Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada is now world famous for suiciding the young, the old, the weak and the poor

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, I want to show you a terrifying ad. It's an ad promoting suicide,

00:00:05.440 promoting it. And it's sponsored by a fashion company. What? Yes, I'll tell you. I'll show you.

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00:00:31.120 today's show. Tonight, Canada is now world famous for suiciding the young, the old, the sick, and the

00:00:52.760 poor. It's November 30th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show. We have different beats here at Rebel News.

00:01:13.720 I like to talk about the trucker convoy, the lockdowns, federal politics, freedom of speech,

00:01:19.020 foreign affairs in the U.S. and China and elsewhere. Other reporters here cover other beats.

00:01:24.460 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, covers Western issues, firearms, and she also covers

00:01:29.600 life issues, as in governments snuffing out life. And unfortunately, in Canada, that is happening a

00:01:35.840 lot. Crazy stuff, like government doctors deciding they won't give a woman an organ transplant because

00:01:41.240 she won't get jabbed, completely unrelated. So they're just sentencing her to death, really.

00:01:46.440 Here's our reporter, Selene Gellas, asking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about that.

00:01:51.000 Hi, Premier Smith. Selene Gellas here with Rebel News. You had previously announced to protect the

00:01:55.640 vaccination status in the Alberta Human Rights Code. You've backed off that plan for the sitting,

00:02:00.280 but lives are still on the line. Annette Lewis was denied a transplant because of her vaccination

00:02:04.420 status, and she will die without it. Does your government have plans to address this medical coercion?

00:02:09.040 I am seeking a second opinion on that particular case, and I know that there is at least one other

00:02:16.340 case as well. So as soon as I have a result from that, I will let you know. But on the general issue,

00:02:24.980 I've been pretty clear that we do not want to see discrimination against anybody on the basis of

00:02:32.780 their booster status or their vaccination status. And I'm hopeful that the business community and

00:02:38.980 other entities operating this province have heard that message loud and clear, and we'll make sure

00:02:43.220 to bring their policies into alignment with that objective. Do you have a timeline for this? Because

00:02:47.820 I feel like it is a very time-sensitive matter. The difficulty with transplant patients is that

00:02:55.060 they do have a protocol they go through to determine who has the best likelihood of survivability.

00:03:00.240 And so that's why I need to have a second medical opinion. I don't want to supersede that. So I'm

00:03:06.120 very hopeful that we'll be able to get an opinion in a matter of a number of weeks.

00:03:10.780 Imagine being a doctor, motto, do no harm, Hippocratic Oath, and you're voting to essentially

00:03:16.100 sentence someone to death by denying them life-saving treatment. You know, doctors can be angels,

00:03:22.340 or they can be angels of death. That's the nickname they gave Dr. Joseph Mengele,

00:03:26.960 the angel of death. He really was a doctor in Nazi Germany who really did atrocious medical

00:03:34.180 experiments on concentration camp victims in Nazi Germany. So many doctors were actually involved.

00:03:39.860 It wasn't just him. Afterwards, they had the doctor trials, as they were called,

00:03:44.340 in the city of Nuremberg. That's where they came up with the phrase, the Nuremberg Code. It was part of

00:03:48.780 the verdict. It was a list of principles to be followed so that never again would people be forced

00:03:55.380 to take medical procedures against their wishes without prior informed consent and the ability

00:04:00.280 to remove that consent. For nearly 80 years, that was the gold standard in medical ethics.

00:04:05.640 The pandemic blew that away, and now we're here, not just where doctors withhold medical care to kill

00:04:11.320 someone. That's passive murder, I guess, but where they proactively actually kill someone.

00:04:16.920 It's not even suicide, is it? That's homicide. Of course, they give it a prettier name.

