A liberal pollster says conservatives believe in conspiracy theories. Is it true? And who's right? This is the second part in a series called "Trust and Facts: What Canadians Believe" by Ezra Levenant, where he takes a deep dive into a new survey by Abacus Data into Conspiracy Theories.
00:07:58.160But you don't have to speak the same language to understand that we're all in this together. Divorce
00:08:02.160is not an option. And so we're here on the issue that extends, I think, a global consciousness,
00:08:07.160and that's the issue of climate change. And you're in a state where we're experiencing the extremes.
00:08:12.160And so we're on the leading and cutting edge of not only dealing with the realities of it,
00:08:16.160but also the opportunities. And that's why it's so wonderful to have you down here, Prime Minister,
00:08:20.160to focus on those partnerships and the opportunity advanced together.
00:08:24.160We only build a better world if we're doing it together. And gathering like-minded partners
00:08:28.160like California and Governor Newsom is the way that we make this better future a reality for everyone.
00:08:34.160Yeah, who knows what any of that even means. But like I say, not a word about high prices or jobs
00:08:49.160or fixing his mess up here. Just a couple of guys admiring each other's hairdos. So that's where this
00:08:56.160whole fits in. Trudeau isn't wrong. He's never wrong. The people are wrong. The fact that the people
00:09:05.160don't believe him, obey him, support him means that they must be nuts or misled or ignorant or into
00:09:11.160conspiracy theories. It's the only reason why any person wouldn't support Trudeau. I mean,
00:09:17.160those truckers, right? How dare they? They must be Vladimir Putin stooges. It's the only explanation
00:09:25.160that fits. I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis
00:09:33.160with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be
00:09:41.160continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.
00:09:48.160Yeah, right. So let's look at this liberal poll. Quote, 44%, the equivalent of 13 million adults,
00:09:56.160believe, quote, big events like wars, recessions, and the outcomes of elections are controlled by small
00:10:02.160groups of people working in secret against us. Almost as many agree, much of our lives are being
00:10:08.160controlled by plots hatched in secret places. Sounds pretty nefarious. I mean, who would believe that
00:10:15.160ridiculous theory? Except we just have lived through the past two years, and I mean, the pollster asked
00:10:22.160about big events if they're controlled by a small group. Okay, can you think of a big event in the
00:10:29.160last couple of years? Anything come to mind? Anything? Yeah. The pandemic, maybe. Maybe the biggest event ever.
00:10:36.160It's systematic propagandization, the censorship and even persecution of doubters or critics,
00:10:44.160even doctors who dare to dissent, the unprecedented suspension of our civil liberties heretofore,
00:10:49.160unheard of mass group punishments telling us when we could leave our houses, telling us who we can have
00:10:55.160over to our houses, if we could go to church or not, if we could open up our businesses or go to other
00:11:01.160people's businesses, even entire populations being locked down in a curfew like in Quebec.
00:11:06.160Children banned from going to school. Children forced to wear masks.
00:11:10.160Or this, you know, police enforcing such absurd laws brutally.
00:11:15.160None of this was debated in a legislature. None of this was done using our normal democratic processes.
00:11:21.160Not here in Canada, not in the UK, not in Australia, not in America. It was so obviously designed to give
00:11:26.160exemptions for the elites, for the fancy people. Your kid was banned from playing hockey.
00:11:32.160But the NHL lobbied and got an exception. So they were allowed to play.
00:11:37.160Suddenly Theresa Tam was our boss. Who was she? Where did she come from?
00:11:42.160Who did she answer to? Who decided she was our ruler? What exactly is the World Health Organization?
00:11:48.160And since when did they have sovereignty over us? Why can't we ask about China's virus labs?
00:11:55.160Why did Google and YouTube and Facebook and Instagram censor us for asking real questions?
00:12:01.160Why were the vaccine companies given legal immunity for any harm coming from their products?
00:12:06.160And then why were we forced to take those experimental medical products on pain of losing our jobs or access to the public square?
