EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canadians despise Trudeau as a person, says poll
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A new opinion poll by a liberal pollster, Abacus, is here to make you feel better about your fellow Canadians, of every province and both sexes, and all ages. Here's why: It's because Justin Trudeau's unpopularity is a feature, not a bug.
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Hello, my friends. I got some good news for you for once. I mean, of course, there's bad
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news in the world, but hey, just for today, let's focus on something that I think will
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make you feel better, make me feel better. I want to show you a new opinion poll by a
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liberal-leaning pollster called Abacus that is so heartwarming, and it'll restore your
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faith in your fellow Canadian of every province and both sexes and all ages. This is a feel-good
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show, and I know you're going to love it. Can you do me a favor, though? Can you get
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the video version of it because I'm going to show you some charts. I want you to look
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at these bar graphs, and I know that sounds complicated. It's not. I just want you to
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see the beauty of these poll numbers in chart form. To get the video version, you've got
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to go to rebelnewsplus.com. That's our website where you can subscribe to what we call, well,
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Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast. Sheila Gunn-Reed does a podcast
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supporting Rebel News because, you know, we don't take any money from Trudeau, and it
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Tonight, if you're feeling down, let me give you some good news for a change. It'll make
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you feel better about your fellow Canadians. It's July 29th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!
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Oh, there's trouble in the world. Assassination attempts, soft coups. I don't know if you saw,
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but of course, the communist Nicolas Maduro is stealing the election in Venezuela. Hezbollah
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terrorists in Lebanon killed a dozen kids in Israel, and then there's the absolute disgrace
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of the Paris Olympics and their bizarre anti-Christian trans-extremism opening ceremony. So
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weird. So let's take a break for some good news. At least, I think it's good news. It made me feel
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better about things. It's a new opinion poll by my favorite pollster, Abacus. Now, you know why I like
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them so much? Because they tilt liberal. So if they're giving me good news, it's against their
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nature to do so, so you can trust it. You know what I mean? As in, they're not looking to do Pierre
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Polly have any favors. And this latest poll was published in the Toronto Star, no less. So again,
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you know they publish this only grudgingly. Do you agree with my way of thinking about Abacus,
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the pollster? I like them, by the way. Anyway, I want to show it to you. Let's get into it. Here's
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the Toronto Star article. It's by Susan Delacorte, and it's written,
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Don't like Justin Trudeau? You're not alone. Here's why Canadians say the Prime Minister is so
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unpopular. In its latest round of polling for the star, Abacus Dada tried to find out whether it's
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something Trudeau has or hasn't done, or whether it's just simply who he is. Huh. Isn't that wonderful
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to read in the star? And by Susan Delacorte, a lifelong liberal hack of the star. You'll love
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to see it. Anyway, I'm going to enjoy these words. I'm going to read them very slowly, but then I'm
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going to get to the numbers. All right, let me just read the story. By now, Justin Trudeau's
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unpopularity is not a bug in Canadian politics, but a feature. It is the starting point for every
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conversation revolving around the Liberals' future prospects against the Conservatives in the next
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election. It figures large when trying to guess the lifespan of the Liberal NDP deal. How long will
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Jagmeet Singh and his New Democrats want to remain allied with an unpopular PM? What's less examined is
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the cause of that unpopularity. When voters are registering all those negative impressions with
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the pollsters, what exactly is it that is turning them off Trudeau? You know, the Toronto Star doesn't
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know because they only write propaganda about Trudeau. So Abacus Data, in its latest round of
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polling for the star, took on that question. It's not the first time Abacus has probed on this issue
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for the star. Back in the spring of 2023, we wanted to know whether Trudeau's unpopularity
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was more rampant among male voters. Yes, was the answer back then. Today, that gender disparity has
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mostly disappeared. Quote, men and women now feel pretty much the same about Trudeau,
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Abacus CEO David Colletto says, and he doesn't mean this in a good way. That's just delicious.
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I'm having fun already. I'm feeling better. I normally don't feel good reading the star,
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but you put me in a good mood. All right, enough with Susan Delacorte's words. Let's get to the math.
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Look at this chart. It's a very colorful chart. It's sort of interactive if you look at it
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on the website. It shows impressions about Trudeau by different demographics or geographics.
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So no surprise, he's most hated in Western Canada. Now, do you see that dark green color?
