EZRA LEVANT ｜ The promised Republican 'red wave' is more like a puddle
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The promised "Red Wave" was more of a "Red Puddle." Republican Ron DeSantis won the governor's race in Florida and is now the next president of the United States, and that will not make Donald Trump happy.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I pick through the carnage of last night's U.S. election midterms.
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I'm a little disappointed. I think a lot of people are. We were expecting what they were
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calling the red wave. It was more of a red puddle. And I don't think Trump performed as well as he
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thought he would, as he should have done. The hero of the night, obviously, Ron DeSantis, and
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that won't make Trump happy. I'll take you through it, some of my observations.
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Tonight, the promised Republican red wave was more like a puddle. I'll take you through
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last night's U.S. midterm election results. It's November 9th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Well, I was pretty optimistic heading into yesterday's midterm elections in the U.S.
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I felt optimistic for a number of reasons. Not optimistic about the course of the United
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States. Most Americans felt like the country was on the wrong track. We took you through that
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detailed New York Times poll a couple weeks ago, and the reason I refer to it as a New York Times
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poll is because if liberals are saying the country is upset with a Democratic president, you know
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it's true. And I thought combined the bad economy, dangers in foreign affairs, and Joe Biden's poor
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personal performance, I thought that is going to be a banner year for Republicans. And indeed,
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the pollsters seem to say so, and the phrase red wave was in headlines everywhere. Makes sense.
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The economy, jobs, inflation. That's what people care about versus, well, what exactly does Joe Biden
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offer? Woke-ism. Reminders of the pandemic and lockdown. Biden has those awful cognitive moments
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where he's blurry. He feels every day of his 78 years of age, he actually feels like he's 88.
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Wars in the background in Ukraine, China saber-rattling, the embarrassing and costly exit from
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Afghanistan, North Korea being more belligerent. It should have been a great election for the
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Republicans, but it fizzled. They're still tabulating the votes in certain areas. It looks
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like the Republicans will retake the House of Representatives, which is important. Looks,
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though, like they're just tied in the Senate. Could go either way. So much for the red wave.
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The star of the evening was clearly Ron DeSantis of Florida, the governor. Here's the front page of
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the New York Post. I think they're exactly right. He won with a nearly 20-point margin over his rival,
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Charlie Crist. Take a look at this graphic from the exit polls. Latino voters didn't just like
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Ron DeSantis. They loved him. Obviously, Cubans are against socialism, but even Puerto Ricans and
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other Latinos were for Ron DeSantis, the Republican. You know, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is a white person's
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idea of what Latinos want. Ron DeSantis is a Latino person's idea about what Latinos want.
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He doesn't use ridiculous words like Latinx. He doesn't pander with open borders immigration. He
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just gives them good government and freedom. It's amazing. He lifted the whole state with him,
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and incredibly, he won Miami-Dade County. Overwhelmingly Hispanic. Used to be the Democrat
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Party's firewall in that state. Now it's a more conservative state than Texas. Let that sink in.
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The Republican margin in Florida was much higher than it was in neighboring Texas.
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Here's a clip from DeSantis' speech last night. He looked great with his family, his wife, Casey,
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who has recovered from cancer. Take a look at that lovely family. What a moment.
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Well, thank you so much. You know, over these past four years, we've seen major challenges for the
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people of our state, for the citizens of the United States, and above all, for the cause of freedom.
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We saw freedom in our very way of life, and so many other jurisdictions in this country
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We chose facts over fear. We chose education over indoctrination.
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We chose law and order over rioting and disorder.
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Florida was a refuge of sanity when the world went mad. We stood as a citadel of freedom for people
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across this country and, indeed, across the world.
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We faced attacks. We took the hits. We weathered the storms. But we stood our ground.
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We did not back down. We had the conviction to guide us, and we had the courage to lead.
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We made promises to the people of Florida, and we have delivered on those promises.
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And so today, after four years, the people have delivered their verdict. Freedom is here to stay.
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If you ask me what Ron DeSantis stands for, if you ask anyone, I think it's easy to answer. He stands
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for freedom, as opposed to the authoritarian approach of the lockdowns. He's against wokeism.
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He's for law and order. He's a policy man, and he also has a style of firmness.
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He doesn't pander to the media. He doesn't mess around with powerful interests. When Disney took
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a run at him, he took away Disneyland's special legal status without blinking. Oh, you can't do that?
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Well, he did. That was the bright part of the map for the Republicans. Other parts were terribly
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disappointing. John Fetterman, who was running for the Senate in Pennsylvania,
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had a stroke a few months ago. And for a while, he kept it secret. Then it was revealed. He can't form
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full sentences. He can't understand things. He needs them written out, typed out in a kind of
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walking subtitle machine. He was up against a slick, intelligentsic Republican named Dr. Oz from TV.
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And Fetterman, with a stroke, won in Pennsylvania. How? How?
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Arizona, another state the Republicans thought they could pick up. Blake Masters, a freedom-oriented
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America firster affiliated with Peter Thiel, the only libertarian in Silicon Valley. He ran and
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didn't win. Carrie Lake ran. Now, it's still so close for Carrie Lake, and she's fighting that. Again,
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what kind of a country takes so long to count their ballots? New York State, one of the most
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progressive places in America. Wow. Lee Zeldin, the Republican contender, came very close to knocking
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off the appointed Democrat governor. Remember, she took over after Governor Cuomo had metooed himself
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out of office. Now, I went to bed last night, disappointed that Zeldin's insurgency wasn't
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successful. But I'm reminded that more than a million votes were not yet counted last night.
