Four Trudeau cabinet ministers complain about Tucker Carlson's visit to Canada. Is he just a meanie? Is he really that bad? Or is he actually trying to liberate Canada? And why is it so important that Tucker be offended by it?
00:10:52.300We're not comparing Polyev to him. I think what...
00:10:54.300You're not? Have you looked at your own advertising?
00:10:57.300Mr. Mr. Mr. What Mr. Rodriguez just said is he said, I'm asking Pierre Polyev, the leader
00:11:04.300of the opposition, to condemn those hateful and violent statements by Tucker Carlson.
00:11:09.300Yeah, that's just not what happened. I mean, I was there, at least for the Edmonton speech,
00:11:21.300and I watched the Calgary speech, and I watched Daniel Smith and Tucker Carlson, and they didn't
00:11:25.300make any violent threats whatsoever. It was a bizarre attempt to try and put that discussion
00:11:31.300around the neck of Pierre Polyev and convince the media that there was violence.
00:11:36.300It was just so much, well, to use a liberal word, misinformation.
00:11:41.300But of course, it worked with Trudeau's base, which these days is really just CBC journalists.
00:11:46.300The CBC was right there on cue. Take a look at this. I'm just going to read the headline.
00:11:51.300Liberal ministers blast Alberta Premier Daniel Smith for hosting Tucker Carlson.
00:11:57.300Do not summon the dogs of MAGA conservatism to try and scare us, the Liberal cabinet minister says.
00:12:08.300OK, well, first of all, you just call people a dog, so stop your division. Stop your violent language.
00:12:13.300And here's my question. Does anyone actually think that those cabinet ministers are scared?
00:12:20.300Do you believe that? Or do you know that they're just being falsely alarmed?
00:12:27.300Um, yeah. Yeah. Here's the CBC's report.
00:12:32.300Smith's comment was interpreted by Boston Hope as a call for violence, an attempt to summon evil forces from the United States to try and take on one of our colleagues.
00:12:46.300But but was it really? I mean, was it really? Or are you just lying and the CBC being good stenographers?
00:12:55.300I mean, are the CBC real reporters? Like what would they ask? Are you serious? Are you acting? Are you crying wolf?
00:13:04.300Don't you think this fake reaction undermines any real claims of, you know, violence?
00:13:10.300No, because they're government journalists on a mission to support their boss and they're terrified that Pierre Polyev, if he becomes prime minister, will defund them.
00:13:20.300Never, ever, ever, ever trust the CBC. They are liars and they are conjoined with the Liberal Party.
00:13:27.300Now, it's the same in Alberta. I showed you what happened in Ottawa.
00:13:31.300But look at this little press conference of some journalists. I'm not sure who this female journalist is trying to tell the premier of Alberta who she can and can't talk to it.
00:13:42.300I thought Danielle Smith's answer was pretty good. Here, take a look.
00:13:44.300I do want to ask about your attendance at both of Tucker Carlson's events yesterday.
00:13:48.300This is somebody who has been accused of defending white supremacy, spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine, as well as making disparaging remarks about women.
00:13:55.300So why did you believe that this is someone that you should be giving time and attention to?
00:13:59.300Well, I take a wide range of media requests. I've done, I'm told by my staff, 96 individual media events or interviews since I got reelected, 24 press conferences.
00:14:11.300And I don't require, I don't do a screening test to make sure that every person that interviews me matches 100% of what I believe.
00:14:19.300And I don't expect that I'm that they're going to that that would be an appropriate thing to do.
00:14:24.300So I take a wide range of interviews from CBC all the way through to alternative media because my job is to get our message out about Alberta.
00:14:33.300And I told everyone that I wanted to make sure that somebody who has a very loud voice in America knew that we were a partner in being able to provide energy security and energy affordability.
00:14:47.300Well, of course, in Calgary, the CBC reporter, Marcus Soff, had the same thing to say.
00:14:52.300But imagine the chutzpah. Imagine coming from the CBC, the network of Jeanne Gomesie, you know, the serial abuser of women or the network of Nora Lurito, that disgusting, macabre necrophile.
00:15:07.300And all the freaks at the CBC. Imagine if Danielle Smith actually put the CBC proposal into effect and did a deep audit on the morality of any journalist who went to interview her.
00:15:22.300And if Danielle Smith actually took the CBC up on their suggestion and vetted any journalist in advance before talking to them, she wouldn't talk to anyone from the CBC.
00:15:33.460It's a gross place. I mean, if you recall the story of Jeanne Gomesie, a serial predator who used the CBC as a way to be a predator on young interns and audience members.
00:15:46.460Like, he turned the CBC into this grooming industrial factory to convey or belt young women to him for physical abuse.
