EZRA LEVANT ｜ Freeloading Freeland spends billions more with no plan to balance the budget
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Chrystia Freeland introduces what will hopefully be her last budget as Finance Minister. It's a last hurrah before she's kicked out of office by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She's been in office since 2015, and has been a disaster ever since.
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Hello, my friends. The new liberal budget is out. I don't think there's that many surprises in it.
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I think they're just throwing a lot of money around. Really, one last hurrah before Pierre
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Polyev kicks him out. That's my hope, at least. I'll take you through it, and then we'll interview
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Ian Moss Chong, a Rebel News contributor. The Australian government is trying to censor him.
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Well, see what's up there. That's all ahead. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber
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you're helping Rebel News. We do not take a dime from Trudeau, and it shows. All right, here's today's
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podcast. Tonight, Chrystia Freeland introduces what will
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hopefully be her last budget. It's April 16th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Chrystia Freeland has always been a terrible choice for anything important in government. She really
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has never had a real job. She's a finance minister, but has no background whatsoever in
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financial matters. She's not an economist or an accountant. In fact, her real life has been a
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disaster. I don't know if you know this, but she went away from Canada for a very long time. She spent
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some time in the States, and for some reason, someone at the large company Reuters Thompson
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appointed her to run their big high-tech project called Reuters Next. Hundreds of staff, tens of
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millions of dollars poured into it. It was going to be their next high-tech thing. She ran it into the
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ground. She blew millions, tens of millions of dollars when she was done as their leader. They just
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shut it down and walked away. Let me quote to you from an incredible recap of it. I think this was in
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BuzzFeed, which did a story on it. I'm just going to read a couple paragraphs. This is how she ran
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a company into the ground, but where instead of thinking of the company, think of what she's done
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in the department she's run. Let me quote. The project decided against using any internal resources.
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The belief was that they were mired in bureaucracy, and they were not the team to build a new vision
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for editorial, the current Reuters employee said. The decision to hire outside vendors infuriated
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skeptical Reuters insiders, said yet another former Reuters employee who was involved with the next
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project. Costs steadily rose with new hires and payments to vendors and consultants as the project
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dragged on, and the launch date was continually postponed. While earlier articles estimated the cost
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at around $5 million, sources close to the project said that actual figure was three to four times
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that amount, or between $15 and $20 million. Moreover, the first former Reuters employee said
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that the Activate, that was a consultant they'd hired, was paid $300,000 a month. I won't go on,
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but you can see a few things. Refusing to take advice from anyone who knows what they're doing. Hiring
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outside contractors and consultants at shocking high prices. Not listening to anyone. And then, of course,
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she just bailed out and walked away as the whole thing crumpled. Imagine putting that woman in
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charge of anything. I mean, it's like the Arrive Can scandal. They were sending, the past was sending
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us a warning about the future. Before she destroyed that product, seriously, when she was done with
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Reuters next, Reuters just walked away from that crater. They didn't even try and pick up the pieces.
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Before that, she wrote a pop culture book called Plutocrats, where she pretended to be against the
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super rich. But she basically fawned over billionaires. It was sort of like Lifestyles at the Rich and Famous.
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I think that's where she met George Soros, the billionaire leftist. And they sort of had a
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platonic romance. And Chrystia Freeland was hired as George Soros' official biographer. That was her title
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until she entered Parliament. She did not disconnect from Soros at all. I don't know if you remember
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this, but Trudeau was elected in the fall of 2015. His first World Economic Forum meeting was in January
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2016. Chrystia Freeland set that all up. And that was the famous meeting with Soros and Trudeau.
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And the larger version of the photo we always show you, Chrystia Freeland's there too. The three of them,
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that was the connection between Soros and Trudeau. Anyways, when she came back to Canada to run
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for Parliament, she had been away for so long. And she bought a house in Toronto for $1.3 million.
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And this made a little bit of news because it was such an expensive house. Of course, these days,
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the average house in Toronto is more than a million dollars. I didn't find it particularly shocking that
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a woman in her 40s, married with kids, would buy a house in Toronto that was over a million dollars.
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I have to tell you, that is the average price of a house. Now, what was bizarre and telling to me
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is that when she came back to Toronto, this was about 11 years ago, and she bought that house,
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and both her and her husband were working. I told you some of the projects she was on.
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She needed her parents to co-sign the loan for her, to co-sign the mortgage.
