Canada's greatest strengths are under attack by Justin Trudeau
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Rebel Media is a media company that criticizes Canada and its Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Today, Ezra takes a moment to praise the Prime Minister of Canada, and the country he loves to call home. He talks about the Canadian Prime Minister s relationship with Donald Trump, and why he should be commended.
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Hello, Rebels. Today is my Canada Day show, and welcome to the podcast.
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Happy Canada Day. It's July 1st, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Look, we like to complain that's part of politics, but this really is the best country in the world.
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Friendly, peaceful, safe, beautiful, large, and it's our home.
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Today is Canada Day, Dominion Day, as it's properly called, and for a media company that criticizes, it's worth taking a moment to praise.
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But, and maybe this is obvious, the reason we criticize is because we think that many of the things we love about Canada are in jeopardy.
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Donald Trump's motto in the States was, make America great again, and in a lot of important ways, America had fallen back from greatness.
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There were great swaths of the United States that the coastal elites were content to write off as a rust belt and tell factory workers just to learn how to code.
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The idea that America could be great again, say, as an industrial power was a laugh to all the experts.
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He just says, well, I'm going to negotiate a better deal.
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Well, how exactly are you going to negotiate that?
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It took a government to get its foot off the neck of the country's entrepreneurs.
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Funny enough, we own the rights to the slogan, make Canada great again.
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It was a bit of a lark, a riff, an homage to Trump's slogan.
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More with having passing day of Trudeau's leadership.
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Trump commands the respect and the friendship of many world leaders, especially in the global wave of populist nationalists.
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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro has turned that country from an anti-America, a hateful socialist den into, I think, the most pro-U.S. boosters in the world, with the possible exception of Israel.
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Trump has a raft of Eastern European leaders strongly by him, especially in patriotic countries like Poland.
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The globalist leaders like France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel, well, not so much, but so what?
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So it's no losses, riots literally every week for more than half a year now in France.
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Trump is taking on China in a way that no one thought was possible, cutting up their economy from access to the crucial U.S. market.
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Trump has boosted oil and gas production so much that America is now a net exporter.
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And that's putting real pressure on a lot of bad guys from Russia's Vladimir Putin to the OPEC dictatorships.
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But Trump isn't jingoistically against those countries either.
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I think he genuinely wants to have a working relationship with most countries, including Putin.
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It's just hard to look at anything in a relationship with Russia without thinking of the massive conspiracy theory, the fake news in the past two years,
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namely the allegation that Trump worked with the Russians in the 2016 election.
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And Trump is trying to put together a coalition of more moderate Muslim countries against terrorism
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and to contain Iran the same way he's trying to contain and disarm North Korea.
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So I think Make America Great Again really is a meaningful slogan in terms of trade and energy and factories and foreign affairs.
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I mean, did you see this craziness just the other day?
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A politically powerful governor in India who happens, obviously, to be a proud Sikh himself.
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He's literally calling for sanctions against Canada.
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Because he says Canada, under Trudeau, has become too chummy with Sikh separatists, he says.
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And it's tough to disagree with that diagnosis.
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I mean, Trudeau really did bring that convicted terrorist on the right there.
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His name is Jaspal Atwal, along with him to India last time.
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India, the second biggest country in the world by population.
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We know they have had our hostages for more than a year.
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Chinese military jets buzzed a Canadian warship coming within a few hundred meters of the ship in a massive show of force.
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But no more nuts than China banning all Canadian agriculture, really.
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And Trudeau really not doing anything about it.
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And from all indications, when Chrystia Freeland went on the radio to beg diplomats to return her calls,
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I have sought repeatedly a meeting with Wang Yi, the foreign minister, my counterpart.
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But if Chinese officials are listening to us today,
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let me repeat that I would be very keen to meet with Minister Wang Yi or to speak with him over the phone at the earliest opportunity.
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But of course, most of our lives as Canadians is our lives in Canada, not really caring about foreign countries.
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And in Canada, entire industries, entire regions have been written off by Trudeau, namely oil and gas and pipelines and mining.
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And Trudeau ran through anti-industry bills over the objection of a majority of provinces with a majority of the population and the economy of the country to indulge this kook.
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Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could affect our communities and health, jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do a gender-based analysis.
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Gender-based analysis on new mining projects in Canada.
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I'm sure there'd be lining up at the New York Stock Exchange to invest in mining projects in Canada.