00:15:57.040I mean, how could the CBC possibly tell, with a straight face, the Premier of Alberta, oh, what are you doing talking to that journalist?
00:16:06.740Sure, with the CBC, you are dirty from original sin. You're a government institution.
00:16:13.040So, the CBC had a power panel, if they do say so themselves, on the subject.
00:16:21.240And I watched it, and I don't recommend wasting your time.
00:16:24.620On these power panels, they usually have a token conservative.
00:16:28.660But in this case, they had James Moore, the former minister under Stephen Harper, who was the minister in charge of the CBC.
00:16:36.620And he failed in his mission to privatize or defund or shut down the CBC.
00:16:41.940And I think the CBC are eternally grateful to him, so they give him these gigs, and I'm sure they pay him.
00:16:47.540I don't think James Moore is a politically relevant force anymore.
00:16:50.440He's kept relevant by the CBC, because he's the perfect conservative in the minds of the CBC, since he will attack Tucker Carlson.
00:16:59.400And let me show you a little bit of that.
00:17:00.800So, this is a panel discussion with a whole range of opinions, from I don't like Tucker Carlson, to I hate Tucker Carlson.
00:17:09.480Just listen to James Moore, the conservative, for a minute.
00:17:12.160James, you were kind of dismissing this attack by the Liberals today, in an earlier segment.
00:17:17.580What do you make of her comment about putting the crosshairs on Stephen Gilbeau?
00:17:22.220I mean, the Liberals have compared that to inciting violence.
00:17:43.040You know, he's become a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin.
00:17:45.740He's become an extremist advancing things like race replacement theory and some really bizarre views.
00:17:54.160Even at this event, you know, he sort of made a really ugly shot questioning or challenging the prime minister of Canada's sexual orientation in a pretty crass and dumb way.
00:18:06.880You know, Tucker Carlson, and the thing about Tucker Carlson is he knows he's doing this.
00:18:10.720He's not just sort of a random conservative.
00:18:12.420We know from the January 6th and the lawsuit against Fox News and their support of the conspiracy theories around the voting in the 2020 election campaign,
00:18:25.020that Tucker Carlson doesn't like Donald Trump, doesn't believe in Donald Trump, but he goes on the air and he's Donald Trump's biggest spokesperson because there's money in it for him.
00:18:31.720He's a pretty cynical guy who advances some really ugly views in exchange for cash, and he's not a credible person anymore.
00:18:39.820He used to be years ago, and so he's become this sort of, you know, bizarre caricature of what sort of a right-wing person, you know, would be, and he's making a lot of money doing it.
00:18:50.540So I'm frankly surprised that the premier of Alberta would share the stage with somebody of, you know, his character and reputation.
00:18:56.400He was fired by Fox for lying in part of the lawsuit that Fox had to pay over $750 million in compensation to Dominion voting for.
00:19:05.840And, you know, I just think he's a very dodgy person, and I think the premier of Alberta should know better than to share the stage with him.
00:19:12.100Yeah, that's sort of pitiful. I'm embarrassed for James Bohr and the CBC.
00:19:16.220You know, it's been an astonishing week.
00:19:18.620It started with a surprising ruling from the federal court that found that the federal government had used violence illegally to crack down on Canadians, to deploy riot horses, to jail people, to seize bank accounts, and it was all illegal, all unconstitutional.
00:19:35.740And in that week, the same government accuses Tucker Carlson and Danielle Smith of violence, and the CBC went along with that.
00:19:48.540And to send out in that pack of four cabinet ministers two criminals to do it, Pablo Rodriguez, who's a drunk driver, and Stephen Gilbeau.
00:19:58.620I just want to remind you, Stephen Gilbeau didn't just break into the CN Tower and stop traffic and endanger people and rappel down in some Greenpeace stuff.
00:20:08.500Far more terrifying, as Don Braid, the Calgary Herald columnist, has demonstrated.
00:20:15.380When Ralph Klein was the premier of Alberta, his wife Colleen was at home in Calgary, so Ralph was up there in Emerton.
00:20:22.620And this was before you had huge security everywhere, so you could walk to the premier's house.
00:20:28.480And what Stephen Gilbeau did is he went to the house when Ralph, Premier Ralph Klein, was away.
00:20:35.620So it's just the premier's wife in the house by herself.
00:20:39.900And this mania, Stephen Gilbeau gets a ladder and goes and trespasses, doesn't knock on the door, doesn't ring the doorbell, just shows up and goes on the roof of her house for some solar panel stunt or something.
00:20:59.000Can you imagine how terrifying that is?
00:21:03.200This bearded, wild-eyed, crazy, serial criminal is on your house.
00:21:10.200Is he going to come in and assault you or rape you or rob you?
00:21:56.880I don't know if you remember, but the censorship bills that are being pushed on journalists in Canada, they were drafted by Guilbeau when he was the head of the Heritage Department.
