Trudeau’s hand-picked censors declare that only 1% of what Rebel News publishes is news — so they won’t give us a government news licence

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Justin Trudeau’s hand-picked government censorship panel has just declared that Rebel News journalists are not “qualified” to be news media. We just learned, that over the past year, Trudeau has spent countless tax dollars on a hand-picked team of government censors who were “studying” Rebel News in secret — they never reached out to us or spoke with us or interviewed us.

And that secretive government censorship panel went through 276 of our news stories. They took nearly a year to do it. Imagine government censors looking through 276 Rebel News stories — many of which criticized those same government censors.

Now, you can like Rebel News or not; that’s your choice. If you don’t like us, unlike the CBC, you don’t still have to pay for us. But Trudeau’s government censorship panel made a ruling about us.

They declared — get this — that, quote “less than 1 per cent 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.

So Trudeau's government censorship panel says, because of that, we are not legally a, quote, “qualified Canadian journalism organization” — or QCJO as they call it. That’s a special legal term they’ve come up with. As the words plainly mean, it’s government journalism accreditation. It’s a government journalism licence.

So, not only does that mean we’re not allowed to attend government press conferences, it also punishes us under Income Tax Act.

I’ll tell you more about that on tonight's show. But first I want to tell you that we’re 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.

Because if they can do this to us, their largest independent critic left, 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.

So we’re suing Trudeau. We filed the lawsuit today in the Federal Court of Canada. I want you to see the letter sent to us by Trudeau's government censorship panel, and I want you to see our lawsuit in reply.

We’ve put both of them on a website, called www.WeAreSuingTrudeau.com. Please read our lawsuit to learn just what they’ve done to us — and why we have to fight back.

Our lawsuit is just 16 pages long, and I think it’s in pretty plain language. It’s an anti-censorship lawsuit. The outcome of that lawsuit will affect us, obviously. But it will affect everyone. Anyone in Canada who wants to do journalism without government censorship. And every citizen in Canada who wants the freedom to choose their own choice of news, without some secret government panel deciding what is or isn’t real news.

I don’t know if there are other journalists who are being censored; I know if they succeed, we won’t be the last. I think we’re likely the only ones who can and will fight back. Good news is, we’ve got an absolute top-notch legal team.

Because we can’t take any chances — so please go to WeAreSuingTrudeau.com, read the punishment letter to us, and our lawsuit in reply, and please help us crowdfund our lawyers, if you can.

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