Rebel News Podcast - August 31, 2021


EZRA LEVANT | Mainstream media can't figure out why Canadians are heckling Justin Trudeau


Episode Stats

Length

37 minutes

Words per Minute

149.11201

Word Count

5,533

Sentence Count

366

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Justin Trudeau's campaign bus is surrounded by hecklers. Is it really as bad as the media is making it out to be? Or is it as horrific as the mainstream media is reporting? Ezra exposes the dark side of Canada's Prime Minister.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, have you been seeing what's happening on the Justin Trudeau campaign trail?
00:00:19.280 Or is it really as horrific as the mainstream media is reporting?
00:00:24.880 It's Monday, August 30th, 2021, and this is The Ezra Levin Show.
00:00:32.400 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:36.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:40.280 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:51.040 Oh, the humanity.
00:00:52.640 Have you been seeing what's happening out on the Justin Trudeau campaign trail recently, folks?
00:00:58.580 What was supposed to be friendly photo ops with the PM and his adoring superfans,
00:01:04.740 well, that's morphed into scenes seemingly lifted from The Walking Dead,
00:01:09.700 with Trudeau, the former part-time drama teacher, running away from the zombie hordes played by the, oh, Canadian electorate.
00:01:19.000 This federal election version of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre kicked off in White Rock, B.C.
00:01:25.360 last week, and my colleague, Matt Brevner, well, he was there to chronicle the action,
00:01:30.680 namely everyday people running out of their houses and making a beeline towards Justin,
00:01:36.480 not to pose in a selfie, mind you, but rather to loudly voice their displeasure.
00:01:42.420 Here, check out the footage, and whatever you do, kids,
00:01:45.060 don't forget to put on your 3D glasses.
00:01:48.960 You're a local, you live in the White Rock area?
00:01:50.920 Yeah, yeah, I live in White Rock, yeah.
00:01:52.420 Okay.
00:01:52.920 Are you a homeowner?
00:01:54.260 No, no.
00:01:55.380 So, how can you be?
00:01:56.940 How can you be these days?
00:01:58.120 I think this guy basically represents, he's a drama teacher, okay?
00:02:03.720 And he has absolutely no place in politics of a city, not to mention the country, you know?
00:02:12.720 Here, here.
00:02:13.880 Is there a way in which you feel this administration has let you down,
00:02:16.900 or that you think they've done great?
00:02:18.420 Um, you should almost feel embarrassed asking that.
00:02:24.980 Uh, Prime Minister Trudeau, are vaccine passports here to stay, sir?
00:02:29.660 Vaccine passports disproportionately affect black Canadians, sir?
00:02:33.540 Black Canadians are disproportionately unvaccinated compared to Caucasian Canadians.
00:02:38.940 Vaccine passports create a two-tiered society, sir?
00:02:42.760 Sir, will there be religious exemptions?
00:02:45.020 Will there be religious exemptions for vaccine passports, sir?
00:02:47.600 Sir, will there be religious exemptions, sir?
00:02:50.840 Do you think that it's insensitive to call a snap election when there are Canadian Armed Forces
00:02:56.440 dying in Afghanistan, stuck in Kabul, sir?
00:03:00.120 Do you think it is insensitive?
00:03:01.640 Piece of goddamn f***er!
00:03:03.380 You, you, you, you, I'm calling you, sir!
00:03:06.300 I thought you were against segregation!
00:03:09.140 I thought you were against segregation!
00:03:10.900 Wow, that looked like that old Twilight Zone episode,
00:03:16.100 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
00:03:18.860 But it only got worse for Justin Trudeau.
00:03:22.660 For example, he dropped by Bolton, Ontario on Friday for a campaign stop.
00:03:27.640 It was actually called off due to safety reasons?
00:03:32.540 What the...
00:03:33.540 But yes, folks, somehow people heckling the PM is akin to a downed live wire or a swarm of
00:03:41.720 killer bees on a rampage.
00:03:44.140 And so it is that Trudeau never left the comfort zone of his big red liberal campaign bus.
00:03:50.520 We're deeply sorry, folks.
00:03:52.980 Unfortunately, for safety reasons, this event will no longer be taking place here today.
00:03:59.020 Thank you all so much for your support, for everything you're doing.
00:04:03.800 Our top-line opening is always everybody's safety.
00:04:07.060 So please, safely make your air home.
00:04:09.940 Thank you very much.
00:04:12.760 And just yesterday, Justin's Mr. Wonderful Tour dropped by Cambridge, Ontario.
00:04:17.940 The brave PM actually ventured out of his bus this time without getting scared by his
00:04:23.740 shadow, a la Wyarton Willie.