00:22:06.800And you'll remember what Guilbeau said.
00:22:08.800One of the explicit purposes of his censorship bills was to stop people from peaceful criticism of politicians like him.
00:22:20.860We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.
00:22:30.900That's how gross the liberal government is.
00:22:34.020The faster we can get to an election, the better.
00:24:05.540I am not one of these monsters that hurt children, that hurt innocents, and that promote wars over the civilization of our society.
00:24:12.820I'm just tired of seeing the tyranny and corruption taking over our society and our lives.
00:24:19.500The leaders, officials, and anybody that has hands into this corruption, into this genocide that's going on in Gaza and throughout the world.
00:24:28.020Anybody that is destabilizing other countries, hurting their community, what do you call them, should feel ashamed of themselves.
00:24:35.600And inshallah, we will rise against you guys, and we'll put you on trial.
00:24:38.940Sisters, inshallah, I'll succeed with my mission.
00:24:41.420If I don't succeed, I know somebody else will succeed for me.
00:26:05.700Well, I definitely think all of that, because that's exactly what happened.
00:26:08.780The story of what happened is not really the issue.
00:26:14.340It's how the political class and also the media chose to find another way of describing it at best,
00:26:23.440and in some cases covering it up at worst.
00:26:26.500And it reminds me, Ezra, of the different attacks that I've covered.
00:26:30.040And we both have covered what happened on the Danforth here in Toronto, where a guy who had just been to Pakistan had an automatic or a heavy pistol that was able to be semi-automatic.
00:26:48.180He shot up, killed two girls, and also wounded 15 others.
00:26:52.040And he was, I guess he killed himself before we could get the full answer of it.
00:27:55.400There were kindergarten and grade one students in the building.
00:27:57.960And even if those that say that, you know, he just shot up and shot up and lit a thing of fire, didn't hurt anybody, hasn't covered a stray bullet murder like I have, many of them.
00:28:09.640And so anyway, I take a long time to explain it to you.
00:29:11.400If the shoe were on the other foot, if this was someone wearing a red Make America Great Again hat, you know, a white Christian conservative, this would be all that people would be talking about in politics, in media, in law enforcement.
00:29:29.780I don't think Trudeau has mentioned a word about this.
00:29:32.520He preferred to talk about going to some women's hockey game.
00:29:38.060And by the way, I don't think other politicians have emphasized it either.
00:29:53.360And it would also be me because we don't look at serious crime against our country and our people in our country in the lens.
00:30:00.800And yet that's exactly what you're seeing here.
00:30:03.340You know, if you listen to these politicians, what they try to push is that the biggest problem in Canada and the United States is white supremacy and far-right white movements.
00:30:15.380But, you know, when those things do happen, obviously people are people.
00:30:20.660The difference is that the mainstream media has taken the narrative, which is, you know, from the funder, which is through the federal government, which sub-runs all these media outlets.
00:30:30.220And you can see the result of that, Ezra, where they actually leave things out.
00:32:30.600I mean, I mentioned the Danforth, and in the Danforth one, somewhere on Axe, you'll find my little interview I did with a guy that was basically spared by that guy, Faisal Hussain.
00:32:44.880You know, the coverage of that was atrocious just like this.
00:32:49.400That was really, really a horrible incident.
00:32:54.860And he said, no, you go hide under behind there.
00:32:58.420And he kept on even looking for women.
00:33:00.600And, you know, you couldn't get anybody, any of the victims to speak out against them.
00:33:04.800I, you know, the work that you and I did at the time, we found out that this guy had earlier that in Pakistan with his father, we found out that his brother was before the courts on serious drugs and weapons charges.
00:33:16.080They found a whole cache of weapons and arsenal in the apartment.
00:33:38.420And I think we have a massive failure here.
00:33:40.680Failure of police, of prosecutors, of politicians, and the press, let alone our immigration system.
00:33:47.340We'll cap it there, but I know that you are the one journalist in the mainstream media who talks about the issues that everyone else is too terrified to cover.
00:34:29.340It would have been even worse with protests if it was in Toronto.
00:34:32.700Every single video from the media said the same thing about Tucker as if taken from a script from the government.
00:34:38.320Well, you know, I was online with social media and citizen journalists, and it was overwhelmingly excitement that Tucker Carlson was willing to call out Justin Trudeau in blunt language.
00:34:51.360And sometimes someone who's got some arm's-length distance from the situation has fresh perspectives.
00:34:57.100And by the way, when you have almost 10,000 people in Edmonton and 4,000 in Calgary, that's a lot of people who saw things firsthand.
00:35:02.860I found it very energizing to be out there.
00:35:06.260Vula says, Canadians at this point in time need to come together and put away our politeness in order to save our country.