Ezra Levant details vaccine mandates’ extreme reach—from banning unvaccinated MPs (like Charles II’s 1642 purge) to firing 4,000 BC nurses and forcing Alberta firefighters like Tim Moen into legal battles over medical privacy. Rebel News’ $100K Democracy Fund-backed lawsuits aim to dismantle mandates nationwide, contrasting with Trudeau’s rule-by-decree and unions like Unifor under Jerry Diaz allegedly siding with government interests. While praising Florida’s Ron DeSantis for opposing coercion, Levant accuses Conservative leader Aaron O’Toole of silence, warning these measures could permanently erode democratic rights and set a precedent for unchecked state control over personal freedoms. [Automatically generated summary]
Today's podcast is about a little history lesson of why you don't let the king or the speaker of the house or the government ban MPs from sitting in parliament even during a time of a plague, even when the king really, really, really hates the MPs.
I'll talk to you a little bit about King Charles in 1642.
And before you say that's boring old-fashioned stuff, I said, no, it's not.
It's a lesson for why we don't let people kick out MPs from Parliament lightly.
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Here's today's podcast.
Tonight, I've got some crazy stories about how far vaccine mandates go.
Crazy Vaccine Mandate Stories00:15:53
Some will make you laugh, and some will make you cry.
It's October 28th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
The only thing I have to say in government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
We don't teach history anymore, so we forget many lessons.
We forget the reasons for why we do things for our customs.
We forget the struggles of the past and the price we paid for them.
And so the lessons that were learned through suffering are forgotten, and we throw them away not knowing what we're doing.
I could literally be talking about anything, from how a culture deals with sexuality to civil liberties to foreign affairs.
I mean, go read the 1911 poem by Rudyard Kipling called Daenegeld and tell me we're not making every one of those mistakes today in our foreign policy with China and frankly every enemy.
It really is true.
Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Do you really think we're in unprecedented times?
Do you really think we're the first people to grapple with certain things, with a plague, with the flu?
We're not.
We're just probably the morally weakest generation to deal with anything tough.
I mean, 20 years of safe spaces and trigger warnings.
Are you surprised by how our culture is handling things?
And hey, you just wait until these insane woke lawyers become insane woke judges.
Good luck to all of us then.
And I say this because I think of our Parliament and how it has totally been neutered.
Do you think this is the first time that this has happened?
Do you think that this time, the pandemic of the 2020s, is the first time in history that governments preferred to rule by fiat rather than through public debates and votes in the House of Commons?
Do you think it's the first time that governments have tried to keep MPs from sitting in Parliament?
Even the first time parties have tried to keep out their own MPs.
Do you think in the 800 or so year history of parliaments in the UK that no one thought, I can cook up a scheme to keep out my political rivals?
And I say all this because the political fashion, the political excuse of the particular moment is that some MPs are not vaccinated.
Or at least they don't want to answer that personal question.
They're not sick.
They don't have COVID.
They're just not vaccinated.
By the way, as you know, being vaccinated doesn't mean you're not sick either.
You can be vaccinated and carry the virus and get sick.
The whole question is like that Abbott and Costello skit, who's on first?
Or you've probably seen this meme on Facebook.
You know the one.
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.
I know you think that doesn't make sense, but who are you to question St. Dr. Teresa Tam or Anthony Fauci?
You know, they just made a dissing movie about him.
He's so great.
He's so wise.
For some reason, the movie didn't include the deeply disturbing news just this past week that he approved medical experiments on dogs so horrific that I dare not tell you the details of how painful and pointless the experiments were other than that the dogs howled in such agony that they were debarked before the torture because it was upsetting the scientists.
That's the satanic priests we're following here.
It's not science people because you're allowed to question science.
But what did they do in the last parliament to be beset by a real plague?
Do you think maybe there's anything we can learn from that?
And I mean a real plague, a plague that killed one in six people, not one in a thousand.
You know, so far there's been about 28,000 COVID deaths in Canada, and I regret that.
I am skeptical of that number because it includes anyone who died for any reason who happened to test positive for COVID within the 28 days before the death.