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That's for people who are very positive towards Trudeau. That's the phrase, very positive.
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They love him, is short form. Nationwide, that's just 7% of people, single digits.
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But it goes down even lower. Incredibly, just 5% of Atlantic Canadians love Trudeau. That's a bit
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of a surprise. And in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it's 3%. That is such a small number that's probably
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within the margin of error. As in, there's a statistical chance the real number is approaching
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zero. Now, the light green color, as opposed to the dark green, is for merely favorable impressions
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not very favorable. If very favorable means you love Trudeau, favorable means you like him.
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It's not at zero, but again, it's getting very close. Alberta and the prairies, the smartest places,
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give him 11% and 12% likability. Think about that. That means if you took nine random people
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in Alberta, you just chose nine random people, and said, do you like Trudeau even a little?
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Eight out of nine would say no. One would say, yeah, I do. One out of nine. The orange bars are
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somewhat negative in the pollster's language, and the red, the dark red is very negative. I think we
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can just short form that as, I hate Trudeau, right? And look at that. I find this so interesting.
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A very small number of people love Trudeau, but a slightly larger number of people like him. Okay,
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so this many love him, this many like him. That seems sort of natural, right? But look at it on
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the negative side. If you've made up your mind to not like Trudeau, you're not messing around with,
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but I don't like him. You go straight to, I hate him. Do you see what I mean? Look at that line at
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the top. 20% of Canadians dislike him, but double that number, 39% hate him. I think that's got to
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be unusual. Normally, if you don't like someone, it's just dislike. I mean, how many people in the
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world do you truly hate, as opposed to just dislike them? I mean, it's got to be a smaller number,
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right? It's got to be reserved for people who have done you a terrible wrong, who have betrayed you,
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cheated on you, burnt you in some way, and you've got to have thought about it a lot, right?
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I'm just thinking, I mean, how many people do you actually walk around hating? It takes energy
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to hate someone. If you ask me about a politician I don't really know well,
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I wouldn't muster the words love or hate. I'd say, yeah, I like him or I don't like him.
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Love and hate are reserved for people that we know or follow closely, right? People have been
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following Trudeau closely for nine years, and 39% hate him. Hate with a capital H. Again, not really
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a surprise. Think about it. The prairies hate Trudeau more than anyone else, but BC is bad too. I used to
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think of BC as sort of a liberal place. I think that was the betrayal, remember, of Jody Wilson-Raybould,
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the former justice minister. That was shocking. Trudeau fired Jody Wilson-Raybould for being too
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honest and too ethical, trying to stop him from getting his friends out of a criminal prosecution,
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and then Trudeau lied about it. You don't forget something like that quickly. It's amazing to me to
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see men and women despising Trudeau in almost identical numbers. Even Susan Delacorte mentioned
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that, really. Just a few percentage points differences here and there. That is so new.
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I've been following politics for decades, and the liberals always had an advantage with women.
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Trudeau especially had an advantage with women. He positioned himself as a male feminist. He was so
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dreamy. He would try on his, you know, substitute drama teacher voice, but there again, that's the
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betrayal. Women see that he was a faker. He was a liar the whole time. He was a fake feminist. I think
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same thing with visible minorities. I put it to you that, and it's not broken out in this chart here,
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but I think that blackface scandal made a lot of minorities realize that Trudeau's two-faced,
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that he's just using them for photo ops and costume dress-up parties, and I can imagine when
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you realize that he actually doesn't give a damn about you, that feeling of betrayal that turns
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love. I love Trudeau, too. I hate. It doesn't turn love to dislike, you know what I mean?
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Age is also amazing to me. Again, I grew up in a world where old people were conservatives and young
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people were progressive, and there's still a little bit of that, but young people who can't
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afford to buy a home, who are pushed out of universities by Trudeau's foreign students,
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who are victims of his crime wave, who can't afford his taxes, who feel like he's lying about
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his carbon tax. If you're a young person, you hate him. Look at that 18 to 29-year-old demographic bar.