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And I'm not making fun of anyone. I mean, I think most people buying a house need help in Canada
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because houses are so extraordinarily expensive, largely because Trudeau has quadrupled immigration,
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and it's just supply and demand. If you bring in 2.2 million people last year, which Trudeau did,
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obviously housing prices are going to go up. So I'm not making fun of people who are having trouble
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paying their mortgage. But if you are in your 40s and you're working and your husband's working
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and you came from all these rock star jobs and you can't get a mortgage on your own,
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what does that say about your own credit, your own ability to save? And this is the person who's
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becoming finance minister? Anyways, let's take a quick look at the budget. A huge increase in taxes.
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I bet you didn't see that coming. Capital gains tax. Everyone on the left likes capital gains tax
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because it socks it to the capitalists. That's a great idea until they all leave and go somewhere
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else where they can invest and take risks and make money and it won't be taken from them. The carbon tax,
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of course, is being jacked up again. They have an idea for a tax on vacant land. Apparently that's
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going to make people spend more money to buy houses. I think that's the theory on it.
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They say they want to help out millennials and Generation Z, so they're bringing in a vape tax.
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I think most people using vapes are young kids trying to get off of cigarettes or even they'll
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not be young kids. They could be people of any age. You may not like vapes. They may not be cool.
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They may not be aesthetic, but they're a way for people to get off of cigarettes taxing them. It's
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only, of course, going to build up a black market. But of course, the liberal thing is all about
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spending and this budget is nearly 53 billion dollars more in spending than planned. Of course,
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they take care of their base increased spending on the CBC. Of course, they're investing in anti-hate
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with over one billion dollars in cumulative spending. A billion dollars for their anti-hate,
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which, of course, is their own form of hate. They're already spending on the Online Harms Act,
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you know, Bill C-63. It hasn't passed yet, but they're already budgeting for it. That's how certain
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they are. They're going to pass their censorship bill. They have a billion in there for spending on
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students, including for housing. That's a neat trick given that about half of the students in this
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country are foreign, and they're getting help with housing. It's sort of unusual that way.
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In fact, this budget contemplates 1.1 billion dollars for foreign asylum seekers. We're actually
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going to spend 1.1 billion dollars. Gee, I wonder if that's going to attract even more migrants to our
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country. They have a weird approach to housing. Again, there's no one in Trudeau's cabinet who's
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actually ever done anything. Trudeau is not used to working class people or even business people,
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let alone people with a trade. Remember that phrase he used the other day? I met with some
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overalled people. Oh, they were wearing overalls. A few years ago, I was in Hamilton in a classic steel
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plant. I was meeting some of those overalled folks who were proud to say that they were third and even
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fourth generation steel workers in Hamilton. So much for a part of the working people.
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They don't know how housing is built. They just know they want to do more of it. So they announced
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that they're going to double the number of houses being built in this country, 4 million new houses.
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How do you literally double the number of houses being built? You can't do that. There's not enough
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construction people. It's just an insane idea. Their aforementioned land tax. They have this idea
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that they're going to turn post offices and national defense land into housing projects.
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I don't think lack of land is the problem. I really don't. Canada is the second largest
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country in the world. Now, I know a lot of that is the Arctic, but it's not land. There's no shortage of
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land. They say they're going to double housing bills, but I just don't know how. I don't think
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they know how. I think they just think if they announce it with great emphasis, it'll happen.
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You know, I don't think this budget's going to move the needle on anything
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other than there's throwing money around for one last party for all their friends, the anti-hate
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industry, the CBC, foreign migrants, foreign students. It's just really one last
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round of free drinks before the bar is shut down. I don't think anyone who is hostile to them is even
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listening to them anymore at this point. And it reminds me of this tweet by David Coletto,
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my favorite pollster. He's with Abacus, which leans liberal. But I think David's a smart guy.
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And he said this a few weeks ago, so this was not about the budget. He was
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talking about other liberal announcements. But I think what he said applies today, too.
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think about a situation in your own life when you've decided you don't like or trust someone.
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How hard is it for that person to win you back? That's what is happening with PM Trudeau at the
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moment. People think a lot of the policies they are rolling out are good. They just aren't going to
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vote for him again. Now, I don't know if people think Trudeau's policies are good or bad. I think
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most people aren't even listening to them. And they're not analyzing them. Like, you're just going
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to wave a wand and an extra two million houses will magically appear because you're going to make some
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of them on post office land. They're just making it up as they go. But I think David Coletto is right.
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No one likes Trudeau anymore. No one trusts him anymore. No one's listening to him anymore.
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This budget was just about passing around the freebies before they're thrown out of office.
