Rebel News’ Levant highlights the trucker convoy’s 400M impressions in February, debunking government claims of U.S.-funded terrorism—FinTrack confirmed 90% Canadian donations. Métis activist Tamara Lich’s arrest and 17-day detention over "hold the line" raises questions about political persecution, while Alberta courts enforce masking/vaccination mandates despite no public health basis. U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry’s letter to Powell on bank politicization contrasts with Canada’s silent conservative MPs, even as RBC allegedly rejected mortgage applications for conservative media and energy firms. Quebec’s rising Conservative Party, led by Eric Duhamel (52K members), challenges lockdowns, while mainstream media censors accurate reports—like Bayer’s gene therapy vaccine framing—as "misleading." The episode frames these issues as systemic threats to free speech and civil liberties, underscoring how Canada’s legal and financial institutions may be weaponized against dissent. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, I haven't done live streams in a long time.
I've been so busy doing stuff.
But it's great to get back in this chair, at least just once a week.
I mean, the news, there couldn't be more of it, eh?
Holy mackerel.
There's so much I want to get through, but one of the reasons I've been busy is because Rebel News has grown, not just because of the trucker convoy, which was seriously the largest media story we've ever covered.
You know, how do you measure traffic?
Well, you could see how many people read your YouTube videos or watch your YouTube videos or read your stories, social media impressions, things like that.
I tried to tabulate it all up for the month of February, and my estimate, my rough calculations, were 400 million impressions, which I think is how many views we would get in an entire year, normally.
We had a year's worth of traffic in a month, and Rebel News has grown.
In fact, Olivia, can you go to rebelnews.com slash careers?
Because we are not done growing yet.
We have, I think, A10 said 53 or 54 people now.
And we are looking to hire seven more positions.
And I know you want to talk about the news.
I get it.
You want to talk about the news.
But I just want to invite you to join our team first.
Can I just whip through some of these?
Some of them are technical.
Some of them are not.
Some of them are in Toronto or Edmonton or Ottawa.
Some can be anywhere.
So let's just whip through them.
At the very top there, we're hiring a technical director.
We may have a candidate internally.
That's someone who has some particular skills at operating a piece of hardware called a TriCaster.
It's just sort of how we produce our TV shows.
So that's a fun media job where you would basically work on the shows and the live streams.
That's probably the most technical of all the positions.
Can you go back to the larger list?
Yeah, just click back or whatever.
And we've got, oh, here's a good one.
Alberta Legislature Reporter.
We have to hire someone in Edmonton to cover the Alberta Legislature and Alberta Provincial Politics.
So that's a position for someone who would have to be in Northern Alberta.
Go back.
Let's just skim through them.
We don't need to open them all up, actually.
The next one is, what do we got?
The next one there.
I just want to whip through them so you don't even have to open them all up.
I know, for example, we are hiring video editors.
We're hiring an in-house litigator.
That's a fancy way of saying a free speech lawyer.
We're hiring a China affairs reporter.
Honestly, we've been looking for that position for about a year.
And we're hiring interns all the time.
Anyhow, all together, and we've got the Ottawa-based reporter.
Altogether, we've got seven different jobs.
So I would like to invite you to seriously consider joining us because we, you know, sometimes people come to us in a certain corporate kind of way, but a lot of the talent that joins us joins us, their viewers.
They're followers of ours.
And then they just say, you know, it's like that old commercial.
I liked it so much, I bought the company.
You know, I liked Rebel News so much, I joined the company.
And let me invite you to do that.
So thank you for letting me talk about housekeeping matters like that.
But there is so much news out there.
Money Laundering and Terrorists00:10:02
It's unbelievable.
I want to start by talking about the truckers.
And I know that most of the truckers have sort of left Ottawa.
Although Danny Bulford, the ex-RCMP officer who quit because he didn't want to get jabbed, I understand he's going back next week.
But I want to tell you a few things that are on my mind about the truckers.
The first is that they've been lied about.
I think you probably know that.
But the liars came from the government.
The lying came from inside the building.
The people who keep warning you about misinformation and fake news, those liberals, they were the liars.
Can we call it the first stat?
Yeah, the Blacklocks one.
GoFundMe.
Yeah, thanks very much.
So GoFundMe was the fundraising engine that crowdfunded 10 million bucks for the truckers until they were pressured by the liberals to cancel it.
Well, GoFundMe testified.
They had executives testify before the Canadian Parliament yesterday.
Did you know that?
And one of the things they said was that, no, it was not big American interests that were manipulating Canada.
In fact, around 90% of the donations and 90% of the donors were Canadians.
It is simply a lie, as Trudeau and Mark Mendocino and Christy Freeland said, to say that they were American meddlers.
The average gift was small.
Nine out of the ten givers were Canadian.
Justin Trudeau, Christy Freeland, Mark Mendocino, and others, David LeMetti, the justice minister, they lied about the truckers in order to get emergency powers.
They lied.
Are you surprised?
Second piece of news we've heard in the last week is about something called FinTrack.
I don't know if you've ever heard about FinTrack.
It's a police surveillance of financial transactions.
It's allegedly to stop terrorists and drug dealers and other criminals from money laundering.
You've probably heard of certain rules.
For example, if you move more than $10,000 or something, your bank has to report that.
I think that's the latest stat.
But the idea is to try and trace and capture illegal funds.
And obviously there is some role for that in the world.
We don't want drug dealers or criminals or kidnapping or theft.
But one of the things that Christy Freeland and David LeMetty and Justin Trudeau all said was that they were going to scrutinize this crowdfunding through the lens of terrorist fundraising.
And that chilled a lot of people because about 100,000 Canadians said, okay, I'll chip into the truckers.
20 bucks, 50 bucks.
Average gift was about 100 bucks.
And they were demonized as terrorists, again, to justify the Emergency Act.
