EZRA LEVANT ｜ Patrick Brown exonerated from another scandal — but we think the fix is in
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The integrity commissioner for the City of Brampton exonerates Mayor Patrick Brown regarding yet another scandal involving city workers working for his failed bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. You might remember our big scoop back in June, when we revealed that Brown was using city staff in his now thankfully aborted quest for the party leadership. And now comes his latest scandal: Brown is using city employees to sell CPC memberships.
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Tonight, the freelance integrity commissioner for the city of Brampton exonerate sneaky Patrick
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Brown regarding yet another scandal. I'm going to tell you why we think the fix is in. It's
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Thursday, August 25th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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Hey, folks, you might remember our big scoop back in June when we revealed that Patrick
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Brown was using City of Brampton staff in his now thankfully aborted quest for the leadership
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of the Conservative Party of Canada. Check out this excerpt.
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And now comes his latest scandal. Brown is using City of Brampton employees to sell CPC
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memberships. Some of those senior employees actually flew across Canada with Brown, traveling
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as far away as Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, when they should have been working for the
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citizens of Brampton, Ontario. Patrick Brown drove straight to the Brampton police headquarters.
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Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown, why are senior City of Brampton staff working out of your secret campaign
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headquarters in Vaughan? Mr. Brown, is that on the taxpayer dollar? Have they taken a leave
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of absence? Mr. Brown, why are City of Brampton employees working at your campaign headquarters
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in Vaughan? Is this on the taxpayer dollar? Mr. Brown?
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Mr. Brown, is this right? Oh, okay then. All right then. Okay.
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Mr. Brown, you just jumped out of your car so fast. I'm trying to conduct a traffic stop
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on you. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, why is that, sir? Let's go back outside.
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Okay, sure. Well, it turns out that our report prompted Brampton City Councillor Elaine Moore
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to file a complaint to the Brampton Integrity Commissioner's office. That's because using municipal
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resources and city staffers without them taking an unpaid leave of absence is contrary to the City
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of Brampton Code of Conduct and the Election Finances Act of Ontario and the Canada Elections Act. Oops.
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Well, guess what? The investigation into these shenanigans recently wrapped. And amazingly,
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the Integrity Commissioner has found that Mayor Patrick Brown did not, I repeat, did not wrongfully use
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city staff during his ill-fated CPC campaign. Yes, despite what our video indicates. Holy O.J. Simpson,
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Batman. Indeed, on August 18th, the Integrity Commissioner's office released a statement noting,
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quote, we are unable to find that the mayor breached the code of conduct as alleged, end quote. As well,
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our story did not, quote, reflect journalistic objectivity, end quote. Oh, really? So the
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Integrity Commissioner is now an expert in the craft of journalism too? Fascinating. The report goes on,
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quote, ground's office was able to show through the City's electronic time record that all participating
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staff were off work at that time. Thus, they were not being paid by the City, end quote. The Commission
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then notes that under the Code of Conduct, quote, staff are permitted to volunteer their time for election
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campaign-related work if they are on vacation or take a leave of absence, end quote. Apparently,
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that time recording system is automatically updated, folks. So each person off work at any particular
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time had to manually enter the fact they were on vacation time, a leave of absence, or with banked
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blue days. Folks, do you believe that? Since June, I have reached out for this very information from six
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staffers that we identified as working at Brown's secret Vaughn, Ontario headquarters for weeks and
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weeks on end. None would provide proof they were on unpaid leave. And I'm wondering, this system is
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electronic. And it is the only record. I know I'm going out on a limb here, folks, but maybe, just maybe,
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this electronic record is susceptible to, you know, after-the-fact hacking. I mean, even the
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Integrity Commissioner's Office, in its report, recommended an updated process that would leave
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more documentation to, quote, ensure better records are available in the future, end quote. Oh, you don't
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say. In fact, a few days ago, a superb piece regarding this story appeared in The Poynter, an online news
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organization that covers Brampton. Here's the lead paragraph by Jessica R. Durling, quote,
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Patrick Brown used seven members of his taxpayer-funded mayor's office to work on his Conservative Party
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leadership campaign during normal working hours. No approvals for the leave could be found, and the city's
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electronic record system was altered after the fact to reflect time off, end quote. Did you catch that smoking
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gun comment, folks? Namely, the records were altered after the fact? Are you experiencing deja vu, folks?
