On Friday afternoon, all were welcome to attend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau s whizbang photo op session at a Toronto-Ukrainian Catholic church. The only media allowed inside were those journalists who are state-funded trained SEALs, members of the CBC and CTV and the like.
00:00:00.000Tonight, Justin Trudeau could do something to tangibly help Ukraine, but he won't.
00:00:21.800It's Monday, March 7th, 2022, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
00:00:30.000Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:33.780There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:37.860The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:49.060On Friday afternoon, all were welcome to attend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's whiz-bang photo-op session at a Toronto-Ukrainian Catholic church.
00:08:10.120Of course, we don't grow bananas in Canada.
00:08:13.020So let's just call the Trudeau regime a maple syrup republic.
00:08:17.040Oh, by the way, that uncalled for assault occurred on December 9th.
00:08:22.920But check out this National Post story dated December 22nd.
00:08:27.760Turns out three members of Trudeau's personal staff and three members of his security detail had tested positive for COVID-19 that month.
00:08:37.860At least I now have a really, really good hunch who infected me thanks to an obvious lack of social distancing.
00:08:47.820But again, back to the Ukrainian church event.
00:08:50.860Clearly, there was no way we were going to get inside.
00:08:54.380But if misery loves company, we found fellow soulmates on the sidewalk staging a counter-protest, including, if you can believe it, some parishioners of this church.
00:09:06.980Check out this lady who was barred from her own place of worship for committing the cardinal sin of not being liberal enough.
00:10:02.640I found out last minute from somebody else that this was going on.
00:10:05.500Then again, perhaps Team Trudeau and our father were doing us all a jolly good favor by keeping us deplorables locked out.
00:10:15.080After all, according to media reports, the focus of the prime minister's speech was on the ongoing slippage in democratic values these days.
00:10:25.500And such slippage, said Justin, is responsible for emboldening Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
00:10:38.660And we've come to a moment that, quite frankly, we've seen coming over the past years.
00:10:48.420And we've talked about it in the news, not just about Ukraine, but about democracies around the world, that we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies.
00:11:00.440Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders.
00:11:04.900Countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media, turning people against the values and the principles of democracies that are so strong.
00:11:20.840And that slippage over the years, unfortunately, emboldened Putin.
00:11:29.000It made him think that he could get away with this, that he could get away with it in Ukraine.
00:11:38.900Can you believe the sheer, unmitigated gall of this man who reels against a slippage in democratic values?
00:11:49.040Keep in mind, this is a PM who is hell-bent on censoring the internet once Bill C-11 has passed.
00:11:56.040And how perversely ironic is his concern for democracy, given that Trudeau was so gung-ho to enact the Emergencies Act against the peaceful protesters who made up the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa last month.
00:12:12.220Indeed, this is a PM who made the streets of our nation's capital resemble a police state, thanks to concrete roadblocks and steel fences and some 100 checkpoint Charlies asking law-abiding citizens for their papers.
00:15:53.160So why would this worldwide laughingstock make such a useless voyage to Europe in the first place,
00:16:01.240given he cannot save Ukraine, nor can he halt the Russian invaders?
00:16:06.480Well, it's the exact same reason, folks, why he showed up at that Ukrainian Catholic church last Friday.
00:16:13.580It's to curry favor with the Canadian Ukrainian community.
00:16:18.060There are about 1.4 million persons of full or partial Ukrainian origin living in Canada.
00:16:25.400That's the largest population of Ukrainians in the world outside of Russia and Ukraine, of course.
00:16:31.900So it is that Justin Trudeau is not really concerned with the Russian army invading Ukraine today.
00:16:39.540Rather, he's really concerned about earning some political capital with the huge Ukrainian-Canadian demographic come the next federal election.
00:16:50.240Because if he wanted to do something tangible, it's actually in his power to do so.
00:16:57.340Which is to say, he could reinvent himself as pro-fossil fuels and pro-pipelines,
00:17:04.380thereby unleashing trillions of dollars of mineral wealth and thereby reducing the price of oil.
