Ezra Levant and David expose Justin Trudeau’s Bill C-11 as a censorship tool, redefining YouTube, Facebook, and others as "broadcasters" to enforce Canadian content—while $1.5B in bailouts (including niche outlets like Vintage Firetruck and Calgary’s Child) corrupts media independence. Trudeau’s $50M fund for combating "harmful online content" targets dissent, with the CRTC’s outdated authority weaponized to silence critics like Rebel News amid legal battles over his Conflict of Interest Act violations. The shift risks leaving only state-aligned or banned journalism, eroding free speech and threatening democracy’s core. [Automatically generated summary]
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Well, I asked, where's the beef?
Let's call this for what this is.
Oh my God.
They are so hopelessly woke.
How dare you?
That is the intellectual capital of the left today.
Give me a break.
You are now watching the daily roundup.
It is the daily live stream.
David, it's great to see you.
I'm Ezra Levant, the president of Rebel News.
David is the mission specialist.
Normally, he's the guy who introduces it, but I got no, I have no time for niceties.
That's true.
And today, Ezra, is I am in control day.
So who better than the boss, the president, the founder, the CEO of Rebel News to be my co-host?
Well, thank you very much.
I don't know what I am in control day.
It sounds like.
It sounds like, you know, there's very few things in life I do control.
But David, thanks for letting me jump in here with you.
I think that I'm going to call this broadcast.
It is our daily show.
And you and Sheila Gunreed are the anchors of that daily show.
But today, this daily show is something slightly different.
It is an emergency broadcast on the forced passage of the censorship bill called C11.
And there's no other way to describe it.
This is the law that begins the end of internet freedom in Canada.
This is one of four bills, proposed bills in a row, that bam, bam, bam, four of them in a row will end internet freedom in Canada.
Internet freedom has been under attack for a long time.
C11 puts the internet under the control of the TV Commission, the CRTC, which is a fossil.
It's obsolete.
It was decades ago when there was limited bandwidth on the radio and you had to apply to the government.
Can I have this, you know, if I'm on 990?
Does that interfere with that other radio station?
There used to be a limited bandwidth issue.
That's what the CRTC was about.
Apportioning who's on the radio, limited number of channels on TV cable companies, who's on what cable.
That is not relevant in 2023.
2023, you don't need to be on radio or TV.
Those are sort of old.
It's like a rotary phone as opposed to a cell phone.
No one uses it.
But Trudeau wants to take that old regulator called the CRTC, the Canadian, even if, let me, you're not even going to believe what CRTC stands for.
Do you know what it stands for?
It's the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission.
Yeah, Canadian Radio Television.
Could you put CRTC.gc.ca?
Put the homepage up.
People won't even believe what the full name of this regulator is.
It's so archaic.
The words don't even make sense.
It's from, you know, it's like moving pictures, like the silver screen.
Look at that.
Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission.
What even is a radio television?
Have they ever built a TV that encompasses a radio as well?
You know, I don't know.
It's the talkies.
We have to regulate these talkies on the silver screen.
And Ezra, if I can jump in here, I remember it was about 20 years ago, early 2000s.
I'll never forget the CRTC released a press release to derision and mocking laughter that after great consultation, they have decided they are not going to regulate the internet.
Of course, you can't regulate the internet.
But here we are, two decades later.
Blackface is instructing this commission.
Yes, I want you to regulate the internet.
And I think this is all about Blackface over the last few years has been handing out the carrots to the mainstream media.
Anyone that wants to play ball, you get a grant.
CBC, Twas ever thus, $1.5 billion plus.
The rest of the media, $600 million per year and growing.
And now he's paid off almost everybody, and now comes the stick.
For those stubborn, independent media outlets, Trudeau is now wielding the stick, and it's a direct attack on us.
David, you're exactly right.
The bill is called, I mean, Efron, I just sent you the link to the text of the bill.
We're going to do something that other media don't do.
We're going to take you into the heart of the legislation.
I want to prove to you.
I just sent it to you by signal, Efron.
But first, I want to show you a flicker of good news.
Despite the fact that 99% of the media in Canada are in favor of this bill because it censors, it will outlaw their independent competitors and it will channel funds to them.
We are against it.
We have a special website at stopthescensorship.ca.
You can sign our petition.
We have 42,000 signatures there already.
I'd love to get that up to 50,000 today.
And all the parties in the House of Commons are in favor of it, except for, I'm pleased to say, the Conservative opposition.
Pierre Polyev, the leader of the Conservative opposition, made an urgent video as he walked down from his office to the House of Commons for the final vote.
It was very dramatic, and I think it's appropriate.
Let's play that video from Pierre Polyev.
We need five seconds to teeth up.
No problem.
The reason I want to show it is because he refers to the invocation of closure.
Closure is just what it sounds like, David.
It's when you close off debate and how fitting it is that you close off debate about a bill that would close off debate.
You're censoring debating on a bill about censorship.
Go ahead.
They seem to be in a rush to push this through, as though there might be an election coming up, in which case this would die on the order table, Ezra.
But why is this such a priority?
I'm asking rhetorically, for the Liberal government to get ramrodded through.
That's what people have to ask themselves.
That's a great question.
And I'll let our viewers think of that when we look at this quick video from Pierre Polyev.
Take a look.
Hi, everyone.
Pierre Polyev here.
There's just an emergency here on Parliament Hill.
The Liberals have just announced that they're shutting down debate.
They're censoring debate on their censorship bill.
