What are you talking about? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on.

00:03:48.560 Boy is right.

00:03:49.620 What?

00:03:49.880 Yes, he is. He is absolutely right. Now, this is a bad thing we're doing. That ain't

00:04:01.180 nice there, dressing up like that and making fun of the colored people. No, Archie Bunker

00:04:06.320 ain't going to do that. He ain't going to get up on the stage and make fun of people that

00:04:09.560 he liked and admired all his life. Are you on something? We ain't trying to make fun

00:04:23.100 of anybody. We just want to dress up like coloreds. Yeah. This is ridiculous. Yes. You guys 1.00

00:04:28.960 are a pack of racists. Yeah. That's what you are, Barney. That's what you look like. Why 1.00

00:04:32.080 are you talking about? Arch, how can you be in a lodge like this? He's practically out of

00:04:37.020 it now. Hold on. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Now, you were talking good there

00:04:41.060 for a minute, but you went too far. These are my lodge brothers who I love here. And

00:04:45.340 there ain't nothing wrong with minstrel showings. No. Hey, that's right. There ain't. You

00:04:48.780 know, that goes way back to minstrel showings. The U.S. history, that comes back to your carefree

00:04:53.360 days of slavery. Yeah. Yeah. Don't look like that. That's part of your whole American heresy.

00:05:02.480 Arch, doesn't it bother you that black people are offended at a show like this? 0.95

00:05:06.580 They ain't going to see this show. They ain't allowed in. 1.00

00:05:12.040 That was the 70s. Even Archie Bunker got it. Trudeau does it all the time so much he forgets

00:05:20.060 how much. That cocktail party at that fancy private school, it wasn't a costume party.

00:05:28.980 All the other men were dressed up formally, said the Daily Telegraph. Trudeau was the only

00:05:34.300 one dressing up that way. The Daily Telegraph of London, UK. They interviewed people who were

00:05:40.580 there at that party who said Trudeau stunned everyone in the room with his weirdness and

00:05:46.460 grossness. Hey, remember Trevor Noah? He's an unfunny comedian from South Africa who's now 1.00

00:05:53.480 on late night TV in the U.S. Well, remember that time Trudeau just tweeted to him that,

00:05:58.380 hey, here's $50 million. Work for you? Super gross. Remember that tweet?

00:06:05.960 Well, 50 mil wasn't enough to buy Trevor Noah. Look at this observation he made.

00:06:11.240 There are so many problems with this photo. First of all, it's obviously never okay to do blackface.

00:06:17.060 And secondly, if you are going to darken your skin, at least get the color right. Okay? Yeah. 0.99

00:06:21.880 Trudeau isn't dressed as Aladdin. He's dressed as Aladdin doing blackface. That's not the color 0.86

00:06:25.700 of Aladdin. What are you doing? That's actually a big point. That's not just funny. That's a big

00:06:33.280 point. Trudeau just loved doing blackface again and again and again and again. He would do it when it 1.00

00:06:40.340 didn't fit just to do it. He did it so often. He forgets how often. He did it so often. It was a

00:06:45.440 thing. In this video here, he actually brought his blackface kit on a white rotter rafting trip.

00:06:53.600 That apparently is where this video is from. Hey, what do we need to pack? Well, water and a sleeping

00:06:58.420 bag and my blackface kit. What a disaster. Here's a poll done by a pollster, a company run by Bruce

00:07:07.940 Anderson. Hardcore liberal. He's the father of Trudeau's communications director. So it's as pro-Trudeau

00:07:14.980 as it gets. But look at these numbers. The story broke through. Only 12% of Canadians said they hadn't

00:07:23.320 heard about the story. 54% of Canadians said they were paying very close attention to it. This is higher

00:07:32.520 than a lot of other political stories. Wars, whatever. 54% of Canadians following the story

00:07:39.720 closely. 34% somewhat. That's huge. It's been devastating to Trudeau. Not particularly because

00:07:46.980 it proves Trudeau is a racist. I don't think Trudeau is a deep racist. I think he has racist

00:07:53.620 undertones. I think it's no surprise that his inner circle is all old-school Laurentian elites,

00:08:01.440 just like him. I don't think he considers himself racist. For sure he doesn't. But the whole schtick

00:08:09.280 about diversity is our strength, that's proven now just to be a false facade, just a line he

00:08:15.800 uses like he's picking up women in a bar. He'll say what he has to say. That's the thing. I've been