I wonder if they even include traffic accidents in that.
So I am skeptical of that reason, but let's accept it nonetheless.
If we accept that statistic, and we know that there's around 38 million Canadians, and we know that fewer than one in a thousand Canadians have died from COVID, and those that have their average age is 80, and they were on average very sick or very fat, so not even one in a thousand people in Canada have died from it.
Compare that to the last plague in the 1660s in the United Kingdom that killed 15% of the people it touched.
Now that's a plague.
So what did they do with their parliament in a real plague that was really devastating people?
Did they send their MPs and their lords, or whatever exactly they were called, members, I think they were called.
Did they send them home?
Of course they didn't have Zoom or Skype then.
They didn't have telephones or telegraphs even.
So what did they do?
Well here's a quick line or two from the UK National Archives.
Here's what their government did.
And I'm just reading from their government website here.
Charles II, that was the king, and his courtiers left in July for Hampton Court and then Oxford.
Parliament was postponed and had to sit in October at Oxford, the increase of the plague being so dreadful.
Court cases were also moved from Westminster to Oxford.
Okay, so they didn't close for a year or two like we did.
They just moved down the highway 60 miles from London to Oxford.
Parliament was shut for a few months, but then it opened up again in Oxford.
Same thing with court cases.
They didn't just shut down.
I'm sure they kept out anyone who obviously had the plague.
And by the way, I think if someone is sick, they should not go to work.
I mean, I had a regular cold 10 days ago.
I took a COVID test.
It wasn't COVID.
I stayed home anyways.
I didn't want to cough and wheeze on people.
I think you generally should stay home out of courtesy if you're sick.
Same thing with the plague, same thing with COVID.
But understand, Trudeau's parliamentary committee is saying that if you're an MP who is not vaccinated, you may not come into parliament to take your seat.
So you can be fit as a fiddle.
You can be healthy as a bull.
You can, in fact, be more immune than a vaxed person because you may have got sick and then recovered naturally.
But you are still banned from taking your seat in parliament?
Yeah, no.
That's what I mean about learning from our history.
Over the centuries, do you doubt that kings or would-be kings tried to cook up some scheme to ban MPs from the parliament?
Oh, you bet they did.
Hey, did you ever wonder what that's all about?
The fancy ceremony in the opening of parliament with all the strange antics and people with strange names, like this one always made me laugh.
The gentleman usher of the black rod.
Isn't that funny?
And the whole ceremony of closing the door in his face three times.
You know, there's this whole, it's like they're doing a puppet show or an old play.
What's that all about?
Probably some musty, fusty, old-fashioned stuff, right?
We don't need to learn about that, right?
Well, in 1642, King Charles came to Parliament with armed men and he marched right up to Parliament.
400 troops he had.
He attempted to arrest five members of Parliament.
The King did.
Here's a painting of it.
The Speaker of the House is the one on the bent knee.
And he was begging the King's pardon, but refusing to help the King arrest the five men.
He sided with Parliament against the King.
It was a showdown.
It actually led to a civil war in the end.
So yeah, you know what?
Members of Parliament have a historical right to be in that bloody parliament, even if the king himself tries to arrest them for any good reason or bad reason.
You just can't.
This is what I mean about learning lessons so hard, so painful the lessons.
And in that case, they were a cause of a civil war.
Imagine not knowing that.
And then saying, sure, yeah, just because Justin Trudeau doesn't want to let an MP into parliament.
That's good enough for me.
I mean, there's a plague out.
Just ask Teresa Tam.
She says so, so that's enough for me.
Really?
They fought a civil war over that.
I wonder if these new rules could ever, would ever be used to keep out other people for any other reason to say keep your political enemies from sitting in parliament.
Here's what Maxime Bernier said today.
He said, if the House of Commons can expel MPs who made the personal choice of not being vaccinated, can it also expel those who refuse to use politically correct pronouns and reject wokist dogma?
Is cancel culture compatible with democracy in a free society?
You know, that's a good point.