00:04:25.980 But one thing remained delightfully consistent, and that was the hostile reception.
00:04:31.720 Indeed, there was more booing taking place yesterday in Cambridge than what one observes
00:04:37.600 at a New York Mets game these days.
00:04:40.180 And I am so proud of the way we worked together.
00:04:44.460 I'm so proud of the way that our government was able to stand up for people here.
00:04:53.380 And you know what?
00:04:54.640 We did it.
00:04:55.720 We won.
00:04:56.760 You guys are still able to export to the United States on privilege.
00:05:02.260 Wow, that's harsh.
00:05:04.900 But that's all it is.
00:05:06.800 Harsh.
00:05:07.900 It's not violent.
00:05:08.900 It is not a crucible of danger for the PM or anyone else.
00:05:14.240 But just check out the media spin cycle.
00:05:18.140 It's gone into overdrive.
00:05:19.980 Check out this Canadian press story headlined,
00:05:23.020 There is fear out there, with the subhead being another Trudeau campaign stop targeted by hecklers.
00:05:31.380 Written in a bewildered, how can this be, style, the article notes how, quote,
00:05:38.440 An angry crowd of agitators surrounded Justin Trudeau's campaign buses and screamed profanities at the Liberal leader
00:05:47.260 during a campaign event Sunday in Cambridge, end quote.
00:05:51.820 First, a correction, folks.
00:05:53.480 Trudeau has only one big red bus.
00:05:55.760 The other big red bus, well, that is almost identical to Justin's set of wheels,
00:06:01.520 but it is for the bought and paid members of the media party,
00:06:06.880 Justin's official state-sponsored stenographers.
00:06:10.920 Anyway, the tone is set in the article, isn't it?
00:06:14.600 These Canadian demonstrators are not merely protesters, but rather they are agitators
00:06:21.880 and they are shockers, screaming profanities.
00:06:27.020 How odd when the Marxists who comprise the rank and file of Black Lives Matter or Antifa assemble
00:06:33.660 and do such things as, oh, you know, tear down statues or set neighbourhoods ablaze
00:06:38.500 or even throw haymakers.
00:06:40.200 These cats aren't agitators, but rather they are mostly peaceful protesters.
00:06:47.600 Funny that.
00:06:49.320 The Canadian press story goes on to note that one of the crowd members hurled a racist slur
00:06:55.220 at a black officer in Trudeau's security detail and a misogynistic slur at a female officer.
00:07:03.440 We're all adults here.
00:07:05.220 Is it too much to ask what the racist and misogynistic insults were?
00:07:10.640 But no, that is left up to our imaginations.
00:07:13.540 Maybe putting those insults into print might cause for yet another unsafe situation
00:07:18.880 when it comes to Snowflake Nation.
00:07:22.220 Now, full disclosure, I don't think it is proper to use racist and sexist slurs.
00:07:27.520 That's certainly not my style.
00:07:29.920 But in the aftermath, the Prime Minister himself was asked by the almost fainting members of the media party
00:07:38.180 to weigh in on the racist and sexist insults.
00:07:42.580 Seriously.
00:07:43.880 The trained SEALs imitating journalists actually thought that Prime Minister Justin Blackface McGroper,
00:07:51.680 Trudeau, occupies the high moral ground when it comes to racism and sexism?
00:07:59.620 Give me a break.
00:08:01.500 And as for the headline, there is fear out there.
00:08:06.420 Gee, was that pithy copy meant for a story on the Afghan interpreters and their families?
00:08:13.000 You know, the people that the Justin Trudeau liberals have abandoned in Afghanistan?
00:08:17.560 Now, that's fear with a capital F, as the barbarians who comprise the Taliban go door-to-door
00:08:24.660 looking for our allies to torture or behead or hang from a lamppost.
00:08:30.860 Oh, I'm sorry, did I say barbarians?
00:08:33.220 How culturally insensitive of me.
00:08:35.680 What I meant to say, of course, was brothers.
00:08:38.660 But the disbelief regarding the media party members pertaining to these hostile receptions
00:08:44.580 speaks volumes, doesn't it?
00:08:46.140 Justin's their boy, after all.
00:08:49.140 He's siphoning millions, and in the case of the CBC, billions of taxpayer dollars to pay
00:08:55.700 these media hordes off.
00:08:57.400 They can't believe that anyone would have anything disruptive to say about Justin Trudeau.
00:09:04.700 He's so lovable.
00:09:05.860 And what a head of hair.
00:09:07.740 Wonder what shampoo he uses.
00:09:09.280 By the way, that was an actual question posed to the Prime Minister by a CTV reporter a while
00:09:14.960 back.
00:09:15.340 What shampoo do you use?