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Namely, we go back to July 2020, while Brown locked down the city's parks and recreation facilities to the
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children of Brampton and enforced this lockdown with hefty fines. Brown himself was playing hockey every
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Wednesday at the Ernst Cliff Recreation Centre, along with his buried boyfriends, and we caught him
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crimson-handed then, too. Check it out. Brampton was perhaps the most locked-down city in all of Canada
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during the COVID-19 mandates. Brown even hired security guards to rat out people to Brampton by-law enforcement
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for the egregious crime of, oh, making use of fenced-off baseball diamonds or soccer fields. And all the
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while, this hypocrite was secretly playing hockey with his buried buddies at a Brampton rink. Well, folks, um,
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we're getting the bums rush, but holy mackerel, I think I see Patrick Brown himself.
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Oh, hey, how you doing? Mr. Brown, right? Yeah. David Menzies with Rebel News.
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You're in a city facility? What's that? You're in a city facility? Yeah, so are you. Yeah. So,
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are you playing hockey here? No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility. So I'm going to,
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we're going to check you. You're not supposed to be here, actually. We were told that you play pickup here.
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Mr. Brown, how come, uh, the kids in Brampton can only practice sports, but your buddies can play
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hockey? Yeah. So, um, I don't know why, um, you are harassing people in the city of Brampton,
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but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's harassing who? You're, you're, you're, you're guys handed out 122
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bylaw violations in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on in this arena? I
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thought you're only allowed to, uh, practice sports, not play them. And who is paying the thousand
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dollars a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink? Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used
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Or are you paying it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon.
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So, Mr. Brown, why is it one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
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That illicit incident, as I mentioned, took place on a Wednesday. And guess what? The following
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weekend, Brown allegedly had his minions tinker with the Brampton bylaws to make his previous
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hockey playing at a city facility perfectly legit, as in retroactively, as in after the fact.
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Uh, sorry, mayor, the law doesn't work that way. But the sneaky one, he has no shame.
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Alas, when Brampton's former integrity commissioner, Manisa Sheik, issued her report on this incident,
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guess what? She found that Brown's only misdeed was not wearing a mask in a city's facility,
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even though we caught him red-handed in that rink, playing hockey, which was contrary to the law at
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that time. Oh, by the way, did I mention Ms. Sheik is a personal friend and a campaigner for Mr. Brown.
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I should also note that Manisa was fired earlier this year after the majority of anti-Brown city councillors
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took a dim view that she had billed the city for more than $660,000 for what was essentially part-time
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work. By the way, Ms. Sheik is now suing the city of Brampton for $20 million. And get this,
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Brown is supporting his buddy in her quest for a Lotto Max jackpot funded by the beleaguered taxpayers of
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Brampton. You know, I wonder how the average Bramptonian feels about this, working long hours,
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trying to make ends meet, pay the rent, only discover that Mayor Brown wants his buddy to get
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a $20 million payout. The chutzpah, the tone-deaf entitlement of this man, it's absolutely astonishing.
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In any event, the new and not so improved Brampton integrity commissioner,
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he's okay with the electronic records of staffers being altered at a later date.
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Are you kidding me? Of course, Brown now claims he's vindicated. He's been phoning all his useful
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idiot friends in the mainstream media in order to do a victory lap. Oh, the gall. So the question arises,
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just who is Brampton's new integrity commissioner in the first place? Well, it's not a who but a what.
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You see, Brown farmed out the integrity commissioner gig to a private company,
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Toronto-based Principles Integrity. Now, a couple of things. Why didn't this company reach out to us in
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their investigation? We provided the original source material that was the basis of this complaint,
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after all. And talk about a conflict of interest. Why would a company hired to do integrity work
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condemn the mayor of the very city it receives its paychecks from? Indeed, recently we reached out to
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the co-founder of Principles Integrity, Jeff Abrams. I had some questions to ask about his organization,
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his findings, his smear job regarding Rebel News, and his defense of a serial liar. He never returned
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my email, so I looked up the company address and paid a visit. Right off the bat, things seem downright
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weird because Principles Integrity is not based in an office tower or in an industrial park,
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but it's located in a house in a residential neighborhood in North Toronto.
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Hi, I'm not sure I have the right address. I'm looking for a Jeff Abrams. Yes, he lives here. Oh,
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okay then. He's not here. He's not here. No. Are you the co-founder? Can I ask what you're doing?