00:04:23.760 MAID, M-A-I-D, medical assistance in dying. No, sorry, that's homicide. Anyways, that's the

00:04:31.400 beat of a few of our reporters here, including Sheila Gunn-Reed. In fact, she's running a petition

00:04:38.320 against it right now, lots of signatures. Here's an excerpt from her video on this medical assistance

00:04:45.200 in suicide. Physician-assisted suicide has received a rebrand. To shirk the stigma, it's now called

00:04:51.680 MAID, medical assistance in dying. It seems a little less sinister when you put it that way,

00:04:56.960 less like doctor-induced homicide and more like, you know, just a helping hand. But it might be more

00:05:02.000 accurate in some respects since it's easier than ever to take your own life with the help of the

00:05:06.200 publicly funded, completely rationed Canadian health care system. A nurse or a pharmacist can help a

00:05:12.460 patient and their life now. If you agree with me that Canadians need proper care, not prompt

00:05:19.460 dispatching at the hands of some overly eager medical professional, please visit helpnothomicide.com

00:05:26.620 and sign the petition. Now, medical homicide in Canada is happening for all manner of reasons and

00:05:32.400 not just because someone is facing imminent death due to a painful terminal illness. A 51-year-old

00:05:39.520 woman in Ontario with severe sensitivities to chemicals took her own life with the help of

00:05:46.300 the medical system because she couldn't get better housing. In Toronto, a 90-year-old woman chose a

00:05:54.200 medically assisted way out because she couldn't face any more time in government-caused COVID lockdowns in

00:06:02.100 her retirement facility. A 66-year-old Montreal man chose medically assisted death because he couldn't

00:06:09.780 quickly access home care that he needed to deal with his other medical needs. A 54-year-old Vancouver

00:06:17.400 woman plagued with debts because of her chronic medical conditions told Chatelaine that a medically

00:06:23.220 assisted death might be her only option. This young woman wants to choose medical assistance in death due to

00:06:30.880 chronic illness, diabetes and bulimia. She wants to leave behind a fiancé and her young son. And then, a veterans

00:06:39.460 affairs caseworker allegedly admitted to helping Canadian veterans end their lives.

00:06:45.440 Well, I've heard about the story a bit in the media. It's not ignored completely, but it's not being given the

00:06:50.400 attention I think it deserves. More people will be killed this year by doctors on purpose through MAID than will die from

00:06:59.000 COVID-19 in Canada. That's a fact. You'd think it would be bigger news. Well, it is news, sort of. A fashion company

00:07:05.680 called Simons thinks this is an important issue, as in they support it. They love it. They think suicide is

00:07:13.840 important to promote, to glamorize suicide. I'm not sure how that sells women's clothing, but Simons has produced

00:07:21.500 a fancy TV ad to promote suicide, not to oppose suicide, not to support mental health week, not to

00:07:28.300 support the kids' health phone or suicide crisis hotline. The opposite. Simons has engaged an ad agency

00:07:35.320 to make a beautiful ad promoting suicide as a beautiful exit. They are literally pro-death. Here's

00:07:42.920 their CEO, or chief merchant, as he calls himself, merchant of death. I'm not sure if he thinks he can sell

00:07:49.600 more clothes by being the pro-homicide fashion designer out there. Not sure how that works,

00:07:55.420 but listen to this self-righteous murderer condoner. He's bragging about how brave he is.

00:08:00.660 He is. He's brave for telling women to kill themselves. Take a look. Some new roles that I've

00:08:05.740 taken on recently have led me to be much more involved in the creative teams at Simons. It's been a really

00:08:12.320 an honor and a pleasure and a challenge, and it's allowed me to be involved in a new project that

00:08:18.700 has really pushed us to our limits, and I felt the need to talk to you about it today to explain why we did

00:08:26.840 this project, because it is very different from what we've done in the past. Where does this story begin?