We just got the notice right now.
As you know, they've been trying to censor the internet in what Canadian artist Margaret Atwood is called creeping totalitarianism.
So give Trudeau's woke bureaucrats over at CRTC the power to control what you see and say on the internet.
I'm just rushing into the House of Commons lobby right now.
Conservatives are the only party fighting back.
But as you can see, this closure is now being brought right before us right now.
You see right here, online streaming act.
They're bringing in what's called closure, which shuts down debate and rams the bill through in record time.
Only conservatives are fighting back against this censorship bill.
We believe you should have the freedom to decide what you see and say online.
But I need you to immediately sign my freedom of speech petition.
The link is right before you.
Click sign immediately.
Let's bring home freedom.
I want to give you back control of your life and make this the freest country on earth.
It's common sense.
Let's bring it home now.
He has his petition.
We have our petition to our petition to stop the censorship.ca.
I'm glad he's taking this seriously, and I'm glad he says he'll fight against it.
And I believe him, by the way.
Efron, I just sent you a video link.
I'm going to send you over the next few moments different videos from different political parties.
I want to show you how they're all in on it together.
It's what they call an inside job.
It's a stitch-up.
Normally, you depend on the opposition parties to oppose.
That's the giveaway.
They're called the opposition.
Their job is to oppose, but they're all in on it because they are part of the club.
Efron, I sent you a clip from the Block Québécois.
I sent you a clip from the NDP.
That's the NDP clip there.
Let's take a listen.
I believe this woman is an NDP senator who is explaining.
Sorry, pardon me.
I think she's a, we'll find out her name in a minute.
I just forgot it for one second.
I think she's an NDP member of parliament.
Let's take a listen and her identity will come forward.
Take a look.
And I thank the member for his question.
I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected back, what they regulate regarding online streaming as opposed to studio executives that are outside of this country.
And that is what we're talking about in this bill.
There's already been content regulation for TV.
There's been content regulation for radio.
And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians are online every day.
You heard her content regulation.
She couldn't be clear.
The NDP says this is about content regulation, and that's why they support it, David.
Of course they do.
And what I find staggering, Ezra, is if you look at classical liberalism, they were all about freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of speech.
But that's gone now.
It's now canceled culture.
It's wokeism.
It's virtue signaling.
Punch and Azi.
And of course, by punch and Azi, I don't mean somebody hell-bent on world conquest and carrying out a genocide, but somebody who disagrees with you.
You have to be shut down even with violence.
And now we have legislation coming in.
So the Trudeau liberals, I guess what I'm trying to say, Ezra, they're anything but members that support classical liberalism.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, there is no more classical liberalism anywhere in the parliament.
Efron, I just sent you a clip from the Block Québécois.
Again, normally they oppose Ottawa taking any sort of power.
Normally they would say, A, butt out.
We'll make these regulations and rules from Quebec.
Or B, we are the protectors of culture.
How dare you censor?
But here's the Block Québécois from Shefford, Quebec, Andreen LaRouche, who can't get enough.
Here, take a look.
If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well represented online, well then that's worth it.
If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well represented online, well then that's worth it.
If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well represented online.
Well then that's worth it.
If we should play it six times in a row.
Now, folks, we have a bit of a mic issue for David.
Now that's never stopped David before.
We're going to take a very quick commercial break.
We're going to fix that.
And I am not yet done showing you how every single party in the House of Commons.
I mean, look, the word parliament is rooted in the French for speak, parlay, to parley.
And yet the and how, oh, and by the way, MPs have a very special immunity from any kind of censorship.
You could literally stand on the floor of the House of Commons or the Senate and say he is a murderer and falsely defame someone and you are immune to any prosecution.
These are the people with the most free speech in the world and yet they are taking away free speech.
The word free speech is hardwired right into the word parliament and yet you heard that block member say it five times that she's excited about taking away freedom of speech.
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Well, we got to make problems, David.
Yes.
We're going to fix those.
So I'll say goodbye to you.
I'm sorry.
It was.
Oh, it's working now.
Hallelujah.
Wow.
There you go.
I thought my microphone had already been Bill C-11.
I'm using it as a verb right now.
Excellent.
Okay, well, I'm glad that worked, and I'm glad we ran an ad anyways.
I want to continue showing.
Now, by the way, Efron, I am working my way through Michael Geist's Twitter feed.
I clicked on media, and he has so many video clips, including from liberals, explaining why they do not support Trudeau's home bill.
Isn't that odd?
When was the last time?
Here, I'm going to show an astonishing video.
I'm going to send an astonishing video right now to Efron to play.
This is from a liberal, a Trudeau appointee.
His name is Senator David Adams Richard.
And he is an author, like he's an artist.
I think he won the governor.
I'm just reading Michael Geist's page here.
This senator won the Governor General's Award, won the Giller Prize, which is a very prestigious prize in those circles.
I know nothing about it, of course, but it's for the more literate folks out there.
Listen to the language he uses to condemn C-11.
But I am, so I guess when I said it's unanimous, the support for this bill, I did not include a handful of liberal senators who are immune to Trudeau's bullying.
When you're a senator in Canada, you're opponent for life, or age 75, to be more precise.
So you can't be fired.
So whereas Trudeau has total control over every liberal member of parliament, the Senate actually, I think there are three liberal senators who are saying, I'm not going along with this.
This is madness.
Good for them.
And I'm not going to lie.
Here's one of them.