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Yes, I'm David Menzies with Rebel News. I'm trying to reach out to him about the
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integrity commissioner report for Mayor Patrick Brown of Brampton. If you'd like to leave a card,
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I can get him to get in touch with you. Sure. Okay. Are you one of the co-founders of
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No. Principles Integrity? No. Oh, okay then. Because I have sent out emails to him,
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and he hasn't responded. He's not likely to respond. He's standing on his front porch. Oh,
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is that right? Okay then. Well, I'll get you a... I mean, he's got my email address and my cell phone
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number already, but... Do you know what time he might be home? I don't. Okay.
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There you go, man. Thanks very much. Okay, you have a good day. Bye-bye. Well,
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folks, we reached out via email for Mr. Abrams to answer those five pertinent questions,
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and it's been several days and no response. So I looked up the address for Principles
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Integrity, and lo and behold, it is in this beautiful North Toronto neighbourhood, and it's a
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single family dwelling, as you can see. And that's kind of baffling, unless he's running his business
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out of his house. And just to recap, what I wanted to ask Mr. Abrams, and I have asked him these
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questions via email, is my sources tell me that absentee electronic records pertaining to the city
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of Branham staffers were likely altered retroactively. Did you even consider this factor in your
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investigation, especially given Mayor Brown's reputation? Number two, you decry the lack of
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journalistic objectivity in our report. What do you mean by this? We spent several weeks observing
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Brown's secret campaign headquarters in Vaughan, noting when city staff was working there. We lawyered
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our video prior to publication. We reached out several times to Brown and the city staffers to
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get their side of the story, including proof of their leaves of absence, none of which was provided.
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In your opinion, where did we fail in terms of objectivity? FYI, I have been a practicing
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journalist for almost 40 years. I am a graduate of the Ryerson School of Journalism. Can you kindly tell me
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what skill set experience you have in terms of being a journalism expert? Number three, are you a
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personal friend or acquaintance of Mayor Brown, as was the last City of Brampton Integrity Commissioner?
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Four, how much is your company being paid by the City of Brampton for Integrity Commissioner services?
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And finally, five, are you not in an inherent conflict of interest in terms of investigating the mayor
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when this individual is directly involved in remunerating you? Put another way, why bite the hand
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that feeds? Well, as you can see, folks, we did reach out. A lady answered the door, said he isn't home,
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doesn't know when he'll be home, likely won't give us an interview on his porch. So I'm just wondering
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if we're failing the journalism objectivity test here that he decried in his report. At the end of the
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day, it seems the more we delve into this story, the more questions arise, including this is the
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headquarters for principles integrity. Wow. Well, back to the office and we'll try to dig up some more leads.
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As for Brown, if you can believe it, this lying liar continues to crow that he's been vindicated. He alleges
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that Rebel News has an obsession with him and that our so-called obsession is based on his history of
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standing up against their agenda of hate, intolerance and Islamophobia. Their story was
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motivated by politics and not truth. And the entire investigation was a waste of taxpayer money."
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Now, that's off the chart crazy. And I'm sure this unsupported allegation of Rebel News being
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Islamophobic, I think that's going to come as a really, really big surprise to our company's chair.
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That would be Raheel Raza, who happens to be a Muslim, by the way.
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So welcome to the new normal in Brampton, Ontario. The former integrity commissioner,
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aka Brown's personal buddy, has been replaced by a corporation that is paid by the city of Brampton.
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How perverse is that? Indeed, it reminds me of that timeless Latin phrase,
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which custodians, translated into English, translated into English, who watches the watchers?
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Well, folks, you know the drill. If there is a wildfire somewhere, it's because of climate change.
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If there is a flood, it's because of climate change. If your favorite sports team loses, well, you guessed it.
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Meanwhile, the elites at the World Economic Forum, they want us to drastically alter our behavior to,
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yep, stymie climate change. That means trading in your hamburger for a cricket sandwich and forever
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surrendering your car. But thankfully, there is a voice of reason out there when it comes to the cultists
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who worship at the shrine of Greta Thunberg. And that would be Mark Morano, the founder of
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climate depot dot com and the author of a new must read book, namely The Great Reset,
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subtitled The Global Elitist and the Permanent Lockdown. And Mark joins me now from Washington,
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D.C. Hey, how are you doing there, my friend? Doing great. I just got an early pre-production
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copy of the book. It comes out next week all over the place. So thank you very much.
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Well, fantastic. I know it's going to be a home run, even if it's half as good as your previous book.
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And but Mark, I got to tell you, the subtitle of your new book, it sounds downright sinister.
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Are you implying that these covid-19 restrictions are here to stay as in forever?