But was that true?
Well, here's the story.
In this case, from TNC News, our friends at True North.
Convoy donations came from fed up people, not terrorists.
And what's the source of that?
FinTrack itself.
Let me read a little bit.
This is a story from our friends at True North.
Canada's chief financial intelligence agency has once again shut down claims by Trudeau government, by the Trudeau government, that donations given to the Truckers Freedom Convoy constituted terrorist funding.
Blacklock's reporter reported Friday that Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada, nicknamed FinTrack, Deputy Director of Intelligence Barry McKillop, had declared the money raised for the convoy protest came from people supporting a cause they believed in.
Not criminals, not terrorists.
What a bizarre, bizarre lie.
Does that little video play if you click on that and get the volume up there?
Can we hear that?
So this is the QA where you hear McKillop say, no, no, no, it's not terrorists.
What are you crazy?
What are you, some sort of liberal?
Let's see if we can hear the sound there.
Yeah.
Perfect.
So this was at a parliamentary committee.
Without the elites of the GoFundMe, without that, are you able to find out who the donors are?
All of those who funded?
Thank you so much for your question, Mr. Chair.
Certainly we don't use elites, nor do we speak of elites.
Those who donated to that cause did so.
But as far as crowdfunding platforms are concerned, unfortunately they are available to everyone.
Anybody can donate with respect to one like Stripe.
Well, certainly there were people who supported the cause before it was declared illegal.
So I think that there were people around the world who were fed up with COVID, who were upset and saw the demonstrations against COVID.
And I believe that they just wanted to support the cause.
It was their money, their own money.
So it wasn't money that...
Very, very clear, wasn't it?
It was their own money.
They were just donating the cause.
There was no money laundering.
But there was one thing he said that I'll take issue with.
He said, before the cause was declared illegal.
So this was the deputy head of intelligence for FinTrek.
He's the spy, really, whose job is to catch money laundering and things like that.
So he gave an excellent answer there.
But he said one thing I want to challenge.
He said, before the cause was declared illegal.
Except in Canada, you don't really declare causes illegal.
It's not really a thing.
Because a cause is something that motivates you, it causes you to care, causes you to act.
It's part of your mind, really.
It's part of your heart.
It's part of your conscience.
It's your freedom of thought, your belief.
There actually are no illegal beliefs in Canada.
Did you know that?
Now, certain actions can be made illegal.
For example, if you support a terrorist group, if you materially support a terrorist group, if you promote them, if you fund them, if you go join them.
But you'll notice all of those are action words, those are verbs.
It's not just what's in your heart.
You can hold anything in your heart.
You can have any cause you care about.
And that's not illegal in Canada.
So when that fella there, that basically financial spy for FinTrack says most of these people donated before the cause was declared illegal, the cause was actually not declared illegal in any way other than by Trudeau and Lehmedi and Christie Freeland demonizing it.
You know, Trudeau repeatedly said illegal protests.
There are no illegal protests in Canada if they're peaceful.
I mean, I suppose there are some parking tickets.
But a peaceful protest in Canada is the essence of legal.
It's so important that we put it in a section of our Constitution called Fundamental Freedoms.
If you've ever looked at our Constitution, Section 2 is called Fundamental Freedoms.
It's the big ones.
Freedom of thought, expression, belief, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly.
And that's the fundamental freedom.
And then they list other ones later down, like the right to vote, right to mobility, right to a fair trial.
But those fundamental freedoms, they're so important because the other freedoms are built on them.
So the idea that a cause could be declared illegal, that's just not how it works in Canada.
Now, I'm not being mad at or mean to that FinTrack guy because he's not an expert in constitutional charter rights.
He's an expert in money laundering and terrorism.
So he probably just chose a word that popped into his mind without thinking about it too carefully.
But what we have seen just in what I've shown you here is that 90% of the funds did come from Canada, small donations.
And that is, it's so obvious, the money was just people fed up with what was going on.
They were donating their own money.
They weren't gathering, they weren't bundling terrorist money.
Very, very, and this is all coming out after the defamation.
You know, by the time truth laces up its boots, the lie has run around the whole world.
Hold the Line, Bail Out00:15:33
I want to show you one more thing about Tamara Lich.
I've never met or spoken with Tamara Lich, but she is, she can credibly claim to be sort of the mama bear of the trucker convoy.
She's the one who set up the first GoFundMe that really went viral.
She would do inspirational Facebook videos.
And she was really the, I'm not sure if I would call her the organizer of the because I think it was sort of sell, it was a spontaneous order.
I don't think it was like a highly regimented, highly controlled thing.
But do we have a video of her being arrested on the street?
Can you find that quickly?
Like, she's just such a peaceful lady.
She's a Metis woman from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
And, you know, wouldn't her to fly.
I don't think she's done a violent thing in her life.
And there she was, just walking at night on the snowy streets of Ottawa.
And she was just arrested on the street.
Do we have that vid?
Just picked up on the street.
And it reminded me of police states where people just disappear.
They go for a walk and then they get snatched up and they disappear.
Yeah, let's just take a quick look.
Just back up, guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Great meeting you.
And me.
My name is Don Biden.
I'm not here to rest.
Well, you will be.
What's that?
The robbery next year.
If you're not a tape here, you gotta take you out.
This is Danny Goldberg.
I'm Sean Dyke.
Just as much as the sergeant.
Don't see you, gentlemen, don't wear you guys know you're going on.
Yep, I got you.
Here we go.
Enjoy yourself.
We'll see you soon, Tamara.
Hold the line.
Good night.
Officer, you gotta take me to.
Stay back.
I hope we got recordings happening.
That's the Merrily.
I'm Sean.
I've got a question for you.
Why was she arrested in that manner?
They knew where she was.
Why didn't they ask her to just present to the police station?