Let's take a listen to this Trudeau appointed senator who's just sick of the BS.
Take a look.
In my reading at Harbor Front in Toronto, two people approached me.
One was the great Irish writer Roddy Doyle telling me he had long admired my work.
The other was the First Nation writer Richard Wegmus, telling me he started writing because he was influenced by my work.
Both were very kind, live a thousand miles apart, one Irish and one First Nation, and the writing had little to do with identity politics, but it did have much to do with identifying.
I do not know who would be able to tell me what Canadian content is and what it is not, but I know it won't be in the ministers of heritage's power to ever tell me.
We have yet to make a great movie about hockey, for God's sakes, a great movie about Juno Beach, a great movie about the Yep, or a movie about the young Canadians fighting to death in Hong Kong.
Our ancestors and singers and writers too have gone away because they had to, for too many in power have no knowledge about these things.
We have filled the world with our talent, but not because of the Minister of Heritage.
We have sped our books and movies across the world, but it is not because of some formula.
We have insulted so many of our authors and singers, our actors and painters by not paying attention to them and then claiming them when they go somewhere else.
They come back to get the Order of Canada and to be feted at Rideau Hall.
Drake is known worldwide, but not because of the CRTC.
Thank God Drake was not up to them or Leonard Cohn or Gordon Lightfoot either.
You see, we have gone back to the age of Cicero without even knowing.
In that age, scapegoating was considered a blessing and mob action against one person was considered justice.
It was Christ actually who taught us that scapegoating was a great lie and pleaded with us by his death never to return to that state.
This lob will be one of scapegoating all those who do not fit into what our bureaucrats think Canada should be.
Stalin again will be looking over our shoulder when we write.
We have come a long way from Cicero.
Thank you.
Stalin, he says, he actually compares this kind of cultural invasion by the government to Stalin.
That's incredible.
There's another senator, I think he's from Newfoundland, who makes a similar comment.
So the only liberals who speak freely about this are the ones that Trudeau does not control.
It's not interesting.
Well, absolutely, Ezra.
And you know, I have always had disdain and distrust of the CRTC.
You and I are both Sun News refugees from 2015.
You remember we applied for a license that would have kept us on the air.
I think our business case was absolutely ironclad, foolproof, because the reason d'être of the CRTC is to promote Canadian content.
And what was Sun News?
Well, it was a Quebec company that owned us.
We were based in Toronto.
We had bureaus all over the country.
We had probably close to 200, maybe more, Canadian employees producing Canadian stories for a Canadian audience.
And they gave us the Caesar thumbs down.
And yet, other stations that had that license, virtually half of their content was old U.S. sitcoms being broadcast as reruns.
So based on what happened to Sun News on 2015, I think that individual was right.
There is a class of bureaucrats out there that if you don't fit into a special category, off with your head.
You know, I'm trying to find that other senator here.
I can't find him quickly.
I've forgotten his name.
I thought he was from Newfoundland.
We don't need to see it right now.
What I wanted to show our viewers is that the Liberals, obviously, all of the Liberals in the House of Commons have been forced to agree with this.
The only outliers are those in the Senate who cannot be controlled.
The NDP wants content moderation.
You heard them.
The Block Hibercoil is thrilled.
We played the clip five times.
They're thrilled.
I want to go to third reading of the bill itself.
If you have that, Efron, I want to work through it now.
Just for those who have joined us in the last 15 minutes, we're doing an emergency live stream about the imminent passage of Bill C-11.
It is technically called an act to amend the broadcasting act.
And I suppose that's true in that it now will take Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, all of your social media accounts, and it will regulate them just as powerfully as the government has regulated radio television.
And they write that word of the hype.
And it's so just as we've been regulating the talkies for close to seven, four score and 15 years, and we're ready to regulate the internet's talkies.
It's just so embarrassing.
Well, Ezra, if I may, what do you think is the unspoken strategy of the Trudeau liberals and, of course, their allies in the House for loving this bill?
I mean, is it indeed all about control for those media outlets that they cannot buy off?
Oh, it absolutely is.
There's going to be no doubt about it.
Justin Trudeau altered Canadian media in a deep and genetic way.
Shortly after he took over, he announced he was going to give hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the media in this country.
And that immediately pacified them because they were saying, oh, we can't survive in the age of the internet.
Well, that would be like saying 100 years ago, we're going to give hundreds of millions of dollars to the horse and buggy industry.
Exactly.
There was a new media industry emerging from the ashes of the old one, but all the incumbents, all the dinosaurs ponied up.
And today, Justin Trudeau is the number one, the largest single source of revenue for every media company in Canada.
Approximately one-third of all the revenue for even supposedly conservative media outlets, National Post, Toronto Sun, Global Mail, Toronto Star, one-third comes from Trudeau.
And he's proposing, and I think it's C-18, to make Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Google, YouTube, chip in another third.
So if he gets his way, by the time C-11 and C-18 are done, two-thirds of the revenue of every newsroom in this country will either be from big government or big tech.
Tech and Government Influence00:11:44
So what's that going to do?
Well, first of all, it's going to ideologically color all the news because you do not bite the hand that features you.
Even if it's subconscious, oh, we're going to criticize Facebook, but let's be very gentle.
Talk about your controlled opposition.
So you're buying off 99% of the media with a carrot.
But then there's the stick for those that don't comply.
Exactly.
And one of the ways that that happens, and I'm just looking for it right now, it's paragraph, I'm just looking, it's paragraph nine.