00:08:20.500 thinking about my conversation with Manny Montaigrino last week. I agree that Trudeau

00:08:23.820 is casually racist in ways that can be shocking. Like remember when he boasted that he cut Patrick

00:08:30.020 Brazzo's hair after the boxing match to humiliate him as an aboriginal man. Or remember that time he 1.00

00:08:35.620 said aboriginal reconciliation requires patience like you would need to have with a child? Because 0.99

00:08:43.220 that's what aboriginal people are like. He said those things, but I wouldn't say he's a hot racist,

00:08:49.220 you know. He's racist enough that if he were conservative they'd go to town on him. He's 0.80

00:08:53.800 about as racist as Archie Bunker. But my real beef with Justin Trudeau is that he has been a false 0.98

00:08:59.840 ally, a fake multiculturalist, just like he's a fake feminist, just like he's been fake on the 0.96

00:09:06.000 whole Sunnyways thing. He's an imposter, as Paul Wells confessed. So how does Trudeau campaign now? 0.91

00:09:14.540 Because his entire campaign was calling his enemies racist or sexist or Islamophobic or whatever.

00:09:19.220 And he's just been outed as the racist. So what does he do? What's he going to

00:09:23.860 talk about? Well, here's a clue from the CBC state broadcaster.

00:09:29.980 FYI, Justin Trudeau mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford some 15 times at his news conference

00:09:35.020 to promise steps towards national pharmacare and better access to family doctors. Got it.

00:09:39.800 Got it. So he's running against Doug Ford and Jason Kenney and Scott Moe. That's a pretty empty

00:09:45.980 gas tank for a federal campaign. But then yesterday, the liberals rolled out this.

00:09:53.200 Look at this announcement. Liberals move forward to make life more affordable for Canadian families.

00:09:57.740 And let me read that one line from it that I have to say. Came as a surprise to me. I'm quoting,

00:10:04.460 middle class families are feeling stretched. Taxes, fees, and bills pile up while wages are not keeping

00:10:10.700 up. Hang on, hang on, hang on. The liberals are campaigning on the fact that wages aren't keeping

00:10:16.480 up? That the middle class is falling behind? We're getting squeezed? Isn't that what the opposition

00:10:23.380 is supposed to say? The people are worse off now than they were four years ago? Isn't the time to

00:10:29.660 campaign for a change? Isn't that when you're in the opposition trying to throw up the bums? 0.78

00:10:33.460 When you've actually been making the decisions for four years, aren't you the people that citizens

00:10:40.600 are complaining about? So weird. But I guess they really had nothing left other than calling people

00:10:46.500 names, and that's out for now. But their big proposal yesterday just made me laugh. I don't know if you

00:10:52.040 saw this. More affordable cell phone bills. Well, I'm all for that. Let me read some more.

00:10:58.340 Canadians pay too much for their cell phone bills. While unique factors like the size of our country

00:11:04.200 has an impact, the current way a few large corporate players drive up prices is unfair to

00:11:10.080 Canadians, and there's lots of room for improvement. For instance, Canadian telecom companies generate the

00:11:14.560 highest revenue per gigabyte in the developed world. A re-elected liberal government will take

00:11:20.340 strong action to see cell phone bills come down by 25%. This will save a family of four almost $1,000 a year.

00:11:28.340 Wow, $1,000 per family per year. There's what, almost 10 million families in Canada? So that's almost

00:11:38.380 $10 billion a year. Every year the Canadians will save. That's great. So how's that going to work?

00:11:45.680 Because of course, unlike the CBC state broadcaster, we don't have state-owned cell phone companies.

00:11:52.080 How's it going to do? Well, here's the plan. A re-elected liberal government will reduce costs by 25%

00:11:57.980 and bring Canada in line with prices across the G7 in Australia. To achieve this, we will work with telecom

00:12:05.840 companies to offer plans comparable to global prices plus an unlimited family plan.