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Is this a third world country where they just have a million votes sitting around?
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The state of Georgia has been painful for any Republican. It was the site of a
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double loss in 2020. Two seats went Democrat that day. One of them was up again last night.
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The Republicans ran Herschel Walker, a former football star. He did not win, but neither did
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the Democrat, Raphael Warnock, who both of them were just under the 50 percent mark. In Arizona law,
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if you don't win 50 percent, they have a runoff again. So there will be another election. I am not
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optimistic. Interestingly, in a statewide vote, the one where Herschel Walker did not hit 50 percent,
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the Republican governor did. He actually won fairly handily. How did the local governor win
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as a Republican? But Herschel Walker did more poorly than him. But back to what I said earlier,
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what's up with not knowing the results in hours? I take it that Georgia law says there has to be
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a runoff. That's not a problem with counting. But how is it that you have a million uncounted votes in
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New York? How is it that Arizona says they're going to need days or even weeks to count? I saw this video
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go up yesterday in the middle of the day, and I thought they're getting started already. Take a
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look at this. Hello, Maricopa County. I'm Bill Gates, the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of
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Supervisors. And I'm Stephen Richard, the Maricopa County Recorder. And we're here to give you an
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update on how things are going so far with the election. We've already had almost 44,000 people
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show up this morning, check in and be available to vote. And things are going great out there. But
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there's one thing that we wanted to address to make people aware of today. And that has to do with our
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tabulators. We've got about 20% of the locations out there where there's an issue with the tabulator,
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where some of the ballots that after people have voted them, they try and run them through the
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tabulator, and they're not going through. But the good thing is, is we do, first of all,
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we're trying to fix this problem as quickly as possible. And we also have a redundancy in place.
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If you can't put the ballot in the tabulator, then you can simply place it here in where you see the
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number three. And this is a secure box where those ballots will be kept for later this evening, where
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we'll bring them in here to central count to tabulate them. So this would function much like early voting
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functions in that we would get your ballot back. Once we've signature verified it, we would
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send it to our central tabulators. Ballots that are in here will already be in effect signature
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verified. So we won't need to confirm identity, but we will central tabulate them. This is actually
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what the majority of Arizona counties do on election day all the time. And just one thing to keep in mind,
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we have 223 vote centers across the county. So if there are long lines at the location you're at,
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or issues with the tabulator, if you would prefer to go to another location, you can do that. Doesn't
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matter where you go, as long as you're a registered voter here in Maricopa County. Thanks so much.
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And everybody who haven't yet, get out and vote. What a joke. What a clown show. How about just using
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paper and pencil? You know, election integrity are two words you're not allowed to say. In fact,
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if you say them in the wrong way on YouTube or other social media, you'll get a strike. You'll be
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deplatformed. It's very strange. You're not allowed to say that US elections are not reliable. At least
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you're not allowed to say that about the 2020 election. Democrats say that all the time about
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elections that Republicans win. I remember it first when George W. Bush beat Al Gore and they
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looked at the hanging chads and that case went to the Supreme Court for years. Democrats said that
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George W. Bush was not the legitimate president. They called him a usurper.
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That's all fine to say on social media, but you can't say that about Democrat shenanigans.
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I want to show you a quick clip from our live stream last night. I can't even believe this.
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No ID, just saying your name, saying your phone number or your address and your vote. Take a look.
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I don't think Canadians even realize when I went to vote today, all I was asked is,
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what is your last name? And then they're like, this is your first name. I'm like, yes. And they're
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like, this is your address. I'm like, yes. And then they just printed out a little receipt,
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had me sign it. And then I got my ballot and I voted and I put it in the scanner and I left.
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But who's to say if you know someone's first and last name and you know their address,
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what could stop you from voting for them? Because she didn't have a computer. It was like,
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just like a piece of paper with all the people in my area because I'm on a smaller precinct.
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There was no voter ID check. There's none of that going on like it does in Canada.
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And I'm just shocked every time I vote here being like, this is so weird.
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Yeah, that really is weird. That's that's terrifying. I mean,
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you went in there in good faith and no shenanigans, but I could only imagine.
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So they literally didn't ask you for any any card or any idea. No, you don't need it. You just need to be
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registered to vote. And if you're registered to vote, you just go where you're supposed to go.
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Like because like you have them and for your specific area, you go there, you're on a list.
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They check you off that you've done it. You sign a little thing saying like, yep,
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this is me. And then you go and get your ballot. Can you believe that? I can't. There's just,
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you know, you need more ID to buy a lottery ticket than to vote.
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Now, Donald Trump was not on the ballot, of course, but he was certainly looking in the
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background and he stumped for Republican candidates around the country. Certainly,
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he was more welcome at Republican events than Joe Biden was at Democrat events. Now,
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today, Donald Trump was boasting, saying that the vast majority of candidates for whom he
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endorsed or campaigned won. And I think that is mathematically accurate. It's the exact same
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message that the New York Times has when they say 200 election deniers won. That's a term of art at
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the New York Times. They call anyone who doubts the results of the 2020 election, they call them
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election deniers, sort of like a Holocaust denier. That's their phrase. I think there's a symbiosis
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between Donald Trump and the liberal media like the New York Times. They love to fight each other.
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And so if Donald Trump says something to inspire his base, the New York Times says it to inflame their
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base in reaction. It's quite something. But it is a fact that key people that Donald Trump endorsed
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underperformed. Dr. Oz, the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania, how could he not beat a stroke
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victim? And the governor candidate of that state, how could he not win?