There's such a complicated rule here.
Efron, if you have the law in front of you, click on, it says text.
I'll help you navigate it.
Can you find, I think it might be near the top.
Open the bill, sorry, that main page I sent you, and I'll walk you through it.
And this is good because we can show people how we do it.
So if you go to, I think I sent you the link.
Maybe I didn't.
No, it's actually the Parliament bill itself.
So here, you know what?
I'll just send you the link right now.
I'm sorry I didn't do that before.
Hey, viewers, thanks for bearing with us.
We're doing this in real time.
Efron, I just sent you a link.
It's from the parliamentary website itself because I want to show the authoritative version.
And by the way, bills sometimes change because there's little amendments, things are.
So what I just sent you, Efron, is what's called the third reading of the bill.
This is how the bill looked like after it had been through committees, any amendments, things of that sort.
So if you click on this, you see there it is.
So you can see that this is the authoritative source.
This is from the House of Commons.
You can see the official title is, An Act to Amend the Broadcasting Act, etc.
And you can see, you see the tabs at the top, first reading, second reading, third reading.
That's what they call a vote in Parliament.
They read the bill and then you vote on it or whatnot.
Now, Efron, this is a very long bill.
So what I'd like you to do is to use your find function, you know, just Command F, for the word discoverability.
Just start typing that word discovers enough, and it'll quickly take you to something called conditions, 9.1 bracket one.
And it's the very first place where the word discover.
That's that's it.
That's it.
You got it there.
Yeah, put that on the screen.
I'm going to read that.
So there's a lot of legalese here, but I promise I'll make it easy to understand.
So you got to read, you see at the top it says conditions, and then there's all these conditions, A, B, C, D, E, F.
So I'm going to read the top there, and then I'm going to read part E, and you're going to see what I'm worried about.
So the Commission, that's the CRTC, that's the government bureaucracy.
When they say the commission, that's who they're talking about, the CRTC.
So let me just read this and I'll walk through.
The commission may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings.
That's what they call Twitter, YouTube, Google.
They call those broadcasters now.
See, this is what's so weird.
This is the Frankenstein nature of it.
Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook are not broadcasters.
That's why they've never been regulated along with the talkies.
But C11 now says, oh, no, you are now a broadcaster.
Okay?
So let me read that again.
The Commission, that's the bureaucracy, may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings that the Commission considers appropriate for the implementation of the broadcasting policy set out in subsection 3.1, including conditions respecting, and then there's a list.
So I haven't even got, I'm just saying, just explain the preamble there.
These are things that the government can do to YouTube, to Twitter, to Google.
And then there's a big list of them.
And I want to jump to number E.
So I'm 9.11E.
Very legalistic, but that's what laws are like.
Let's read it, okay?
So the government can regulate, they can make orders against Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook to do what?
To do E. Respecting the presentation of programs and programming services, that means our videos, your tweets, your Facebook posts, for selection by the public, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services, such as original French language programs.
They throw the word French language programs in there, but that's just an example.
So let me read this again.
The government can make any order respecting the presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
That means the algorithm.
That means search results.
That means the watch next, the for you.
You know, on every social media app, it sort of gets to know what you like and it tries to think, well, what would this guy like?
He's watching lots of, you know, car wash videos.
Let's give him more car wash videos.
That's that's the algorithm does that.
In this law, they call that discoverability, the presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
Right.
That's the for you page.
That's the algorithm.
That's the selection.
That's what's boosted.
That will be regulated, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services.
Let me translate what this means in real life.
This means that Justin Trudeau and his hand-picked censors can order YouTube, Google, Facebook to alter what is shown to the public.
YouTube, Google, Facebook already do that.
They already have political biases, by the way.
They downrank us already, by the way.
True.
But what I just read to you incontrovertibly, in fact, they don't deny it.
They don't deny it.
This gives them the power to say, well, Rebel News is not a qualified Canadian journalism organization.
We don't think we say they're disinformation and they're not a part of a healthy news diet from the CBC.
And if you want diversity, well, you can have your CTV and Global.
If you want even more diversity, well, you're your Toronto Star.
There's a lot of choices.
There's five choices right there.
All of them are on the government dime.
All of them receive the Trudeau Baila.
What this does is it gives the CRTC the power to regulate Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, et cetera, to alter their algorithms.
So when people try to discover, that's the word, discoverability, when YouTube, Google, Facebook, et cetera, want to showcase or present, those are the words, the government can get involved in that and boost their friends and de-boost their enemies.
And who the hell do you think their friends and enemies are?
They will boost the CBC and all the other compliant media, the government media, the regime media, the media, political, industrial complex, they will boost them and they will de-boost us.
And that is why, my friends, if you care about knowing what the world is like as opposed to knowing only what Trudeau says you can know what the world is like, I need you to go to our petition now, stopthesensorship.ca.
And we are, and yes, I want you to sign the petition.
Now, you might say, what's the point?
What's the point?
I mean, this thing's passing.
We're going to take it to court.
And you know we will.
We are currently suing Justin Trudeau in seven different legal actions, including one when his bodyguards beat you up.
That was what a dark day at Rebel News.
And we're going to fight back and we're going to get you justice.
So help me, God.
Thank you, Ezra.
And we are going to challenge C11 because you know what it means.
Do you think they're going to de-boost the CBC?
Do you think they're going to say to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, you can't show the C1?
Of course, that's government propaganda.
They're going to boost it.