I sort of wish that Aaron O'Toole had made that point.
I think he's right.
I say again, these people being kept out, these MPs, they're not sick with COVID.
They're not sick at all.
They might be more immune than any vax person.
It's just an excuse to keep them out, name them, shame them.
And what does the great conservative leader, Aaron O'Toole, have to say, the leader of the opposition?
Is he actually opposing anything these days?
Well, you try to make sense of this for me.
Take a look.
Today, the Conservative caucus met.
I put forward a plan, and the caucus agreed to respect and abide by new rules which require parliamentarians attending the House of Commons and Senate to be vaccinated.
At the earliest opportunity, a question of privilege will be raised in the House of Commons to challenge the improper conduct and precedent set by the Board of Internal Economy in their meeting on October 19th.
Only the House of Commons itself can determine its composition and its conduct.
Both before the Speaker or House rules and after they rule, the entire Conservative caucus will respect and abide by all the rules and all health guidance.
What?
What?
So there are unvaxxed Conservative MPs, I take it, and O'Toole has, in a private meeting, whipped them into submission.
So he has got them to promise not to go into parliament, but he's mad about privilege or something.
Did you understand any of that?
So he has forced new rules on his own people, but he's challenging the fact that Trudeau's people had the same rules first.
He's really excited about this.
Maybe Trudeau will give Aaron O'Toole a cabinet seat.
That's all he really seems to want.
At least in the Commonwealth country of Australia, the legislators have some courage and an Aussie sense of humor.
I want to show you this report from Avi Yamini in Melbourne, Australia.
That's the capital city of the state of Victoria down there.
I'm not going to show you the whole thing, but here, watch a few good minutes of this, of this rebel parliament by real sitting legislators.
Take a look.
We've been around for 23 years, never segregated anyone, never discriminated against anyone, and we didn't want to start doing it now.
Breaching of a public health order can now be a two-year prison term.
It's interesting having the parliament guys here.
It's good having them here.
They've given themselves ongoing lockdown powers.
And this is going to be, instead of ending in December, this is going to roll right through 2022.
This is what every parliament is lacking.
I've your mini here in Melbourne, Australia, for an unprecedented story.
This is what, I don't know, we can only describe it as a shadow parliament.
In fact, probably a rebel parliament.
We have three members of the upper house that have been banished because they refuse to show their vaccine passports.
They even refuse to show their medical, their private medical history.
Let's check out what's going on here.
Here we go.
We've got the member of Parliament, Catherine Cummings, over here.
How you doing?
Is this the Parliament?
This is Parliament in the basement or the Rebel Parliament.
Rebel Parliament will go with that one up.
Australia is in such a terrible place and it's about to get worse.
The Premier of that state of Victoria, Dan Andrews, who, by the way, has done secret agreements with the Communist Party of China.
We'll talk about that another day.
He's bringing in permanent emergency powers for himself, really, like a Castro-style permanent revolution.
It's getting awful down there, but at least you can say there is some opposition by someone somewhere, just not here in Canada.
Oh well.
It's no big deal, right?
It's just democracy.
It's not life or death or anything.
It's not like anyone in our past has fought and sacrificed for it.
I'm sure we'd be fine without democracy.
Not life and death, you know.
I think maybe it actually is life and death.
I see that British Columbia has fired 4,000 nurses and doctors.
They were working great.
They were heroes until last week.
No problem.
Many of them have natural immunity.
They got the COVID and recovered.
But they're sacked now because of politics, not medicine, gone.
I did not know that British Columbia had 4,000 surplus nurses and doctors, extras, that the system could do without.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know the NDP treated working people that way.
I didn't know they treated union members that way.
I didn't know they treated the Medicare system that way.
I know 4,000 people canceled.
The 4,000 people with the most courage, isn't that interesting, and the most ethics?
What happens if you take the most courageous, most ethical people out of a system?
What are you left with?
Well, what are you going to be left with on the public health side?
Let's just talk about that.
You take 4,000 doctors, nurses, orderlies out of a hospital.
What does that mean?
