The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 206 ｜ Is Canada’s Tyrannical Regime America’s Future？｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 If you think it's hard to be a conservative in America, I want you to take a look at the PRC, the secret police.

00:00:09.980 They're arresting journalists for asking questions.

00:00:12.440 Local politicians are targeting Christians for their beliefs.

00:00:15.340 The country's leader is waging legal warfare against protesters and even froze their bank accounts.

00:00:23.680 This is life in the PRC.

00:00:26.020 But I'm not talking about the People's Republic of China.

00:00:30.360 It is the People's Republic of Canada.

00:00:34.480 We need to pay attention because our neighbors to the north are always just a few steps ahead of us on things like this.

00:00:41.260 And the Trudeau regime, the crackdown on the press, is one of the most disturbing examples in the world.

00:00:50.280 Nearly every media outlet has fallen in line, except for one.

00:00:55.240 For years now, the Trudeau regime has had rebel news in its sight.

00:01:01.600 It's very much like the blaze in Canada.

00:01:04.820 But instead of bending the knee, they're fighting political warfare with legal warfare.

00:01:09.560 So, with Democrats promising to crack down on your freedoms in the name of democracy, I wanted to get some advice from one of Canada's most fearless freedom fighters.

00:01:21.500 Please welcome my dear friend, Rebel News founder and owner, Ezra Levant.

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00:02:59.700 My brother from another mother.

00:03:02.040 How are you?

00:03:03.360 Good.

00:03:04.120 I'm good.

00:03:04.940 You know, it's been a challenging little while, but we're fighting back.

00:03:11.000 Most people don't know this, I think, but we kind of have a parallel path in some ways.

00:03:21.320 You're much more well-educated than I am.

00:03:23.620 But you started a media company, and you were on cable and everything else, and they kind of pounded the humor out of you.

00:03:38.380 And your job is becoming more and more serious all the time.

00:03:44.160 And you really, unlike us, when we first started, we were alone.

00:03:51.780 But now others have joined us because of the way Canada is.

00:03:56.680 You're really alone, really alone.

00:04:00.020 There's a couple of other small independent startups, but really, you can count them on one hand.

00:04:06.640 And they're really being targeted.

00:04:08.860 It's, let me use a metaphor.

00:04:11.700 If there's 100 candles in a room, and you snuff out five of them, it's still pretty bright.

00:04:16.660 You snuff out 50, it's starting to get a little dimmer. 0.54

00:04:19.620 You snuff out 90, it's getting pretty dark.

00:04:22.520 And each candle you snuff out is more and more important.

00:04:26.920 And if there's two candles left, you snuff out one of them.

00:04:30.720 You've just cut the light in half.

00:04:32.600 But that last candle, it's all the difference between light and dark.

00:04:36.700 And the analogy I'm making is Trudeau has colonized 80, 90, 95, 99% of the media.

00:04:43.820 But in a way, he rages against that last candle the most.

00:04:47.500 Because if he can't snuff it out, what was the point of snuffing out the first 99? 0.96

00:04:54.280 And there are so few independent journalists in Canada, and it's so tiny.

00:04:59.940 Like, we're tiny.

00:05:01.480 But his rage gets angrier and angrier with every year.

00:05:06.080 He's bringing in strange things.

00:05:07.820 The government's bringing in a code of conduct for news journalists.

00:05:11.580 The government is.

00:05:12.880 I know.

00:05:13.480 I want to talk about that in a minute.

00:05:15.200 But can we start with the latest?

00:05:18.220 One of your reporters, Menzies, I think is his name?

00:05:20.360 Yeah, David Menzies.

00:05:21.980 And I've seen him many times.

00:05:23.860 Seems like a nice, affable guy.

00:05:25.480 Great guy.

00:05:26.840 And he is just on the street, just asking a question.

00:05:33.760 Yeah.

00:05:35.080 Legitimate question.

00:05:36.060 Tell the story.

00:05:36.960 Sure.

00:05:37.140 David Menzies is early 60s.

00:05:42.180 He's not threatening.

00:05:43.660 He's not mean in any way.

00:05:45.320 Very polite.

00:05:46.140 Wears a fedora.

00:05:47.060 He's sort of old school shoe leather journalist.

00:05:49.900 He went to a vigil for victims of an Iranian terrorist attack.

00:05:55.700 The Islamic Republican Guard Corps shot down a commercial airliner, killing hundreds of people, including more than 50 Canadians.

00:06:02.700 So there's a large Persian community in Canada that was mourning the anniversary of that.

00:06:08.360 So our guy, David Menzies, went there and he saw the deputy prime minister walking into the vigil.

00:06:14.220 But Canada refuses to call the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, IRGC, refuses to call that a terrorist group, refuses to designate a terrorist group.

00:06:24.860 And it is one of the most recognized terrorist groups.

00:06:28.840 Yeah.

00:06:29.320 And so it's such a paradox because Canada has been so wounded by them.

00:06:34.440 There was a report that there are 700 IRGC operatives working in Canada and it's legal. 0.88

00:06:43.920 So our guy Menzies bumped into the deputy prime minister at this vigil.

00:06:48.820 And as she was walking in, he just walked up to her with a microphone.

00:06:52.240 He was clearly a reporter and said.

00:06:54.300 Very, very polite.

00:06:55.160 Yeah, I mean, he was he didn't swear.

00:06:58.500 He didn't touch her or crowd her.

00:07:01.220 He just put the microphone to her and said, why won't you ban this terrorist group? 0.82

00:07:05.920 And then he asked a second time, why are you allowing these Islamic Nazis to go unchecked? 0.92

00:07:11.400 I mean, they weren't perfect questions, but he put but they were fair questions.

00:07:14.600 This deputy prime minister's bodyguard swarmed David, smacked him up against the wall and said, you're under arrest for assault.

00:07:25.040 And he said, what?

00:07:26.480 And then they handcuffed him and they frog marched him to a police car and they drove him away.

00:07:32.860 And the thing is, all the cops at once said, you assaulted you, we saw your assault.

00:07:39.980 You were pushing people.

00:07:40.960 You were being aggressive.

00:07:42.100 And they all said this at the same time, except we caught it all on tape.

00:07:46.920 And none of that happened.

00:07:48.060 None of it.

00:07:48.540 None of it happened.

00:07:49.480 It was it's one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen.

00:07:53.640 And not because of the one cop, but because, as you said, all the cops, they all went along and you can see on the tape.

00:08:02.620 He's just walking the the assistant prime minister or deputy prime minister steps a different way.

00:08:11.280 So he's kind of shadowing her in a way he's backing up.

00:08:15.680 He only brushes shoulders with with her security.

00:08:20.280 OK, mounted police.

00:08:21.720 And it's because that guy who's looking at him doesn't move.

00:08:26.360 Yeah, it's worse than that.

00:08:27.880 This bodyguard sort of moves into place so that David will brush up against him.

00:08:32.820 And it was just a brushing up.

00:08:34.640 You're under arrest for assault.

00:08:36.620 And the facility, the ease, the calmness with which they all said, you did it.

00:08:42.200 We all saw you did it.

00:08:43.320 We all saw you assaulted him.

00:08:44.680 And that's what was so shocking.

00:08:46.360 I mean, arresting a reporter is sort of shocking.

00:08:48.920 But the instant lies of the RCMP.

00:08:51.760 And that's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

00:08:53.780 And if we didn't have it on tape, absolutely, David would be in jail right now.

00:08:57.800 And this is the second time that Royal Canadian Mounted Police bodyguards have done this to David.

00:09:03.860 A couple of years ago.

00:09:04.980 Are they like our secret service?

00:09:06.640 Yes.

00:09:06.880 OK.

00:09:07.140 Yeah.

00:09:08.040 The Mounties or the RCMP.

00:09:09.520 They have a special detail that protects the VIPs.

00:09:15.380 Canada had really harsh lockdowns during the pandemic.

00:09:18.720 And I remember one Christmas, a couple of years ago, Trudeau said, do not have your family over for Christmas.

00:09:24.700 Do not have family gatherings.

00:09:27.200 It's terrible.

00:09:28.180 Both of you, that's the rules.

00:09:29.300 But then Trudeau had a $1,700 ahead, which is the maximum you can give in Canada, Christmas fundraiser at a restaurant.

00:09:38.080 Oh, my God.

00:09:38.780 You just said, so our guy, David Menzies, shoe leather reporter, stands outside the restaurant in the snowy cold for an hour waiting for Trudeau to arrive.

00:09:48.700 And he's going to holler one question.

00:09:50.800 And he's not going to get an answer, but it'll be, why are you here when we can't have...

00:09:54.520 And he was waiting outside the restaurant with the local Toronto police for an hour.

00:09:59.780 It was just him, our cameraman, and the local Toronto cops waiting in the snow for an hour for Trudeau to arrive.

00:10:05.880 They all knew David.

00:10:06.760 He's wearing his fedora.

00:10:08.680 They see him around everywhere.

00:10:10.540 He's harmless.

00:10:11.260 And he's bantering with the local cops.

00:10:13.540 For one hour, Trudeau's SUVs pull up.