That's a small question.
A bigger question is: why was she handcuffed?
Is she a threat to herself or others?
Is she violent?
I mean, other than to humiliate her.
Now, that was a couple weeks ago.
She's still in jail.
Now, did you hear when she was walking away?
She said, hold the line.
And her friends who were recording said, hold the line.
It was sort of like a team cheer.
Hold the line, was what they were saying.
Hold the line.
Not break the law or shoot someone or revolution or socialismo o muerte.
It was just hold the line, which was just basically means stand strong.
You know?
You know, just for a second, I remember it's a little anecdote.
You know, I was, I used to be a lawyer a long time ago.
When I was called to the bar, Buzz McClung, Nellie McClung's grandson, was the judge who was swearing me in.
And his job was to sign the little law society thing.
But instead of just signing, I've got it in my office.
I should bring it in and show one day.
He, instead of just signing, you know, a judge just signs, you're a lawyer now.
Like, it's a little, it's a swearing in.
He didn't just do that.
He said, stand firm, Ezra.
Like, he wrote all across my parchment, stand firm, Ezra.
I should show it to you.
It's just a go-get him, Ada Boy.
Hold the line.
Stand for.
I should get it.
I'm not going to get up and get it now, but I'll do it.
I'll show you another time.
I mean, I think it's sort of cool.
I think it's fun that he took such liberty.
He was a judge on the Alberta Court of Appeal at the time.
Like I say, Nellie McClung's grandson, one of the famous five suffragettes.
It's just a saying, hold the line.
But because she said hold the line, a judge who was Trudeau's friend, Judge Bourgeois is her name, who ran as a liberal in the 2011 elections, and Trudeau campaigned with her, threw her in prison without bail because, in part, she said, hold the line, which the judge said, oh, you're inciting mischief.
No, it's just a saying.
It's just like when Buzz McClung wrote, Stand firm, Ezra.
Hold fast.
Keep it up.
Don't give in.
Oh, prison.
Prison.
So she was in jail, I think, for 12 days until she had her bail hearing heard two days ago.
Yeah.
Judge keeping Freedom Convoy organized in jail previously received high praise from Trudeau, but that's not even the point.
Trudeau can praise or defame who he likes.
It's that she was a liberal candidate with Trudeau.
She ran in 2011.
It's not that Trudeau praised her, it's that she swore loyalty to the liberals.
Yeah, flashback: Justin Trudeau expresses support for Julie Bourgeois, failed liberal candidate in 2011.
Bourgeois, a judge, just denied Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich her bail.
Yeah, let's watch that if we can.
Let's just take a quick look at that video there.
Oh, it sounds like you've got two versions going at the same time.
Sounds like you got one embedded on the website, one blown up.
Anyways, what you saw there was Trudeau praising this judge for being a great liberal candidate, and then she returned the favor.
She should have recused herself that was two weeks ago.
On Wednesday, they had a review or an appeal of the bail conditions.
I have never in my life heard of anyone who has been jailed for inciting mischief and then inciting mischief or counseling mischief, whatever it's called.
And the factual basis for that was: hold the line, okay, man.
You hold the line.
Okay, hold the line.
All right, hold the line, hold the line.
I'm making finger guns.
Don't arrest me for the finger guns.
I just said hold the line.
You know what bail is?
Bail is: do you keep someone in jail until their trial?
So someone's arrested.
Do you keep them in jail until their trial, or do you let them go on the promise to come back?
Sometimes you have to put a lot of money in the courts.
Sometimes you have to surrender your passport.
It depends on three main things.
Traditionally, the most important is: will you come back?
So I don't think Tamara Lich was going to run away from court.
I think she was, I mean, they could pick her up anytime.
By contrast, for example, Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail because he had private jets, multiple passports, you know, enormous means homes in many countries.
So he's obviously a flight risk.
Second test: are you a risk?
Are you a danger to the public?
Tamara Lich isn't a danger to anyone.
And the third is, you know, the justice system in good repute.
There was no reason to keep her in jail.
She's not going to flee.
She's not a danger.
She said, hold the line.
People in Canada who are accused of murder are routinely let out on bail.
Sometimes they have to give up their passport, like I say.
People who are on bail for rape and then rape again, that's not even rare in Canada.
What's extremely rare is someone charged with inciting mischief.
She didn't even cause any mischief.
She just said, hold the line.
So go back to that last headline you had there because that's what I was working up to.
So she was jailed, denied bail indefinitely, because she said, hold the line.
So she had a hearing two days ago.
Convoy organizer, let me just get that headline.
Tamara Lich to remain in jail at least five more days.
Lich denied bail February 22nd, judge to decide on appeal on Monday.
So she had this second hearing on Wednesday.
And the judge said, all right, thanks, everybody.
But you see, I'm super busy.
So, you know, I just got a few things I got to do.
So even though we're done the hearing on Wednesday, I need Thursday and Friday, that's today, and I need Saturday and I need Sunday, and I need Monday to really think it over because I'm just so busy, you guys.
So, hey, sweetheart, is it okay if you stay in prison for five more days?
Just because I got a few things.
I got to pick up my dry cleaning, and you know, I've had this haircut appointment for a while, and then there's that thing I got to do, and then the kids.
Okay, so you're in prison longer than any Canadian in history has ever been jailed for inciting mischief.
Oh, well, my God, throw the book at her.
You were arrested and handcuffed.
Oh, and by the way, she was brought into that courtroom in leg irons, in ankle, ankle handcuffs, leg irons.
You know, I've seen that a few times in my life.
It's shocking to see.
It's typically for people who are enormous and violent or a risk of violence, and it's so they don't run away.
It's so they don't, like it's it's shocking to see a man brought in, and it's almost always men brought in in leg irons because you can't run, right?
You just sort of shot, you would be shuffling.