You're going to cancel 10,000, 100,000 surgeries and exams.
I bet that one move alone will kill more people in British Columbia than COVID has done.
But don't worry, because their Premier Horgan, what good luck that he himself will get his own cancer surgery fast-tracked.
Faster than anything you or I could get.
Thank God for that.
Stay with us for more.
Oh, we're so very busy.
By the time you're watching this, I am actually, because we're recording this slightly earlier in the day, I am going to be at Canada Christian College with a special town hall faith and democracy conference featuring Glenn Beck, Dr. Julie Panessi, the ethics professor who, in a very courageous stand, was sacked by her University, Western Ontario, and is now working with the Democracy Fund.
Crisis Precautions Discussions00:08:33
So we're having a town hall about the crisis we're in.
So much going on.
As you may know, Rebel News has teamed up with the Democracy Fund to crowdfund not just to fight the fines tickets over the last year and a half, but to try and fight some of these vaccine mandates, vaccine passports.
In fact, we have a petition at fightvaccinepassports.com.
You can also read about the cases we have.
And if you like, chip into our legal fund.
You'll get a charitable receipt for that from the Democracy Fund.
I want to go now to really our most active storyteller in regards to fighting back against these forced vaccines.
I'm referring to our chief reporter, my friend Sheila Gunreed, who joins us now, ViceCAP.
Sheila, how you doing out there?
I'm great.
It was a very, very busy afternoon so far just dealing with fight vaccine passports cases.
For me, it's so many of these people that we're meeting through fight vaccine passports, these are the people who truly make the world go round.
These are the people who bring you energy, make sure that your shelves in the grocery store are stocked by keeping supply chains open.
These are the productive, useful people of the world, the middle class, and they're under attack by these vaccine passports.
Yeah, oh, you're exactly right.
These are the people who, while everyone else was either cowering at home or luxuriating at home, these are the folks who were driving around, delivering you your food at home, working the hospitals, working the grocery stores, driving the trucks.
These were the actual working people, and they were treated as heroes, and now they're being treated as zeroes.
They are literally being thrown out despite a career in some cases of decades.
Yeah, I mean, I find it, I can't even believe it.
And I'm an observer.
Thank God I have my own job here at my own place.
But I can imagine the feeling of powerlessness if you are an employee.
And let's say you have a certain skill set.
Let's say you're a jet pilot and you're 50 years old.
Okay, so you've got a very particular skill set.
You could go work for the other airline.
Oh, but guess what?
They got a vaccine mandate too.
What are you even going to do?
Well, in the case of the Alberta firefighters that we are helping through FightVaccinePassports.com, they are literally heroes.
They rush into burning buildings.
And if you are in a car accident, you're bleeding on the street, they rush up to help you too.
And they, of course, take precautions to prevent communicable disease transmission.
They still take those precautions with coronavirus and all sorts of blood-borne illnesses.
And with this group, there are people who won't take the vaccine.
There are people who cannot take the vaccine.
And there are others who are saying, I took the vaccine, but I am against medical coercion.
And as firefighters, they're a brotherhood.
They have to work together.
Each other's lives are in their hands.
And so they have this brotherhood where they are going to stick together.
And I'm so proud that we're able to help them because they have the fight.
They even had the lawyer.
They just needed the money.
And that's where the Democracy Fund came in.
Well, thank you for saying that.
And after our interview, I will, you know, I like these days on my show, Sheila, I show a YouTube video from elsewhere in the company.
We tack it on the end of the show.
And that's the one we're choosing.
You know, firefighting really is a brotherhood.
And I think we learned a lot about that on 9-11.
Just by the way, and we can put some B-roll of it up right now.
I learned that the actor, Steve Buscemi, who's got that real funny-looking face, he's quite a character.
You'll recognize him immediately.
He was a firefighter before he was an actor.
I don't know if you know that, Sheila.
And he went back to help.
Like, he went to help on 9-11 as a fireman because of that fraternity.
And it really is, you know, imagine someone who will run into a burning building.
Everyone else runs out, they run in.