00:08:32.160 I guess it begins six months ago after I met a young woman called Jennifer, who, despite being at the end of

00:08:44.300 her life due to an illness, really wanted to tell her story. She was courageous. She was beautiful. She was

00:08:58.300 intelligent and thoughtful. She was inspiring. We decided to try to tell her story and to, as Jennifer

00:09:07.260 would say to me, maybe create a little ripple out there, a ripple of generosity, a ripple that might

00:09:13.960 allow people to see beauty in, obviously, in the nice moments, but more importantly to have the strength

00:09:22.360 and the courage to see beauty in the more difficult moments in life. And that's what we've tried to do,

00:09:27.160 is, with generosity, tell Jennifer's story. And it's not a story about the end of Jennifer's life. It's a

00:09:38.360 celebration of Jennifer's life. She dedicated herself to helping others. Despite a lot of difficult

00:09:45.720 circumstances, I think she rose above them with resilience. And I believe that she, she had the courage to see

00:09:53.960 beauty everywhere and to live in the moment. And perhaps if her story can lead others to see that hope, optimism, and

00:10:03.080 ultimately come to generosity, that's an important message for, for all of us. If we have, make the effort to see the hard beauty, not only the

00:10:13.480 easy beauty, it reminds us, it shows us a path toward that hope and optimism and, and, and generosity and

00:10:23.800 connection between us. It reminds us how to, how to be more, how to give more, how to feel more, how to be more connected

00:10:33.720 to one another. How is this different from what we've done before? It's, it's obviously not a commercial campaign. It's, it's,

00:10:43.000 it's, it's more an effort to use our freedom, our voice, and the privilege we have to speak and create

00:10:50.360 every day here in a way that is more about human connection. And I think we sincerely believe that

00:10:57.240 companies have a responsibility to, to, to, to participate in communities and to help build the

00:11:05.800 communities that we want to live in tomorrow and leave to our children. And, and this is one little

00:11:12.360 gesture. I admit I'm scared, but I would say,

00:11:22.600 I think without perhaps courage, I say that with humility,

00:11:28.840 there, there is no creativity and there is no, no, no possibility of making beauty. So,

00:11:34.760 if, if, if people could follow us down that road, I just ask that they look deeper and celebrate

00:11:42.440 Jennifer's life and, and the choices she made and, and make that effort. And perhaps they'll see

00:11:50.520 some of the beauty that I saw in Jennifer and, and how she chose to live her life and, and the final

00:11:57.480 days of her life. Now, the ad itself never comes right out and says that she was killed by doctors.

00:12:02.360 It's ambiguous. They say she was terminally ill. So maybe he's not quite that brave, but he sure is

00:12:08.920 proud of himself. Here's the ad making suicide glamorous.

00:12:15.000 Dying in a hospital is not what's natural. That's not what's

00:12:20.120 soft. In these kinds of moments, you need softness.

00:12:33.160 It can take dying to figure out what living is actually like.

00:12:49.240 I spent my life filling my heart with beauty, with nature, with connection.

00:13:06.760 So I choose to fill my final moments with the same.

00:13:09.800 Last breaths are sacred.

00:13:25.160 When I imagine my final days, I see music.

00:13:31.160 I see the ocean.

00:13:32.200 In the waves of the moon.

00:13:38.600 I see cheesecake.

00:13:43.720 Even now, as I seek help to end my life, with all the pain, and in these final moments,

00:14:09.000 things. There is still so much beauty. You just have to be brave enough to see it.

00:14:25.400 And seeing the rhythms of what's going to keep going after I'm gone bring a lot of comfort.

00:14:55.400 That's satanic, isn't it?

00:15:22.920 So naturally, Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster loves it. Just euphoric above the normalization

00:15:29.080 and the commercialization of euthanasia. Here's a story they wrote. 1500 words of pro-euthanasia

00:15:38.120 propaganda without a single voice of concern or criticism or a disabled advocate. Just gushing

00:15:44.120 over murder. In fact, the reality of government-sponsored homicide is not just unglamorous compared to

00:15:50.360 that sexy ad. It's deeply troubling. In Canada, military veterans are now routinely being counseled

00:15:56.040 to commit suicide. It's not a one-off. It's a policy. A half dozen such cases, at least,

00:16:02.680 that we know of. Veterans with PTSD, well, they cost a lot, you see. And Trudeau just doesn't have

00:16:08.600 money to take care of them. He has enough money to fight them in court or to kill them, but not to help them.