You're going to type in rebel news, and soon the only thing you'll be allowed to see is, if anything, about rebel news, it'll be all the criticisms of rebel news.
You'll be able to see all the criticisms, sort of like a highlight reel of maybe our worst moments or whatever.
You won't be able to find things.
You'll see attacks on us or if you find us at all.
And I just literally showed you in the law where that is.
And I'm just on the website right now: 42,613 signatures, 42,614.
Thank you.
We got to get that up to 50,000.
The petitioners stop the censorship.
Who do we deliver it to, Ezra?
Well, I think we would deliver it either to the minister in charge of it, who is, you know, Stephen Gilbo used to be in charge of it.
Now he's in environment.
Now it's Paolo Rodriguez, a convicted criminal, by the way, drunk driver.
It's funny how many criminals are.
So we have two then.
Oh, yeah.
So I know Guibot is a convicted criminal.
You know what?
I'm not saying that necessarily disqualifies a guy from ever working again.
But it's so funny how many criminals there are.
I mean, Stephen Gilbo convicted of breaking and entering or breaking out of the CN Tower in an eco stunt for Greenpeace.
I just, listen, I'm not saying that there's no redemption, and I'm not saying that someone who's caught drunk driving can't work again.
I just, it's just the ethics of that government are, well, I mean, a fish rocks from the head down.
And everyone knows that Justin Trudeau is a lawbreaker.
He's being convicted, what, five times now of violating the Conflict of Interest Act, and he just pays a $500 fine and laughs.
What a joke.
Yeah, there's Gilbo the day he was arrested.
That's the guy who drafted Bill C-11.
Now he's the environment minister.
Super gross.
Imagine that guy, a lawbreaker, being a lawmaker.
Super, super gross.
You know, it reminds me of that scene in The Clockwork Orange, Ezra, where I guess the government's given up in terms of arresting all the thugs, so instead recruits the thugs to make them police officers.
And they find one of their cronies, Alex, and they give him the most severe beating of their life.
But that's what it's kind of like with, you know, Guibot and Rodriguez criminals now having the moral authority telling us what we should do, what we can and cannot watch.
It's perverse.
You know, it's getting to the point that soon there will only be two kinds of media in this country.
Government-run, government-funded media or banned media.
You'll either be controlled by the government or banned by the government.
There will no longer be any independent media in this country.
And I used to work for Post Media.
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I know you did too.
You were in Sun Media and you've been in different media.
They're all controlled now.
And I'm not here to say that the Globe and Mail does no good journalism.
They are doing some good journalism on the China file these days.
And I still love to read Rex Murphy and Conrad Black in the National Post and Rupa Subramania.
I'm not saying that they're all dead, but you cannot have Justin Trudeau as your chief benefactor without that having an impact on your journalism.
Even if it's subconscious, you're going to pull your punches.
And I think the reason mainstream media, even right-leaning, are all in on this, Ezra, is let's face it, this is a sunset industry.
If I went to a high school, not even a high school, a university, and I said, hey, raise your hands, everyone, that has a newspaper subscription.
I bet you zero hands would go up.
I mean, I subscribe to the Toronto Sun.
Can tell you, some days it looks like a pamphlet.
And they're losing readers.
They're losing advertisers.
So when you're not selling subscriptions, when you're not getting ad revenue, you got to get the money from somewhere.
And here comes Blackface as a sugar daddy bailing them out.
So I guess it boils down to if you want a compromised livelihood or no livelihood at all, well, you're going to go for option A, aren't you?
Yeah, you know what?
I really like how you're calling him Blackface as a nickname.
No, it's the right thing to do.
You know, I remember when we did an access to information request.
I don't know if you can find this, Efron, but we did an access to information request looking for the list of all the media companies that took the special bailout from Trudeau.
And it was staggeringly long.
There were actually 1,500 names on it.
And I did not know that there were 1,500 media companies in Canada.
And if you look at the list, it has everything on there, like the Costco magazine or like the, you know, the President's Choice magazine, like, or the CAA Automobile Association magazine.
Like they're all on there.
Yeah, you found it.
Excellent.
So, and I, so we got this list, and I should say on the same day we got it, Canada Land did.
So yeah, pump this up.
So I should say we take credit, but we should share the credit with Canada and they had the same idea literally the same day we did.
Pump that list up so I can take a better gander at it.
Because even trade magazines are on this.
Like Fresh Magazine or Energetic City or Exclaim, Mining Life, the Tai.
So the and just scroll a little bit to the right because I think it shows the dollar amount.
Yeah.
So look at, so you see those?
Like, you've never even heard, like, what's Fresh Magazine?
Is that like Joe Fresh or something?
Look at CAA.
You see that?
See, that's the Canadian Automobile Association.
They're literally getting journalistic media.
Yeah, scroll down so we can see a little bit because David, the little box with David and me is blocking it.
CAA Manitoba, CAA, Wedding Bells Magazine.
Oh my God, they got 126 grand.
CAA magazine, 278 grand.
Vintage Firetruck, the Nigerian Canadian newspaper, the Nipawa Banner and Press, Edible Vancouver.
That sounds like it's like a restaurant review.
Well, they got 70 grand.
Alwatan Arabic Weekly, 18 grand.
Calgary's Child.
Now, I'm not knocking these.
I'm just saying I didn't know there were 1,500 media companies.
These are the ones who are getting hundreds of millions of like magazine sports, HRI.
I don't even know what these are.
Ad busters.
That's like a campaign group.