And like you said, they deal with people who may be sick, may have this disease or that disease.
They're not even thinking of that.
I mean, they are thinking that in terms of taking precautions.
And now we're going to sack these people as if they are dangerous to us.
This is a moral inversion.
You know, I'm not that religious, Sheila, but I keep finding myself using that word satanic because I know that when you flip morality upside down, I'm not really religious, but I just feel that that word fits.
When you take the most noble and selfless amongst us, and I'll put firefighters in there, you're bloody right I will.
And you say, no, no, no, you are the dirty, unclean, risky ones who are risking us.
You're the enemy.
What?
What?
It's like I'm looking at a photographic negative.
True is false and false is true.
That's why I use the word satanic.
It's a shorthand for a complete moral inversion.
Yeah, and as Albertans in particular, we've learned the value of our firefighters, I think, over the last decade.
As entire forest communities burned down, Slave Lake, for example, they were able to evacuate just, I think, everyone from that community.
Fort McMurray, burning down.
Firefighters are rushing in.
Nobody died in the fire.
Somebody did die on the highway during the evacuation.
That is in no small part due to our first responders.
In the case of, you know, our northern communities, they are also, the people there are very highly trained in safety because of the oil patch.
But I mean, these people truly are our heroes, and they are facing termination.
They're being, as you say, treated as unclean, dirty, and irresponsible.
They're being treated as people who don't care about their community when their lives are on the line in defense of the community every single day.
Yeah, it's outrageous.
All right, so you connected with the firefighters and with the lawyer.
I think it's Derek Fromm in that case.
And the Democracy Fund will bankroll the legal fees there.
Now, you told me just before we turned the camera on that there were several other cases the Democracy Fund is helping on the vaccine passport file.
Tell me what they are.
Okay, so off the top, just today, we are helping some folks who work for Metrolinks.
That's the commuter rail line, I believe, in Ontario.
And then we have CNRL, the people who keep our supply chain, or sorry, CNRL, the Canadian Natural Resources Limited.
We are helping some folks from there who are facing termination because of the vaccine passport on December 1st.
And we must remember these people were also deemed essential workers by the Alberta government at the beginning of the pandemic because they truly are.
If you want to flick on your light switch or heat your house or gas up your vehicle, an essential worker, an energy worker made that happen.
They are being put out of work.
And CN workers, we're helping them.
We initially reported on their threat letter that they sent to their employer, and then we absorbed their lawsuit into the Democracy Fund.
And again, these people, as we approach the Christmas season, they keep the supply chains open.
If there's toys for your kids for Christmas on the shelves, CN played a role in that.
And these workers played a role in that more importantly.
And they're going to be put out of work if they don't either get the job or produce their vaccine status.
And there's two sides of that there.
So there are some people, again, who can't or won't get the vaccine.
And then there are others who said, I'm just not giving you this information.
It's not yours.
And you have never mandated me to get any vaccine.
So why are we starting now?
Yeah.
So the firefighters, Metrolinks, that's sort of the commuter rail in the Toronto area.
CNRL, that's an oil sands company, and then CN Rail.
Hundreds of Union Grievances Filed00:03:48
So that's a lot of cases.
That's hundreds of people, Ezra.
That's hundreds.
Yeah.
Well, and that's the thing.
When we started to conceive of our fight vaccinepassports.com project a couple months ago, I thought if we can fight back in certain institutions, we could fight for one client, but if we got the rules changed, potentially that could help everyone at that institution.
Now, I want to tell you, my great frustration has been the delay.
And sometimes it's because lawyers move slowly, but that's not the case here.
I want to give you an example.
I was talking to one of our lawyers who's working on the BC case.
We filed that lawsuit over a month ago.
And the court just sat on it.
They didn't issue it.
We had to write letters to the chief judge and say, can you accept this lawsuit?
We filed it, and then we gave it to the attorney general.
Ten days have passed.
They haven't even replied.
So they're ragging the puck, as they say.
They're slow walking that because they know every day they delay, people collapse and get the jab.
I think the justice system, the court system, the attorneys general are deliberately making this as hard as possible to sue.
