Pro-Hamas protesters swarm Jewish synagogues and schools in Canada and the cowardice of the cops who just let them go. It's a picket line, not a line. It s a genocide line.
00:09:25.160You have a two-tiered justice system more and more evident.
00:09:28.260And the same laws, the same criminal code is in effect for the truckers and for anti-vaccine mandate protesters as for these pro-Hamas protesters.
00:09:39.140And yet the law, which is on paper, is applied how the politicians want it applied.
00:09:45.760I don't know if you remember, but a few years ago, by chance, I was on a plane that Omar Khadr, the convicted al-Qaeda terrorist, was on too.
00:09:55.360And I don't know if you remember, I wrote a book about Omar Khadr.
00:10:01.880Now, as part of his release conditions from Guantanamo Bay, he agreed to be on a no-fly list and never going to America and now doing this and that.
00:10:09.720Now, Trudeau, in addition to giving him $10.5 million, obviously took him off the no-fly list because there he was.
00:10:16.660He was actually flying first class on the airplane.
00:19:21.420They go out in the Jewish community because there are pockets of Montreal and Toronto where there's a lot of Jews.
00:19:26.640In Toronto, there's a cabinet minister named Ya'ara Sachs.
00:19:30.040They really play up their Jewishness when they're running for office.
00:19:34.160But they're completely fine with Trudeau and his pro-Hamas point of view.
00:19:40.120They squawk a little bit on Twitter about anti-Semitism, but they don't say a word about Justin Trudeau or Ahmed Hassan or what I call the liberal Hamas caucus.
00:19:50.580Incredibly, the chief fundraiser for Justin Trudeau is Jewish himself.
00:19:55.440You know, I was thinking a little bit more about Hamas protesting at that fundraiser last night for Chrystia Freeland and Ya'ara Sachs.
00:20:05.900How gross is that, that they're having a fundraiser, that they're asking for money from the Jewish community on the eve of giving more money to Hamas?
00:20:14.460Now, I want to tell you, I don't support violence.
00:20:30.340If violence has to happen somewhere, if these thugs have to be active somewhere, well, I'd prefer it to be at a Chrystia Freeland Ya'ara Sachs fundraiser than in the Jewish community, at a school or at a synagogue.
00:20:45.940I mean, they're the ones who abide it.
00:20:53.340Let me end with a little flicker of good news.
00:20:55.560There was a by-election in the Ontario riding of Durham the other day, and Jamil Giovanni ran as the conservative candidate, and the liberals pulled out all the stops.
00:21:08.280Justin Trudeau himself went there to campaign.
00:21:11.300So did half a dozen other cabinet ministers.
00:21:16.080Jamil Giovanni, the conservative candidate who was personally insulted by Justin Trudeau, who called him a twofer, referring to he's black.
00:26:44.400It seems like a fake that he's shocked by this.
00:26:47.720I think it is a little bit strange that he is, you know, coming out now and saying that he said that 38 to 40 percent of the asylum claimants have genuine claims,
00:27:00.960which means that the majority are not genuine.
00:27:03.920He said now that those people need to be kind of processed quickly and removed from the state, which by, I think, his own government's definition would have been a far-right statement only several weeks ago.
00:27:16.500So I'm not too sure what exactly has changed to change Leo Varadkar's feelings about what and what is not far-right, in some cases misinformation of what he would have said himself.
00:27:29.180So I do think that there has been, just to give a little bit of background for some of your viewers that may not be too familiar with what's been happening in Ireland over the past two years,
00:27:39.980but since the start of the war in Ukraine, we have taken in over 100,000 people, 100,000 Ukrainians,
00:27:48.660and then there's another 20-something thousand international protection applicants, asylum seekers, like would-be refugees.
00:27:55.960So our small country of 5 million, we have 5 million in the Republic of Ireland, has absorbed over 100,000 migrants in the past two years alone.
00:28:08.380And as I'm sure your viewers might be able to imagine, that has created somewhat of an accommodation crisis because, like, you know,
00:28:15.000how do you accommodate over 100,000 people, you know, practically speaking, overnight?
00:28:21.000Yeah. I mean, a few months ago, there were massive riots in Ireland, and I know that sometimes when a town is targeted to receive hundreds of migrants,
00:28:32.380and let's say a building or a hotel is basically seconded by the government for that purpose,
00:28:37.980I know that in some cases they've been torched, which shows the depth of dissatisfaction that people are driven to violence.
00:28:45.920I think it goes back to what you said earlier about, in the past, how this Prime Minister Varadkar would denounce anyone who's critical of mass migration as far-right or misinformation.
00:28:57.720I think it's terrified people, and so if they're afraid to speak out, well, then they go to other, less peaceful means.
00:29:05.500I don't in any way condone violence, either riots or arson, but I think, obviously, ordinary Irish people are being driven to the edge by this plan that no one voted for, no one asked for.
00:29:18.220I know Leo Varadkar, the Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, as it is in Irish, is one of those World Economic Forum young leaders.
00:29:24.940He's very globalist. He's very hip and fashionable.
00:29:28.300It feels like he's trying to punish Ireland for being Irish.
00:29:32.220That's a feeling I get. He reminds me a little bit of, I think his name is Joseph Hamza, the head of the Scottish Parliament,
00:29:44.240who has given a speech showing his contempt for the Scottishness of Scots.
00:29:48.560I feel sometimes like Leo Varadkar hates the fact that Ireland is so Irish.
00:29:52.900Is that an unfair thing to say, Fatima?
00:30:05.020But I think perhaps, I don't know if the similarities end there.
00:30:10.860Look, yeah, there have been a spate of fires at buildings that have been earmarked or even rumoured to be earmarked as accommodation centres for asylum seekers.