00:10:18.240 The whole entourage pulls up.

00:10:20.140 They jump out, and they beat him up.

00:10:23.740 They smash him against the wall.

00:10:25.300 They drop him to the ground. 0.94

00:10:26.420 They pound him.

00:10:27.560 He's stunned.

00:10:28.320 He's clearly, his head was jostled.

00:10:31.220 He can't speak clearly.

00:10:32.960 They just drop him and leave.

00:10:34.040 No charges.

00:10:34.700 And I'm certain that the cops, the bodyguards in the entourage radioed ahead to the local cops and said, breaker, breaker, what's going on over there?

00:10:44.680 They said, oh, nothing.

00:10:45.680 Just one David Menzies from Rebel News.

00:10:47.760 He said, oh, because the cops, the local cops were fine with him.

00:10:52.320 He's a 60-something reporter with two artificial hips.

00:10:56.020 He's a threat to nobody.

00:10:57.780 But they jumped out, and they beat him up.

00:10:59.980 And our reporters are assaulted regularly during the trucker convoy.

00:11:07.880 Completely peaceful protest.

00:11:10.200 Hundreds of truckers in Ottawa.

00:11:12.680 There was one shooting.

00:11:14.100 The RCMP shot our reporter, Alexa Lavoie, in the leg with a riot gun, which is not meant to be used against.

00:11:24.440 You don't shoot at 10 feet.

00:11:26.140 Yeah, close range.

00:11:26.800 A huge, like it wasn't a bullet, but it was like a wadding of a.

00:11:32.460 They knew who she was.

00:11:33.900 We're suing them.

00:11:34.840 They knew who she was.

00:11:35.920 They knew her by name.

00:11:37.480 They gave her no first aid.

00:11:39.260 They shot her and left her. 0.75

00:11:41.360 We read the police notes of that day.

00:11:43.120 They were giving first aid all over town, except for the one person they shot.

00:11:46.900 What's the odds that the only shooting in the whole police company, the only person shot was our reporter?

00:11:54.200 That's three times.

00:11:56.100 And I know I'm sounding paranoid, but I tell you.

00:11:59.060 No.

00:12:00.540 Remember who Justin Trudeau is.

00:12:03.480 He's the son of Pierre Trudeau, who was the communist.

00:12:05.780 Pierre Trudeau took his young boys to the Soviet Union when it was still the Soviet Union.

00:12:11.420 He said, this is the future, he said to them.

00:12:14.120 He took his young sons to communist China before it even had any free market reforms.

00:12:18.740 And when Justin Trudeau was running for prime minister, he was asked an unprompted question.

00:12:23.160 He was asked, what country do you most admire?

00:12:25.860 That's actually a great question, isn't it?

00:12:27.900 And he said, China.

00:12:30.540 Okay, there could be good answers for that.

00:12:32.300 Chinese food, Chinese history, Chinese architecture, Chinese, there's a lot to admire about China, actually.

00:12:37.100 But the odious thing about China is its dictatorship.

00:12:39.900 But here's the verbatim quote.

00:12:41.600 He said, China, comma, because of its basic dictatorship.

00:12:47.340 Trudeau has told us who he is.

00:12:49.900 He, remember when his father died, Castro came and was a pallbearer for Pierre Trudeau.

00:12:56.820 Wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:12:57.360 No, it was the other way around, right?

00:12:59.820 When his father died, then Pierre came in and carried Castro's casket, right? 0.78

00:13:07.220 You know what?

00:13:08.660 I think Pierre died first.

00:13:11.040 No, but I know.

00:13:12.160 But who's his dad?

00:13:13.580 Oh, I see what you're saying.

00:13:15.460 You know, the pictures of a young Justin Trudeau and a young Fidel Castro are uncanny.

00:13:23.080 And Pierre Trudeau and his young, beautiful wife, Margaret Trudeau, vacationed in Cuba all the time.

00:13:29.880 And there are so many people.

00:13:30.940 Very close.

00:13:31.560 Very handsy, as the kids say.

00:13:33.560 Very handsy.

00:13:35.020 And I'm not here willing to say categorically that Justin Trudeau is actually genetically the son of Fidel Castro.

00:13:43.120 But I'm here to say that Fidel Castro, it was certainly a father figure in terms of ideology.

00:13:48.220 And Justin Trudeau, how is it Canadians who are different?

00:13:59.520 Yes, they're different than Americans. 1.00

00:14:01.620 You know, we don't have, you know, we never liked government involved in everything.

00:14:09.120 And you pretty much embrace that as Canadians most.

00:14:15.060 We eat regular bacon.

00:14:16.940 You have Canadian bacon.

00:14:18.400 But beyond that, we've always been very similar.

00:14:23.760 Yeah.

00:14:24.300 You are going down a road that is including infanticide now.

00:14:30.180 You're offing your elderly, the depressed, the handicapped. 1.00

00:14:35.340 I mean, it is terrifying what's happening.

00:14:40.040 Where's the average Canadian?

00:14:41.680 Or do they just not see it?

00:14:44.240 I think that a few things.

00:14:46.920 We have a real problem with checks and balances in Canada.

00:14:50.160 We don't have a system that is designed to counter itself as you do here.

00:14:55.620 And so prime ministers can act.

00:14:58.480 For example, the Supreme Court.

00:15:00.000 Here you have debates over.

00:15:01.240 You have votes over.

00:15:02.180 You have public hearings.

00:15:03.300 It's not a slam dunk.

00:15:04.480 In Canada, the prime minister just says, ta-da, here's your new Supreme Court judge.

00:15:09.340 It's a fait accompli.

00:15:11.300 That's one example.

00:15:12.240 The media.

00:15:13.680 Canada used to have, well, I wouldn't say it was a robust media, but we did have an independent

00:15:18.940 critical media.

00:15:19.720 In the last eight years, Justin Trudeau has used both carrot and stick.

00:15:24.800 I mentioned some of the actual sticks they use against, yeah, mainly Rebel News journalists.

00:15:31.560 It's, you know, I happen to be the boss of Rebel News.

00:15:33.520 That's not the only reason I'm saying it.

00:15:34.760 Our reporters are beat up regularly.

00:15:37.980 We are, one of our largest expenses is security for our journalists, but security will not

00:15:43.720 protect you against police.

00:15:45.340 Security put their weapons down when police come.

00:15:48.680 So that's the stick, but there's the carrot.

00:15:51.340 What, if I was asked, Ezra, how would you subvert the First Amendment?

00:15:55.940 I wouldn't come with a stick.

00:15:57.720 I would come with a carrot.

00:15:59.060 And I would say, hey, publishers, it's pretty tough out there these days in the media business.

00:16:03.700 Facebook and Google are really taking all your dough.

00:16:07.900 We'll help.

00:16:09.840 We'll subsidize.

00:16:12.040 And through that gentle corruption of financial colonization, 99% of Canadian journalists have

00:16:22.220 their salaries subsidized by Trudeau.

00:16:24.360 It's about 35% right now, but it's going up.

00:16:27.020 So if you take money from Trudeau and report on Trudeau, even if it's just subconsciously,

00:16:34.780 you're going to pull your punches.

00:16:36.320 And certainly your publisher is going to nix anything that's too inflammatory.

00:16:42.160 That would undermine press independence more than a stick.

00:16:45.820 In fact, a stick might get journalists to remember their independence, to remember their

00:16:49.740 principles.

00:16:50.120 But if you just say, well, it's so tough out there, you need the government to help you.

00:16:55.480 And so they bring in journalism licenses.

00:16:57.480 In Canada, they're doing that.

00:16:58.540 They're calling the Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.

00:17:01.920 You have to apply to Rebel News is down, de-boosted, and the state broadcaster is boosted.

00:17:08.260 That's already happening for ideological and corporate reasons.

00:17:11.460 But Bill C-11 gives Justin Trudeau the power to alter the discoverability, that's the phrase

00:17:17.140 they use, of all news in Canada.

00:17:20.520 So put it all together.

00:17:22.280 You've got your news license, your Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization, that's a

00:17:28.360 certification given out by the state.

00:17:30.900 And now the state can tell Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, who to boost and

00:17:36.120 de-boost.

00:17:37.520 They don't have to ban Rebel News.

00:17:39.880 They just have to deny us that news license.

00:17:43.480 And the tech companies will do the rest.

00:17:45.940 And it's just a slow strangulation.

00:17:49.720 Sometimes it's a fast strangulation when you see them actually arrest our guys.

00:17:53.680 They arrested David Mayer.

00:17:54.900 They put him in the back.

00:17:55.740 Why did they handcuff him?

00:17:57.540 Because they wanted to show their domination over.

00:17:59.960 Why did they march, frog march him? 0.91

00:18:01.820 He's a 60 plus guy with two artificial lives.

00:18:04.040 I'm not being condescending to him.

00:18:05.860 He was no risk.

00:18:06.800 That's not a real police move.

00:18:09.340 They did that because they wanted to show who's boss.

00:18:11.940 And don't you forget it.

00:18:12.960 Do you think the Canadians, the average Canadian, is waking up to that?