00:12:11.940 So the big campaign plan is that Justin Trudeau has a plan to make a plan and try to get telecom

00:12:23.720 companies to work with him. That's your big plan? Your plan is to get a plan to change the cell phone

00:12:30.580 plans by working with them? Yeah, I don't think that's a plan. And if you ever worry, who's going to pay for

00:12:38.000 that plan? I mean, if we're all going to get $1,000 a year per family, that's a huge amount of

00:12:43.280 money. That's almost $10 billion. Where's it going to come from? Are we just going to order the cell

00:12:47.320 phone companies to hand it over? Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure about that. Costing. Further details regarding

00:12:55.960 costing will be released over the course of the campaign. Well, if the cell phone companies were to do

00:13:01.900 this on their own, if they just said, hey guys, we're just going to absorb $10 billion a year,

00:13:06.620 I guess it wouldn't cost the taxpayer anything, right? Other than those companies would probably

00:13:11.040 go bankrupt. So there'd be a lot of poverty. But the line item in that case would be zero because

00:13:17.300 Trudeau would work with them and they would just do it. But that's not real life. That's

00:13:21.960 not how it's going to be. I mean, they either have to be ordered to simply hand over $10 billion a year.

00:13:28.360 And I'm not sure if that would even be legal, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't happen. They'd find a

00:13:32.080 way around it. Or even just shut down, frankly. I mean, it's really expropriation. Or more likely,

00:13:38.480 Trudeau would just give them the money, like he does with all his favorite companies, Bombardier,

00:13:44.460 SNC, LaValin. So you would pay taxes and that tax money would be given to the cell phone companies

00:13:51.220 who would reduce your cell phone rates, which you'd then pay in taxes or something. Sounds about as

00:13:59.080 stupid as Trudeau. But nothing is stupider than the CBC parroting Trudeau and making it even better. 1.00

00:14:07.740 Look at this headline. Trudeau promises to cut cell phone bills by 25% of elected. 0.97

00:14:13.440 Yeah, but that's not even what he said, was it? He said he'd work with cell phone companies to cut

00:14:19.760 bills. He didn't even say he would do it. How could he say he would do it? Here's an interesting line

00:14:24.880 from the CBC. To lower the cost, liberals say they would open up the market to more competition and

00:14:30.080 work with cell phone companies to offer plans that more closely mirror global prices. But hang on,

00:14:35.960 hang on, hang on, hang on. Trudeau just refused to do that opening up the market thing. In the recent

00:14:41.100 NAFTA renegotiations, Trudeau said no to this. Not even a few months ago, because the NAFTA

00:14:46.840 renegotiation is technically still alive. The treaty has not been ratified by all three countries yet.

00:14:51.840 Literally at this moment, Trudeau is against this. You have to be as stupid as the CBC to support this. 1.00

00:15:00.800 Folks, they really have nothing. All they had was smears and insults. And without that, 1.00

00:15:06.560 after the blackface explosion, well, I think Trudeau himself might be writing these campaign 1.00

00:15:11.600 platforms. What do you think? Stay with us for more about a terrible story from the campaign trail

00:15:17.740 with Andrew Lawton, who joins us next. Welcome back. Well, as the blackface scandal echoes around 0.96

00:15:35.660 the entire world, I want to remind you that when that story broke, it was literally the number one

00:15:40.760 news story around the world, bigger than any war, any sports event, any pop song, any presidential

00:15:50.860 news, North Korea, whatever. It was the number one story in the world. It has so knocked the liberals

00:15:58.640 off their feet. They don't know what to do except for lash out. And normally they lash out at us here

00:16:04.540 at the Rebel, but we're not the only ones. Do you remember? When we were at the Media Freedom

00:16:08.980 Conference in London, they targeted our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed and our ally Andrew Lawton from

00:16:15.740 TNC.news. Remember that? Well, it gets worse, my friend. Over the last couple of days, the Liberal

00:16:22.480 Party has banned Andrew Lawton from events. And I just heard from him a moment ago, it has gotten

00:16:29.660 significantly worse and a lot more troubling. Joining us now via Skype from the side of the road

00:16:35.620 is our friend Andrew Lawton. Andrew, nice to see you again. Let's get straight down to it. First of

00:16:40.720 all, where are you geographically right now? I'm in the Niagara Falls area. The Prime Minister,

00:16:47.260 the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, has an event nearby in just a few moments that I'll be heading

00:16:51.720 to. I appreciate you pulling over. Safety first, we wouldn't want you to have an accident.