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Blake Masters and, of course, Herschel Walker, we mentioned before. I think one of the reasons is
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that Donald Trump keeps talking about 2020 and how he was wronged. And perhaps he was. I'm sympathetic to
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that. And that New York Times poll we went through the other week showed that probably about a third of
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Americans are sympathetic to that too. But re-litigating the details, the ins and outs of that debate,
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that's inside baseball in 2022 in a country that is on the verge of a recession, has record inflation,
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and has real crises that affect real people. It was an interesting night. It was certainly not the
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success I hoped it would be for Republicans. And it makes me think, what will the big show in 2024 be
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like in the presidential season? On the one hand, you could have Ron DeSantis, a successful governor
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who can turn a purple state, as they call those sort of half and half states, into a red state with super
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majorities in the legislature. They can pass anything they want now. There are no statewide offices
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in Florida held by Democrats. Democrats are almost an extinct species in Florida.
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DeSantis is a strong media game. He's not a pushover. He's young, especially by comparison to Trump.
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He's very policy oriented. He reminds me in some ways of Stephen Harper. He's not very cool and not
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very funny, but he's solid. Ron DeSantis was a winner last night. But he's not the most likely candidate
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for the Republicans. That's Trump himself, a man of controversy and division. Now, I love Trump.
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I was one of the few Canadians who saw in him the ability to beat the Democrats in 2015. I think we
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were really the only media outlet in Canada that was cheering for him. And that fit the times in 2015
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and 2016. It was the right approach to beat Hillary Clinton, which he did. And I don't think any other
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Republican candidate would have. I love many of the things he did as president, not all the things,
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but many of them. And I think Republicans now are looking their wounds or counting their wins and
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thinking, which is the right candidate for 2024? Now, of course, it's possible that another possibility
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presents itself, another candidate. But I think DeSantis and Trump are the two serious contenders.
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Trump sees DeSantis looming behind him. We know that because at a rally this week,
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he gave DeSantis a mean nickname. Remember this?
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Trump at 71. Ron DeSanctimonious at 10 percent. Mike Pence at seven. Oh, Mike's doing better than I
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thought. He later pulled that back and he acknowledged that he, in fact, did vote for DeSantis. I don't know if
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you saw this clip here. I think a lot of his own base said, why are you sniping at our most successful
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governor in America on the eve of an election? Trump, his whole brand, not just as president,
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but for years in business and showbiz was Trump is a winner. Remember when he said you'll win so much
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with him, you'll get tired of winning? If we want America to thrive in the 21st century,
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then we must stop running from the competition. And instead, we must start totally winning and
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winning and winning again. Remember what I used to say? We're going to win so much.
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We're going to win that the people of Missouri are going to go to your governor and they're going to
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say, Governor, please go see the president. We can't stand winning so much. Remember,
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I used to say that, right? I used to say it and that's what's happening.
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And then the governor is going to come to that beautiful historic Oval Office. He's going to say
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to me, Mr. President, the people of Missouri cannot stand all that's winning. They don't want to win
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so much. They love the old way where they had lousy job numbers, lousy economic numbers,
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lousy. They loved it. Please, Mr. President, please not. And I'll say, Governor,
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I don't care what they say in Missouri. We're going to keep winning and winning and winning.
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America loved to win. Make America great again was about winning, about winning wars or better
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yet not getting into them, about winning trade negotiations, about winning economically, about
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winning market share, about winning everything instead of losing or retreating. That's the Trump
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brand. That's his casinos. That's his luxury real estate and hotels. But what if Trump actually
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isn't a winner anymore? That would be like salt that loses its saltiness? What is left? If Trump
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isn't the winner, what's there? Which would you like to see in 2024? Would you like to see a matchup,
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a second matchup between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Oh, it's possible. It's possible.
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Which would be more likely to win, Trump versus Hillary round two or DeSantis versus Hillary?
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What if it was DeSantis versus his rival governor, California's Gavin Newsom? Would you like to see
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DeSantis in such a matchup? Would you like to see Donald Trump run against Newsom?
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In 2016, Donald Trump was the only Republican tough enough and smart enough and savvy enough
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to win, to beat the real enemy, not the Democrats, but the media party. Is that true now?
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Last night's results tell me that maybe it's not. And maybe Donald Trump, as great as he was and as
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accomplished as he is, maybe it's time for him to pass the baton to Ron DeSantis, a winner who wins.
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Well, as you know, Rebel News has been focused on a number of stories like a laser,
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including the Trucker Commission of Inquiry in Ottawa. As you know, we've actually rented an Airbnb
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near the Commission of Inquiry that we've turned into a base camp and mobile studio. Well, it's not
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mobile, but it's a pop-up studio in Ottawa. Every night at 6 p.m. Eastern, we've had a live stream
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covering the events of the day, interviewing lawyers, witnesses, Tamara Leach, some of the truckers.
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It's been amazing. We've been focused on the U.S. election a little bit, and of course,
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some of our adventures overseas, including to the World Health Summit at Berlin and the
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C40 conference in Buenos Aires. But there are important subjects that I'm not sure if we've
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given enough attention to. And I think it's because the mainstream media and mainstream political parties
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don't really want to talk about them. And of course, our motto here at Rebel News is telling the
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other side of the story. So we believe in a diversity of opinions. And our next guest certainly fills
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those shoes. I'm talking about Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, who joins us
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now from Ottawa. Maxime, great to see you again. Thank you for taking the time. Appreciate you joining us.