00:12:14.160So, yeah, look at that question again. Big events like wars, recessions and the outcomes of elections are controlled by small groups of people working in secret against us.
00:12:28.160I'm just amazed that 56 percent of people think that the last two years was some sort of normal democratic outcome.
00:12:35.160I mean, I'm not sure if I'd put wars in there. Canada, I don't think, has been in a war in a while.
00:12:40.160I think Afghanistan would be the last one. And that one was indeed subject to a great amount of political debate in this country.
00:12:47.160I don't think we're actually involved in the Ukraine war in any real way other than rhetorically.
00:12:52.160But still, how did pushing Russia out of Ukraine become the world's most important subject?
00:12:59.160So much so that we are actually risking an all out war with a nuclear armed rival.
00:13:05.160I mean, forget about Canada. Trudeau is just a poser who sees Ukraine as another fun trip away from Canada and our problems here and a great photo op.
00:13:14.160But even for Americans, they approved 40 billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine in like one night's debate.
00:13:20.160There's no declaration of war. I'm not sure how it all happened so quickly. Are you?
00:13:24.160But I do know it does meet the description that these pollsters use.
00:13:28.160And in terms of a recession, look, I don't know about that, but I know that a small group of people, Trudeau,
00:13:34.160his out of control spending and the Bank of Canada that was happy to just print the money for him to spend.
00:13:41.160I mean, they really are the forces behind our inflation and our cost of living and the inevitable reaction to that rising interest rates that will make everyone with a mortgage have to pay more each month.
00:13:53.160And again, where was the debate about all this in Parliament?
00:13:57.160What debate has there even been in the media?
00:14:00.160It's unanimous and all in favor of all these things.
00:14:03.160I mean, journalists are economically illiterate to begin with.
00:14:06.160So, yeah. But if the shoe fits a small cabal of politicians, Trudeau's cabinet and the elite and secretive board of the Bank of Canada did, in fact, collude behind closed doors to give us the conditions for a recession, which is surely looming.
00:14:21.160So, yeah. Take a look at this. This is a chart from the pollster abacus data.
00:14:30.160Much of our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places, they ask.
00:14:34.160Yeah. Like the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
00:14:38.160The world's elite was there and the ordinary people were kept out of their secret meetings.
00:14:44.160We tried to get in, they wouldn't let us in.
00:14:47.160It's not a conspiracy theory to point out that Christa Freeland, our deputy prime minister, our finance minister, is literally on the board of governors of that secretive society.
00:14:57.160And that the boss of that secretive society, Klaus Schwab, brags about that fact.
00:15:03.160But what we are very proud of now is the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, president of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets.
00:15:18.160I would know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet, are actually young global leaders of the world.
00:15:32.160So, if that were not true, wouldn't Christa Freeland correct him?
00:15:38.160Wouldn't she resign from his board of governors?
00:15:40.160How does a cabinet minister, who has to be loyal to Canada, manage to be on a board loyal to another entity that seeks to create world economic policy?
00:16:02.160This is a real photograph published by the prime minister's own photo account.
00:16:06.160That's him at the World Economic Forum, and that's George Soros, and that's Christa Freeland, who was Soros' official biographer before she was elected.
00:16:15.160None of this is contested. These are facts.
00:16:18.160So, how could you possibly answer the pollster's question with anything other than, yes, much of our lives are controlled by plots, hatched in secret places?
00:16:27.160Yeah, maybe I'd add Wuhan, China to one of those places.
00:16:31.160But, again, it's a secret. How do I know?
00:16:34.160Even the pro-liberal Toronto Star wants to know what that's all about, including the Chinese spies who were working in Canada's top secret virus facility.
00:16:46.160Trudeau's blocking those facts from being released. Why? Why the secrecy?
00:16:51.160Here are some specific questions from Abacus Data. They're interesting.
00:16:57.160World Economic Forum group of elites with secret strategy to impose on the world.
00:17:04.16020% of people say, yeah, 37% aren't sure, and 42% don't agree.