And I'm frankly, it reduces respect for the administration of justice to have these things go so slow.
I also have another reason for why these things go so slowly, and it is because there is, in some instances, union involvement here.
With the CN workers, some of them are contractors, some of them are represented by a union, and some of them aren't.
But with Metrolink, these guys are Teamsters.
With the firefighters, they have their own union.
And so what happens is, when there's a union involved, the unions are choosing to grieve these cases individually.
Now, they will deny the grievance, naturally, because the unions are siding with the employers in this case.
But we have to go through that grievance process before our lawyers get involved, because once you become a union member, you sort of give up your rights to do your legal rights to the union, and you expect the union to act on your behalf.
They just aren't.
There are a handful of courageous unions out there.
That's true.
It's shocking to me how many unions are what are called in the labor union, in the trade union biz, yellow unions, company unions.
They walk, talk, and act like unions, but they're actually in league with the corporation.
Unifor is the worst example of that.
Their boss, Jerry Diaz, is a total political ally of Justin Trudeau and probably sees himself with a political future beyond.
So he's selling out his members to Trudeau.
And I think so many of these unions are taking the company's side against their own people.
It's super gross.
We've seen a little bit of fight back here and there, but not much.
Some police unions.
We saw it in the Melbourne area, Australia construction unions.
Hopefully some of these folks will be turned around.
But I tell you what, we are lawyering up.
I think we have about a dozen cases now.
We'll keep freshening up our website at fightvaccinepassports.com because we have many stories to tell.
But I want to let our viewers know we're extremely busy.
We have more lawyers than ever, more lawsuits than ever.
We are trying to stop it.
Look, it's in the hands of these judges.
I don't know what they will do.
Lawyering Up00:02:35
I am pessimistic, but at least by God, we're trying.
Well, and I should tell you that some of our efforts are already making a difference.
For example, with regard to CN, their deadline initially was the end of October.
Layton got involved, fired off a threat letter.
That deadline has been shuffled back to November 15th.
So Layton Gray QC, the lawyer on that case.
Yes, sorry.
I've talked to him so much today.
I'm more on a first name basis, and I assume everybody else is too.
But Leighton Gray, he fired off a threat letter to CN in defense of the employees there who didn't want to divulge their vaccination status.
CN blinked, and they moved that date back, and he thinks they're going to blink again once he sends another letter.
I'm so happy to hear that, and hopefully, we'll see.
I mean, it's actually the maniacs on the other side.
British Columbia went ahead and sacked 4,000 nurses and doctors.
Insane, insane.
I think a lot of it is just they're testing to see what they can get away with.
And if they're ever called on it, like Leighton Gray and the CN workers are calling them on it, they say, oh, we were just seeing what we could get away with.
Yeah, we know that's insane.
So I think the fact that so few people are standing up to it, and that's why I'm so damn mad at Aaron O'Toole, the wicked coward of the Conservative Party, who if you simply follow his job description, it's in his title, Official Opposition.
If you simply opposed, not a crazy way or a wild way, but just in a principled way.
If you took a page out of Ron DeSantis' playbook, Ron DeSantis is not anti-vax.
He's personally vaxed.
He's set up vaxes all across Florida.
He's got into monoclonal antibodies, which is another absolutely legitimate therapeutic.
Ron DeSantis is not an anti-vaxxer.
He's just not a freedom-smashing statist.
And if we had seen just a modicum of opposition from our opposition leaders and a modicum of conservatism from our conservative parties, I think we could have stopped a lot of this because people, I think the other side realizes what they're doing is insane.
It's just that no one has stood up to them yet.
Well, and I think for normal people who might be vaccinated, they're not against the vaccine, and they don't know how all of this affects them quite yet.
And you haven't even given a thought to your neighbors or your friends or your family being medically coerced at the threat of losing their job.
The People Who Keep Us Going00:02:55
Let me just tell you that these people that we are helping through fightvaccinepassports.com, these are the people who make the world go round.
These are the people who make sure that everything you need is at the store when you want it.