Keep scrolling down.
What do you think the circulation is for vintage fire truck magazine?
Yeah, by the way, that sounds like a great magazine.
I would read it once and then I would say, okay, I now have enough knowledge about vintage fire trucks to last me the rest of my day.
I mean, I'm actually not knocking these guys.
I mean, for all I know, Sage magazine, 138 grand are good people.
Greenhouse Canada, for those who can't get enough about greenhouses, you know, security products and technology news.
So that's a trade magazine.
Groundwater Canada.
Do you like the ground?
Do you like water?
All right.
We got a magazine.
Manure.
Manure Manager.
Oh, boy.
Manure Manager.
53 grand.
I think that's a secret nickname of the Toronto Star.
Potatoes in Canada.
I'm obviously an annual subscriber to that.
Can't get enough potato news.
Top crop fenestration review.
Is a fancy way of saying windows.
Look, I'm having some fun.
I'm joking around, but this is the list of just, I think it's just in one year.
There's Canadian Firefighter.
I love the firefighters.
Oh, that's separate from vintage fire trucks.
Oh, yeah.
You know, anyways.
I guess if you're a fireman, you're in the house, the firehouse, so long waiting.
You know what?
I fly these days a fair bit.
I'd probably read that.
All right.
I'm just having too much.
What's Azure get?
I've heard of that one.
Yeah, scroll down a little bit.
$304,000.
Yeah, so if you gave me $304,000, I mean, first of all, if it was Trudeau money, I wouldn't take it because if we ever took a dollar from Trudeau, no one would ever trust us again.
And I wouldn't blame him.
So I'm just going to put on the record: we will never take money from Justin Trudeau ever.
How can you take money if you're in the business of covering Trudeau?
How can you take money from Trudeau?
Business in Vancouver, $426,000.
Unbelievable.
So do you think they're ever going to go hard on Trudeau?
Oh, no.
And by the way, there's plenty of blame to go around, Ezra.
As our friend of the New Blue Party noted, Jim Carahalios, Doug Ford's PC government gave Torstar a gambling license that is potentially worth a half billion dollars a year.
Why would that be?
Because Doug and his great late brother, Rob, they used to refer to Toronto Star reporters as maggots.
Now they're getting a half billion dollar license a year.
So try to explain that.
Thanks for showing that, Efron.
You found that very quickly also.
I appreciate that.
My point of showing that is that soon, like I say, like it used to be that the newspaper business was very free.
The magazine business was very free.
There was always some subsidies of books.
And TV was regulated by the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission.
But now, as you just, we just showed you, every newspaper, every magazine, including the Automobile Association, including Trademag, every bloody one of them is paid off.
They're all bought off.
So you're either a friend of Trudeau's and you get the cash, or you're an enemy of his and you get banned either outright or through this discoverability provision I just showed you.
And Ezra, they need the money.
And by the way, a test for any print publication, and you probably know this, being the publisher of Western Standard Once Upon a Time, when you go through it, you want to see this is a sign of economic health.
60% of the content should be ads, 40% editorial.
And the precise opposite is true now.
And in fact, the ratio is far worse than that.
You go through McLean's, Ezra, McLean's magazine, that used to be a frequency of 52 times a year.
They're down to 12 times a year.
You look at a 48-page magazine.
There's maybe five pages of ads.
And even amongst those ads, you'll see ads for the Blue Jays, ads for Rogers.
Those don't count.
Those are called house ads because McLean's is owned by Rogers.
So when you don't have advertisers buying in, when you have subscribers going into freefall, you need this money.
And they will sell their soul.
Ethics and morals have nothing to do with the argument if you're on the brink of bankruptcy.
Yeah.
Well, I'm looking at our petition page right now.
It now has 42,787 signatures.
And that's at stopthecensorship.ca.
I'd like to encourage people to watch it.
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In fact, the new focus is if you dare protest against these drag queen story hours, you get arrested.
Hey, I want to show you just a couple more quick things on the censorship issue, and then we're going to talk about one other quick thing today.
You know, here's a nice speech by Rachel Harter.
I think that's her name.
She was elected under a different name.
I think she got married.
So I forget her married name.
Let's just take a look at Rachel Thomas.
Thank you.
I remember she was elected as Rachel Harter.
Here she is opposing the censorship Bill C-11.
Take a look.
Questions and comments?
The Honorable Member for Lethbridge.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, what we just heard from the government is that they've moved closure on Bill C-11 and our discussion with regard to the amendments that came back from the Senate.
Closure means that they are shutting down debate.
Now, I find this rather interesting because really Bill C-11 is a censorship bill.
So we have a government that has moved a censorship bill, and now they are moving censorship on that censorship bill.
So talk about a government very committed to censorship.
They're not only wanting to censor what Canadians can see and hear and post online through Bill C-11, but the government is also wanting to censor us as opposition members and our ability to speak about this bill.
It should be further noted that the Quebec government under Premier Legault issued an open letter asking to be heard with regard to this legislation because they have significant concerns.
And they asked that this bill be referred to committee, and it was not.
So not only was committee not permitted, but now thorough debate is not permitted.
Talk about a government committed to shutting down voices.
Not only the voices of the individuals in this House, but the individuals that would exist online and have something to say within that space.
Why is this government so hell-bent on shutting down freedom?
The Honourable Health Minister.
Speaker, let me start by thanking all members of this House for having spoken so long and so well on the matter of this bill, including members of the other House.