00:09:18.140 I swear.
00:09:20.600 And so it is that the media narrative is now pursuing this theme.
00:09:25.060 Who's paying these protesters, these agitators?
00:09:29.140 That's right.
00:09:30.180 These Canadians you see venting their anger are obviously paid actors, right?
00:09:36.920 Well, my advice to the rank and file of the mainstream media is this.
00:09:40.980 Just because you are on the take, that doesn't mean everyone else is on the take as well.
00:09:48.600 Just consider this.
00:09:50.180 Maybe these are justifiably emotional Canadians who are at their breaking points because for
00:09:58.800 almost two years now they've been told to exist like hermits, they have lost their jobs, they
00:10:04.960 have lost their businesses.
00:10:06.260 So yeah, they are justifiably really pissed off to the point that they are shockers, espousing
00:10:14.600 profanity.
00:10:15.500 These people are in no need of a sugar daddy to cut them paychecks.
00:10:21.360 Their anger is real and genuine.
00:10:24.260 And it should be noted that calling this election in the first place is a driver for this anger.
00:10:32.420 For way too many months now we've been told to hunker down to defeat COVID.
00:10:37.000 We've been told to cancel weddings and funerals.
00:10:39.860 We've been told to not visit loved ones in hospitals or long-term care facilities.
00:10:45.920 We've been told that playing sports or going to the gym cannot be accommodated.
00:10:50.520 Those are the stuff of super spreading events.
00:10:54.460 And yet Justin Trudeau says, well, to hell with the pandemic when it comes to an opportunity
00:10:59.920 to snag a majority government, a majority that was completely unnecessary given that the
00:11:07.240 NDP's Jagmeet Singh, he was propping up the Justin Trudeau Liberals on every single issue
00:11:12.820 that this minority government was never in danger of falling.
00:11:18.160 And so it is that Canadians of every political stripe are saying to themselves,
00:11:24.500 why are we even in a federal election in the first place?
00:11:28.540 Or is this really all about Justin Trudeau and his precious ego?
00:11:34.760 Another point worth noting is the narrative that has emerged by those in the media party
00:11:39.720 that this anger on the campaign trail is, quote, unprecedented, unquote.
00:11:45.880 The journalists saying this are either ignorant jabronis or they are simply too young to know
00:11:53.400 that the history of Canada began in 1867, not 1997.
00:11:59.540 There are so many examples of emotional discourse on the Hustings.
00:12:03.420 And one of the prime examples is what happened in the summer of 1982.
00:12:07.840 You see, Justin's father, Pierre Elliott, borrowed the governor general's train car
00:12:13.760 for a summertime trip out west.
00:12:16.960 Trudeau's three sons were along for the trip too, including the then 10-year-old Justin.
00:12:23.600 At the time, inflation was rampant, unemployment was surging,
00:12:28.540 and Trudeau's national energy program was devastating Alberta's energy sector.
00:12:33.780 The optics were brutal.
00:12:36.840 Here was Prime Minister Trudeau, like some modern-day Marie Antoinette,
00:12:41.760 touring the beleaguered western provinces in a luxury rail car.
00:12:46.800 So it was hardly surprising that Trudeau met with a hostile crowd of protesters
00:12:52.760 in salmon-armed British Columbia.
00:12:56.220 Ever the statesman, Pierre responded with a raised middle finger,
00:13:00.240 which would later become known as the Trudeau Salute.
00:13:04.700 Now at that point, protesters began hurling vegetables at the rail car.
00:13:09.980 And that became a trend.
00:13:12.860 Outside Calgary, eggs rained down on the Trudeau rain car.
00:13:17.240 Those without foodstuffs to throw would moon the passing rail car.
00:13:22.140 In Sudbury, Ontario, things got so bad that hundreds of protesters
00:13:26.520 assembled to throw rocks at the train,
00:13:30.800 smashing some of the rail car's windows in.
00:13:33.540 In any event, at one point, the train was covered in so much vegetable residue
00:13:40.100 that it was nicknamed the Caesar Salad Special.
00:13:45.380 The point is, on the 2021 campaign trail, there's been no vandalism.
00:13:50.880 Neither Justin nor his buses have been pelted with vegetables or eggs or rocks.
00:13:57.340 Nobody's even mooned him, to the best of my knowledge.
00:14:01.120 It's just been some harsh language and a few impolite signs.
00:14:06.620 But to the members of Justin Trudeau's media party,
00:14:09.560 we are living through a period of infamy.
00:14:13.140 Gee, maybe the reaction to Justin Trudeau might be a little less hostile
00:14:18.160 if the Prime Minister wasn't so obsessed with taxing hard-working Canadians into insolvency.
