iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 15, 2021 12:30am
It started with
Rebel News commander Ezra Levant touting an “exclusive interview” with Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, in which he “vowed to cancel all remaining joint exercises with China’s People’s Liberation Army,” and“expressed his disappointment” that “China propaganda outlets like Xinhua and the People’s Daily” have reportedly been accredited by the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
Within minutes, O’Toole’s lead spokesperson, Mélanie Paradis, took to Twitter to publicly challenge the avowedly right-wing outlet’s characterization of the story: It wasn’t an interview at all, but an email exchange between Levant and O’Toole’s press secretary one that had happened in December following the initial flurry of reports on the now-nixed Canada-China joint military training exercises.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Dec 18, 2020 12:02am (YouTube screen shot)
A little over a week after going public with what
Rebel News commander Ezra Levant called “the biggest scoop I’ve ever had in my life” namely, 34 pages of internal government documents on Canada-China relations released under federal access-to-information laws in fully readable form, due to errors in performing the desired redactions the avowedly right-leaning outlet is still going through the “bombshell revelations” contained therein.
The day after the “China Files” story went live, Levant offered an approving link to a Toronto Sun column in which a spokesperson for the prime minister “admitted … that, in fact, a PLA (People’s Liberation Army) delegation visited Canada in February 2018 for winter training.”