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There's a lot of things to talk about that really aren't covered well in the mainstream. Am I right?
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Yes, you're right, Israel. And it's good that Canadians can turn to the Rebel News and listening
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the other point of view and the common sense point of view, I must say.
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Well, I appreciate you joining us. One subject that I know we've talked about a lot in the past,
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including the Roxham Road open border. Well, Roxham Road has had tens of thousands of people cross it.
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But Justin Trudeau's government has announced his plans to legally bring in half a million
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immigrants a year, which is a stunning number. That's got to be more than any other democracy in
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the world. And I just think of how that would affect things from wages to to housing prices. But I
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haven't seen any commentary or criticism of this from other political parties or even other mainstream
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media. What is your take? What is the People's Party of Canada's take on a record half million
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migrants a year coming to Canada? Yes, Israel, I must say that you are right saying that, you know,
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all these establishment national political parties, you know, the conservative, the NDP and the Green,
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the Bloc Québécois, they won't speak about that. The every each of one agreed with that position of
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half a million people starting in 2025. And for us, we are saying it's mass immigration. Yes,
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we must have sustainable immigration. But we believe that we must have lower immigration than that
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number. And actually, you know, half a million, it is the population of Newfoundland every year in
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Canada. Every year we'll have a new Newfoundland in Canada, starting at 2025. So that being said,
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they're saying always more and more people, it would be important for economic growth. You know,
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you don't need to have more people to have prosperity and economic growth. There's a small countries that
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are very prosperous. The most important is to increase our purchasing power, our standard of living.
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And and, you know, if mass immigration were a solution for that, Trudeau started mass immigration
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in 2019 with 350,000 people and after 400,000 people. And we still have, you know, inflation in
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this country and and our purchasing power is going down. So what they are saying more and more people
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will bring more prosperity. That's not the case. You said it's like bringing in a new Newfoundland
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every year. That's statistically right. But of course, they're not going to Newfoundland. I think
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the majority of them are going to Toronto, Vancouver. Some French speaking migrants would
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probably go to Montreal. So they're really going to the big cities, which is understandable because
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many of these folks are coming from ethnic communities that they would probably want to
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live in or amongst or near. So what you're really doing is you're pouring probably 300, 400,000 of
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these people into the housing markets in Vancouver and Toronto, which are already two of the most
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expensive cities in North America to live in. I mean, the average housing prices in Toronto is well over
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a million dollars for an average house. Same in Vancouver. I don't know why people don't make the
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connection between supply and demand. Like you bring in half a million more people a year, you're going to
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need hundreds of thousands of houses in addition to existing housing requirements. I don't know how
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Trudeau or anyone can claim to talk about the cost of housing while almost doubling immigration.
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Yes, you're right, Ezra. And you know, half a million, it's a lot of people. And actually,
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I was able to watch an interview that Pierre Poliev did with the National Post two days ago,
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and he said this country is a huge country. So they can go, you know, in, I don't know, Newfoundland
00:27:57.680
and other places. But the reality is, and you were right about that, 42% of them, if you look at the
00:28:03.760
data and the statistic, 42% of them are going to Toronto and Vancouver, these two big cities. So yes,
00:28:12.560
that has an impact on the prices of houses over there. And the solution to that is to have sustainable
00:28:20.880
immigration. But these establishment political parties won't speak about that. Poliev is saying,
00:28:27.280
you know, we must force municipalities to change their bylaws. You know, that's not respecting the
00:28:33.120
constitution. The easy answer to the prices of houses that is going up in Toronto and Vancouver
00:28:40.560
is to stop mass immigration. And like that, that will help. And actually, the finance minister said
00:28:48.240
that in an interview a couple of months ago. She said it's mathematical. We need to have fewer people,
00:28:54.720
or we need to build more houses. So the solution is fewer people. And, and actually, when you when
00:29:02.240
we are seeing that, when when these people are going to Toronto and Vancouver, people living in
00:29:08.720
Toronto and Vancouver are leaving these cities, they are selling their houses over there, and they are
00:29:15.280
going to another town or another cities, and prices of houses is going up in these cities. So so that's
00:29:23.280
very important, we need to have fewer immigrants. And we cannot tell them, you know, don't go to
00:29:29.520
Toronto or Vancouver, we cannot dictate them where to go. We need to have people that will be with us
00:29:37.600
because they believe in Canadian values, they will share our values, and they will come here to work.
00:29:42.800
But actually, if you look at the data right now, only 26% of them are immigrants that are coming to
00:29:50.560
Canada, they're economic immigrants, that means that, you know, that person will have a job in
00:29:56.800
this country, because an entrepreneur was not able to find a Canadian for that job. 26% of skilled
00:30:02.720
immigrants, we must increase that and having fewer refugees. And like you said, people who are crossing
00:30:10.320
the border in my own province in Quebec, illegally 20,000 of them, since the beginning of this year,
00:30:17.040
20,000, they're crossing the border. Do you really believe Israel that their life is in danger
00:30:22.480
in the state of New York, when they're crossing with Gucci's and big luggages? No, they're coming
00:30:28.720
here. And they are not respecting our borders, they if they want to come, they can come crossing the
00:30:36.320
official point of entry. And they won't do that. Because we will tell them, you know, you're not a
00:30:41.760
refugee, you have to go back to the States. And and we are the only party that is saying we must stop
00:30:47.600
that. And I said during the last campaign, we must have a fence, not a wall, just a fence over there,
00:30:53.840
and telling them if you want to cross and come to Canada, you all will come. But you just have to cross
00:30:59.520
maybe 500 meters at your at your right, and you'll have you'll have an official point of entry, and you
00:31:10.640
can you'll be able to cross, but we'll ask you the real questions. You are not a refugee, you must go
00:31:15.920
back. But because of that agreement with the US, if they cross an unofficial port of entry, they can
00:31:22.080
claim that they are refugees, and we cannot tell them go back to the US. So that's why we need to have a
00:31:27.040
fence. But you know, it's you cannot speak like that in this country. It's not politically correct.