Why was Tamara Litch brought in in leg irons?
Why was she arrested and handcuffed in the first place?
Why did this judge decide that, oh, you know, okay, we've had that, we've had the review, and boy, your lawyer did a really great job.
But guys, I just won't be able to get around to this because I've got a bunch of more important things to do.
So, can you stay in prison for five more days until I get around to telling you if I think that you should be bailed or not?
It is absolutely true that this woman is a political prisoner, and it is absolutely true that if you cross Justin Trudeau, this is what will happen to you.
And it's funny because I mentioned the three grounds.
It used to just be two grounds.
Are you a flight risk?
As in, are you going to run away?
Are you a danger?
And they added the third one, basically.
I forget the exact wording.
And so you hold, would it bring the justice system into disrepute?
Keeping this peaceful woman in prison for coming up on a month now, frankly, better part of a month, brings the judicial system into disrepute.
The fact that that first judge, Trudeau's bestie, didn't recuse herself, that brings the justice system into disrepute.
And isn't it, though?
Isn't it, though?
I don't know if you can find it.
I tweeted the other day, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench put out an announcement saying that they don't care what the rules are.
They don't care what the public health officer says.
They don't care what the science is.
They're going to keep their mask mandate on for everyone who goes to court.
They just decided because apparently Alberta's judges are also Alberta's doctors, or at least they know better than Alberta's doctors, as if masks worked in the first place.
But the court announced, I don't know if you can find it, probably not.
If you let me see, I can probably find it.
I use the word recluse.
Anyways, I can't, I can't find it quickly.
Here we go.
I'll just send it to you.
Oh, you got it.
I said, so the judges, yeah, thanks.
You found that really quickly.
The judges said court attendance is often compulsory, even for vulnerable segments of the population.
Consequently, Alberta's courts are maintaining access restrictions, mandatory face masking, social distancing, courtroom capacity limits, and vaccination policies just forever, I guess.
They just love it.
They love, you know, that case, you know, a lot of court has been done by Zoom or Skype or whatever in the last two years.
I don't know if you can find this quickly.
Here's a Google challenge for you.
There was an Ontario judge.
It's too funny.
There was an Ontario judge who went down to the Caribbean, you know, in your Zoom background, you can choose like a fake background.
He would choose like a court, but he was in the Caribbean ruling on cases in Canada.
Can you find that news story?
Oh my God.
They love it.
They love it.
They get to, you know, I'm wearing pants right now, but you wouldn't know, right?
Like, I'm wearing shorts.
Am I wearing pants?
Ontario judge presided over cases remotely from the Caribbean.
Superior court blames and oversight.
Yeah, sure.
Oversight is he loves being at the beach.
It would be like he would have his robe on top, but his swimming suit underneath, and he would have the fake backdrop that he was in court.
Yeah, they love the lockdown.
They don't have to go into court.
Or if they do, everyone has to be obedient and on one knee and with masks.
And they've just decided, and here's what I wrote in reply.
I said, there is no scientific basis for this.
This is a political statement, a superstition, really.
It's a group of old, scared, reclusive elites showing just how disconnected they are from society.
And it's a signal that the courts will never give a fair hearing to those challenging the laws.
And that's my real point.
Who are judges?
They're old.
Sometimes people complain that judges are men, judges are white, whatever.
Old Judges, New Complaints00:02:39
It's just a function of them being old.
If you're a judge and you're 70 or 65, that means you went to law school 40, 50 years ago.
There just weren't that many women in law school.
Now, there are more women than men in law school.
Minorities, new immigrants, whatever.
50 years ago, the demographic complexion of Canada was different.
So if you're complaining, why aren't there more of this minority or that minority on the bench?
It's because judges are typically old.
That's why it's no secret.
Soon that won't even be the case.
Like I say, more than half of medical schools, more than half of law schools are women.
Now, whether or not they continue in the profession is up to them.
I mean, many women drop out of those professions because they choose to have a family instead, or they were per-time.
But put aside the race and the religion and the gender, that's irrelevant to me.
The age is what's relevant to me.
Judges are old.
And what is it about being old and the virus?
Well, that's the thing.
This virus has done very little, is a very little risk to young, healthy people.
It's just a fact.
The people who are most at risk from the virus are old and, to be candid, fat, and people with serious underlying conditions.
So old, fat people, gee, does that sound like a judge to you?
Yeah.
So you've got this group of old fat people who are terrified, who are compliant rule followers by nature.
They're judges.
They're going to be the most panicky people in the entire society.
And if they go out, they go out to fancy, pantsy places.
They go out to their friends' places.
They go to the country.
They're not going to gyms to work out.
They're not going to clubs with young people.
They're not going to, you know, they're not out.
They're not mixing with severely normal people, certainly not the working class.
So you've got these Zoom judges, including that one guy who went down to the Caribbean, saying, oh, we better not get back to normal.
We're going to keep this insane superstition crisis going forever because we sort of like it.
And we're also the afraidest people in society.
And my point is: if you go to court to challenge any of these health laws, do you have a chance?
The judges have just signaled together like a pack that they're afraid and they don't care what the public health officer says.
They don't care what the CDC says.
They don't care that it's over.
They're just afraid.
Page Sent: Credit Issue00:14:56
Yeah, good luck getting a fair day in court there, eh?
Unbelievable.
Well, let's see what else is cooking.
I just literally, while I'm sitting here, I just, someone sent me something that I think is interesting.
Olivia, I'm going to send it to you by email.
I just literally right now saw a news story from Ohio.
Everybody in Ohio resolution introduced in Ohio legislature urges Canada to be placed on religious liberty watch list.
Isn't that interesting?
That goes to what I'm saying about these crazy, terrified judges, especially in Alberta, where they arrest again and again in Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky, where they arrested his brother David Pavlovsky a couple days ago.
