EZRA LEVANT ｜ This is one of the worst cases of pandemic disinformation I’ve seen so far — and you’ll be so disappointed where it was published
A case of pure, manufactured disinformation from the National Post about the ongoing anti-vaccine protest in Ottawa, Canada, by the Canadian government. I'll take you through it, and explain why you should be worried.
00:00:00.800Hello, my friends. Normally the disinformation comes from the CBC, but we have a terrible case of disinformation from the National Post, which is a bit surprising, but I shouldn't be surprised anymore.
00:00:12.080They're the biggest recipient of Trudeau's subsidies, so they do what they're told. That's sort of sad. I'll take you through it.
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00:00:53.640Tonight, I want to show you one of the worst cases of pandemic disinformation I've seen so far, and you'll be so disappointed where it was published.
00:01:11.180It's April 27th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:15.860Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:19.300There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:23.640The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:34.860I don't know if you saw this, but yesterday, Trudeau's clownish public safety minister told a bald-faced lie in Parliament.
00:01:43.320When residents can't get to work, when they can't take their children to school,
00:01:47.740when seniors can't get around because public transportation can't get to them,
00:01:52.540when people who live in apartment buildings find that their front doors are locked
00:01:58.680and that fires are set in the hallways and corridors.
00:11:22.940Of the total 20,033 AEFI reports received to date, 18,912 AEFI reports are non-serious.
00:11:36.1001,121 reports meet the serious definition.
00:11:41.940The most commonly reported adverse events are other severe or unusual events and allergic skin reactions reported in 27% and 22% of the total AEFI reports.
00:11:55.6601,522 reports include a COVID-19 vaccine-specific adverse event of special interest,
00:12:00.840in which 675 reports also meet the serious definition.
00:12:07.360See adverse events of special interest definition section for more information.
00:12:11.36021 reports of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome after receipt of AstraZeneca,
00:12:18.900Covishield vaccine, of which 16 are vaccine-induced immune thrombotic.
00:12:24.680I'm not even going to read these scientific terms.
00:12:27.280Some 743 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis after receipt of mRNA vaccines seem, and there's a section for that.
00:12:36.880And there were 22 reports of death in Ontario.
00:13:37.340Americans, they're so dumb, who were polled with the same questions, are far more likely to subscribe to myths about vaccination than are Canadians, the survey found.
00:13:46.200Those dumb Americans, they were so much better than them.
00:13:50.260Well, like I say, the things they asked, in some cases, were not myths.
00:16:32.480But in a situation where you have people indoors, particularly crowded, you should wear a mask.
00:16:37.640So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask.
00:16:41.080If, in fact, you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected and you do not need to wear a mask outdoors or indoors.
00:16:47.820When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks.
00:16:52.820You know, if you look at children outside, particularly when they're with the family, walking down the street, playing a game or what have you, don't have to wear a mask.
00:17:02.220The pediatric, the Academy of Pediatric actually makes that recommendation that children should be wearing masks from two years old onward.
00:17:10.660And you're asking now, if your child is a member of your household, can you walk outdoors with your child without a mask?
00:17:18.020According to that chart, the answer is yes.
00:17:20.860But the child can't, not to beat it to death.
00:17:45.260So one of the ways you could do it, if you would like to, is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here, where you could get leakage in, is much better contained.
00:18:51.280Well, one of our favorite people to talk to, one of the few courageous voices fighting against lockdownism in the darkest days of the pandemic,
00:19:11.940when there were curfews in Quebec, when they would give you a ticket for going to a funeral in the West,
00:19:17.380is our friend Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada.
00:19:20.720He joins us now via Skype from Montreal.
00:19:23.640Maxime Bernier, great to see you again.
00:24:46.220I mean, I haven't practiced law in a while.
00:24:48.240And, of course, criminal law or whatever offense you were charged under is a little bit, you know, it's a specialty.
00:24:55.460But the idea that having a hearing on Family Day or whatever, some special day, means that the charge is dropped, that sounds absurd to me.
00:25:13.920They were looking for an excuse, a way out.
00:25:16.080So I don't think that that's the real reason they let you go.
00:25:19.640I think it's very interesting that they appear to be scared of prosecuting you.
00:25:24.960And that tells me that either they think they don't have a legal basis, they're worried about a constitutional challenge that might set a precedent,
00:25:31.800or maybe they're just worried about the political black eye of having a trial that would so be so obviously punitive, so obviously punishing a political rival.
00:25:42.360For whatever reason, I'm glad they dropped the ticket against you.
00:25:45.140But I'm going to check after this interview with those other cases in Saskatoon, because if they're still proceeding, then we've still got ourselves a problem, right?
00:25:55.520But I can tell you that they will, if they're still going on, I believe that all these people are defended by the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:26:07.120It's a great organization, non-profitable organization.
00:26:10.660They don't receive any money from the government, as you know, only from Canadians.
00:26:15.300So, and they are working with me also.
00:26:18.980So, I believe that these cases may go ahead, but if we don't win, they will appeal that up to the Supreme Court, because as you know, it was illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, not based on science.
00:26:33.600So, I believe that if we have a good judge, they must win, they must win.