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Well, great question, David. 2020 was the year in which conspiracy realities outnumbered conspiracy
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theories. And now in 2022, we are no longer correct. No one can call us conspiracy theorists
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because we're conspiracy observers. We're watching all of this in real time. This is what actress Jane
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Fonda said is that covid was God's gift to the left. They loved the fact progressives love the fact
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that they could bypass democracy, invoke emergency powers and essentially have that long sought after
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one party authoritarian rule that China has has had for decades. That is what came to the once free West,
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one party style rule like China. And that's what covid brought them. And they have no desire to give it
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up in the United States. Joe Biden keeps extending the covid emergencies. Governors keep doing the same
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thing in states in the US. We have the World Health Organization declaring monkeypox a global health
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pandemic. And then you have waiting in the wings. President Joe Biden, the World Health Organization,
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the EU, the World Economic Forum, all set to push and declare a global national climate emergency,
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which will give them the same type of powers they had with covid, except with even more controls in their
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life. And that's what I devote two chapters to the coming energy and climate lockdown attempt to impose those
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upon us. And speaking of the World Economic Forum, let's throw to a clip, Mark, of their illustrious,
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fearless leader. That would be Klaus Schwab. And hear what he has to say about the oncoming Great Reset.
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By saying we are at a turning point of humankind. I think we should not underestimate
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the historical significance of the situation we are in. We know the world will look differently when we move out,
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hopefully as soon as possible from the acute phase of survivors into a new situation.
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So people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had
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and everything will be normal again in how we are used to normal in the old fashion. This is,
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let's say, fiction. It will not happen. The cut which we have now is much too strong
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in order not to leave traces. Well, Mark, I think the only thing missing is some Angora cat on his lap.
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Then he's got the full James Bond villain look down pat. But, you know, I mean, the the entitlement of
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these individuals, Mark, I mean, he's a non-elected, unaccountable, I don't know what really,
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a doomsayer. And he's talking about, well, basically, there's a quote in your book,
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welcome to 2030. I own nothing. I have no privacy. And life has never been better. This is chilling,
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Mark. Do you see this coming to fruition with the likes of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum
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and useful idiots everywhere following their advice?
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We are now not just worried about the coming imposition of a great reset. We're actually
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living through a great reset. COVID-19 and the global lockdowns and mask mandates and
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vax mandates and the stay at home orders and the canceling of weddings and funerals and the masking
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of our children and the forcing of medical procedures on a public that didn't want them.
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This was the beginning. In fact, in June of 2020, when all these lockdowns began,
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Klaus Schwab announced that this was the time for a great reset of capitalism. We had a rare,
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narrow window of opportunity. And they are building upon the net zero climate goals. What their goal now,
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and we're seeing this everywhere, they are making energy shortages common. They are making vehicle
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shortages, your automobile shortages, a reality by insisting upon the end of the internal combustion,
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gas powered engine and diesel engine, forcing everyone into electric, which can't possibly scale
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up to replace it. So they want to create shortages of vehicles. They're creating food shortages,
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this whole net zero, great reset, world economic forum agenda. We're watching high yield agriculture
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being scaled back in the Netherlands and Sri Lanka and Canada and Australia and the United States.
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Bill Gates is buying up, competing with China for American farmland. People worried about a Chinese
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land monopoly of farms in the US. Well, don't worry. There's a competition. We love competition,
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right? Bill Gates versus China. Bill Gates is actually winning and is now America's largest single farmland
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owner. The question is, who do you want to win that battle? Bill Gates or China? I got to give some pause
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there. I'm not sure who the good guy is in that equation. So all of this is happening. They're
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creating the world of their vision. This is no longer fiction, as in the words of Klaus Schwab. It's
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happening. Food shortages, freedom of movement, airline restrictions, meat, rare and expensive,
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and of course, travel restrictions and then all sorts of shortages across the line, supply chain,
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economic calamity and small and independent businesses being crushed in favor of corporate
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chains and big corporations that will go along with this woke great reset agenda.
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No. And when you say Bill Gates versus China, you know, Mark, that reminds me of the tagline for the
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movie Aliens versus Predator, namely, no matter which side wins, we lose. But I want to speak about
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Bill Gates. And I think this man is shameful because here he is. He's all on board in this great reset and
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giving up our belongings and eating insects. This man used the system of capitalism going back to the
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1970s when he started Microsoft, became one of the world's richest individuals. And yet he now wants to
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destroy that which made him so wealthy, so entitled so that no one else can follow in his footsteps.