Do you have that email?
There we go.
Resolution introduced in Ohio legislature urges Canada to be placed on religious liberty watch lists.
Ohio state representatives have taken note of the abuses of religious liberty in Canada, the resolution says by John Brown of Fox News.
State legislators introduced a resolution in the Ohio House of Representatives on Tuesday urging the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms to add Canada to its special watch list as a Canadian pastor remains jailed.
They're talking about Arthur Pavlovsky.
The resolution, which was introduced by Republican state representatives Reggie Stolfus and Timothy Ginter, was co-sponsored by 11 of their colleagues.
Isn't that interesting?
Look at that.
Hey, I got a question for you.
Why has not a single legislator in Canada done that?
Like not one.
Like you've got, what, 87 MLAs in Alberta going from memory?
Oh, look, and they have a little, they embed a rebel tweet in that Fox News story.
That's fun, if you scroll down a bit more.
No, but back to my point.
So you've got how many MPs?
Is it 338?
And how many Alberta MLAs going from memory, 87?
And there's been Christians arrested in other places, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick.
Trying to remember which one.
These different provincial legislatures and our federal parliament, I just mentioned the MPs.
There's also more than 100 senators.
You add that all up.
300, 450, 500.
You're coming up 700, 800 politicians in Canada, elected legislators.
And I haven't even talked about mayors and city councillors.
Has a single one put a motion forward like you just saw there in the Ohio State Legislature?
Has one, has a single one?
Well, not that I know of.
If you know one, let me know and we'll toot that horn.
But wouldn't you say it's an unhealthy thing for a country like Canada that claims to believe in rights and freedoms, that claims to believe in liberties, wouldn't you say it's sort of awful that Americans care more about our civil liberties than we do?
There's something deeply wrong with our political class and our so-called conservative parties.
You know, I haven't had a chance to chew it over yet, but you might recall in December, Rebel News applied for a mortgage to buy a building in Calgary, so a commercial mortgage, and applied with the Royal Bank, and they said they loved it.
Great application.
Rebel News was very strong.
But they said no for political reasons.
Yeah.
I recorded the call with a banker because I knew I would never get it in writing.
He said the Royal Bank rejected us because we're conservative.
And I pressed him on it.
And he told me several times in several ways.
There was not a single Canadian conservative politician who spoke out against that.
I'm not asking for them to be my friends.
I'm not asking for them to go on a date.
I'm not asking for them to say we love Rebel News and Nashville Band's our best friend.
But you don't see a problem with banks bringing in a China-style social credit system where they can ban people that they don't like?
Is our YouTube down?
Or did we log off?
We logged off because we were getting into spicy territory.
Fair enough.
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Don't you think it's weird that not a single Canadian conservative said, hey, yeah, maybe we ought to, maybe we ought to stop.
And that was in December, and wouldn't you know it, in February, in comes Trudeau and Christian Freeland and David LeMetti and Mark Mendocino for seizing and freezing bank accounts.
Yeah, maybe it's a bit of a problem.
And I tell you that because a few days ago, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, he actually made an issue out of it.
He's going to dig that up.
I haven't released this yet.
He wrote a letter to the head of the Federal Reserve saying, I'm just going to blow my nose, pardon me.
Saying, I demand to know why banks are politically injecting politics into mortgages.
And he made specific reference, specific reference to my case.
Isn't that my case, the case of Rebel News?
And I say again, and the reason I mentioned that, I haven't really done the story on that yet.
But my point is, no Canadian cared.
No Canadian senator, no Canadian.
And maybe say, oh, well, they're afraid of this or that.
Well, I'm not impressed.
I'm going to see if I can find this and send it to you, Olivia to show.
And I think the fact that these Republicans are not afraid to do a battle.
I'm going to send you this letter right now.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Olivia, I'm going to break a little news here.
I'm just going to send it to you.
Sorry to make you wait.
Okay, just click send.
So I just sent you a letter from the, now, in Canada, we might not use this term.
Remember, there's Democrats and Republicans down there, and do you control the majority or the minority of the Congress?
And that makes a big difference because if you control the Congress, then you control the committees, you control their agenda.
There's a lot of things, there's a lot of powers you have, and that's called the chair of the committee.
But the minority party, the leader of the minority party, is called the ranking member.
But they're still fairly powerful.
Plus, you've got to realize that the Congress changes hands.
It goes back and forth, right?
And I think most polls suggest that Congress is going to flip back to the Republicans in November.
So this ranking member, Patrick McHenry is his name, who is really mad about politicization of banks, he's going to be the boss of the banking committee in like just over six months.
He's a very powerful guy.
Now, I've never met him, never talked to him, never, like, he's just, I'd have to Google what state he's from.
He cares more about stopping China-style social credit banking in Canada than any Canadian conservative.
Don't you think that's a problem?
Like, don't you think it's a problem that some guys in the Ohio state legislature care more about religious freedom in Canada than Canadian politicians do?
Don't you think that's a problem?
Did you get that email?
Let's throw it up on the screen as big as possible.
So you can see right at the top there, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services.
Perfect, yeah.
So it sent, you see it's sent to the chair of the Federal Reserve.
Dear Chairman Powell, the Obama administration launched Operation Chokepoint to apply pressure on financial institutions to cut off financial services to certain licensed, legally operating industries.
After years of congressional investigation and civil litigation, the record with respect to Operation Chokepoint is clear.
Political appointees and bureaucrats of the Justice Department and several independent federal agencies use threats to force banks to terminate their relationships with politically disfavored businesses.
What remains unclear is whether those agencies have taken steps to ensure the federal government cannot abuse its authority to regulate the financial sector in other ways.
So they're talking about Operation Chokepoint.
Skip the next letter if you please.
And the next paragraph, scroll down.