00:18:18.420 Some of them are.

00:18:19.080 I mean, I just saw a new poll today.

00:18:20.980 Trudeau's the lowest ever.

00:18:24.260 Among young people especially.

00:18:25.740 What's interesting in Canada is Trudeau has the least support.

00:18:29.060 The younger you get, the less support one form or another in the convoy.

00:18:32.040 Whether it was just for a few miles or the whole way, but I think a million people actually got out of their homes and went to see it pass by because they wanted to see if it was real as opposed to the propaganda that they were getting fed on their internet.

00:18:46.960 And it was such a real awakening.

00:18:49.380 You know, Orwell said, the hope lies with the proles.

00:18:53.260 That was his nickname for the proletariat.

00:18:54.900 And that's what it was in Canada.

00:18:56.560 All the experts, all the civil liberties experts who hit the snooze button for three years, all the fancy people, all the PhDs, all the MDs, they went silent.

00:19:06.100 It was the proles.

00:19:07.280 It was those working class truckers who saved the country.

00:19:10.320 And they went to Ottawa.

00:19:11.740 And Trudeau said, uh-huh, this is the January 6th narrative.

00:19:14.840 These guys are insurrectionists.

00:19:16.520 He talked to, he wanted to graft that American narrative onto Canada.

00:19:21.600 Except they were perfectly peaceful.

00:19:23.480 They cleaned up Ottawa.

00:19:25.580 They shoveled the snow.

00:19:27.120 Crime fell in Ottawa.

00:19:28.720 The only shooting, as I mentioned before, was the police shooting our reporter.

00:19:32.700 And so, but the thing is, the media, the regime media, the subsidized media, they believed that these were scary terrorists.

00:19:41.540 So they didn't go down to meet the truckers.

00:19:43.360 They wrote the stories from their offices.

00:19:45.580 And they would have carried out Trudeau's narrative were it not for citizen journalists.

00:19:51.080 And I remember February of 2022 when the convoy was at its peak.

00:19:56.060 Little Rebel News.

00:19:57.000 We sent journalists out there.

00:19:59.060 And I just said, turn on your phone and live stream.

00:20:01.740 You don't even have to talk.

00:20:03.000 Just show us the reality of what's happening.

00:20:05.820 And we had 400 million views and impressions in that month.

00:20:09.460 We're so small, Glenn.

00:20:11.360 But we were as large that month as the state broadcaster.

00:20:14.920 Because everyone said, I don't want to hear some pundit disparaging the truckers.

00:20:19.060 Let me just see what it looks like.

00:20:20.320 And we had kids working weeks and weeks without a break because they knew they were part of a historic moment.

00:20:27.000 It was a peaceful Canadian-style uprising.

00:20:30.940 And Canada is normally so boring.

00:20:33.280 It's so vanilla. 0.88

00:20:34.440 No one cares about Canada.

00:20:35.520 We sort of like it that way.

00:20:36.720 But that one moment, I think the whole world sort of said, what's going on in Canada?

00:20:41.340 And it was a visual feast.

00:20:43.280 It was a spectacle.

00:20:44.540 But it was so peaceful.

00:20:45.660 I went there for a few days.

00:20:48.160 It had a festival feeling.

00:20:50.280 People were unironically waving Canadian flags, just spontaneously singing the anthem.

00:20:56.220 I have never seen that in my life.

00:20:58.300 Canadians aren't like Americans. 0.99

00:20:59.880 We don't all fly flags on our houses.

00:21:02.120 We don't have lapel pins.

00:21:04.280 We're not that showy about it.

00:21:06.180 But that week, it felt that way.

00:21:08.780 I felt like I was going to like a patriotic Woodstock or something.

00:21:12.980 And it was all races. 0.71

00:21:14.540 And Ottawa is just across the river from Quebec, the French-speaking place.

00:21:18.500 And so you had all these French Canadians. 0.95

00:21:21.540 And their English maybe wasn't so good.

00:21:23.260 But it was beautiful.

00:21:24.740 Imagine the feeling of all these French-speaking truckers coming and saying, you know, Viva Freedom or whatever it was.

00:21:30.840 It was a beautiful feeling.

00:21:33.560 And it took all the symbols of Canada.

00:21:36.240 Like, they weren't anti-Canadian.

00:21:37.920 And in fact, to this day, the regime median now says the word freedom and the Canadian flag are radical symbols.

00:21:45.120 The Canadian flag is so being reconquered by the freedom people that now the Trudeau people look down on it.

00:21:51.340 Isn't that amazing?

00:21:52.400 But the truckers saved us.

00:21:53.960 And I see now in Germany, the farmers and the truckers, I think the Canadians actually set a bit of a template for others around the world.

00:22:03.060 I hope so.

00:22:03.960 I hope so.

00:22:04.700 And so I got to have hope.

00:22:05.820 Even though Canada is dark in many ways, there is hope.

00:22:09.540 And you got to keep going.

00:22:11.220 And I had a lot of friends who moved to America during the lockdowns.

00:22:14.720 Montreal, second largest city in Canada.

00:22:17.460 There was a curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the pandemic.

00:22:21.100 Sick or not?

00:22:22.900 Injected or not?

00:22:23.500 You could be triple vaxxed and healthy.

00:22:26.440 You could not leave your personal residence between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

00:22:31.700 Do you know how many Canadians just said, I am out of here and all went to Florida?

00:22:36.160 I mean, there's a lot of French Canadians in Florida to begin with.

00:22:39.160 And but you know what?

00:22:40.980 We were able to that was that marked the inflection point in the polls when Trudeau brought in the War Measures Act.

00:22:47.420 It's now called the Emergencies Act.

00:22:49.380 First time that law was ever used.

00:22:50.780 It wasn't even used during 9-11.

00:22:52.360 I know.

00:22:52.620 Trudeau deployed a form of martial law, seized hundreds of bank accounts without legal process, jailed some of the trucker leaders.

00:23:01.280 And some of them are still in jail, are they not?

00:23:02.880 Yeah.

00:23:03.240 Yeah.

00:23:03.440 There's four of them.

00:23:04.320 Now, they have some more serious charges against them.

00:23:06.560 There's four of them have been in prison almost 700 days.

00:23:08.860 It's sort of like the January Sixers.

00:23:11.740 And but slowly these cases are working their way through court.

00:23:16.360 We started a civil liberties charity called the Democracy Fund took about 3,000 cases.

00:23:22.300 Trudeau was fining people 5,000, 6,000 bucks if they didn't, if they returned to Canada and didn't declare their VAX status, if they didn't fill out some government app.

00:23:32.400 Trudeau created a government app that to come back to your own country, you're a Canadian citizen, you're coming back to your own country.

00:23:39.580 If you did not fill out a government app saying if you were jabbed or not, you would have a $5,000 or $6,000 fine.

00:23:46.620 So a family of four, that's more than 20 grand in fines.

00:23:51.040 What family of four can take that?

00:23:52.800 And so we created a civil liberties charity called the Democracy Fund and we just sort of said we're going to take every case, not just one or two, we're going to take hundreds.

00:24:02.560 In the end, we took 3,000 cases and that jammed the system.

00:24:09.060 In fact, most of those cases, the prosecution has just said we don't have the resources and they've either dropped the cases or settled for a trifle.

00:24:17.640 And there's a lesson there.

00:24:18.640 If only one or two people had stood up, the state would have come down on them like a ton of bricks.

00:24:25.120 But do you really have enough courthouses, enough judges, enough prosecutors to have 3,000 trials?

00:24:31.920 So the very fact that an enormous number of people stood up and said, no, see you in court, as opposed to cowering and paying.

00:24:39.400 The fact that so many people did it is the reason they won.

00:24:43.460 And I'm telling you a lot of different related stories, but I believe in Canada.

00:24:48.240 I have to.

00:24:49.360 It's my home and I can't leave.

00:24:51.940 I feel like I have to be the last one to leave.

00:24:54.380 I've said I believe in it.

00:24:56.400 I think I mean it.

00:24:58.140 Our mission at Rebel News is to tell the other side of the story.

00:25:01.720 But every once in a while, we stop and do something, too.

00:25:04.180 We crowdfund lawyers.

00:25:05.840 We crowdfunded the lawyers for these 3,000 people I mentioned.

00:25:09.660 I don't want to give up.

00:25:11.360 And you've got to hope that people care.

00:25:13.980 There's one caveat to that.

00:25:15.280 What if Trudeau brings in millions of people from other countries that don't believe in freedom?

00:25:20.600 That's my only worry.

00:25:22.080 So here's the thing.

00:25:23.780 Because when you said, you know, I believe in Canada and I and I will stay in Canada.

00:25:28.700 I think when you said that, my first thought was LGBTQ, you say something, anything that's not even disparaging. 1.00

00:25:39.540 You are under attack.

00:25:41.940 But extremists, not the Persians. 0.99

00:25:45.760 I'll bet you that Persian community does not like the current regime. 1.00

00:25:50.500 Oh, no.

00:25:50.960 Very freedom oriented.

00:25:51.960 Of course not.

00:25:53.960 But you do have Muslims.