I have information, Madam Speaker, that within this House, we spent 34 hours debating that bill, plus an additional 22 hours in committees.
In the Senate, they spent 18 hours debating the bill in their chamber, plus an additional 65 hours clause-by-clause debates in the Senate.
Now, Madam Speaker, this is history because this is the longest ever time that the Senate took clause by clause looking at the bill.
So it's historical the amount of time and effort that members of this House, members of the parliament, spent on that bill.
That's indeed very important because it's an important bill.
We look forward to bringing it forward for Canadians.
Hey, guys, we spent a few hours going through it.
I mean, we went through clause by clause.
We didn't accept any of the amendments.
We spent a lot of time.
We didn't accept any amendments, including amendments put forward by some independent-minded liberals.
But guys, we're ignoring you completely.
We're ramming this through.
We are nationalizing the entire internet.
We're going to do to it what we did to CanCon TV and radio.
But look, enough's enough with your bloody debating.
What do you think this is?
Some sort of parliament or democracy or something?
You have had hours and hours in the Senate.
Why don't you just shut up and let us control the internet?
I mean, why don't you just obey?
By the way, I don't think 99% of Canadians understand that what they say, do, write, think, watch, share on their Facebook page, Twitter page, YouTube.
I don't think they realize that that is now going to be controlled by the government.
Now, most of them will never run afoul of it, but anyone who becomes a problem will be algorithmed out of existence.
And I read to you the provision of the law that does so.
Over to you.
No, I think you're right, Ezra.
I mean, if I went down to Young Dundas Square, where we go often to do streeters, and said, what do you think of Bill C-11 that looks like it's going to be passed?
I would be surprised if even one person knew that.
And I'm not mocking people for being out of touch.
Everyone's working.
There's somebody who's going to be able to do it.
It's C-11.
What even is C-11?
No one even talks that language.
Exactly.
And if you are getting your news from mainstream media, this is not a front-page red alert item.
Because they're complicit.
They want it to go through.
So, you know, there's a built-in shrouding of this story.
So, why would you know about Bell C-11?
And by the way, I'd like to ask our viewers, if you can, to get a comprehensive understanding of Bell C-11, Ezra, I think it was you on New Year's Eve.
You were overseas at the time.
You posted that fabulous video.
It tells you everything you need to know.
So, if you go to the December 31st, I think was the date, Ezra Levant's video on Bell C-11, you will see how chilling this legislation really is.
So, on the one hand, Trudeau is regulating the internet through the CRTC.
On the other hand, he is paying a whole new cottage industry to denounce criticisms of him and his favorite ideas as disinformation.
And disinformation, I mean, I've heard that word before this latest fad.
When I was a kid growing up, I used to read, I know it sounds funny, but a magazine called Aviation Week and Space Technology, because it was really cool when you were a kid to see a magazine about cool fighter jets.
And that's what it was.
It was just like a magazine about fighter jets.
I mean, that sounds sort of nerdy, but I think a lot of boys are into that.
And that's why I first discovered the word disinformation.
And there was a debate in this magazine because the U.S. military would deliberately put false information out about the capabilities of their fighter jets to confuse and confound Soviet spies.
What's the speed of a jet?
What's the range of it?
How many missiles are going to hold?
How many bullets?
And the U.S. government would put out sort of harmless lies, harmless domestically, but it would be to hopefully trick the commies.
And that was called disinformation.
That's what I first heard the word.
Deliberately putting false information out to confuse someone.
And it was obviously a legitimate part of spy versus spy.
Trudeau has taken that word and now uses it for anyone who disagrees with him.
That's not disinformation.
It's not disinformation to disagree with him.
It's an opinion.
It's the other side of the story.
And by the way, saying that your critics are disinformationists implies that you always have your facts straight.
When in fact, Trudeau gets them wrong a lot of times.
A lot of his statements about the vaccine being 100% safe and effective and stops transmission, all of that was wrong.
I'm not even going to call it disinformation because I think Trudeau believed it at the time.
Disinformation, like I say from my childhood reading these magazines, was a deliberate attempt to trick someone.
Trudeau's critics are not trying to trick anyone.
They're trying to push back.
So here he is.
I'd like to show you an announcement where not only is he passing a law that will allow him to regulate the internet, but he is also spending millions of tax dollars on the disinformation industry, by which I mean people who will go around and accuse his critics of being disinformationists.
Unbelievable.
Take a look at this.
Do we have a TDF?
We are investing to support the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and other groups that are promoting free, fair, and inclusive elections globally.
We're fighting harmful content online and promoting inclusivity in the digital world.
In 2022, we chaired the Freedom Online Coalition, which helped defend internet freedom and addressed internet shutdowns perpetrated by Iran.
We've also bolstered the G7 rapid response mechanism aimed at countering foreign threats to democracy, including disinformation.
And today we can announce that we're investing over $50 million more in projects and initiatives to strengthen democracy around the world.
Do you really think that Justin Trudeau, who invoked martial law, deployed riot horses, shot our reporter, Alexa Lavois, because there was some hornhonking going on that embarrassed him?
Do you really think that Justin Trudeau has any role at a strengthening democracy conference?
And when he says he wants to stop harmful content online and defend internet freedom, well, you can't do those two things at the same time because defending internet freedom means you've got to listen to things you don't like to hear.
And he calls anything he doesn't like to hear harmful.
Yeah, harmful to his political ambitions.
You know, that is exactly the note I made, Ezra.
Harmful content online.