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Very, very few like or love Trudeau. Just 21% combined like him or love him. Out of all young
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people, like four out of five don't like him or love him. Look how many hate him. 57% hate him or
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dislike him combined. I thought he was supposed to be the cool dude with his fancy socks and his
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weird party tricks. Look at the very bottom in the chart. They broke down the numbers by how people
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voted in the last federal election in 2021. Obviously, if you voted conservative in 2021,
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you're quite likely to think very poorly of Trudeau. Again, that's not a surprising thing. But look at
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people who say they voted liberal in the last election in 2021. 15% dislike Trudeau now, and another
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11% hate him now. More than a quarter of liberal voters in the last election now dislike or hate him.
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Every region in the country, every province, every age group, both sexes. I suppose Trudeau should get
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some credit for uniting the country. We all seem to hate him together. Oh, but don't you bother him
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about that. As he told Key and Bextie on the beach the other day, he doesn't care what polls have to
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say. He's not going anywhere. Are you looking for him right now? No, I am absolutely not. I am running in the
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next election. Are you concerned at all about your poll numbers? No, I am. No. What causes you to not be
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concerned? Because I spend a lot of time talking with Canadians. Stay with us for more.
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Well, if you've been watching Rebel News for a while, you know about our friend Tommy Robinson. I
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think we've probably done more journalism about him than certainly anyone on this side of the
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Atlantic. Although someone pointed out to me that Tommy Robinson is the citizen's name that has been
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most mentioned in parliamentary debates in the UK, I think like on 46 occasions or something. So
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he certainly is grist for the mill over there. Of course, most of the newspapers in the UK despise
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him. I'm not sure why that is. He's such a colorful character. And even when he does things are naughty,
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well, surely a newspaper, well, would sell copies or something. And of course, in the UK, they have a class
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system. They have highbrow and lowbrow and working class and tabloid. Tommy Robinson is the
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personification of working class Brits who love their football, as they call soccer. Why wouldn't
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papers catering to that demographic at least show them some respect? I found it very confusing over
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the years. As you know, Tommy worked for us for about a year or so. I don't know. I guess that would
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be six or seven years ago. But I also attended the UK to cover some of his many trials once he no
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longer worked with us. Now, Tommy Robinson really had a lot of air let out of the balloon, so to speak,
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when he had his wings clipped by social media. And I remember when that happened to Alex Jones of
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Infowars as well. I mean, these are powerful personalities with large followings. But the thing
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about followers is they have to be able to see you to follow. I remember in a 24-hour period, 14
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different social media companies canceled Alex Jones on the same day. Don't tell me that was a
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coincidence. That was a cartel. That was censorship collusion. Well, the same sort of thing happened to
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Tommy Robinson. You can still see his face on YouTube, but not very well. They downrank those videos.
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And Twitter banned him completely. Facebook, the only way you're allowed to mention Tommy Robinson
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is to criticize him. I know that sounds like an astonishing thing to say, but it was revealed in
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a Scandinavian interview where a left-wing TV show wanted to talk about Tommy Robinson, and they got a
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strike on their account. They couldn't understand it. This was a hostile to Tommy network, and they
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interviewed the regional boss for Facebook, who said, yeah, you can talk about Tommy only if you
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I can hear the Danish journalist asking him some questions about these applications.
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If you think of the Guardian, there's something else that Tommy Robinson has asked on Facebook
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to half-fugge muslimers. He says that he doesn't have done anything. How can I, as a journalist,
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check that you have documentation for your account, Tommy Robinson?
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Yeah. There isn't one post, really. Let's have a look at what they said in their press statement
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that went around the entire world. This went on the world's media, okay? A post urging people
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to terrorize and behead those who follow the Koran. Total lies. Now, this interview with the head
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communication has actually revealed a lot. It revealed that I'm a designated hate figure, and people
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can go on Facebook, and they can write what they want about me. In fact, using their guidelines,
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they can encourage murder about me, and it will not get deleted. If anyone says one positive
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word about me, they can be deleted. Now, this would seem unbelievable. Only negative stuff
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It's a post-reaction against him. It's a post-reaction against him. But what
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is happening now, is that people who are talking about Tommy Robinson from the
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fjernet of their policy, are being blocked, or are being thought about it, and are being
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Well, our rules are not to talk about Tommy Robinson. You should have to write,
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that you don't like him, or that you don't like him, or you don't like him.
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So that seemed to be the end of Tommy Robinson until Elon Musk bought Twitter and revived
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from the dead so many accounts that had merely committed the sin of being politically incorrect,
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not actually breaking any law. And in the several months that Tommy has been reborn on Twitter,
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he's used that to magnify his message to millions of people, actually to hundreds of millions of
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people, or at least hundreds of millions of impressions, if you believe Twitter's statistics.