00:25:55.820 We have them in our country.

00:25:56.720 You have in yours.

00:25:57.740 Not all Muslims are the same. 1.00

00:25:59.280 Right.

00:25:59.420 But there are those who are coming in who have ill intent, want Sharia law in their own no-go zone and eventually for the whole thing. 0.99

00:26:08.060 Right.

00:26:08.340 You're Jewish. 0.75

00:26:09.500 Yeah.

00:26:10.100 You ever think to yourself, I've never understood why people didn't get out of Germany until now.

00:26:18.220 I do have that thought.

00:26:20.380 My whole life, I mean, I grew up in a, actually, in the countryside.

00:26:26.680 I mean, I went to Jewish school in the city, but then I went to school in the country.

00:26:29.820 And my sister and I were the only two Jews in a school of 400 kids.

00:26:33.320 There were two Chinese kids, two black kids, and everyone else was regular.

00:26:36.960 And what was it like being in rural Alberta, being the only Jewish kids?

00:26:42.640 And it was wonderful.

00:26:44.020 It was absolutely, the only thing people said is, tell me what it means to be Jewish.

00:26:49.420 I mean, I had to be on my best behavior because I was sort of the symbol for what it meant.

00:26:53.120 And same with the black kids and the Chinese because we were, it was so wonderful growing up in Canada.

00:26:57.780 My entire life, I never faced any anti-Semitism.

00:27:00.780 Never for a second did I think there's nothing I can, I can't do.

00:27:04.140 And the idea of being unsafe, it never even dawned on me until the last three months.

00:27:13.320 And the hate marches, literally waving flags of the Taliban and Islamic Jihad and ISIS, 0.99

00:27:20.460 and masked people in the streets saying, I'll kill you. 0.95

00:27:26.120 Like, there was this, there was a shopping center in downtown Toronto that hundreds of Hamas supporters went into, 0.97

00:27:32.400 despite the police saying, don't go in, guys.

00:27:34.380 They went in and there's this video of one guy saying, I'm going to put you six feet under.

00:27:38.940 And he's dressed, full mask, Hamas, and the cop is right next to him. 0.97

00:27:44.080 There's a bridge near my house.

00:27:46.320 There's, I live in a pretty Jewish neighborhood.

00:27:49.260 The Hamas protesters are targeting that Jewish neighborhood.

00:27:51.900 There's no embassy there.

00:27:52.760 There's no offices there.

00:27:53.920 There's just Jews, and there's a key bridge to get into the neighborhood. 0.95

00:27:57.980 The Hamas protesters would block it.

00:28:00.760 The police would come and officially block it.

00:28:03.900 They didn't clear the protesters.

00:28:06.220 They taped off the streets so no one would try and go through.

00:28:09.780 The other day, police brought hot coffee to the Hamas protesters on the bridge.

00:28:15.600 That was caught on tape also.

00:28:16.980 They were helping them.

00:28:19.400 And so it's one thing to have bad actors.

00:28:21.580 But when every single authority seems to be cool with it, what do you do?

00:28:27.120 Toronto's got 200,000 Jews.

00:28:29.060 That's a big Jewish population.

00:28:30.680 Never in my life did I think they would be hunted.

00:28:33.780 Every single day, there's more Kristallnacht-style hate crimes.

00:28:38.940 387% rise in hate crimes against Jews since October 7th.

00:28:46.420 I will admit I'm a little bit scared.

00:28:49.700 I hate to say that because I don't want to appear weak, and I don't want to show that they're getting to me.

00:28:54.500 But when you, Justin Trudeau has made a deliberate strategy to court the pro-Hamas vote.

00:29:01.760 At the United Nations a few weeks ago, he broke with Canadian tradition, broke with the United States, and voted to condemn Israel and demand an immediate ceasefire.

00:29:10.920 No mention of Hamas.

00:29:12.180 That was the first time Canada's ever flipped sides.

00:29:15.100 Trudeau has announced that he's going to take at least 1,000 refugees from Gaza, but that there's no cap to that number.

00:29:23.140 Even Arab countries will not take refugees from Gaza.

00:29:26.540 75% of Gazans tell pollsters that they support Hamas.

00:29:30.680 How are you going to vet them?

00:29:32.400 Are you going to ask the Hamas government if these people are terrorists or not?

00:29:36.000 I am worried that Trudeau, partly for ideological reasons and partly because he believes they're his voter bloc, you've got immigration problems, but we do too.

00:29:46.460 And Trudeau is courting the Hamas vote. 0.87

00:29:49.500 I am scared about that.

00:29:51.640 I'll admit I'm scared about that.

00:29:55.640 I brought these in from the museum next door.

00:30:02.020 You know what this is.

00:30:03.320 Oh, boy.

00:30:06.000 Well, I see, for the German police, what does this say?

00:30:12.500 I don't know that first word.

00:30:13.460 So this is the criminal code for the German police.

00:30:20.300 Wow.

00:30:20.660 But I thought it was relevant to you because of what I saw the RMC, the Royal Mounted Police, what they did to your reporter, and then what the local police did.

00:30:33.580 What the local police did, said, get out of here.

00:30:37.720 You're fine.

00:30:38.360 Yeah.

00:30:38.440 Okay?

00:30:38.620 This was the law, this is the way it was, until the Gestapo really took power.

00:30:47.860 Then it didn't matter.

00:30:48.980 Right.

00:30:49.360 This didn't matter at all.

00:30:50.340 Right.

00:30:51.220 My question to you is, how far away is Canada from this not meaning anything locally, and are we following in the same footsteps?

00:31:05.260 A lot of good people were purged from institutions over the jab, from the military, from the police.

00:31:14.720 And what do I mean by good people?

00:31:16.200 I'm not talking about vax or anti-vax, just independent thinkers, critical thinkers, people who care about personal liberty, people who are not obedient and quick order followers.

00:31:25.600 The kind of independent-minded, thoughtful people that you want as police.

00:31:30.100 So, across Canada, I think it happened a lot in the U.S. also.

00:31:34.100 It did, yes.

00:31:34.540 So, you forced out a lot of your best people, and the people who remained were either weak and were in no position to fight back, or they loved it ideologically, or they're just compliant people.

00:31:47.540 So, I think that a lot of institutions purged not only cultural memory of how to be free people, but the kind of people who in a pinch would say, no, that's wrong.

00:31:57.780 Yeah, but only in medicine, military, and police.

00:32:06.740 Wow.

00:32:07.420 Yeah.

00:32:07.960 Well, and DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, which are terrible code words.

00:32:13.020 We're seeing how bad that is.

00:32:15.340 I think that's in every institution.

00:32:16.920 It's in the police.

00:32:18.420 And that's, I can't understand what, take it out of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict for a second.

00:32:24.160 And imagine if masked people, because they're wearing masks, but let's say they were wearing hoods instead of Hamas masks, blocked a road to a black neighborhood on the Sunday Sabbath when a black church was trying to meet, and were chanting about lynchings.

00:32:40.600 And the police were bringing them coffee, and Justin Trudeau was saying, well, they're peaceful protesters. 0.96

00:32:45.860 They're calling for the mass death of Jews. 0.94

00:32:48.720 I don't know why it's excused when it's Jews. 1.00

00:32:51.540 I mean, just flip it around.

00:32:52.900 Put any other group in there.

00:32:54.480 I am worried because the police, I believe, have been DEI colonized.

00:32:59.760 And prosecutors, I don't know, have they been ordered to stand down, or do they believe that this is fine?

00:33:07.660 And, of course, you go from the law school, and we see how bad the school's on.

00:33:10.800 You become a young lawyer, then you become a senior lawyer, a prosecutor, then you become a judge.

00:33:15.620 And I'm worried that the more I study about cultural Marxism and critical theory, the more I realize that these are like termites in our cultural foundation.

00:33:28.300 It took us 30 years to get into this problem.

00:33:30.500 It's going to take us 30 years to get out.

00:33:32.700 I like what's going on with Bill Ackman and some of the battles over Harvard, because it's shining a light on it.

00:33:38.840 But, boy, has the problem progressed. 0.52

00:33:41.960 And the reason that affects the Jews is that in this critical race theory approach, all Jews are the oppressors. 0.95

00:33:49.280 So anything is legitimate against the oppressor Jew. 1.00

00:33:52.480 Oh, I know.

00:33:53.780 I am worried.

00:33:55.440 I feel like it's dark days.

00:33:58.740 I'm actually more worried about the West than I am worried about Israel. 0.80

00:34:01.680 I think Israel can handle itself more or less.

00:34:03.860 Yeah, Israel will handle itself.

00:34:05.840 It knows what happens if it doesn't.

00:34:08.100 It's the only place and the only time they've ever had, they didn't have to ask permission to stand up for themselves.

00:34:15.080 They are not going to lose that.

00:34:17.380 You know, I said to Bibi Netanyahu, I want, I really, and I mean this, I want Israeli citizenship for me and my family.

00:34:26.320 And he said, why would you want that?

00:34:28.260 And I said, because I know you guys know who you are, who the bad guys are, and you'll stand.

00:34:34.220 Right.