00:16:14.360 I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military. Nobody forced me to join

00:16:21.240 the military. I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister,

00:16:28.920 is Canada turning its back on me? So which veteran was it that you were talking about?

00:16:43.000 Thank you, sir. Thank you for your passion and your strength and being here today to share this

00:16:50.200 justifiable frustration and anger with me and with all of us here. Thank you for having the courage to

00:16:56.360 stand here. And thank you for listening to my answer on a couple of elements you brought up.

00:17:02.840 First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're

00:17:11.240 asking for more than we are able to give right now. They are asking for more than we, well, no, hang on.

00:17:18.760 You're asking for honest answers. It's not just veterans. It's people who are in pain or people

00:17:27.880 who are depressed or just people having a rough go, but sometimes it's just people who are poor.

00:17:33.000 Imagine thinking it's better to kill yourself than to be poor. I guess you could think it,

00:17:38.760 but imagine a government that would say, yes, yes, we agree. Kill yourself. There's no hope for you.

00:17:43.480 Look at this. Canadian man facing eviction accepted for country's legal euthanasia. That's a story in

00:17:51.960 the Daily Mail. He's a Canadian who was counseled to kill himself because he was depressed about being

00:17:56.840 poor. Now, public reaction to his news story changed his mind. That story got more press overseas than it

00:18:03.160 did here at home in Canada. Canada will soon allow medically assisted dying for mental illness.

00:18:08.760 has there been enough time to get it right? The global mail says you can get it right. Mental

00:18:15.320 illness, even eating disorders are now considered grounds for someone to kill themselves. Here's

00:18:20.360 another document. This is incredible. It's now, this is how it is in Canada. It's coming to the

00:18:25.160 U.S. soon too, I'm sure. This is incredible. Biden's senior advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, who's a brother

00:18:31.960 of Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff. He has argued that suicide is good

00:18:39.560 because it saves the government money. Well, that's what happens when the government's in

00:18:44.520 charge. They care about money more than your life. Jonathan Swift, the great satirist, hundreds

00:18:48.520 of years ago wrote something called a modest proposal. That was a joke in itself. It wasn't

00:18:52.680 a modest proposal. It was an outrageous proposal. He proposed to eat the poor. It was a horrendous,

00:18:58.680 dark joke, meant as a joke, meant as a social commentary. It's now not a joke anymore. It's a

00:19:03.640 scheme. It's a plot, isn't it? And look at this from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.

00:19:10.280 That's the regulator for doctors, telling doctors who commit assisted suicide, not only that it's a

00:19:17.320 good thing to do, but they must not write suicide on the death certificate, but rather to claim that the

00:19:25.240 underlying disease killed these patients instead of the suicide. Let me read to you paragraph 11.

00:19:32.120 When completing the medical certificate of death, physicians, A, must list the illness, disease,

00:19:38.200 or disability leading to the request for it made as the cause of death, and B, must not make any

00:19:47.240 reference to medical assistance in dying or the medications administered on the certificate.

00:19:52.920 But that's a lie. The disease leading to the request for suicide, I'm poor, I'm depressed,

00:20:02.040 I'm in pain, that didn't kill them. The doctor did. And the doctors are being told to lie about it.

00:20:10.760 That's Canada. It's normal here now. It's still shocking around the world. Can I show you two videos

00:20:17.080 that our friend Sheila did just last night in the U.S. alone? Here she is on Newsmax.

00:20:22.760 Sheila Gunn-Reed is the editor-in-chief of Rebel News in Canada, and she joins us now. Sheila,

00:20:27.720 it's good to have you on. Let's talk about the ad for a second. It really shows how

00:20:31.400 dark the left has become. I mean, they're trying to almost make it sexy to kill yourself.