00:17:09.160Well, it's incredible to me that 20% of people even know about the World Economic Forum.
00:17:14.160There is no mainstream media coverage of it other than to deny that it's a problem.
00:17:19.160We sent six reporters to the World Economic Forum this year, but they were almost no other media other than our friend Andrew Lawton from True North.
00:17:28.160I should be more precise. There were other media there. Yes. Huge media companies. New York Times, Wall Street Journal.
00:17:35.160But they were there. They were in on it. As in they were part of the secret meetings.
00:17:40.160They actually paid to be there. They were paid sponsors. They weren't reporting on it. They were inside scheming. Remember this?
00:17:47.160Rebecca, how are you doing from the New York Times? Can I ask you a quick question?
00:17:51.160This is Avi from Rebel News. How is the public meant to believe that the New York Times is here to actually ask the tough questions when you're here as an invited guest?
00:18:00.160How are people meant to rely on the mainstream media?
00:18:03.160We have, if you wouldn't mind, we're just having a, just, if you could give us, you know, thank you.
00:18:09.160You don't want to explain to people why we should trust the mainstream media? No? Of course, no comment?
00:18:15.160Here's another question from the pollster. Secret societies control the world.
00:18:19.16022% agree, 31% unsure, and 47% no. Well, I don't know. The World Economic Forum is secretive.
00:18:26.160The United Nations is secretive. George Soros is secretive.
00:18:30.160But he does tell us some things. Here's his official website, the Open Society Foundations.
00:18:35.160If you scroll slowly down it, you can see all of the places around the world where they're propping up left wing activists,
00:18:42.160undermining local sovereignty and basically trying to buy democracy.
00:18:48.160He even has funded violent revolutions in other parts of the world, the so-called color revolutions in Eastern Europe.
00:18:55.160You can see they brag about having spent 18 billion dollars.
00:19:00.160And all the way down, you can see that Soros has pledged 32 billion of his own fortune.
00:19:04.160So, yeah, I'm not sure it's a secret society, but it's secretive and it's definitely undemocratic.
00:19:10.160And it absolutely has a huge impact on the world, including in Canada.
00:19:18.160I think when you say secret society, people think of a cult, something quasi-religious, maybe, or a sex cult or whatever.
00:19:27.160They think of the Freemasons, that sort of thing, the Illuminati.
00:19:31.160I don't know a lot about those, but I am aware of some other secret societies.
00:19:37.160Like the casting coach culture in Hollywood, where countless actresses were extorted into sex or actually raped by Hollywood producers or else they'd be blacklisted from the industry.
00:19:50.160Of course, it wasn't just women. It was boys that were preyed upon.
00:20:07.160And Harvey Weinstein, the rapist, was a huge Democrat, huge Hillary Clinton supporter in particular.
00:20:14.160And there were child actors who complained about being raped in Hollywood, but they were treated as kooks or cranks or liars.
00:20:21.160When, in fact, everyone actually knew about it, they were all just too cowardly to say it publicly because they would put their own careers in jeopardy if they did.
00:20:29.160Here's Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain's widow, back in 2005, a dozen years before Weinstein was finally taken down.
00:20:52.160But if you said anything, you were called a kook and you were blacklisted.
00:20:57.160But that's nothing compared to Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a worldwide child trafficking ring for the world's richest elites, for the oligarchs, for the billionaires, for the political leaders.
00:21:12.160Bill Gates met with Epstein dozens of times.
00:21:16.160Do you think they were talking about computers or something? No.
00:21:20.160Epstein was a child rapist and a pimp of children to other child rapists.
00:21:25.160Why did Melinda Gates take so long to speak out?
00:21:28.160She finally did, but why did she take so long?
00:21:30.160You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you.
00:21:40.160Did that play a role in the divorce at all in this process?
00:32:52.160Here's a video from 10 years ago of what it looks like.
00:32:55.160A microchip is placed under the skin using a hypodermic needle that isn't any more painful than a typical shot.