00:31:32.880
But we are doing politics differently. And we need to acknowledge that.
00:31:39.920
Now, you said that only 26% of these migrants are economic class. Can I ask where you got that
00:31:45.200
statistic from? That's actually a shocking statistic. It suggests that, you know, more than 300,000 people
00:31:51.680
a year will be dependent. They'll either be on on welfare, or maybe they will eventually find jobs.
00:31:58.880
But but if 74% of those half million people are not economic migrants, then all the arguments for
00:32:07.360
mass immigration that the liberals and others put forward are are not, well, they don't stand up.
00:32:15.840
Yes, thank you for asking. In the 75%, you have the refugees, you have the people coming on the
00:32:23.840
reunification of family. When you're speaking about reunification of family, it's the it's the big
00:32:29.120
family. You know, we we agree that if we are a skilled worker, and you want to come here, you can come
00:32:36.240
and you can bring your wife or your husband and your children. That's the immediate family. But that's not
00:32:42.960
what is happening on the reunification of family, you can have your brother, your sister, your
00:32:47.280
grandmom, your granddad, we must stop that. But also, if you are a skilled immigrant, and you are coming
00:32:53.600
here, you are the one that will work, your wife or husband won't work, and your children won't work.
00:33:00.240
So it's why, you know, under the skilled immigrants, usually, it's only that skilled person. And if you
00:33:07.520
count only that skilled person, it will be 26%. And because the immediate family won't work here in
00:33:15.200
our country. But the data coming from the government, they are including the skilled immigrant and his or
00:33:22.240
her immediate family. That's why they can tell you that, oh, about 50% of them are skilled immigrants.
00:33:28.640
That's not real. The real number is if you count only that skilled immigrant, it's 26%. And we are we are in
00:33:35.600
agreement that that person can bring his immediate family. But we must know that, you know, the wife
00:33:41.760
usually or the husband won't work and they are not coming here because we need that person to help us
00:33:48.000
to build our economy. They're coming here because the husband or wife was a skilled immigrant. So that's
00:33:54.000
a big difference. But the official and if you look at the official data, that's the real statistic. 26% of
00:34:00.880
them are skilled immigrants that when they will cross our border, they will have a job and they
00:34:06.400
will work work immediately. And usually, if you look at the data coming from statistics Canada,
00:34:12.560
it will take between five and 10 years for the other members of the family to work in our country.
00:34:20.800
Well, I tell you, just this conversation we've been having for the last 10 minutes is a conversation
00:34:26.640
that really is nowhere in this country. It's certainly not in parliament. It's not in the
00:34:30.400
opposition parties and it's not in the media. I think that the only people who are skeptical about
00:34:36.480
mass immigration are the people. Every poll I've ever seen says that people think the number is
00:34:41.760
too high. Angus Reid does an annual survey on this and and it's practically 10 to 1 and and yet there is
00:34:48.720
no voice opposing it. I want to talk about another controversial subject about which there's even more
00:34:55.760
more conformity, a subject that if you dare to have even a nuanced point of view, not only are you
00:35:02.160
called wrong, which is fine, but you're called a foreign agent of disinformation. And I'm talking about
00:35:10.720
Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And of course, I'm against the invasion. I'm against any war. I mean,
00:35:16.560
certainly against an invasion by Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent who I think has imperial intentions.
00:35:23.280
I'm obviously sympathetic to the Ukrainian victims of this war. That's the battleground.
00:35:31.440
But how to handle this war, how to respond to it, I think is the subject of a fair debate. I don't
00:35:38.000
think we've had that debate in Canada. Any questions about it are being called disloyal. What is your
00:35:44.000
position on the war in Ukraine? What should Canada do, if anything? And do you have a comment on anything
00:35:51.760
Trudeau has said and done about this war? Yeah, we must. It's not our war. We must just stop
00:35:59.680
everything that we are doing. The Canada, our country is giving money to Ukraine. We are helping
00:36:06.160
Ukraine armies. It's not our war. And and like you, you know, I'm not for that invasion. You know,
00:36:14.080
I'm not a pro Putin. But when you're speaking about peace and prosperity in our country,
00:36:19.040
the mainstream media would all Bernier is a pro Putin. No, you just have to look at the history
00:36:24.560
of our country. And the history of our country is a country that is a middle power that will fight
00:36:30.320
for peace and prosperity. And, you know, we were not part of the war in Iraq. And I believe that
00:36:36.960
took the right decision at that time. And and we need to promote peace. We need to promote a diplomatic
00:36:43.440
solution in Ukraine. We are the only, like you said, national political party that is not pro war.