00:20:36.920 You know, what you're seeing here is the corporate manifestation of the completely

00:20:41.400 entrenched culture of death that we see before us here in Canada. It was Canadians. The idea that

00:20:46.840 a clothing company would do an advertisement for medical assistance in dying, frankly, it doesn't

00:20:51.400 shock us. Because we live in a society where Justin Trudeau's government has, as you pointed out in your

00:20:57.320 intro, made it very easy to just end your time on this earth. They've removed the 10-day wait time

00:21:04.760 from when you ask for medical assistance in dying and when you receive it. So your worst

00:21:10.040 day could be your last day. And when I say medical assistance in dying, that doesn't mean that this

00:21:15.320 is going to be administered by a doctor that knows you. It can be done by a nurse or a medical

00:21:21.480 professional, which may mean a pharmacist. And so what you're seeing here, this corporation that is

00:21:27.560 promoting this, this is all part and parcel of the rewrite of our society here at the hands of Justin

00:21:33.320 Trudeau. That's great. And a few hours later, Sheila was invited on Fox News. Take a look at this.

00:21:39.480 Sheila Gunn-Reed, editor in chief of Rebel News. She's running a national campaign to force the

00:21:45.240 government to end this practice. Sheila, it seems to me that they're selling assisted suicide with a,

00:21:52.760 you know, very sophisticated, fun, kind of adventurous message. What the heck is going on up north?

00:22:00.840 Laura, I just want to thank you so much for your interest in this. Unlike the corporate media here

00:22:07.160 in Canada that's been tainted by Justin Trudeau's bailouts at Rebel News, we're one of the few

00:22:11.700 independent outlets that can still speak about these issues freely, but also with the sense of horror

00:22:17.900 the issue rightly deserves. We see companies do this all the time. We see them align themselves with

00:22:25.220 government on issues like climate change and BLM and reproductive issues. They go woke. This is what

00:22:32.600 it means to be woke in Canada now. So why wouldn't corporations align themselves with this next

00:22:39.140 anti-human, anti-life thing? I just want to point out to you how extreme Canada is on this issue.

00:22:47.160 Justin Trudeau's government has removed the 10-day wait time

00:22:50.040 from when you ask for medical assistance in suicide and when you receive it. And you don't

00:22:55.660 have to do it in writing. You can just verbally ask the state to kill you. To put this all into

00:23:01.140 context, we had about 16,000 deaths in Canada related to COVID. Depends on how you count that

00:23:07.020 of COVID or with COVID, but it was 16,000 deaths. We know that there were 10,000 requests in writing

00:23:14.620 for medically assisted suicide. And that doesn't take into account the deaths that occurred because

00:23:21.120 somebody just verbally asked for it and received it on the very day that they asked for it. And when

00:23:26.800 we say medical assistance in suicide, don't think for a second that that means doctors participating in

00:23:33.360 this. It doesn't have to be your doctor. It can just be a medical professional. That might be

00:23:38.740 a nurse that is seeing you today for the first time, or even a pharmacist that's helping you

00:23:45.480 take a short trip off a long or, you know, take a short trip off the earth. That's the state of

00:23:54.120 affairs here in Canada. Brits and Americans care about our homicide doctors. Why don't Canadians stay with us

00:24:02.840 for more? Well, our eyes here at Rebel World Headquarters have been focused on the Trucker

00:24:18.840 Commission in Ottawa. I think that's a very important story. It's an echo of even more important

00:24:24.120 story, the trucker convoy itself. And yesterday, I have to say, I was riveted on the popular uprising

00:24:30.720 in China that seems to be getting even bigger and bolder. Just incredible. Other things catch our

00:24:36.960 eye, including Elon Musk taking over Twitter. Is that an American story or a world story? I think

00:24:42.360 it's a story of the theme that we care about, freedom of speech. That said, we are Canadian,

00:24:47.920 and I myself was born in the great province of Alberta. And I still, even though I'm here in

00:24:51.960 exile in Toronto, regard myself as a spiritual Albertan, if nothing less. I think it is one of the

00:24:57.480 most important provinces. And it's been called many times a laboratory for political ideas.