00:14:26.520 That's what the rank-and-file of the media party simply failed to understand.
00:14:31.820 Unlike them, the vast majority of Canadians aren't being bribed by Justin Trudeau
00:14:38.180 to be shameless shills for the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:14:43.260 The anger is real and it is justifiable.
00:14:45.880 If Trudeau and his state-sponsored sluggos can't take the heat,
00:14:51.900 maybe they should all just get out of the political kitchen.
00:15:06.980 Well folks, recently we brought you the story of MPP Rick Nichols.
00:15:12.180 He's the MPP for Chatham-Kent-Leamington.
00:15:15.880 He was faced with an ultimatum by the Doug Ford government,
00:15:20.540 which was essentially he had to get double-jabbed or he would be fired from caucus.
00:15:27.220 Well, a while back he gave a press conference one hour before the deadline
00:15:31.720 and here is what Rick had to say.
00:15:34.840 For personal reasons, together with my wife Diane of 44 years,
00:15:40.660 I made the personal decision not to inoculate with the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:15:48.880 I took the Premier at his word that vaccination is a choice
00:15:52.360 and that all Ontarians have a constitutional right to make such a choice.
00:15:58.340 Three days ago, I received a call from the campaign manager for the Ontario PC 2022 re-election campaign.
00:16:07.900 Unfortunately, in a demeaning tone,
00:16:11.260 this individual threatened that I will be expelled from the Ontario PC caucus
00:16:15.740 if I do not vaccinate by 5 p.m. today.
00:16:20.380 Expulsion means leaving the government benches
00:16:25.100 and may result in the loss of my office as Deputy Speaker.
00:16:31.660 Now, over the past 10 years, I've always strived to do the right thing.
00:16:36.260 For the last 18 months, I've watched with great sadness
00:16:40.520 not only the effect of COVID, but the remarkable health, mental impacts,
00:16:46.820 and economic toll on our government's pandemic response.
00:16:51.720 I've watched members of my own family lose their entire livelihood
00:16:56.340 and suffer tremendous toll to their mental health.
00:17:00.540 I've voiced my concerns about our policy privately to the Premier
00:17:06.540 and to the Ontario PC caucus.
00:17:10.300 But under no circumstances will I, nor should any Ontarian,
00:17:15.720 be forced or coerced to do something against their will.
00:17:21.120 To do so is an affront to the democratic principles
00:17:24.780 of this magnificent institution.
00:17:27.700 And sure enough, Premier Ford did indeed order Mr. Nichols out of caucus.
00:17:35.160 But folks, there is an epilogue to this story,
00:17:39.320 and it's almost unbelievable.
00:17:41.400 So I'd like to welcome back Rick Nichols once again.
00:17:45.340 And Rick, so good to see you, my friend.
00:17:48.540 You took a principled decision about what you wanted into your body,
00:17:53.120 and you paid the price by being yet another MPP in the Progressive Conservative Caucus,
00:17:59.500 being kicked out of caucus.
00:18:01.400 But then to add insult to injury, you got in touch with me,
00:18:05.080 and you had a meeting with House Leader Paul Calandra.
00:18:08.780 And what did he say to you, my friend?
00:18:11.100 Well, first of all, David, thank you for allowing me back on Rebel News once again.
00:18:15.400 And my principal decision has probably cost me my political career.
00:18:21.600 But you know what?
00:18:22.560 I've always been one to be upfront, honest, and always wanting to do the right thing,
00:18:27.540 not just for myself.
00:18:28.880 It's not about me.
00:18:29.780 This is about people who, in fact, are really concerned about, you know,
00:18:34.180 getting what has been described as the jabs and so on.
00:18:37.700 But with regards to my former Government House Leader, Paul Calandra,
00:18:43.640 Paul called me up, and he said, Rick, I don't need answers from you right now.
00:18:48.780 But when you go back, you know that your position currently is the Deputy Speaker
00:18:53.820 of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.
00:18:56.660 And apparently the NDP don't want me to be the Deputy Speaker
00:19:03.400 of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.
00:19:05.120 Now, they're really making a bunch of noise.
00:19:08.960 And, of course, he suggested to me there were some options available,
00:19:12.380 in fairness to Paul, one of them which was I could just simply,
00:19:17.160 as I would describe it, jump on my horse and ride off into the sunset
00:19:21.920 quietly and undisturbingly.
00:19:25.160 That's not part of my, no pun intended, but my DNA with regards to this.
00:19:30.960 And so at this point, I'm giving very careful consideration as to whether I just want
00:19:37.580 to go quietly or do I really want to make a bit of a, make this an issue.