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So you've got the gutting of the most important resource industries in Canada.
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And you're replacing those real jobs with crony capitalism.
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Basically handouts to friends of Trudeau, like the $12 million in free fridges given to Loblaws, one of the richest companies, the Westins, one of the richest families.
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You know, we can see you're paying that bribe, right?
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A dozen years ago, we called Jean Chrétien and his team the Libranos after Tony Soprano's mafia family.
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Well, I think that fits again, the corruption, the bribes, especially the whole SNC-Lavalin scandal
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and Trudeau's attempt to get the Attorney General to drop the case against his friends is crazy.
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So that's why we fight, because we love Canada and we hate what is being done to it.
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And because part of Canada is free speech and part of our duty is to criticize and oppose the worst of a government's instincts.
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We just disagree with a particular set of politicians.
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That's a democratic duty, I think, regrettably.
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There are fewer and fewer of us doing it, in the media at least, as so many media companies have agreed to be rented out by Trudeau
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as part of his $600 million media bailout, which is on top of his $1.5 million bailout each year to the CBC.
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It's just us at The Rebel and a handful of other independent media.
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Today's Canada Day, a day to remember what we love about Canada and why, and to rededicate ourselves to fighting for it.
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In the weeks ahead, we'll show you some exciting new changes we're bringing to The Rebels,
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including, believe it or not, a new name, a new logo, and a brand new website.
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And in this important election year, watch for some very special projects
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that only we in this whole country, I believe, are equipped to do.
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Things that I hope will make our country stronger.
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Well, in the last five years, the issue of transgenderism has gone from an obscure fringe to the center of the culture.
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I kid you not, it was only after a vote by a small committee of the highly political American Psychiatric Association
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delisted transgenderism as a mental disease that it became a political fashion and then a political requirement.
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And not just for avant-garde Hollywood shows like Transparent, not just for Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner,
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but in our schools, teaching children of tender years, kids as young as six.
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And the most troubling story I've heard yet on this file comes from our friend Barbara Kay,
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columnist at the National Post and the Post-Millennium.
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She has an article a few days ago in the National Post.
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It's called, When Gender Identity, Education, and Theory Goes Wrong.
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Well, it's our duty to have you on to talk about this.
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Can you tell me about the family, a mom and dad named Pamela and Jason Bafoni, if I'm pronouncing
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And they have a six-year-old daughter who we know only as N.
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Tell us what happened to the six-year-old girl.
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According to the mother and their statement of claim to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario,
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this is a child that was happy in school, also very comfortable in her biological skin,
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had never for one second shown the slightest interest in or confusion over discussion about
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So one day comes home from school last January, in fact, and starts and was in a state of some
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Her teacher had told the class, they had started a program in gender studies or whatever, and
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the teacher had told the class that there's no such thing as boys and girls.
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She said to the class, girls aren't real and boys aren't real, according to this child,
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who was extremely distressed over it and continued to be distressed over a period of weeks as these
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lessons went on and, in fact, asked her parents if she could go to a doctor because she was concerned
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So these parents, of course, very concerned themselves, went to see the teacher.
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And she said, this is the way the world is now, and we have to teach about these things.
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This is, you know, in fact, an educational program I'm doing.
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The parents had said, look, if you're affirming the gender identity of those with gender dysphoria,
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can you not affirm those who do not have gender dysphoria, who feel content to be who they are
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So eventually the parents went up the ladder, up the hierarchy, and ended up with the superintendent
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They took their daughter out of the school, put her in a parochial school where she is content
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these lessons, their gender fluidity is not being taught in this school, and she is happy
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You know, it's just to tell a six-year-old that.
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I mean, children are not ready to handle these heaviest of matters.
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To force such bizarre sexual thoughts on a child is, I would say, tantamount to child abuse.
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There's so many things we protect children from.
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We don't even, we, in fact, try and extend the amount of time that kids believe in Santa
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Claus or the Tooth Fairy because that's part of being a child.
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And not that those are important things, but we try and have this age of innocence.
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And it's not just that we're sexualizing these kids.
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Ninety-nine point something percent of people are fine being boys or girls.
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And so it's not even that this is grossly inappropriate.
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But what is even more disturbing to me is the impulse behind these programs.
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She's just drunk the Kool-Aid because she went through teacher's college, and they're
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now escalating the intensity of these ideological fantasies and encouraging teachers to make
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them front and center as part of their educational material.
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What bothers me is the people that made up these lessons.