00:16:56.960 You are in your car because you were kicked off the campaign bus or barred from entry. I think it

00:17:02.620 might be more accurate. Tell me how that happened. What did they say? Yeah, not kicked off. I was

00:17:08.520 never allowed on in the first place. And I got this song and dance from the Liberals about how I'm

00:17:13.480 not accredited, but they offer no definition of what accredited means. I can speak to my own

00:17:18.440 credentials as a reporter, as a journalist. I can talk about myriad times that I have been covered for

00:17:24.160 events, court coverage, a conference co-hosted by the Canadian government that you just mentioned

00:17:28.660 moments ago. And I've even interviewed Justin Trudeau. But True North, according to the Liberal

00:17:34.240 press team, is not an accredited outlet because it's not recognized as one. Recognized by whom,

00:17:39.960 your guess, is as good as mine. So I've now had to basically find my own way to get from point A to

00:17:45.200 point B, rented a car, which is what I'm sitting in right now. And I'm trying to get the story from

00:17:50.680 outside looking in because the Liberals do not apparently want me covering their campaign.

00:17:56.180 Now, when they've done the same thing to us, in particular, David Menzies and Kian Bextie,

00:18:02.900 by the way, they've kicked out us not only out of party events, but out of government events. They

00:18:07.160 kicked Kian out of the embassy. They kicked David out of parliament. Outrageous. They said,

00:18:13.220 they didn't use the phrase, you're not accredited. They said, your values don't accord with ours.

00:18:19.840 Did they talk about your values or your ideology at all, Andrew?

00:18:24.840 No. In fact, Trudeau's press secretary went out of his way to say, it's not about ideology. It's

00:18:30.780 just about accreditation. And this is, I think, very interesting because there's no real path to

00:18:35.740 accreditation that has been laid out. And I asked him, what would I have to do? And he couldn't

00:18:40.020 give an answer. The parliamentary press gallery accredits Parliament Hill journalists, but I've

00:18:45.020 spoken with the press gallery. They do not have any jurisdiction over campaign events. They will not

00:18:50.140 even if you apply and are worthy of accreditation, they will not offer any credentials to cover

00:18:56.320 campaign events. So the challenge right now is that I've been given this reason that doesn't align

00:19:01.920 with any remedy. Huh? Well, it's, it's very similar to when you and Sheila Gunn-Reed were kicked out,

00:19:08.240 or they attempted to kick you out of the press conference in London. Now, it was a very remarkable

00:19:14.320 moment. And I'd like to show a quick clip from that. I've shown this to our viewers before.

00:19:19.900 There, there was a moment of solidarity where other media, the Globe and Mail amongst them,

00:19:25.560 and even Al Jazeera, if you can believe it, CTV, CBC actually said, well, if Andrew Lawton

00:19:30.920 and Sheila Gunn-Reed can't come in, we won't either. It was a bit of a revolt. Here, 0.99

00:19:35.200 take a quick look at this.

00:19:36.940 So, um, Globe and Mail, um, World War, um, CTV, Al Jazeera, CBC, and the National Economic Economic

00:19:46.800 and the United States. And the other? What about the rest? The rest of us?

00:19:49.740 The rest will have to stay back. No, I don't think we all go. No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:19:55.120 That's, let's take us to the room and we can see if we can. No, we're not going, Brittany, we're just not.

00:19:59.560 We're all going. This is a media freedom conference. Yeah, this is ridiculous.

00:20:02.200 We just don't do that. No. 0.92

00:20:05.200 Andrew, that was a beautiful moment, but alas, it did not last. Have you heard anything

00:20:11.980 at all, even privately, from other media that supports you? Of course, the only kind of support

00:20:18.340 that counts is in public, but have you had any even private emails or phone calls from the media

00:20:23.800 party, from Unifor journalists, from The Star, The Post, The Globe, CBC, CTV, even Xinhua,

00:20:31.160 which is accredited with the Parliamentary Press Gallery?

00:20:35.200 None whatsoever. And I will say that when my initial ban was happening in Brampton on Sunday,

00:20:41.840 the approved media had already been brought in. So they didn't even know there was this

00:20:46.000 conversation taking place on the sidewalk. It's not like in London when this happened in front of

00:20:51.820 the gaggle and there was no way to really avoid it. So at the time, the media had no idea. But since

00:20:57.120 then, my story circulated on Twitter. I've run into some of these people and I've heard absolutely

00:21:01.900 nothing in the way of support whatsoever. So I am very much alone in this fight, it feels like. And

00:21:07.600 look, I'm happy to be scrappy. I'm happy to be fighting. But the reason I'm here is not because

00:21:12.700 I want to fight. The reason I'm here is because I want to cover what the Prime Minister is pledging

00:21:17.100 to do if his government is reelected. And the more that I am forced to the outside of this,

00:21:22.340 the more I'm forced to cover my exclusion because I'm not actually able to access any of these