00:19:42.740 Because I think, again, I asked, what are the reasons why they don't want me
00:19:47.760 as a Deputy Speaker?
00:19:48.860 Because I'm very well known and, in many cases, you know, appreciated and liked
00:19:55.820 in the legislature.
00:19:56.640 And they said, well, because he's not vaccinated.
00:19:59.980 Well, I've got news, you know, for them.
00:20:03.060 They say, well, I could be a risk to them.
00:20:05.780 Well, guess what?
00:20:06.440 They could be a risk to me.
00:20:07.940 What's really changed ever since we started talking about this idea of mandatory vaccinations?
00:20:14.800 We were, we've been meeting in the legislature for, for months prior to, in different cohorts.
00:20:20.980 And I've been in the Speaker's chair.
00:20:22.980 And now all of a sudden, they're on this bandwagon.
00:20:26.040 Well, they get rid of him because he's a threat to our health and safety.
00:20:29.980 Nothing's changed.
00:20:31.100 It's just that all of a sudden, other media, mainstream media, are advocating and pushing
00:20:38.200 the fact that, oh my goodness, there's vax versus unvax and so on.
00:20:41.360 So that's, that's a reason for not wanting me there.
00:20:44.580 And they have threatened, they have threatened to get up and walk out if I'm in the Speaker's
00:20:49.040 chair.
00:20:49.600 Well, I just say, well, enjoy your walkout, you know, if I'm in the Speaker's chair.
00:20:55.140 So that's kind of the predicament that I'm in right now.
00:20:58.020 But it won't really shake out until, well, until we go back on the 13th of September.
00:21:05.100 And Rick, it gets worse than that, because didn't you tell me that if you don't resign
00:21:10.480 and ride out on that horse into the sunset, that Mr. Calandra was allegedly told by members
00:21:19.380 of the opposition that they will pursue an impeachment of you to get you out that way?
00:21:25.000 Is that correct?
00:21:27.260 Yeah, that's, that's actually quite correct.
00:21:30.000 Impeachment, I believe, is not really a term used in our parliamentary system, because I
00:21:35.740 talked with the, with our, with our clerk, Mr. Todd Decker, and Todd was wonderful.
00:21:41.640 He explained a lot of situation, or circumstances, situations to me.
00:21:45.400 But yeah, they could, they could try to force me out.
00:21:49.160 And I don't think that that's justified at all.
00:21:52.280 And Rick, how often has that happened in the history of Ontario?
00:21:57.400 This will be a first.
00:21:59.340 This would be a first.
00:22:00.960 Wow.
00:22:01.440 There have been situations, I'm sorry, David.
00:22:03.780 There have been situations where, in fact, a speaker or a deputy speaker, excuse me, for
00:22:09.640 whatever reasons, has chosen to step down.
00:22:13.140 So they would then write a letter of resignation, and jump on their horse and ride off into the
00:22:18.860 sunset.
00:22:19.940 But for this one, this, you know, if they're forcing me, and I'm resisting them, then this
00:22:26.220 is a first.
00:22:27.440 Rick, this is incredible to me.
00:22:29.260 I mean, you're going to be the answer.
00:22:31.040 If this goes through, you'll be the answer to a trivia question.
00:22:33.700 Who is the first MPP forced out of the Ontario legislature?
00:22:39.240 Answer Rick Nichols.
00:22:40.180 And then the follow-up question, why was he forced?
00:22:43.340 What kind of egregious scandal was he involved with?
00:22:45.980 Well, he made a personal choice about an experimental vaccine, if you will, going into his body.
00:22:53.400 You know, Rick, you stood up for your principles.
00:22:56.300 You paid an enormous price, i.e. you're out of caucus, as you said earlier, probably the
00:23:02.000 end of your political career, given that it's unlikely you're going to run again next
00:23:06.360 year as an independent.
00:23:07.280 Why are the opposition members wanting to kick you while you're down?
00:23:12.760 And why in the world would Paul Calandra simply not tell them, take a long walk off a short
00:23:18.900 pier?
00:23:20.120 The Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives are a majority government.
00:23:24.780 They don't have to be at the beck and calling of these opposition leaders.
00:23:29.020 What is the unspoken story here, Rick?
00:23:31.620 Well, I think also, Paul Calandra had mentioned to me, Rick, what they could do to really force
00:23:41.020 the issue.
00:23:42.140 We have something called opposition day motions.
00:23:46.060 And that's why their opposition day motions are usually something that is designed to make
00:23:50.140 the government look bad.
00:23:51.400 And they get out there and they huff and they puff and they're going to, you know, blow the
00:23:55.840 legislature down.
00:23:57.560 And but whether that that motion passes or not really doesn't matter because it's an
00:24:02.660 opposition day motion.