So, okay, that's the end of the first page.
But look at the second page.
This is where it gets really exciting, if you can grab that second page.
So he's talking about when Obama said we're going to cut off banking to people we don't like.
And it was a terrible thing, and they really pressured the banks.
I really don't think that some of the banks would have done that on their own, but most banks are in the business of banking.
And, you know, they don't want to just bank for Republicans or Democrats.
They want everyone's banking, don't you think?
Like, it would be like a restaurant saying we only serve Democrats or we only serve Republicans.
Well, everybody eats.
Let me know when you got that second page, because, yeah, here we go.
Look at this.
This is the second page of the letter.
I got to do a news story on this one day.
There are, however, other forms of leverage and financial surveillance that the federal government can use to chill constitutionally protected activities.
For example, in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a national emergency and instructed banks and other financial services providers to freeze accounts associated with any person attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators pursuant to the Prime Minister's emergency order.
Any suspicious transactions must also be reported to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada, FinTrack.
And then skip, and then look at the just skip a little bit and then go to the fourth.
Yeah.
Now look at this.
This is the paragraph they refer to us.
Again, recent events in Canada show what can happen absent such protections.
According to an audio recording, a representative for Royal Bank of Canada, RBC, told a long-standing customer, that's me, who is seeking a mortgage, that's Rebel.
Quote, the bank has been, you know, trying to pry away from certain, you know, clients because of their controversial nature.
The RBC representative subsequently identified the customer's conservative media organization and companies involved in oil and gas exploration as subject to the bank's new policy to scrutinize politically sensitive applications.
And then go to the third page, the final page, if you can't.
So anyway, that's the last reference to me and us.
But the ranking member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, so this is not just some backbench, as we would say, congressman.
This is the top dog in the Republicans who will likely be the chairman in the fall.
He's saying to the boss of the American banking system, chairman of the Federal Reserve, are banks using politics to set up really a Chinese social credit system.
And then on his last page, he basically has some questions.
Has the agency reviewed and clarified, as appropriate, existing policy and guidance pertaining to the provision and termination of banking services?
Does the agency coordinate with other?
So basically, are you doing this?
Are you letting this happen?
Does the agency have existing policies and guidance pertaining to freezing or otherwise restricting access to the assets and accounts of U.S. citizens?
And that's a great point.
Thanks very much, Libya.
I don't need to say anymore.
Because remember what Trudeau's emergencies order said.
It said any bank doing business in Canada had to obey Canadian banks, and we know what they are.
But any foreign bank registered to do business in Canada, there were literally dozens.
There's about three dozen American banks that are registered to do business in Canada.
Obviously, the biggest ones, right?
You've probably heard of Wells Fargo or Citibank.
You might even have a credit card with them.
Bank of America.
I don't even know what they're all called.
But there's literally dozens of American banks to do business in Canada.
And if you remember what the Trudeau's Emergencies Act order said, any foreign bank had to do this too.
Now, Trudeau said, hey, guys, don't worry.
I'm going to pass an order that you can't be sued for this.
So we're going to seize and freeze your customers' money.
But hey, don't worry about it.
That might feel a little banana republic-ish, but we'll just put the banana republic part one degree further by saying you can't even sue us for this.
Ha ha, suckers.
Except for that doesn't work when your bank's in America.
Justin Trudeau can stop you from suing a bank in Canada when they seize your money for him.
But he can't tell American banks, hey guys, go ahead and seize money of your customers who gave 20 bucks to the truckers, and don't worry, it's okay, follow my instructions, and we won't let you sue them.
That's not how it works in America.
If you've got an American bank with an American customer, and that American bank is registered to do business in Canada, and Trudeau says you've got to turn over all your customers who gave money to the truckers, That's the law in Canada.
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That was the law under the Emergencies Act.
But it clearly violates a number of laws in the United States, including privacy and the First Amendment.
Customers are allowed to have political opinions without some foreign dictators saying, seize that money.
So, what a terrible position to be in.
You're an American bank operating in both countries.
Frankly, you're a Canadian bank operating in both countries.
Because the Royal Bank of Canada, RBC Bank, as it's called in the U.S., RBC Bank has customers in Florida too.
RBC Bank, are they going to turn in their American customers?
So, my point, and thank you for letting me indulge it a bit there, was that the world is noticing that we are becoming less free.
The world is noticing that we're becoming less free with regards to Christians and religious liberty.
That's an Ohio legislature.
The world is noticing that we're politicizing banking and financial services in a way that's never been done in North America before.
The world is afraid that that Canadian virus of martial law is seeping elsewhere.
That's what that House Financial Services letter was about.
It's about saying to the boss of the American banks, the head of the Federal Reserve: Are you making sure this Trudeau banana republic-ness isn't seeping into our country?
That's what that was about.
What do you think of that?
Well, thanks for letting me go on there.
I really haven't touched a lot of things.
Should we try and get some chats in?
Where do you post the chat?
Should you put that in Slack or something?
Okay, I'm going to open up Slack and I'll just go to live stream.
Guys, I'm a little bit out of touch because I haven't done the live stream a lot.
All right, let's see what we got here.
I see lots of interesting stories.
I'm just scrolling down for the Rumble rants, right?
Did you put any in there?
A direct message to me.
Okay, thanks.
So, here, let me read some of these: Private property is the nickname.
Seven bucks.
Thank you.
Ezra, if you had to vote for one party right now, would you vote for the new Blue Party or the Ontario Party?
You have met both leaders.
Let me try and remember who they are.
I think Derek Sloan is the leader of the Ontario Party and Jim Carajelios is the leader of the new Blue Party.
Is that right?
It's a tough call because neither of them have a chance to win.
There's just no way I could possibly ever vote for Doug Ford.
On the other hand, the alternatives, the mainstream alternatives of the liberals and the NDP are just as depraved.