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They are driven, in my opinion, by an impulse of voyeurism.
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Voyeurism is a wish to see sexual fantasies played out in other people.
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And people that have this sort of sense of voyeurism with regard to children are very eager to see
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young children who have never considered anything like sexual desire, because as you say there
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in the latency period, wish to see these children exposed to ideas that where they can see this
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dawning recognition of something that they didn't ask for, that they had no wish for, and yet is now
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But the people that devise this, they themselves, there's something very unhealthy going on in their
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Well, I mean, let's go to the next step and remind our viewers that Ben Levin, who was the
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deputy minister of education under the previous liberal government, whose department revised
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the sex ed curriculum, he was convicted of child pornography.
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He was convicted of, and it's so horrific, I'm sorry to say it, but I have to say it because
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it actually happened, he was trying to recruit other families' children, and he even said
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he had sexual designs on his own grandchildren.
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This is Ben Levin, who was convicted and sentenced to prison.
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He was in charge of the curriculum for Ontario.
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Yeah, everybody said that was, oh, no, no, no, that's irrelevant.
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There is something unhealthy, very unwholesome at work in a program that targets children
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for revelations about sexual desire at an age when they should not be thinking.
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And they do have to talk about sexual desire, because you can't talk about certain things
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like homosexuality without a child understanding what sexual desire is.
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Yeah, it's so, I mean, my first objection is how young it is, but my second is that what
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they're telling them is weaponized sexual politics.
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There's something else in your essay I want to read.
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You mention, I'm just going to read a passage, you say, one respondent who wishes anonymity told
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me her son's story of a boy who came home one day and announced he was, quote, pansexual
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When she was told the name of the school and teacher, the therapist exclaimed,
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you are the seventh set of parents from that class who have come to me with this problem.
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This is what the most caricatured, prudish accusation, oh, they're recruiting young people.
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The caricature of the sex ed prude was someone who said, oh, they're trying to gay our youth
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or they're trying to sexualize our youth, they're trying to come for our youth.
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And people would laugh and say, oh, stop being such a prude.
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I'm sorry, when you have one teacher flip on a bizarre sexual light switch of seven kids
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And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's turning young minds into, it's recruiting.
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And it's also to get them thinking all the time, all the time about gender, sex, gender, sex.
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That's, that's what they're, I call it grooming because, as you say, it's, it's, it's sexualizing
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And yeah, I find it very abusive and, and I find it also to be a kind of mass delusion
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because you have people right up to the superintendent of schools who thinks this is okay.
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In years to come, we'll look back on this as, as a very serious, a very serious widespread
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You know, I have a friend in Ottawa who resigned from the board of their major children's hospital
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there when he saw how they had a proactive program to pump these kids, like they, so these
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kids come in and instead of talking them down, they pump them full of meds to transition children
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of tender years into boys or girls that they're not.
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He quit the board, he was, of the hospital, he was so disgusted with.
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So it's not just mind games, they're, they're pumping these children full of meds.
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And if you dare speak against this, I guess they don't call you an Islamophobe, they call
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I think a lot of new Canadians, new immigrants from more socially conservative countries,
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I think that instead of fighting in a noisy way, they're just withdrawing.
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I know that there were some schools, heavily Muslim schools in the Toronto area, where literally
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hundreds of Muslim kids were removed from the public school over the Kathleen Wynne sex ed.
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I see in the United Kingdom, in Birmingham, schools that are 90 plus percent Muslim, they're
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We have, we're not at that stage yet here in Canada.
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I think old stock Canadians, to use a phrase, I think that they are too politically correct
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Maybe it's newcomers, maybe it's Chinese or Muslim or South Asian newcomers who are going
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Yeah, they, they would have no compunction about, about saying it out loud.
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One of the reasons that I think that parents here are to tip, first of all, I would say
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90% of parents have no idea this is going on, because even though a lot of kids are having
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confusing thoughts, they don't, they don't tell their parents about it.
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And by the way, the parents are not informed prior to these lessons about the materials,
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in fact, that these lessons are going on, or nor are they informed about the materials
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But even when the parents do know, and even when they are upset about it, they have fears
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and, and they're not unreasonable fears that if they complain, uh, that the schools will,
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uh, they get very hostile schools and they tell the kids, by the way, they say, your,
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your parents, uh, uh, are not in charge of this.