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I think this is entirely hypocritical, Mark. I mean, it absolutely is in his own lifestyle.
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You can look at it the week in January of 2021. He came out and said it is not a time to be traveling,
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to be going out, to be going to restaurants. We need to keep these lockdowns going. That same week,
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David, he was making a bid on the world's largest private jet transport company that he wanted to
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own. In other words, it wasn't going to affect he and his friends. They were going to be able to
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travel around the world, do what they wanted. He's going after the common man. Now, if you look at his
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Microsoft, he benefited from a monopoly. And ultimately, what the great reset is, is pro-monopolistic.
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They are trying to get a monopoly of power, monopoly of food, monopoly of energy, monopoly of freedom
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of movement, monopoly of wealth, monopoly of property. And that's what they're after there.
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It's the idea is you'll owe nothing and you'll be happy. Well, wait a minute. Someone's going to own
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that. We're going to be renters, serfs. We're the unwashed masses. We're going to be renting the
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properties from equity asset firms, Bill Gates, China and large corporations that are buying up these
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distressed properties as regulations designed to crush them. The biggest irony here is Bill Gates
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buying up the farmland. We know what they're trying to do with our food. They're making food
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rare and expensive treat by shutting down high yield agriculture. What's going to happen when we start
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facing real serious food shortages? You know what's going to happen. They're going to blame the coming
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food shortages on climate change and claim they predicted it all along and then require more such
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regulations, which will create more food shortages, which will double down and say is caused by even
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worse climate change. This is the insane loop we find ourselves in 2022. Indeed. And speaking of 2022,
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you know, what's so chilling, Mark? I don't know if you've ever seen the film. It was shot in 1973. I
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speak of Soylent Green, which was set in the year of 2022. And my God, it was prescient and so many
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issues. You know, food shortages, the idea of not only a suicide legal, but it's actually encouraged
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by the government. There's so many things about that film that was shot decades ago that they got
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right about the real 2022. But the thing is so much for leading by example, Mark, because while they say
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give up all your belongings that you'll owe nothing and be happy, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, all the rest of
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them, they're not giving up their limo, their limousines driven by a chauffeur. They're not
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giving up their carbon spewing private jets. Again, I am just astounded by how tone deaf they are and how
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hypocritical they are. It is absolutely amazing. And in the book, I detail all this hypocrisy. I mean,
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Bill Gates, his own property, I believe it's like I don't have the figure in my head. I think it's like
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35,000 a month for electricity bills. And he's got huge square footage and multiple homes. And yet
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they're the ones Bill Gates vision for the world. He said the next pandemic, if you wanted to fight it,
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do what Australia did, perhaps the most authoritarian country next to China and Canada. I don't know,
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actually, that's another one who was more authoritarian Trudeau's Canada or Australia. I'm
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not sure. But this is what we find. And you find Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, John Kerry, all the
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Hollywood at least, the United Nations chief who bragged about living at 30,000 feet.
00:30:15.060
They want a set of austerity that they are not willing to follow. They want a set of austerity for
00:30:19.780
us, but they can't follow it. And what their ultimate goal here is to make flying less frequent,
00:30:25.780
more expensive. They want to take away. And this is from the World Economic Forum. This is from the UK
00:30:30.500
Transportation Minister, probably a student of the Young Leadership Conferences in the World Economic Forum.
00:30:36.420
But Boris Johnson's transportation secretary said owning a car is outdated 20th century thinking.
00:30:42.180
Now, the leaders aren't going to give up their transportation, their cars or private jets,
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but they're going to take it away from us. And they're also going after our ability to bank.
00:30:52.420
Look what happened with Justin Trudeau. You know it well with the Canadian Freedom Convoy and the truckers.
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If you even made a cake for them or made bagels, you could have your bank card revoked and removed.
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This is how they want to get us. Literally, your credit card, we have a UN partnering with MasterCard
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to come up with a carbon footprint monitoring credit card that the World Economic Forum gleefully says
00:31:17.060
cuts off your ability to spend when you hit your carbon max, your CO2 max. This is what they want.
00:31:23.300
Total control. We are just surfs, minions, whatever word you want to use. And again,
00:31:28.900
this is not some fiction of the future. It's happening now. We're watching it happen. It's
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happening in agriculture. It's happening yesterday in California with them announcing that they're
00:31:39.220
banning the sale of internal combustion gas engines. And 12 other states are set to follow.