00:36:50.800
We are pro peace. And if you look at what happened in the past and if you know the history,
00:36:56.960
Khrushchev tried to have a missile in Cuba in 1962. Actually, last October, that was the 60th anniversary of
00:37:06.320
the Cuba crisis. And at that time, Kennedy said, No, we don't want a communist country that will have
00:37:14.560
missile at our doors. And, you know, that was a big crisis. And at the end, Khrushchev decided not to
00:37:22.960
go ahead with that plan to have missiles in Cuba. And we said, Okay, and when I'm saying we the Western
00:37:30.240
world and the US said, Okay, and and that was it. But we must remember that Putin was saying the same
00:37:37.520
thing couple of years and months ago, he said, I don't want any missile on the in Ukraine, it will
00:37:44.400
be at my doors. And we are pushing we the Western world are pushing Ukraine to be part of NATO. If
00:37:52.400
Ukraine is part of NATO, we will have a NATO base in Ukraine at the doors of of Russia.
00:38:00.240
And you know, what was good for for us in 1962 must be good. Also, in 2022, we must remember that.
00:38:08.800
So let's have a discussion. Let's put all these parties around the same table to have a peaceful
00:38:15.520
discussion. But, you know, it's not mainstream saying that because it's not politically correct.
00:38:21.200
And for us, I believe that would be the best thing for our country to promote peace and prosperity in
00:38:27.520
Ukraine. And it's not our war, we not must not be part of that. But these politicians, establishment
00:38:33.840
politicians are, you know, because we have 1 million Canadians from Ukraine origin, and they are
00:38:40.640
pandering to, to them. And that's why I believe we are part of that war right now, we can say no to
00:38:48.800
NATO like Chrétien did. And that must be the position of our country. And it's too bad that it is not.
00:38:56.080
But you can count on us, we will always fight for what is good for this party, for this for this country,
00:39:02.000
sorry, and this party. You know, I remember when Justin Trudeau was running for prime minister
00:39:10.080
before he won his first election. And he was asked about Canada's CF-18s, which were engaged
00:39:17.360
against the ISIS terrorist group. And one of the very first things Trudeau did before he was even
00:39:23.440
officially sworn in as prime minister, is he told Barack Obama at the time that Canada was pulling our
00:39:30.320
CF-18s out. And Obama wanted Trudeau to keep them in. And I remember Trudeau saying, mocking generals,
00:39:39.280
pulling out their CF-18s and seeing how big they are, like he was making fun of warmongers. Here's a
00:39:45.200
quick clip of that. So will you be Jean Chrétien though, you still want to see the proof is the proof
00:39:51.040
is the proof, or are you pretty well made up your mind that it would be better for us to stay in a
00:39:56.480
I haven't made up my mind, but the onus is on Mr. Harper to demonstrate that a shift from a
00:40:02.800
non-combat role that we've established right now to a combat role is the right thing for Canada,
00:40:10.400
the right thing for Canadians, but also the right thing for the international community.
00:40:16.160
There are an awful lot of things that Canada can and should be doing. I mean, look, think about
00:40:20.720
think about Canada's reputation around the world and what we've done around refugees.
00:40:25.120
Whether it be the Vietnamese boat people, whether it be the Ismailis in Uganda, in East Africa,
00:40:35.920
whether it be even more recently the Tamil community fleeing a civil war in Sri Lanka.
00:40:44.720
You know, Canada has been a place that draws in and helps refugees in a significant and serious
00:40:52.080
way. Now, in this situation, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of displaced peoples in
00:40:56.880
the region who aren't looking to all, you know, leave the region. That's where their homes are. They
00:41:02.000
need support to get through this very, very difficult time. Canada has a capacity and an expertise in doing
00:41:09.040
just that. Why aren't we talking more about that? Why aren't we talking more about the kind of humanitarian aid
00:41:14.800
that Canada can and must be engaged in rather than, you know, trying to whip out our CF-18s and show
00:41:20.720
them how big they are? You know, it just doesn't work like that in Canada.
00:41:25.360
So here was Justin Trudeau, who was very sympathetic, frankly, to returning ISIS terrorists. He said we
00:41:33.520
have something to learn from them. I mean, here's that clip on CTV.
00:41:37.200
While other countries are prosecuting citizens who went abroad to fight for ISIS, Trudeau believes
00:41:42.400
some returning home to Canada can still be rehabilitated. There's a range of experiences
00:41:47.280
when people come home and we know that actually someone who has engaged and turned away from that
00:41:56.640
hateful ideology can be an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future
00:42:05.120
generations. That was a shocking thing for him to say. So he was soft on Islamic terrorism with the
00:42:10.880
Islamic State. He pulled out our CF-18s from that battle, even though Barack Obama specifically asked
00:42:17.200
him for it. He denigrated our armed forces. But suddenly that peacenik sounds like a veritable
00:42:25.040
warmonger. I mean, Canada used to be a peacekeeping country. That was one of the liberal brands.
00:42:30.160
I just don't recognize this prime minister we have. He's so butch all of a sudden. He sounds like
00:42:36.880
an army general. I just don't know why the Justin Trudeau of seven years ago, who was mocking militarism
00:42:43.760
and generals, is now breaking out as toy soldiers and moving them all over the map. I find it unusual.
00:42:51.120
And you must also remember, Ezra, that we didn't have also the right equipment for our Canadian forces.
00:42:58.240
We did that war in Afghanistan. And at that time, I was foreign affairs minister.