00:34:34.520 I'd rather be with a group of people who are standing going, no, this is evil.

00:34:39.840 Yeah.

00:34:40.420 Even if we lose in the end.

00:34:42.000 Yeah.

00:34:42.360 I want to stand.

00:34:43.560 And there's so many people that won't.

00:34:46.360 Let me ask you, let me turn this here for a second.

00:34:49.000 There was a, you're going to Davos next week.

00:34:54.720 Not as an invited guest, as a very much uninvited guest.

00:34:58.780 Well, I wanted to ask you about this, because you have been relentless on this.

00:35:06.040 I've heard reporters say, I went, and it was just boring.

00:35:09.580 I find that hard to believe with everything that's being said, if you're in the meetings.

00:35:14.120 But you're not an invited guest, and you're bringing five reporters.

00:35:18.340 Yeah.

00:35:18.920 What is it you're expecting to find?

00:35:20.740 Davos is a small ski village in the Swiss Alps.

00:35:25.240 It's hard to get to on purpose, I think.

00:35:27.840 It's like a real retreat.

00:35:29.820 Every single hotel room and Airbnb in the town is booked up.

00:35:32.540 Every single one.

00:35:33.900 So you have to stay a town away and take the train in every day.

00:35:37.380 They make it hard to get there.

00:35:39.120 But that lets the VVIPs feel at ease.

00:35:43.120 They think, oh, we're just amongst friends.

00:35:44.420 So although we are not accredited to go into the formal conferences and the formal meetings,

00:35:50.320 we can be on the streets of the town.

00:35:53.520 And there's lots of restaurants and cafes.

00:35:56.060 And so if you're just on the street, you can catch the most amazing people walking by.

00:36:01.940 Now, you've got to be very quick to ID them and then to think, oh, like John Kerry, the U.S. Climate Envoy.

00:36:09.080 I bumped into him on the street.

00:36:10.100 It's just him and one attache.

00:36:11.420 People don't roll with big entourages at Davos.

00:36:15.540 Tony Blair was walking by himself.

00:36:18.300 And so what are the odds that last year I was there and one of our cameramen said, hey, he looks familiar.

00:36:25.680 And I looked and it was Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, walking just with one assistant.

00:36:31.200 And I had some questions in my mind and my colleague, we jumped into it and we just peppered him with questions.

00:36:37.320 We only had three minutes and we had like 30 seconds notice.

00:36:41.640 And so you've got to shift gears.

00:36:43.880 Like, is this a bank president?

00:36:45.340 Is this a U.N.?

00:36:46.340 Like, it's tough when you have 30 seconds.

00:36:49.560 Go.

00:36:50.440 But Avi Amini, my colleague, and I peppered him with questions.

00:36:53.200 Now, after the first couple of questions, Bourla said, have a nice day.

00:36:57.440 I have nothing to say.

00:36:58.340 And I made the decision in the moment, well, I'm going to keep putting my questions.

00:37:03.400 Let me just put my questions on the record.

00:37:05.040 And the fact that he refuses to answer becomes meaningful because my questions were real.

00:37:10.320 Like, why did you cover up the, why did you say that it was 100% efficacious when you knew it wasn't?

00:37:17.540 Why did, I just asked as many real questions, not just attack-ish questions.

00:37:22.960 And for three minutes, he stonewalled it.

00:37:27.160 And I think the message that came out of that is this guy's never done an unscripted, unfiltered, raw interview in his life.

00:37:33.660 He's on TV every day, but it's all softballs.

00:37:36.600 Number two, he could have answered all of them.

00:37:39.540 I didn't have any secret ambush questions that he had.

00:37:42.300 He surely heard all of my questions before, but he just had complete disdain for citizen journalists.

00:37:48.420 It was actually the most viewed video.

00:37:50.440 We've made 30,000 videos at Rebel News.

00:37:53.420 By far the most viewed video we've ever made is Albert Bourla not answering questions for three minutes.

00:37:58.780 Because I think the whole world was riveted by the fact that this guy wouldn't or couldn't answer basic questions about something we were all forced to take.

00:38:07.660 So that's Davos.

00:38:09.880 We're not accredited at the World Economic Forum.

00:38:13.340 But if you're lucky, you'll encounter some of these VVIPs.

00:38:17.480 Greta Thunberg, the child actress, global warming activist.

00:38:21.740 We knew she was in some events.

00:38:24.100 We waited for, they said, oh, she's gone.

00:38:25.680 I knew she was still in there.

00:38:26.820 We waited two hours in the cold.

00:38:28.540 And she came out.

00:38:29.440 And to her credit, she talked to us for 15 minutes.

00:38:32.420 She didn't say anything.

00:38:33.460 She was actually, it was very disappointing how shallow she was.

00:38:38.200 She's a child.

00:38:38.960 Well, she's 20. 0.75

00:38:40.140 She's 20.

00:38:40.900 She looks like a child.

00:38:41.860 So some of it's good luck.

00:38:45.520 Some of it is some of these folks will actually talk to you.

00:38:51.880 If you, I suppose, ask nicely.

00:38:55.520 There are hundreds of accredited journalists, though.

00:39:00.500 And let me tell you what that means.

00:39:01.680 You have to pay to play.

00:39:05.280 So when you're there, the Wall Street Journal, Google, CNBC, CNN, they're all there.

00:39:13.160 But they've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their kiosk, to have their studio.

00:39:19.500 They are part of the World Economic Forum.

00:39:22.120 So if you are part of the World Economic Forum, and if you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for that privilege, are you going to ask a question that stinks up the joint?

00:39:30.680 No.

00:39:30.840 No, you're going to give softball.

00:39:32.560 So ironically, there are hundreds of journalists there.

00:39:35.560 And I think that also puts these VVIPs at ease because they know everyone there is a friend. 0.99

00:39:40.520 They're an insider.

00:39:41.740 And then there's a few of these grubby citizen journalists asking untoward questions.

00:39:46.760 This year, Vladimir Zelensky's going.

00:39:49.200 The head of the UN's going.

00:39:50.440 The president of Israel's going.

00:39:51.680 There's a lot of VVVIPs.

00:39:53.620 I don't think Zelensky's going to wander around the street without an entourage.

00:39:57.160 So I don't think we'll have a chance to buttonhole him, but others will.

00:39:59.800 So the theme this year is rebuilding trust.

00:40:05.720 What trust have they lost?

00:40:10.200 And I mean this in, are they trying to rebuild?

00:40:13.520 The trust among themselves?

00:40:16.180 The trust that they thought they had with the people?

00:40:19.960 What are they rebuilding?

00:40:21.740 I think they mean trust in all.

00:40:23.440 The World Economic Forum, you can't vote them out.

00:40:25.880 You can't even shareholder vote them out.

00:40:27.440 It's like a private institution.

00:40:29.900 It's a private club.

00:40:31.300 But it really is the world's most dense gathering of VVIPs.

00:40:35.520 I can't deny it.

00:40:36.900 And so everyone wants to be there for whatever reason.

00:40:40.620 And a lot of it's off the record.

00:40:43.000 So it's off the record lobbying.

00:40:45.320 You know, I bumped into the governor of Georgia.

00:40:47.820 Governor Kemp there on the street, if I'm remembering his name, right?

00:40:52.360 And I was sort of friendly to him.

00:40:54.120 I got no beef with him.

00:40:54.880 I said, how are you here at this woke George Soros?

00:40:58.700 This is Soros' favorite place.

00:41:00.460 I said, what are you doing here?

00:41:02.540 Like, they don't believe in free speech.

00:41:04.160 They're very woke.

00:41:05.240 What would you say to the America First side of your party?

00:41:09.180 And he said, I have nothing to say to you.

00:41:10.920 Like, he was getting into that.

00:41:12.380 I don't know.

00:41:12.740 I was disappointed in his head.

00:41:14.000 He could have given a good answer.

00:41:15.140 He could have said, I'm here to get jobs for my state.

00:41:17.200 I'll go anywhere to get jobs.

00:41:18.960 Talk to the devil himself.

00:41:20.180 Like, there could have been a good answer.

00:41:21.880 But there's a snootiness.

00:41:23.060 Like, how dare you grubby people ask me questions.

00:41:26.020 There was a young Japanese citizen journalist.

00:41:29.280 Masako was her name.

00:41:30.380 Just a young lady who wanted to do journalism. 0.99

00:41:32.780 She waited outside a restaurant for Klaus Schwab for hours.

00:41:38.080 And he finally came out.

00:41:40.700 And he saw her.

00:41:42.120 And he came to her.

00:41:42.920 And she said, may I ask you a question?

00:41:45.000 And he said, what outlet are you with?

00:41:47.620 And she said, I'm an independent journalist.

00:41:49.500 And he said, no.

00:41:50.860 And he walked away.

00:41:52.620 Why?

00:41:53.920 I mean, is her question not valid on its own?

00:41:56.260 Does she need to pay you for you to pay any attention to her? 1.00

00:42:00.360 And so, this is people who have no democratic standing, yet they want to be rulers.

00:42:09.360 Klaus himself mused the other day that AI could do away with elections.