As always, the devil is in the details.
So what is the definition of harmful?
Does he consider fair criticism of his government and his government policies as being harmful?
I mean, that's a hell of a word to pin down, isn't it?
Yeah.
I think that today is a dark day for internet freedom.
I would like to promise you, our viewers, that we are going to fight this, not just editorially and journalistically and politically, but also legally.
We've had a team of lawyers with one of our favorite law firms being studying this for actually a year now as it's worked its way through the parliament, including the Senate.
And we will challenge this because who else will?
Do you think the Toronto Star is going to challenge this?
Do you think the CBC is going to challenge this?
C-18 is another one of these four censorship bills that Trudeau's pushing through.
It would require Google, YouTube, Facebook to pay money to Trudeau's favorite journalists.
I think you might see some internet companies pushing back on that, but I do not see the same pushback on C-11.
Actually, that's not true.
Twitter filed a brief with the government, and this was before the Elon Musk took over.
So this is even the old Twitter said what Trudeau is planning to do is they've only seen it in North Korea.
We're going to fight.
If you want to help us fight, I'd be grateful.
I'd like to encourage you to go to stopthecensorship.ca in our final minute.
I'll tell you what the latest count there.
43,252 signatures.
So I think when we started the show, we had 42,000, like I think we were exactly 1,000 lower.
So I think we've added 1,000 names on this petition in an hour.
So that's pretty cool.
You know, and I just want to say, Ezra, I mean, I actually went to journalism school way back in the early 80s when the world was a lot more normal.
And I wonder if any of my journalism professors were alive today.
It was at Ryerson.
I can't remember what they call it now, some new woke name.
But I remember one professor, and he was outraged.
He came in one morning, had the Globe and Mail in his hand, and there was an advertisement on page three.
And he goes, how can they do this?
That is the most important page after page one.
What would they say today with that mindset that you are taking money from a government that you should be covering without bias?
And what would they say about a government implementing a bill like C11 that's going to get rid of and curtail all their near-do-wells, the ones that don't sign on with the government-funded journalism program?
They wouldn't believe it.
They would not believe it, Ezra.
And that's how far we've come in 40 years.
Yeah, well, I mean, I think it's very simple.
Journalists who claim to be idealistic actually are bought off just for trinkets.
Like just so, so easily.
I can't believe how cheaply they're bought off.
But I guess when they said they were for idealism and for freedom of speech, that was just so that they could feel morally superior to the rest of us.
They just care about getting free money from Trudeau and under some of these other bills, getting free money from big tech.
They never really meant it when they, and we know they never really meant it because none of them stand up for freedom of speech for people they disagree with.
I think journalists are just as cowardly as politicians and just as money-grubbing and just as corrupt.
And although this is a very big deal in my mind today, I think you will see very little coverage of it in the mainstream media tomorrow.
Or probably cheerleading coverage in certain circles.
And by the way, Ezra, you've used, I think, the term crowdfunding four times today on the show.
And this is what I have to say.
Why can't the mainstream media, why can't CBC, if they're so important and so relevant to Canada, why don't they adopt our business model?
We ask for money, as you've said before.
This is the most honest way there is, I think, to raise money.
If you want to contribute to rebel news, great.
If you don't, you can see almost all of our content except what's on premium content behind the paywall.
So why don't they get off their keysters and actually put some effort into raising money from people as opposed to suckling on the government teeth?
Yeah.
Well, David, we have been fighting for freedom of speech all eight years of our company's existence.
And of course, all of us in our own ways, even before then, I think back to 2006, I think it was, when we published the Danish cartoons of Owen Mohammed in the Western Standard Magazine.
I think that was 2006.
So that is now, what's that, 17 years I've been in the free speech battle in a very personal and significant way.
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And I don't intend to stop.
I think freedom of speech is a fundamental freedom.
It's a strategic freedom.
It's a freedom upon which all other freedoms are based.
In fact, I know this because in our Constitution, we have dozens of rights laid out, but we only have a handful of them called fundamental freedoms because they're more important than the rest.
The rest depend on them.
Here's an example.
What use is an election if you don't have freedom of speech?
Exactly.
You can't campaign.
You do not have a free election if you don't have free speech.
So free speech has to be first.
You don't have like all the other rights and freedoms enumerated in the Constitution depend on those fundamental freedoms.
And we got to keep fighting for them.
By the way, the loss of these freedoms didn't happen overnight.
Didn't even happen in the eight years since Justin Trudeau's PM.
They've been eroding and corroding for decades, I think.
So I think it will take a decades-long battle to bring them back.
My friends, it is now 2.03 p.m. Eastern Time, 12 noon.03 in Calgary, Mountain Time.
David, thanks for hanging out with me today on this emergency broadcast.
And Efron, thanks for working at the control room there and getting things so speedily.
I'll be doing my show tonight on the CBC on a different matter on their drag kids.
They have this whole focus on teaching children of tender years, like as young as nine, about sexuality and drag queenness.
Look, even Freud, that sex fiend, talked about a period of latency.
Like, you don't talk to children of tender years about sexuality unless you are a pedophile.
I'm sorry.
There's no other, like, what are you doing?
It's not about gay or straight.
It's what the hell are you doing talking to young kids about sex?
Are you some sort of perv?
And in the case of the CBC, the answer is yes.
And I'll show you some of their grossness tonight.
And I mean, you're paying for it.
You should at least see what they're doing.
Our tax dollars are hard at work yet again, Ezra.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.