00:17:12.040For it is oil at U.S. $115 per barrel and climbing that is currently funding Mr. Putin's war machine.
00:17:22.960But the fact is, the ever-virtue-signaling Trudeau isn't really concerned with a real war,
00:17:30.660but rather with a fake conflict, namely the war on climate change.
00:17:35.540He could care less about innocent Ukrainian civilians perishing because he's all-in when it comes to appeasing the climate change Cassandras of the world,
00:17:46.920the David Suzuki's and the Al Gore's and that poor, pathetic teenage girl in Sweden.
00:19:26.580And I just want to tell our viewers what I was doing because I believe it's important, not just legally, but I think that there's a moral purpose to it.
00:19:33.520But we filed a lawsuit, me and Sheila Gunn-Reed, against two liberal cabinet ministers a couple of years ago.
00:20:17.520But members of the government also have a government public social media account.
00:20:24.660For example, Joe Biden, the president of the United States, he has the social media account POTUS, P-O-T-U-S, president of the United States.
00:20:33.720And when he's done being president, the next president will have that same Twitter handle.
00:20:41.740Stephen Gilboa, and before him, Catherine McKenna, has blocked me, and I think Rebel News, I have to check, from following his public government account on Twitter.
00:20:58.820Just like Catherine McKenna did the same to Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:21:12.020But when he has a Twitter account run by public servants using taxpayers' money as a way to communicate with the public about the issues of the day.
00:21:25.040And I'm a taxpayer, and I'm a citizen, and I'm a voter, and I am personally blocked from hearing what the ministry of the environment has to say.
00:21:35.560And before that, when he was the minister of censorship, that's a kind of cancel culture.
00:21:44.000And what else, what other services can they withhold from me because they don't like my politics?
00:21:52.000So he's using a government account but banning people he doesn't like from getting press releases in the public interest, announcements in the public interest, or being able to engage in a debate with thousands of other people about, in this case, environmental issues.
00:22:09.420So we are suing Stephen Gilboa, not over anything personal, but the fact that he has decided to cut off, cancel, and deplatform people that he personally doesn't like from getting government services.
00:22:23.440And I'm sorry, that's the wrong way to go, that's cronyism, that's running the country as if it's your personal fiefdom.
00:22:31.220And that's where I was today instead of doing the show.
00:22:33.980And Ezra, obviously, Gilboa and the rest of the Trudeau liberals, they don't like us.
00:22:39.080In fact, I think their hatred for us is visceral.
00:22:41.760But has Mr. Gilboa ever given an official reason why he has cut you off?
00:22:48.920You know, he has filed what's called a, so we filed a lawsuit, it's not called a statement of claim, I forget the legal term, but you can see it for yourself.
00:22:59.940So he has written a reply, and he's basically saying, you know, suck it up, buttercup.
00:23:05.560Like he's digging it, like you would think, but he would just say, all right, fine, I'll unblock you.
00:23:10.960And if he doesn't want to hear from me, there's something on Twitter called mute.
00:23:14.820I don't know if you know what that is.
00:23:15.760So you can block someone, that means they can never see what you have to say, never engage with you.
00:23:20.080Or you can use what's called mute, and it's just what it sounds like.
00:23:24.660I could still read what he has to say, but he would never see or hear from me.
00:23:28.920It would be like on a TV remote control, mute button, he would just be.
00:23:32.440So if he didn't like my criticism of him, and that's fine, I'm pretty critical, he could just mute me and he'll never even hear it for the rest of his life.
00:23:42.100But he has chosen to block me to deny me access to his government service.
00:23:47.340So if you want to see his defense, go to twitterlawsuit.ca.
00:23:53.440And here's what's so crazy about that.
00:23:56.440I don't have my notes with me, but there were, I think, five lawyers on the government side today.
00:24:07.200And I don't know how much this Zoom hearing cost the government today, because if it was his personal lawsuit, why isn't he paying for his lawyers personally?
00:24:19.860It's a government account, government lawyers, and that shows how much contempt Guilbeault has for taxpayers.