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Tommy had a rally in the UK on June 1st, where our friend Alexa Lavois attended. Over 900,000 people
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watched that live stream concurrently. Tommy had another event this weekend, and over half a million
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watched that too. The reason I tell you these things is to emphasize how important Elon Musk's
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purchase of Twitter really is. Not only has it given the voice back to people like Tommy Robinson and
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Alex Jones, and you may not like their voices, but at least he is having a public square where freedom
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of speech reigns. Not only has he given their voices back, but he's allowed the rest of us to have our
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ears back. It's not just Tommy Robinson's right to say what he wants to say. It's our right to hear him.
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And what comes from saying things and hearing things? Well, doing things. And Tommy Robinson had a march
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in the UK. Part of that march was music. You'll recognize some Canadians from the stage.
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Take a look at Tamara Leach and our former rebel reporter, Kelly Lamb. Take a look.
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It's not okay that this is how they rule you. How they rule you. How they rule you. How they rule you. How they rule you.
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Well I won't back down. No I won't back down. You could stand me up at the gates of Hell, but I won't back down. No I won't back down.
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There were some interesting speeches and Tommy Robinson, of course, played one of his documentary
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films. Our own Alexa Lavoie was on the scene and she joins us now to talk about it. Alexa,
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great to see you. Thanks very much for going over to the UK. What did you see when you went there?
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Oh, a massive, massive crowd, a lot of English flag, something that we don't see in some other
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demonstration as the anti-Israel one. We saw a lot of patriotism. There were a massive,
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massive amount of people and all of them were therefore expressing frustration on the current
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governance. And also with the mass immigration they are seeing, they are really worried for not only
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their own culture, but their identity as well. There were a lot of different speakers. Tamara
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Lich, our freedom warrior, was there. She delivered a speech. She played guitar. I saw multicultural
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people, all from all backgrounds. There were people that was from immigrant background who had enough
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of the newcomer taking everything that they can, but not respecting the values and the culture of the
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country. I saw also people from all walks of life. It was really amazing to see. And it remembered me a
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little bit of what we saw during the Freedom Convoy. Right. Well, how many people were there? I saw
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numbers ranging from 35,000 on the small side to a number that's a little bit hard to believe,
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but it was, I think, the Metro newspaper, which is a mainstream newspaper, that said there was up to
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100,000. Frankly, I find that a little bit hard to believe. Although when a anti-Tommy Robinson
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newspaper says it, perhaps we should credit it. It looked huge and it was well behaved, wasn't it?
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I mean, there was no riots. There was no, you know, attacks on police as you have seen in the past with
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some of these pro-Hamas rallies. No, actually, the police were there. The sheikhs and the, the, I saw them
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like talking with the organizers. It seemed like there were no problem at all. I would kind of believe of the
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highest number or close by or nearby because the Trafalgar Square were full, full, completely full. And people
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were on the street. So, so we can see on the drone shot how proudly it is, but the, the, the number of
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people on the street is not seeing on the drone shot. So I, I believe that is near by maybe a hundred
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thousand people. Wow. And that drone shot you took on your drone camera was one of the best images I
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saw of the entire event. Thank you for that. Now, here's the thing. I, I've gone to some of those
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events. I'm really glad you went this time and you went last month as well. And you say that some
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of the emphasis was on patriotism, reducing mass immigration, and just clapping back because every
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week there's this pro-Hamas protest in the UK. It's a little tiresome. This, I think, showed the real
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side of the UK. And take a look at this. Here's a Muslim man on a mainstream radio station called LBC.
