Rebel News CEO Ezra Levant is in Federal Court in downtown Toronto challenging Justin Trudeau's unconstitutional "journalism licence", the “qualified Canadian journalism organization” — or QCJO as they call it.
Trudeau's hand-picked censorship panel previously declared that Rebel News journalists aren't 'real' journalists based off a secretive government censorship panel's 'research' on 276 stories from Rebel News.
The panel declared that “less than 1% of the content meets the criteria for original news content.” Huh? That’s almost all we do. We’re Rebel News, not Rebel Sports or Rebel Weather.
Click here to read the letter sent to us by Trudeau's government censorship panel:
So Rebel News is fighting back. Because if we don’t fight back now they’re going to destroy us — like Trudeau is doing more and more to his peaceful political opponents. He wants to try to do to us what he did to the truckers — if he had his way he’d put us in jail and seize our bank accounts. This is a step in that direction — having a government panel declare, legally, that our journalists are not actually journalists.
So we’re suing Trudeau. We filed the lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada.
Please read our lawsuit and see our legal submissions to learn just what they’ve done to us — and why we have to fight back by clicking here:
Click here to see all of Ezra's latest posts, live from the courtroom or check out the stories below for our entire coverage of this story.
If we don’t fight back now, they’re going to destroy us — like Trudeau is doing more and more to his peaceful political opponents. He wants to try to do to us what he did to the truckers — if he had his way, he’d put us in jail and seize our bank accounts. This is a step in that direction — having a government panel declare, legally, that our journalists are not actually journalists.
If they can do this to us, their largest independent critic left, and they’ll do this to anyone. They’ll censor you. Which is why we have to fight back now — not later, right now. There might not even be a later.
There may not be any other journalists being censored, but if they succeed, Rebel News won’t be the last. We’re likely the only ones who can and will fight back. The good news is that we’ve got an absolutely top-notch legal team.
We can’t take any chances, so please help us crowdfund our lawyers by donating on this page.