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And if you want to, if you want to, uh, be a boy at school or a girl at school, you don't
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And, and, and more, moreover, uh, if some parent does complain too much, uh, they, uh,
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they will threaten to call social services and they might even do so.
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And in fact, I know one, one person, one mother, uh, they, they did call social services.
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She won her case in the end, but she had to actually go to court over it, uh, because
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There was a controversy because they have these gay straight alliances and those are
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typically in high school, but, and, and they're run by sexual activists, grownups talking about
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sexuality with, with kids who are, uh, not of age.
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And these clubs have a secrecy clause, basically a non-disclosure clause.
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And in Alberta, under Rachel Notley, it was illegal to, illegal for a teacher to even
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contact a parent, even if the teacher was worried.
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And so the secrecy is a key element here because what they're doing to the children would,
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they know it would never be countenance by the parents.
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I don't want to go off on a tangent, but, but you've made me think of Pavlik Morozov.
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Informant number one in the Soviet Union, uh, when Stalin was forcibly collectivizing the
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farms in Ukraine, uh, I don't know if the story is a legend, if it's apocryphal or if
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it really happened by, but a young boy named Pavlik Morozov, who wasn't even 10, if I recall,
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overheard his parents criticizing Stalin's plans.
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And he reported his own parents to the state and they were sent to the gulag and he was
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And from that moment on, Boy Scouts in the Soviet Union, the young pioneers would wear a
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little lapel pin with the face of Pavlik Morozov.
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And he was held up as the role model for all Soviet boys, that it is a higher noble patriotism
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to turn your parents into the government for what they say in your own house.
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And this maintained until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 for, for almost, what's that?
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For almost 60 years, the Soviets taught their children to betray their own parents.
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You gave me a flicker of that when you said they go after the parents and threaten to take
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That's, that's informant number one in the Soviet Union.
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I mean, you know, people say, look, you can't use this kind of language when you speak about
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totalitarianism and, uh, and you're, you're inflating, uh, you're inflating the issue far more.
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I think that the intrusion of the state into a child's mind, it's an invasion of a child's
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mental security, uh, that, that to frighten them, to frighten them by suggesting that their,
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their own body is, is surreal or that there's something not real about their biology, uh, is,
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And they say that it's in the name of inclusion, uh, but it's in the name of something far more
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Well, Barbara, you have upset me and now I'm going to do some more due diligence into my
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own children's school, uh, because who knows what has been, and that's the thing is that
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these things start with the premise of don't tell the parents.
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Barbara, thank you for this and congratulations on your essay.
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In closing, I note that, uh, over, uh, that yesterday the CBC, uh, put, was it two or three
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reporters on an attack on you and one of your, uh, publications called the post-millennial.
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We enjoy reading the post-millennial, very interesting stuff.
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I think it took two or three CBC reporters to come and attack you.
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The CBC, they always come for us here at The Rebel.
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Now they're coming for this website called the post-millennial, which I admire.
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Can you give me 30 seconds of thoughts on the CBC attack on you?
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I, I can only imagine that they, the attack, when do you attack people?
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Uh, and so I, I take it as a great compliment that they tried to attack the post-millennial,
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but, uh, in their attack, it was really quite, I thought, quite amateur because there was
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And they did admit that there was robustness of opinion.
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Uh, so, you know, and they, they, they talked a lot about transparency, but they didn't, they
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weren't very transparent themselves because, uh, they were quoting a professor of journalism,
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And, and, and it turns out that that professor of journalism was himself at one time, a political
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operative, uh, cause they had accused our writers of being, you know, uh, too political,
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too politically engaged, too partisan, all that.
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Uh, so as if, as if the CBC is not partisan or it's not, you know, itself tilted, uh, quite
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So in the end, the post-millennial ended up with a huge number of new followers and a lot
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of people were, uh, making mockery, uh, of the CBC.
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So I don't think, I think it was, uh, they, it was an own goal for the, uh, for the CBC.
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Well, I think you, you've got the right, right attitude.
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If they're attacking you, it's because they see your, your following, they see that your
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And, um, and I, I would congratulate you and I would say, I know how it feels to be attacked
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by the CBC and you should take it as a badge of achievement.
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And I know you do great to see you, my friend, happy Canada day, happy dominion day.
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Our friend Barbara Kay, very, very thoughtful piece in the national post.
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And of course you can follow her also on that independent website I just mentioned called
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Maybe some fireworks, which is a little un-Canadian, isn't it?
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good