00:21:28.000 substantive announcements that are taking place. Well, listen, it's like you're reading my life

00:21:32.860 story there. They're trying to denormalize and marginalize you. And I mean, I think they hate

00:21:40.720 the rebel a little bit more than they hate you. And that's just an observation. They don't like you,

00:21:47.280 but it's us on day one. It's you on day two. Then they're going to go for the Toronto Sun. They're

00:21:52.540 going to go for Sue Ann Levy, Joe Warmington. They're going to go for Terry Corcoran in the National

00:21:57.200 Post. Anyone who's right of center, anyone who doesn't bend the knee to Justin Trudeau,

00:22:03.360 they're just going to say, oh, you can't cover us. And I just say, Andrew, if this were Stephen

00:22:09.640 Harper, who were kicking out left of center journalists for no reason, like if they had

00:22:15.240 some explication, if they said, well, you threatened someone, you pushed someone, I mean, obviously

00:22:21.560 that would never happen. I'm just trying to come up with some possible reason that might be

00:22:26.780 credible, but they're not even giving a reason. They're just saying, oh, you haven't been

00:22:30.820 accredited. Well, they are the accredited. There's no such thing as accreditation in Canada. There's

00:22:35.540 no license to be a journalism. It's not like we're doctors or engineers.

00:22:43.280 No. And to that point, there has been no question ever raised by anyone about my professionalism

00:22:49.600 as a journalist. I've interviewed Justin Trudeau. I interviewed Kathleen Wynne. I've interviewed

00:22:53.320 a number of high profile cabinet members, liberals federally and provincially as a broadcaster and

00:22:59.220 in other capacities as well. So no one, including the liberal press team, has taken issue with my

00:23:04.060 ability to discharge my duties as an accredited journalist to say nothing of whether I would

00:23:10.200 be a disruption or not. No, I'd wait my turn like everyone else. I'd listen. When the time came to ask

00:23:15.160 my question, I'd ask my question. But this has become about this vague criterion that has,

00:23:22.080 as I mentioned earlier, no real remedy. And that's the worst part. In fact, if they said,

00:23:25.780 listen, we don't like you, I'd fight them on it. But it would at least be a position that

00:23:30.920 they would have drawn a line in the sand on. Whereas now, they really aren't prepared to own

00:23:35.840 up to why it is they are not accrediting True North for me personally for True North.

00:23:40.300 Yeah. You know, I think it was exactly a week ago that I had an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about how

00:23:47.840 rebel journalists were excluded. And I mentioned you in that one, because I mentioned that London

00:23:52.020 example. And I was shocked by the reaction. Andrew, I'm not sure if you followed it. There

00:23:57.760 were over 100 people who squawked back at me and at the editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail,

00:24:06.480 including the local Unifor union. And they didn't have any disagreement with the substance of my op-ed

00:24:14.280 talking about how the liberals are censorious. I, in fact, to this day, I have had no criticism

00:24:20.260 at all. Even bad faith criticism. There's just been no criticism of what I wrote. The only criticism

00:24:26.940 was, hey, Globe and Mail, how dare you even let him speak? And this is from the media, I mean,

00:24:34.400 Andrew. So I know without even asking you, but please confirm it, that Canadian journalists for free

00:24:40.580 expression, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Association of Journalists,

00:24:46.920 Penn Canada. I know without even asking you that not one of them has said a peep,

00:24:52.720 because they believe in deplatforming now too. I guess I should ask you, have any of them stood up

00:24:57.320 for you? No, so far, no one at all has. And if there is going to be a moment, I would hope it's now.

00:25:03.240 You know, I guess less than an hour before you and I started chatting, Ezra, I was trying to

00:25:07.620 track the liberal campaign bus to figure out where the next campaign stop was, because like I noted,

00:25:12.800 I'm not on the media bus. I'm not given a detailed itinerary. And I was pulled over by a Hamilton 0.99

00:25:18.400 police sergeant who asked me why I was, in his words, following everybody around. And I told him

00:25:24.460 quite candidly, here's why I'm in media. Here's my name, my driver's license. I was very cooperative.