00:24:04.080 And it does it.
00:24:05.300 We don't have to do anything about it.
00:24:07.260 But with this one, my understanding is, is that they will continue to bring up opposition
00:24:13.260 the motions until until in fact it does pass.
00:24:18.540 And at which point in time, then the and when it passes, that means that there's probably
00:24:24.120 going to be some from the PC caucus.
00:24:27.080 Now, we know the liberals and the and the NDP, you know, have stated that they want me
00:24:31.240 out as well.
00:24:32.340 And again, for what reason?
00:24:34.420 Because I am exercising, you know, my rights, my constitutional rights to not have an experimental
00:24:44.520 drug injected into my body.
00:24:47.380 And so whatever happens from that, if it does pass, then it will then be up to the government
00:24:54.360 house leader to decide what actions that he will take.
00:24:57.500 And we'll have to see just whether or not caucus is on board with that or not.
00:25:03.520 I at this point in time, I don't know.
00:25:06.060 But I would hope that they would still stand up even for a former former colleague based
00:25:12.260 on principle, because that's what I did.
00:25:14.360 I stood up on principles as well.
00:25:16.800 I would hope so, too, Rick.
00:25:18.440 But as far as the members of the opposition are concerned, do you think it's a matter where
00:25:23.640 they legitimately fear you being in the house as a safety risk, a modern day typhoid
00:25:29.840 married because you didn't get double jabbed?
00:25:31.760 Or is this really all about political hay?
00:25:35.440 They're just trying to create a bogus scandal so that they can go on and on about their love
00:25:43.160 and affection for vaccine passports and people getting the double jab.
00:25:47.700 What do you think it is?
00:25:49.500 That's political, purely political.
00:25:51.040 I think that and I mean, I do have some friends on the on the opposite side and I consider them
00:25:58.820 friends and I'm sure that they're somewhat confident feeling compromised because they
00:26:04.240 have to vote the way in which their leader has wants them to vote.
00:26:10.000 And that that is probably problematic for them.
00:26:13.760 Again, the situation, I think they just want to make some political noise.
00:26:20.060 They don't I believe they don't understand the implication of, you know, if they say, well,
00:26:24.620 this has to be mandatory, then where does it stop?
00:26:27.200 Everybody in Queen's Park, mandatory vaccines.
00:26:29.960 Where does it stop?
00:26:31.140 Mayor John Tory, you know, stating that the public and public servants for the city of Toronto
00:26:36.800 all must be vaccinated or else kind of gave an ultimatum there.
00:26:41.400 And now other companies are trying, where does it stop?
00:26:43.980 It began.
00:26:44.460 It's a slippery slope.
00:26:45.840 And you've got many colleges and universities saying the same thing.
00:26:49.660 So they're holding students ransom because of the fact that, well, if you don't want to
00:26:54.820 get the jab, then you can't attend class in person classes.
00:26:59.080 Well, that's not fair.
00:26:59.940 That's not democracy at all.
00:27:02.300 And they're saying and but they they position it as a guide to we have to ensure that our employees
00:27:09.500 are safe.
00:27:09.920 I get that.
00:27:10.740 But what's changed from before all of this became an issue, you know, to now?
00:27:16.900 What's changed other than now they're talking about it?
00:27:19.900 And I'm thinking, well, hold on a minute.
00:27:22.360 You know, I was I was as much of a risk or a danger, if they want to use that term, back
00:27:28.920 when I was sitting in the speaker's chair, even during the summer months and back into May
00:27:34.860 in June and April, I was as much of a risk then as I am now.
00:27:39.940 And now, again, what I don't know is the protocols going into Queen's Park as to whether or not
00:27:45.320 I'll have to be tested.
00:27:46.260 Well, you know what?
00:27:46.740 If I have to be tested.
00:27:47.680 OK, I'll be tested.
00:27:49.540 And if I if I'm negative, then I'm allowed in.
00:27:54.100 And my understanding is they cannot prohibit a sitting and elected sitting member access
00:28:01.080 into the Ontario Legislative Assembly.
00:28:04.120 That is just and if they try, that is just wrong.
00:28:08.080 And they shouldn't be trying that.
00:28:09.840 And again, all they're trying to do is score some political points.
00:28:13.040 But again, they're only talking, I think, to their base.
00:28:17.020 That's my side of the story.
00:28:19.180 Incredible, Rick.
00:28:20.080 And I got to ask, surely the buck stops with Premier Doug Ford.
00:28:25.040 One would think he is the premier.
00:28:27.600 A month ago, he said that he wasn't in favor of a vaccine passport for Ontario.
00:28:35.100 He didn't want to create a two-tier citizenship in this province.