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It's a tough question for social media companies. What do you censor in the name of taste or obscenity or
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violence? And I mention that because, of course, whenever there's a terrorist attack or, let's say,
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a mass shooter incident, on the one hand, everyone wants to know the news. And they don't want to be
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told you can't handle the truth. On the other hand, what is just titillating violence for its own
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sake? What is something that should not be shown for reasons of age or taste or perhaps even turning
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a mass killer into a celebrity? But I'll tell you where I come down on the subject. I'm an adult,
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and most social media apps have a minimum age cut off. You can't be on it if you're under 14 or 16,
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I suppose. Of course, there's parental settings. And where I come down is if I want to see the news,
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I want to see the news. There is no one else I trust to see the news for me and to decide for me
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if I'm grown up enough to see it. And I say this because the other day there was a stabbing attack,
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motivated, it turns out, by radical Islam, a stabbing attack on a Christian priest in Australia.
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And of course, his religious ceremony was being live streamed. And this is the shocking moment.
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I'm going to warn you that this is a troubling sight to see, but that's what we're talking about here.
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Well, that man was quickly overpowered and taken into custody. Our contributor,
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Ian Miles Chung, who is very active on Twitter, was one of the people who tweeted that video out early.
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And he tweeted it not to be salacious, but because it was a central piece of evidence in the story,
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like a prosecutor would put exhibit A to a jury. Here's what's going on. And that was fine under
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Twitter's rules. But it wasn't fine for Australia's new e-safety commissioner. Yes, there is such a thing.
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Joining us now is our friend Ian Miles Chung to tell us what this e-safety commissioner did
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when Ian shared the news. Ian, great to see you again. Thanks for taking the time.
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The e-safety commissioner, her job, she's Julia Inman Grant. She used to work for Twitter, so she has a
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bit of an axe to grind with Elon Musk. She doesn't like Twitter very much or X these days. And she is
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claiming that X is a hotbed of extremist propaganda, disinformation, so on and so forth. Like we see this
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narrative being told day after day from every single person just like her, right? You had the
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disinformation governance board in America. That's been shut down. But unfortunately, Australia has
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her. And she wants me and perhaps a few other people to take down the video of the stabbing,
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as well as the previous stabbing in Sydney that claimed the lives of six people. Now,
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there's nothing in the previous video that even shows any stabbings. It simply shows police attending
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to the victims. And she wants us to take it down. Why? Because it goes against the narrative that
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Sydney's a peaceful place. Right. I forgot about that other stabbing as well. Sydney in Australia has
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had a lot of terrorizing moments. Now, I want to check with you because I follow you on Twitter
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closely, of course. But the particular tweets that this e-safety commissioner was complaining about,
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you just showed the original images. You didn't lie about them. I don't even think you had a lot
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of commentary. You were just describing them like a photo caption might describe a photo.
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Was there anything in particular that seemed to stick in the craw of this e-safety commissioner other
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than, like you say, it went against the narrative. He was someone who apparently, it sounds like he
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shouted, Allah Akbar, when he stabbed this priest. And then that other stabbing incident in the mall,
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I think you just described them. Was there something in particular that bothered this lady?
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Yes. I don't know. Because when I posted those videos, like for instance, with the stabbing the
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church, I didn't even catch what he said. I have no idea what he said. And while some people may
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suggest that he said Allah Akbar, I don't know for sure. Right. I wasn't there, obviously. Right.
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And I simply posted it as is, because that's what I saw on the live stream. That's what many people saw on
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the live stream. Millions of people tune in. It is Mar Mari Emmanuel, and he's extremely popular. So,
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you know, her trying to take down these videos, it's a bit like putting the toothpaste back in the
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I guess this e-safety commissioner, because she came from Twitter before the Elon Musk free speech
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era, she's used to being your babysitter, your minder, your governess. And if I was a child, I suppose I
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would have to yield to the judgment of a babysitter. But I'm a man, and I'm interested in the news, and
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I can choose. And maybe there's a setting on Twitter. There is, in fact. You can have it use AI to screen
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out adult images or not. Google calls it safe search, etc. All the apps have it. It urges me that she wants
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to be my nanny. I got a question for you. Would you have heard about this complaint had Twitter not
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disclosed it to you? Like, you didn't receive any inquiry directly from this net nanny, did you?
