Fri Apr 8, 2022 – 8:22 pm EDT
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Popular Canadian conservative media outlet Rebel News announced it is suing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government over denying them an official journalism license.
In a video posted Thursday night, Rebel News front man Ezra Levant announced his organization is suing the Trudeau government after receiving correspondence from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) telling it that “less than 1 percent” of its content “meets the criteria for original news content” and therefore Rebel News is ineligible for designation as a Qualified Canadian journalism organization (QCJO).
According to Levant, the state-run CRA never “reached out” or corresponded with Rebel News in any way, but instead revealed through a letter that they had studied “276 items [Rebel News article]” and made the determination that its work does not meet the so-called QCJO standard.
“I want to tell you that we are fighting back,” Levant stated. “Because if we don’t fight back now against this journalism license, they are going to destroy us, like Trudeau is doing more and more to his peaceful political opponents like the truckers.”
“If they can do this to us, their largest independent
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