Thousands of people rally in support of the Jewish people, but Justin Trudeau refuses to attend. Why is he not here? Is it because he's not pro-Israel enough? Or is he afraid of his own base?
00:01:09.340Behind me is a stage upon which a number of speakers from politics, from religion, from civil society are speaking in a rally in support of the Jewish people.
00:01:21.860It's hard to get a measure of the number of people here when you're in it.
00:01:25.180I heard a citation of 15,000 people, which sounds about right.
00:01:32.080You know, more people would have been here.
00:01:34.240However, in an atrocious and petty and telling anti-Semitic move, one of the bus companies that signed a contract and was paid in advance to bring people here from Toronto on the morning of failed to show up.
00:01:50.480They refused to bring supporters to Ottawa, and they refused to answer phone calls about it.
00:01:57.32017 buses with hundreds of people were stranded.
00:02:01.540That shows you the world we're in these days.
00:02:05.380I came down here today, and I listened to a number of speeches.
00:02:09.460I also went around the protesters, or I guess ralliers, and asked a couple of questions.
00:02:14.680The first one was, why is Justin Trudeau not here?
00:02:19.980Here's how some of those questions were answered.
00:17:27.120No one here needs to be reminded of all the images and all the stories and all the videos that we have seen over the past eight weeks of medieval carnage and brutality for which our vocabulary has no words.
00:17:45.380You know, we have journalists here, and they're all wonderful, but I'll tell you, not all journalists are.
00:17:53.600We see journalists with greater clarity.
00:17:56.340You all remember the story of the hospital, how within moments we're told a building is destroyed.
00:22:07.460We stand before you with broken hearts, heavy with inconsolable grief.
00:22:15.420On the morning of October 7th, we received a call from our beautiful son and heard everything.
00:22:24.900As our heroic, brilliant angel, Alexong, was taken from us, murdered in the senseless and brutal Hamas terrorist massacre at the Nova Music Festival.
00:22:46.340We stand here, not just as grieving parents, but as proud Canadians who have witnessed firsthand the resilience and strength of our Jewish nation.
00:23:02.460Our son's young life was tragically cut short, but his legacy will forever shine as a beacon of love, courage, and sacrifice in the face of danger and pure evil.
00:23:20.940He put himself in front of others to protect them, saving lives on that Black Saturday.
00:23:28.260The Talmud teaches us that he who saves one life is as though he has saved the entire world.
00:23:38.060Alexong's memory will live on in the hearts of all who knew him.
00:23:43.080A beautiful, caring soul who embodied the true spirit of
00:23:48.480All of Israel is responsible for one another.
00:23:56.020Did you know there is still a Canadian citizen being held hostage by Hamas?
00:24:01.200You wouldn't know it, guessing by Justin Trudeau's silence on the matter.
00:24:09.580She was a real, she is, if she's still alive, God willing, she is a real peacenik, someone who tried to make peace with Hamas.
00:24:16.640I think her children were still dazed, not only by her kidnapping, but their whole worldview has taken a battering, realizing that, no, I don't think Hamas is the same as Israel, and no, I don't think they do really want peace.
00:24:32.840Take a look, and I'm very sorry to show their statement.
00:24:44.160We are, I am the brother of the only Canadian hostage, the only missing Canadian right now, Judy Weinstein, Judy Weinstein Hagai.
00:24:55.520She, she was born in New York, but she lived in Toronto from the time she was three until her mid-twenties.
00:25:03.600She then moved to Israel, where she fell in love and created a life with her husband, Gadi Hagai, their four children, and later their seven grandchildren.
00:26:02.380We want to hold her, we want to embrace her, we want to help heal her wounds.
00:26:07.720We're calling on the Canadian government to get to the negotiating table and demand that Judy, the only missing Canadian, the only Canadian hostage in Gaza, be returned home.
00:26:20.520But also, we as the family of Judy, a peace-loving person, we're calling for the end of this horrific cycle of violence that endangers every innocent person in Israel and in Palestine,
00:26:38.800and endangers all of us in the diaspora by fueling this recent overwhelming wave of anti-Semitism around the world.