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And, um, he was there. And I think to his own surprise, not only did he sort of like it, but it
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wasn't anything he had been expecting. Take a look at this mainstream media journalist saying it wasn't
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that bad at all. And these people are good citizens. Take a look. The place was absolutely rammed. And I
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mean, rammed. The place was packed. It was a very sunny day, as you know, yesterday. Atmosphere that I
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saw, I didn't see any, um, bad behavior at all. What I saw was a, an almost family-like atmosphere,
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very welcoming, very warm, flags everywhere. Not only, uh, flags of St. George and, um, uh,
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the Union Jack, but also Israeli flags, Ukrainian flags as well. And the thing that struck me about
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this was this was not a gathering, as far as I could see, of football hooligans. There were lots of
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women. There were lots of families. There were peoples of different colors there. And everyone
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was watching a video, um, that apparently, uh, Tommy Robinson should have not been broadcasting,
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but there were various other bands playing and, uh, conversations going on and, uh, and speeches
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being given. But the overall atmosphere was one of people feeling that they wanted to come together
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to actually try and, in their views, save their country. And to quote Tommy Robinson, he called on his
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supporters to come to London yesterday because, and I quote, we want our country back. Now that
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sentiment, that sentiment that Tommy Robinson or, uh, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which is his, um, his real name,
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uh, that sentiment, which he promulgates and espouses is not one that he does so alone. We've had Lee
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Anderson. We've had many other people talking about and alluding to similar things. Now I'm going to get
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condemned for this conversation, but frankly, it's too important not to have, because we need to have
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this conversation in a very measured, sensible, calm manner, in my view, to understand why there is a
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sentiment where people on a family almost day out will go to Trafalgar Square to go and feel that
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their country is being taken away from them and wanting to unite the kingdom. And to simply dismiss
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them all as far-right, lunatic, racist, uh, football hooligans is actually not helpful and it's
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completely inaccurate. So I think Tommy Robinson is a symptom, not the cause of something much,
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much deeper. Again, that's the normalization that comes from Elon Musk platforming people again.
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I think the fact that Tommy was banned from social media was sort of like a social cue to the rest of
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society. He's a bad man. He deserves to be exiled and ignored. Don't talk to him. He's a bad dude.
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And now that Tommy is back on Twitter and is attracting followers, it's almost like higher
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echelons of society are saying, oh, well, I guess we can't ignore him anymore because he's got a
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platform. I don't know. I just think it's very interesting how that is affecting his social
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status, the fact that he's back on Twitter. And obviously it's an amazing political tool. I just
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can't overstate it enough. But let me tell you something that's very strange. And I know you were
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heading back. You stayed in the UK on Saturday and then you headed back on Sunday morning.
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Sunday afternoon, we learned that Tommy Robinson was arrested under the Terrorism Act of 2000,
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which is such an astonishing and bizarre thing. That would be like arresting him
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under the Patriot Act in Washington, D.C. I don't know if we have a standalone act in Canada that's the
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same thing. And here's what I know about the Terrorism Act. It allows police to arrest someone
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without a warrant, without laying charges against them. And they can ask questions of the person
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they've arrested. And the person must answer. There's not that traditional ancient right to be
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silent and to not be compelled to speak. You know, we've always heard you have the right to remain
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silent. Anything you say can or will be used against you in a court of law. We've all heard
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that from watching police shows on TV. The Terrorism Act is the opposite. If you're arrested under the
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Terrorism Act, Schedule 7 of that law says police can ask you questions and you are compelled to answer.
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You are forced to answer. They can also force you to give any documents. For example, they demand that
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Tommy give his phone and his passcode. Now, I understand he refused to do that. You can have a
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lawyer there, although they can delay your lawyer from attending for six hours, which is weird also.
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And really, what's the point of your lawyer anyways, if you have to answer the question? So here's a
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little bit of an excerpt from Tommy Robinson, who was still in custody. He called home to his ex-wife,
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Jenna, to tell her about what had happened. Listen to the crazy things that they asked Tommy Robinson when
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they had him under arrest under the Terrorism Act. Take a listen. Yeah, what's going on?
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So, I've been arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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This is so that an examiner officer can exercise his or her powers under the schedule for the purpose of
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determining whether you appear to be a person who is or who has been concerned in the commission,
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preparation, or instigation of accident terrorism. So, that's what they leave me under so that they
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can leave me. What are you meant to have done? Nothing, Jenna. They, they, they, they don't. So,
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after bringing me out of that, he said, we know you haven't done it here. So, I said, so why am I here?
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They interviewed me for six fucking hours. Six hours about yesterday, about the event, about whether I
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think I can stop the grape replacement, about Israel. Well, what about a Palestinian state?
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It's fucking, and I said, like, because you don't have a right to remain silent, yeah? You do not have
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a right to remain silent. So, have you had a solicitor? What's that? Have you got a solicitor there?
