Justin Trudeau came out with his most pro-Hamas statement yet, and it's absolutely shocking. I'll show you some reaction to it, including from Israel, but also from right here in Canada. That's next.
00:11:05.240Why are you supporting Israel? Hey, relax. I'm talking to our prime minister. Don't breach my
00:11:13.240rights. Why do you say Hamas is a terrorist organization?
00:11:15.800It's not a terrorist organization. No, they're Palestinian resistance. What about Ukrainian
00:11:23.960resistance? You're just, you're just bowing down to the Israelis.
00:11:31.000Why they can't fight back? They can't fight back. Shame on you, Trudeau. Shame on you.
00:11:38.520He stood with the Israelis, with the war criminals, the ones that are breaching international law,
00:11:43.000killing babies. That was him a few days ago. And last night, a swarm of about dozens of Hamas
00:11:48.520supporters, they surrounded Trudeau at a restaurant in Vancouver. A hundred Vancouver police had to be
00:11:55.880deployed. And the Hamas supporters attacked the police. Some charges were laid. But look,
00:12:02.680everyone seems to hate Trudeau, according to polls. The latest poll out by Abacus shows Trudeau is at an
00:12:10.360all-time low for approval. Just staggered down in the past week. 58% of people disapprove of him,
00:12:17.160just 25% approve. Looks like the NDP is sopping up some of that pro-terrorism vote. I mean,
00:12:24.040I don't think that even Trudeau can compete with this. Shame on the double standards of the Western
00:12:31.320world when they talk about an international rule-based order. Because the world is awakening to the
00:12:39.960atrocities in Gaza, the atrocities in Palestine, and the atrocities in the Western. The extreme example
00:12:50.280set by the authoritarian Doug Ford regime to censor my sister, Sarah Gemma,
00:12:58.760alone with her removal from her own caucus, will ensure and embolden others to become less tolerant
00:13:12.440dirty. And the occupation. And the occupation. And the occupation.
00:13:27.880End the siege of Gaza. End the siege of Gaza. End the siege of Gaza. End the siege of Gaza. End the siege of Gaza. I love you. I love each and every one of you. Know that you're making a difference. Know that your actions matter. Know that there are people listening.
00:13:46.740That's an actual NDP member of Parliament. But I think the stupidest statement I've seen this week goes to the woman that Trudeau just appointed to be his anti-Semitism commissioner. And before you ask, that means she's against anti-Semitism, not for it. I should clarify because with Trudeau, you never know.
00:14:06.680So look at this. This is what she said. Her name is Deborah Lyons. Someone had written, oh, just lovely. We can now fight Hamas with World Kindness Day. Gee whiz. Why didn't we ever think of that? So a sarcastic comment about World Kindness Day.
00:14:22.380And Trudeau's appointee in charge of fighting anti-Semitism actually wrote back, worth a try. And heaven knows we need a little more kindness these days. Are you serious? That's how you're going to fight back against anti-Semitism.
00:14:36.680That's how you're going to fight back against Hamas, the murders and the rapes of countless Jews, the hostages. That's how you're going to fight back against screaming jihadist mobs, by acts of kindness. What a fool. What an embarrassment.
00:14:49.260But really, what can she do? I mean, look at her boss. What can she do other than resign? She's looking for anti-Semitism. It's coming from inside the house, lady. It's coming from Justin Trudeau himself.
00:15:02.220I mentioned that the largest pro-Israel rally in history happened yesterday in Washington, D.C., and a couple of Trudeau's Jewish cabinet ministers went down there.
00:15:12.320Here's Anthony Housefather, who's a junior cabinet minister. He says,
00:15:16.620Today, in the world's most powerful democracy, in front of the Capitol in D.C., Ya'ara, Sachs, David Legge, and I joined 250,000 others to support Israel, demand the release of the hostages held by Hamas, and to denounce the rise of anti-Semitism.
00:15:30.500We gained strength from each other today. Got it. Got it. So while Trudeau is in Canada, denouncing Israel as a war criminal, not mentioning the hostages, his cabinet ministers are hobnobbing in photo shoots far away in another country, showing how pro-Israel they are.
00:15:49.180Imagine staying on as a liberal cabinet minister in Trudeau's party, after Trudeau calls Israel a genocidal war criminal.
00:15:58.560As the book of Mark says in the New Testament,
00:16:00.900For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
00:16:06.800These Jewish MPs are willing to give up their dignity, their soul, but not for the whole world.
00:16:12.460Just for some junior cabinet position in a government that's going to be voted out of office very soon, for that, they're giving up all their dignity and supporting an anti-Semite?
00:16:29.440We are focused like a laser on the war between Israel and Hamas because that war is having reverberations around the world, including here on the streets of Canada.