00:26:54.040You know, I asked a question to a number of the ralliers today that I asked when I was in London, England, 10 days ago at their big rally for Israel,
00:27:04.440and that is, I look at the people who are behind the pro-Hamas hate marches in the street,
00:27:11.080and I can't help but notice that the overwhelming majority of them are new immigrants who have brought with them a hatred for Jews that they were inculcated with back in the home country,
00:27:23.280whether that was Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan or northern Africa.
00:27:28.100They didn't learn that anti-Semitism in Canada.
00:27:31.880They maybe had it fine-tuned in our woke universities, but the people marching in the streets generally are not university grads.
00:27:38.980They're just plain anti-Semites from Muslim countries where Jew hatred is normal.
00:27:44.480So I asked a number of people, should we change our open borders immigration policy?
00:27:49.360And just like in London, England, so many of the Jews here just wouldn't let go of their liberal dream of open borders.
00:28:01.440Canada has an enormous immigration level from countries where anti-Semitism is endemic.
00:28:09.440Do you think we should change that, both the number and the quality of immigrant?
00:28:16.900I'm not going to speak to that because in my mind, what you have to tell immigrants is that if you come with prejudices, leave them behind or don't come.
00:28:52.400You can't celebrate it and not protect it.
00:28:54.260I think when there's half a million or a million immigrants every year, and many of them come from countries where anti-Semitism is endemic, it's only a matter of time before the anti-Semitic vote in this country is actually sizable.
00:29:11.260Do you think that we should reduce the number of immigrants or, at the very least, have a Canadian values test?
00:29:19.800Well, I think that not every immigrant that comes in here is going to be anti-Semitic.
00:29:26.100You know, but what their children do afterwards is another thing.
00:29:31.240There seems to be an indoctrination somehow in the age group of our children today that has turned them in an opposite direction from how their parents were raised.
00:29:41.360I think that's true in many of our institutions.
00:29:44.080But I think people who come here directly from Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan, many of them have a longstanding national hatred towards Jews.
00:30:55.600My parents have said that about my generation, so now I'm saying it about theirs.
00:30:59.760I've observed a lot of these hate marches across the country, and it's my observation that around 80% of them are newcomers, people who have immigrated to this country from places where anti-Semitism is endemic.
00:31:16.240Do you think it's time Canada reassess our open borders immigration policy?
00:31:22.600I can't comment on that, but I do think today's rally will be very peaceful, and I think we should all be proud of that.
00:31:27.820I mean, can I ask why you can't comment on that?
00:33:04.920I've observed a lot of these hate marches, and by my observation, 75%, 80% of them are new Canadians, people we've opened the doors to in the last 20 years.
00:33:19.360Do you think Canada ought to reconsider mass immigration?
00:33:23.580I think that they should take a hard look at it for several reasons, one of which is housing.
00:33:28.880Like, we're basically bringing these people in and saying, go live in homeless shelters because you won't be able to afford a place to live.
00:33:33.680The other one is that a lot of them are not necessarily on board with the Canadian acceptance and tolerance and all of that stuff.
00:34:49.040And, you know, you'll never forget the images, you know, that we've seen of, like, that little two-year-old child washed up on board, you know, in Europe, you know?
00:34:58.540Like, that horrible scene that churned a lot of people in the last or two elections ago to that Koori child that was on the beach that was found dead.
00:35:46.300I'm used to coming to Ottawa in the biting cold.
00:35:49.180It's not as cold as it was a year and a half ago during the trucker convoy.
00:35:53.040One of the first speakers said they have come here to Ottawa because this is the place of democracy, the place of our common values, and they want to be heard.
00:36:07.200There are five times as many Muslim Canadians as Jewish Canadians, and even though I would like to think that most Muslims are not antipathetic towards the Jews,
00:36:15.640enough of them are that there is significant voting bloc, especially in places Justin Trudeau wants to hold on to, like Mississauga, like some of the suburbs and other parts of the country.
00:36:25.940And it's so clear to me now that every day the problem gets worse.
00:36:31.300Justin Trudeau has doubled immigration numbers to a million a year, and many of the people who are fomenting hatred, I mean, of course there are some indigenous Canadians, and by that I mean Canadian-born,
00:36:42.560but most of them are brought here anti-Semitic, and that has not stopped.
00:36:47.460And I have to say, Pierre Polyev hasn't talked about reducing immigration numbers either, has he?