00:25:03.720 From Ralph Klein, of course, to, well, I put it to you, the new Premier, Premier Danielle Smith,

00:25:10.440 who recently took her seat in the legislature, having won a by-election. She outlined her agenda

00:25:16.960 yesterday in a press conference. I'd like to show you a clip of that and then to walk us through the

00:25:22.580 meaning of it, not just to Alberta, but to the rest of the country, too. Our friend Lauren Gunter,

00:25:27.200 the senior columnist of the Edmonton Sun. But first, here's a couple of minutes of Premier Danielle

00:25:32.160 Smith. We need the power to reset the relationship with Ottawa. That's what this is all about.

00:25:37.300 We've tried different things in the past, and it hasn't worked. So we've got to try something new.

00:25:41.820 And I must tell you, I believe it's already working. And the proof of that is the most recent COP27

00:25:48.840 final resolution that came forward. And if you look at Minister Stephen Gibault's comments about

00:25:56.440 why he did not support that, he said it's because in Canada, natural resources are provincial

00:26:02.580 jurisdiction. And if he signed on to a resolution to phase out oil and natural gas, he would face a

00:26:09.720 legal challenge from the provinces that Ottawa would not win. Now, this is not language I've ever heard

00:26:15.280 out of Stephen Gibault. But I think it goes to the work that our environment minister, Sonia Savage,

00:26:21.820 has done in helping to educate Ottawa that we are not a subordinate level of government, that we want

00:26:28.260 why you need this power. Like, what is so urgent that you would use what is normally an emergency power

00:26:34.280 to skip around the legislature? Because we've been ignored. We've been ignored for 10 years. The

00:26:40.420 former premier, Rachel Notley, tried the climate leadership plan to get a better relationship with

00:26:45.980 Ottawa. It failed. Former premier, Jason Kenney, tried to have a collaborative relationship with

00:26:51.380 Stephen Gibault in Quebec to get LNG exported. It failed. We put forward an equalization referendum to

00:26:56.320 try to start a conversation to change the relationship with Ottawa. It failed. So now we're going to try

00:27:00.320 something new. I think we've got their attention. We've got their attention because I know with the

00:27:05.100 relationship that we're now seeing develop with the federal government, finally recognizing that

00:27:10.320 they cannot pass CARP launch power over our natural resources, that they have recognized our industrial

00:27:16.660 pricing program around industrial emissions for CO2, that they have accepted that natural resources fall

00:27:23.220 within our jurisdiction. I think that that begins a constructive relationship. And that's what this was all

00:27:27.280 about. You do not have that relationship change without a push. This was a push. And here's the

00:27:33.220 point. I hope we never have to use this bill. I hope that we've sent a message to Ottawa that we will

00:27:39.020 vigorously defend our constitutional areas of jurisdiction, and they should just butt out. They

00:27:43.680 should work collaboratively with us on areas where we have common cause. And I'm hoping that we're

00:27:48.600 beginning to see a change in that relationship. That's the reason you put forward a piece of legislation

00:27:52.280 like this. It's the reason why Scott Moe put forward a similar piece of legislation, which

00:27:57.140 incidentally, the NDP in Saskatchewan are supporting, because they are also realizing that you've got to

00:28:03.000 put Saskatchewan first. We are putting Alberta first, and I would invite the NDP to join us in supporting

00:28:07.500 this bill. Well, isn't that interesting? I have to say, if that speech was spoken en français,

00:28:14.920 it would be completely unremarkable, because that generally has been the point of view of every

00:28:20.100 premier of Quebec, whether they're the Parti Québécois, the Liberals, or the new CAC party.