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None whatsoever. This woke commissar simply lodged a complaint with Twitter, sorry, X, and claimed that
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I was violating the laws of Australia. No details were given. X is, you know, they're extremely
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transparent, and they didn't provide me any details of this. So she simply took, you know, action and
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tried to take these videos down. Now, keep in mind, I'm not a citizen of Australia. She has no
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jurisdiction over me, nor does she have any jurisdiction over X, for that matter. And yet she
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somehow sees fit to try to remove a bit of news that is not to her liking. And now keep in mind,
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the video, when it was posted, it was like, I personally flagged it as sensitive. So you do
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have to toggle the safety thing to turn it off and actually see it. So you yourself took steps
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to telegraph to viewers, this is sensitive. So you actually did give a sort of viewers guidance,
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viewer discretion advice. I didn't know you did that. Well, that shows that you were being very
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thoughtful about it. You know, you mentioned a moment ago that this sensor does not have jurisdiction
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over you. I think that's true. But you said she doesn't have jurisdiction over Twitter, or X. I
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don't know if that's true, because of course, maybe that's not true. Every jurisdiction Twitter operates,
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X operates, I keep saying Twitter, because it'll take me another five years to get the new terminology.
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They have to abide by the laws in which they're active. We've recently seen how Brazil has tried
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to twist their arm to get them to censor political enemies of the regime or something. It's quite shocking.
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Um, theoretically, if this sensor had legal authority, she could put some sort of ban on Twitter,
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a fine on Twitter, even do what Brazil looks like it might do, which is ban Twitter.
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Um, but that raises another question. What exactly are her powers? What exactly is the law? And
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frankly, how dare she have a sneak attack on you without even reaching out to you? Those are
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questions I think that we should probably try and find answers to in the days ahead. Like, is she just a
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complainer? Does she have any, does she have a bite as well as the bark? I don't know.
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I don't know. I think she has the ability to make suggestions to the government to take action,
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but I don't think she has any direct powers. You know, it would be interesting to see who,
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I wonder what, one of the things that gets me about this, Ian, is it was a sneak attack
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on you, if you know what I mean. You didn't hear about it from her. You didn't get a copy of it from
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her. You heard about it because Twitter disclosed it to you. How many other complaints has she filed?
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Are they always disclosed? Who does she choose to go after? Is she partisan and biased? I bet she is.
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I bet she leans one way as most of these censors do. It, it just, I find it irritating that you have
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these sneaky secret censors. And you only heard about it because Twitter told you about it. I, I
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find this troubling. Um, because who knows what we don't know what we don't know, right? It's like
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the dog that didn't bark. Exactly. Like what in Brazil, right in Brazil, they are censoring users
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without telling them. And they're even threatening X over there to, uh, if, you know, if they were to
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disclose to their users, why they were censored, X could get in trouble for that. So that's a major
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issue. And you know, that's just one country. I mean, is this going on in Australia? What about
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other countries as well? We have no idea. We have no way of knowing at least not yet. And I think we
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need to be asking these questions directly to these people to hold them accountable.
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There's this wave of censorship around the world. It really feels coordinated. You've got Ireland,
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you've got Scotland, you've got England, you've got Canada. Um, I think the E-Safety Commissioner
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has been in Australia for a while. New Zealand, hopefully it's been put on hold since Jacinda Ardern's
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party was turfed. But all these countries seem to be doing it once. My theory is that they're doing it
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in 2024 because a big, important U.S. election is coming. So they want to put the screws on all the
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social media companies. When I was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, the two names I
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heard the most were Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They want to stop Trump and Elon Musk is one of
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their problems because he's not playing game, playing along with their censorship plans. I
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think this wave of censorship, although it was targeting you this, this week, I think their
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larger target is the U.S. election. Yeah, I think you may be right. Donald Trump represents a threat to
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all of their interests. The moment he's elected, and I hope he will be, we are going to see the rise of
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nationalism worldwide. I mean, we've seen this with Argentina, we see it with El Salvador, with Hungary,
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and a few other countries. And they don't want this to happen. I mean, there have been many exposés
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recently showing that members of the European Union have been using their intelligence agencies to
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suppress other political parties, particularly the AFD in Germany, for example. They used it against them.
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Right. Well, this is very interesting. Listen, keep us posted. And of course, you're a rebel contributor,
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and we like to defend the free speech of our journalists. So right now, I would say this is,
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they didn't have a direct hit on you. In fact, it was like a warning shot. Twitter's the one that gave
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you the warning. If this gets darker or worse, let us know, because we do have a great lawyer in
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Australia. We've gotten to know him because he's defended our guy down there, Avi Yamini,
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so many times. So keep us posted. And for now, take it as a feather in your hat that you irritated
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a censor. That's got to be a good sign. Yes, it is. It means I'm over the target. I'm doing the right
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thing. And I'm going to keep doing the right thing. They can't silence me. Right on. Ian, great to see
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you. Thanks for taking the time. Absolutely. That's Ian Miles Chong, a Rebel News contributor.
