‘Free speech’ crusader Justin Trudeau hounds Rebel News founder over vital e-book

Rebel News, a Canada-based impartial information outfit, has been underneath the scanner of the Justin Trudeau-led-government for its vital tales in regards to the Canadian Prime Minister and his insurance policies.

Prior to the 2019 federal election in Canada, Rebel News’ founder Ezra Levant wrote a 137-page lengthy e-book titled ‘The Libranos: What the Media Won’t Tell You about Justin Trudeau’s Corruption.’

The e-book detailed allegations of corruption within the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau. The cowl image of the e-book even had an image of the Canadian Prime Minister and his Ministers within the trademark fashion of the American TV sequence ‘Sopranos’.

Lawn signal selling ‘The Libranos’ e-book by Ezra Levant

In order to unfold the phrase about his e-book amid the 2019 federal election in Canada, the Rebel News founder adopted a ‘guerrilla marketing campaign.‘ Ezra Levant distributed lawn signs with the cover of ‘The Libranos.’

After his e-book acquired an amazing response in Canada, the Trudeau authorities used the election equipment of the nation to hound him. The Commissioner of Canada Elections dominated that the usage of garden indicators by Ezra Levant to advertise his political e-book in some way amounted to ‘third-party election advertising.’

The founding father of Rebel News was even quizzed for not registering his media firm with the Canadian authorities as a ‘third party election advertiser.’

BREAKING: Ezra Levant is in Federal Court towards Trudeau in the present day!

Today is the day that political freedom — and the appropriate to criticize the federal government — lives or dies.

In the 2019 Canadian election, there have been 24 books revealed about Justin Trudeau.

23 of these books had been… pic.twitter.com/Jstw01IYzy

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) September 21, 2023

According to the National Post, the Canada Elections Act makes it obligatory for third events to register and declare election promoting on spending a sure minimal quantity.

The Commissioner of Canada Election thus claimed that Rebel News violated election norms and fined them $3000. Ezra Levant rubbished the choice and identified, “It’s not a political campaign plan; it’s a journalistic campaign plan. Our competitors aren’t the Liberals. Our competitors are the Media Party.”

He added, “That enraged Trudeau — particularly when it turned a greatest vendor. So Elections Canada assigned greater than a dozen workers to research me and prosecute me. They’ve been hounding me for 4 years. They have already fined me hundreds of {dollars}. And I’ve needed to spend $100,000 in authorized charges.

BREAKING: I’m in Federal Court towards Trudeau in the present day — he’s attempting to censor my e-book about him.

I’m sending this from the Federal Court of Canada.

For the following eight hours I will likely be on trial for writing a e-book known as The Libranos.

There is a military of attorneys right here from the…

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 21, 2023

The founding father of Rebel News emphasised that though a number of books had been revealed about Justin Trudeau at the moment, it was solely his e-book and promoting technique that confronted the wrath of the Commissioner of Canada Election.

On September 21 this 12 months, Ezra Levant filed an attraction earlier than the federal court docket towards the high-quality levied on him for supposed ‘illegal third party election advertising.’

Counsel for Rebel News, Aaron Rosenberg, argued, “(We are) one of the few media outlets that is meaningfully scrutinizing public figures in Canada, especially the prime minister. We’re talking about a prominent Canadian author (Levant) who has shaped political discourse in this country.”

Trudeau’s lawyer: “a requirement of advance planning… is not obviously impracticable.”

Trudeau’s lawyer is saying that, as an writer, I have to disclose my publishing plans to the federal government prematurely.

And that is what the decide appeared to supporter earlier in the present day.

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 21, 2023

The matter got here up for listening to earlier than Justice Cecily Strickland. She famous, “The publication of the book is not really the issue, it’s the promotion of the book by way of the lawn signs.” After listening to either side on September 21, 2023, the federal court docket decide reserved her resolution within the case.

Justin Trudeau and his disdain for Rebel News

This is nonetheless not the primary time that Justin Trudeau hounded Rebel News via authorities businesses. In April 2022, the Canadian authorities denied ‘journalism licence’ to Rebel News, claiming that only one% of its content material is information.

In September 2021, the impartial information outlet was additionally denied accreditation for masking 2021 federal election debates nevertheless it managed to get a ruling in its favour from a federal court docket.

Justin Trudeau has been upfront about his disdain for Rebel News. On being requested about his makes an attempt to censor the information outfit, he justified, “The reality is, organizations – organizations like yours – that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science around vaccines…”

He blamed Rebel News for fuelling mass protests by truckers towards his authorities. “Frankly your – I won’t call it a media organization – your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we’re seeing in this country,” the Canadian Prime Minister brazened it out.

Canadian Prime Minister and his hypocrisy round ‘free speech’

Justin Trudeau has been the blue-eyed hero of the worldwide left-liberal ecosystem for supposedly championing the reason for ‘free speech’ and ‘press freedom.’

As is commonly the case with such ‘liberal leaders’, the Canadian Prime Minister’s campaign in help of freedom of speech relies on political comfort. In December 2020, Trudeau was lauded after he prolonged his help to the anti-farm regulation protests in India and interfered within the nation’s inner affairs.

“I would be remiss if I didn’t start also by recognizing the news coming out of India about the protests by farmers. The situation is concerning. And we all are very worried about family and friends; I know that’s a reality for many of you,” Trudeau had stated again then.

“Let me remind you, Canada will always be ready to defend the right to peaceful protest. We believe in the importance of dialogue and that’s why we reached out to multiple means directly to Indian authorities to highlight our concerns,” Trudeau had remarked.

With vote financial institution politics in thoughts, Justin Trudeau had additionally been downplaying the rising menace of Khalistani extremism in Canada underneath the pretext of ‘free speech’.

So far, a whole lot of RCMP officers have been mobilized to help the Ottawa Police Services. We’re additionally working with municipal companions to additional strengthen our response, and we’ll proceed to be there with no matter assets are wanted to get the state of affairs underneath management.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 8, 2022

However, he was fast to curb the protest by Canadian truckers towards his ‘undemocratic’ Covid-19 insurance policies. “They don’t have the right to blockade our economy, or our democracy, or our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop,” the Canadian Prime Minister had stated in February 2022.

His nefarious makes an attempt to stifle Rebel News and disrupt democratic protests towards his authorities by Canadian truckers present that his free speech advocacy is moderately selective.