00:26:39.420But we never know with the justice system right now in Canada.
00:26:44.200I mean, it's so frustrating to me to tell my American friends that our Supreme Court of Canada has yet to weigh in on anything regarding the lockdowns.
00:26:53.960I mean, my whole life, I was told how important the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was.
00:26:58.140I was told it was a central part of the Canadian identity.
00:27:01.560When I was in law school, I was told it was this sacred text.
00:27:05.880And here we are two years into the bonfire of our civil liberties, and the Charter of Rights has not helped us one bit.
00:27:12.420I can't think of a single substantive lockdown law or policy that was stopped because of it, not the curfew in Quebec, not the ban on funerals or weddings, not the lockdowns of churches.
00:27:29.420I can't think of any place where the Charter has actually protected Canadians.
00:27:39.500And, you know, right now, as you may know, I cannot travel across the country because I decided not to have the two jabs, and I'm not vaccinated.
00:27:49.320I'm the leader of a national party, and I need to travel across the country.
00:27:53.540Actually, in the first three weeks of May, I'll be in Atlantic Canada, in Newfoundland, not Newfoundland, sorry, I'll be in Nova Scotia, I'll be in New Brunswick and in P.I.
00:28:38.460But given how the courts have been so far, I'm not optimistic, simply because not a single judge has been willing to stand up and say, stop.
00:28:49.220I see Teresa Tam is talking about, what is it now, the sixth wave or whatever she's into.
00:28:54.420And she says that, you know, she thinks masking should come back.
00:28:57.860And I see that all these TV doctors, all these COVID celebrities who hate the fact that in some ways we're returning to normal, I get the feeling that they're ready.
00:29:09.360They're going to give us maybe a break over the summertime.
00:29:12.180But in the fall or in flu season, they're going to ramp it up all over again.
00:29:15.820And that's one of my worries, is that although some of the lockdowns have eased and some of the vaccine passports have eased and some of the mask rules have eased, except for in Quebec, that all the machinery of the lockdown is still in place.
00:29:31.600All the laws, all the personnel, so they could flip a switch and put us back in lockdowns in a heartbeat.
00:32:02.660But I see in Eric Duhem proof that a principled, freedom-oriented approach can actually find 10, 20, 30, 40 percent support and possibly, if not become official opposition, maybe even win.
00:33:10.720And that's very encouraging also for me as the leader of the People's Party of Canada in Quebec for the next dinner election.
00:33:18.500So we'll see what will happen with Eric.
00:33:20.400But you're right by saying he's the only one, the only real opposition in Quebec at the provincial level against these draconian lockdowns since the beginning of that COVID hysteria in Quebec and in Canada.
00:33:36.180I mean, and they're trying to smear him and they're trying to knock him, but he's quite quick on his feet.
00:33:40.280I mean, he's been in the media for his whole life, so he's not going to be easily fooled.
00:33:45.480Well, let me ask you about this, because for the longest time, I think it could be said that the best recruiter for the People's Party of Canada was Andrew Scheer.
00:33:57.800And then the best recruiter for the People's Party of Canada was Aaron O'Toole, because those two told party members they were for freedom.
00:34:08.600But in the end, I think they were both awful.
00:34:13.180Aaron O'Toole was indistinguishable from Justin Trudeau on so many things, in my view.
00:34:18.760And it's fascinating to me that it was the truckers and that freedom rebellion that finally made the Conservative Party say enough and throw them out.
00:34:29.140Well, now that those two are gone and the Conservative Party is having a pretty rambunctious leadership campaign, you've got Jean Charest and Patrick Brown and Pierre Pauly.
00:34:44.120Because I would think that if the party moves towards freedom against lockdowns, if it rediscovers its roots on opposing the carbon tax, if it gets rid of all this Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer mumble, mumbly, shy conservatism, that that's sort of what fueled the People's Party.
00:36:00.140The only way to be able to build pipelines in this country is to use the Constitution, the Section 9210 in our Constitution.
00:36:07.220And like that, the federal government will have the full jurisdiction, the full responsibility, and the federal government will be able to listen to that, impose, yes, I'm saying that, impose the pipeline on provinces that are saying no.
00:36:21.740So ask the question to Pierre Pauly here, if it's really to use the Constitution to impose a pipeline, just ask him the question, Ezra, you'll see the answer.
00:36:32.220Same thing about, you know, carbon tax.
00:36:34.500It's against the carbon tax, but it's for the Paris Accord.
00:36:37.960So what would be the real Pierre Pauly here?
00:36:43.040And I believe that the real conservative people who believe in freedom and personal responsibility and respect, they will come and they will stay with us and we will grow.
00:36:52.520Actually, right now, Ezra, we started that party by 0% in 2018, 1.6% in 2019, 5% in 2021, and we're supposed to be around 8% and 10% in the pool.
00:37:06.240So we are still growing, and I believe that we have a bright future.
00:37:09.800Now, you're talking as if Pierre Pauly is going to be the winner, and it appears that way to me based on the size of his crowds.
00:37:19.880But I don't know how it's going to be in the end.