00:33:01.160Your pet doesn't need surgery or anesthesia, so it can be implanted during a routine office visit.
00:33:07.160If your pet is already under anesthesia for surgery, your veterinary can do it then as well.
00:33:12.160A microchip contains an identification number that matches the owner's contact information listed in the microchip database.
00:33:19.160Of course, you don't need to actually plant a chip in people because they're carrying it around in their hands,
00:33:25.160not just a little microchip, but a powerful computer with a GPS tracker, a camera, a microphone, and all your emails and photos in it, your cell phone.
00:33:36.160If you have a smartphone and use almost any app, you surely see the question pop up.
00:33:41.160Do you allow this app to access your contacts?
00:33:44.160Do you allow this app to access your camera, your microphone, your GPS, your photos?
00:33:50.160So sometimes you're warned, and sure, you can say no, but then the apps might not work.
00:33:56.160And obviously, apps based on your camera and microphone like TikTok, what's the point if you don't give them access to your microphone and camera?
00:34:04.160So yeah, what kind of nut thinks big tech is tracking you and nudging you?
00:34:10.160What kind of nut thinks that big tech is creating a database about you and is using that information to affect you,
00:34:16.160whether it's your shopping habits or your political habits?
00:34:19.160Only a crazy conspiracy theorist would believe that.
00:34:22.160Yeah, or someone who understands how social media works and has read the terms of service.
00:34:27.160I want to show you one more slide from this poll, and it's this one here.
00:34:31.160This is the demographic breakdown of people who answered that one World Economic Forum question.
00:34:37.160You can see the national average, like I mentioned, is 22% of people who believe the World Economic Forum has a strategy to impose their ideas on the world.
00:34:47.160Now, I have to stop myself because it isn't even a matter of opinion that they have a strategy.
00:35:50.160I think it's because the ideas of the World Economic Forum are essentially leftist and authoritarian and against the idea of a nation state.
00:36:03.160You can see the real purpose of this poll, though, is the very next line to somehow smear Pierre Polyev as a kook leading an army of kooks.
00:36:13.16034% of Polyev supporters are worried about the World Economic Forum compared to just 13% of Charest supporters who are worried about this actually lower than the Liberal Party number.
00:36:44.160If you were a skeptic of unchecked power, of secrecy, of hidden elites, of oligarch, as if you're skeptical of gatekeepers, as Polyev would say.
00:36:56.160Well, who on earth would you support as your political leader?
00:36:59.160Trudeau, who loves to hobnob with them?
00:37:02.160If you were worried about these things, how could you possibly support forces of the establishment status quo?
00:37:11.160What this is really about is coming up with an alternative reality and alternative explanation for why Trudeau and the establishment elites are unpopular.
00:37:23.160Trudeau is not unpopular because he's a shallow, vain, slippery politician who denounces people as racist if they disagree.
00:37:30.160No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's not unpopular because he put Canada under a form of martial law and threw his peaceful enemies in prison and seized their bank accounts.
00:37:41.160No, no, no. He's not unpopular because he's ruining our economy.
00:37:46.160Justin Trudeau is unpopular because we, the people, aren't worthy of him.
00:37:50.160We don't see his greatness and we're being tricked and conned by conspiracy theories like the outlandish idea that unelected people had power over us during the lockdowns or that our cabinet pays more attention to George Soros or Klaus Schwab than do, I don't know, to truckers or ordinary Canadians.
00:38:11.900But here's what the pollsters say in their conclusion. I'll just pick out a few lines.
00:38:18.900Only recently we've witnessed how a massive demand for the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines fostered a strenuous effort by those who disbelieve government and media to deny the value of those same vaccines.
00:38:31.900What did you say? Massive demand stimulated a reaction to the vaccines?
00:38:37.900No, I mean, I guess if you threaten to fire anyone in society who doesn't take a vaccine and then you ban any contrarians from going to stores or schools or restaurants or gyms or flying on airlines or.
00:38:51.900Yeah, I guess you'll get massive demand. And I don't know about you, but I'm not sure if massive demand for the vaccine has made someone calling for a vaccine to be banned or something.