These are the people who make sure that the gas is in the pump when you need it.
These are the people in the case of Metrolinks, they are there when you need to get to work.
They take you to work and they're going to lose their jobs.
So even if you don't care about medical coercion, a lot of people are about to be mugged by reality if thousands of these people who make sure the world goes round, if they get laid off and they're not there to bring you what you need and take you to work.
Yeah, and by the way, we're seeing what's happening in the United States with supply chains coming to a halt.
Gee, I wonder what will happen if you knock out 100,000 people from essential industries in Canada.
Gee, I wonder if that'll make more shortages or less.
I wonder if things will work better or worse.
We already see thousands of exams and surgeries canceled in British Columbia.
Sheila, these are the worst of times.
It's bringing out the worst in many people, but it's also bringing out the best in some people, the best in our viewers who have chipped into the Democracy Fund legal defense a possibility.
Sheila, I think you're doing a great job.
As always, you were really the leader in the journalism behind our Fight the Fines initiative that was helping people with lockdown tickets, this vaccine stuff.
And again, it's an uphill battle, and I don't even know if we're going to win any of them, but we have to fight, and you're doing a great job.
Thank you for that.
And we've got to tell the story of all these because we've been so busy getting it done.
We've got to show our work, so to speak.
We've got to show our viewers and show the Democracy Fund donors what we've done.
And I'm not saying that it's enough what we've done.
I'm not saying it'll even work.
But I just want to show people that we have not been idle these last months.
Well, for me, I really find a passion in this work because I see my own family in so many of these.
But I want to tell our viewers at home and donors to the Democracy Fund, the gratitude of these people for your donations is overwhelming.
They feel alone.
They're facing the worst days of their life.
They're about to lose everything.
And they don't know what to do.
They're up against multi-billion dollar companies or the government.
And because of donations to the Democracy Fund, they have some hope and they have the ability to fight.
So I want to thank everybody at home for that.
Well, there you have it.
Sheila Gunread, our chief reporter, absolute top gun.
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Your feedback.
Someone with a nickname, Howbout Know says, ha ha, is this the Babylon B? kind of half what would rely on a George Soros fact-checking outlet, let alone one called good information.
Yeah, that's just so funny, isn't it?
Sometimes people say, you got to change the name of Rebel News.
You got to call it truth news.
Like I probably still get, I mean, we're seven years into it.
The name, we're not changing the name, people.
People don't like rebel news.
It sounds too negative.
Some people thought it had to do with the U.S. Confederacy.
They were called rebels.
Some people think it has to do with Lucifer, who rebelled against God.
No, that's absolutely not what it is.
It's just we have a rebellious spirit.
We're rebelling against the establishment narrative.
We're rebelling against the media party.
We're even, in our early days, rebelling against the technology of the old line TV companies.
We went all internet.
That's what rebel means.
But it's just our spirit that we're willing to zig when anyone else is willing to zag.
But people say, no, change it to truth news.
No, no, no.
If you call yourself truth news, people say, oh boy, you sure are sensitive about that.
You sure want people to think you're the truth.
And you just sort of mention it.
It's like, if I may use an analogy, it's like Justin Trudeau and his fake feminism.
When I see guys, male feminists, talk about how feminist they are, I think, yeah, we all believe in treating women equally, and we all have that understanding.
The fact that you won't shut up about what an ally you are tells me you're actually running pretty hard on the subject and you're preempting questions about it.
Whenever I see a male feminist, I think it's Justin Trudeau, Harvey Weinstein, Giann Gameshi, it makes me say these people are not that.
And so, the good information company.
Yeah, I think you just told us what you're not.
Harkle says, this is like Darth Vader starting a rehabilitation center for injured rebel soldiers.
Yeah, you know, I'll give Axios credit.
They did do a little bit of due diligence into who the people behind this.
Democrat activists, fake conservatives like the Bulwark.
But let me tell you something.
They will absolutely succeed.
Because what we've learned over the last couple years is that Canadian media companies, with pretty few exceptions, us, TrueNorth, Spencer Fernando, Blacklocks, have I listed them all?