00:43:03.040
And I was begging my counterparts, other foreign affairs ministers all across the world to help us
00:43:10.000
in Afghanistan with resources, with plane, because our Canadian forces didn't have the right equipment,
00:43:16.240
and they still don't. So let's, you know, put more money and respect our signature when we said we
00:43:25.120
need to spend 2% of our GDP in our Canadian forces. And we must do that, you know, having a plan to do
00:43:31.280
that. We won't be able to do that in the first year, but we must have a plan to increase and give
00:43:36.560
our Canadian forces the right resources and equipment. But now we are, you know, spending money in Ukraine
00:43:45.200
and sending our equipment over there. We must not do that. And yes, you're right. This country has been
00:43:52.720
known as a peacekeeper. And I believe that is the solution for that crisis that we have in Ukraine
00:44:00.400
right now. But I don't understand Trudeau. And Trudeau is not in line with the Liberals. And also the NDP,
00:44:06.000
Ezra, the NDP under Ed Bradburn, they were fighting for peace and prosperity. And now the NDP and Trudeau
00:44:15.440
and the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois and the Greens, they are in that war. And you must save
00:44:21.760
Ukraine. It's not our war. We must not be part of that. Well, that's certainly a contrarian point of
00:44:28.800
view. And I know it'll get you labeled a foreign agent. I think it already has. I know the University of
00:44:34.640
Calgary, Professor Boucher, Trudeau's disinformation czar has called you a Putin agent. He's called me
00:44:41.280
that, too. I'm not a Putin agent. In fact, I've written a whole book condemning him and Gazprom.
00:44:46.880
But the fact that I don't bend the knee to Trudeau, I guess we've been labeled. Well, listen, Maxi Burti,
00:44:53.120
great to catch up with you. And you'll be speaking at the Rebel News Live conference, which is a great
00:45:00.400
thing. We used to do a lot before the pandemic. We're getting back into it again. We're going to have
00:45:04.320
about 15 speakers, each for about 15 or 20 minutes. And we're grateful that you'll be there.
00:45:08.960
If folks want to come and meet you in person, go to rebelnewslive.com and you can see the ticket
00:45:14.960
prices there for students or seniors. It's a great event. Thanks for coming for that, by the way. It's
00:45:19.600
going to be great. Thank you, Ezra. I'm very pleased to be there. And I will take that time at that
00:45:25.040
conference to explain a little bit in more details our position on the war in Ukraine. And like I just said,
00:45:32.960
our position for fighting for peace and prosperity. So thank you for having me. And
00:45:38.640
I will see you at that event. Well, that'll be a great one. And just for the record,
00:45:42.880
we have given invitations to other political leaders from other political parties, including
00:45:47.280
Premier Daniel Smith from Alberta, Premier Doug Ford in Ontario, and Pierre Pauly of the leader of the
00:45:52.800
Conservative Party. Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party. Great to see you. Thanks for your time.
00:45:56.800
Thank you, Ezra. Have a nice evening. Bye-bye. You too. There you have it, Maxime Bernier. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:46:03.280
Hey, welcome back to your letters to me. Stay Ray says, hope Elon starts unmanning people soon or all
00:46:21.520
grows suspicious of how much he really loves free speech. Prove it. Well, imagine the list of people
00:46:26.720
who would be brought back to life after being sent to Twitter heaven, Donald Trump being the first and
00:46:32.080
most obvious one. You know, even some rebel news alumni like Tommy Robinson. I wonder if they will be allowed
00:46:41.000
Maury Joe one says, after the not unexpected lackluster performance by the Republicans in yesterday's election,
00:46:48.120
Trump should think twice about running in 2024. You know, that was my monologue today. I mean, I still like Trump and
00:46:54.220
he did amazing things for America. I think he really saved America from Hillary Clinton and from what a continuation
00:47:00.080
of the first Obama presidency would have been. We can see the last two years what a Democrat win would have been.
00:47:05.460
And thank God Trump was there. Trump did a great many things and he was going to do many more until he was
00:47:12.340
defenestrated in 2020. I think there are real questions about American election integrity. The fact that the
00:47:19.800
richest, most modern country in the world can't count their ballots on election night is deeply embarrassing.
00:47:25.980
Of course, some states can. Florida and Texas, two of the largest states, had no problem counting them
00:47:31.260
within hours. Why can't Arizona or New York do the same? Brazil just had their presidential election.
00:47:37.600
They counted their results in one night. Why can't America? It only makes you curious about shenanigans.