00:24:27.300Instead of just unblocking me or muting me, he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars saying, no, I have the right to blacklist any citizen I don't like.
00:24:40.960And I'm not saying that the services he's giving through his Twitter account are akin to like a hospital service or a, you know, school.
00:24:50.920But if he can block me from one government service, why can't he block me from others?
00:24:56.020And we've seen this in the Trudeau government, their attestation.
00:24:59.840You had to sign that you agreed with Trudeau on social policy or you wouldn't get a summer jobs grant for your company.
00:25:06.000So this is an important battle and it's an important legal battle.
00:25:10.760And I want to set the precedent that politicians cannot blacklist you from government services because they don't like you.
00:25:19.260And I think, Ezra, that, I mean, I didn't see the court proceedings of today, but I would say that if Guilbeault was saying words along the lines of suck it up, buttercup, if he's showing a complete lack of contrition, this is a gift to you.
00:25:34.100I think if I'm a judge, I'm looking at this as almost like bargaining in bad faith.
00:25:39.140You know, it just shows the stubbornness and these folks, you know, it was quite something for Stephen Guilbeault, literally a criminal convict in cabinet last month saying, oh, these truckers, their protest, you know, is improper.
00:25:58.820You are a convicted criminal for your eco-terrorism and you're telling peaceful truckers that they're unacceptable.
00:26:05.360And my point for mentioning that is the left, they don't care if they're hypocrites.
00:26:10.500I mean, I think I think some other people would feel shy.
00:26:15.020I mean, if you're literally a convicted criminal, you probably would feel shy about calling a peaceful trucker names just because he's honking his horn.
00:26:21.540But the left, they're not bothered by conscience.
00:26:26.700So Guilbeault will literally do anything and say anything to attack his enemies.
00:26:32.940So, of course, he's not going to be reasonable.
00:26:35.720Of course, he's not going to say, all right, fine, I'll let you.
00:26:39.200He's going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars because he wants to set the opposite precedent.
00:27:14.980Is there any kind of legal precedent, Ezra, of an elected official anywhere in the world who decided that I'm going to block this person, I'm going to block this constituent, I'm going to block this reporter, and a judge overturned that blockage?
00:27:31.200I think that Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, did, but after a lawsuit, he settled, by which I think he just said, all right, this is crazy.
00:27:42.920I mean, I don't have that fresh in my memory, but you have to be a wasteful dictator to say, not only am I going to hold the line and block, I'm so petty, but I'm going to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.
00:27:56.580So, like, it takes that special sociopath I described earlier, like, Mayor Jim Watson, whatever you think of him, he wasn't going to torch a quarter million bucks just because he didn't like some guy on Twitter.
00:30:07.760That got worldwide attention for standing up and opening his fantastic restaurant out in Etobicoke.
00:30:14.760That was the moment for all Toronto restaurants, all Toronto businesses, to take a stand and, like Adam Skelly, defy the law via civil disobedience.
00:30:35.380But from that moment onward, we were all bending the knee, can hardly wait for this two weeks to flatten the curve nonsense to end in the weeks ahead.
00:30:49.760Typical of big pharma using humans as guinea pigs, people should not forget that Bayer was the one major pharmaceutical company that experimented on inmates of concentration camps during World War II.
00:31:05.380If you tour Auschwitz, you can see the Bayer bottles in the medical center.
00:31:10.540Well, you know what, folks, as I've said before on previous shows, I don't have a problem with vaccines, but I do have a problem with vaccines that have been rushed to market, such as the experimental vaccines that are meant to treat COVID.
00:31:28.580I say this as a child of 1962 when thalidomide was on the market, something approved in Canada for pregnant women suffering morning sickness, but not approved in the United States.
00:31:43.680And for good reason, as we found out to our horror, thalidomide was responsible for so many deaths and deformities of children of that era.
00:31:52.920My mother, I'll tell you, did get a prescription, fourth thalidomide, for whatever reason, a hunch, woman's intuition.