Every other media company will take the cash.
They take it from Justin Trudeau.
They take it from Google and Facebook.
They absolutely will take it from George Soros.
And if you don't think that Soros is giving money and expecting something in return, well then I got a bridge to sell you.
Tech Gantua says, Soros creating a fact-checking organization like Jeffrey Dahmer opening a vegan restaurant.
Yeah, well, I mean, that's another analogy.
And I just am worried about the weaponization.
And listen, I'm fine with some ordinary person or even an extraordinary person calling us names, saying we're fake.
I don't believe we are.
You can have a difference of opinion.
But that's not what this is about.
This is about that official label then being used to silence you, deplatform you, shut down your account on YouTube, Twitter, or other social media.
They don't just want to make the accusation that we're fake.
I think they're fake.
It's that if they put millions of dollars behind their fact-checking institute and label their enemies as fake, their enemies will disappear.
That's why they're doing it.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
And let me leave you with a video of Tim Oen from Alberta, who is a libertarian and a firefighter, and he is a man of courage who is organizing other firefighters to fight back.
And you know what?
We're backing him through the Democracy Fund with a lawyer to fight.
I'll leave you with that video.
Good night.
We're going silent for an hour.
We are there to back our people who are fighting for us against this mandate.
That is what we're doing.
How long, signs?
It'll be one hour.
We are aiming to walk over there here in about five minutes.
Once we get all set up, we're going to stand there for one hour.
I got my headphones, I'm putting a little ball marley myself.
Don't stand up, get up.
They're not anti-vax.
In fact, many of them have been vaccinated and they're standing with their brothers in support of this because, I mean, some of them have medical conditions that are legitimate that prevent them from taking this vaccine.
Some are currently, you know, on leaves of absences because of injuries they suffered on the job, and they're being demanded to vaccinate before they come back to work in four months.
This is a contentious issue.
It will create division if the unions fight for this issue.
You know, they can be pro-vaccine and anti-dismissal, but current society doesn't allow for that nuanced position.
You're either pro-science and pro-vaccine, or you're an anti-vax nut.
There's no ground anywhere else.
So, and the other thing is that these unions, you know, they largely support politicians that support their causes.
And those politicians, almost without exceptions, are also the most pro-coercive mandate politicians out there.
So I suspect the unions don't want to ostracize the politicians that support them the most.
The 20 lawsuits that we are launching across Canada are the fundamental line in the sand that we must draw to defend not only our freedoms but to defend the very soul of the nation.
I urge you to consider going to fightvaccinepassports.com now and signing our petition and contributing so that we can continue to provide the very best legal defense for the firefighters who are once again leading the charge into battle, this time in court.
Adam Sauss here for Rebel News and today I'm going to be sharing with you the story of some Alberta firefighters who are fighting back against vaccine passports.
Some are opposed for medical reasons, others for religious reasons, others still for ethical reasons.
They are getting together, and they are suing the government.
When we heard their stories, we knew we had to get involved.
And we knew that because of our generous supporters, we would be able to crowdfund excellent legal defense for these firefighters.
Thanks to our initiative run through the Democracy Fund, a registered charity, we are mounting 20 legal battles across this country in our effort to take down vaccine passports.
In just a moment, you're going to hear from one of those firefighters, Tim Moen.
He joined Sheila for an interview about his story and about his opposition to these mandates.
Now, the other big announcement I have, and this is just hot off the press, is that we have been made an offer from the Democracy Fund, which is affiliated with Rebel Media and Ezra-Levant.
They're fully funding our legal action.
$100,000.
So we're taking this thing all the way.
We're never going to let this happen again.
They mobilized a group of firefighters who run into burning buildings for a living.
They messed with the wrong people.
After that, you're going to hear from Derek Fromm, the lawyer who is helping this lawsuit at no cost to the firefighters, thanks to your exceptional generosity.
And finally, I'm going to let you know how you can continue to help this fight against vaccine passports and keep these firefighters where they belong, employed, putting out fires and saving lives.
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