00:28:40.160 And now the rumblings are, well, folks, it's coming.
00:28:44.440 What's made him change his mind on this?
00:28:46.800 I mean, I'm trying to make sense of how he's flip-flopped.
00:28:52.160 He's done a complete 180 in the space of a month, Rick.
00:28:56.020 Well, again, I believe that Premier Ford, he has a lot of different advisors who have
00:29:02.440 their own opinions.
00:29:04.200 And he and I actually spoke yesterday, had a really nice chat discussion.
00:29:10.480 We talked about this very thing.
00:29:12.180 And we also talked about the importance of utilizing discernment when you are listening
00:29:16.780 to other people, because some of the ideas and some people may try to speak louder than
00:29:21.500 others and try to influence one's decision, because ultimately the buck does stop with
00:29:26.700 Premier Ford.
00:29:28.220 But I'm very, very concerned about the direction of these vaccine passports.
00:29:33.260 I think that that is a true affront to our democracy, a true affront to our freedoms.
00:29:39.460 I think that we need to, like, who cares?
00:29:43.620 People said to me, Rick, are you vaccinated?
00:29:46.500 I answered, honestly, no, I'm not.
00:29:48.760 But the truth be told, it's none of their business.
00:29:51.700 It's none of their business.
00:29:53.480 And if, you know, sporting events, and then where's it going to stop from there?
00:29:58.900 You know, we're baseball season right now, we're hockey season coming up.
00:30:02.480 And then where does it stop?
00:30:03.880 Well, everybody has their vaccine passports.
00:30:05.740 Oh, what does that mean?
00:30:06.580 Well, that means that perhaps they can't go into department stores.
00:30:11.220 They can't go to a lot of places.
00:30:13.340 And next thing you know, oh, you can't even go to the grocery store unless you show that
00:30:16.560 you're proof.
00:30:17.660 So what they want is, I mean, I'm understanding that there's an app that you can put on your
00:30:21.880 phone.
00:30:22.880 And I mean, who knows?
00:30:23.700 I mean, this whole thing is escalating almost out of control.
00:30:28.060 And we have to put the brakes on.
00:30:30.240 We need to put the brakes on.
00:30:31.760 I agree, Rick.
00:30:32.460 Well, maybe part of the solution is maybe you should get yourself decked out in a Toronto
00:30:37.440 Blue Jays uniform.
00:30:39.020 And then you'd qualify for a national interest exemption.
00:30:42.000 And like I said, during our first interview a while back, so much for that chestnut that
00:30:48.160 the feminists have long said for decades now with the abortion debate, my body, my choice.
00:30:53.180 It has morphed into your body, government's choice.
00:30:57.660 It is just astonishing.
00:30:59.100 We've got to wrap it with one quick question.
00:31:00.760 I know you want to really weigh in on this.
00:31:03.360 It's sort of not on the, well, I guess it is connected.
00:31:06.920 But the Toronto Star published an egregious front page several days ago, basically with
00:31:14.040 the suggestion that, hey, if you're not vaxxed and you die, too bad, so sad.
00:31:19.700 Well, not really.
00:31:21.560 That's not what they said literally, but that was the thrust of it.
00:31:25.160 Rick, I know you wanted to weigh in on that Toronto Star article and the way they're now
00:31:29.280 kind of dialing it back because the uproar was incredible.
00:31:33.740 What do you have to say about that article?
00:31:36.220 When I saw the front page and then I saw a few back pages with regards to that, I read
00:31:42.580 it and I went, I've read this before.
00:31:44.680 And I think what they did is they picked that up off of a Facebook posting by a health care
00:31:49.020 worker that was extremely frustrated.
00:31:51.040 I understand the frustration.
00:31:52.760 But for them, a national newspaper to actually put that on their front page of the Toronto
00:31:59.740 Star is egregious.
00:32:01.360 I think that that is hate propaganda because it would be taken many, many different ways.
00:32:08.580 And now all of a sudden, it sounds to me like they're trying to pit vaxxed against
00:32:12.220 unvaxxed people.
00:32:13.360 You'd be saying that we are the ones that are, the unvaxxed people are the ones that
00:32:17.660 are creating, causing the illnesses and the disease.
00:32:20.660 Well, hold on a minute.
00:32:21.680 Didn't we hear that even those vaccinated can still get COVID and give COVID, can still
00:32:28.180 get the variant and still give the variant?
00:32:30.500 So come on, people.
00:32:31.540 It's a two-way street.
00:32:32.400 Let's not have that double standard.
00:32:34.560 So I really went after the star, wrote to one of their head people regarding public opinions.