00:47:44.060
Someone named Canadian Rumble Guy says, Trump's narcissism won't allow him to step aside and let a better
00:47:49.980
person run. He's putting his pride above what America needs to move ahead. Too many Americans
00:47:54.840
who don't like Trump would vote Republican if he wasn't still making it all about him. Trump is going
00:48:01.220
to be the downfall of American democracy. I don't think he's going to be the downfall of American
00:48:05.380
democracy. But I do think that him, I mean, the thing about Trump is Trump is Trumpism. Trump is about
00:48:13.320
himself. It's about his personality, his charisma. He takes up all the oxygen in a room. And when he's on and
00:48:18.980
when he's fighting for something important, he's amazing. When he knows what he wants, when there's
00:48:24.020
a deal to get on behalf of Americans, on behalf of the free world, Trump is the guy you want. But when
00:48:30.320
Trump is just talking about Trump, especially in an American economic recession, it just rings
00:48:36.020
self-centered. And I think that a policy wonk like Ron DeSantis, who shows he can win and win Latino
00:48:43.360
voters. I think that that combined with him being a generation younger, I think that's a powerful
00:48:49.360
thing. Don't count Trump out. I mean, he's made a lifetime of successes by being counted out. He's
00:48:57.940
fallen down and gotten out more times than most. But I think that the magic, I'm not saying it's gone,
00:49:04.360
but it wasn't evident last night. Hopefully the Republican candidate for governor, Carrie Lake,
00:49:10.220
and Arizona couldn't pull through. And it'd be a bit of a miracle if it could in New York too. There
00:49:14.740
are a few that we shouldn't write off yet. But as a whole, Trump's people, where it counted,
00:49:21.820
did not win last night. How do you lose to a stroke victim? That's our show for today. Until
00:49:29.500
tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubber World Headquarters, to you at home, good night
00:49:32.920
and keep fighting for freedom. So here, Alexa for Rubber News, and I'm currently in Ville
00:49:37.440
Saint Laurent, in front of the restaurant Vino Rosso, where Mr. Trudeau is holding a fundraising
00:49:45.020
event for the Liberal Party. So it's very funny because Chrystia Freeland recently did say
00:49:51.440
that for fighting against inflation, Canadians should think about maybe cutting the subscription
00:49:59.140
for Disney Plus that is used for entertaining children. I personally, as a mother and wife,
00:50:07.140
look carefully at my credit card bill once a month. And last Sunday, I said to the kids,
00:50:12.320
you're older now, you don't want to watch Disney anymore. Let's cut that Disney Plus subscription.
00:50:18.240
So we cut it. It's only $13.99 a month that we're saving, but every little bit helps. And I think
00:50:25.660
every mother in Canada is doing that right now. And I want to say to all of those mothers,
00:50:31.300
I believe that I need to take exactly the same approach with the federal government's finances,
00:50:37.780
because that's the money of Canadians. When we know that Justin Trudeau, in person,
00:50:43.600
went to London for the funeral of the Queen, and he paid with the taxpayer money, a hotel room of
00:50:50.980
$6,000 a night. So we are not leaving. We know that now Mr. Trudeau was already inside of the building
00:50:59.720
when we arrived. But as Rebelle, we will stay here until the end. We'll try to catch him because we have
00:51:06.520
questions for him. We want to ask why he speak. He didn't speak out when Quebec province did use the
00:51:13.540
nonwithstanding clause, but he's doing it with Doug Ford. And if he will apologize to Canadians,
00:51:22.280
if we find out with the Public Order Emergency Commission that the Emergencies Act was not necessary
00:51:32.260
for dismantling a peaceful tracker protest. So we will be here until the end and we will try to,
00:51:40.340
to speak with the attendee. Let's check it out.
00:51:58.700
So, hey folks, we didn't get Justin Trudeau. Unfortunately, it disappeared. And when we know that
00:52:08.340
$1,600 for not even two hours of event, this is pretty expensive for per hour. So we will go in
00:52:18.740
the street and ask the people in Montreal what they think about all of this. Let's check it out.
00:52:28.820
Yesterday, Mr. Trudeau was in town in Montreal because he was holding a fundraising event for the
00:52:35.860
Liberal Party. My question today is, Chrystia Freeland did ask Canadians to fight against inflation to
00:52:44.820
cancel their Disney Plus subscription. And we know that Justin Trudeau went to London and he paid himself,
00:52:55.220
with the taxpayer money, a hotel room of $6,000. What do you think about this nonsense?
00:53:01.300
The financial way of how they continue to blow the taxpayers' money is a phenomenal debt that
00:53:11.220
causes Canada never to be able to achieve their greatness by showing absolute sensitivity and
00:53:17.220
making it practical because they continue to abuse us in ways that uses the taxpayers' money in other
00:53:23.380
ways that are inappropriate. Because if they're able to see the truth about the things and the
00:53:28.340
destruction of what it causes the average of people in this country, they will never choose to use
00:53:34.740
It's been a lot of pain, but it's the people who govern. We don't know what to do.
00:53:40.980
No, but it's a waste of money because there are less expensive and comfortable hotels.
00:53:47.220
And if they wanted to give an example to save money, why do they do that?
00:53:56.580
He's not in the same mood as all the families of Quebec, in the fond. For the affair of Disney Plus and
00:54:03.700
the company, we need to divert it. It's more easy for him, with the money he does. And at the same time,
00:54:10.500
there are a lot of expenses that the government pays for him. So we're not all aware of it,
00:54:15.940
but sometimes it's still public. But the hotel room at $6,000, it's sure it could be a little bit lower.
00:54:29.940
It's very hypocritical. I would say that even in the face, that it's very hypocritical to pay $6,000 for a hotel room for
00:54:37.940
a hotel room while there are people in Montreal and everywhere in Canada who are out of pain.
00:54:43.060
I guess it's a big contradiction for the act that we are doing right now for the Disney Plus.
00:54:50.900
So he's saying to unsubscribe from Disney Plus…
00:54:53.940
For saving money, but he's using $6,000 of our money for a hotel room.
00:54:59.060
It's basically a contradiction that does not make sense. Like, how could you say… How much does Disney Plus,
00:55:08.100
A month? Yeah, it's basically nothing. It's like less than a coffee a day. So like…
00:55:14.260
And him going to spend like one night in a… I don't know, it doesn't make sense.
00:55:19.540
So you see it, the people have thought, a lot of them find that it's really hypocritical
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to hurt the government telling citizens of Canada to unsubscribe from Disney Plus
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when we saw them throwing the money through the window like the hotel room at $6,000.
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So I hope you enjoyed that report. It was Alexander for Ruben News.