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The Biden administration is set to follow. We're fighting this globally. The World Bank's going to
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stop funding gas powered cars. They're creating intentionally a vehicle shortage. They're
00:31:54.900
creating intentionally a food shortage. They're creating intentionally an energy shortage. I lay
00:32:00.740
all of this out in my book, The Great Reset. But I have 90 pages of footnotes in this, by the way.
00:32:07.540
And I try to use mainstream sources. I show you the COVID, what you'd call a dry runs from 2010,
00:32:16.180
2019, from the Rockefeller, from World Economic Forum, from John Hopkins. They literally laid out
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how they were going to handle the pandemic from masks to shutting down the internet of combat
00:32:27.300
misinformation. This was all waiting for the right moment to exploit the crisis. COVID came along
00:32:34.180
and this global elites led by the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization and people
00:32:39.380
like Bill Gates and even the EU and the United Nations were ready to pounce. And I also detail
00:32:46.180
how in November of 2020, the UN warned we needed a 7.7% reduction in carbon dioxide to meet the Paris
00:32:57.460
agreement. Six months later, when the world locks down, the end of 2020, we literally had a 7% reduction
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in CO2. It's almost as if they called it. So November 2019, the UN says, we need this kind of
00:33:11.460
reduction. The whole world shuts down six months later. And by golly, the UN got it. And then a study
00:33:16.740
comes out carried by the UK Guardian. We need a lockdown every two years in order to meet our climate
00:33:23.140
goals. Every two years, a global lockdown. They love this. And that's what's coming next. The coming
00:33:28.820
declared climate emergency will give executive, in the case of the US, Joe Biden will have 130
00:33:34.500
executive powers by which to play with without any stinking democracy. And this is, again,
00:33:40.580
we are following the Chinese model, which the left has lusted after for decades. And I detail that in
00:33:46.500
the book as well. Well, Mark, some eight years ago, before Justin Trudeau became
00:33:50.660
Prime Minister, he actually said at a meeting in Toronto, that he admires the basic dictatorship of
00:33:58.260
China in terms of getting things done. I always wondered what those things were. Now it's becoming
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evident. And it's just shocking that a leader, a future leader of a Western democracy would admire
00:34:09.460
China for anything. But you know, I want to get to, before we run out of time, there's an excerpt,
00:34:15.060
I think that's very profound in your book. The reset is nothing short of a rebranded Soviet system,
00:34:21.300
threatening to strip away property rights, restrict freedom of movement and association,
00:34:27.140
and radically reshape our diets and way of life. And Mark, we've talked about this before. It's all
00:34:34.020
being done in the name of Mother Nature and saving the planet. But as we've spoken about before,
00:34:41.060
the green movement is really the red movement in disguise, is it not? This is,
00:34:46.740
you know, the playbook of Marxism, the idea of tearing down society and building it back up as
00:34:53.860
a communist utopia, which of course, never happens, as we've seen by all the examples of that in the
00:34:59.620
world. Is that what you're getting at with that statement? Yes, absolutely. In fact, Vladimir Lenin in
00:35:05.860
Tsarist Russia, before the fall, before the Bolshevik Revolution, actually said, the worse,
00:35:11.060
the better, or worse is better. In other words, you want to create so much chaos and conflict in
00:35:17.220
your society to collapse the current system. And that's what we're seeing. That's why it was God's
00:35:22.740
gift to the left, in the words of Jane Fonda, because they were able to collapse our current
00:35:27.220
system. In the case of the United States, we were energy independent for the first time since Harry
00:35:32.420
S. Truman was president in 1952. We had the lowest Black and Hispanic unemployment. We still had a lot
00:35:38.020
of problems with spending and debt and deficits, but we were boom times in America. So COVID comes
00:35:44.420
along, they were able to collapse our entire economy, our entire energy sector, and now they're
00:35:50.660
going after our food production and our cars. And this is a very Bolshevik mentality. Exploit
00:35:56.900
any crisis to impose your order. And what they're ultimately going for is a Soviet-like control.
00:36:03.300
You alluded to it earlier with the idea of the old Politburo, David, where one set of rules for the
00:36:08.980
masses, which is us, and another set for the leaders. They're going to have, they're going to be eating
00:36:13.780
meat. They're going to have all the energy. They're going to have the large houses. They're going to own
00:36:17.300
property. They're going to have the private jets. They're going to have their stretch limousines. But it's
00:36:21.860
us that they're going to impose the austerity on and the new form of feudal serfdom. And I go into
00:36:27.140
great detail on that in the book. I do a history of the emergency powers and how they plan on
00:36:31.940
achieving this. Going back to the Roman Empire, going to the Middle Ages, going through Germany, 1933.