00:30:20.640Obviously, as you said yourself, that's like it's a horrible criminal act, like in no way condone people setting fire to buildings.
00:30:30.720And I don't think this situation is worth lives being lost.
00:30:33.840But he said that, you know, maybe some of the Irish people were doing that out of like a fear of speaking out.
00:30:40.940When the Irish people have spoken out and have taken to the streets over the past two years to speak out about their displeasure, about what the government is doing in terms of asylum seekers and refugees, they were flatly ignored.
00:30:53.480And worse than being ignored, they were labelled far-right, racist, bigot, everything, every single name in the book.
00:31:01.840And I'm talking about by the Garda commissioner, or the Garda commissioner would be either the head of our police force, by almost everybody in government who are calling the Irish people names.
00:31:12.880A recent poll carried in a paper called the Sunday Business Post.
00:31:18.120It's quite, you know, kind of the official polling that will be used to gauge political moods in the country, show that 75% of the Irish people feel that the government has taken in too many refugees and asylum seekers.
00:31:31.960So are you really reasonably calling 75% of the Irish population far-right?
00:31:38.740I mean, that sounds a bit ridiculous to me.
00:31:40.520Well, one of the things that we've followed through your website, Gripped, and we've interviewed some of your colleagues, is the hate speech law that's being proposed by the Irish government.
00:31:51.600And it was, frankly, one of the most terrifying laws I've seen until Justin Trudeau in Canada introduced his a week ago.
00:31:59.900One of the things in the Irish law, which I did a program on, we went through it line by line, is that if you are in possession of an email or a meme on your phone, just merely possessing something that could be offensive, could theoretically be an offense, as if it was child pornography or something, something that's politically offensive would be treated that spectacularly, as if it was that toxic.
00:32:26.400I thought the Irish censorship law was the worst I'd ever seen until I saw Canada's.
00:32:37.920I know a lot of Irish people were against it.
00:32:40.180One of your colleagues counted the public response and it was against.
00:32:44.320Is that censorship law, is that hate speech law moving forward?
00:32:48.300Because the fact that Leo Varadkar, the prime minister, would denounce people as hateful or far right, I could imagine him using a hate speech law to silence critics with the law, in addition to just shaming them.
00:33:05.500Well, for the moment, it seems to have been put somewhat on the back burner.
00:33:09.660I know that they were essentially trying to ram it through last year and that didn't happen.
00:33:14.880There was quite some significant opposition to it from senators, especially Senator Sharon Keoghan and Senator Michael McDougall, who was our former minister for justice.
00:33:25.400They had some very robust objections to it.
00:33:30.800And I think that perhaps the kind of the government that we're pushing it through, the government members that we're pushing it through were perhaps taken aback by the level of public opposition to it.
00:35:10.920Was that just a passing flight of fancy by Conor McGregor or does it look like he might actually one day enter politics?
00:35:18.780Because I think just as a complete outsider, based on his raw personality and following and the fact that he's on the other side of the migration issue, I think he might actually have a chance like Trump did.
00:35:31.020I mean, I think that, you know, if it's not Conor himself, like I have seen some of his more recent tweets and they do seem to be kind of giving out a more political message than they may have hitherto.
00:35:42.800But I think even if it's not himself, like there is a huge, huge appetite for change in this country, because I think the Irish people are just sick of the same old BS being kind of rearranged on the chessboard over and over again, because that's essentially what Irish politics is.
00:35:58.520It's kind of like we just were playing musical chairs and every four years the same members kind of get up and get a different chair and we start back up again.
00:36:06.120I think there is huge, huge appetite for change.
00:36:09.600I will say, though, that after the Dublin riots, Conor McGregor was reported to be the subject of a Garda investigation for allegedly inciting hatred, I believe, inciting violence.
00:36:22.280He was reported to be part of a Garda investigation.
00:36:43.380And while he was reacting to it and he was showing his emotions, by no means did I see him actually inciting violence.
00:36:51.440And with my earlier analogy that he's sort of Trump-like and that he's this larger-than-life character, huge name recognition, bit of a media star.
00:37:01.040How are they going after Trump with endless, specious investigations and prosecutions?
00:37:06.340Sounds like they might be taking a page from the anti-Trump folks, too.
00:37:09.860Well, listen, Fatima, it's great to catch up with you.
00:37:11.680I really appreciate you taking the time.
00:37:16.640And, you know, Ireland's a small country.
00:37:19.180I think there's more Irish people living outside of Ireland than in Ireland itself.
00:37:23.660But many of the issues that you're dealing with, whether it's mass migration, globalism, problems with your democracy, hate speech laws, those are things that we're going through in Canada, too.
00:37:35.140So, of course, there are Canadians of Irish descent and Canadians who admire Ireland.
00:37:39.200But it's also the same reason we find Australia interesting or other countries like that.
00:37:43.760What happens in Ireland today might be a template for what happens in Canada tomorrow, especially since our leaders seem to be sort of identical twins on that stuff.
00:38:20.320You know, it's really demoralizing seeing police say, oh, I don't know, when Hamas supporters clearly break the law, when they physically attack people, when they even attack police, when they say, oh, we can't do anything.
00:38:34.040And, of course, the police could do something.
00:38:36.140Remember Adam Skelly and his barbecue when it wouldn't close in Toronto and they said 100 cops and ride horses?
00:39:29.720If Justin Trudeau had his way, he would airlift two million Gazans to Canada and give them new citizenship and just sort of win the next election on that alone.
00:39:38.460That's the burn it all down mode they're in.
00:39:41.200They'll do literally anything, violate any law, steal any money.
00:39:44.900And the NDP seems to be going along with it.
00:39:47.060It's just incredible that the NDP is blocking parliamentary inquiries into the Chinese stealing of the Ebola virus or whatever they did there.