00:16:51.660And I see by all polling that Canadians and Americans or Brits are following the war very closely, but that does not mean that there are not other issues around the world.
00:17:01.460And in fact, I think a lot of the issues that we talk about, wokeness, cultural Marxism, censorship, mass immigration, these are issues that have fed into the Israel-Hamas crisis,
00:17:13.040certainly how the crisis manifests itself on the streets of Canada.
00:17:16.700And so I want to bring you a story from Finland, a country very far away, a country that's not much in the news,
00:17:24.340but a country that has succumbed in some ways to this wokeness, this censorship.
00:17:30.820Recently, actually, it's not that recently, a Finnish parliamentarian was criminally prosecuted for hate speech for her opposition to LGBTQ2S plus views.
00:17:45.300She was victorious, but that was appealed, if I'm not mistaken, by crown prosecutors to an appeal court.
00:17:53.000They really wanted to get their pound of flesh.
00:17:56.320Well, the good news is the Court of Appeal unanimously threw out the charges.
00:18:02.300But of course, as you know, the process is the punishment.
00:18:05.460What the heck was happening in Finland?
00:18:08.900Is it widespread in that country and elsewhere?
00:18:11.620Joining us now live via London to talk about it is Lois McClatchy Miller,
00:18:17.140who is an advocate with the Alliance Defending Freedom that helped the Finnish parliamentarian in court.
00:21:17.400Now, all three of these charges of hate speech actually fall under the part of the Finnish criminal code titled War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, if you can believe it.
00:21:31.540It feels like I'm talking about a Babylon Bee article, but I'm not.
00:21:34.880That's exactly where those charges are filed under in the Finnish criminal code.
00:21:40.020So that's what Pai B has been facing for these past four years.
00:21:45.520Well, you know, we've been focused over the last few weeks on virulent, sometimes violent hate speech, including sometimes threats,
00:21:55.580that we've seen on the streets of London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, around the world, calling for jihad, calling for, you know, in Sydney, they were chanting, gas the Jews.
00:22:07.280Because in many of those, most of those cases, there are no legal consequences, whatever, and not just legal consequences.
00:22:14.140You don't have the noble people, the official hate finders.
00:22:18.080None of them are even perturbed by this.
00:22:20.360Many of them are amongst the chanters of these phrases.
00:22:23.660So they can't find violent hate speech when it's being shouted at them, but they'll take a microscope and look back to a 2004 church letter to prosecute a parliamentarian.
00:22:47.960The only thing I know about Finland is its former PM, that, you know, rave, dancing queen, pop star, influencer, Instagram prime minister who was quickly thrown out by voters.
00:23:07.900I think to focus too much on Finland itself would be to miss the great message of this story in a way, because I think it's really a message about Western culture as a whole.
00:23:20.060With ADF International, we get to have a bird's eye view of a global trend of censorship that's spreading across the world.
00:23:26.160We have cases that we work on over in Pakistan and Nigeria, where Christians are put on trial and through courts because of things that they've said either online or in person about their faith.
00:23:38.080And whilst the consequences for if Pivey had been found guilty would have been very different in Europe, the logic of a blasphemy law in, say, Pakistan and a hate speech ban in a country like Finland or another European country,
00:23:52.440because it's not only Finland that has these laws, is not so different at core.
00:23:58.180In my country, in Scotland, we're introducing a new hate speech law in the new year that could have similar consequences to that in Finland.
00:24:05.220In Ireland, they're thinking about doing it there too.
00:24:08.300So this is really something that's spreading across the West, and we're not quite recognising it for what it is, because it seeks to ban what they call hate speech.
00:24:17.660And most people would say, well, of course, I'd like to ban hate speech.
00:24:20.320But what the problem is is that we can't define that very well, and therefore we end up with these vague laws where people like Pivey, who are innocent Christians tweeting Bible verses,
00:24:33.820are put under the microscope and they're dragged through the courts as the consequences of laws that were perhaps initially intended or interpreted to be about something much more vile.
00:24:45.820You know, you're so right, and one man's passionate remarks or another man's hate speech, I mean, and that was my point about the absolute raw hatred we've seen on the streets.
00:24:58.860But in the case of the United Kingdom, the Met police of London said, oh, no, no, you have to understand the context.
00:25:05.980Those were just peaceful verses from the Koran.
00:25:09.160And what you quoted from Pivey in her tweet was something to be prosecuted.
00:26:59.940And the people that consistently phone us, which are the residents and the people who use this place, are the ones that say that they know.
00:27:06.940And it's their perception of events, isn't it?
00:27:08.900I'm silently playing and that's what I'm doing.