Not necessarily "pre-prepared", but yeah there's something.
It's true, he's not saying anything I haven't heard before from Ezra.
At the end of the interview after being thanked he says "It's a pleasure...always a pleasure."
So best guess would be there is some connection.
But how dirty is this deed, really?
Rebel appears to use local students for reports in cities like Vancouver. So suppose a couple fans of Rebel hang out together at school. One gets the odd interviewing job with Rebel. I doubt they pay much, but suppose that one says to his fellow sympathizer one day, "Hey, I got this gig at Rebel to cover the Kinder Morgan protests. Why don't you come down and I'll interview you?"
How dirty is that really? The guy being interviewed wouldn't be saying anything untrue, or at least not anything he doesn't whole heartedly believe.
Compare that to say the slippery activists hired by the left to pretend they're journalists, offering up details they have to know are untrue. Like say what is reported on here about what goes on in the UK at papers like the Guardian and the Independent:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02 ... da-fodder/Or who's that activist who does the op eds at the Toronto Star? I forget his name. He's damn near a Jihadi, that's all I remember. Or if you want somebody to act like an expert and say something nasty about Israel at the CBC just go look up Neil MacDonald. And they do, do that.
How would this kid interviewing his schoolmate be different than say Global getting on their red phone to Victoria warmist,Professor Andrew Weaver, because they know he'll support anything like 'the ice caps are melting and we're all gonna die?'