00:28:25.740 Standing up for Quebec jurisdiction and staring down at Ottawa is actually common currency amongst all

00:28:32.380 the provinces. You'll notice that the placard on her podium said, standing up for Alberta. And I think

00:28:38.440 one of the knocks on Jason Kenney over the last few years was not just his heavy-handed approach to

00:28:43.600 lockdowns, but rather his failure to stand up sufficiently vigorously to Ottawa. At least

00:28:49.800 that's my take, but some would say I've gone all Toronto-ish, having been out here for a while. So

00:28:55.720 let's go to our man who can give us the proper understanding of Edmonton. He's our Sherpa

00:29:02.240 out there. I'm talking about our friend Lauren Gunter, senior communist for the Edmonton. Great

00:29:06.300 to see you again, my friend. How are you? Good to see you. You're still Albertan at the core. I can

00:29:11.160 sense that. Well, thank you for the compliment. I mean, Alberta is an interesting place. And like

00:29:19.740 Quebec, I think like Newfoundland, like BC, it always profits a premier to fight against Ottawa. And

00:29:26.620 not just for sizzle reasons, there is some substance to it too. Danielle Smith pointed out that maybe

00:29:32.940 the feds blinked at saying we're going to phase out oil and gas because they know they're going to have

00:29:38.460 a tougher time with Danielle Smith as premier. I don't know. What do you think? Yeah, I don't know

00:29:42.980 that either, but I am surprised that Evo said that at COP27 in Egypt because the feds have not cared.

00:29:54.500 That's one of the reasons why I like this act. I think there's a lot in it that is

00:30:03.620 redundant, that there's already the existing powers under the constitution for the provincial

00:30:09.300 government to do a lot of the things laid out in the Sovereignty Act. I think a lot of it is going

00:30:15.160 to end up being a dead end. For instance, one of the things that the provincial government wants

00:30:23.440 to do with this act is put the onus on the feds to show that a law they pass is constitutional,

00:30:32.560 rather than Alberta having to go to court, sometimes with other provinces, to see whether

00:30:39.820 the courts will uphold the federal law as constitutional. I think in the end, you know,

00:30:46.760 the feds are the feds and they appoint all the judges above the provincial level anyway. And in

00:30:53.660 every province, all the federal judges appointed by Ottawa, you're unlikely to get many courts

00:30:59.600 that will rule federal legislation is unconstitutional. But it does happen every once in a while. And I think

00:31:07.540 it's good for the province to say, look, until you can come back to us and have a court order that

00:31:13.020 says this is constitutional, we're not abiding by this law. Will it buy us much time? Probably not. Will

00:31:20.040 it get us new results? Maybe. And I think that's what's useful to me in this law is that maybe they'll

00:31:29.180 give Ottawa indigestion or a headache or a rash that the feds have to deal with by giving us a little

00:31:38.680 salve now and then. And so, yes, is this the be all and end all? No. But after having been battered by

00:31:47.960 the feds for 40 years, and especially since 2015, when the true liberals took over, it's a welcome

00:31:56.500 relief to see the provincial government putting this kind of pressure on. I'll give you an example of why

00:32:02.460 I think it's unnecessary, but why I don't mind that. Before this bill came in, the feds had announced

00:32:10.540 that they were going to ban handguns in Canada. And Tyler Shandro, who is the justice minister in

00:32:16.880 Alberta, said, fine, we think that's wrong. We think it's ridiculous. We don't think it's going to achieve

00:32:22.500 anything in bringing down crime in Canada because criminals already don't obey laws about gun

00:32:28.880 restrictions. But if you're going to do this, understand the RCMP is the local police force

00:32:36.460 in all but a few of the major cities in Alberta. And we, the province of Alberta, pay for them

00:32:44.540 to be the police. We are not going to authorize a single cent.

Rebel News Podcast - December 01, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada is now world famous for suiciding the young, the old, the weak and the poor

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