00:36:37.700
Every time governments impose emergency powers for some crisis, you end up with massive abuse of power
00:36:44.900
and a new political order. And that's exactly what we are living through right now.
00:36:49.300
But you know what, Mark? I think they have the fight of their lives on their hand. You know, when
00:36:54.260
you've referenced several times going after our car, that is part of the American culture. If you look at
00:37:00.500
movies, songs, books, magazines, it is the ultimate freedom machine. America is all about freedom.
00:37:07.300
I referenced Soylent Green earlier. The star of that movie, of course, was the late, great Charlton Heston.
00:37:12.340
I'll paraphrase one of his quotes. You can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold, dead
00:37:19.060
hands. Mark, we're almost out of time. Last word goes to you. What can people expect to see in your
00:37:27.060
book in terms of looking on the bright side? What what can we do to ward off this horrible attack on our
00:37:35.380
rights, freedoms and civil liberties? Well, I'm very clear. It's time to gouge our eyes out and give
00:37:41.700
up. We've lost. OK, no, I'm just kidding. Just kidding. No, I have a whole final chapter devoted to the
00:37:48.260
great reject or the great resist. And I use the analogy of the Berlin Wall falling in 1989 live on CNN for
00:37:56.820
anyone to watch around the world. That did not happen because the East German government said,
00:38:01.860
well, 40 years of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe, let's end that. You know, let's let's grant
00:38:06.180
the people freedom. It ended because the people no longer gave their consent to live under tyranny.
00:38:11.460
So in the book, I go through from the school board level on up to the fight even against the trans
00:38:17.780
ideology to critical race theory to the covid restrictions, the masking and vaccine, forced
00:38:22.820
vaccine of children all the way up to parental, no parental control to these these rebellions at
00:38:29.620
the localist of levels led to massive political change. In the case of Virginia, it led to the
00:38:36.180
toppling of Democrat rule in the covid hysteria, covid theater rule in New Jersey. It almost led to the
00:38:42.500
same. This forced the Democratic Party to do a focus group, as reported in my book and as reported by
00:38:47.940
the New York Times to actually look at this and say, our base doesn't want this. They want it. They
00:38:53.380
don't want this new normal. We have to go back. And because of those elections, because of those
00:38:57.780
school board protests, which led to massive political change, the major cities in the US,
00:39:02.340
San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, all lifted their vax mandates, mask mandates,
00:39:06.900
almost overnight when these focus groups were conducted. So political power is how you do it
00:39:12.020
and resistance at every level. I'm a big believer in that mask resistance, vax resistance, lockdown
00:39:18.740
resistance, social distancing resistance. You cannot. And I have a whole chapter on the corruption of
00:39:23.220
science, how they got here. So this is not just about electing leaders. We have to, as a people,
00:39:29.620
fight back. And we're seeing that in the Netherlands. We're seeing that in Canada with
00:39:33.540
the Freedom Convoy. We're seeing it with the protests throughout Europe. We're seeing it with the
00:39:37.220
anti-COVID lockdown protests in Australia and New Zealand. Even if the media doesn't cover it,
00:39:41.860
or the mainstream media. So there's a lot of reasons for hope. And I end the book on a hopeful
00:39:46.100
note after I depress the hell out of everyone. Well, Mark, hope abounds as always. And November
00:39:53.140
can't come soon enough, my friend. Listen, thank you so much. It was wonderful speaking with you and
00:39:59.940
good luck on your new book, Mark. Thank you, David. Appreciate it. There you go. And that was
00:40:05.460
Mark Morano from Washington, D.C. Keep it here, folks. More of the Ezra Levent show to come.
00:40:24.580
Well, folks, a lot of response regarding my interview with Avi Yamini. As you know,
00:40:29.540
he tried to fly into New Zealand from Australia to cover the anti-government and anti-lockdown protests
00:40:37.540
there. And even though he had all his paperwork in order and a valid passport, he was denied entry
00:40:44.900
into the country for, well, reasons that remain mysterious. And in the event, Giant Tiger writes,
00:40:51.700
hire a New Zealand local to represent rebel. There has to be a few sane people there to hire. Well,
00:40:58.900
Giant Tiger, I'm sure you're right. But it should be noted, our man,
00:41:02.420
Rukshan Fernando, he did get allowed entry into New Zealand. He has been covering the protests in
00:41:12.500
Wellington, and he's been doing a good job getting that other side of the story out there.