00:39:03.900It's just freedom to choose, really. They say these vaccines have great value and they don't mean financial value to Pfizer. They mean to citizens.
00:39:13.900Yeah, again, I guess that's up to the individual to determine whether or not they're valuable.
00:39:17.900I mean, I think people's opinions have changed. Here's the child predator Bill Gates admitting that, you know, these vaccines aren't exactly what they were promised to be.
00:39:24.900Economic damage, you know, the deaths. It's been completely horrific. And I would expect that will lead the R&D budgets to be focused on things we didn't have today.
00:39:40.900You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmissions.
00:39:48.900We need a new a new way of doing the vaccine.
00:39:51.900Yeah. So here's how these pollsters conclude. Perhaps the most disconcerting thing in these numbers is the fact that mistrust of institutional accounts isn't simply neutral skepticism.
00:40:04.900It is often accompanied by a willingness to believe dangerous contrarian theories. This threatens to undermine the ability of political parties, businesses, civil society groups and governments to help build consensus and make progress together.
00:40:21.900We're there. Hey, guys, it's dangerous to disagree. It's dangerous to be a contrarian. You need to join us. You need to join our consensus. You need to agree with us.
00:40:34.900But we don't have to agree with you. So you're the one who has to change your views. We are normal. You are contrarian. We are safe. You are dangerous. We are neutral.
00:40:42.900You are radical, even though we're the ones who just changed all the rules. Don't you understand? They're doing what they've been doing since the beginning, redefining anyone who disagrees with their plans.
00:40:55.900Anyone who disagrees with Trudeau as dangerous, as stupid, as evil, as as a non-person. That's 67% of us, by the way. Stay with us for more.
00:41:12.900Hey, last week, I sat down with Spencer Fernando to talk about this growing scandal. Take a look.
00:41:25.680We invoked the Emergencies Act after we received advice from law enforcement.
00:41:29.940The advice we received was to invoke the Emergencies Act.
00:41:33.240Look, I don't want to speak for every last serving member of law enforcement, but there was a very strong consensus that we needed to invoke the act.
00:41:41.060We invoked the act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement.
00:41:48.840The advice that we were getting was that law enforcement needed the Emergencies Act.
00:41:54.560It was only after we got advice from law enforcement that we invoked the Emergencies Act.
00:41:59.340And that advice came from very experienced law enforcement.
00:42:02.720We had to invoke the Emergencies Act, and we did so on the basis of non-partisan professional advice from law enforcement.
00:42:08.320And that was the advice that we were receiving from law enforcement, and one of the main reasons why we invoked the Emergencies Act.
00:42:15.340We got the advice from our law enforcement that we'd met the threshold.
00:42:18.740They then came to their judgment, as you say.
00:42:21.300And thereafter, we came to ours on the basis of the advice that we were getting from law enforcement.
00:42:27.040That's a compilation put together by our friend Cosman Georgia at True North.
00:43:28.480He and the liberal government and much of the media is now trying to say, oh, he was misunderstood, you know, just a poor misunderstood soul.
00:43:36.960And, you know, as you say, everywhere else that would just be called lying, right?
00:43:40.800And so I think, you know, it's clear that he's probably being set up as the fall guy.
00:43:46.400I think the liberals are feeling the pressure.
00:43:47.720You know, if they invoke the Emergencies Act on what clearly looks like a false pretext, then there's going to be a lot of hell to pay.
00:43:54.140And he's probably going to be set up as the fall guy for it.
00:43:57.400And they'll either throw him under the bus or try to just distance Trudeau from it.
00:44:00.620But as much as the focus should be on, you know, Mendicino being a liar, it does go back to Trudeau.
00:45:46.740Okay, you can understand that, you know, someone, if your job is to talk for a living, you know, we all know that we're going to say one or two things that don't always hold up.
00:45:53.680But he said it over and over again in many different settings, you know, press conferences, you know, speaking in parliament, speaking in committees.
