The Libranos

Bad news. The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected our appeal.

In the 2019 Canadian election, there were 24 books published about Justin Trudeau.

23 of those books were pro-Trudeau or neutral. And then there was “The Libranos: What the Media Won’t Tell You About Justin Trudeau’s Corruption”.

That enraged Trudeau — especially when it became a best seller (haha)! So Elections Canada assigned more than a dozen staff to investigate Ezra Levant and prosecute him. They’ve been hounding him for four years. They fined him $3,000 on two separate occasions. A Federal Court has even sided with Justin Trudeau and ruled that The Libranos was illegal and that Ezra has to pay $13,000 to the government in fines and costs. And he's already had to spend $100,000 in legal fees.

Political freedom — and the right to criticize the government — was at stake.

Which is why we appealed this court ruling — so that a terrible precedent would not be set.

But in an 11-page ruling, The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the Federal Court’s judgment that Ezra's book, The Libranos — and more specifically, the picture on the cover of the book, that we used to promote the book — was an illegal election campaign activity.

You can read that court ruling by clicking here.

There is only one higher court left in the land — the Supreme Court of Canada. But it’s not automatic that they take cases like this. And the odds of overturning this latest decision are very low.

We have to pay the original $3,000 Elections Canada fine now. And $5,000 in court costs for the Federal Court, and probably another $5,000 for the Federal Court of Appeal — that’s $13,000. It’s not enough to bankrupt us, but it stings.

If you want to help Rebel News cover the cost of Ezra's lawyers, we'd be grateful for that. We spent more than $150,000 over the course of the four hearings.

Of course it wasn’t about the money. It was about standing up to a government that thinks authors have to “register” their books with the state if it criticizes a politician. That’s the words Election Canada used. But we're not daunted.

As a special thank-you for any donation of $250 or more, we will send you a hand-signed copy of Ezra's latest book: Trudeau's Secret Plan. That book will be a collector’s item — it could literally be banned in Canada! (Thanks.)

ABOUT THE BOOK 

The Libranos is the story of grifters and scammers and secret favours for friends. It’s about sociopaths who don’t hesitate for a second to break the law if it gets them ahead. But mainly it’s about an unaccomplished man who has nothing to offer but a famous last name and nice hair — and how he took power anyway, and might just do it again.

Learn more about the book by clicking here.