00:42:15.660 He said that what do we even need elections for when artificial intelligence can tell us the solution?

00:42:20.440 They talk about AI in courts.

00:42:22.600 I've seen that idea brooded as well.

00:42:24.400 These are the folks who tell you that you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. 0.88

00:42:28.120 They have crazy philosopher madmen like Yuval Noah Harari. 0.98

00:42:34.860 Terrifying. 1.00

00:42:35.320 Who talks about people being useless. 0.99

00:42:38.100 And the future is video games and drugs. 0.89

00:42:41.900 They're very dystopian.

00:42:43.380 But they'll wind up on top.

00:42:44.580 I saw the other day Mark Zuckerberg in Hawaii.

00:42:48.720 And he's got apparently a cattle ranch there.

00:42:51.600 And he's talking about feeding his cattle macadamia nuts.

00:42:53.680 It makes the beef very nice.

00:42:55.120 It sounds sort of delicious, actually.

00:42:57.460 But wait, I thought we weren't supposed to eat meat.

00:43:00.080 The finest meats for the billionaire class.

00:43:02.180 Yes.

00:43:03.160 Bugs for you.

00:43:04.420 Yes.

00:43:04.840 And that's what gets me about the world economic form.

00:43:07.140 I believe people should be able to meet.

00:43:08.840 Meet whoever you want.

00:43:10.020 Sure.

00:43:10.180 But these people cook up policies that are then downloaded into governments without democratic consent.

00:43:18.920 I know for a fact that a lot of Canadian policy is hatched by.

00:43:23.840 Oh, yeah.

00:43:24.400 Absolutely.

00:43:24.960 With Larry Fink. 0.96

00:43:26.180 Who the hell is he?

00:43:27.200 And Christian Freeland, this deputy prime minister that had a. 0.84

00:43:29.940 They meet in secret.

00:43:31.320 There's no transcript.

00:43:32.180 There's no there's no record.

00:43:33.860 There's no congressional.

00:43:34.460 It is the ultimate back room cigar smoking club.

00:43:38.740 And they don't deny it.

00:43:39.700 They brag about it.

00:43:40.480 I know the Schwab himself boasts about penetrating the cabinets.

00:43:44.740 Yes.

00:43:47.160 We've got to fight back.

00:43:48.600 And the fact that they realize that they've lost institutional trust.

00:43:52.180 I take that as a good sign.

00:43:54.020 But they're on their agenda.

00:43:56.200 So, yeah, let's just look at their.

00:43:59.280 They just came out with their five global risks.

00:44:01.720 They do this every year.

00:44:03.700 And it's usually global warming.

00:44:05.700 That's the worst.

00:44:06.340 They do the risk over the next two years, the next 10 years, 10 years.

00:44:11.800 It is global warming.

00:44:13.120 Global warming is not number one this year.

00:44:17.520 It's misinformation and disinformation.

00:44:21.840 Number two, extreme weather events.

00:44:25.180 Number three, societal polarization.

00:44:28.160 Number four, cyber insecurity.

00:44:30.680 Number five, interstate on armed conflict.

00:44:36.600 Really interstate armed conflict.

00:44:39.460 So.

00:44:41.200 War is the fifth. 0.92

00:44:43.780 But misinformation, disinformation.

00:44:45.920 And the reason why is because of elections.

00:44:50.380 Yes.

00:44:51.000 And this is how these people.

00:44:53.480 I mean, they're very pissed at people like you, people like me that have brought ESG to light.

00:45:00.760 Yeah.

00:45:01.040 And said, look at what they're doing.

00:45:03.360 Look at what they're actually saying.

00:45:04.600 They thought they had an open runway.

00:45:06.960 Yeah.

00:45:07.100 This is why they're destroying Donald Trump.

00:45:08.880 I'm convinced of it.

00:45:10.020 He got them out of the Paris Accords.

00:45:12.160 He got us out of that.

00:45:13.040 That was instrumental that we had to be a part of that.

00:45:17.480 And everything they're doing to Trump, you can see them arranging it.

00:45:20.240 They're going to try to do to Elon Musk.

00:45:22.280 Oh, there already are.

00:45:23.240 I believe that they, I think that Elon Musk, I mean, as the good book says, don't put your

00:45:29.160 trust in princes.

00:45:30.580 Yes.

00:45:31.200 But by God, he's doing some valuable things for all of humanity.

00:45:34.600 And I keep thinking, where's the catch?

00:45:36.660 Maybe there is a catch.

00:45:37.440 Maybe we'll be let down.

00:45:38.260 So here's the thing.

00:45:38.780 I think Elon Musk is, have you read the, uh, the, uh, latest biography on him?

00:45:45.140 No, it's really good.

00:45:46.940 Um, and if you get into that, he's, he's, he does things because he wants to, he's not

00:45:57.060 some, Oh, I want to feed.

00:45:59.460 He he's doing it because he wants to, and he has his own agenda.

00:46:02.700 However, he grew up with a nasty father, nasty father who berated him and told him he'd never

00:46:12.320 make it and you can't do it.

00:46:14.780 And that taught him to stand up.

00:46:17.520 Now, when there's bullies on the block, he doesn't bend the knee, he doesn't bend the

00:46:22.120 knee.

00:46:22.440 And the harder you push him, the harder he'll fight.

00:46:26.180 I did not know that.

00:46:26.940 Yeah.

00:46:27.140 I knew he had a, a, a history with his dad.

00:46:29.760 But you know what, by unlocking Twitter, not only has he allowed all the citizen journalism

00:46:34.820 we've been talking about, and he wants to make it a commercial place as well.

00:46:38.900 And it's very exciting, but it's also revealed the depth of the control.

00:46:45.340 Oh yeah.

00:46:45.780 The misinformation.

00:46:46.820 Here's a guy who's done more for global warming.

00:46:49.220 If you believe that.

00:46:50.100 Yeah.

00:46:50.660 There's no one on earth that has done more than him.

00:46:53.180 Yeah.

00:46:53.380 And they hate him.

00:46:57.520 It's, it's fascinating that misinformation, I think you're right that that will be their

00:47:02.220 entry into censorship in this election year.

00:47:06.280 And that will, and some of these names I've mentioned, like Jacinda Ardern, she was, she's

00:47:13.080 no longer the prime minister of New Zealand, but she still is a policymaker jetting around.

00:47:18.100 Her chief project right now is censorship online and, and Leo Varadkar of Ireland.

00:47:25.440 I don't know if you've seen some of the crazy stuff they're talking about.

00:47:28.220 They're merely possessing hate speech, which they include like a politically incorrect memes

00:47:34.040 on your phone or something.

00:47:35.140 Merely the possession of them will be a crime.

00:47:38.080 I'm worried.

00:47:38.920 And, and people say, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.

00:47:41.880 They're saying it out loud.

00:47:43.760 Yes.

00:47:44.020 You know, it, I find that people, for all those people that said it was a conspiracy

00:47:48.260 theory with ESG, where are you now?

00:47:50.720 Yeah.

00:47:51.260 And the funny thing is, if you support eating bugs, the misinformation censorship, if you

00:47:58.420 support all the things they're doing, it's not a conspiracy theory.

00:48:01.440 It's good policy.

00:48:02.220 If you oppose it, well, then they call you a conspiracy theorist.

00:48:06.880 I, you know, we talk about the thing about being citizen journalists is you, is you follow

00:48:11.300 alternative contrarian leads a lot, non-conformist.

00:48:15.880 And the thing is, a lot of alternative non-conformist ideas are wrong.

00:48:20.640 It's just a fact.

00:48:21.520 The internet is full of wrong things.

00:48:25.280 You have to discern what's, I mean, but that doesn't mean everything is false.

00:48:30.760 Jeffrey Epstein was called a false rumor for the longest time, and we're learning more

00:48:35.140 about it all the time.

00:48:36.080 But what I tell my team, because we've got a lot of young guys doing journalism, I say

00:48:41.820 follow the facts wherever they lead, as in don't be averse to throwing your theory out

00:48:47.000 if the facts rejected.

00:48:48.700 But the world is crazy enough, we don't have to invent conspiracy theories.

00:48:53.640 There's enough craziness out there, just lying out there that people aren't reporting.

00:48:57.700 Just go and show it.

00:48:58.860 Just go and show with the camera who is there at Davos and why.

00:49:03.400 And just being there is half the battle.

00:49:06.140 I think, I mean, I love opinion journalism.

00:49:08.340 You can see I've got a lot of opinions.

00:49:10.360 But I think the most important work we've ever done at Rebel News is in the field, just

00:49:16.240 to show things.

00:49:17.180 I remember you interviewed me when I was in Marseille, France, during the race riots there.

00:49:21.520 And just talking to all these Algerian Muslim men, not women, because they weren't on the 0.99

00:49:26.580 streets, just if you don't go and see them and talk to them, you won't really get a

00:49:32.000 feeling for what's going on.

00:49:33.960 And I think that that's the beauty of citizen journalism, because it's distributed.

00:49:39.760 It's people with their cell phones everywhere in the world.