I do not know what I would do, I suppose, voting for one of those two minor parties.
Although I thought, yeah, you know what?
It's funny you asked me that question because that's a question without an answer.
That's like saying, what's the square root of minus one?
There's no answer to it.
But I want to tell you some good news because I speak like seven words of French.
But those seven words, and of course, menu is one of them.
I'm watching what's happening in Quebec.
There's a new party out there called the Quebec Conservative Party.
Have you ever heard of it?
I bet you haven't.
It's run by a friend of ours who used to appear on this show from time to time named Eric Duem, longtime journalist, radio host.
I met him when I was a kid, working for President Manning in Parliament.
He was a kid, working for Gilles de Sept, the leader of the Black Quépécois.
Can you believe it?
I was just, yeah, there he is.
Look at that guy.
Participé auvré changement, participate in real change.
Joinier Vu.
Join with me and the Conservative Party of Quebec.
And that's the leader there, Eric Duem.
He's about my age, but obviously much more handsome.
I'll leave that to you to decide.
Very good talker.
He's an author, very good thinker.
And he's polling in the double digits.
And he's attracting candidates almost every week who are really well known.
He's taking candidates from other parties too.
I think he's ahead.
I haven't seen polling in the last few weeks, but I follow his account on Twitter, even though it's in French mainly.
Very much opposed to lockdownism, very much small C conservative, you know, in terms of size of government.
And if I recall, he's in third place in the polls, which doesn't sound like much, but there's the Coalition Avenue Quebec, the CAC party, which is the government.
Then there's the Liberals, there's a Parti Québécois, there's Quebec Solidaire, so there's like four parties.
He is, I think, already in third place.
And he's just a great operator, a hard worker, very strategic, very principled, tapping in a pandemic rage.
Upstart Quebec Conservative Party leader surges in the polls.
And what's the date on this one here?
Yeah, just a couple weeks ago.
And what are the polls they show?
Let's just take a look, see there.
The second most popular party.
I said the third.
Oh my God, he's in second place.
Duem was elected leader of the party last April.
The party nearly dead not long ago now counts 52,000 members more than any other provincial party in Quebec.
Holy moly.
To his detractors, Duem, a former shock.
He's not a shock chalk.
I've known him for 30 years.
He is not a shock chalk.
He's so sensitive.
I mean, he has strong opinions.
Shock jock.
That's such a stupid thing to say.
It's like he's Howard Stern or something.
He is a thoughtful, conscientious, kind man.
Like he's so, he's got so many good manners.
People who know Duem told CBC he's a brilliant political strategist with a particular gift for communicating.
That's true.
Former Liberal Deputy Premier Natalie Normandeau worked with Duem as his co-host on Quebec City radio station FM93.
Eric Duem, when he became a leader last year, found himself with a party that was unknown in Quebec with barely any members.
Normandeau told CBC in an interview.
Yeah, there he is there in this.
He's great.
Anyway, I won't spend too much time, but let me tell you, in closing, Eric Duem took a party that was at new blue, true blue Ontario or Ontario party levels.
Like it was empty.
It was nothing.
It was like an empty structure.
And I didn't know that they had 52,000 members being the largest in Quebec.
And I didn't know they were in second place.
You heard me when I was going from memory, I said they were in third place.
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Eric Duham has, and he's done all that in a year, about a year.
I think he might win.
He's been careful.
He's been an opponent to the curfew, an opponent to the lockdownism, but he hasn't seemed wild about it.
I think he, at the very least, will be the next leader of the opposition in Quebec, and he could well be the next premier.
And I'm delighted to see it.
And I tell you that because he's earned it.
And I do not know why Jim Karajelios or Derek Sloan or whoever is leading these parties has not been able to capture the moment in the same way that Eric has.
And you know what?
Eric is going to do amazing.
Boy, I had so many things I was going to talk about.
I got this whole list of stories we were going to cover, including Christia Freeland, and it's almost not a good idea.
And I wanted to talk also about the big pharma talking about what he calls gene therapy.
We've got three minutes left.
Why don't we do that gene therapy video because we're not on YouTube anymore?
Let me tell you what we're talking about here.
The Pfizer BioNTech and the Moderna vaccine, they're a new technology called mRNA.
Maybe you've heard of RNA.
You've probably heard of DNA.
It's related.
It's a genetic term.
And I'm not going to try to explain how it works, but let me just tell you, it's a genetic technology that has not been used before.
And that's one reason I think some people are a little nervous about it because you've got a new gene technology.
You've never used it before.
And you're just sort of skipping straight ahead into it when there's still five years more testing that the FDA has ordered.
And when the companies who are making it have been granted legal indemnification, you can't sue them.
Legal immunity.
That's a little terrifying.
And some people say, well, that's gene therapy.
You're changing my genes.
What are you doing?
I don't want this to be done to me.
And anyone who said that was called a liar, a conspiracy theorist, a fake news misinformer, and was promptly banned from most social media.
Which makes it incredible to hear the head of the pharmaceuticals division at Bayer, who's on their management board, give this speech.
So this isn't some critic or skeptic.
This is not Naomi Wolf or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or some anti-vaxxer.
This is a big pharma bro exec.
And listen to how he talks about gene therapy.
Now, we're not on YouTube because if we put this on YouTube, we'd be nuked in a second.
Take a look at this.
We're really taking that leap, us as a company buyer, in cell and gene therapy, which to me is one of these examples where really we're going to make a difference, hopefully, moving forward.
There are some, ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy.
I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?
We would have probably had a 95% refusal rate.
I think this pandemic has also opened many people's eyes to innovation in the way that was maybe not possible before.
We're really taking that leap.
So basically they're saying, had we said, hey guys, we got some gene therapy for you, 95% of people would have said, yeah, pass.