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Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter with the solicitor, because under this terrorism legislation, you
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don't have a right to remain silent. So, if you don't answer their questions, you break the law,
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yeah? So, it got to then the point of what this has been about. They said, you need to give us the
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PIN code to your phone now. So, I obviously said, and reading their, I read all their stuff when they,
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when they grabbed me. They asked me so many questions about our event yesterday. What are we trying to
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achieve? When are you next doing it? What's your next plans? What do you think of the government?
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I was like, this is, what, what is this? He said, what do you think of the United Kingdom,
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Great Britain? I said, a tyrannical fucking state. Look at you. I've done nothing. Why am I nicked
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under the terrorism act? This is a total abuse of power. But, but they're charging me. They are
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charging me. I'm waiting to be charged now. I'm sort of transferring me from the port to, I'm in the
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police. I'm in the police station. Who, what city is it that has represented you? Is it someone
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called Francis? Yeah, it is. Uh, what was his name? He's from Carson K. Yeah, did he ring you?
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Yeah. Yeah, he said, not him, because he, it's another solicitor now. But, uh, I just, I got,
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So they were asking him about his hopes for his rallies. They were asking him about his views
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about Israel. None of those things are crimes. None of those things are terrorism. These are just
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bizarre questions that they were asking only because they had arrested him under the terrorism
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act. And by the way, Alexa, I can understand why you could have this law if there was like a ticking
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time bomb about to go off or a suicide bomber on his way to do something terrible. And you captured,
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uh, uh, an arch terrorist to compel them to say, where is he going? What's happening?
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Where's the bomb going to go off? Sort of like waterboarding without the water.
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I can understand why you would use this law for the most extreme terrorists, but Tommy
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is not a terrorist. They didn't accuse him of that. They just wanted to ask him a bunch of questions
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about his politics. I think that's absolutely insane. They held him for hours. They held him for
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almost half a day, but it's not the first time that either politician or people in the law enforcement
00:31:12.120
try to paint him as a terrorist. It's easy afterwards. If you paint someone as a terrorist
00:31:17.000
that all the supporter would just maybe reflect on, do I'm still like following someone who has been
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labeled as a terrorist? I don't have to have that, uh, on my shoulder afterwards. Uh, it's easy also
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to remove his own rights to defend himself and to have the freedom of, uh, speech and, uh, the,
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the freedom to have like a fair defense. Um, I think they know that if they just invoke the regular
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law, it will not work. So I think if they just use the terrorist act, because it's a stronger law
00:31:53.000
that will permit them to go a little bit further and try to find something when they know they will
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not find anything. So this will kind of stay behind his, like behind his shoulder, like the fact that
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he had been arrested and detained under the terrorist act that will all be on internets.
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And so it will stay forever that, that this man have been arrested and it's what they try to do.
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They try to paint a narrative behind him. So the people, when they would do research on him,
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they will see all kinds of bad things that he supposedly have done, but he did it.
00:32:30.840
Right. You know, that's such a good point. I was just talking about how
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Elon Musk has re-normalized Tommy Robinson by putting him back on Twitter. And, and I showed you
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even some mainstream media was saying, Oh, that guy's not that bad. Well, you arrest someone under the
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terrorism act. Everyone gets scared again. And then suddenly he's not a normal citizen anymore.
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They let him go. By the way, he was released yesterday and I think he actually left for Spain
00:32:56.340
where he lives these days. So it was just clearly a way to grab him, ask him a bunch of personal
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questions, political questions that they could never get him to answer. Take his phone without a search
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warrant or search and seizure. Like it was such an abuse of the law, but I wonder if anyone cares
00:33:15.220
because he's been abused by the law before thrown in solitary confinement by the law before. And by
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the time he finally gets an appeal, by the time justice finally does up its shoelaces, six months
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or a year and a hundred thousand pounds of legal fees has gone by. I really found it depressing what
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they did to him last night and how most of the British establishment is completely fine with it.
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Anyways, Alexa, I'm really glad you went over there. Thanks for covering it. I like to go over
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there from time to time myself. And I always try and bring it back to life here in Canada.
00:33:46.020
And what are the lessons to learn about censorship, about police abusing terrorism laws to go after
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political enemies of the state and about how Brits are waking up to defend patriotism and to stop their
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country from being overrun in mass immigration. And maybe we have a lesson to learn from them too.