00:37:26.660There may be members signed up in using, you know, I'm not going to say trickery, but listen, stuffing.
00:37:35.060I'm not going to say stuffing ballot boxes, but here's what I mean.
00:37:37.340The rules of the conservative party leadership suggest that you can organize in low population ridings and get a lot of points in the system if I understand how they choose their leader, if it's the same as in the past.
00:37:50.140So what I'm saying is a big crowd is impressive, but it may not be the key to victory.
00:37:54.540I myself predict that Pierre Pauly will win, but it might not.
00:40:32.540Then we saw the worst of all things, the suspension of civil liberties under the Emergencies Act, the seizing of people's bank accounts, arresting political opponents.
00:40:45.140I'm worried that Justin Trudeau is who he says he is, a man who admires China's basic dictatorship.
00:40:52.320I'm worried that he hasn't learned any lesson other than he can get away with it.
00:40:58.660And Jagmeet Singh is helping him get away with it, and the media is helping him get away with it.
00:41:03.340How do you think civil liberties are doing in Canada?
00:41:07.840And if Justin Trudeau is going to be Prime Minister for a few more years, courtesy of Jagmeet Singh, what's going to be the state of our civil liberties two, three years from now?
00:41:53.260And we cannot trust him as a guy that will respect our Charter of Rights.
00:41:57.920We look at all the examples in the past, and now for the future, what he's doing right now, you know, it's, we are in a socialist era right now with Trudeau and the NDP together, and that country is going to more to the left.
00:42:12.940And that's very, looking very dangerous for our civil liberties in this country.
00:42:18.580You know, I have to say, and I certainly hope this doesn't come to pass, but I think the fact that you were arrested and they made a big scene out of arresting you and the former Premier of Manitoba denounced you,
00:42:34.100the lack of reaction to that from the political class and the media class, I think, gave permission to the government to become more and more extreme.
00:42:44.180And I have to predict, and I don't want this to happen, but I predict it, that there will be more arrests of political opponents.
00:42:51.620We saw Randy Hillier being arrested, and he was given a gag order as a bail condition.
00:42:57.300He's not allowed to criticize government policy.
00:42:59.520Tamara Litz, the convoy organizer, part of her bail conditions is she's not allowed to criticize government policy.
00:43:05.460Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, he's appealing that part of his sentence, but he was also told if he criticizes government policy, he has to read a self-denunciation.
00:43:18.520I wouldn't be surprised, and I hate to say it, if you were arrested again, if they seized your bank account claiming that you had given aid and comfort to the truckers.
00:43:30.900Like, I think we're going, we really are going down the road of a banana republic, and I don't want people to say, oh, that's just a conspiracy theory or paranoia.
00:43:57.900I cannot take a flight to go to Florida or another country because I'm not vaccinated.
00:44:02.780And actually, you're right about everything that you said.
00:44:05.360But you forgot yourself, Ezra, the media, the media and you, you know, they are going after you.
00:44:13.440They are going after the independent media.
00:44:16.020They don't want to have any competition.
00:44:17.700And for the mainstream media, you're right.
00:44:20.520When I was arrested as a leader of a political party before electoral campaign, the only national media that I did was with you, Ezra, and also with Tucker in the U.S., Fox News.
00:44:33.160I didn't do any interviews with Radio Canada, CBC, CTV, Global.
00:44:42.760But I believe, you know, when you do that to a national politician being arrested after, you know, for a non-crime,
00:44:50.420after a meeting in a park with the executive of my riding association in that, in that region, we were five, no, not five, we were 10 in the park, social distancing, a nice day, a sunny day.
00:45:07.620And the rule at that time was no more than five person, a meeting of five person in a park outside.
00:45:16.660Yes, that was political repression coming from the premier that didn't want me to do a big rally that I had planned the day after in Winnipeg.
00:45:26.380So that's the country that we are living here right now.
00:46:43.260Didn't the RCMP get a substantial raise this year?
00:46:46.080Well, I think I don't think it's money.
00:46:49.460I think Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's handpicked RCMP commissioner, has decided her job is to protect Justin Trudeau.
00:46:58.520I mean, she was clearly a partisan appointment, an affirmative action appointment, and she owes her career to Trudeau, and she's proving it every day.
00:47:15.740I mean, the way the RCMP kept the peace during the gold rush is the stuff of lore, and they're selling it out the way they are politicized these days.
00:48:42.080Because this morning, a freedom convoy has left Coventry Road in Ottawa with two big movement teams.
00:48:50.240We talk about the Unifer from Ottawa and we talk about the Freedom Fighter from Canada.
00:48:56.500They wanted to come here in support of Quebecer because recently the government of Quebec has passed the law 15 about the reform of the young protection.
00:49:07.060And that has a lot of consequences that will probably happen with that law.
00:49:37.980And after what he did in Ottawa, trampling his own citizens, using the full power of the state for people that simply don't agree with him and have unacceptable views, this is our last stand for democracy in Canada.
00:49:51.480I'm here for the future of the children with whom I work, for my future children too.
00:49:56.820I see what world we are going through, transhumanism, robots.
00:50:01.720Honestly, people don't think about it.