00:46:01.100So it's clearly that was his line and that was the message they were going with.
00:46:04.960And so the fact that that is just completely disintegrated shows that they were lying to the whole country.
00:46:11.120And, you know, again, that is really the difference between independent media and much of the establishment.
00:46:15.520It's kind of similar to, you know, the anger when Polyev was criticizing the Bank of Canada.
00:46:20.400It's almost that they're more concerned about the tone, right?
00:46:22.640Oh, how dare you, you know, call someone a liar?
00:46:25.080How dare you criticize an institution?
00:46:27.720Whereas I think most Canadians and certainly independent media are more focused on the facts and focused on what's actually happening.
00:46:33.560You know, the tone doesn't really matter.
00:46:35.060I mean, are we supposed to be nice about the government lying to people?
00:46:38.100Are we supposed to be nice about the government using a false pretext to, you know, take away people's rights and evoke the Emergencies Act?
00:46:44.740That's not something we should just be, you know, polite about.
00:46:47.500Yeah, Mendicino and Trudeau lied about the arson in that apartment.
00:46:51.460It was completely unconnected to the truckers.
00:47:55.240My point is, Mark Mendicino made it possible and a better cabinet minister, say, like Jody Wilson-Raybould, someone who puts the truth and justice and honor above party loyalty.
00:48:10.120I put it to you, Spencer, that if someone like Jody Wilson-Raybould had been public safety minister, they would have said no to Trudeau.
00:48:20.100I think the unfortunate reality is that all those people are gone, the people who had the courage to stand up to Trudeau, the people who actually believed him when he said he was going to be about openness and transparency, those people are gone now.
00:48:32.020And so there's a few, I think Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, obviously not a high-level cabinet minister.
00:48:38.400He tried to be a little principled, and he got – we saw what the liberals did.
00:48:43.440They made it a confidence vote, and he was pressured to vote for keeping the Emergencies Act.
00:48:47.240So I just think they've gotten rid of all those people.
00:48:50.400You know, maybe there's a few left, but they're too scared and they're too quiet, which means they aren't really courageous people to begin with.
00:48:56.720Yeah, you know, you can have a political hack or a partisan liar, frankly, in a number of portfolios, and it doesn't do a lot of damage to the country.
00:49:06.840I mean, right now we're all learning that Omar al-Jabra really doesn't know how to fix any problems just watching the airport melt down.
00:49:15.760But that position of public safety minister in some ways is as powerful as the prime minister itself, but it's more hands-on with our spy agencies, our police forces, wiretapping, seizing bank accounts, dealing with the five eyes, other allies, United States, UK, Australia, New Zealand.
00:49:36.400So when you have someone who is so completely partisan and will do and say anything and lie for Trudeau in a position where he has access to spy material, where he can wiretap his enemies, I find that very unsettling.
00:49:54.180And we've seen what happens in the United States when the FBI and the CIA become colonized by a political party.
00:50:01.480I'm worried that the Canadian institutions that are our equivalents are being turned into political tools of Trudeau.
00:50:08.020And I think that's a real banana republic move.
00:50:09.960Yeah, I think that's part of the reason that trust institutions across the country is really collapsing.
00:50:16.460The Bank of Canada seems very partisan and seems very influenced by the Trudeau government.
00:50:20.680The Supreme Court, I mean, they're complaining that people want to interfere with them, but you have the chief justice criticizing the freedom convoy.
00:50:27.200You have them making rulings saying, oh, you can't have multiple, you can't have life in prison for, you know, mass murderers.
00:50:34.120So, you know, all these institutions are discrediting themselves.
00:50:36.860And then instead of taking responsibility, they just blame Canadians for being angry at them.
00:50:40.900And so I think that's the same thing Trudeau's trying to do with public safety and really with every part of the government.
00:50:46.260Turn everything that was nonpartisan and somewhat objective into something that serves his interests and the interests of the liberal.
00:50:51.800Yeah, I'm just worried that our checks and balances in this country are failing, and it makes me worried.