I'll let you try that out on LabRats, not on me.
But he said, well, what a great opportunity we have because we got this into a couple billion arms.
And what a great opportunity.
If you had said those things, you would be banned.
What do you call it when big pharma literally admits it?
Now, I want to show this.
Can you go to Aaron Jinn's tweet?
Because if you try it, because I found that on Twitter.
I saw that on Twitter.
But Twitter has a warning label under it, and it will not let you retweet it.
You can tweet it about it with a comment.
But if you look at how this appears on Twitter, yeah, so click on that image if you please.
So you see Aaron Jinn is the guy, and you just watch that video, right?
It's 41 seconds.
You just watch the whole thing.
And Aaron says, the head of pharma at Bayer proudly proclaims the COVID mRNA vaccine is gene therapy and that misleading the public was useful to create widespread adoption.
Would you say that's an accurate summary of what he said?
I don't think he said the word misleading.
That's an implication.
That's an interpretation.
But I'm pretty sure that's as, I mean, other than the word misleading, like the pharma guy didn't say, haha, we misled them.
He just implied that they misled them, that they didn't mention it.
Now, can you put it back up?
Because I want to show, look at what's underneath it.
So Twitter puts underneath it that this is misleading.
And if you try and click retweet on the original, this is a photograph of the original, it won't let you do it.
And here's my problem in life now.
I used to be fairly trusting.
I mean, I was always skeptical, but I wasn't paranoid.
If you ask me, do I trust journalists?
I'd say, well, you know, even journalists on the other side, if they're sort of reputable, they won't lie because, you know, they'll get a bad reputation.
So I would probably even trust things in left of center media, especially the New York Times or the Globe and Mail, who, even though I disagree with their editorial outlook, they're so big and they're so established and they're reputable and they're authoritative and they're good people.
Even if I disagree with them, they're not going to lie.
And if you ask me about doctors, I'd say, well, a doctor might be a little out of date on certain things, but they're not going to lie.
And a court, you know, I might disagree with them or agree with them, but they're not going to lie.
And academics, you know, they might be a little bit in their own planet, but they're not going to lie.
But is there a single institution that has not smashed its own reputation in the last two years?
And here's my problem.
Now, look at Twitter.
I mean, just you see it.
You see how they're lying to you in real time.
And here's my problem.
How do I take the media at face value on anything now, including, for example, this war in Iraq, sorry, in Ukraine and Russia?
How do I know what to trust now?
You just heard that Bayer executive say, ha ha, we got people to take gene therapy that 95% of them would never have done.
Woohoo!
And then when you write that, Twitter says, no, that's misleading.
Like, we're seeing you lying to us in real time about something that touches our own lives and health.
How can we trust you on anything?
That's the problem I have.
How can I trust the media on anything?
My friends, it's 105.
I got to go.
Great to be back with you.
Two more chats.
I'm going to blow my nose again.
I'm sorry about that.
Cindy 888 says, Thank you, Ezra.
That's nice, Cindy.
Appreciate that.
And Jay Johnston says, Hi, Ezra, can you guys look up Diagalon?
Diagalon is a fictional country conjured up by Jeremy McKenzie.
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Ottawa is claiming him to be a threat to Canada, but in fact, he's a Patriot to the Max.
I mean, it sounds goofy.
You know, there were a number of feds in the trucker movement.
I identified the Line Canada as a group of feds about a year ago when I started seeing them showing up with their prefab signs in Toronto, out of the blue, people who had never been there.
There are feds, absolutely.
I mean, look at how insane the government has done, seizing money, freezing bank accounts, bringing in martial law.
Of course, they're going to do simpler things like having agents, provocateurs, and having undercover feds there.
I don't know if I'm going to spend time trying to dig around to see if Diagalon is fake or not, or if Jeremy McKenzie is a fed or not.
I know that Pat King is a disreputable fed, and you can see that his damage to the movement, because he would say absurd things in obscure Facebook posts that would be left like little Easter eggs.
And then the government war rooms would go through and collect, oh, look, here's Pat King talking about bullets and talking about violence.
And let's now use that to discredit 100,000 truckers.
So Pat King was a fed from long ago, and we spotted him a year ago here.
I don't think I'm going to focus on the 1% of this movement that's clearly feds, informants, agents, or just people who are a little bit nutty.
I think I'm going to focus on the 99% who really saved this country.
The truckers really saved this country.
The truckers accomplished more in two years than any other political force.
We're not free yet by any means.
The cross-border long-haul trucking mandate is still in effect.
The no-fly zone for unvaxed people is still in effect.
Thousands of people were fired for not being vaxed.
Millions of people were pressured into being vaxed.
There's still ridiculous mask mandates out there.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
The jailing pastors in Alberta, yes.
But whatever liberalization we have had over the last month is because of the truckers.
And look, and we started the show with how they've been smeared.
It's 107.
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I'm going to say goodbye.
I'll be slightly more organized next time.
I'll have my show at 8 p.m. today.
I'm going to talk more about this pharmacy guy on my show tonight, so tune in if you can.
If you don't know about my show, every day at 8 p.m., I do a TV-style show.
I do a monologue, and then I interview a guest, and then I read my fan mail and my hate mail.
So it's sort of fun.
If you go to RebelNewsPlus.com, you can subscribe to it.
It's $8 a month.
But in addition to my daily show, you also get weekly shows, including by Sheila Gunread, David Menzies, Andrew Chapatos, and Net and Cat, who have their own shows.
So there's actually four weekly shows on my daily show.
That's a lot of stuff for $8 a month, which is half the price of Netflix.
And the reason we need that though is because we don't take any money from Trudeau.
And I think it shows.
So I'm going to say goodbye to you now.
Thanks for tuning in.
Thanks to those folks who made Rumble rants or other tips or super chats.