00:32:40.500 And the nice thing about it was, and I got a hold of a lot of my people, sent emails
00:32:45.820 in.
00:32:46.420 Well, they got over 4,000.
00:32:48.360 That's not all because of me.
00:32:50.220 Please, let's make that clear.
00:32:51.880 But they got over 4,000 responses, people that just totally upset with regards to how
00:33:00.560 that came across.
00:33:02.480 And what the star did is they dialed it back, said, yeah, we've made a mistake.
00:33:08.880 And that was in Sunday's paper.
00:33:10.940 Well, that's good to hear that some common sense took root because I think you're right,
00:33:16.100 Rick.
00:33:16.300 I mean, if we replaced unvaccinated people with any other kind of identifiable group, be
00:33:23.120 it a minority, be it a religious group, you name it, and said, yeah, if they die, I don't
00:33:27.860 care.
00:33:28.360 Too bad.
00:33:29.980 That would be hate speech.
00:33:32.320 And the left is all about hate speech.
00:33:34.340 But apparently, in our society today, if you're unvaccinated, it's almost as though they're
00:33:41.660 saying, good riddance, you're out of the herd.
00:33:45.080 It was, as you said, just an absolutely egregious article.
00:33:48.360 And it's good to see that they're dialing it back.
00:33:50.040 But in the future, Rick, we're going to keep an eye that the house is going to be sitting
00:33:54.800 in less than two weeks.
00:33:56.860 And we are going to watch very closely what happens to you in terms of you being removed.
00:34:04.160 I don't think that should happen.
00:34:05.900 You've already paid your price.
00:34:07.640 You stood up for your principal.
00:34:09.060 Last word goes to you, my friend.
00:34:11.500 Well, again, I just and I thank you, David.
00:34:13.200 You know, what I would like to say is that this this is for me, it's this is all about
00:34:18.520 choice and people should have choice.
00:34:20.100 I mean, I've even challenged and questioned our medical people when I was back in caucus
00:34:26.200 as to just how safe are these vaccines for children.
00:34:29.440 And now they're saying that, well, a child doesn't have to have consent of a parent.
00:34:33.260 Excuse me?
00:34:34.480 You know, that is so wrong and whatnot.
00:34:37.020 So, again, my argument is choice.
00:34:40.680 And if someone chooses to get the vaccine, that's their choice.
00:34:45.680 I choose not to.
00:34:46.920 That's my choice.
00:34:47.760 You know, and let's let's just agree to disagree.
00:34:51.060 So I I am I don't want to see this this divide between the vaccinated people and unvaccinated
00:34:58.000 people.
00:34:58.500 I think that's wrong.
00:34:59.540 And I think that the the vaccine passport is totally wrong.
00:35:03.480 That is not the way to go because people will start getting what they get the app.
00:35:07.380 They'll start getting, you know, dings on their phone.
00:35:09.460 It's time for you to get your time to get your booster shot every six months.
00:35:13.520 And if you don't get it, then they could expire your your your your your your sheet that says
00:35:19.860 that you've been vaccinated.
00:35:21.100 Anyway, that's that.
00:35:22.240 You know, some people might say, well, that's that's conspiracy theory.
00:35:25.520 I just don't want to see that ever happen at all.
00:35:27.900 We've got to put a stop to this now with your help and with the help of everybody else,
00:35:31.480 David.
00:35:31.780 You know, we can put a stop to this, this insanity, this insanity.
00:35:36.760 Hey, COVID is real.
00:35:38.040 Variants are real.
00:35:39.220 Let's deal with it and let's move on.
00:35:41.180 We're going to be heading into the flu season.
00:35:43.160 And what I found out was that flu, you know, when you when you have flu symptoms, it's very
00:35:48.580 similar to the variant.
00:35:50.540 How do you decide between the two?
00:35:52.280 Oh, well, let's just call it.
00:35:53.740 Well, it's the variant.
00:35:54.560 It's not flu.
00:35:55.600 I I have a challenge with that.
00:35:58.260 Well, Rick, I think you're right.
00:35:59.880 I think the COVID-19 saga is very quickly becoming the never ending story.
00:36:05.160 It's never going to go away.
00:36:06.540 Sir, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us.
00:36:11.800 And like I said, we'll be watching what happens to you in the days ahead.
00:36:15.600 Good day, sir.
00:36:17.080 Thank you, David.
00:36:17.980 Good day.
00:36:29.880 Hey, folks, thanks so much for watching the Big Boss Man Ezra Levent.
00:36:33.780 He'll be back here tomorrow.
00:36:35.260 In the meantime, stay sane.
00:36:36.960 Good day.
00:36:53.060 Thank you.
00:36:54.200 Thank you.
00:36:58.780 Bye.
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