00:41:18.260
Ian Glenn writes, New Zealand is being destroyed by the Ardern government. She will not front and talk
00:41:27.220
to the citizens of New Zealand at all. She is well guarded. She is a proven liar. And more to the
00:41:34.100
point, Ian Glenn, how did it become the bailiwick of allegedly democratic governments to decide who
00:41:43.140
and who is not a journalist, to decide who gets into the country and who is deemed reporter non grata?
00:41:50.900
That, my friend, is garbage. Two Pints of Crem de Minthe writes,
00:41:55.860
I'd love to see Stabsinda stumble around answering the question, is immigration New Zealand anti-Semitic?
00:42:03.940
Oh, I never thought of that. But we are still waiting for answers. There has been no valid reason
00:42:10.340
why Avi Yamini was prevented from getting on a plane and landing in Wellington. Could it be
00:42:17.700
that it was an immigration officer with a chip on her shoulder regarding Avi and regarding Rebel News?
00:42:25.140
If so, I think there should be hell to pay for that. Well, folks, that wraps up another edition
00:42:31.140
of the Ezreal Event Show. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll be back here tomorrow on Friday.
00:42:36.580
Please join me in the meantime. Stay sane. Did you see this the other day? Healthy people,
00:42:43.220
people who have recovered otherwise from COVID. Well, they're being forced into quarantine
00:42:48.820
upon the threat of fines after the random testing protocols at Canadian airports
00:42:54.420
were found to have been very flawed, often unable to distinguish between active COVID cases and
00:43:01.060
recovered cases of COVID-19. Healthy people are having their lives upended, completely disrupted,
00:43:08.260
their plans destroyed, and all of it upon threat of thousands of dollars in fines. And it's all based
00:43:14.180
on flawed testing. But that's the same flawed testing protocols, which have shown so many positive
00:43:20.740
tests all across the country in completely different scenarios. Isn't that odd? And the thing is, even
00:43:26.980
with the flawed testing, the fact that the vaccines don't seem to be working at all, and that normal
00:43:33.380
people, and by that I mean people who are no longer intoxicated by fear and intimidation and who don't seem
00:43:39.380
to care about COVID anymore, none of that matters because the quarantines, the fines, the spy app,
00:43:46.260
arrive can that you have to download just to get back into your own country, they're probably not going
00:43:51.540
away anytime soon. And I've got proof of that. Let me show you. First, there's this. It was in a funding
00:43:59.460
announcement the other day. The government of Canada to announce funding for a safe voluntary isolation
00:44:05.380
site in Windsor-Essex. Okay, they say this is voluntary, but who on earth would submit themselves
00:44:12.980
to voluntary quarantine at all? Well, I think it's not going to be voluntary. And here's why I think
00:44:19.060
that. I saw this a day or two ago on the Government of Canada's Contracts and Procurement website. But,
00:44:27.060
I can't show you it because it's been pulled down. It was a public health agency request for a compliance
00:44:33.780
checker. But at the time, the government didn't post any details about what exactly sort of compliance
00:44:41.460
they'd be verifying. Quarantines, I assumed, and I had to go digging, of course, to prove myself
00:44:46.900
right. Because look at this. I found the contract they tried to hide on another government website.
00:44:53.940
It's a brand new posting for a 12-month contract beginning next month. Let's read it together.
00:45:00.980
As part of the Government of Canada's efforts to reduce the importation and spread of COVID-19 and its
00:45:08.100
variants in Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada, PSPC, on behalf of the Public Health Agency
00:45:16.580
of Canada has an ongoing requirement for service providers to provide resources to complete compliance
00:45:25.460
verification visits with travelers in quarantine or isolation. The goal of these visits is to verify
00:45:32.980
compliance with the minimizing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in Canada order, also known as the
00:45:40.660
Quarantine, Isolation and Other Obligations order. So this stuff, it's here to stay. This Liberal government
00:45:49.940
is never going to let go of the power it grabbed using COVID as the excuse to do it. They can stick
00:45:55.540
you in a COVID jail, spy on you with an app, and send agents of the state to make sure that you're
00:46:02.180
complying with the stay-at-home order they used a flawed test to impose on you. And they'll arrest you
00:46:09.700
and fine you for exercising your rights. What year is this? 1984? For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.