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Last word to you, Alexa, if you had one thing, if you learned one thing in the UK, or if you saw one
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thing you wanted to tell Canadians, what would the one thing be?
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I would just say, the people were just saying, keep hope. Anytime there is still people standing, there is hope.
00:34:22.900
And I would say, if you believe on what we are doing is right, and we're bringing you the facts straight,
00:34:31.460
and you want to contribute to my journey, because I did all the way there, please just go over and chip
00:34:38.740
in at Battle for London. I think it would be really appreciated, because it's because all of you that
00:34:46.100
Right on. That's battleforlondon.com. That's where all of Alexa's videos will be. Great to see
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you, my friend. Thanks for taking the time. Thank you.
00:35:04.900
Hey, early this morning, I heard on the radio that a bus, a school bus, caught fire. And firemen put it
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out. And that this happened at 5am. And I thought, that's an odd news story. But then they mentioned
00:35:18.820
the neighborhood, and it was in Toronto, and actually not far from where I live.
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And I thought, I know that neighborhood. I think there's something that these reporters aren't
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telling us. So I went down there with myself. And sorry, I was dressed in sort of a funny orange
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t-shirt. Here's my report from early this morning, when I went to go check out this school bus that
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caught fire. Here, take a look. I'll say goodbye to you now, but watch this video.
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Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. Look at this burnt out school bus. I heard about it on social media.
00:35:52.100
They said there's a school bus on fire. It, quote, caught fire at 5am this morning. Police don't know
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why. Really? So actually, it's not too far away from the home of Ya'ara Sachs. This is in York Center.
00:36:06.900
Ya'ara Sachs is the local member of parliament in this heavily Jewish district. You can see another shot
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of the vehicle just torched. There's a bunch of other vehicles here. More school buses,
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more school buses. What are these school buses? And why would one catch fire at 5am? Well,
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these school buses are for Jewish schools. In fact, you can see the markings on them. That says
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Bobov. That's the name of a Jewish school around here. And in fact, let me just show you. I'm walking
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around a little bit more. That's a large Jewish synagogue right back there. But these aren't just
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any old school buses. These are Jewish school buses. And every single one of them has markings that says
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Banos Bez Chaya in Toronto. That's another Jewish school nearby. So why do you think this school bus
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caught fire at 5am? Why do you think the media are so incurious as not to ask? Hi there. Hi, how are you?
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What do you think is going on? Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that they're
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Jewish school buses? I can't comment on that. I don't know. We're still going under investigation.
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Do you know who would be able to comment? You can call 32 Division. 32 Division? All right.
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Any witnesses? I don't know that yet. Okay. Well, as I was on the scene of the crime,
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the owner of the school bus, Alex, pulled up and he agreed to chat with me for a minute. Alex,
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tell me a little bit about this bus. This was a bus used for Jewish schools. Is that right? Yeah,
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this is for private Jewish schools. And it was their stickers that who did this new. This is a Jew
00:37:58.180
working for the Jewish school. So like mostly it's a hate crime. So that's what I can say.
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Have the police talked to you about it at all? Yes, yes. Like I was here. We explained. We were
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helpful. Okay. We tried to understand what the situation. We said we increased the patrol on this
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area. So that's it. That's all. Do you think that response is enough? I see the media say,
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we don't know what caused that. I saw CTV and City News. I don't want to go up front. I don't know who
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did this. Right. But I just give you the information about this bus. This was a Jewish
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school. Who did this? I don't know. Not 100%. So I don't want to go up. But police agree it was arson.
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They think it was arson for sure. And what else could it be at 5 a.m.? School buses just don't
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spontaneously combust. I don't know. I don't know. You're not an expert. Yeah. So they have the
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experts in the police. So it's a late job to do this. All right. So I guess you got the nasty job
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of cleaning it up a bit. Yes. That's awful. What's going to happen? They're going to just
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tow it away and junk it, I guess. Yeah. It's going to scrap it. Yeah. All right. Thanks for talking
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with me. Good luck. I'm sorry this happened. It's okay. Thanks. Do you think it's a coincidence
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that these are Jewish school buses just parked here and that one of them caught fire at 5 a.m.?
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Or do you think it's another anti-Semitic hate crime that neither the media nor the politicians,
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including the local MP RSX, they just don't give a damn? For Rebel News, I'm Ezra LeVant.
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That's the show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
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