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Hey, instead of letters today, let me show you a strange thing that happened not too far from our
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rebel world headquarters. I don't know. Maybe it's not that important, but I think it's a sign of the
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times that racist graffiti and vandalism is just standard fare. Take a look at this video I filmed
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Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. I'm standing in Toronto on Dufferin Street. It's an interesting
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neighborhood. Lots of Italian and Portuguese people, but also the Jewish community to the east of here.
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The local member of the provincial parliament is Robin Martin, MPP. You can see her address here
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on Dufferin Street. You can also see some police. One, two, three police cars. I think there's been
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about four police here because Robin Martin's office has been vandalized, graffitied, and otherwise
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attacked by these Hamas street gangs. Here, let's take a look around. Officer, excuse me. Officer,
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how you doing? I'm Ezra Levant from Rebel News, and I heard that there was some anti-Semitic
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vandalism. Can you tell us when this was discovered?
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Well, so we're still investigating. At this time, we don't have a lot of information.
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Fair enough. May I? I don't want to get in your way,
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but I wouldn't mind knocking on the door to see if I could talk to someone. Is that okay?
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Right now, this part is a crime scene, but please don't go inside.
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Okay, I won't go inside. So what we just heard is that it's an active crime scene,
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You can see the word killed by Israel and a lot of pictures in the style
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of the posters that the Jewish community has put up of the kidnapped victims of Hamas.
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You can see that red paint, I presume symbolizing blood, is splashed out front. Shame on Robin, genocide
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supporter. She has a very low profile, as frankly, all MPPs have. The officer just telling me it's an
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active crime scene. They don't have any tape up, but that it's still being investigated. I'm sure
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that's true. I'm not sure what they could find. Perhaps there is fingerprints on it. I'm not sure.
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There may be some surveillance cameras. I see that there is a ring door buzzer surveillance system
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at the door there. Perhaps if you know the ring system, it's motion detected as well as doorbell
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activated. So it looks like there's at least one surveillance camera that may have caught the
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perpetrator. As I was saying before the officer came up to me, Robin Martin, like all of Doug Ford's MPPs,
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has kept a very low profile during the last six months of Hamas hate marches, anti-Semitism,
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hate speech, and said, oh, it looks like the cops are going, let's turn our camera around.
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Looks like some more officers have arrived. I think we're pretty fresh here on the scene,
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which is slightly confusing to me because it's about 1230 in the afternoon. And I guess the
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politician's office doesn't really start at the crack of dawn if police were only notified now.
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As I was saying before I interrupted myself, the provincial government, it has a police force,
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the OPP, the Ontario Provincial Police, and as well, they master the prosecutors in Ontario.
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You have the Toronto Police, you have the Ontario Provincial Police, you have the RCMP,
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but typically when they charge someone with a crime, it's the provincial prosecutors who report to the
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Ontario Attorney General who prosecute them. And so the lenience we've seen towards the Hamas
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hate marches, the ubiquity of the vandalism, the mischief, the graffiti, the anti-Semitic chants,
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the targeting of Jewish MPPs, the targeting of Jewish schools and synagogues.
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The person who has been declining to prosecute is Doug Ford and, ironically, Robin Martin. MPP,
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who has not said a word about the hate marches, who won't lift a finger to stop them,
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is now a victim of them. There's some poetry there, although it's dark poetry. Every single day in Doug
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Ford's Ontario, laws are being broken. People chant their support for terrorist groups against the
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criminal code. People fly the flags of terrorist groups against the criminal code. People beset Jewish
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synagogues and disturb them against section 1762 of the criminal code. We've seen people blocking
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streets, blocking entire Jewish neighborhoods against the criminal code. The police have typically been
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ordered to stand down. That's a decision by Toronto's communist mayor, Olivia Chow. But the decision
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not to prosecute these Hamas hate marches. That's 100% on Doug Ford. And Robin Martin's office,
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which is vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, don't expect her to raise a finger. If she didn't
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care for you, do you think she'll care for herself? I doubt it. On the streets of Toronto, this is Ezra Levant.
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Yeah, I think that if this were anti-black racism against a black MPP, it would be the top of the news,
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but it's just anti-Semitic racism. And we know we're not supposed to criticize those folks because
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they're Trudeau's voter base. So I don't think that'll make even the Toronto Star basic news. I think it's
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the new normal in Canada now is pro-Hamas hate marches, anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism.
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The police don't care. I mean, they show up and write up a few reports, but there won't be any arrests.
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That's our 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.