00:49:43.000 And I think in some way, misinformation, disinformation, we're in a golden age of journalism.

00:49:48.740 When you look at it, everyone can be a journalist.

00:49:51.020 You have more cameras recording things than ever before.

00:49:53.940 You have people from, you know, you want to talk about diversity.

00:49:56.240 How about real diversity?

00:49:57.540 Different people can show you what's going on.

00:49:59.420 Now, you've got to use your decision, you've got to use your intellect to determine what's

00:50:03.440 real and what's fake.

00:50:04.460 But in a way, we're in the golden age of journalism.

00:50:06.840 That's what these folks want to stop.

00:50:08.820 That's what the old Twitter was stopping.

00:50:12.140 That's what shadow banning and de-boosting was all about.

00:50:16.800 That's the thing they hate most about Elon Musk.

00:50:19.400 They don't really hate that he's quirky or that he's a contrarian.

00:50:23.100 They hate that he has freed Twitter and exposed their censorship.

00:50:26.900 That's his greatest gift to the world.

00:50:29.300 He has, in a way, brought the First Amendment to the whole world, including to places like

00:50:33.580 Canada, which don't have a First Amendment.

00:50:35.280 You were a happy warrior for a long time. 0.96

00:50:42.840 You know, you did interviews with, you know, naked people and they blurred your nipples. 0.96

00:50:50.580 And I mean, you were a showman as well. 0.96

00:50:55.860 And you, it was fun.

00:50:58.040 It was fun.

00:50:58.600 You're just a warrior now.

00:51:02.420 You're just a warrior.

00:51:03.820 I try and keep my sense of humor.

00:51:07.240 But things feel darker now.

00:51:11.100 And the battles feel so much more important.

00:51:13.540 I mean, for the longest time, everything was frozen in ice.

00:51:16.640 I mean, during the Cold War, everything was frozen.

00:51:18.120 Foreign affairs seemed frozen.

00:51:19.320 The debates seemed like the spectrum of outcomes seemed smaller.

00:51:26.700 Now, I can't think of a more catastrophic difference between Biden and Trump, for example.

00:51:34.080 I mean, look at the world.

00:51:34.780 Look what's happening in the world.

00:51:36.480 And I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't think I'm like, I think I still do have

00:51:41.360 a sense of humor.

00:51:42.320 I also have the obligations of being, I guess, in my own way, a CEO.

00:51:46.340 I mean, we've got just over 40 people at the company.

00:51:49.220 So, a lot of what I do, I loved being just a commentator or just a journalist.

00:51:56.500 I didn't have to worry about the dollars and cents.

00:51:58.760 I didn't have to worry about censorship by YouTube.

00:52:02.040 I mean, we were the largest YouTube news channel in Canada after one year.

00:52:10.400 We were growing 8% a month.

00:52:13.040 We were on track to make a million bucks in our second year just in YouTube ads.

00:52:17.660 That's, you can build a company with that.

00:52:19.880 And then YouTube turned it off because we were pro-Trump and I wouldn't doubt that the

00:52:25.820 government of Canada weighed in.

00:52:27.740 So, how do you make a go of it?

00:52:29.900 How do you start a media company?

00:52:31.640 You either have an oligarch like Jeff Bezos in the Washington Post or Carlos Slim in the

00:52:36.600 New York Times.

00:52:37.080 Sometimes, I mean, it's a good gig if you can get it, but you better be very obedient

00:52:41.520 and not step on his toes and he might get bored of his play thing.

00:52:44.920 So, an oligarch is out.

00:52:46.380 Okay, you could work for the government.

00:52:47.740 That's what most journalists in Canada do.

00:52:49.760 You could work for a big corporate conglomerate, but then all you can do is vanilla because they're

00:52:54.200 too risk averse.

00:52:55.400 Or, you can try and live off the support of your people through subscriptions or we do

00:53:01.700 a lot of crowdfunding.

00:53:02.960 That is a very hard way to make a living in Canada because we don't have a big base.

00:53:07.980 I think we do good work, but our market is one-tenth the size of America.

00:53:12.620 But our staff can't be one-tenth the size.

00:53:15.820 We don't have the economy of scale.

00:53:17.020 I think maybe that's one reason why I'm not quite as jokey, you know, in my ripe old age

00:53:22.940 as I was 15 years ago when I just had fun writing things.

00:53:27.260 But you have to keep your sense of humor.

00:53:30.540 And, you know, Orwell and others talked about it.

00:53:35.400 You know, Solzhenitsyn was sent to jail for making a joke about Stalin's mustache.

00:53:41.640 Khomeini said there's no jokes in Islam, the Ayatollah.

00:53:45.120 And I think you have to stay irreverent.

00:53:48.380 You do have to laugh.

00:53:50.460 And at the end of the day, if you can laugh at power, if you can laugh at the tyrant,

00:53:55.560 if you can mock Justin Trudeau, not only will you feel better, but there's no defense to

00:54:03.180 being mocked and laughed at for a politician.

00:54:06.080 They lose their aura of inevitability.

00:54:08.820 And I just think that every tyrant in history hates being laughed at.

00:54:17.180 And I think Trudeau is that way, too.

00:54:20.360 And we make a lot of fun of him.

00:54:22.320 My book, The Libranos, I wrote a book about Justin Trudeau.

00:54:26.080 You know, the cover, The Libranos, it was sort of a takeoff of The Sopranos.

00:54:30.340 And we had sort of that movie poster look of Trudeau looking really mean.

00:54:34.160 And that drove him nuts.

00:54:37.280 It made him crazy.

00:54:39.800 I was prosecuted for that book.

00:54:41.800 I'm the only author in Canadian history who was prosecuted for a book.

00:54:46.020 There were 24 books published about Justin Trudeau in the 2019 election.

00:54:49.600 24 books.

00:54:50.500 It's not surprising.

00:54:51.180 There were 100 books on Trump.

00:54:53.100 Mine was the only critical book.

00:54:54.460 There were 23 pro-Trudeau books.

00:54:56.200 And then there was mine.

00:54:58.040 Elections Canada, which is our FEC, investigated me.

00:55:02.100 They hauled me down to their office.

00:55:03.200 They had two 30-year Mounties interrogate me about my book for an hour.

00:55:09.020 And I said, I'm an author.

00:55:10.440 I don't have to.

00:55:11.060 And I went down there because I wanted to record them.

00:55:15.420 They said, why didn't you register this book with the government?

00:55:18.180 I said, because I'm an author.

00:55:19.200 I don't register books.

00:55:20.100 They said, but it's a campaign ad because it's so clearly critical of Trudeau.

00:55:23.820 I mean, look at the cover.

00:55:24.540 They were obsessed by the cover of the book.

00:55:27.420 It was a humorous, satirical comparison of Justin Trudeau and his cronies with The Sopranos.

00:55:34.240 And that tells me if I can stay humorous, if I can stay light, that will drive the other side mad.

00:55:41.040 But, boys, jokes are the first thing to go, aren't they?

00:55:44.420 I mean, ask the funniest comedians.

00:55:47.360 They won't do the campus circuit anymore because the jokes are the first thing to go.

00:55:51.580 Because every joke is a little revolution.

00:55:53.200 Every joke is a—you're dealing with a sensitive issue, and you're not allowed to do that.

00:55:57.520 You can't make a joke about transgenderism.

00:55:59.860 You can't make a joke about wokeism.

00:56:02.720 A guy who—Curt Garan.

00:56:05.980 Do you know that name?

00:56:06.740 No.

00:56:07.980 Kurt Garan was a combination of Robin Williams and Tom Hanks.

00:56:17.440 He was the number one guy, trusted, always played a dad or a good guy, but was very, very funny.

00:56:31.740 And in the 1920s, he started making fun of the Nazis.

00:56:38.520 And he was extraordinarily popular and hid right in the spotlight. 0.87

00:56:44.900 And 1933 comes around, and they march in, and they say, all the Jews, you're all fired.

00:56:59.120 And Garan said, you can't do this. 0.64

00:57:01.460 And they said, that means you, too.

00:57:04.400 Get out.

00:57:04.940 He was Jewish.

00:57:06.560 He left.

00:57:08.860 He saw what was coming, so he went to Paris.

00:57:11.220 Hitler hated him so much because he made fun of him, hated him so much.

00:57:19.420 When they went into Paris, one of the first things that they were ordered to do was find him.

00:57:25.880 They found him and put him on a train.

00:57:32.620 I can't remember the name of the town that they stopped in, but it was a town that had been cut in half.

00:57:40.220 And it had all of the intellectuals.

00:57:43.780 He saved all of the intellectuals, all the famous Jews, the orchestra, the doctors, everything else.

00:57:51.320 And he was brought there and given a choice.

00:57:55.240 You can go to Auschwitz now, or you'll make a film. 0.90

00:58:02.080 And he said, I'm not going to make a film.

00:58:04.280 And they said, okay, we forgot to tell you.

00:58:08.260 We're going to send every person in this town to Auschwitz, and then you. 1.00

00:58:13.040 And so he made the film, and it was called A Place for the Jews.

00:58:18.780 Really?