00:25:29.340 I said, I don't have an itinerary and I need to literally follow the campaign bus to know where

00:25:34.480 the campaign is going. And despite this explanation, I was detained for about 15 minutes

00:25:39.720 at roadside, long enough for the entire bus to get away. And, you know, I had to do a little bit

00:25:45.600 of a manual looking around to figure out where to go next, which is fine. And I don't take issue with

00:25:50.460 the officer himself. He was professional. He was courteous. He was following orders. But I want to

00:25:54.940 know which orders, because this does not sound like what we imagine in a freedom loving country when

00:25:59.980 journalists on assignment are literally detained at roadside.

00:26:04.820 That is so shocking to me. You know, you and I have traveled to the United Kingdom

00:26:08.840 to study the case of Tommy Robinson. And we've talked about how far things have gone there.

00:26:14.020 And I always enjoy coming back to Canada because it's not as bad here. But when you say that you were

00:26:21.740 pulled over by a policeman with a gun and detained for 15 minutes, no charges, no suspicion of anything

00:26:29.580 other than driving where the liberals don't want you to. That is outrageous. Now, you weren't thrown in

00:26:37.040 prison. Thank God we're not. No, no. But I wasn't. And I specifically asked, have I done anything illegal?

00:26:42.880 And he said, I don't think so. You don't think so. And I still had to I still had to wait for several minutes

00:26:47.440 longer to get cleared. And the thing is here, I understand, by the way, if you see a car that's following

00:26:52.900 where the prime minister is, I understand that issue. And I put this back on the liberals as to why they've

00:26:59.380 allowed it to get this to this point and really forced me into a corner where I have no other way

00:27:04.860 to cover the campaign but by literally following it. Let me ask you one more thing. Our mutual friend,

00:27:10.640 Candice Malcolm, who runs TNC.news, we love her. She's just great. And she's a new mom. So we don't

00:27:17.000 see her quite as much as we used to before. But when she heard about your situation, she dropped

00:27:22.000 everything and got in her car and ran out there. Can you give us or you would liberty to tell us

00:27:27.640 if she had any luck with the liberal press secretary? Was she at that meeting with you?

00:27:32.860 Did she what was she able to do, if anything? So Candice and I actually did sit down with two

00:27:38.580 members of the liberal press team last night, and we didn't have any resolution, although we were

00:27:43.860 passed to a very specific person at headquarters in Ottawa and said, contact this person. They're

00:27:49.900 expecting it and they will respond. Now, we haven't yet reached anything in the way of a resolution

00:27:54.100 from this process. But again, we were specifically passed off to another person in Ottawa, which

00:28:00.420 means the local campaign team, the one that I'm actually trying to engage with, has completely

00:28:04.280 washed its hands of me at this point.

00:28:06.360 You know, I think of all the online only media these days, Huffington Post, Vice, BuzzFeed. Those

00:28:17.900 are regarded as Daily Beast. Now, all of those happen to be American, but all of them are weighing

00:28:25.480 in on the Canadian election, including, for example, Althea Raj of Huffington Post, who's actually

00:28:32.500 going to be one of the debate moderators. So there you have an American online only reporter, and the

00:28:39.640 Huffington Post is ultra left wing. It's named after Arianna Huffington, who's a radical leftist

00:28:44.980 activist. So I raise that because obviously the objection can't be that you're online. So is Huffington

00:28:52.880 Post, Vice, BuzzFeed, Daily Beast, etc. It can't be that you have a political flavor. So is Huffington Post,

00:28:58.820 Toronto Star, their Atkinson principles. It's clear that they're punishing you because you dare

00:29:04.580 criticize the government. I find this very troubling. But you're right. The fact that a

00:29:09.220 cop pulled you over. Did you get the cop's name? Are you going to do an access to information? Are

00:29:13.340 you going to try and find out where the complaint went? I don't know if they'll give it to you.

00:29:16.900 They'll try and hide it. But I, if I may be so bold, I think you should try and track down where

00:29:20.920 this whole thing came from.

00:29:21.860 Well, I'll say stay tuned on that point. But to your point about the accreditation

00:29:26.780 principles at stake, if there are any, it's a valid point. And look, I'm a commentator,

00:29:31.320 but that hasn't stopped them from accrediting Chris Selle of the National Post, who's a columnist

00:29:35.060 that's on. Christy Blashford has also been on the campaign buses. So it can't be any of these

00:29:40.180 things you've just mentioned, which means it's very much targeted towards either True North or

00:29:45.020 Rye. And I'm still trying to cover the campaign. I'm still doing the work. It's just become a lot

00:29:49.160 harder because of the liberals. Yeah. You know what? One of the reasons that populism

00:29:54.860 is bubbling up around the world, including here in Canada, is because the elites are so abusive and

00:30:01.760 dismissive of anyone who would dare challenge them. And I mean, anywhere from Brexit to Donald

00:30:07.540 Trump's deplorables to Canada and this high handed conduct. And I got to tell you, that police move is

00:30:13.340 the worst of them all. It will not save the elites. If anything, it will deepen the anger

00:30:20.500 at the fact that these folks simply don't think they have to answer to anyone. And Andrew, I just

00:30:26.760 wish you good luck. I called you yesterday and I said, if there's anything we can do, we're at your

00:30:31.540 service. I don't know what that could possibly be. We're just as marginalized as you are. But I guess

00:30:36.200 even just by interviewing you and telling the world about this, maybe that's one small thing we can do.

00:30:40.600 If you can think of anything else, please say it because I believe that this is eroding

00:30:45.320 the accountability of the few remaining independent journalists who aren't on the

00:30:50.400 government dole. And you guys are one of the good guys. And thanks very much for that.

00:30:55.700 All right, my friend. Well, we'll let you go because I've detained you here and I know you got to

00:30:58.480 keep following that bus. I look forward to your reports and we can see them all at tnc.news, right?

00:31:05.200 That's indeed the case. And also on my Twitter, which is at Andrew Lawton. That's where I'm updating in

00:31:09.520 real time of what's happening. Right on. And I follow you there. And I and I'm so glad you're

00:31:14.460 keeping us posted because this is a story that concerns all of us. Thanks, my friend. And good

00:31:19.280 luck to you. Thank you, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Andrew Lawton, friend of ours, fellow who's

00:31:25.000 come with me to the UK to study their censorship and political correctness. And a man who is now

00:31:30.400 being marginalized and even harassed. I'll say it harassed by police simply because he doesn't agree

00:31:37.080 with Justin Trudeau. Stay with us. More ahead on the market.

00:31:49.760 Hey, folks. On my special interview Friday with my friend Manny Montenegrino, Ron writes,

00:31:55.020 appreciated Manny's case against Trudeau, but would have appreciated less of his

00:31:58.460 coming victimhood and repeating the left's mantra that racism is prevalent in Canada.

00:32:02.620 Yeah. You know, I had a similar feeling. And I think Manny was going for effect. I think that

00:32:11.280 if we were to scrutinize the liberals the same way they scrutinize us, that would be what they would

00:32:18.260 say. My beef isn't so much that Trudeau is a hot racist. It's that he's a fake anti-racist. 0.98

00:32:25.760 Just like I don't think Trudeau is a rapist. I think he sexually gropes women and has affairs all 1.00

00:32:32.660 the time. Like when he groped Rose Knight in a sexual manner in Creston, BC. I wouldn't say he's 0.90

00:32:39.160 a rapist. I would just say he's handsy. And he takes liberties. Like when he took Faith Goldie 0.99

00:32:45.640 out for late night drinks. He was a married man in his 40s. Faith was 22. This is creepy. I wouldn't

00:32:51.440 call him a rapist. I call him a creep. It's not that he's super duper creepy. It's that he lies 0.98

00:32:57.200 about being a male ally. Liz writes, a vote for the liberals party is a vote for a self-described

00:33:05.720 racist. Well, that's the real thing. Trudeau himself said Trudeau was a racist. He said that

00:33:12.300 on the airplane scrum. Jonathan writes, I don't care about the blackface crap. It's the hypocrisy 1.00

00:33:18.360 that bothers me. I do care about the blackface crap because it's just so bizarre and shocking. 1.00

00:33:24.760 And I've never seen it in my life. If someone were that way, I would say, what are you doing? 0.99

00:33:28.720 What's this all about? Is there something going on here? Help me understand. And sorry, Arabian 1.00

00:33:34.920 Nights and Aladdin is not that. And being the only guy at a party of 500 doing that, that's a guy who's

00:33:43.040 a little bit cuckoo. And I think just the same way he's handsy with every single woman he meets,

00:33:47.400 I think the blackface is a way of him saying, the rules don't apply to me. I can do whatever

00:33:52.920 I want. And it's a pleasure to see him taken down a peg, but the media is already doing their best

00:33:58.340 to rehabilitate him. You know, he's got a month to go before the election. I think they just might do

00:34:02.300 it. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel

00:34:06.660 World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for free.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 24, 2019

Without smears and insults, Trudeau's Liberals have nothing

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