00:58:19.780 And it answered the question for most Germans, what happened to all these people?

00:58:26.980 Wow.

00:58:27.440 They just disappeared.

00:58:28.300 What happened?

00:58:29.520 It is the most terrifying film you've ever seen if you watch it because it's happy.

00:58:33.840 Wow.

00:58:34.160 It shows Jews eating and making things and laughing and listening at concerts and all of it.

00:58:40.520 They were beaten.

00:58:42.280 If you took and took the spoon and actually put something in your mouth, you had to spit it out or you were beaten.

00:58:50.860 Okay?

00:58:51.880 In the end, film came out.

00:58:54.460 Soon as he said, print, and they had the edit, they rounded up everybody and him and sent him away.

00:59:04.000 You're right.

00:59:04.960 Dictators hate being made fun of.

00:59:11.700 They hate.

00:59:12.860 But it is the best way to expose them.

00:59:18.140 You know, I know Charlie Chaplin, of course, the dictator.

00:59:21.000 But at the end of the day, you need more than that because how did all those stories end?

00:59:27.180 The French actor was sent off anyways and Charlie Chaplin, I mean, that didn't stop Hitler. 0.99

00:59:35.720 I think it's important to mock the tyrant.

00:59:40.300 But we do need action also.

00:59:42.700 And I'm very worried about that.

00:59:44.780 I don't know.

00:59:45.140 I think that the world is, I don't know how it gets back on track.

00:59:50.100 I think it's a terrible combination, the leaders we have around the world, every one of them weaker than the next.

00:59:57.300 I see little twinkles of hope, but they seem minor.

01:00:00.180 Here at Wilders in Holland, won the Dutch elections there.

01:00:05.720 On a platform of pulling out of the madness of the European Union and stopping mass immigration. 0.99

01:00:11.840 And, you know, I interviewed him in the Netherlands.

01:00:16.120 You know, we talk about carbon net zero here.

01:00:18.900 He's talking about nitrogen net zero.

01:00:21.360 That's the war on farmers that they have in Europe.

01:00:24.060 That's no fertilizer.

01:00:25.660 It was crazy.

01:00:26.140 Like he was talking about nitrogen.

01:00:27.240 I said, what are you talking about?

01:00:28.720 But imagine the madness, the hubris of these Larry Finks and others.

01:00:36.960 They're going to ban literally a chemical from the periodic table of the elements.

01:00:42.540 We're going to take out carbon.

01:00:44.180 We're going to take out nitrogen.

01:00:45.960 Nitrogen is most of air.

01:00:47.960 Carbon is the stuff of life.

01:00:49.540 Everything has that C-H, you know, the madness of it.

01:00:55.400 And we just repeat it.

01:00:58.180 And, you know, even conservatives talk about net zero.

01:01:01.500 Some of them do.

01:01:02.520 And we have to reduce emissions.

01:01:04.400 Like these cult-like mantras of the left.

01:01:08.600 I don't know.

01:01:09.120 I hope that we snap out of it.

01:01:10.580 But we are so...

01:01:11.440 Now I'm reading about how DEI Boeing is and other aircraft makers.

01:01:16.780 It's terrifying.

01:01:18.000 I don't know.

01:01:18.640 What do you...

01:01:19.400 Somebody asked me.

01:01:21.660 I was just having dinner with somebody that you would know of.

01:01:25.220 You'd know the name.

01:01:26.560 Very, very wealthy.

01:01:29.160 Really an exceptional human being.

01:01:32.760 And I sat in his kitchen and we were having dinner.

01:01:37.580 And he said,

01:01:38.780 We're in real trouble in the West.

01:01:44.000 And I said, yeah, we are.

01:01:45.920 And he said,

01:01:47.140 What do you think of 2024?

01:01:50.820 How is this going to play out, 2024?

01:01:54.860 I know what my answer was.

01:01:58.380 What's yours?

01:02:02.680 I don't have as much intelligence about what's going on in America as you do.

01:02:07.280 Because I'm in Canada and I'm focused on Canada.

01:02:09.760 But America is the determiner of so many of these things.

01:02:13.460 And right now America, it seems to me as an outsider, is squandering so much money and military and moral authority.

01:02:24.760 Look, I watch these Houthis, these rebels in Yemen with their Mad Max style boats that have paralyzed 95% of shipping. 1.00

01:02:35.140 And you've got two of the mightiest aircraft carriers ever built there.

01:02:39.380 And they're being shot at every day by all these little drones.

01:02:44.760 And a $10,000 drone is being shot down by a million dollar American missile.

01:02:49.760 And the U.S. government won't just smash the Houthi bases. 0.88

01:02:54.860 And maybe I don't know the facts.

01:02:57.120 And maybe it's not my place as a Canadian to have comments on American military posture.

01:03:01.900 But I'm thinking America in some ways has never been stronger.

01:03:07.000 But it looks so weak.

01:03:08.300 And the world sees it from China to Iran to Russia to Europe.

01:03:15.060 And I think what happens to America is more important than everything else combined.

01:03:19.680 Obviously, as a Canadian, I love Canada.

01:03:21.200 It's very important to me to fix Canada.

01:03:22.700 But actually, getting the right president in the United States will probably change my life more than getting the right prime minister in Canada.

01:03:32.340 And that goes for all these terrible places.

01:03:34.940 I believe that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine had Trump been president.

01:03:38.600 I agree.

01:03:39.320 And I believe that Hamas would not have done what it had done. 0.68

01:03:44.740 And if they did, I think, you know, maybe this is a fantasy.

01:03:48.240 But I think Trump would have picked up the phone to Qatar and said, you hand them over now.

01:03:52.760 And I'm not even going to tell you what the or else is.

01:03:55.200 You've got six hours.

01:03:56.880 Like, I just think he would have.

01:03:58.900 No, but in a different world.

01:04:00.220 I really think so.

01:04:01.620 And the debt and the – I just think so many – and shutting down America's energy industry, which was booming.

01:04:11.680 And I pray for America and I don't have the answer for America.

01:04:18.140 And whatever my thoughts are, they're the thoughts of a Canadian observer far away from the action here.

01:04:23.680 I mean, I love Ron DeSantis as a governor, but he doesn't seem to be catching fire for president.

01:04:29.760 I like Vivek, but I feel like he's more a debate society guy.

01:04:33.440 I don't know if he is, you know – it's interesting as a pundit to watch all these things.

01:04:39.180 I don't know what the answer is, but I know the answer has to come from America.

01:04:43.580 Where else is it going to come from?

01:04:45.860 I think the biggest threat to America is who the heck is coming across that border by the thousand every day? 0.58

01:04:51.700 Do you even know?

01:04:52.800 And we know it's not just economic migrants from Central America.

01:04:57.840 We know there's bad dudes coming in, too.

01:05:00.460 We just don't know who and how many.

01:05:02.720 And I am afraid of the worst.

01:05:04.480 Now, maybe I'm dramatic by nature, but my God, I feel like that border will change everything, not just a military and terrorist risk,

01:05:13.320 but eventually those will be voters who perhaps do not share the American values.

01:05:18.180 And I believe in American people just like I believe in Canadians.

01:05:20.900 I mean, when I told you the story of growing up in Canada, in the rural part where I was the only Jew for miles,

01:05:25.900 I felt completely safe and at home and welcome and loved.

01:05:28.820 That's because I was with Canadians.

01:05:31.060 But if you import thousands of people from Gaza, as Trudeau says he's going to do, maybe those values will not be –

01:05:37.780 and in a democracy, they get a vote, too.

01:05:41.080 And I'm very worried about that.

01:05:43.540 I don't know.

01:05:44.020 I don't want to just whine and wheedle.

01:05:45.940 I want to have some solutions, too.

01:05:48.100 And by the way, telling the truth, telling the truth is the first step in a solution.

01:05:52.780 If you don't diagnose the problem, you'll never solve it.

01:05:56.720 I don't necessarily have solutions, but I do know that telling the other side of the story is part of the solution.

01:06:06.320 Ezra, I've been thinking this the whole time, trying to remember the last time I sat with somebody who I thought,

01:06:14.960 depending on who writes it, we'll end up in the history books as a true civil rights leader.

01:06:27.020 You are a remarkable man, and it's an honor to call you friend.

01:06:32.040 Well, thank you.

01:06:32.600 And you are a role model for us, and you were when we started.

01:06:35.860 We looked to what you were doing, your independent journalism.

01:06:38.800 And you also have a combination of telling the other side of the story, but also, every now and then, stopping to fix the world a little bit.

01:06:47.820 And I have to say, we look up to you, and in many ways, we've modeled what we do after you.

01:06:53.380 God bless you.

01:06:54.520 Thank you.

01:06:54.960 You, too.

01:07:00.740 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend so it can be discovered by other people.

01:07:08.800 I'll see you next time.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 13, 2024

Ep 206 ｜ Is Canada’s Tyrannical Regime America’s Future？｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 13, 2024

Ep 206 ｜ Is Canada’s Tyrannical Regime America’s Future？ ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Ep 206 ｜ Is Canada’s Tyrannical Regime America’s Future？｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast